PRO-VE'10 Special Session Competences in Collaborative Networks - Final Call for Papers

PRO-VE'10 Special Session Competences in Collaborative Networks - Final Call for Papers

Mobile Devices as Smart Metering Displays

My colleague Oleksandr Lobunets from Fraunhofer FIT gave a presentation on "Mobile Devices as Smart Metering Displays" at the UMIC workshop.

Mobile Device as a Smart Metering Display

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WISMA 2010 Deadline Extension - 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

CALL for PAPERS Workshop on Interoperable Social
Multimedia Applications (WISMA 2010)

11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community
http://dmag.ac.upc.edu/conferences/wisma2010/

Submission due: 14th March 2010 - Workshop dates: 19th-20th May 2010
Workshop venue: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)

In the Web 2.0, a growing amount of multimedia content is being shared on Social Networks. Due to the dynamic and ubiquitous nature of this content (and associated descriptors), new interesting challenges for indexing, access, and search and retrieval have arisen. In addition, there is a growing concern on privacy protection, as a lot of personal data is being exchanged. Teenagers (and even younger kids), for example, require special protection applications; while adults are willing to have a higher control over the access to content. Furthermore, the integration of mobile technologies with the Web 2.0 applications is also an interesting area of research that needs to be addressed; not only in terms of content protection, but also considering the implementation of new and enriched context-aware applications. Finally, social multimedia is also expected to improve the performance of traditional multimedia information search and retrieval approaches by contributing to bridge the semantic gap. The integration of these aspects,
however, is not trivial and has created a new interdisciplinary area of research. In any case, there is a common issue that needs to be addressed in all the previously identified social multimedia applications: the interoperability and extensibility of their applications. Thus, the workshop is particularly interested in research contributions based on standards.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Privacy in social networks
• Access control in social networks
• Social media analysis
• Social media retrieval
• Context-awareness in social networks
• Mobile applications scenario
• Social networks ontologies and interoperability
• Security and privacy ontologies
• Content distribution over social networks
• Multimedia ontologies and interoperability
• Multimedia search and retrieval
• Semantic metadata management
• Collaborative tagging
• Interaction between access control and privacy policies
• Social networks and policy languages
• Policy management

Research Papers: Papers should describe original and significant work in the research practice of related topics.
(i) Long papers: up to 8 pages, will normally be focused on research studies, applications and experiments.
(ii) Short papers: up to 4 pages, will be particularly suitable for reporting work-in-progress, interim results, or as a position paper submission.

Applications and Industrial Presentations: Proposals for presentations of applications or tools, including project reports, industrial practices and models, or tools/systems demonstrations.
Abstract: 2 pages.

All submissions and proposals are to be in English and submitted in PDF format at the WISMA paper submission web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wisma2010) on or before 14th March 2010. Papers should be formatted according to LNCS style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). The workshop
proceedings are to be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org).

General Chair: Jaime Delgado (UPC, Spain).

International Programme Committee:
Anna Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Ansgar Scherp
(University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Bill Grosky (University of
Michigan, USA), Chris Poppe (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium), Christian
Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria), Dominik Renzel (RWTH
Aachen University, Germany), Frédéric Dufaux (EPFL, Switzerland), Harald
Kosch (University of Passau, Germany), Herve Bourlard (Idiap, Switzerland),
Jaime Delgado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Laszlo
Böszörmenyi (Klagenfurt University, Austria), Marc Spaniol (MPI -
Saarbrücken, Germany), Markus Strohmaier (Know Center Graz, Austria),
Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University, Austria), Michael Granitzer (Know Center
Graz, Austria), Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Ralf Klamma
(RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University,
France), Romulus Grigoras (ENSEEIHT, France), Ruben Tous (Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Savvas Chatzichristofis (Democritus
University of Thrace, Greece), Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT, France),
Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA), Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research Graz, Austria),
Yu Cao (California State University, Fresno, USA).

Supported by:
Multimedia Metadata Community
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONATECH
segur@, a project co-funded by the CDTI (Government of Spain)

Virtual Campfire iNMV - Mobile Storytelling on the iPhone

My colleagues Yiwei Cao and Xi Chen gave a presentation on "Virtual Campfire iNMV - Mobile Storytelling on the iPhone at the UMIC workshop.

Virtual Campfire/iNMV Storytelling on the iPhone

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Mobile Informal Learning

This is the presentation of my colleague Christian Glahn from the OUNL on "Mobile Informal Learning" at the UMIC WS.

Mobile informal learning

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Mobile Cloud Computing

This is the presentation of my colleague Dejan Kovachev about "Mobile Cloud Computing" in the UMIC workshop on future mobile applications this morning.

