PAKDD Behavior Informatics Workshop (BI 2010)

Call For Papers

The International Workshop on Behavior Informatics (BI2010)
June 20, 2010 Hyderabad, India
http://bi2010.behaviorinformatics.org/

Held in conjunction with
The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD2010)
http://www.iiit.ac.in/pakdd2010/

Important dates:
* Electronic submission of full papers: February 20, 2010
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 20, 2010
* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: March 30, 2010
* BI2010 workshop date: June 20, 2010

Objective: BI2010 provides a premier forum for sharing research and engineering results, as well as potential challenges and prospects encountered in Behavior Informatics, namely towards deep and quantitative representation, modeling, analysis, mining, presentation, management and applications of behavioral data, composed of behaviors, behavior subjects and objects, behavior networks, organizational behavior, social behavior, system behavior, group behavior, behavior evolution, causes and effects, and/or behavior impacts.

Scope: The BI2010 workshop welcomes theoretical work and applied disseminations aiming to:
* Behavior modeling and representation: formalizing behaviors, relationships, impact and networks.
* Behavior analysis and mining: behaviors associated with high impacts are of particular importance, while impact-oriented behaviors are often sparse, rare and imbalanced isolated in business and data; analyse impact-oriented behavior patterns involves different pattern types and computational challenges.
* Analysis of behavior social networks: handling challenging issues such as convergence and divergence of behaviors, and the evolution and emergence of hidden groups and communities.
* Extracting discriminative behavior patterns from high-dimensional, high-frequency,
high-density, and huge amount of data.
* Large intra-class variance between behaviors: Due to the highly overlapped nature of behavior data, it is extremely difficult to build a robust behavior model which is tolerant for one behavior category while differentiate amongst other categories.
* Behavior data processing from transactional space to behavior feature space.

Topics: Contributions on the following and other related topics are solicited:
* (1) Foundations for BI
. Formal methods
. Temporal logic
. Model checking
. Statistic relational learning
. Advanced Bayesian network
. Multiagent systems
. Self-organization systems
. Adaptive systems
. Complex sequence analysis
. Temporal-sequential pattern mining
. Impact-oriented behavior mining
. Event/activity/action mining
. Agent-based data mining
. Frequent pattern mining
. Domain-driven behavior mining
. Behavior data visualization
* (2) Behavior Modeling and Representation
. Abstract behavior model
. Behavior life cycles
. Behavior structure understanding
. Behavior detection and extraction
. Sequential behavior modeling
. Parallel/concurrent behavior modeling
. Distributed behavior modeling
. Behavior dynamics
. Temporal-spatial relationship modeling
. Behavior privacy processing
* (3) Behavior Pattern Analysis
. Frequent behavior pattern
. Behavior classification
. Behavior clustering
. Demographic-behavioral combined pattern
. Interaction pattern analysis
. Stream behavior pattern
. Coupled behavior pattern
. Evolutionary behavior pattern
. Incremental behavior pattern
. Combined behavior pattern
* (4) Behavior Impact Analysis
. Positive/negative impact modeling
. Risk, benefit, cost and trust of behavior
. High-impact behavior identification
. Impact-transferred behavior pattern
. Cause-effect analysis
. Exceptional/outlier behavior
. Critical event detection and prediction
. Behavior reputation and trust
. Behavior security, risk, and privacy
. Personalized behavior
* (5) Behavior Emergence
. Behavior self-organization
. Behavior evolution
. Behavior impact formation and evolution
. Behavior group emergence
. Behavior mobility
. Behavior-environment interaction
. Influence formation and evolution
. Group behavior formation and evolution
. Trend, burst, opinion and event formation and evolution
* (6) Behavior Network
. Intrinsic mechanisms inside a network
. Behavior network topological structures
. Convergence and divergence of associated behavior
. Hidden group and community formation and identification
. Linkage formation and identification
. Community behavior analysis
* (7) Behavior Simulation
. Behavior convergence and divergence process
. Behavior learning and adaptation
. Group behavior formation and evolution
. Behavior interaction and linkage
. Behavior impact formation
. Behavior effect, impact and influence process
. Critical event replay
. Situated behavior interaction
. Organizational/social factor impact process
* (8) Behavior Presentation
. Rule-based behavior presentation
. Flow visualization
. Tree-based behavior representation
. Graph-based behavior modeling and presentation
. Sequence presentation and visualization
. Dynamic/hidden group presentation
. Dynamic/realtime behavior presentation
. Visual behavior network
* (9) Behavior Evaluation Mechanisms
. Behavior impact metrics
. Behavior risk metrics
. Behavior effect/influence metrics
. Behavior pattern significance
. Behavior pattern actionability
* (10) Behavior Use and Management
. Behavior compliance
. Multi-agent behavior analysis
. Web usage mining
. Customer analytics
. Consumer analytics
. Recommender system
. Personalized analysis
. Fraud detection
. Misuse and anomaly detection
. Human-computer interactions
. AI games
. Facial expression and human gesture analysis
. Computational linguistics
. Intelligent decision support system
. Student learning behaviors in intelligent tutoring system
. Criminal behavior analysis
. Organizational behavior analysis
. System behavior analysis
. Social networking behavior analysis
. Behavior analysis in video data
. Enterprise process and workflow analysis
Post-workshop publication:
* A special Issue on Behavior Modeling, Analysis and Mining is under planning (to be confirmed).

