beamtenherrschaft: November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

Opening for 8 Full-Time Doctoral Scholarships at B-IT Research School, Aachen/Bonn, Germany

Opening for 8 Full-Time Doctoral Scholarships

at the Bonn-Aachen International Research School of Applied Information
Technology (B-IT Research School), Aachen/Bonn, Germany
http://www.b-it-center.de/research-school

Application deadline: January 2nd, 2010
Submit electronically to: rs-applications@b-it-center.de

The Bonn-Aachen International Research School of Applied Information Technology (B-IT Research School) is operated by RWTH Aachen University (http://www.rwth-aachen.de) and the University of Bonn (http://www.uni-bonn.de) in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute Center Birlinghoven Castle (http://www.izb.fraunhofer.de).

The research school covers a wide range from foundations to different areas of application, including interdisciplinary topics:
- Media Informatics and Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
- Communication Systems Engineering
- Software and Information Engineering
- Life Science Informatics
- Computer Graphics
- IT Security
- Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- Algorithm Design and Formal Foundations of Applied IT

Applications are sought for up to eight Full-Time Doctoral Scholarships to be filled by March 2010, under the following conditions:

Prerequisites
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A very good Master degree in Informatics/Computer Science or another field related to the topics of the research school. The research school will also consider a few exceptionally qualified
Bachelor graduates with an outstanding track record for a funded scholarship covering an integrated Master-Doctoral program linked to the international Master programs of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT). Applicants should have a strong background and interest in one of the eight research areas above. Details can be found at http://www.b-it-center.de/research-school.

Scholarship
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Scholarship amount is 1.468 Euro per month, tax free. Under certain conditions, increased scholarships are available for candidates with children. Scholarships can be granted for a maximum of three years, with an intermediate evaluation.

Application
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Applications must include
- a curriculum vitae,
- copies of exam transcripts,
- a recommendation by at least one university professor, and
- a short description of work done so far (e.g., Master thesis or other research-related experience) and research interests, including the specific research area of interest and possibly first ideas for a thesis topic.
- TOEFL (or IELTS) and GRE scores should be included.

The B-IT Research School has a strong interest in bringing in the full pool of talent in applied Informatics and therefore strongly encourages female students and students from outside Germany to apply. The working language of the research school is English.

Applications must be submitted electronically to rs-applications@b-it-center.de no later than *January 2, 2010*. Questions can be directed to the Coordinators of the B-IT Research School:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University (jarke AT dbis.rwth-aachen DOT de) and Prof. Dr. Armin B. Cremers, University of Bonn (abc AT cs.uni-bonn DOT de).

Sunday, November 29, 2009

CAISE'2010 : Extended deadline

CAiSE'10 Paper submission deadline extension

Due to many requests, the deadline for paper submission
for the CAiSE'10 Conference has been extended

until December 6th, 2009 (hard deadline).

Conference web site:
International Conference on Information Systems Engineering
http://www.caise2010.rnu.tn/

Assistant Professorship available in Computing & Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada

Athabasca University invites applications to immediately fill a three-year term Assistant Professor position in the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS). The successful candidate will initiate and/or lead international quality research; develop, revise, coordinate, and teach courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level; carry out related administrative duties; and assist in the development of new doctoral track, MSc IS program streams and/or a Game Development and Programming Certificate. The candidate will also be responsible for supervising graduate and undergraduate research essays, projects and theses, and serve on various committees.

An interest in, and preferably experience with, distributed learning environment and distance education are essential for this position. Over the past decade SCIS has developed and implemented innovative approaches to delivering and supporting post-secondary distance education in computing and information systems. SCIS is looking for a flexible individual who enjoys teaching, and is comfortable with the systematic approaches to course development and delivery required for this form of distance education.

The successful candidate for this position must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related discipline, preferably with applied experience. In addition, the candidate must have research interests and involvements in one or more of the following areas: games
storyboarding, design and programming, pervasive computing, information security, ethical, legal and social issues in information technology, multimedia, and mobile computing.

The successful candidate is expected to start immediately.

The full job description can be view at:
https://athabascau.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=569

Deadline Extension: IUI Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW 2010) - New Deadline: Dec 4th

UDISW 2010

International Workshop on
User Data Interoperability in the Social Web

In conjunction with IUI 2010
Hong Kong, China
February 7 - 10, 2010

http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/UDISW2010/

IMPORTANT DATES (Extended Deadlines)

* 04 December 2009 : Full & short paper submission deadline
(11:59pm Hawaiia time)
* 18 December 2009 : Notification of acceptance
* 08 January 2010 : Final camera-ready paper due
* 07 February 2010 : UDISW 2010 workshop day

OVERVIEW
========
Nowadays, people leave their marks at a multitude of applications distributed across the Web: They share their bookmarks in Delicious, fill in profiles at social networking services such as Facebook and Orkut, browse and buy products on Amazon, search with Google and Yahoo and interact with diverse other sites for information and services. This distributed and heterogeneous corpus of user data is a valuable source of information for systems that aim for personalization and user adaptation.