Mobile Cloud Computing

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Web Science: A New Paradigm in IS-Research (minitrack at AMCIS 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Web Science - A New Paradigm in IS-Research"

Minitrack at
17th Americas Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS 2010)
August 12-15, 2010, Lima, Peru

Part of the Ecommerce and Ebusiness Track

http://www.amcis2010.org
http://tinyurl.com/yzt9dgn

Web Science is a new, interdisciplinary scientific paradigm (or even discipline) that seeks to understand the Web in its whole with a focus on technical and social challenges. The AMCIS 2010 minitrack on Web Science welcomes in particular submissions (1) examining social aspects of the Web, (2) using Web data for forecasting or other purposes, and (3) proposing architectural principles of a Web infrastructure for social software.

The term Web Science was coined by Berners-Lee and colleagues (2006) in a short Science article. Since than many researchers adopted the paradigm, organized specialized Web Science conferences and developed the paradigm further (e.g. Hendler et al. 2008). In this minitrack, we intend to fosterthe interdisciplinary discourse between scholars developing the Web and scholars examining the increasing amount of networked data in a variety of disciplines such as Information Systems, Computer science, Sociology, Physics, Management Science, Economics, Anthropology and Communication Studies.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Social Network Analysis
* Semantic Network Analysis
* Web mining for purposes of (collective) trend prediction / collective intelligence / prediction markets / link prediction / agenda setting
* Social media (e.g. blogs, media sharing sites, opinion aggregators, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, social bookmarking sites and folksonomies, social networking platforms (like Facebook, Habbo Hotel, LinkedIn), and Wikis)
* Diffusion processes (e.g. eWOM, viral marketing, identifying influentials)
* Decision Support Systems using the Web
* Theoretical properties of social machines in the Web
* Algorithms for creating social machines in the Web and analyzing social networks
* Architectural principles of a Web infrastructure for social software
* Cultural differences and social mechanisms on the Web
* Applications of the Web including e-government, e-health, e-science and other emerging areas
* Collaborative innovation networks (COINS) / virtual communication and collaboration
* Random graphs, modeling and simulation, or other approaches to empirical network analysis
* Trust, privacy, risk, transparency and security
* Promoting the paradigm of Web Science (e.g. curricular and epistemological underpinnings)

The minitrack is interdisciplinary in nature. We invite contributions from a broad spectrum including information systems, computer science, economics, management, sociology, psychology, biology, and physics in order to take full advantage of methodological broadness. We also invite practitioners that will enrich the discussions through their experiences with developing the Web.

Papers will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind system and will be considered for Best Paper Awards. In 2010, a Best Paper Award for a practitioner-oriented paper will be selected with input from CIOs.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Opens: January 4, 2010
Papers Due: March 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2010
Camera Ready Copy Due: April 26, 2010

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit final papers via Manuscript
Central(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010). (For more details see
http://amcis2010.org/ and http://tinyurl.com/yzt9dgn). Please note that this
minitrack is part of the
"Ecommerce and Ebusiness" track (SIGeBiz).

MINITRACK CHAIRS

Kai Fischbach*, Peter A. Gloor (MIT Sloan School of Management), James A.
Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Johannes Putzke*, Detlef
Schoder*

*primary contacts
Department of Information Systems and Information Management
University of Cologne
Pohligstr. 1, 50969 Köln, Germany
Phone: +49 221 470-5394
Email: {fischbach|putzke|schoder} (at) wim.uni-koeln.de

18th International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th International Conference on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(CoopIS 2010)

In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'10)

Hersonissou, Crete, Greece, October 27-29, 2010
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/coopis10

PC CO-CHAIRS

Hervé Panetto (Nancy-University, France)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
M. Brain Blake (University of Notre-Dame, USA)