General Co-Chair:
* Philip S Yu
University of Illinois at Chicago USA
Co-Chairs:
* Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
* Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
* Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office, Australia
* Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan
Supported by
Behavior Informatics - Special Interest Group (BI-SIG)
http://www.behaviorinformatics.org

Contact: Email: bi2010@behaviorinformatics.org

Blogging in the Global Society

Call for Chapters
Proposal Submission Deadline: February 15, 2010
BLOGGING IN THE GLOBAL SOCIETY
edited by
Tatyana Dumova, Point Park University
Richard Fiordo, University of North Dakota

This book aims to explore the phenomenon of blogging in the variety
Of contexts and settings of today’s global society. You are cordially
invited to submit a brief proposal explaining the purpose, objectives,
or focus of your chapter. Drafts of full chapters (about 7,000 words)
will be due by June 15, 2010.

The book is under contract with IGI Global. The publication date is
2011. For more information, please visit
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=786

Please forward you submissions or inquiries to:

Tatyana Dumova
School of Communication
Point Park University
201 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Tel.: (412) 392-4701 Fax: (412) 392-3917
E-mail: tdumova@pointpark.edu, tdumova@fastmail.net

MUE 2010 DL extended - The 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

The MUE 2010 committees have received many requests for paper submission deadline extension. Therefore, the paper submission deadline has been extended to February 12, 2010.

2010 The 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous
Engineering

Conference URL: http://www.ftrg.org/mue2010/
Date: June 28-30, 2010
Location: San Diego, CA, USA

HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Journal special issues
o Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
o International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and
Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
o International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC) - Inderscience
o Journal of Multimedia (JMM) - Rinton Press
2. Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
3. In cooperation with IEEE

Call for Papers

Recent advances in pervasive computers, networks, telecommunication, andinformation technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia-capable mobile devices, such as laptops, portable media players, personal digital assistants, and cellular telephones, have stimulated the development of intelligent and pervasive multimedia applications in a ubiquitous environment. The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains. This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.

The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.

The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:

Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond
o Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
o Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
o Parallel/Distributed/Grid Computing
o Novel Machine Architectures
o Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
o Smart Home and Generic Interfaces

Track 2: Multimedia Modeling and Processing
o AI and Soft Computing in Multimedia
o Computer Graphics and Simulation
o Multimedia Information Retrieval (images, videos, hypertexts, etc.)
o Internet Multimedia Mining
o Medical Image and Signal Processing
o Multimedia Indexing and Compression
o Virtual Reality and Game Technology
o Current Challenges in Multimedia

Track 3: Ubiquitous Services and Applications
o Protocols for Ubiquitous Services
o Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
o Ubiquitous Application Interfaces
o IPv6 Foundations and Applications
o Smart Home Network Middleware
o Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID
o U-Commerce and Other Applications
o Databases and Data Mining

Track 4: Multimedia Services and Applications
o Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
o Multimedia in Telemedicine
o Multimedia Embedded Systems
o Entertainment Industry
o E-Commerce and E-Learning
o Novel Multimedia Applications
o Computer Graphics

Track 5: Multimedia and Ubiquitous Security
o Security in Commerce and Industry
o Security in Ubiquitous Databases
o Key Management and Authentication
o Privacy in Ubiquitous Environment
o Sensor Networks and RFID Security
o Multimedia Information Security
o Forensics and Image Watermarking

Track 6: Other IT and Multimedia Applications

IMPORTANT DATES
o December 14, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal
o December 21, 2009 Notification of workshop proposal acceptance
o January 28, 2010 Paper submission deadline (Deadline Extended to
February 12, 2010)
o February 28, 2010 Notification of acceptance
o March 20, 2010 Camera-ready paper due
o March 20, 2010 Presenting author registration due
o June 28-30, 2010 Conference events

BEST PAPER AWARDS
There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award for the best submitted paper and the best submitted student paper. The award winners will be announced at the conference banquet.

PAPER PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE eCP (Proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore digital library). Outstanding papers will be invited for extension and publication in several ournal special issues.

PAPER SUBMISSION SITE: http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2010/

SPECIAL ISSUES
After conference, special issues of international journals with high qualities will be arranged for selected papers.

o multimedia tools and applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042
o International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and
Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijitcc
o International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC) -
Inderscience
http://www.inderscience.com/ijamc

Workshop on on Multimedia Technologies on Multi-Core Embedded Platforms (MMEP 2010)

The 2010 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies on Multi-Core Embedded Platform (MMEP 2010)
will be held in conjunction with
The 5th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10),
August 11-13, 2010, Cebu, Philippines.

This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of integrating multi-core embedded platform with emerging multimedia technologies.

SYNOPSIS

Due to the evolution of video coding technology and the development of embedded systems, the scope of multimedia systems can be expanded to mobile devices by integrating with embedded technology. Thus, computation becomes a critical design especially in multimedia applications. In recent years, the multi-core architecture with lower frequency is proposed to achieve the same
performance with single core with high frequency. With the increasing penetration rate and expansion of multimedia embedded system using the multi-core technologies, new challenges and applications are growing bigger and more complex, including multimedia system, computing, compression technologies and applications on embedded multi-core platforms and so on.

