Three Post Doctoral Positions in Social Network Research at Northwestern University

Post Doctoral Positions in Social Network Research

The Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Laboratory at Northwestern University (http://sonic.northwestern.edu)

invites applications for up to three post doctoral positions. SONIC lab members utilize and advance social network theories, methods, and web-based tools to better understand and facilitate social networks in a variety of contexts, including communities of practice; science, engineering, and medical communities; and communities involved in emergency response, public health, climate change, and virtual worlds. Current research projects include several multi-year efforts funded in part by the US National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Army Research Institute, Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, MacArthur Foundation, and the City of Chicago. Hires will be expected to conduct social network research in several of the on-going projects, to take leadership in initiating new interdisciplinary research projects, and to co-mentor junior lab members. Hires will also have an affiliation with the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO; http://www.northwestern.edu/nico/) to facilitate interaction and collaboration with a broader community of network researchers.

Key Responsibilities (one or more of the following):

• Develop theoretical and conceptual frameworks to investigate factors that leads to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks

• Utilize and extend methods for mathematical, statistical, and computational modeling of networks

• Develop and implement socio-technical algorithms for network recommender systems

• Utilize and develop innovative techniques for data collection, integration, and management of large-scale multidimensional social networks from surveys and digital sources/traces

• Implement algorithms for modeling large-scale social networks in high performance (Petascale) computing environments.

Qualifications: We invite applications from US and international scholars with PhDs from a wide variety of disciplines, with interest and expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Social scientific theories of network emergence and evolution

• Modeling of networks: mathematical, statistical, computational

• Web Science and Semantic Web technologies

• Data-mining algorithms to detect networks

• High performance and cloud computing

• Visualization of networks

Compensation: The appointment will carry an annual stipend commensurate with qualifications and experience in addition to standard benefits provided to all employees of Northwestern University.

Application Procedures: Applicants must submit by email the following: 1) a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications and prior research experience if applicable; 2) a brief statement of research interest and experiences relevant to the activities of SONIC, and 3) names, affiliations, and contact information for three references. Send all application

materials as well as any inquiries to Professor Noshir Contractor, nosh@northwestern.edu. Appointment starting date and

duration are negotiable. Applications will be considered until all positions are filled.

Northwestern University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and welcomes applications from women and members of underrepresented groups.

VLDB Journal Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services

Call For Papers

VLDB Journal Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services

Aims and Scope
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Small, GPS-enabled and wireless networked mobile devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, or car navigation systems have become powerful, affordable, and wide-spread. Not only do these devices interact with the environment such as local services and facilities, searching for useful information, but they are also capable of collecting and transmitting position data. There is a need for addressing both aspects, of supporting online services by managing the locations of large sets of currently moving users, and of analyzing enormous volumes of captured trajectory data. The latter may in particular be useful for improving mobile services.

This special issue focuses on managing information about moving objects in space and time, both for online applications and for analysis of "historical" trajectory data. Although substantial research has been conducted, there is still a large number of open research problems in data
management for mobile services. The aims of this special issue are to bring out the state-of-the-art in this exciting area and to provide directions for future research.

Topics of Interest
The VLDB Journal solicits contributions to a Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- environment dependent trajectory modeling ("semantic trajectories")
- dealing with uncertainty in modeling and query processing
- modeling movement in three dimensions (including 3D city models)
- modeling constrained movement (networks, obstacles, indoors)
- formulating complex queries on trajectory data sets
- data mining on large sets of trajectories
- discovering movement patterns
- query optimization for moving objects databases
- integration of specialized query types into higher level languages and into query optimization
- organization of query processing between mobile devices and servers
- mobile ad-hoc networking applications
- continuous queries and stream processing on moving objects
- dealing with privacy issues in online applications and in trajectory analysis
- high update rates and main memory management of moving objects
- scalable, parallel and distributed management of large volumes of moving objects
- on-line maintenance of large sets of trajectories for currently moving objects
- improving the infrastructure for MOD research (e.g. providing real data sets, benchmarks, platforms for experimentation)
- scientific applications on trajectory data
- novel applications posing new challenges
- sharing trajectories in web applications and social networks

Whereas we welcome any submissions of high-quality, original research, we are particularly interested in submissions that demonstrate integration into a system context. Besides novel technical solutions, well-written survey articles are highly appreciated.