SCOPE

Cooperative Information Systems provide enterprises and communities of users with flexible, scalable and intelligent services in large-scale networking environments. Building a scalable cooperative information system requires technical breakthroughs to overcome tough challenges that traditional rigid distributed systems did not face. The new grand challenge in the modern enterprise is now dealing with assessing and benchmarking the realistic benefits of social- and community-based collaborative computing against the traditional integrated approaches. The CIS paradigm has traditionally encompassed distributed systems technologies such as middleware, business process management (BPM) and Web technologies. In recent years, several innovative technologies are emerging: SaaS, cloud computing, Internet of Service, Internet of Things, Service Oriented Computing, mash-ups, Web Services, Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid. These new technologies enable us to consider more aggressive solutions for building scalable cooperative information systems. Cooperative Information Systems applications are heavily distributed and highly coordinated, often exhibiting inter-organizational interaction patterns and requiring distributed access and sharing of computing and information resources. Typically they fall under the categories such as e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health and e-Science. The CoopIS conference series has established itself as a major international forum for exchanging ideas and results on scientific research for practitioners in fields such as computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), middleware, Internet/Web data management, electronic commerce, workflow management, knowledge flow, agent technologies, and software architectures, to name a few. In addition, the 2010 edition of CoopIS aims to highlight the impact of social and community networks, cloud computing, semantic computing and the future internet enterprise systems collaborative issues for collaborative information systems. As in previous years, CoopIS'10 will be part of a joint event with other conferences, in the context of the OTM ("OnTheMove") federated conferences, covering different aspects of distributed information systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics that are addressed by CoopIS'10 are logically grouped in three broad areas, and include but are not limited to:
Process Management
- Business Process Management and Integration
- Distributed Workflow Management and Systems
- Social networks analysis and community discovery
- Process modelling, analysis and design
- Business rules discovery and design
- Process choreographies
- Business process compliance, governance, and risk
- Integrated vs. distributed supply chains
- Enterprise information systems integration
- Concurrent engineering and groupware
- Sustainability of processes
- Knowledge flow management
Advanced middleware and architectures
- Dynamic business networks and the Internet of Services
- Internet of Services and Internet of Things integration
- Service oriented middleware
- Web services standards and runtimes
- Grid computing and cloud computing
- Semantic interoperability for collaborative information systems
- Web centric information and processing architectures
-Self-adapting and self-healing systems
- Model driven middleware architectures
-Model-based information systems engineering
- Multi-agent systems and architectures for CIS
- Peer-to-peer technologies
- Security and privacy in CIS
- Quality of service in cooperative information systems
- Mediation, matchmaking, and brokering architectures
- Collaboration and negotiation protocols
- Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
CIS Applications
- Collaboration and knowledge sharing in enterprises
- Innovative CIS applications for the large organizations: e-business,
e-commerce, e-government and e-culture.
- Advances in e-science and Grid computing applications
- Medical and biological information systems
- Industrial applications of CIS
- Semantic Web for the enterprise
- E-communities and Web-based collaboration
- Enterprise 2.0
- Internet-of-Things in the context of CIS

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: Jun 14, 2010
Acceptance Notification: Aug 2, 2010
Camera Ready Due: Aug 13, 2010
Registration Due: Sep 3, 2010
OTM Conferences: October 25 - 29, 2010
CoopIS'10: Oct. 27-29, 2010

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to CoopIS'10 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at
least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format. The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The paper submission site is located at:
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/subcoopis/ Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)

Ghaleb Abdulla, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Kemafor Anyanwu, NC State University, USA
Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National Universiry, South Korea
Alistair Barros, SAP Research, Australia
Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM- CNRS/Université Montpellier 2, France
Salima Benbernou, University Lyon 1, France
M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Klemens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Nacer Boudjlida, Nancy-University, France
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA
Patrick J. Cassidy, MICRA Inc., USA
James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA
Francisco Curbera, IBM, USA
Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Ke Deng, University of Queensland, Australia
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, PR China
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Opher Etzion, IBM Israel Software Lab
Renato Fileto, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ted Goranson, Earl Research, USA
Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Michael Grossniklaus, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, USA
Mohand-Said Hacid, Lyon University, France
Gregor Hohpe, Google, Inc., USA
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Zhixing Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stefan Jablonski, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Paul Johannesson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, England, UK
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Rania Khalaf, IBM research
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba
Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ZongWei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China
Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Tiziana Margaria, University Potsdam, Germany
Leo Mark, Georgia Institute of Technology
Maristella Matera, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Massimo Mecella, Universita' di Roma, Italy
Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler AG
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
John Miller, University of Georgia, USA
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Arturo Molina, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Jörg Müller, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany
Nirmal Mukhi, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Werner Nutt, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Guadalupe Ortiz, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Gerald Oster, University of Nancy, INRIA, France
Jin Woo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Frank Puhlmann, inubit AG, Germany
Li Qing, Tsingua University, P.R. China
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA
Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Ulm University, Germany
Duncan Ruiz, Catholic University of RS, Brazil
Paulo Rupino, Univesity of Coimbra
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden Research Center
Michael W. Sobolewski, Texas Tech University
Xiaoping Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences
York Sure, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Susan Urban, Texas Tech University, USA
Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Irene Vanderfeesten, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
François B. Vernadat, European Court of Auditors, Luxemburg
Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas Venezuela
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Leon Zhao, University of Arizona, USA
Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, P. R. China
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

Postdoc position on Data Quality

ANNOUNCEMENT OF POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION

The Data quality research group leaded by Prof. Carlo Batini of University Milano - Bicocca, Italy, seeks applications for a position for a post-doctoral researcher in the field of data quality in the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo). The research topics will be related to data quality in SAS environment. The researcher is expected to collaborate with the research team in researching new solutions, as well as to contribute to the development of research prototypes.