With the advent of Web 2.0, standards such as OpenID, RSS and OAuth, as well as mashup tools like Yahoo pipes or Semantic Web pipes, interlinking of different services has become easier. However, limited interoperability still prevents applications to exchange, reuse, and integrate their user models for personalization across application and domain boundaries. Research carried out in the field of Semantic Web supports applications to provide extensibility, flexibility, interoperability and reusability. Further, the Linked Data initiative and the Data Portability project focus on pragmatic approaches that help applications to share and connect data.

Nevertheless, using the Web as a homogeneous knowledge infrastructure, which serves as input for cross-application and cross-domain user modeling, is still an unsolved vision, because syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of the fragmented and distributed user data "which might be unstructured"" can hardly be handled by application developers. In addition, requirements concerning privacy, scrutability and trust complicate the intermixing of user data from different sources.

This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of Intelligent User Interfaces, Interaction Systems, Social Media, Semantic Web, User
Modeling, and Personalization in order to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, open research issues, applications, and experiences for common benefit.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop will tackle challenges posed by user modeling beyond application boundaries, including, but not limited to, the following themes:

* Aggregation and integration of distributed user data and profiles
* Smart mashup interfaces
* Techniques for visualizing distributed user data
* User interfaces enabling maintenance of distributed user profiles
* Inter-system scrutability of user profiles
* Semantic methods for exchanging user profiles
* Intertwining social networking services
* Studies assessing the use of external/public user data for personalization
* Applications demonstrating intermixing of user profiles from different sources

PAPER SUBMISSION
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All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. All submission must be in English. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. Research papers must be prepared in the two-column SIGCHI
conference format; templates are available at:

* Microsoft Word document template
(http://iuiconf.org/chi2009pubsformat.doc)
* LaTeX class file
(http://iuiconf.org/chi2009_LaTeX.zip)

We welcome both full papers and short papers (e.g. experience reports, preliminary reports of work in progress, system demonstration, etc). Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages in length, short papers should not exceed 4 pages. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=udisw2010.

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
===================
* Fabian Abel (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Samur Araujo (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
* Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Nicola Henze (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
* Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
* Erwin Leonardi (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
===================
* Available at http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/UDISW2010/

For further questions please contact us at e.leonardi@tudelft.nl or abel@l3s.de

Friday, November 27, 2009

MMEDIA 2010 - June 13-19, 2010 - Athens, Greece

MMEDIA 2010 | Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

MMEDIA 2010: The Second International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia

June 13-19, 2010 - Athens, Greece

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MMEDIA10.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPMMEDIA10.html

Submission deadline: January 20, 2010

SIGMAP-2010: the Int'l Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (Athens, Greece)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia
Applications - SIGMAP 2010

Website: http://www.sigmap.icete.org

July 26 - 28, 2010
Athens, Greece

Organized by INSTICC
In cooperation with ACM SIGMM (ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia) and
WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition)
Hosted by University of Piraeus
Proceedings indexed by: THOMSON REUTERS - Conference Proceedings Citation
Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI (awaiting confirmation of indexation from the last one)
BORL

Important Deadlines:
Regular Paper submission: February 03, 2010
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 08, 2010
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 22, 2010

The signal processing field, when combined with multimedia information encompasses a large number of research topics and emerging applications.

Ideas on how to analyse and apply signal processing techniques to solve problems involving multimedia information and technology, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions
are also encouraged.

SIGMAP 2010 is part of the International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2010) that has 5 more conferences with very strong synergies between them, namely:
- DCNET: Int'l Conference on Data Communication Networking
(http://www.dcnet.icete.org/)
- ICE-B: Int'l Conference on e-Business (http://ice-b.icete.org/)
- OPTICS: Int'l Conference on Optical Communication Systems
(http://www.optics.icete.org/)
- SECRYPT: Int'l Conference on Security and Cryptography
(http://www.secrypt.icete.org/)
- WINSYS: Int'l Conf on Wireless Information Networks and Systems
(http://www.winsys.icete.org/)

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support.

Additionally, a selection of the best papers of the conference will be published in a book, by Springer-Verlag.

The conference proceedings will be indexed by major international indexers namely, the Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Thomson Reuters, INSPEC, DBLP and EI (awaiting confirmation of indexation from the last one).

All published papers will be also available at the INSTICC's Digital Library, which will be made available shortly.

Best paper awards will also be distributed during the conference closing session.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

VGI research positions at JRC

Spatial and temporal analysis of integrated quantitative and qualitative information

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/fileadmin/Documentation/Open_Calls/H06%20300932.pdf

Spatial and temporal analysis of integrated quantitative and qualitative information

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/fileadmin/Documentation/Open_Calls/H06%20300933.pdf

More general information about terms and conditions are available: http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/call-for-grantholders

Dr. Max Craglia
European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
Institute for Environment and Sustainability,
Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit
T.P. 262, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

Tel: +39 0332 78 6269
Fax: +39 0332 78 6325
e-mail: massimo.craglia@jrc.ec.europa.eu

URL: http://sdi.jrc.ec.europa.eu

International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research

http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Call for articles IJTEL special issue Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments

Call for articles of the

International Journal for TEL
for a special issue on
'Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments'

submission deadline: January 8th, 2010

The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments to appear in 2010.