For experimental work, authors are encouraged to make available their software to enable readers to repeat experiments and to support future experimental comparisons with alternative approaches.

One possibility to demonstrate integration as well as support experimental repeatability is to make the software available as a Secondo plugin (see http://dna.fernuni-hagen.de/Secondo.html/start_content_plugins.html).

Guest Editors
Ralf Hartmut Gueting, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany (rhg at fernuni-hagen dot de)
Nikos Mamoulis, The University of Hong Kong (nikos at cs dot hku dot hk)

Important Dates
- Paper submissions: September 15th, 2010
- First round notification: January 15th, 2011
- Revised versions: April 1st, 2011
- Second round notifications: May 1st, 2011
- Final version: June 1st, 2011
- Publication in August or October, 2011

Submission Website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/vldb/default.asp (under "Article Type" choose Data Management for Mobile Services.)

DEXA-Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR'10)

TIR'10 - 7th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval

In conjunction with the DEXA 2010

21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3
http://www.tir.webis.de

About this Workshop:
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, learning methods for ranking

- 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 issue

- 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 Deadline for paper submission
Apr 20, 2010 Notification to authors
May 17, 2010 Camera-ready copy due
Aug 30, 2010 Workshop opens

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.

Workshop Organization:

Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz & Graz University of Technology

Contact: tir@webis.de
Information about the workshop can be found at http://www.tir.webis.de

Social Network Analysis and Mining (by Springer)

I am proud to present this new journal call for papers.

Social Network Analysis and Mining (by Springer)

http://www.springer.com/springerwiennewyork/computer+science/journal/13278

Aim and Scope:

SNAM include: (1) data mining advances on the discovery and analysis of communities, personalization for solitary activities (like search) and social activities (like discovery of potential friends), the analysis of user behavior in open forums (like conventional sites, blogs and forums) and in commercial platforms (like e-auctions), and the associated security and privacy-preservation challenges; (2) social network modeling, construction of scalable, customizable social network infrastructure, identification and discovery of dynamics, growth, and evolution patterns using machine learning approaches or multi-agent based simulation. Papers should elaborate on data mining or related methods, issues associated to data preparation and pattern
interpretation, both for conventional data (usage logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (pictures and their annotations, multi-channel usage data).

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Web community
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Recommendations for product purchase
* information acquisition and establishment of social relations
* Recommendation networks
* Data protection inside communities
* Misbehaviour detection in communities
* Preparing data for web mining
* Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
* Evolution of communities in the Web
* Community discovery in large-scale social networks
* Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction
* Contextual social network analysis
* Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
* Search algorithms on social networks
* Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
* Large-scale graph algorithms
* Applications of social network analysis
* Anomaly detection in social network evolution

· Manuscript Submission

Instruction for Authors:

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Editors-in-Chief:

Nasrullah Memon
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark

Reda Alhajj
Dept of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary , Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Associate Editors:

Xingquan (Hill) Zhu
Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
University of Technology Sydney
Australia

Mohammed Zaki
Dept. of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
USA

Jennifer Xu
Dept. of Computer Information Systems
Bentley University
USA

Fatos Xhafa
Dept. of Languages & Informatics Systems
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain

Xindong Wu
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Vermont
USA

Alvin Wolfe
Dept. of Anthropology
University of South Florida
USA

Uffe Kock Wiil
The Maersk-McKinney Moller Institute
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark

Joseph M. Whitmeyer
Dept. of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
USA

Barry Wellman
NETLAB
Dept. of Sociology
University of Toronto
Canada

Junzo Watada
Graduate School of Information, Production & Systems
Waseda University
Japan

I-HsienTing
Dept. of Information Management
National University of Kaohsiung
Taiwan

Ilan Talmud
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Haifa
Israel

William B. Stevenson
Organisation Studies Dept.
Boston College
USA

Jaideep Srivastava
University of Minnesota
USA

John Scott
Social Sciences and Business
University of Plymouth
UK

Gerald Schaefer
Department of Computer Science
Loughborough University
UK

Jon Rokne
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Canada

Christopher J Rhodes
Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Imperial College
UK