SUBMISSION TOPICS

The workshop solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Application and Architecture:
* VLSI and SoC Implementation for Multi-core Embedded Platforms
* HW/SW co-design on Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Platforms
* Novel Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Platforms Architectures

Multi-core Enabled Multimedia System:
* Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Security Systems
* Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Database and Retrieval Systems
* Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Networking Systems

Emerging Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Technology:
* Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Coding Systems and Compressed-Domain Technologies
* Novel Multimedia Transmission Technology for Multi-core Embedded Platforms
* Design Optimization on Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Platforms

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in UBSN 2010, after further revisions, will be published in a Special Issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)

Paper submission due: February 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2010
Final manuscript due: April 15, 2010

Workshop Chairs

Yeuh-Ming Huang
Department of Engineering Science,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Email: huang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Chin-Feng Lai
Department of Engineering Science,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Email: cinfon@ieee.org

Min Chen
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
Seoul National University, Korea
Email: minchen@ieee.org

ICEIS 2010 Final Extension - 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, WfMC, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGART and
IEICE/SWIM

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. The proceedings will be indexed by major international indexers, including Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP. We are also waiting the
confirmation of indexation by EI. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing Series.

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

IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Submission: February 22, 2010 (new deadline extension)
Authors Notification (regular papers): March 30, 2010 (deadline extended)
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 12, 2010 (deadline extended)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Michel Chein, LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2, France
David L. Olson, University of Nebraska, U.S.A.
Anind K. Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Runtong Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Robert P.W. Duin, Pattern Recognition Laboratory, TU Delft, The Netherlands
(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

WORKSHOPS
- 10th Int'l Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2010)
- 8th Int'l Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems (MSVVEIS 2010)
- 7th Int'l Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2010)
- 5th Int'l Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management (TCoB 2010)
- 4th Int'l Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2010)
- 2nd Int'l Workshop on Future Trends of Model-Driven Development (FTMDD 2010)
- 2nd Int'l Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Architecture and Repositories (AER 2010)
- 1st Int'l Workshop on Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems (RTSOABIS-2010)
- 1st Int'l Workshop on Enterprise Information Systems in the Cloud (EISC-2010)

Tenured Faculty Position on Model Driven Engineering at École des Mines de Nantes

École des Mines de Nantes (EMN) has opened a new permanent faculty position in the field of Model-Driven Engineering. The selected candidate will become part of the joint INRIA-EMN research team AtlanMod (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/atlanmod).

AtlanMod performs research on modeling and model driven technologies including topics such as: model transformation, metamodeling, DSLs, UML, SBVR, model weaving and model management. The team notably applies these technologies to the reverse engineering and tool interoperability domains. Some of the recent contributions of the AtlanMod team are the well-known ATL language (for model-to-model transformations), KM3 (for metamodeling), TCS
(for defining textual concrete syntaxes for Domain-Specific Languages), AM3 (model management), AMW (for model weaving), and MoDisco (for model-driven reverse engineering).

We are looking for highly-motivated researchers interested in participating in national and international research projects working in a close relationship with our industry partners. The working language of the team is English.

Candidates that intend to apply are expected to contact:

Jordi Cabot (jordi.cabot@emn.fr) – AtlanMod research team
Narendra Jussien (Narendra.Jussien@emn.fr) - Head of department

Candidates have to apply directly to École des Mines de Nantes. They must possess a European (EU) nationality but need not pass the French process of "qualification" for university positions. Official announcement: http://www.mines-nantes.fr/fr/Pratique/Offres-d-emploi

Important dates:
- Request dossier (application documents to be submitted) to apply for the position by email from Carole Menetrot (Carole.Menetrot@emn.fr) by March 26th, 2010
- Submit paper dossier to Carole Menetrot by April 8th, 2010

Jordi Cabot
AtlanMod Research Team
École des Mines de Nantes
jordi.cabot@emn.fr
http://jordicabot.com

Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010): An Update

Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010)

the international conference for culture and heritage on-line
April 13-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/

Full MW2010 Program Now Online
Descriptions of more than 40 Demonstrations have been just added to the MW2010 web site. The full program is now online at
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/sescal/

Regular Registration Deadline: January 31, 2010
If you haven't already registered, the deadline for regular registration for MW2010 is coming up soon. Payment for regular registrations must be *received* by January 31, 2010, in order to get lower rates. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure your budget goes the furthest.

See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2010/mw2010.registrationForm.html

Pre-Conference Workshops Filling Up

Many of the workshops at MW2010 have limited enrollment to ensure that they are great learning experiences. If you've been thinking about adding a workshop to your registration, do so soon to avoid disappointment.

Best of the Web Nominations Open January 31, 2010
We said it would be 'in January' and we should make it. We're running the Best of the Web entirely on the conference community site this year. See http://conference.archimuse.com/page/best_web_2010_nomination_process for details, and check out the new category definitions at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/best/categories.html

Nominate your favourite site, review the sites nominated, and watch for the
announcement about voting for 'MW2010 People's Choice'.

MW on the Social Networks
Connect with the Museums and the Web community on various social network platforms. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/online/ for links to where you can find us, and follow our tags: #mw2010 for conference-related things or #museweb for general items.

Social Networks Analysis and Mining: foundations and applications by Springer

Call for Book Chapters--Social Networks Analysis and Mining: foundations and applications by Springer Verlag

The study of social networks originated in social and business communities. In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly; the development of sophisticated techniques for Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) has been highly influenced by the online social Web sites, email logs, phone logs and instant messaging systems, which are widely analyzed using graph theory and machine learning techniques. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, community formation and evolution. This has led to a rising prominence of SNAM in academia, politics, homeland security and business. This follows the pattern of known entities of our society that have evolved into networks in which actors are increasingly dependent on their structural embedding.

General areas of interest to the book include information science and mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine.