A change in perspective can be certified in the recent years to technology-enhanced learning re-search and development: More and more learning applications on the web are putting the learner centre stage, not the organisation. They empower learners with capabilities to customize and even construct their own personal learning environments (PLEs). These PLEs typically consist of distributed web-applications and services that support system-spanning collaborative and individual learning activities in formal as well as informal settings.

Technologically speaking, this shift manifests in a learning web where information is distributed across sites and activities can easily encompass the use of a greater number of pages and
services offered through web-based learning applications. Mash-ups, the 'frankensteining' of software arte-facts and data, have emerged to be the software development approach for these
long-tail and per-petual-beta niche markets. Core technologies facilitating this paradigm shift are Ajax, javascript-based widget-collections, and microformats that help to glue together
public web APIs in individual applications.

The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) dedicates a focused issue on collecting the research on understanding and engineering mash-up personal learning
environments.

TOPICS:

- Visions: architectures, frameworks, strategies, models
- (Collaborative) authoring tools
- Data interoperability: with e.g. microformats, streaming data, mixed media data
- User interfaces: concepts, metaphors, workflows
- Development methodologies
- Innovative widgets and services: e.g. for instruction, reflection, personal information
- Interoperability standards for e.g. content recombination or PLE configuration
- User studies & evaluation methods: evaluating e.g. performance
- Usability, specific design features, training methods

IJTEL fosters multidisciplinary discussion and research on technology enhanced learning (TEL) ap-proaches at the individual, organisational, national and global levels. Its key objective is to be the leading scholarly scientific journal for all those interested in, researching and contributing to the technology enhanced learning episteme. For this reason, IJTEL delivers research articles, position papers, surveys and case studies aiming:

- Provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion on technology enhanced learning research issues
- Promote international collaboration and exchange of ideas and know how on technology enhanced learning
- Investigate strategies on how technology enhanced learning can promote sustainable development

Papers submitted to this special issue must follow the criteria used by IJTEL and defined by the na-ture of this special issue, namely by covering the following mandatory items:

- Presenting original research;
- Offering a critical review of the state of the art in the field;
- Providing methodologically sound and innovative technological insights;
- Illustrating the application in real-world cases;
- Performing the evaluation of the proposed ideas.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering
to our submission guidelines. You can access them at

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31

The journal is now accepting submissions for this special issue through its Online Submissions and Peer-Review System at http://www.inderscience.com/papers, which provides instructions
about formatting and length. If you have any questions, please contact submissions@inderscience.com or the guest editors at the addresses listed below. Please include the title of the Journal in your email and give as much detail as possible about your query or problem.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission: January 8th, 2010
- Results Notification: February 8th, 2010
- Revisions: March 8th, 2010
- Notification of Final Acceptance: March 21st, 2010
- Final versions: April 21st, 2010

(GUEST) EDITORS

- Fridolin Wild (The Open University, UK)
- Matthias Palmer (University of Upsala, Sweden)
- Marco Kalz (Open University, The Netherlands)

i-Society 2010: Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010),
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter
28-30 June, 2010, London, UK
www.i-society.eu

The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas.

The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration
and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society.

The topics in i-Society 2010 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*New enabling technologies
- Internet technologies
- Wireless applications
- Mobile Applications
- Multimedia Applications
- Protocols and Standards
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Virtual Reality
- Human Computer Interaction
- Geographic information systems
- e-Manufacturing

*Intelligent data management
- Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Systems
- Intelligent Organisations
- Content Development
- Data Mining
- e-Publishing and Digital Libraries
- Information Search and Retrieval
- Knowledge Management
- e-Intelligence
- Knowledge networks

*Secure Technologies
- Internet security
- Web services and performance
- Secure transactions
- Cryptography
- Payment systems
- Secure Protocols
- e-Privacy
- e-Trust
- e-Risk
- Cyber law
- Forensics
- Information assurance
- Mobile social networks
- Peer-to-peer social networks
- Sensor networks and social sensing

*e-Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- Curriculum Content Design and Development
- Delivery Systems and Environments
- Educational Systems Design
- e-Learning Organisational Issues
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
- Web-based Learning Communities
- e-Learning Tools
- e-Education

*e-Society
- Global Trends
- Social Inclusion
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Social Infonomics
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Social and Organisational Aspects
- Globalisation and developmental IT
- Social Software

*e-Health
- Data Security Issues
- e-Health Policy and Practice
- e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision
- Medical Research Ethics
- Patient Privacy and Confidentiality
- e-Medicine

*e-Governance
- Democracy and the Citizen
- e-Administration
- Policy Issues
- Virtual Communities