James F. Peters
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba
Canada

Philippa Pattison
Psychological Sciences
University of Melbourne
Australia

Tansel Özyer
Dept. of Computer Engineering
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Turkey

Yutaka Matsuo
Dept. for Technology Management
University of Tokyo
Japan

Zongmin Ma
College of Information Science and Engineering
Northeastern University
China

Shou-De Lin
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taiwan

Ee-Peng Lim
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
Singapore

Juergen Lerner
Fachbereich Informatik und
Informationswissenschaft
University of Konstanz
Germany

Kim Skak Larsen
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Denmark

David Knoke
Department of Sociology
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
USA

Ralf Klamma
Informatik 5
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
Germany

Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar
Dept. of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
USA

Siddharth Kaza
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Towson University, Towson
USA

George Karypis
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
USA

Panagiotis Karampelas
Information Technology
Hellenic American University, Athens
Greece

Robert Hanneman
Department of Sociology
University of California, Riverside
USA

Uwe Glaesser
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Canada

Mark Goldberg
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
USA

Linton C. Freeman
Department of Sociology and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
USA

Artur Dubrawski
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
USA

Sumeet Dua
Department of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston
USA

Ying Ding
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, Bloomington
USA

William Cohen
Machine Learning Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
USA

Kathleen M. Carley
Institute for Software Research
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
USA

Peter J. Carrington
Department of Sociology
University of Waterloo, Ontario
Canada

Dan Braha
New England Complex Systems Institute
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
USA

Vladimir Batagelj
Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia

George Barnett
Communication
University of California at Davis
USA

Antonio E. Badia
Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department
University of Louisville, Kentucky
USA

Ajith Abraham
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Norway

Workshop Mobile Collaboration Systems at COOP 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

MOBILE COLLABORATION SYSTEMS:

Challenges for design, work practice, infrastructure, and business

Workshop at COOP 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France, 19-21 May

http://www.tinyurl.com/mobileCollaboration

Mobile devices are expected to soon become the “primary computer” and tool for sharingand connecting with others. In our thriving world of mobile communication, technologicaladvances have brought a number of novel and improved ways of collaboration; in business, commerce, healthcare, education, and society in general. Collaboration can help to overcome the limitations of a single user, device, and network. However, creating mobile collaborative applications and systems requires careful consideration and design.

This workshop aims to bring together designers, practitioners and researchers who share an interest in the study and design of mobile collaborative systems.

Description of the themes of the workshop

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to

 * Mobile collaboration technologies in industry and business, e.g. mobile commerce, health care, telecommunication, etc.

 * Business models of mobile collaboration, e.g. mobile advertising, paid mobile content, innovation from emerging markets, etc.

 * Collaborative and user-provided networks, WLAN communities

 * Architectures and application frameworks of mobile collaboration systems

 * Security, privacy, trust and protection of identity in mobile collaborative systems

 * Design patterns of mobile collaborative systems and collaborative processes

 * Mobile collaboration-based user-provided services

 * Visualization of collaborative structures and processes

 * Awareness and ubiquity in mobile collaborative systems

 * Social applications, e.g. collaborative games

 * Location-based mobile collaboration, e.g. pedestrian navigation, augmented reality applications, etc.

 * User interaction and input techniques of mobile collaboration systems

 * User tests and evaluation of mobile collaboration systems; experiences from living labs

 * Impact of next generation mobile networks on mobile collaboration

This full day workshop will be structured as follows: welcome and introduction of organizers, poster ‘madness’ where participants introduce themselves and briefly advertise their work, coffee break and poster session with mingling to encourage small group discussions; afterwards discussion and group work, wrap up. The main goal of the workshop is to share understandings and experiences as well as to foster communities of interest. Depending on composition of the groups and workshop members’ experiences, the conceptualization of a ‘handbook for the design of mobile collaborative systems’ could be an additional target of the workshop. Each of the workshop participants should prepare a poster (alternatively two slides) of the contribution. Posters are presented shortly, and then discussed with the other workshop participants. According to our experience, presentation of posters results in much more interactive and fruitful discussion than the presentation of slides.

The interaction of this workshop is mainly characterized by group work carried out in small teams. Metaplan, brainstorming and similar techniques are used as appropriate. Before beginning group work, each group sets a set of target goals to be achieved. After the work in separate groups, all results are presented, discussed and collected together, with the target to come to final decisions on further steps.