The ideal candidate:

- has a solid background in data Quality, Service oriented architectures, Web services. A Ph.D. thesis and a strong publication record on these topics are relevant evaluation criteria.

- has good teamwork skills and experience, necessary for coordinating the work among the many researchers and developers in the project.

- knowledge of Italian is not required: the research team is already international, and the technical documents will be written in English.

Salary is 21,000 EUR gross/year for 2 years. The position is full-time.

Candidates should apply for the post-doc position within 11 March 2010 as described here
http://www.unimib.it/XML/contenuti/news/dett.jsp?_cid=cb3d9349&param1=408549
13&param2=8225700283271456998&_crc=6fd259ee. (Notice that it is written in
Italian, but we are able to provide an English translation if needed).

Requests for more information and clarification are welcome and should be addressed to Andrea Maurino (maurino@disco.unimib.it, tel +39 02 64487897 Department of Information Systems and Communication, University of Milano - Bicocca)

ACM Multimedia 2010 - Call for Full Papers, Brave New Ideas, Interactive Art Program and Workshops

ACM Multimedia 2010

Call for Full Papers, Brave New Ideas, Interactive Art Program and Workshops

Deadline for abstract registration: March 21st, 2010

http://www.acmmm10.org/

October 25-29th 2010 - Firenze, Italy

The deadline for submissions to ACM Multimedia 2010 Full Papers, Brave New Ideas, Interactive Art Program and Workshops is March 21st, 2010.

Full Papers describe scientific achievements in the following tracks: Multimedia Content, Multimedia Systems, Human Centered Multimedia and Multimedia Applications.

Brave New Ideas proposals address long term research challenges, point to new research directions, or provide new insights or brave perspectives that pave the way to innovation.

Interactive Art Program will consist of an Art Exhibition and a Conference track.

Workshops will address clearly focused topics, pertinent to the main conference, offering emerging interest to multimedia research community.

All details for submitting are on the conference web site http://www.acmmm10.org/.

Important dates:

• March 21st, 2010 – Abstract or proposal submission deadline
• March 29th, 2010 – Workshop notification of acceptance
• April 11th, 2010 – Full Paper and Art Work submission deadline
• May 7th, 2010 – Brave New Idea and Short Paper submission deadline
• July 5th, 2010 – Notification of acceptance
• July 26th, 2010 – Camera-ready submission deadline

The The First International Workshop on Graph Database

The First International Workshop on Graph Database

In Conjunction with WAIM2010, July 15th, 2010

http://www.icst.pku.edu.cn/IWGD2010/index.html

The growing popularity of graph databases has generated interesting data management problems, such as indexing techniques, query algorithms and graph mining. This workshop will focus on issues related to graph databases. IWGD 2010 will be held in conjunction with WAIM 2010 conference. We invite original research contributions; we are also interested in the applications of graph databases in different domains. IWGD 2010 aims at bringing together researchers in different fields related to graph databases who have common interests in interdisciplinary research. The workshop provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can share and exchange their knowledge and experience. All papers accepted by IWGD 2010 will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer, and indexed by EI.

JiuZhai Valley, under the well-knowned World Heritage List, has been voted as one of the most beautiful places in China, and even on earth. 5 superiorities are always related to JiuZhai Valley, which are the Colorful Forest, Jadish Lakes, Snowcapped Mountain, Staggering Waterfalls and Tibetan/Chiang Tribunal Culture and Romance. More details about JiuZhai Valley can be found here.

The IWGD 2010 topics include but are certainly not limited to the following areas:

1. Indexing techniques in graph gatabases;
2. Reachability and shortest path distance query;
3. Subgraph query and pattern matching query;
4. Foundations of graph mining;
5. Graph classification and clustering ;
6. Graph summary and graph visualization;
7. Keyword search in graph databases;
8. Social network analysis ;
9. Link analysis ;
10. Graph Databases in Bioinformatics;
11. Graph Databases in WWW;
12. Graph-based Semantic Data Management

Workshop Organizers

· Honorary Chair
Jianguo Xiao, Peking University, China

· Program Co-chairs:
M. Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Lei Zou, Peking University, China

· Program Committee Members :
Ambuj K Singh, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Dongyan Zhao, Peking University, China
Ihab Francis Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada
James Cheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jeffery Xu Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Jiefeng Cheng, The University of Hong Kong, HK
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Rosalba Giugno, University of Catania, Italy
Wei Jin, North Dakota State University, USA
Wen-Syan Li, SAP Technology Lab, China
Xiang Lian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University, China
Xifeng Yan, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Yanghua Xiao, Fudan University, China
Yi Zhuang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China

