Joint Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL)

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL)

Barcelona, Spain, 29-30 September 2010

Organised jointly by

- 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010)

- 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)

http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Joseph Konstan, GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota (USA)


AIM & TOPICS

Technology enhanced learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance learning practices of both individuals and organisations. It is an application domain that generally addresses all types of technology research & development aiming to support of teaching and learning activities. Information retrieval is a pivotal activity in TEL, and the deployment of recommender systems has attracted increased interest during the past years.

Recommendation methods, techniques and systems open an interesting new approach to facilitate and support learning and teaching. There are plenty a resource available on the Web, both in terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts, tutors) that can be used to facilitate teaching and
learning tasks. The challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate systems that provide learners and teachers with meaningful guidance in order to help identify suitable learning resources from a potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers and developers that are working on topics related to the design, development and testing of recommender systems in educational settings as well as present the current status of research in this area and create cross-disciplinary liaisons between the RecSys and EC-TEL communities. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of TEL as an application area for recommender systems, as well as expose participants to the challenges of developing such systems in a TEL context.

Topics include but are not limited to:
* User tasks to be supported by recommender systems in TEL
* Focus of recommendation in TEL
* Requirements for the deployment of TEL recommender systems
* Publicly available data sets for TEL recommender systems
* Recommendation algorithms and systems for TEL
* Transfer of successful algorithms and systems from other application areas
* Evaluation criteria and methods for TEL recommender systems


IMPORTANT DATES

20 June 2010: Submissions
16 July 2010: Notifications
1 August 2010: Camera-ready of accepted papers
29-30 September 2010: RecSysTEL Workshop in Barcelona


DATATEL CHALLENGE

Published datasets in recommender systems, such as the MovieLens and EachMovie ones, are very often used in experimental testing of new recommendation algorithms. Very few datasets are publicly made available online for TEL applications. Thus, it is not possible yet for TEL recommender systems' researchers
to apply and benchmark their algorithms on existing, public datasets.

To this end, the dataTEL Theme Team of the European STELLAR Network of Excellence (http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/groups/9405/datatel/) is sponsoring the dataTEL Challenge: a call for TEL datasets that invites research groups to submit existing datasets from TEL applications that can be used as input for TEL recommender systems (e.g. ratings, tags,  bookmarks).

The winner of the dataTEL Challenge will receive a best TEL dataset award.

More about the dataTEL Challenge:
http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/pages/view/9519/
http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/datatel.htm


SUBMISSIONS

The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types:
* Full papers: 12 pages
* Short papers: 6 pages
* System/service demos: 2 pages
* TEL Data sets: 2 pages and data set file (specs/format to be announced  soon)

Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission will be available through the EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsystel2010

If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before  you can access the RecSysTEL'10 page.


PUBLICATION

Workshop proceedings will be published in a seperate volume by a publisher that will be announced soon.

In addition, authors of best full papers will be invited to submit a revised  version of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in a prestigious international  journal such as the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.


STEERING COMMITTEE
* Jesus G. Boticario, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance  Education (Spain)
* Peter Brusilovksy, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
* Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Denis Gillet, Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne (Switzerland)
* Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (Austria)
* Peter Scott, Open University (UK)
* Fridolin Wild, Open University (UK)
* Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT (Germany)
* Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet (Belgium)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Liliana Ardissono, Universita di Torino (Italy)
* Katrin Borcea-Pfitzmann, Dresden University of Technology (Germany)
* Julien Broisin, IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier (France)
* Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain)
* Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
* Jon Dron, Athabasca University (Canada)
* Rosta Farzan, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
* Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
* Rick D. Hangartner, Strands (USA)
* Eelco Herder, L3S (Germany)
* Tsukasa Hirashima, Hiroshima University (Japan)
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
* Martin Memmel, DFKI GmbH (Germany)
* Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain)
* Brandon Muramatsu, MIT (USA)
* Wolfgang Nejdl - L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
* Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
* Mimi Recker, Utah State University (USA)
* Christoph Rensing, TU Darmstadt (Germany)
* Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT (Germany)
* Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala (Spain)
* Sergey Sosnovsky,DFKI GmbH (Germany)


CO-CHAIRS
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederlands (The Netherlands)
* Katrien Verbert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Olga C. Santos, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance Education (Spain)


ABOUT RecSys 2010 and EC-TEL 2010

The 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010) is  the premier annual event on research and applications of recommender technologies. It will promote a close interaction among practitioners and researchers, reaching a wider range of participants including those from Europe and Asia.

See http://recsys.acm.org/2010/ for details.