*e-Business
- Digital Economies
- Knowledge economy
- eProcurement
- National and International Economies
- e-Business Ontologies and Models
- Digital Goods and Services
- e-Commerce Application Fields
- e-Commerce Economics
- e-Commerce Services
- Electronic Service Delivery
- e-Marketing
- Online Auctions and Technologies
- Virtual Organisations
- Teleworking
- Applied e-Business
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

*e-Art
- Legal Issues
- Patents
- Enabling technologies and tools

*e-Science
- Natural sciences in digital society
- Biometrics
- Bioinformatics
- Collaborative research

*Industrial developments
- Trends in learning
- Applied research
- Cutting-edge technologies

* Research in progress
- Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Date: January 31, 2010
Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: February 28, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Due: March 15, 2010
Early Bird Attendee registration: January 01, 2010
Late Bird Attendee registration: February 28, 2010
Conference Dates: June 28-30, 2010

For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

PhD student position at DERI Institute, Galway, Ireland

PhD student position

DERI Institute
Galway, Ireland
Sensor Middleware Unit

The Sensor Middleware Unit

The advent of sensor technologies and the Semantic Web provide the unique opportunity to unify the real and the virtual worlds. It enables the building of very large infrastructures which for the first time facilitate the information-driven real-time integration of the physical world and computers on a global scale. Flexible middleware technology which abstracts from heterogeneous sensor network technologies to higher-level functionalities to enable interconnected sensor networks and processing of sensor data (Sensor Internet) is a cornerstone of enabling Semantic Reality. The sheer size and dynamic of this system poses quite novel and unique challenges, which we plan to investigate in the following years. We are looking for a PhD student to work in the area of Sensor Data Management, in particular we want to address the challenges of building and maintaining a sensor data repository which is distributed, heterogenous, and constantly updated, and how to efficiently make the data accessible.

Requirements:

- Completed degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or similar, with outstanding performance (Master, or equivalent)
- Experience with implementation work in C++ or Java
- Personal initiative, creativity and ability to effectively work in a team
- Good level of written and spoken English

Basic knowledge of distributed algorithms and database systems, e.g., from corresponding university classes, is welcome, but not mandatory.

Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, an academic curriculum vitae, and the names of 3 references to hr.ie@deri.org quoting "Sensor Data Management" in the subject of the mail.

Applications from non-native English speakers should also include copies of their GRE, TOEFL, CPE or similar scores if available.

The PhD fellowship is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and offers for the successful candidate a generous annual stipend, course fees and conference travel when presenting.

About DERI (http://deri.ie):

The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway (DERI) is among the largest semantic research organizations in the world. DERI's mission is to enable systematic and human-centric access to knowledge on individual, organizational and global levels to solve today's problems - Enabling
Networked Knowledge. DERI offers a stimulating, dynamic, multi-cultural research environment with excellent ties to research groups and industry worldwide.

About Galway:

Galway is one of the most beautiful Irish cities shaped by artistic communities, active student life, innovative industry and leading edge research. Galway is located at the beautiful west coast of Ireland within the Galway Bay, 'between' Europe and the U.S., making it an ideal hub for
national, European and international research.

First Symposium on Collective Intelligence (COLLIN 2010) - Deadline Extension

1. Symposium on Collective Intelligence - COLLIN 2010 - 15.-16.04.2010 in Hagen

For detailled information and paper submission please refer to http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/collin2010/en/

Tracks:

Track 1: Technology-enhanced learning in education and training - Knowledge construction and development of competencies in knowledge networks
Track 2: Web-based collective intelligence in innovation processes

Track 3: Assessment factors, performance evaluation, and building blocks of Collective‑Intelligence (CI)‑Systems

Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: December 8, 2009
- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2010
- Camera Ready Subm. Deadline: January 30, 2010

Proceedings are published in the Springer Series „Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing".

If you have any questions about the programme and/or the paper
submission process, please contact ulrike.baumoel@fernuni-hagen.de

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

CfP: 18th Int'l Conf on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2010)

UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. Support for the conference is provided by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, the Chang Family Foundation, Springer Verlag, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

TOPICS

The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics:
- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products, tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing help, assuming routine tasks, adapting interfaces, ...
- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, special needs, affective states, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural characteristics, ...
- Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural heritage, healthcare, assistive technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV, ...
- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the semantic/social Web), desktop systems, groupware systems, mobile and wearable systems, smart environments, smart objects, virtual environments, ...
- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction and representation, adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP, ...
- Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative evaluation, user testing, validation, performance tests, ...
- Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying UMAP, integrating UMAP, valuing user experience, ...

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original reports of substantive new research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance.
- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation.
Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process. Only in extremely unusual circumstances can long papers be relegated to the short paper category.

INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density should be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will typically include at least one industry author.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010)
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee. Submissions (4 pages)´should include original and unpublished descriptions of the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far. They should clearly indicate the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the student would especially like to receive advice.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made through the EasyChair conference system. They must describe original research work and may not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance,
validity and clarity. Reviews for research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.