Submission Details

Important Dates:
March 15th: Paper Submission
April 15th: Notification of acceptance
May 1st: Camera-ready due
July 15th: Workshop starts

All papers accepted by WAIM 2010 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submission Site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWGD2010/Default.aspx (available online)

Contact us: IWGD2010 AT gmail.com

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

FINAL Call for Papers

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing
(U-Media 2010)

http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/umedia2010/
July 5-6, 2010
Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China

Dynamicity in the cyberspace can be modeled as a spatiotemporal suite of events populated by computing devices arrivals and departures, communication channels uses, and multimodal interactions. Contemporary ubiquitous devices unleash the boundary of one-to-one human-computer interaction. It has become a de facto style of facilitating social events, in which participants use several distributed devices opportunistically through multimodal adaptive
interaction. How people access multimodal media in different contexts of use is key to deliver the appropriate interactive systems to humans. Ubi-media Computing, as it is bravely defined, explores challenging issues on how to bring together technologies for context adaptation, inter-device interaction, and media/data communication for the well-being of humans.

The conference will be held at the Zhejiang Normal University which is located in Jinhua city, China. Jinhua is directly accessible from Shanghai by bullet train (2 and half hours), or from Hangzhou by bus (2 hours). In addition, the conference organization committee will provide a few pick-up services at the Hangzhou airport. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE, with best papers to be recommended for publication in special issues of international journals including World Wide Web (SCI indexed). Topics of interests are divided based on four levels:

Ubi-media Infrastructure
* Heterogeneous Ubi-media Infrastructure
* Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID
* New Ubi-media Devices
* Multimedia Embedded Systems
* Ubi-media Storage and Indexing
* 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques
* Cross-Network Communication Techniques

Ubi-media Middleware
* Context-Aware Multimedia
* Cross-Network Media Server
* Computational Intelligences in Ubi-media
* Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
* Ubi-media Content Protection and Security
* Privacy and Security in Ubiquitous Environments

Ubi-media Human-Computer Interaction
* Plasticity of User Interfaces
* Dynamic composition of User Interfaces
* Multimodal interaction
* Social networks

Ubi-media Applications
* Ubi-media for Education
* Ubi-media for Commerce
* Ubi-media for Games
* Ubi-media for Health Care
* Ubi-media for Smart Home
* Ubi-media for Citizens and E-Government

Paper Submission:

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press (two-column format) and MUST NOT be longer than SIX pages.

Important Dates:
* Regular paper submission: 08 March 2010 (5:00pm GMT/10:00am PDT)
* Notification: 15 April 2010
* Camera-ready due: 30 April 2010
* Conference dates: 5-6 July 2010

Honorary Conference Chair:
Benjamin Wah, UIUC, USA

General Chair:
Jianmin Zhao, Zhejiang Normal University, China

Conference Co-chairs:
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Gaelle Calvary, Grenoble University, France
Ishfaq Ahmad, UT Arlington, USA

Program Co-chairs:
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida Int'l University, USA

Organization Chairs:
Zhangxin Wu, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Lanfang Miao, Zhejiang Normal University, China

Workshop Co-chairs:
Marc Spaniol, MPII, Germany
Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China

Publicity Co-chairs:
Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK
Rong-Chi Chang, Asia University, Taiwan
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Web and Media Chair:
Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, HK

Steering Committee Chair:
Timothy Shih, Asia University, Taiwan

Hosted by:
Zhejiang Normal University, China

Organizers:
Zhejiang Normal University, China
Hong Kong Web Society

Supporters:
IEEE China, IEEE Beijing
City University of Hong Kong, HK
Asia University, Taiwan

Postdoctoral position - Recommender Systems

INRIA, Ecole Centrale Paris and Cassette Voyage (start-up) are offering a postdoctoral position

Subject: Design of a semantic recommender system for e-tourism.

Environment

Applications are invited for the postdoctoral position in the Axis research team (INRIA), in collaboration with the Applied Mathematics Lab (Ecole Centrale Paris). This postdoctoral subject is linked to a research, development and innovation project funded by OSEO (a Frech public institution supporting innovation for SME) and concerning the Cassette Voyage Company, a young start-up incubated at Ecole Centrale Paris.

The Addictrip project is oriented towards the new needs of travelers for city breaks. This market is actually growing and its emergence is due to the low cost companies allowing people to travel for a reasonable cost. The concept of City break is a real new vision of tourism and holidays.

Mission

The main objective of the Addictrip project is to develop a new recommendation technology based on semantic and classification. Knowing the users to offer personalised selections is known as a challenging task for recommender systems.