Workshop proceedings will be published online (e.g. public BSCW, IRSI - International Reports on Socio-Informatics, etc.) The number of participants for this full day workshop is limited to 12.

Important dates:

29 March, 2010: Deadline for paper submissions

16 April, 2010: Notification about acceptance/rejection of workshop contributions

18 May, 2010: COOP’10 workshop on Mobile Collaboration Systems

Call for Papers:

http://www.tinyurl.com/mobileCollaboration

Organisers:

Maria Danninger, mm1 Consulting & Management PartG

Wolfgang Gräther, Fraunhofer FIT,

Tobias Heer, Distributed Systems Group at RWTH Aachen University

AGILE'2010 13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science

13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science: "Geospatial Thinking"

10-14 May 2010

Guimarães, Portugal

http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt

****** Call for Participation

On behalf of the AGILE council, we invite you to participate at the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, scheduled to take place in Guimarães, Portugal.

The program will offer parallel paper presentation sessions, keynote sessions, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including state-of-the-art applications, and to network with the professionals from academia, industry, and government who are interested in promoting GI teaching and research activities among GI laboratories at the European level.

****** Programme

A preliminary version of the conference programme is available at:

http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt/programme.html

****** Deadlines

- Early registration: March 31st 2010

- Conference: May 10th - 14th 2010

****** Accommodation

Please note: Pope Benedict XVI will visit Portugal in May 11th-14th. On May 14th the Pope will visit Oporto city, located 50km away from Guimarães. We advise all the participants to book the hotel as soon as possible!

****** Programme Chairs

- Marco Painho, Chair (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)

- Maribel Yasmina Santos, Co-Chair (University of Minho, Portugal)

- Hardy Pundt, Co-Chair (University of Applied Sciences Harz, Germany)

****** Local Organizing Committee

- Adriano Moreira, Chair (University of Minho, Portugal)

- Jorge Gustavo Rocha (University of Minho, Portugal)

- Filipe Meneses (University of Minho, Portugal)

- Fernando Bação (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Post-doctoral researcher working on Process Mining in ACSI FP7 project

The Architecture of Information Systems (AIS) of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technische UniversiteitEindhoven (TU/e) is looking for a

***** Postdoc working on Process Mining for the EU project on *****
***** Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI) *****

The Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI) project is a so-called STREP project in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the EU. The project involves IBM Israel, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Libera Università di Bolzano, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Tartu Ulikool, Indra Software Labs, and Collibra.

Interoperation between electronic services is one of the most challenging and pressing issues in today's increasingly globalized and de-centralized economy. The ACSI project tackles this challenge with a unified research program based on two key notions: "interoperation hubs", that enable flexible, scalable support for service collaborations in an open network, and "dynamic artifacts", that provide an approach to modeling and deploying business processes that simplifies the management of "hand-offs" of data and process between different services and organizations.

Process mining plays an important role in this project. The objective is the development of techniques and tools for process mining of services and artifact-centric interoperation hubs, to support on-line compliance checking, auto-generation of adapters, and the discovery of artifact-centric models that underlie a service's behavior.

The AIS group is one of the leading groups in the exciting new field of process mining (www.processmining.org). Process mining techniques focus on process discovery (extracting process models from event logs), conformance checking (comparing normative models with the reality recorded in event logs), and extension (extending models based on event logs). The work resulted in the development of the ProM framework that is widely used in industry and serves as a platform for new process mining techniques used by research groups all over the globe. Moreover, many of the techniques developed in the context of ProM have been embedded in commercial tools.

The Postdoc will be working in the AIS group under the supervision of prof.dr. Wil van der Aalst. The Architecture of Information Systems group is doing research in the area of process modeling and analysis. The group is rated as one of the leading computer science groups in the Netherlands and TU/e often seen as the epicenter of BPM research. The group uses formal methods such as Petri nets to design, analyze, and implement dynamic systems. The group is well-versed in workflow management, process mining, and process verification. See www.workflowpatterns.com, www.workflowcourse.com, www.processmining.org, www.yawl-system.com, www.win.tue.nl/ais/, www.wvdaalst.com, and www.tue.nl for more information.