More specialized topics within Social Network Analysis and Mining include, but are not limited to:
* Anomaly detection in social network evolution
* Application of social network analysis
* Application of social network mining
* Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
* Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
* Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
* Contextual social network analysis
* Contextual social network mining
* Crime data mining and network analysis
* Cyber anthropology
* Dark Web
* Data protection inside communities
* Detection of communities by document analysis
* Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
* Economical impact of social network discovery
* Evolution of patterns in the Web
* Evolution of communities in the Web
* Evolution of communities in organizations
* Geography of social networks
* Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
* Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
* Knowledge networks
* Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
* Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
* Misbehavior detection in communities
* Migration between communities
* Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
* Open source intelligence
* Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Preparing data for Web mining
* Political impact of social network discovery
* Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
* Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
* Recommendation networks
* Scalability of social networks
* Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
* Social and cultural anthropology
* Social geography
* Social psychology of information diffusion
* Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
* Visual representation of dynamic social networks
* Web mining algorithms
* Web communities

Tentative deadlines
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. Full paper submission deadline is February 15, 2010. These papers will follow an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 20pages (using the LNCS template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted to Nasrullah Memon via email to memon@mmmi.sdu.dk by February 15, 2010. The attachment must be in PDF.

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work.

Workshop on Uncertain Mobile data Management and Mining (UMMM 2010)

Call for Papers

Workshop on Uncertain Mobile data Management and Mining (UMMM 2010)

http://www.cse.ust.hk/~UMMM10/index.html

In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data
Management (MDM 2010)
Kansas City, Missouri, USA, May 23rd 2010

Conference Web Site: http://sce.umkc.edu/mdm2010/index.html

Introduction
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Recently, the wide usage of mobile devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs, along with broad deployment of wireless networks and positioning technology (e.g., GPS), have given rise to many real applications, such as object tracking, data sharing, and location-based services, etc. The data produced by these applications are often uncertain due to the device errors or other
environmental factors. Therefore, it is necessary to study new data management and mining techniques for the uncertain mobile data.

Topics of Interest
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The focus of this workshop is on uncertain data management and mining over mobile databases. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with mobile networking background, uncertain data research interests, and distributed computing systems research skills to discuss all aspects of the emerging uncertain data management and mining
on mobile data. We are soliciting both theoretical and novel applications papers. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Uncertain data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
- Uncertain data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
- Uncertain data mining for mobile applications
- Uncertain data stream processing and mining in mobile/sensor networks
- Indexing and query processing for uncertain moving objects
- Location tracking of uncertain moving objects
- Query processing and optimization for mobile uncertain data
- User interfaces and usability issues form uncertain mobile applications
- Uncertain Event identification and notification
- Uncertain data stream query processing and mining for mobile sensor networks

The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants.

Paper Submission
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High quality research papers in the relevant areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for UMMM'10. Long paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages, and short
paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 4 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines for MDM 2010). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a proceeding published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Please submit your papers using the following submission site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/UMMM2010/

For any questions, please email to: leichen@cse.ust.hk

Important Dates
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Paper Submission Due: February 14, 2010
Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2010
Final copy: March 17, 2010
Camera Ready: May 23, 2010

Workshop PC Co-Chairs
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Lei Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Email: leichen@cse.ust.hk

Reynold Cheng
University of Hong Kong
Email: ckcheng@cs.hku.hk

Program Committee
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Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University)
Panos Karras (National University of Singapore)
Wen-Chien Lee (The Penn State University)
Feifei Li (Florida State University)
Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China)
Mohammed Mokbel (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Wei Wang (The University of New South Wales)
Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University)
Janliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University)
Xiaofang Zhou (The University of Queensland)

I-KNOW 2010

Call for Papers I-KNOW 2010
10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

http://www.i-know.at
1 - 3 September 2010, messecongress|graz, Austria

Important Dates:

- Paper Submission Deadline: 8 March 2010
- Notification of Acceptance: April 2010
- Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: May 2010

Introduction

I-KNOW reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and knowledge technologies and aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields.
Now in its tenth year, I-KNOW has a tradition of bringing together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 international attendees, I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Europe.
I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of the latest developments in these fields. The novelty and quality of the accepted contributions are ensured by a high-level program committee featuring international experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics.I-KNOW 2010 will be held concurrently with the I-SEMANTICS 2010 - International Conference on Semantic Systems.

Submissions and Conference Proceedings

I-KNOW 2010 invites the submission of original contributions from academic, public and industrial/commercial sectors. The conference focus is on application-oriented research with emphasis on information technologies for knowledge management and new management tools and methods. We welcome papers which present methods, tools, technologies best practices, and case studies.
All accepted full papers of I-KNOW 2010 will appear in a special issue of J.UCS - Journal of University Computer Science.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to):

I. Knowledge Management

* Theories for Knowledge Management
* Concepts for Knowledge Management
* Models for Knowledge Management
* Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
* Evaluations and Use Case Studies of Knowledge Management

II. Knowledge Discovery

* Information Retrieval and Search Visualization
* Knowledge & Information Visualization
* Semantic Enhanced Knowledge Discovery
* Knowledge Discovery in the Future Internet
* Information Quality in the Web
* Knowledge Relationship Discovery and Statistical Relational Learning
* Large Scale Knowledge Discovery
* Text Mining & Semantic Enrichment

III. Knowledge Services

* User context detection services
* User profile modelling and maintenance services
* Context-aware recommendation services
* Collaborative knowledge construction and modelling services
* Collaborative knowledge maturing services
* Knowledge sharing and communication services

..which are based on Knowledge Technologies such as

* Web 2.0 and Future Internet
* Social Network Analysis
* Adaptive, context-aware systems
* Semantic technologies
* Mobile computing approaches
* Web-services, SOA, service orchestration
* Linked-open data
* Trust & privacy approaches