The postdoc will be responsible of tasks dedicated to the theoretical aspects of this research topic and will develop a prototype.

The recommender system will be based on an hybrid approach in which improved and well-known methods will be combined to obtain reliable and relevant results.

Work description

This research work will be divided into three steps. The first step will be based on content or semantics. This step will consist, for example, in grouping hotels having close characteristics in order to obtain a first classification level by homogeneity/semantic. In this step, the web site content will be analyzed (descriptions, travel book, users' comments) and a knowledge model (ontology) dedicated to this particular domain will be designed.

The objective of the second step is to define an innovative hybrid recommendation algorithm based upon collaborative filtering and content filtering. The knowledge model and users profiles will help us to better understand the users' tastes and to create groups corresponding to particular travelers types. The dynamic part of these groups has to be managed as well as semantic links between groups of users (semantic distance).

In the third step, we would like to anticipate what the users are searching for using the usage data such as the paths followed or the locations they don't want. These usage data will be extracted using a tool already developed in the Axis research team.

This work will be realized with a close collaboration with the development team of Cassette Voyage. The researcher will access the resources of this company and is strongly encouraged to work one day per week in this company to have a good interaction with their team.

Competencies and profile

Formation, experience

Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or Applied Mathematics. A strong academic record, excellent analytical skills and a clear aptitude for autonomous, creative research will be priority selection criteria. They should have excellent communication skills in English; French would be a plus but is not mandatory.

Technical skills

- A solid background in Computer Science or Applied Mathematics, a good knowledge of numeric computation, knowledge representation models, principles of recommender systems as well as automatic classification algorithms.

- Strong experience in development tools for Windows and Linux environments.

- Strong programming skills for languages such as XML, SQL.

- Good learning and adaptation capabilities.

- Strong communication skills in English.

Location

INRIAde Rocquencourt. (Near Versailles, close to Paris:

http://www.inria.fr/rocquencourt/ur/comment-venir), AxIS project (http://www-sop.inria.fr/axis/).

Regular meetings will be organized at Ecole Centrale Paris (Chatenay-Malabry, close to Paris) and with the company Cassette Voyage (Paris).

Duration: 12 months

Start: April 2010

Remuneration: ~ 2308 € net mensuel

Application

- A motivation letter.

- A detailed CV including the PhD subject

Applications must be sent to (deadline: March, 15 2010)

Yves Lechevallier

INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt

Domaine de Voluceau, BP 105

78153 Le Chesnay Cedex

France

Email : Yves.Lechevallier@inria.fr et Marie-Aude.Aufaure@ecp.fr

I- KNOW'10 Call for Papers

Visit I-KNOW '10 - International Conference on Knowledge Management &

Knowledge Technologies http://www.i-know.at

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

Research Position at Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Research Position (Vienna University of Technology: CVAST (Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology)

We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD candidate (duration: 3 years, extensions as PostDoc after successful evaluation possible) in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction Design in the new founded Laura Bassi Center of Expertise CVAST (Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology), which will be established at the institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (http://www.isis.tuwien.ac.at/), Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will
* perform research and develop concepts in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction Design
* implement interactive prototypes
* design and write scientific publications
* participate in scientific and consulting projects
* participate in writing research proposals
* work within a creative, highly motivated, and international team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
You
* are a university graduate (at the diploma or master of science level) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent university study
* should have background and knowledge in one or more of the following fields
- Information Visualization
- Interaction Design
- Graphical User Interface Design
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Visual Data Analysis/Explorative Data Analysis
- Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases
or the willingness to quickly become acquainted with research explained above
* have experience in programming (preferably Java, C#, or similar)
* are interested and enjoy scientific working
* like to work as an independent and flexible researcher
* have abilities to work in interdisciplinary teams
* are fluent in the English language and eager to communicate your work both orally and in written form
* should possess knowledge of the German language

Closing date for applications: Thursday March 11, 2010

The position will be filled earliest as possible.

Send your applications (with the usual application documents including a statement of interest, full CV, list of subjects taken at university plus grades, publications, etc.) to:

Silvia Miksch
Vienna University of Technology
Faculty of Informatics
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS)

Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe

email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

We encourage sending your application in electronic form.

The Vienna University of Technology aims for enhancing the number of women in scientific positions and therefore, particularly invites women to apply.

Applicants are not entitled to claim reimbursement of traveling expensesand/or other costs caused by the application procedures.