The 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)  brings together technological developments, learning models, and implementations of new and innovative approachesto training and education. The conference traditionally explores how the synergy of multiple disciplines can provide new, more effective and more especially more sustainable,  technology-enhanced learning solutions to learning problems. See http://www.ectel2010.org for details.

Update: Social network analysis and complexity book list

This is an  update of my favourite social network analysis and complexity book list.
Fascinating books about network analysis, complexity and related topics. You find all these books also on my Shelfari shelf.

General Audience Readings

1. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
2. Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
   
3. Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks by Peter Csermely
4. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks by Mark Buchanan
5. The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan
6. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J. Watts
7. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness by Duncan J. Watts
8. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
9. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
10. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
11. Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
    

Basics and Methodology

1. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications by Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust
   This is the mother of all SNA books
   
2. Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis by Peter J. Carrington, John Scott, Stanley Wasserman
3. Social Network Analysis: A Handbook by John P Scott
   My students like this and the next one (they are quite short)
   
4. Introducing Social Networks by Alain Degenne, Michel Forse
5. The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science by Linton C. Freeman
   This is interesting for historians
   
6. Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek by Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj
   This is for Pajek fans
7. Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Stanley Wasserman and Joseph Galaskiewicz
8. Social Network Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by David Knoke, Song Yang
9. Computational Social Network Analysis: Trends, Tools and Research Advances (Computer Communications and Networks) by Ajith Abraham, Aboul-Ella Hassanien & Vaclav Snasel
10. Managing and Mining Graph Data (Advances in Database Systems) by Charu C. Aggarwal & Haixun Wang
    
    

For Consultants, Managers and Leaders

1. The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations by Robert L. Cross, Andrew Parker
   Good stuff for practice. Karsten Ehms told me that the book is addressing managers and leaders according to the blurb. This is true. Thank you. But I like the appendix very much where you find all these questionnaires. Very useful stuff.
   
2. Social Networks and Organizations by Martin Kilduff, Wenpin Tsai
   Buy the other one
3. Leveraging Knowledge Communication for Innovation: Framework, Methods And Applications of Social Network Analysis in Research And Development by Tobias Muller-Prothmann
   

I use these for teaching Web Science I+II at RWTH Aachen University

1. Network Science: Theory and Applications by Ted G. Lewis
2. Handbook of Graphs and Networks: From the Genome to the Internet by Stefan Bornholdt, Heinz Georg Schuster
3. Complex Graphs and Networks by Fan Chung, Linyuan Lu
   Nice but hard to read
   
4. Scale-Free Networks: Complex Webs in Nature and Technology by Guido Caldarelli
   This is easy most of the time. Beautiful figures and printed in colors.
5. Complex Social Networks by Fernando Vega-Redondo
   Has a nice introduction and is getting tough soon.
   
6. Social and Economic Networks by Matthew O. Jackson
7. Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks by Sanjeev Goyal
8. Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks by Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, Alessandro Vespignani

Agents, Dynamics, Games and Adapation

1. The Structure and Dynamics of Networks by Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Duncan J. Watts
   This is a wonderful collection of original papers
   
2. Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers by Kathleen M. Carley, Philippa Pattison, Ronald L. Breiger
   Here I learned much about dynamic analysis. This is all so fresh still.
3. Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences by Frank Schweitzer
   More oriented to dynamic and emergent issues in the natural and the social sciences. This is the second book from the Springer Complexity Series. Springer sent this to me for reviewing a book proposal. Thank you.
4. Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals by Michael Batty
5. Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer by Claudius Gros
   This is from the new Springer Complexity Series. A first reader.
6. Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences by Scott De Marchi
7. Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity) by Joshua M. Epstein
8. Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity) by John H. Miller, Scott E. Page
9. Repeated Games and Reputations: Long-Run Relationships by George J. Mailath, Larry Samuelson
10. Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Nigel Gilbert
11. A Structural Theory of Social Influence (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) by Noah E. Friedkin
12. Social Emergence: Societies As Complex Systems by R. Keith Sawyer
13. Dynamics of Complex Systems (Studies in Nonlinearity) by Yaneer Bar-Yam
14. Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science byRobert A. Myers
15. Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach by R. Pastor-Satorras
16. Theory of Probability and Random Processes (Universitext) by Leonid B. Koralov
17. The Nonlinear Universe: Chaos, Emergence, Life (The Frontiers Collection) by Alwyn Scott
18. Protein Interaction Networks: Computational Analysis by Aidong Zhang
19. Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism by Nasrullah Memon, Jonathan D. Farley, David L. Hicks and Torben Rosenorn

Are there any other books I should know? I have left out all German books about SNA even I own quite some of them.