BEST PAPER AWARDS
The conference will elect the winners of the Springer Best Paper Award and of the two James Chen Best Student Paper Awards, each in the amount of U.S.$ 1,000. For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.

PUBLICATION
Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) after the conference.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair
David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Program Co-Chairs
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Industry Track Co-Chairs
Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California
Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Local Arrangements Chair
Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo

Publicity Chair
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany

VENUE
UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side of the "Big Island" of Hawaii. Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa Colony Villas.

STUDENT SUPPORT
This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to students in the past, and it is nearly certain that there will also be student funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int'l Conf on Intelligent Agent Technology - Call for Papers

IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Papers Due: *** March 26, 2010 ***
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which is indexed by EI.

IAT 2010 will provide a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and
performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2010 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.

IAT 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10). The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions,
tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss common problems in the two areas.

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Topics of Interest
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We invite submissions in all IAT related areas. Areas of interest include,
but are not limited to:

* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)

- Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computing Methods
- Complex Behavior Characterization
- Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
- Emergent Behavior
- Hard Computational Problem Solving
- Large-Scale Systems Applications (e.g., Social, Policy, Sustainability, Brain Informatics (BI), and Web Intelligence (WI) Applications)
- Nature-Inspired Computing
- Regularities and Models of AOC
- Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-Organized Complex Networks
- Swarm or Collective Intelligence
- Unconventional, Self-Organized Computing Paradigms

* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents

- Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
- Autonomous Information Services
- Distributed Data Mining
- Distributed Knowledge Systems
- Evolution of Topics, Trends, Knowledge Networks and Communities
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Information Filtering Agents
- Knowledge Aggregation
- Ontology-Based Services
- Recommender Systems

* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology

- Agent Interaction Protocols
- Cognitive Architectures
- Cognitive Modeling of Agents
- Emotional Modeling
- Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
- Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
- Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
- Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
- Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
- Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
- Multi-Agent Planning
- Neuroeconomics
- Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
- Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
- Task-Based Agent Context
- Task-Oriented Agents

* Distributed Problem Solving

- Agent-Based Cloud Computing
- Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
- Collective Group Behavior
- Coordination and Cooperation
- Distributed Intelligence
- Distributed Search
- Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
- Efficiency and Complexity Issues
- Market-Based Computing
- Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments

* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation

- Agent-Based Marketplaces
- Auction Markets
- Combinatorial Auctions
- Hybrid Negotiation
- Integrative Negotiation
- Mediating Agents
- Pricing Agents

* Applications

- Agent-Based Assistants
- Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
- Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
- Games
- Interface Agents
- Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
- Perceptive Animated Interfaces
- Scalability
- Social Simulation (e.g., Social Behavior, Social Inference, Social
Networks, and Social Norms)
- Socially Situated Planning
- Software and Pervasive Agents
- Tools and Standards
- Ubiquitous Systems and e-Technology Agents
- Virtual Humans
- XML-Based Agent Systems

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that IAT'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'10 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.

Authors of a selected number of IAT'10 accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded and revised versions of their papers for condideration for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and other related journals.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be found on the IAT'10 homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

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Workshops
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An important part of the conference is the workshop program which will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., conference registration covers everything).

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Tutorials
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IAT'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'10 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

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Industry/Demo-Track
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We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
the homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/participants.php

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Important Dates
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* Workshop proposal submission: January 1, 2010
* Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
* Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
* Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
* Author notification: May 28, 2010
* Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chair:
* Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada

Program Chair:
* Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
* Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
* Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
* Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

WI Program Co-Chairs:
* Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
* Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Organizing Co-Chairs:
* Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada
* Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada
* Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada

Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
* Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Industry-Demo Co-Chairs:
* Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada
* Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
* Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
* Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs:
* Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada
* Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
* Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
* Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

WIC Advisory Board:
* Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
* Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
* Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
* L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
* Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
* Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
* Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
* Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
* Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
* Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
* Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
* Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
* Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
* Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
* Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
* Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca

The WIC Office
Email: wi10@wi-consortium.org

ICEIS 2010 - 12th Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (Madeira/Portugal)

CALL FOR PAPERS
12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
http://www.iceis.org

Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 8-12 June, 2010

organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)
in cooperation with AAAI and WfMC

Proceedings indexed by INSPEC, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Awaiting confirmation of indexation from EI. Best papers published in book by Springer-Verlag. All papers will be available at the INSTICC's Digital Library

IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Submission: January 6, 2010
Authors Notification (regular papers): March 8, 2010
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: March 24, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Michel Chein, LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2, France
David L. Olson, University of Nebraska, U.S.A.
(list not yet complete)

TOPIC AREAS:

AREA 1: DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

- Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Middleware Integration
- Legacy Systems
- Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
- Distributed Database Applications
- Object-Oriented Database Systems
- Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture
- Database Security and Transaction Support
- Data Warehouses
- Multimedia Database Applications
- Web Databases
- Mobile Databases
- Software Engineering
- Software Measurement

AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

- Intelligent Agents
- Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- Strategic Decision Support Systems
- Group Decision Support Systems
- Applications of Expert Systems
- Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic
- Advanced Applications of Neural Network
- Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems
- Bayesian Networks
- Evolutionary Programming
- Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems
- Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Datamining
- Case-Based Reasoning Systems
- Knowledge-based Systems Engineering
- Knowledge Management