If you have any more questions, please contact

a.o.univ.prof.
SILVIA MIKSCH, ph.d
Vienna University of Technology
Faculty of Informatics
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS)

Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe

email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia
phone: +43-1-58801-18824
phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801
fax: +43-1-58801-18899

==== Background: Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise and CVAST ====

The Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise are funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family, and Youth of the Republic of Austria. This initiative programme, the only one of its kind in Europe, is committed to equal opportunities and to establishing a new research culture to carry out applied basic research in the natural sciences, engineering and technology in an interdisciplinary way. For more information see: http://www.w-fforte.at/en/laura-bassi-centres

The goals of Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) are twofold. The first goal is the integration of the outstanding capabilities of humans in terms of visual information exploration with the enormous processing power of computers to form a powerful knowledge discovery environment. The second goal is to scientifically assess the usability and utility of such discovery environments while bridging the gap between theory and practice for selected application scenarios. CVAST is one of the eight funded Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise in
Austria. For more information see http://www.w-fforte.at/de/laura-bassi-centres/laura-bassi-zentren/cvast.html (in German)

London International Conference on Education LICE-2010!

CALL FOR PAPERS

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2010)
September 6-8, 2010, London, UK
(www.liceducation.org)

The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.


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

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education



IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: March 01, 2010
Research Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: March 30, 2010
Proposal for Workshops: February 15, 2010
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: February 15, 2010
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: March 15, 2010
Notification of Research Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Due: June 01, 2010
Participant(s) Registration (Open): January 2010
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 31, 2010
Late Bird Registration Deadline: September 06, 2010
Conference Dates: September 06-08, 2010


For further information please visit LICE-2010 at www.liceducation.org

NDT2010:The Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies'

The Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT2010)

Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010
Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Date: July. 7-9, 2010.

Topics:

Information and Data Management
Data and Network Mining
Intelligent Agent-Based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI
Systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling
XML-Based Languages
Security and Access Control
Trust Models for Social Networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New Architectures for Web-Based Social Networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (Creation, Merging, Linking and Reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects
User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications
Mobile Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer Social Networks
Sensor Networks and Social Sensing
Social Search
Social Networking Inspired Collaborative Computing
Information Propagation on Social Networks
Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks
Measurement Studies of Actual Social Networks
Simulation Models for Social Networks
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Green Computing

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date: March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010
Camera Ready submission: May 10, 2010
Registration: May 15, 2010c
Conference date: July 7-9, 2010

SUBMISSION:
Submission instructions are listed at
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010/submission.asp

Call For Workshop Proposals - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-2010)

Call For Workshop Proposal

2010 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-2010)

Minneapolis, USA, August 19-22, 2010

http://www.iisocialcom.org/conference/socialcom2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT2010)

Minneapolis, USA, August 19-22, 2010

http://www.iisocialcom.org/conference/passat2010

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposal: March 1, 2010

Postdoc Position at Workflow Systems and Technology Group, University of Vienna, Austria

The Workflow Systems and Technology Group at the Faculty of Computer Science (University of Vienna, Austria) is seeking an outstanding researcher in the area of Workflow Management Technology and Business Process Management for a one-year postdoctoral position within the OCIS (Organizational Change in Information Systems) project (http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/project.php?pid=868).

The main focus of the project is on the evolution of organizational structures in Workflow Systems and inter-organizational processes (process choreographies). Such organizational changes can lead, for example, to security problems if not handled properly. Furthermore, the effects of organizational changes on authorization constraints (e.g., separation of duties) are to be investigated.

The ideal candidate holds a MS/Diploma and PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field (or is about to finish the PhD thesis). Strong interest and research record in Information Systems, Workflow Systems, and Business Process Management are expected. Fluent English and/or German and excellent programming skills are expected as well.

The University of Vienna is an equal opportunity employer.

Duration of Employment: 1 year, 39.5 hours/week.

We invite interested applicants to send a letter of motivation and resume as soon as possible to stefanie.rinderle-ma(at)univie.ac.at (Reference No: 39501).

Multi-Actor Systems Research Seminar at TU Delft

Yesterday, I gave a presentation on "Reflection Support for Communities on the Web" at the Multi-Actor Systems Research Seminar at the Faculty Technology, Policy and Management of TU Delft. I visited my colleagues Alexander Verbraeck and Stephan Lukosch. A lot of interesting discussion on ongoing research collaboration took place. We want to coordinate our work on storytelling platforms even better and plan to apply for grants in this area. The talk was more about latest results in dynamic network analysis of community structures on the web. Here are the slides of the presentation.

Reflection Support for Communities on the Web

View more presentations from Ralf Klamma.

UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications

My colleagues Yiwei Cao, Dejan Kovachev (RWTH Aachen University & UMIC) and Wolfgang Gräther are organizing a workhop on future mobile applications. The workshop will take place on Friday, February 26, 2010 in the UMIC building at RWTH Aachen. I put the program on scribd. We have a lot of participants already. So, be quick if you want to attend.