SMUC2010: 2nd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents @ CIKM 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

SMUC2010: 2nd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents 

http://labs.brainsins.com/events/smuc2010

Workshop at CIKM 2010 (http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10/)

October 30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Submission deadline: 30 June, 2010

SMUC10 aims to become a forum for researchers from several Information and Knowledge Management areas like data/text mining, information retrieval, semantics, etc. that apply their work into the fields of Social Media and Opinion/Sentiment Analysis where the main goal is to process user generated contents.

User generated content provides an excellent scenario to apply the metaphor of mining any kind of information. In a social media context, users create a huge amount of data where we can look for valuable nuggets of knowledge by applying several search techniques (information retrieval) or mining techniques (data mining, text mining, web mining, opinion mining, etc.). In this kind of data we can find both structured information (ratings, tags, links, etc.) and unstructured information (text, audio, video, etc.), and we must learn to combine existing techniques in order to take advantage of this heterogeneity while extracting useful knowledge.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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SMUC10 workshop is an extraordinary place where to present on-going works that exploit Social Media and/or use Opinion Mining technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

A) Mining Social Media

         Social networks analysis/mining

         Tagging analysis/mining

         Link and graphs analysis/mining

         Community detection and evolution

         Influence, trust and privacy analysis

         Topic detection and trend discovery

         Spamming and phishing detection

         Wikipedia/Social Media vandalism

         Social media monitoring/analysis

B) Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

         Opinion extraction, classification, summarization and visualization

         Blogs analysis

         Opinion flame

         Temporal sentiment analysis

         Cross-lingual/cross-domain sentiment analysis

         Irony detection in opinion mining

         Wish analysis

         Product review analysis

C) Search in Social Media

         Novel social search algorithms

         Social ranking

         Multi-entity/Multifaceted search

         Multilingual and/or multimedia IR for Social Media

         User Modeling and Personalization in Social Media

         Architectures, scalability and efficiency

D) Other Social Intelligent Systems

         Recommender systems

         Semantic Social Media

         Plagiarism detection

         Market analysis

         Cross-lingual/cross-domain social intelligent systems

         Business Intelligence Applications (direct marketing, branding, etc.)

DATES

    * Submission: 30 June, 2010

    * Notification of acceptance: 30 July, 2010

    * Camera Ready: 15 August, 2010

    * Workshop: 30 October, 2010

SUBMISSIONS

Each contribution should not exceed the length of 8 pages, and must be prepared following ACM camera-ready template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

All papers must be submitted in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. Please use the following link to submit your paper: Easychair Submission System for SMUC 2010 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smuc2010.

The workshop proceedings will be published as Eproceedings by the same publisher that publishes the CIKM main conference proceedings, and will be in the same CD that contains the CIKM'10 main conference Eproceedings.

We are actually on conversations with a couple of journals to organize a special issue with extended versions of selected papers. The information about this special issue will be published on the workshop's website.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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    * Jose C. Cortizo, BrainSins / European University of Madrid, Spain (contact person, josecarlos.cortizo@wipley.com)

    * Francisco M. Carrero, BrainSins / European University of Madrid, Spain

    * Ivan Cantador, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

    * Jose A. Troyano, University of Seville, Spain

    * Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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[To be completed]

    * Ahmed Abbasi (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)

    * Nitin Agarwal (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)

    * Enrique Amigo (National University of Distance Education, Spain)

    * Ching-Man Au Yeung (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

    * Alexandra Balahur (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)

    * Alberto Barrón (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)

    * Dominik Benz (University of Kassel, Germany)

    * Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay, India)

    * Erik Cambria (University of Stirling, Scotland)

    * Pablo Castells (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)

    * Meeyoung Cha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

    * Fermin Cruz (University of Seville, Spain)

    * Victor Diaz (University of Seville, Spain)

    * Viet Ha-Thuc (University of Iowa, USA)

    * Akshay Java (MSN Microsoft, USA)

    * Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

    * Zornitsa Kozareva (Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, USA)

    * Hady W. Lauw (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

    * Luis Martin (BrainSins, Spain)

    * Patricio Martinez-Barco (University of Alicante, Spain)

    * Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante, Spain)

    * Claudiu C. Musat (Politechnical  University of Bucharest, Romania)

    * Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)

    * Manos Papagelis (University of Toronto, Canada)

    * Victor Peinado (National University of Distance Education, Spain)

    * Isabella Peters (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)

    * Martin Potthast (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)

    * Antonio Reyes (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)

    * Horacio Rodriguez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

    * Efstathios Stamatatos (University of Aegean, Greece)

    * Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)

    * Ralf Steinberger (European Commission, Joint Research Centre)

    * Markus Strohmaier (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

    * Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China)

    * Jordi Turmo (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

    * Luis Alfonso Ureña (University of Jaen, Spain)

8th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CBMI 2010

8th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

23-28 June 2010, Grenoble, France

Registration is now open for CBMI 2010 in Grenoble. An exciting technical program has been set up, including invited lectures and demonstrations, to show the latest research results in Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.
We strongly invite all interested researchers to register and participate  in the workshop. More details are available on the workshop web site:
http://mrim.imag.fr/cbmi2010/

Note that the Early registration deadline is June 4, 2010.