IV. Social Media

* Models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
* models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
* Agent-based models of social media
* Models of emergent social media properties
* Cooperation and collaboration models
* Modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
* Architectural and framework models
* User modeling and behavioural models
* Social Media Engineering

V. Enterprise 2.0 and Social Web: Case Studies and Evaluations

* Enterprise 2.0
* Corporate Web 2.0
* Social Networking (Services) and the Enterprise
* Wikis, (Micro-)Blogs and the Enterprise
* Computer-Mediated Communication and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work with Social Media
* Communities and Social Media
* Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion with Social Media
* Knowledge Management in the Future Internet of People, Content and Knowledge
* Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation
* Web 2.0 and Viral Marketing

Conference Chairs

Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Chairs

Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria
Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria

IEEE DULP@ICALT 2010 - Design Centered and Personalized Learning in Liquid and Ubiquitous Learning Places

DULP@ICALT2010

Workshop on
Design Centered and Personalized Learning in Liquid and Ubiquitous
Learning Places: Future Visions and Practical Implementations

in cojunction with
ICALT 2010, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning
Technologies
July 5-7, 2010, Sousse, Tunisia

Workshop website:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/iede_mk/events/dulp2010/index.php
Main conference website: http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2010/index.php

Workshop objectives
-------------------
The DULP vision aims at combining Design inspired learning, Ubiquitous learning, Liquid learning places (& liquid society), and Person in place centred design, which shall lead to challenging technologies, rethinking pedagogies, and being design inspired. This workshop deals with future
visions of the concepts of DULP, their interrelations and interconnectiveness to each other, and their practical implementation in and for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL).

DULP@ICALT2010 intends to offer an interdisciplinary arena where everybody can present and discuss ideas on what could be the future of TEL in the next few years under the consideration of the DULP concepts; a future that has to be possible and that, thus, should be closely related to the present researches and educational processes.

The DULP@ICALT2010 should be of interest, not only for the ICALT participants, but for all those who do not want to stop at the "simple" development and use of technologies but consider them as the basics for supporting innovative educational visions aimed at improving the experience of the training process. For this it is expected that the workshop would be of interest to all those that look at the TEL with a strong interdisciplinary attitude, the same one that inspire the DULP vision: technologists; educators, psychologists and sociologists and all those that consider the technology an indispensable ally rather than a service provider.

Looking towards the future is a challenge also for creatives and especially for designers of virtual and physical environments dedicated to TEL and, more in general, for people involved in educational processes, dealing with design for the experience and with its significant qualities.

DULP@ICALT2010 is looking for authors that a) starting from the current state of the art, are able to imagine a realistic future of TEL that should be applicable in real contexts; b) will present development and use of technologies able to induce a fruitful encounter between disciplines, to the benefit of the centrality of the learning experiences and of the expectations of the individuals.

Open list of themes that may inspire the design for the future

- Future visions and models for ubiquitous learning in liquid learning places - New generation of virtual and physical learning place
- Balancing communities and personal identity
- Ecological detection of learning experience qualities
- From media literacy to design literacy
- ...

Workshop proceedings
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All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by three (3) reviewers. According to the ICALT's Author Guidelines, the workshop paper should be 2 pages long (including authors' information, abstract - no more than 200 words -, all tables, figures, references, etc.) and should be written according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services Formatting Guidelines.

The accepted contributions will be included in the proceeding of ICALT 2010 and published by IEEE Computer Society Publications.

An extended version of selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745)

Workshop Chairs
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Carlo Giovannella, ScuolaIaD Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Sabine
Graf, Athabasca University, Canada

Program Committee
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Giovanni Anceschi, IUAV, Italy
Rafael Calvo, University of Sidney, Australia
Antonella Carbonaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Monica Divitini. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Charalambos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Beatrice Ligorio, University of Bari, Italy
Alke Martens, Universität Rostock, Germany
Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Narcis Pares, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Tessy C. Pargman, KHT, Sweden
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Demetrios Sampson, Univ Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
Luca Simeone, Vianet, Italy
Jirarat Sitthiworachart, Walailak University, Thailand
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Jane Yau, University of Warwick, UK
Massimo Zancanaro, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

7th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval

TIR 2010

7th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval

in conjunction with DEXA 2010
University of Deusto
Bilbao, Spain
30 August - 3 September 2010

Call for Papers

Intelligent algorithms for mining and retrieval are the key technology to cope with the information need challenges in our media-centered society. Methods for text-based information retrieval receive special attention, which results from the important role of written text, from the high availability of the Internet, and from the enormous importance of Web communities.

Advanced information retrieval and extraction uses methods from different areas: machine learning, computer linguistics and psychology, user interaction and modeling, information visualization, Web engineering, artificial intelligence, or distributed systems. The development of intelligent retrieval tools requires the understanding and combination of the achievements in these areas, and in this sense the workshop provides a common platform for presenting and discussing new solutions.

The following list organizes classic and ongoing topics from the field of text-based IR for which contributions are welcome:

• Theory. Retrieval models, language models, similarity measures, formal analysis
• Mining and Classification. Category formation, clustering, entity resolution, document classification
• Web. Community mining, social network analysis, structured retrieval from XML documents
• NLP. Text summarization, keyword extraction, topic identification
• User Interface. Paradigms and algorithms for information visualization, personalization, privacy issues
• User Context. Context models for IR, context analysis from user behaviour and from social networks
• Multilinguality. Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval, machine translation for IR
• Evaluation. Corpus construction, experiment design, conception of user studies
• Semantic Web. Meta data analysis and tagging, knowledge extraction, inference, and maintenance
• Software Engineering. Frameworks and architectures for retrieval technology, distributed IR

The workshop is held for the seventh time. In the past, it was characterized by a stimulating atmosphere, and it attracted high quality contributions from all over the world. In particular, we encourage participants to present research prototypes and demonstration tools of their research ideas.