UMIC Workshop on Future Mobile Applications

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
------------

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
------------------

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
----------------

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
---------------

Paper Submission Due: February 25, 2010
Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2010
Final copy: March 17, 2010
Camera Ready: May 23, 2010

Workshop PC Co-Chairs
---------------------

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
-----------------

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)

Interactive Art Program ACM Multimedia 2010

ACM Multimedia 2010 - Call for Art Works and Papers, Interactive Art Program

Deadline for Long paper abstract submission: March 21st, 2010
http://www.acmmm10.org/
October 25-29th 2010 - Firenze, Italy

ACM Multimedia 2010 organizes the 7th edition of the Interactive Art Program that will consist of an Art Exhibition and a Conference track.

Multimedia Art Exhibition: we seek artworks that use multimedia to explore psycho-physical color phenomena, resulting in challenging and rewarding intellectual and experiential spaces. Algorithmic generation, filtering, and recognition of color contrasts, harmonies, and other relationships are emphasized. Multisensory interactive interfaces are encouraged.

Art Papers: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. We encourage work that integrates art and science perspectives and methodologies. We seek integrated artistic and scientific statements describing digital systems that support creative and expressive processes, in forms such as interactive experience environments, installations, media compositions, tools, and work environments.

All submission details are on the conference web site http://www.acmmm10.org/.

Important dates:

• March 21st, 2010 – Long Paper abstract submission deadline
• April 11th, 2010 – Long Paper and Art Work submission deadline
• May 7th, 2010 – Short Paper submission deadline
• July 5th, 2010 – Notification of acceptance
• July 26th, 2010 – Camera-ready submission deadline

Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks at University of Oxford

Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks

CABDyN Complexity Centre Grade 8 (£36,715 - £43,840 with discretionary
range to £47,905)

Fixed term post for two and a half years

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre http://www.cabdyn.ox.ac.uk/complexity_home.asp at the Universityof Oxford. Further information on CABDyN and the full further particulars for the post are available here

http://www.cabdyn.ox.ac.uk/complexity_PDFs/ICTeCollective%20Rec%20February%202010/ICTeCollective%20Senior%20Research%20Fellowship%20Further%20Particulars.pdf.

The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre's new projects:

'ICTeCollective Project - Harnessing ICT-enabled Collective Social Behaviour' is funded under the European Commission's Framework 7, Future of Emerging Technologies Open Scheme. Since the project involves a European collaboration with partner institutions in Finland, Italy, Hungary and Poland, the postholder should anticipate making at least 2 European research visits per annum.

The successful candidate will be working with and analysing the large-scale empirical datasets used in this project, developing novel metrics to characterise network dynamics in large social systems, and dynamic processes on complex networks. S/He will be expected to develop agent-based or stochastic models for the adoption of innovations in online social networks that can be compared with empirical data and to contribute to the development of new models of social influence processes. S/He will be expected to then integrate specific research findings with the work of all project partners and co-author articles for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals in different disciplines, presenting research results at international workshops and conferences. S/He will be expected to oversee the day to day management of the project
and contribute to the training and development needs of graduate students.

Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in an appropriate discipline (e.g physical, mathematical, engineering, computer or analytic social sciences) with postdoctoral training in complex systems and networks, with a track record of serious interdisciplinary collaboration and
engagement. An appropriate track record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications on complex systems and networks, good programming skills and demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale empirical data sets will be essential. Candidates will be
expected to have experience of giving research seminars on complex systems and networks to an inter-disciplinary audience and the ability to contribute to the organisation of seminar, workshops and conferences. Track record of successful grant writing is desirable.

The Senior Research Fellow will be based at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, under the direction of Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School). The post is funded for two and a half years, ideally
commencing 4 May 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.

If no suitable applicant is forthcoming an appointment on the scale £28,983 - £35,646 with discretionary range to £38,951 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.
Applicants who would need a work visa if appointed to the post are asked to note that under the UK's new point's based migration system they will need to demonstrate that they have sufficient points. To apply send a detailed covering letter indicating how you fulfil the requirements of the post together with a detailed curriculum vitae and the names and complete contact details (including email addresses if possible) of two referees, to vacancies@sbs.ox.ac.uk or to the HR
Department at the Saïd Business School, Egrove Park, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NY.
Previous applicants need not reapply. This is an international recruitment round. Please note that letters of application in the U.K. have to be much more detailed than in some other countries. Applicants are encouraged to address in detail most, if not all, of the points outlined in the selection criteria in their covering letter.

The closing date for applications is 10:00 am (GMT) on Monday 15 March 2010. It is expected that interviews will be held in the week commencing 29 March 2010.