Heritage Recording and Information Management in the Digital Age (SMARTdoc)

Heritage Recording and Information Management in the Digital Age
(SMARTdoc)

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
November 19-20, 2010
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA
 

EARLY REGISTRATION: deadline July 30, 2010

Organizers: Historic Preservation at the School of Design (University of  Pennsylvania), the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation at the University of Leuven and the University College St Lieven
Website: http://www.smartdocheritage.org

Supporting institutions include UNESCO World Heritage Centre, UNESCO Chair  for Preventive Maintenance, Monitoring and Conservation, ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA) and the International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia

Website: http://www.smartdocheritage.org

The symposium offers an affordable Early Bird Registration fee for  participants and students, the deadline is July 30, 2010.
Participant fee: 70 US Dollars
Student fee: free

POSTER SUBMISSION: Deadline June 24, 2010

The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their  work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable symposium attendees. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the Forums. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on  research for which at least preliminary results are available. We especially encourage submissions by students (that is, for which a student is the first author on the poster).
Website: http://www.smartdocheritage.org

NEW SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM IS ONLINE
WHY
Good decisions in heritage conservation are based on timely, relevant and  accurate information about the conditions, materials and evolution of heritage buildings and landscapes. Therefore, documenting, recording and analysis of heritage places is an essential part of their conservation and  management.
The rapid rise in new digital technologies has revolutionized the practice of recording heritage places. Digital tools and media offer a myriad of new opportunities for collecting, analyzing and disseminating information about heritage sites. With these new opportunities, there are also conflicts, and  an intense effort to build digital media into the education of conservation professionals. Issues regarding the proper, innovative and research-focused uses of digital media in heritage conservation are an urgent topic in the  global heritage conservation field, and Penn, KU-Leuven and its partners have played a leading role in this area of cross-disciplinary research and practice. The SMARTdoc conference offers a unique opportunity for educators,
professionals, heritage institutions, and managers of heritage places to  share, exchange, and explore new approaches, best practices, and research results in the area of heritage informatics.

For more information: info@smartdocheritage.org

FACTS
Speakers are coming from Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, India, Italy, Germany,  Slovenia, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America (California, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico), and Venezuela.

Topics and sites covered by SMARTDoc: UNESCO WH Site of Bamiyan  (Afghanistan), UNESCO WH City of Cuenca (Ecuador), Canadian Heritage places, UNESCO WH Site of Baalbek (Lebanon), Italian heritage Risk Maps, Heritage protection in Flanders (Belgium), Cloister of St Trophime (Arles, France), Iglesia San José, San Juan (Puerto Rico, USA), Spanish heritage places, WH Site of Petra (Jordan), Middle-east heritage databases (Iraq and Jordan), British Heritage places, Indian Heritage places, American Heritage and Italian Heritage places.

Speakers are affiliated to Cultural Heritage organizations around the globe:  Abu Dhabi Authority for Heritage and Culture (UAE), Bryn Mawr College (USA), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy), Historic American Building Survey, National Parks Service (USA), ICOMOS (Canada), ICOMOS (UK), Indian Trust  for Cultural Heritage (INTACH) (India), Monumentenwatch (Belgium), Public Works (Canada), Pantel, del Cueto & Associates (Puerto Rico, USA) , University of Aachen RWTH (Germany), University of Cuenca (Ecuador, University of California at Merced (USA), Muhlenberg College (USA),  University of Leuven (Belgium), Valencia University of Technology (Spain), University of Pennsylvania (USA), UNESCO World Heritage Centre (France), Institute for Mediterranean Heritage in the Science and Research Centre of
Koper (University of Primorska) (Slovenia), and the World Monuments Fund.

Mediabase Commander and PALADIN - Network Analysis of Beamtenherrschaft

The image presents the network of my blog "Beamtenherrschaft". Bigger red circles are blog entries and smaller blue circles are web pages. So, here the intra-linkage of the blog as well as the inter-linkage of the blog is visualized. I was surprised to see the densely connected giant component of my blog. I was expecting thousands of isolated blog entry circles but it seems that I had some intra-linkage of blog entries in the last couple of years.