Requirements:

We are looking for a candidate who meets the following requirements:
- a solid background in Computer Science and interested in systems for process support (demonstrated by a relevant PhD);
- knowledge of data mining and machine learning and/or process modeling and formal methods;
- candidates from non-Dutch or non-English speaking countries should be prepared to prove their English language skills;
- good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and in writing;
- moreover, candidates are expected to realize research ideas in terms of software.

Note that we are looking for candidates that really want to make a difference and like to work on things that have a practical relevance. Therefore, we expect people to be able to develop software for ProM in such a way that it can be used in industrial settings.

Appointment and salary:

See http://w3.tue.nl/en/services/dpo/conditions_of_employment/formal_conditions_
of_employment/ for more information on working at TU/e, salary, etc.

Application:
Interested candidates are requested to send an application by e-mail to Ine van der Ligt (e-mail: wsinfsys@tue.nl) with the subject field "PhD Vacancy in ACSI project".

The application should consist of the following parts:
- motivational letter;
- a curriculum vitae;
- copies of diplomas;
- proof of English language skills (if applicable).

Applications should be received by April 1st. Moreover, candidates should relate their expertise to process mining research (cf. www.processmining.org) and indicate when they are available.

ACM Multimedia 2010 Grand Challenge

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

*Multimedia Grand Challenge*
http://www.multimediagrandchallenge.com/

ACM Multimedia 2010
October 25-29th 2010, Firenze, Italy
http://www.acmmm10.org

What problems do Google, Yahoo!, HP, Radvision, CeWe, Nokia and other companies see driving the future of multimedia? The Multimedia Grand Challenge is a set of problems and issues from these industry leaders, geared to engage the Multimedia research community towards solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions in the multimedia industry's 2-5 year horizon. The Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009. and it will be presented again in slightly modified form at ACM Multimedia 2010. Researchers are encouraged to submit working systems in response to these challenges to win the grand Challenge competition!

*Challenges*
CeWe Photo Set Theme Identification
Google Personal Diaries
Google Video Genre Classification
HP Visual Communication
Nokia Photo Location & Orientation
Radvision Content Adaptation
Radvision VideoConf Experience
Yahoo! Novel Image Understanding
Yahoo! Video Segmentation

We encourage you to consider the challenges and submit your contribution to the ACM Multimedia 2010 Grand Challenge track. The top submissions will be presented in a special event during the ACM Multimedia 2010 conference in Florence Italy. Based on these oral presentations in Florence, winners will be selected for Grand Challenge awards worth 1500 USD.

*Paper Submission*
New in 2010: _any_ long, short or demo paper submitted to the regular ACM Multimedia conference can be considered for the Grand Challenge. Regular papers that want to be considered should submit a 1-page additional statement indicating why this work addresses a certain challenge best. In addition, papers, demonstrations and ideas that do not fit the normal
scientific style may be submitted to the Grand Challenge by submitting a separate 4-page paper to the Grand Challenge only. (We are afraid that we will NOT consider papers in this path that have been rejected for the scientific program.)

A 1-page statement to accompany an _accepted_ paper or a new 4-page grand challenge paper should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings style and submitted via http://edas.info/N8591

The submissions must:
o Significantly address one of the industry challenges posted on the Grand Challenge web site.
o Depict working, presentable systems or demos.
o Describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.

A number of solutions (perhaps 10-20) will be selected as finalists and invited to describe their work, demonstrate their solution and argue for the paper's success in the Grand Challenge Session in Florence. Each finalist will have several minutes to present their case. Final winner(s) will be chosen by industry scientists, engineers and business luminaries.

*Key Dates*
August 1, 2010 Submission deadline
September 1, 2010 Acceptance notification
October 25, 2010 Conference starts

*Contact*
Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research, USA (malcolm@ieee.org)
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cgmsnoek@uva.nl)

ACM Multimedia 2010 Call for Tutorials - Deadline: April 11, 2010

Call for Tutorials

ACM Multimedia 2010

ACM Multimedia 2010 Tutorials will address the state-of-the-art developments regarding all aspects of multimedia, and will be of interest to the entire multimedia community, from novices in the world of multimedia to the most seasoned researchers, from people working in academia to industry professionals.

Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks). Submissions should be sent to the Tutorials Chairs through email and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.