AREA 3: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION

- Systems Engineering Methodologies
- Information Engineering Methodologies
- Organisational Semiotics
- Semiotics in Computing
- Requirements Analysis
- Ontology Engineering
- Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants)
- CASE Tools for System Development
- Modelling of Distributed Systems
- Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
- Business Processes Re-engineering
- Security, Freedom and Privacy

AREA 4: SOFTWARE AGENTS AND INTERNET COMPUTING

- B2B and B2C Applications
- Process Design and Organisational Issues in e-Commerce
- E-Procurement and Web-based supply chain management
- Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions
- E-Learning and e-Teaching
- Intranet and Extranet Business Applications
- Agents for Internet Computing
- Web Information Agents
- Case studies on Electronic Commerce
- Public sector applications of e-Commerce
- Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
- Network Implementation Choices
- Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing
- Internet and Collaborative Computing
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Wireless and Mobile Computing
- Agent-Oriented Programming

AREA 5: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

- HCI on Enterprise Information Systems
- Functional and non-functional Requirements
- Internet HCI: Web Interfaces and Usability
- Design Methodology and Cognitive Factors in Design
- Multimedia Systems
- Machine perception: vision, speech, other
- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
- Intelligent User Interfaces
- User Needs
- Human Factors
- Accessibility to Disabled Users
- Geographical Information Systems
- E-Learning
- Computer Art

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Proceedings of the 10th Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09) are available

The Proceedings of the 10th Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09) are available online on CEUR-WS.org.

Proceedings 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09),
Graz, Austria, December 2, 2009.
Edited by: Ralf Klamma, Harald Kosch, Matthias Lux, Florian Stegmaier
Submitted by: Ralf Klamma
Published on CEUR-WS: 21-Nov-2009
ONLINE: http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-539/
ARCHIVE: ftp://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-539.zip

The goal of CEUR-WS.org is promoting information exchange within the academic community. Editor is my colleague Martin Jeusfeld from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. The service is part of the activities under the umbrella of SunSITE Central Europe where it is my pleasure to be the editor-in-chief.

We have the pleasure to organize the 10th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (http://www.multimedia-metadata.info). This second 2009 workshop has a special focus on semantic multimedia database technologies and is held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009), December 2-4, Graz, Austria. Both events are bringing researchers and industry experts to fruitful discussions.

Ontology-based systems have been developed to structure content and support knowledge retrieval and management. Semantic multimedia data processing and indexing in ontology- based systems is usually done in several steps. One starts by enriching multimedia metadata with additional semantic information (possibly obtained by methods for bridging the semantic gap). Then, in order to structure data, a localized and domain specific ontology becomes necessary since the data has to be interpreted domain-specifically. The annotations are stored in an ontology management system where they are kept for further processing. In this scope, Semantic Database Technologies are now applied to ensure reliable and secure access, efficient search, and effective storage and distribution for both multimedia metadata and data. Their services can be used to adapt multimedia to a given context based on multimedia metadata or even ontology information. Services automate cumbersome multimedia processing steps and enable ubiquitous intelligent adaptation. Both, database and automation support facilitate the ubiquitous use of multimedia in advanced applications.

This time we got 21 submissions in as full, position or demonstration papers. Altogether we accepted 7 full papers, 5 position papers and 2 demonstration papers. Our thanks go again to the reviewers, who provided timely and thorough reviews. Their suggestions allowed authors to better their contributions.
Naturally, our thanks also go to the organizers of SAMT 2009, namely to Werner Bailer. Their logistic support has been essential to the organization of our workshop.

We wish you a productive and enriching workshop and an excellent stay in Graz.

The workshop co-chairs,
Ralf Klamma, RTWH Aachen University
Harald Kosch and Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau
Matthias Lux, University of Klagenfurt

Friday, November 20, 2009

Post-Doc Position at Notre Dame

The Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure (OSD-CI) Project at the University of Notre Dame will have one postdoctoral fellowship available beginning in January 2010 for a period of 18 months.

We welcome applicants who have specialized in the sociology of organizations and/or social networks. The project entails conducting research on and designing a virtual organization that leverages crowd sourcing potential by having “citizen engineers” provide analyses related to civil engineering projects that are then aggregated in various ways for end-user clients. More information on this project can be found at www.nd.edu/~opence. The postdoctoral researcher will be working with a team of sociologists, civil engineers and computer scientists on the design and assessment of such a virtual organization. This postdoctoral researcher will also interface with the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) and the Sociology Department, receiving their primary supervision from Prof. Hachen with co-advisement by the Civil Engineering professors affiliated with this interdisciplinary project. Researchers will have full access to iCeNSA’s and the Sociology Department’s collective resources in computing, print/data libraries, and administrative services.

Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and must have completed all the requirements for the doctorate by the time of the initial appointment. To apply, send a vita, a short description of your current and future work, three letters of recommendation, and copies of your publications or papers to:

Professor David Hachen, Co-Director
Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications
225 Nieuwland Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Applications received on or before December 19, 2009 will be given priority.