Our PALADIN (PAttern LAnguage for DIsturbances in digital social Networks) is part of the new Mediabase Commander. Users can create their own Mediabases consisting of Web 2.0 media like blogs, wikis, feeds, etc. After our crawlers have done their job, analysis and visualization tasks on the media can performed automatically using PALADIN. It uses yFiles FLEX for visualizing the network structure in a web browser. Different layouts like organic, smart-organic and circle are available. Typical patterns like trolls, spammers etc. can be identified automatically. Also simple network measures like betweeness, connectiveness, biconnectiveness, and degree centrality can be calculated and visualized by changing circle colors and sizes. Every network can be exported as adjacency matrix. Dynamic views of the network can be utilized by using the time slider (stepwise by years or months).

The Mediabase Commander can be downloaded from http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase.

The 9th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL2010) Paper Submission Deadline Extended to June 25,2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

ICWL2010:  The 9th International Conference on Web-based Learning

December 8-10, 2010,Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Organized by : Shanghai University, Hong Kong Web Society

( http://iic.shu.edu.cn/icwl2010/ or http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2010/ )

ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006) United Kingdom (2007), China (2008), and Germany (2009). The 9th ICWL event will be held in Shanghai, the largest city in China full of culture and scenery. This conference aims at providing an in-depth study of the technical, pedagogical, as well as management issues of Web-based learning. ICWL2010 will bring together educators, researchers, technologists and implementers of Web-based learning from around the world to discuss the state of the art in this area.

All accepted full papers presented in the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and will also be submitted for indexing to EI.  Authors of the best papers presented in this conference will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in special issues of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.

The technical program will feature keynote addresses, tutorials, special sessions, panels, technical demonstrations, in addition to technical presentations of refereed papers. We cordially invite you to submit your work in one or more of above forms for, but not limited to, the following areas:

  E-Learning Platforms and Tools

  Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages

  Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management

  Design, Model and Framework of E-learning Systems

  Practice and Experience Sharing

  Technology Enhanced Learning

  E-learning Metadata and Standards

  Mobile/Situated e-learning

  Collaborative Learning and Game-based Learning

  Pedagogical Issues

IMPORTANT DATES

  Full paper submission deadline:   June 25, 2010 (Extended)

  Full paper notification of acceptance: Aug 10, 2010

  Poster paper submission deadline: Aug 15, 2010

  Poster paper notification of acceptance: Aug 30, 2010

  Camera-ready full / poster papers due: Sep 17, 2010

  Full / Poster paper author registration deadline: Sep 17, 2010

  Early bird registration deadline: Nov 15, 2010

  Conference date: Dec.8 to Dec.10, 2010

Conference Organization

Conference Co-chairs

  Qing Li, City U of Hong Kong

  Wolfgang Nejdl, U Hannover, Germany

  Wu Zhang, Shanghai U, China

PC Co-chairs

  Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai U, China

  Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany

  Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA

Organization Chair

  Feiyue Ye, Shanghai U, China

 

Steering Committee Rep.

  Rynson Lau, Hong Kong Web Society

 

Tutorial/Panel Co-Chairs

  Timothy Shih, Asia U,Taiwan

  Wanchun Dou, Nangjing U, China

International Program Committee

  Howard Beck, University of Florida, USA

  Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Liz Burd, University of Durham, UK

  Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  Xavier Ochoa Chehab, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

  Dan Chen, University of Birmingham, UK

  Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong

  Giuliana Dettori, ITD-CNR, Italy

  Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  Denis Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland

  Christian Gütl, Technical University of Graz, Austria

  Maria Grazia Ierardi, IMATI-CNR, Italy

  Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center in Hannover, Germany

  Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  Tomaz Klobucar, Institut Josef-Stefan, Slovenia

  Mart Laanpere, Tallinn University, Estonia

  Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, HK

  Effie Law, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  Hong Va Leong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

  Clement Leung, Victoria University of Technology, Australia

  Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong, HK

  Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK

  Minghua Li, Zhejiang Normal University

  Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, HK

  Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria

  Jacques Lonchamp, LORIA - Equipe ECOO, France

  Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology

  Xiaofeng Meng, Renming University, China

  Pablo Moreno-Ger, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany

  Elvira Popescu, Unviersity of Craiova, Romania

  Philippos Pouyioutas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

  Andreas Schmidt, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany

  Nalin Sharda, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

  Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China

  Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

  Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

  Chengzheng Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK

  Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

  Philips Wang, Caritas Francis Hsu College Hong, HK

  Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

  Shi Ying, Wuhan University, China

  Simon Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

  Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

  Qinhua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in web-based learning. Papers for submissions should be formatted in single column of no more than 10 pages in single line spacing according to the Springer LNCS. Authors Guideline. Papers should be submitted in PDF format for review.