Important Dates

• Mar 30, 2010, 24:00 (CET): Deadline for paper submission
• Apr 20, 2010: Notification to authors
• May 17, 2010: Camera-ready copy due

Submission Guideline

Research papers submitted to TIR-10 must be original contributions. Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts from the related field. Accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings by IEEE CS Press.

Submissions must generally be in electronic form using the Portable Document Format (PDF) or Postscript. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that their papers use no unusual format features and are printable on a standard Postscript printer.

Styleguide and Author Information

The camera ready papers are limited to 5 (five) pages in IEEE format (two columns in A4).

Papers must be written in English. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution.

Submit a Contribution

Please use our conference management system ConfDriver to submit your paper.

Program Committee

Benno Stein (Co-Chair), Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Michael Granitzer (Co-Chair), Know-Center Graz & Graz University of Technology, Austria

Mikhail Alexandrov, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Maik Anderka, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Mario Döller, University of Passau, Germany
Ingo Frommholz, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Thomas Gottron, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Iryna Gurevych, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Christian Gütl, Technical University Graz, Austria
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Roman Kern, Know-Center Graz, Austria
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Elisabeth Lex, Know-Center Graz, Austria
Nedim Lipka, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Matthias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Bayer Business Services GmbH, Germany
Oliver Niggemann, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University, Germany
Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Marina Santini, University of Brighton, UK
Christin Seifert, Know-Center Graz, Austria
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Efstathios Stamatatos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand
Rob Warren, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mario Zechner, Know-Center Graz, Austria
Guido Zuccon, University of Glasgow, Scotland

HAIS'10-CFP - Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Recommender Systems

Special session on "Computational Intelligence for Recommender Systems (CIRS'2010) http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010/specialsessions/SS02.html Part of The 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS'10) 23rd -25th June, 2010, San Sebastián, Spain. http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010 Recommender Systems (RS) are software applications that suggest useful and interesting items to users in their decision-making while interacting with large information spaces. They recommend items of interest to users based on preferences they have expressed, either explicitly or implicitly. The ever-expanding volume and increasing complexity of information on the Web has therefore made such systems essential tools for users in a variety of information seeking or various e-applications. RS help overcome the information overload problem by exposing users to the most interesting items, and by offering novelty, surprise, and relevance. Recommender technology is hence the central piece of the information seeking puzzle. Computational Intelligence (CI) paradigms reveal to be potential tools to face the Web uncertainty. In particular, CI techniques may be properly exploited to handle Web usage data and develop Web-based applications tailored on users' preferences. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: 1) Case studies of RS implementations 2) Context-aware and multidimensional RS 3) Evaluation of RS 4) Novel paradigms of RS 5) Recommendation algorithms 6) Recommendation in social networks 7) RS interfaces 8) Scalability issues 9) Security and privacy 10) Semantic web technologies for RS 11) Theoretical aspects of RS 12) User modeling and RS Authors are invited to submit a paper by February 15, 2010, through the online paper submission system http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010/ Papers must be prepared according to the LNCS-LNAI style template and should ideally not exceed 8 pages, including figures and bibliography. Additional pages (over 8 pages) will be charged at 100 Euro each. NOTICE: All papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) through the link given below and must be prepared according to the Springer LNCS style template. http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010/ Important dates · February 15, 2010 Deadline for paper submission. · March 15, 2010 Acceptance/Rejection notifications. · April 11, 2010 Deadline for submission of final versions of papers We would appreciate very much if we could count on your support and also if you could divulge the special session among your co-workers. With kind regards, Session Organizer Assoc. Prof. Neveen I. Ghali Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Cairo-Egypt Email: nev_ghali@yahoo.com Dr. Soumya Banerjee Birla Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science, Mesra-India Email: soumyabanerjee@bitmesra.ac.in

10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '10)

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
December 13-17, 2010, Sydney, Australia
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/icdm10

Important Dates
***************
May 06, 2010: Deadline for workshop proposals
May 06, 2010: Deadline for ICDM contest proposals
Jul 02, 2010: Deadline for full paper submission
Jul 13, 2010: Deadline for demo and tutorial proposals
Sep 17, 2010: Notification of acceptance of papers
Oct 11, 2010: Camera-ready copies and copyright forms

The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's

ICDM '10: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

premier research conference in data mining. The 10th edition of ICDM (ICDM '10) provides a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based

systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature

workshops,tutorials, panels, and the ICDM data mining contest.

Paper Submissions
*****************

High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under

review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for ICDM '10.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?
Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=ICDM+2009). All papers will be double-blind

reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines

(http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/icdm10/index.php/paper-submissions/submission-guidelines)

will be rejected without review.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society

Press and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers.

A selected number of IEEE ICDM '10 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion,
in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal published
by Springer-Verlag.

Please click here (http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/icdm10/scripts/submit.php) to submit your
papers to ICDM2010.

ICDM Best Paper Awards
**********************
IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best application paper, and (3) the best student paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The best student paper award will be given to the authors of the best paper written solely by one or more students.