Data Governance and Online Privacy: NYU Stern Center for Digital Economy Research Looking for postdoc

The Center for Digital Economy Research (CeDER) at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business is seeking postdoctoral researchers for projects involving data governance strategies and online privacy. The research scientists would work with Professor Vasant Dhar and Professor ArunSundararajan in collaboration with IBM Research. The research project is aimed at helping organizations formulate policies for the governance of data.

The position is available immediately.

Candidates should have completed or be completing a Ph.D. in information sciences, business, computer science, economics or a related field prior to beginning this appointment. Demonstrated ability and a background in research about online privacy or data governance along with evidence of strong analytical abilities are required. An interdisciplinary education, knowledge of portfolio theory, prior experience in experimental research and evidence of the ability to manage research projects are desirable.

In addition to working on these projects, the scientist will have the opportunity to participate in the intellectual life of the Stern School, and to interact with the other faculty and scholars affiliated with the research center. CeDER's faculty, scientists and students pursue research in a diverse array of topics relating to IT in business and society.

The term of appointment will be one year with an option to renew (further details are available
from the professors). The appointments will begin as soon as possible. Salary and research
support will be generous and competitive with those of comparable appointments at other top
New York City area research universities.

Interested candidates should send a copy of your CV and the names of two to four references
via email with the subject line "Post‐Doctoral Research Scientist: Online Privacy" to Shirley Lau
(slau@stern.nyu.edu), copying in Vasant Dhar (vdhar@stern.nyu.edu) and Arun Sundararajan
(arun@stern.nyu.edu). There is no application deadline. Applications will be reviewed in the
order they are received, and until the positions are filled.

CFP: Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST 2010)

Call for Papers

The 1st International Workshop on
Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'10)

http://www.ftrg.org/must2010/

Busan, Korea, 21-23 May, 2010

In conjunction with FutureTech 2010
http://www.ftrg.org/futuretech2010/

The Workshop on Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'10) aims at high quality research contributions in multimedia semantic computing, with a focus on how to apply the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. A main goal of MUST is to address emerging research challenges in Semantic Multimedia and to help reducing the Semantic Gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. Semantic Web and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to join the workshop to benefit from the presentation of results from multimedia based research, which demonstrate important multimedia applications which could be enhanced by Semantic Web technologies.

MUST'10 will be held in conjunction with FutureTech 2010, in Busan, Korea, 21-23 May 2010.

MUST'10 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of multimedia in general or in the context of specific domains.
Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

== Topics ==

Semantic Analysis of Multimedia
- Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural language/speech processing
- Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis

Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia
- Machine learning and relevance feedback for finding semantics
- Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval

Semantic Metadata Management of Multimedia
- Metadata management for multimedia
- Multimedia ontology and interoperability
- Semantic enrichment and annotation of multimedia

Semantic User Interfaces for Multimedia
- Human-computer interfaces for interaction with large multimedia repositories
- Semantic adaptation of multimedia
- Semantic media annotation

Semantic Multimedia Applications
- Context-aware multimedia
- Mobile multimedia database services
- Multimedia mash-ups
- Social multimedia tagging

== Organization ==

Workshop General Chair
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Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Program Co-Chairs
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Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Marco Bertini, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Gamhewage C. de Silva, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany

International Advisory Committee
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Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA

International Program Committee
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(TBA)

== Paper Submission and Publication ==

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 6 pages or less in size, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format). The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as information for formatting the manuscript can be found here. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. All accepted papers will be included in the FutureTech-10 Workshop Proceeding published by IEEE. (The proceeding will be included in EI and other index). Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; ( 2 extra pages will be allowed at additional cost only for camera ready papers). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. The submission process is described on the Submission Page http://www.editorialsystem.net/must2010/

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 6 pages for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.

== Important Dates ==

Paper Submission: December 31, 2009
Author Notification: January 30, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: February 28, 2010

== Contact ==

For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Program Chairs. Seungmin Rho, pc.seungminrho@gmail.com

Thursday, November 19, 2009

3D scans of the Greek Battleship G. Averof

Image courtesy of Yiwei Cao

This week, our team from Informatik 5 at RWTH Aachen University is on an expedition to Athens, Greece. Their mission is the 3d scanning of the battleship "G. Averof" as part of the running IKYDA project "Non-linear Digital Storytelling for the Battleship "G. Averof". On the picture you can see the terrestrial laser scanner system RIEGL LMS-Z390i consisting of a highly accurate and fast 3D scanner, the accompanying operating and processing software RiSCAN PRO, and a calibrated and accurately orientated and mounted high-resolution digital camera.