Please log in with your existing easy chair account or register a new one.The submission web pages are http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwl2010 .

Special Issues

Authors of the best papers presented in this conference will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in special issues of  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.

About Shanghai

Shanghai, located at the mouth of the mighty Yangtze, is the shiniest gem in modern China's jewel box. Known throughout the world as the "Paris of the Orient", the international city is a thriving metropolis delightfully mixing the West and East, old and new, ancient and modern. Moreover, Expo 2010 will be held in Shanghai from May 1 to Oct 31, 2010.

Contact

For more information reagrding to the conference or paper submission, please check the conference web site or send email to icwl2010@easychair.org

Website

http://iic.shu.edu.cn/icwl2010/  or  http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2010/

16th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology

16th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology
September 20-23, 2010
Maastricht, the Netherlands

Early registration deadline:
July 26, 2010

Hotel registration deadline:
June 19, 2010

Accepted papers:
http://criwg2010.tudelft.nl/accepted_papers.html

The CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology seeks scientific papers that inform the design, development, deployment, and use of collaboration technology (groupware) and the work practices they support. Founded in 1995, CRIWG has become a significant forum for researchers and professionals to
exchange ideas and experiences about problems and solutions related to collaboration technology.
Most challenges in the collaboration technology field require a multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach. CRIWG seeks papers on groupware from a wide variety of academic perspectives and epistemologies, ranging from collaborative and exploratory research, to theory building and testing, applied research, design science, engineering, and innovative evaluation methods. Researchers can report their ideas, theories, models, designs and experimental results to CRIWG either by submitting full paper contributions, in case of mature works, and shorter papers reporting innovative work in progress. As in previous years, the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to selected journals. PhD students are invited to present their research in the doctoral colloquium. The CRIWG conference is supported by the Collaboration Research International Working Group, www.criwg.org, an open community of researchers. Traditionally, CRIWG is organized in remote places alternating between the Americas and Europe, with a small number of presentations, fostering critical discussion, team building and collaboration. The location
selected for the CRIWG 2010 conference is Maastricht, the Netherlands. Delft University of Technology will organize the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline: July 26, 2010
Hotel registration deadline: June 19, 2010
Doctoral Consortium: September 19, 2010
Conference: September 20-22, 2010
Social event: September 23, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker
http://www.cmi.arizona.edu/go.spy?xml=jnunamaker.xml

ACCEPTED PAPERS
http://criwg2010.tudelft.nl/accepted_papers.html

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

ORGANIZING CHAIR
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Tanja Buttler, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Rick van Krevelen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

STEERING COMMITTEE
Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Marcos Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology
José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Ana Carolina Salgado, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Jan-Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel, Germany
Rafael Gonzales, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL)

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL)
Barcelona, Spain, 29-30 September 2010

Organised jointly by
- 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010)
- 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)

http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/

AIM & TOPICS

Technology enhanced learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance learning practices of both individuals and organisations. It is an application domain that generally addresses all types of technology research & development aiming to support of teaching and learning activities. Information retrieval is a pivotal activity in TEL, and the deployment of recommender systems has attracted increased interest during the past years.

Recommendation methods, techniques and systems open an interesting new approach to facilitate and support learning and teaching. There are plenty a resource available on the Web, both in terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts, tutors) that can be used to facilitate teaching and
learning tasks. The challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate systems that provide learners and teachers with meaningful guidance in order to help identify suitable learning resources from a potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on topics related to the design, development and testing of recommender systems in educational settings as well as present the current status of research in this area and create cross-disciplinary liaisons between the RecSys and EC-TEL communities. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of TEL as an application area for recommender systems, as well as expose participants to the challenges of developing such systems in a TEL context.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* User tasks to be supported by recommender systems in TEL
* Focus of recommendation in TEL
* Requirements for the deployment of TEL recommender systems
* Publicly available data sets for TEL recommender systems
* Recommendation algorithms and systems for TEL
* Transfer of successful algorithms and systems from other application areas
* Evaluation criteria and methods for TEL recommender systems


IMPORTANT DATES

20 June 2010: Submissions
16 July 2010: Notifications
1 August 2010: Camera-ready of accepted papers
29-30 September 2010: RecSysTEL Workshop in Barcelona


DATATEL CHALLENGE

Published data sets in recommender systems, such as the MovieLens and EachMovie ones, are very often used in experimental testing of new recommendation algorithms. Very few data sets are publicly made available online for TEL applications. Thus, it is not possible yet for TEL recommender systems' researchers
to apply and benchmark their algorithms on existing, public data sets.