Workshops and Tutorials
***********************
ICDM '10 will host short and long tutorials as well as workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

ICDM Data Mining Contest
************************
ICDM '10 will host a data mining contest to challenge researchers and practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. For further details on proposals and expression of interest, please see the Call for Data Mining Contest Proposals.

Topics of Interest
*****************
Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: data mining foundations, mining in emerging domains, methodological aspects and the KDD process, and integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences. A detailed listing of specific topics can be found at the conference website (http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/icdm10/index.php/topic-of-interest).

Organizing Committee
********************
Honorary Chair:
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (Melbourne University, Australia)

Conference Co-Chairs:
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of Athens, Greece)

Program Co-Chairs:
Geoff Webb (Monash University, Australia)
Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Steering Committee:
Xindong Wu (Chair) (University of Vermont, USA)
David J. Hand (Imperial College, London, UK)
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets, USA)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane University, Japan)
Benjamin W. Wah (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Osmar R. Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Longbing Cao (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Finance Chair:
Xingquan Zhu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Sponsorship Co-Chairs:
Paul Beinat (NeuronWorks International Pty Ltd, Australia)
Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks)

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Wynne Hsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Wei Fan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, USA)

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Sanjay Chawla (University of Sydney, Australia)
Myra Spiliopoulou (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

Exhibits and Demos Co-Chairs:
Bart Goethals (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey)

Contest Chair:
Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jian Yang (International WIC Institute/BJUT, China)
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Wenjie Zhang (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Awards Committee:
Wei Wang (Chair) (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Panels Chair:
Hillol Kargupta (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)

Web Master:
Xinhua Zhu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Secretary:
Li Liu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Further Information
*******************
Professor Chengqi Zhang
Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia
Tel: +61-2-9514 7941; Fax: +61-2-9514 4517
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~chengqi/
Email: icdm2010@uts.edu.au

Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2010)

November 10-12, 2010 Philadelphia - USA
The Eighth Conference on
Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/PAKM2010/


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission due 7 April 2010
Conference: 10 to 12 November 2010
Workshops: 10 November 2010
Scientific Program: 11-12 November 2010


AIMS AND SCOPE
==============
The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting ground for practitioners and researchers. The conference focus is on developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge in organizations and other communities that can benefit from its methods.

This year's conference we will pay particular attention to the innovations on the interaction between Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, and Library and Information Science.

PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to exchange novel ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision, propose and demonstrate new kinds of solutions and new organizational methods and/or tools to Knowledge Management problems.

Management in companies deals with many things: people, energy, materials, etc. The management integrates them as a whole system and organizes the flow between the parts efficiently. In some companies, the same is done with knowledge. What methods are available and how well this integration of knowledge is understood?

Libraries and universities are examples of organizations where knowledge plays a major role within management. What methods are available to integrate knowledge (e.g., curricula, expertise, centers of excellence, programs) with people and other resources in libraries and universities?

The topics will cover relevant and applicable aspects of knowledge management. We invite practitioners and researchers from all over the world to submit papers. We are looking forward to a conference which will address a wide spectrum of topics from a variety of perspectives.

We seek original contributions in the business and organization sciences, cognitive science, library and information science, information systems and computer science that represent a true advancement beyond the state-of-the-art of Knowledge Management.

Business and organization sciences provide the overall framework for developing a knowledge management approach with a focus on the business aspects rather than on information technology aspects.

Computer science provides the tools needed to build the information systems that are often required to make certain aspects of a knowledge management solution work. Cognitive science helps to design knowledge management solutions in line with the cognitive capabilities of the people involved and optimally embedded in their work context.

Library and information science analyzes how to organize and understand knowledge for the benefit of the users.



IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Papers Due: 7-Apr-10

Notification of acceptance: 28-May-10

Camera-ready Due: 7-Jul-10




SUBMISSIONS
===========

We wish to encourage the submission of contributions that espouse an interdisciplinary approach, which will therefore be favored over one-dimensional papers.

Apart from a clear description of the real-world problems they address, papers must point out the business and/or the scientific benefits of the suggested solutions for a knowledge management task of an organization or community. Furthermore, papers should emphasize the novel aspects of the suggested approach.

Submissions will be anonymous and subject to blind reviews.

Submission web page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pakm2010


Below is a not exhaustive list of topics that will be considered:

Building and maintaining knowledge inventories
- knowledge directories
- knowledge modeling
- automatic creation of meta data
- knowledge integration
Collaboration and knowledge sharing
- knowledge sharing communities
- social software
- knowledge sharing and collaboration platforms
- integration of processes across organizational boundaries
Capturing and securing knowledge
- knowledge capturing within business processes
- knowledge acquisition, lessons learned, debriefing
- organizational memories
- knowledge storage and representation
Knowledge utilization
- content-oriented retrieval
- question answering
- integration of knowledge and business processes
- graphical user interfaces for retrieving and
- visualizing knowledge
- semantic web
Developing new knowledge
- innovation management
- ontology management and development
- communities of practice
Knowledge Measurement and evaluation
- evaluation of knowledge management systems
- measuring the benefits of KM solutions
- measuring the cost of KM solutions, knowledge access
- measuring the benefits of knowledge access
- proportions and relative cost of knowledge cycles
- cost of missing knowledge
Competitive intelligence
How to store and retrieve shared knowledge
Using digital libraries
Collective intelligence and knowledge management
Knowledge fusion
Theoretical models for KM
Experimental designs to test KM tasks and approaches





PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================
Eileen Abels, USA
David Aha, USA
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany
Yuan An, USA
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, USA
Nick Bontis, Canada
Chaomei Chen, USA
Belinha De Abreu, USA
Stefan Decker, Ireland
Kemal Delic, USA
Juan Dodero, Spain
Joaquim Filipe, Portugal
Fabien Gandon, France
Enrico Giunchiglia, Italy
Norbert Gronau, Germany
Remko Helms, The Netherlands
Knut Hinkelmann, Switzerland
Achim Hoffmann, Australia
Byeong-ho Kang, Australia
Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria
Larry Kerschberg, USA
David Leake, USA
Ana Maguitman, Argentina
Ronald Maier, Austria
Mark Maybury, USA
Kate McCain, USA
Karim Moustaghfir, Morocco
Hector Munoz, USA
Jung-Ran Park, USA
Sven Rehm, Germany
Ulrich Reimer, Switzerland
Debbie Richards, Australia
Bodo Rieger Germany
Stefan Smolnik, Germany
Steffen Staab, Germany
Rudi Studer, Germany
Ulrich Thiel Germany
A Min Tjoa Austria
Eric Tsui, China
Ian Watson New Zealand
Frithjof Weber, Germany
Takahira Yamaguchi, Japan
Lisl Zach, USA





CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION
========================

PROGRAM CHAIRS

- Rosina Weber, iSchool @ Drexel University, USA

- Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany



CONFERENCE CHAIR

- Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA


WEBMASTER

- Robin Naughton, Drexel University, USA


LOCAL COMMITTEE

- Ilya Waldstein, Drexel University, USA



STEERING COMMITTEE
==================

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS

- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland


STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA
- John Davies, British Telecom, UK
- Rose Dieng, INRIA, France
- Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
- Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA
- Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: PAKM 2010

Three Post-Docs are offered by the Joint Research Centre

Three Post-Docs are offered by the Joint Research Centre / European Commission

Short description of activity:

The Container Traffic Monitoring (Contraffic) project is carried out in the framework of Community Customs Cooperation. The latest amendment to the basic legislation foresees the possibility that the Commission establish and manage a "directory of data" on the international goods supply chain including transport, based on both public and private data sources. The Commission is empowered to access and analyze such data for the purposes of operational and strategic analyses and also to make data and results available to competent MS authorities. Such data includes the movements of containers as well as their means of transport (e.g. maritime vessels).

CONTRAFFIC focuses precisely on the analysis of past movements of maritime containers. Data is gathered from different sources and analysed in a way that allows the extraction of useful patterns and information that improves detection of fraud involving false declarations of origin for traded goods.

1) Modelling and Visualising Complex Networks

CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G04/27
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=155)
Category : 30. Post-Doc researcher
Action : CONTRAFFIC
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showaction.php?id=45)
Application must be delivered before 21 Feb, 2010 - 23:59:59CET

Job Requirements:
The selected candidate will work as part of a team of IT specialists and data analysts and will be primarily responsible for developing advanced interactive web based applications for visualising large scale dynamic graphs and network data. This could include the identification of coherent
container movements, the identification of ports that have pivotal roles, the identification of anomalous network structure and the question of how to model and analyse the flow of goods. In particular the research will address datasets that are massive, multi-attribute and dynamic.
Qualifications:
PhD in computer science or a minimun of 5 years of research experience after the first Univ. degree, experience and familiarity with multi-relational datasets and in modeling network data. Familiarity with current research on Web 2.0/ Web 3.0 and Semantic Web.
Duration : 36 months

For details concerning the application procedure, please access the page

Open Call for Grantholders
http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8

2) Web Data Extraction and Data Exchange

CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G04/28
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=156)
Category : 30. Post-Doc researcher
Action : CONTRAFFIC
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showaction.php?id=45)
Application must be delivered before 21 Feb, 2010 - 23:59:59CET

Job Requirements:
The selected candidate will work as part of a team of IT specialists and data analysts and will be primarily responsible for modelling and prototyping advanced tools for automated Web data extraction. Such tools can be trained to perform automatically complex Web navigation and data
extraction tasks and can thus automatically provide the latest data from the Web sources. One major aim of the work is to study data extraction methods and associated techniques of data transformation and analysis for decision support in trading data. Another aim is to build prototypes of novel information processing architectures from data extraction tools, databases, data warehouses and statistical analysis software packages.

Qualifications:
PhD in computer science or a minimun of 5 years of research experience after the first Univ. degree. Excellent knowledge of several of the following areas: Web data processing, Web data extraction, database systems, data warehousing, data mining, electronic commerce, semantic Web technology, electronic option trading, data analysis, and software engineering.
Duration : 36 months

For details concerning the application procedure, please access the page
Open Call for Grantholders
http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8

3)Statistical Data Analysis

CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G04/29
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=157)
Category : 30. Post-Doc researcher
Action : CONTRAFFIC
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showaction.php?id=45)
Application must be delivered before 21 Feb, 2010 - 23:59:59CET

Job Requirements:
The selected candidate will work as part of a team of IT specialists and data analysts and will be primarily responsible for developing and applying statistical and computational methods for identifying suspicious container consignments. We seek an individual with strong statistical, computing and risk analysis backgrounds and who has expertise in some subset of high-dimensional data analysis. The work will involve both methodological research and collaboration with subject matter researchers.

Qualifications:
PhD in computer science or a minimun of 5 years of research experience after the first Univ. degree, strong quantitative research background, statistical and programming proficiency, as well as good written and oral communication skill
Position: max - 3 years (initial offer 12 months + renewals)
Duration : 12 months (renewable)

For details concerning the application procedure, please access the page
Open Call for Grantholders
http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8