The cover sheet should specify:

• The title and length of the tutorial.
• The intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced).
• Complete contact information for the contact person and other presenters.
• A brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter.

The extended abstract should be no more than 4 pages, and should include:

• Motivation for having a tutorial on the proposed topic.
• Explanations why the organizers think their proposed tutorial would be beneficial to the multimedia community and of high impact.
• An outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course objectives and course materials.

Important Dates

• April 11, 2010 – Tutorials submission deadline
• June 5, 2010 - Notification of acceptance
• July 26, 2010 – Camera-ready submission deadline (Tutorial Outline, 2 page limit)

Contacts

For any questions regarding tutorials please email the Tutorial Chairs:

• Alex Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA
• Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Learning Technology Newsletter - Issue on Usability Aspects in Technology Enhanced Learning

Call For Articles - LEARNING TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER (ISSN 1438-0625)

publication of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning
Technology (TCLT)
http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/newsletter

* Deadline for submission: April 9, 2010.

Learning Technology Newsletter aims at publishing and disseminating current research about new and emerging learning technologies as well as their design, usage, application, and evaluation in different contexts of technology enhanced learning. This issue will focus on usability aspects in
technology enhanced learning, showing innovative concepts for integration and application of usability aspects in technology enhanced learning, systems that consider usability aspects for improving technology enhanced learning, as well as evaluations that show the effects of usability aspects in technology enhanced learning. Please feel free to bring forward your ideas and views.

Learning Technology Newsletter invites short articles, case studies, and project reports for the April issue. This issue will be published in Volume 12, Issue 2 (April, 2010).

** The newsletter is of non-refereed nature though the articles will be selected and edited by the Editors. **

* Submission procedure:

1. The articles in the newsletter are limited to 1000 words. Over-length articles will not be published.

2. The manuscripts should be either in Word or RTF format. Any figures used in the contributions would be required separately in a graphic format (gif or jpeg). The figures should also be embedded in the text at appropriate places.

3. Please send the manuscripts by email as attachment to sabineg@athabascau.ca and karagian@uth.gr (Subject: Learning Technology April 2010 Submission).

4. In the email, please state clearly that the manuscript is original material that has not been published, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

For further information please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/newsletter.

Asia-Pacific Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2010 (APTEL 2010)

Call for Papers

Asia-Pacific Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2010 (APTEL 2010)

http://www.aptel.org

Conference Date: September 24-26, 2010

Conference Venue: Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

APTEL2010 provides a forum for researchers who study technology enhanced learning to publish research findings and exchange experiences in conducting related projects. The main theme of this year’s APTEL is Technology Enhanced Language Learning. Best papers will be invited for submission to the following journals. Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL), International Journal of Digital Learning Technology, Educational Technology & Society.

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

– Affective and Pervasive Computing for Learning

– Classroom, Ubiquitous and Mobile Technologies Enhanced Learning (CUMTEL)

– Development and applications of digital content for e-learning

– Discipline-based cases for e-learning

– e-Learning Accessibility (EA)

– Emerging tools and technologies for e-learning

– Game-based Learning

– Information Society & Culture (ISC)

– Innovative Design of Learning Software (IDOLS)

– Joyful Learning & Society (JL&S)

– Learning and Knowledge Management

– Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning

– Social computing in e-learning

– Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)

– Technology Enhanced Science Learning (TESL)

– Technology Facilitated Testing and Assessment (TFTA)

– Theoretical foundations for e-learning

– Trends in content/courseware development

Session for Graduate Students

APTEL supports promising future scholars; graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals for Incubator Session for Future Scholars.

Paper and Workshop Submissions

– Maximum length: 8 pages, A4 size

– Language: English

– Online submission: Visit http://www.aptel.org

– Submission guidelines: Visit http://www.aptel.org

Important Dates

– Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010

– Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010

– Author Notification: August 1, 2010

– Final Paper Deadline: August 15, 2010

– Conference Date: September 24-26, 2010

Hosting Organizations

– Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

– International Collaboration on e-Learning Project, TELDAP, Taiwan

Contacts

– Prof. Tosh Yamamoto, soetosh@gmail.com, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

– Prof. Wu-Yuin Hwang, wyhwang1206@gmail.com, National Central University, Taiwan