To this end, the DATATEL Theme Team of the European STELLAR Network of Excellence (http://www.stellarnet.eu) is sponsoring the DATATEL Challenge: a call for TEL Data Sets that invites
research groups to submit existing data sets from TEL applications that can be used as input for TEL recommender systems (e.g. ratings, tags, bookmarks).

The winner of the DATATEL Challenge will receive a best TEL Data Set award, as well as travel/subsistence support to attend the RecSysTEL Workshop. 


SUBMISSIONS

The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types:
* Full papers: 12 pages
* Short papers: 6 pages
* System/service demos: 2 pages
* TEL Data sets: 2 pages and data set file (specs/format to be announced soon)

Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission will be available through the EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsystel2010

If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the RecSysTEL'10 page.


PUBLICATION

Workshop proceedings will be published in a seperate volume by a publisher that will be announced soon.

In addition, authors of best full papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in a prestigious international journal such as the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.


STEERING COMMITTEE
* Jesus G. Boticario, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance Education (Spain)
* Peter Brusilovksy, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
* Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Denis Gillet, Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne (Switzerland)
* Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (Austria)
* Peter Scott, Open University (UK)
* Fridolin Wild, Open University (UK)
* Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT (Germany)
* Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet (Belgium)


CO-CHAIRS
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederlands (The Netherlands)
* Katrien Verbert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Olga C. Santos, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance Education (Spain)


ABOUT RecSys 2010 and EC-TEL 2010

The 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010) is  the premier annual event on research and applications of recommender technologies. It will promote a close interaction among practitioners and researchers, reaching a wider range of participants including those from Europe and Asia. See http://recsys.acm.org/2010/ for details.


The 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010) brings together technological developments, learning models, and implementations of new and innovative approaches to training and education. The conference traditionally explores how the synergy of multiple disciplines can provide new, more effective and more especially more sustainable, technology-enhanced learning solutions to learning problems. See http://www.ectel2010.org for details.

Postdoc Position in Very Large Social Network Analysis

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Very Large Social Network Analysis 

Software Technology and Applications Competence Centre

University of Tartu, Estonia

The University of Tartu is a leading research-intensive university in  the Baltics. In collaboration with ten technology vendors and user organizations in the region, the University has established an R&D
Centre on Software Technology & Applications (http://www.stacc.ee). The mission of this centre is to conduct industry-focused research with the aim to develop leading-edge solutions in the fields of data mining
and software and services engineering. In this context, expressions of interest are sought for a Postdoctoral
Researcher position in the field of very large social network analysis. The successful candidate will have a PhD in a relevant field and a promising publication track record. Applicants who are in the process of defending their PhD thesis may apply. Experience in research projects with industry and experience in supervision of junior researchers (research assistants, Masters and/or PhD students) is a plus. The successful candidate will work in a project involving Skype Technologies, which aims at developing and applying scalable techniques to analyze social networks consisting of billions of connections. The position will be fixed-term for two years. The salary range will be competitive by international standards. The starting date is negotiable. Inquiries and expressions of interest (including research statement, CV and list of publications) should be sent by e-mail to Prof. Marlon Dumas (marlon.dumas [qt] ut.ee), no later than 15 June 2010.

Special track on 'Tools and resources for Lifelong Learning' (TORELL)@ICL2010

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Special track on 'Tools and resources for Lifelong Learning' (TORELL)
Personal Environments, Widgets and Connectors to support lifelong
learning and open education
http://bit.ly/caNevJ

At the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning,
Hasselt, Belgium, 15 September - 17 September 2010
http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2010/

SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL TRACK
The special track 'Tools and resources for Lifelong Learning (TORELL) - Personal Environments, Widgets and Connectors to support learning and open education' takes place at the 'International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning 2010 (ICL)' in Hasselt, Belgium. For the interdisciplinary workshop TORELL we ask for contributions on web services, connectors and other techniques that can be offered through widgets to support lifelong learning and open education. Internet users  increasingly take advantage of personal environments where they can integrate various web services such as YouTube, Delicious, or RSS feeds. Personal environments like iGoogle, Netvibes or Pageflakes act like a  container where users can add their most favorite Web2.0 services, rather than browsing to each of them separately. A personal environment presents the Web2.0 services in a condensed view so that the users do not have to browse to each of the services separately. Web services can easily be plugged into the personal environment by using a widget standard. A widget - also called gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, app, portlet, mini or flake - can have many shapes and sizes and runs on different platforms as web or desktop widgets. Especially, web widgets have a broad application area; they can be applied in social networking software like  Facebook and LinkedIn but also in Elgg, Content Management Systems like Drupal, and blogging software like Wordpress. Widgets often utilize technologies form areas like text mining, semantic web, ontologies, natural language processing, and other data mining techniques. They support the exchange of ideas, exploration and search of content, annotation or connection of learners and open educational resources (OER). They are  suitable to train specific competences, visualize domain knowledge, or combine information from different information providers in a single widget.