Call for Chapters: Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

SECOND CALL FOR CHAPTERS
(Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 DECEMBER 2009)

Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

A book edited by Wilson Wong, Wei Liu and Mohammed Bennamoun
University of Western Australia, Australia
http://explorer.csse.uwa.edu.au/editedbook

Introduction
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Ontologies provide formal specifications of what might exist in a domain to ensure reusability and interoperability of multiple heterogeneous systems. Ontologies form an indispensable part of the Semantic Web standard stack. While the Semantic Web is still our vision into the future, ontologies have already found a myriad of applications such as document retrieval, question answering, image retrieval, agent interoperability and document annotation. In recent years, automatic ontology learning from text has provided support and relief for knowledge engineers from the labourious task of manually engineering of ontologies. Ontology learning research, an area integrating advances from information retrieval, text mining, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, has attracted increasing interests from a wide spectrum of application domains (e.g. bioinformatics, manufacturing). Being a rapidly growing area, it is crucial to collect the recent advances in tools and technologies in ontology learning and related areas.

Objective Of The Book
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The main objective of this book is to provide relevant theoretical foundations, and disseminate new research findings and expert views on the remaining challenges in ontology learning. In particular, the book focuses on the following questions:
# Can ontology learning continue to rely on techniques borrowed from related areas that were conceived for other purposes? Has the time arrived for us to look at certain peculiar requirements of ontology learning and develop specific techniques to meet these requirements?
# Lightweight ontologies are the most common type of ontologies in a variety of existing Semantic Web applications (e.g. knowledge management, document retrieval, communities of practice, data integration). Can these lightweight ontologies be easily extended to formal ones? If so, how?
# The poor coverage, rarity and maintenance cost related to manually-created resources such as semantic lexicons (e.g. WordNet, UMLS) and text corpora (e.g. BNC, GENIA corpus) have prompted an increasing number of researchers to turn to dynamic Web data for ontology learning. There is currently a lack of study concentrating on the systematic use of Web data as background knowledge for all phases of ontology learning. How do we know if we have the necessary background knowledge to carry out all our ontology learning tasks? Where do we look for more background knowledge if we know that what we have is inadequate?
# More and more practitioners in the domain of biology, health care, chemistry, manufacturing, etc are looking up to ontology learning techniques for solutions to their knowledge sharing and reusability needs. How much more difficult is it to automatically learn ontologies from news articles, as compared to clinical notes or biomedical literature? To what extent can the current techniques meet the requirements of learning from texts across different domains? Is the field of automatic ontology learning from text ready for the industry?

Target Audience
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This proposed book will be an invaluable resource as a library or personal reference for a wide range of audience, including, graduate students, researchers and industrial practitioners. Postgraduate students who are in the process of looking for future research directions, and carving out their own niche area will find this book particularly useful. Due to the detailed scope and wide coverage of the book, it also has the potential of being an upper-level course supplement for senior undergraduate students in Artificial Intelligence, and a resource for lecturers in Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Text Mining, Information Extraction, and Ontology Learning.

Recommended Topics Include, But Are Not Limited To
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Area 1: Text Processing
# Web data pre-processing
# Noisy text analytics
# Text annotation/Sentence parsing
# Textual content extraction/Boilerplates removal
# Automatic corpus construction

Area 2: Taxonomy Construction/Concept Formation
# Named entity recognition/noun phrase chunking
# Feature-based/featureless similarity and distance measures
# Term recognition/term extraction/terminology mining
# Cluster analysis/term clustering
# Entity disambiguation
# Relevance/contrastive analysis
# Latent semantic analysis
# Other machine learning-based techniques
# Other corpus-based techniques

Area 3: Relation and Axiom Discovery/Ontology Languages
# Lexico-syntactic patterns
# Use of dynamic Web data (e.g. Wikipedia mining, online dictionaries)
# Sub-categorisation frames
# Association rules mining
# Inductive logic programming
# Other corpus-based techniques
# Logic-based/frame-based/markup ontology languages

Area 4: Applications of Ontologies
# Bioinformatics
# Risk management
# Manufacturing
# Health care
# Other relevant application areas

Submission Procedure
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Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 15 DECEMBER 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns together with a tentative organisation (i.e. section titles with section summaries) of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 15 JANUARY 2010 about the status of their proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines and templates to prepare the full chapter of 8,000 - 10,000 words. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 15 MARCH 2010. All submitted full chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. All proposals and chapters should be typewritten in English in APA style and be submitted in Microsoft Word® format to wilson@csse.uwa.edu.au. Unfortunately, LaTex files cannot be accepted. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.). For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=724. This publication is anticipated to be released late 2010.

Important Dates
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15 DECEMBER 2009 Proposal Submission Deadline
15 JANUARY 2010 Notification of Acceptance
15 MARCH 2010 Full Chapter Submission
15 JULY 2010 Review Results Returned
15 AUGUST 2010 Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members
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Dr Christopher Brewster, Aston University, UK
Associate Professor Chunyu Kit, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Professor Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Professor Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Dr Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Research, India

Inquiries and Submissions
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Wilson Wong
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
M002 University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY 6009 WA
Australia
Fax: +61-8-6488-1089
E-mail: wilson@csse.uwa.edu.au
Up-to-date information about this call is available at http://explorer.csse.uwa.edu.au/editedbook

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