Tour information

– http://www.asiarooms.com/travel-guide/japan/sightseeing-in-japan/sightseeing-in-osaka.html

Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2010). Call for workshops

Call for Workshops

EC-TEL 2010

Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice

[www.ectel2010.org]

28 September - 1 October, 2010, Barcelona, Spain

Description and scope

EC-TEL 2010 will bring together people researching, working on and working with technological developments, learning models, and implementations of new and innovative approaches to training and education. The conference will explore how the synergy of multiple disciplines, such as Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science, can provide new, more effective and more sustainable technology-enhanced learning solutions to learning problems. The conference welcomes researchers and developers from all countries and all industries to present their recent advancements from technologies, applications, and learning models in all areas of technology enhanced learning.

In addition to the main program, EC-TEL 2010 will host workshops on topics related to the conference theme. Workshops promote scientific exchange amongst junior and senior researchers from different settings (i.e. universities, high-school, lifelong learning institutions, foundations, SMEs, companies, technology platforms). The workshops provide a face-to-face meeting point for exchange of information and experiences (i.e. project results, ongoing research, outstanding topics) related to Technology Enhanced Learning and the many sub-topics which embrace it.

General Information and Criteria

· Co-located workshops should cover topics falling within the general scope of the EC-TEL conference (refer to http://www.ectel2010.org), in September 28^th, 29^th

· Face-to-face contributions are encouraged. A workshop is not intended to be a paper session, symposium or set of slideshows. The more that people contribute in a pro-active and inter-active way, the more chances to get a highly successful workshop. Organizers should explicitly indicate in the methodology section how to support this interaction and active contribution between participants

· You might consider online contribution from people abroad. Should you have this setting in mind, please indicate technical requirements and you will elicit contribution from this group

· The minimum number of participants, including organizers is 10

· There is a clear main focus-topic, in addition to a well-defined target group

· Workshop duration can be either a half day or a full day

· Furthermore, as organiser, please provide detailed information about the review process, the name and affiliation of the reviewers, and the kinds of submissions you expect from participants (i.e. abstracts, short papers, full papers). In addition, suggestions and contacts of scientific journals to publish the workshops proceedings are welcome. Participation without a submitted paper is also possible

· In order to ensure the quality of the workshop contributions and their alignment with the general conference, we will follow a two-step process: 1) When an individual workshop is approved, the workshop organizers will manage the submission and internal review process of its participants and submitted papers; 2) All accepted papers in a workshop should be submitted to the workshop chair before the workshop so that they can be accessible on the website

· The most relevant papers will be invited to submit an extended version for further publication in a scientific journal

Submission process

1. Write a 2-page proposal with the following sections: Title, link (if appropriate), duration (half day, full day), main person responsible (full name, email address, phone number, a 2-line CV), other organizers (full names, email addresses, phone numbers, a 2-line CV), reviewers (full names and affiliation), workshop description, main topic, expected number of participants, target group (i.e., participant profile), expected outcomes, methodology, timetable, technical requirements, other considerations (e.g. related to a project or association)

2. Make a PDF-DOC file. Only PDF or DOC files will be accepted

3. Go to the EC-TEL 2010 website -> Submissions -> Workshop Submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2010workshops

· Watch: there is a separate submission website for papers, posters and demonstrations at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2010

4. Register at the EasyChair System.

5. Login with your EasyChair username and password

6. Choose "New Submission" in the top menu

7. Fill out all details in the form

8. Please specify all the required fields

9. Upload your workshop proposal as a PDF or DOC file; you can add an attachment too

10. Register into the conference

Important dates

1. Workshop proposals: 11 April 2010

2. Workshop acceptance: 11 May 2010

3. Paper deadline submission to workshops: 27 June 2010

4. Final paper acceptance: 31 July 2010

5. Workshops: 28, 29 September 2010

For more information

Contact the Workshop chair:

Daniel Burgos, TELSpain/ATOS Origin

www.telspain.es, www.atosresearch.eu

daniel.burgos@atosresearch.eu (subject: [EC-TEL2010] Workshop + your reference)

3. Workshop Digitale Soziale Netze 2010

Call for Papers 3. Workshop Digitale Soziale Netze 2010

8th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: (PAKM 2010)

Second Call for Papers

Cfp: 8th International Conference on 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/

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

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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

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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

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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