TOPICS
* Widgets that are based on text mining, semantic web, ontologies, natural  language processing or other data mining techniques
* Widgets or web services that support communities of learners (e.g. OER communities)
* Best practices and working examples with educational widgets
* Conceptual studies on developing educational widgets
* Widgets for formal or non-formal learning
* Widgets for knowledge sharing in cooperate environments
* Social Media applications and OER
* Educational Mashups with OER
* New technologies and tools for widget development
* Recommender systems for widgets
* Widgets for mobile devices
* Current and future developments concerning technology and pedagogy for widgets
* Remote authoring scenarios
* Folksonomies and Social Metadata
* Demonstration of prototypes

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 30 June 2010
Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: 30 August 2010
ICL 2010 conference: 15-17 September 2010
SUBMISSIONS
The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types:
* Full papers: 8 pages
* Short papers: 4 pages
* System/service demos: 2 pages

Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission is available through the submission system of the ICL conference https://www.conftool.com/icl-conference/.

PUBLICATION
All accepted submissions will be published in the ICL2010 proceedings (with ISBN). Outstanding contributions have the opportunity to be published in a Special Issue in an international journal such as the International Journal of Emerging Technology (iJET).

CO-CHAIRS
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands
(Hendrik.Drachsler@ou.nl)
* Marco Kalz, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands
(marco.kalz@ou.nl)
* Wolfgang Greller, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands
(wolfgang.greller@ou.nl)
* Fridolin Wild, The Open University, UK (f.wild@open.ac.uk)
* Uta Schwertel, IMC AG, Germany (uta.schwertel@im-c.de)
* Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finnland (jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi)

STEERING COMMITTEE
* Elisabetta Parodi (Giunti Labs)
* Katja Niemann (Fraunhofer FIT)
* Alexander Mikroyannidis (OUUK)
* Philippe Dessus (Université Pierre Mendès)
* Bernhard Hoisl (Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration)
* Katrina Maxwell (Insead)
* Stefan Trausan-Matu (Politechnica University of Bucharest)
* Rob Nadolski (OUNL)

ABOUT ICL 2010
The 13th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning has a special focus on Academic and Corporate E-Learning in a Global Context It will take place in Hasselt, Belgium, September 15 - 17, 2010. (www.icl-conference.org) This interdisciplinary conference aims to focus on the exchange of relevant
trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical  experiences in interactive computer aided learning, in higher education and in corporate context, and seen in a global context. The conference will be organized by the University of Hasselt, Belgium in cooperation with:
* IEEE Education Society
* International E-Learning Association (IELA)
* European Learning Industry Group (ELIG)
* European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)
* International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP)
* International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
* European Institute of E-Learning (EifEL)
* European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)

Topics of Interest
* Web based learning (WBL)
* Adaptive and intuitive environments
* Responsive environments
* Semantic metadata for e-learning
* Mobile learning environments and applications
* Computer aided language learning incorporating AI techniques (ICALL)
* Platforms and authoring tools
* Educational MashUps
* Knowledge management and learning
* Educational Virtual Environments
* Collaborative learning
* Applications of the Semantic Web
* E-Portfolios
* Standards and styleguides
* Remote and virtual laboratories
* Multimedia applications and virtual reality
* Pedagogical and psychological issues
* Evaluation and outcomes assessment
* New learning models and applications
* Cost-effectiveness and others

Free Online Proceedings of the 11th Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop on Interoperable Social Multimedia Applications (WISMA 2010)

The free online Proceedings of the 11th Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop on Interoperable Social Multimedia Applications (WISMA 2010) are available online on CEUR-WS.org.

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (WISMA-2010), Barcelona, Spain, May 19-20, 2010. Edited by: Anna Carreras, Jaime Delgado, Xavier Maronas, Victor Rodriguez Submitted by: Victor Rodriguez Published on CEUR-WS: 18-May-2010 ONLINE: http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-583/ URN: urn:nbn:de:0074-583-4 ARCHIVE: ftp://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-583.zip

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

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 identi ed social multimedia applications: the interoperability and extensibility of their applications. The meeting held in Barcelona in May 2010 was the 11th in a series of Multimedia Metadata Community workshops, this time paying special attention to annotations on content in Social Networks. The presented papers have been collected in this book.