This was a keynote paper from the 2002 CAiSE. The keynote was given by Matthias Jarke. It gives a nice conceptual overview on what we did in the collaborative research center "Media and cultural communication". The message of the paper is in the title. Metadata management is essential for any kind of cooperative knowledge management since the use of digital media requires some kind of interchange data formats and common understanding on the meaning of data. It was planned that this paper should be the first one in my cumulative habilitation work. But, then I decided for an even more interdisciplinary paper on our work on the electronic transcription of the Babylonian Talmud.
Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, Metadata and Cooperative Knowledge Management, in A. Banks Pidduck et al. (Eds.): Proc. 14th Intl. Conf. Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE 2002), Toronto, Canada, LNCS 2348, pp. 4-20, Springer-Verlag, 2002
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
RecSys'10 International Workshop on the Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies - extended deadline
Final Call for Papers - paper submission deadline extended
International Workshop on the
Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies (PRSAT
2010)
30 September 2010 | Barcelona, Spain
In conjunction with the
4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010)
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 26, 2010
* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 16, 2010
* PRSAT 2010 Workshop: September 30, 2010
Motivation
User modeling, adaptation, and personalization techniques have hit the mainstream. The explosion of social network websites, on-line user-generated content platforms, and the tremendous growth in computational power of mobile devices are generating incredibly large amounts of user data, and an increasing desire of users to "personalize"(their desktop, e-mail, news site, phone). The potential value of personalization has become clear both as a commodity for the benefit or enjoyment of end-users, and as an enabler of new or better services – a strategic opportunity to enhance and expand businesses. An exciting characteristic of recommender systems is that they draw the interest of industry and businesses while posing very interesting research and scientific challenges.
In spite of significant progress in the research community, and industry efforts to bring the benefits of new techniques to end-users, there are still important gaps that make personalization and adaptation difficult for users. Research activities still often focus on narrow problems, such as incremental accuracy improvements of current techniques, sometimes with ideal hypotheses, or tend to overspecialize on a few applicative problems (typically TV or movie recommenders – sometimes simply because of the availability of data). This restrains de facto the range of other applications where personalization technologies might be useful as well.
Thus, we may have reached a good point to take a step back to seek perspective in the research done in recommender systems. This workshop contrives for a new uptake on past experiences and lessons learned. We propose an analytic outlook on new research directions, or ones that still require substantial research, with a special focus on their practical adoption in working applications, and the barriers to be met in this path.
This workshop aims at bringing the gap between academic researchers and industry practitioners in the area of Recommender Systems. We are interested both in research work that faces real industry problems, and in industry cases that create research challenges.
Topics of interest
This workshop is an opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss, on one hand, the main lessons drawn from successes but also from failures of recommender systems, and on the other hand, identify and analyze the major research areas in recommendation and personalization technologies that should be addressed in the future for a practical, effective take-up of the needs of vendors, consumers, and technology providers. Thus, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Limits of recommender systems
- main bottlenecks, research dead ends and myths in recommender systems
- missing technology pieces for wider adoption
- social (privacy, culture) issues
* Analytical view of personalization experiences
- case studies of recommender system implementations & deployments
- evaluation and user studies of recommender systems
- scalability in large recommender systems
- lessons learnt from your past experience
- obstacles to massive deployment of recommendation solutions in industrial environments
* Recommendation in broader systems
- place of recommender systems in complete systems
- killer application area
* Next needs in recommender systems
- new business models related to recommendation
- social and cultural impact of recommender systems
- new paradigms to provide recommendations
- new areas for recommendations
- users' expectations about future recommender systems
- beyond one-shot recommendations: recommendations of sequences, goal-oriented recommendations, …
Submissions
The format of the workshop will combine short paper presentations with open discussion sessions. Papers will be grouped by topics allowing us to organize an open discussion for every topic. Active participation will be expected and formal conference-style presentations will be minimal. We invite two kinds of submissions:
* Short papers / position papers reporting on lessons learnt, concrete problems, new promising areas. The maximum length is 4 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format.
* Long papers. The maximum length is 8 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format.
Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 independent referees.Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the PRSAT 2010 Web submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prsat2010 At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Information about registration will appear soon on the RecSys 2010 Web page: http://recsys.acm.org
Organizing Committee
* Jérôme Picault, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
* Dimitre Kostadinov, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
* Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research
Program Committee * David Bonnefoy, Pearltrees
* Makram Bouzid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
* Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
* José Carlos Cortizo, Universidad Europea de Madrid & BrainSins
* Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology & ConfigWorks
* Ido Guy, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Paola Hobson, Snell
* Rubén Lara, Telefonica R&D
* Kevin Mercer, BBC
* Andreas Nauerz, IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH
* Michael Papish, Media Unbound, Inc.
* Igor Perisic, LinkedIn Corporation
* Myriam Ribière, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
* Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
* Marc Torrens, Strands, Inc.
* Andreas Töscher, Commendo Research & Consulting GmbH
* Xiaohui Xue, SAP Business Objects
PhD position available at France Telecom/Orange Sociology lab
This PhD proposal deals in particular with the detection of emerging behaviors and knowledge based on
collective information - where the individual observation reveals noise.The successful candidate will explore the different forms of collective intelligence which can be implemented, from the voluntary contribution using the interfaces of mobile devices, to indirect contribution using the cells informations. He/She will investigates the reflexivity effects on behaviors and attitudes when users interacts with theses social cognitions .
The successful candidate will be graduated in information/sociology/psychology/cognitive/urban sciences. He/She will have a strong interest of multidisciplinar research methods, especially human complex systems or behavioral sciences. He/She will be able to demonstrate skills in networks analysis or social data mining. He/She will be expected to collaborate with practitioners to help create relevant and valuable knowledge. Successful candidate will be highly motivated, and shows good team-work and organisational skills.
Spoken and written French skills, even if not mandatory, are strongly relevant.
The contract is a "CIFRE" 3 years duration, 28 000 euros annual salary + orange group bonus.
To apply, please send CV+ letter and references to thomas.couronne@orange-ftgroup.com & zbigniew.smoreda@orange-ftgroup.com
Spoken and written French skills, even if not mandatory, are strongly relevant.
The contract is a "CIFRE" 3 years duration, 28 000 euros annual salary + orange group bonus.
To apply, please send CV+ letter and references to thomas.couronne@orange-ftgroup.com & zbigniew.smoreda@orange-ftgroup.com
PhD Studentship Learning Design The University of Bolton - The Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC)
PhD Studentship
Learning Design
The University of Bolton - The Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC)
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to research factors influencing the uptake and effective use of IMS Learning Design, with a focus on proposing, implementing (in software) and evaluating different (socio-)technical approaches. The studentship covers all fees, and an annual stipend of £15,000. The research will investigate factors influencing the uptake and effective use of IMS Learning Design and focus on proposing, implementing (in software) and evaluating different (socio-)technical approaches. The factors to be considered will include institutional, organisational, pedagogic, cultural, competences, authoring and runtime software implementations and their usability. In the light of this analysis, one or more alternative approaches to be investigated will be identified, implemented and evaluated.
The IEC team has an outstanding record of contributing to the development and implementation of IMS Learning Design, and in investigating the questions raised by the specification. Research focuses on systems which facilitate pedagogical and organisational change, and exploration of the concept of the Personal Learning Environment (originally proposed by the IEC) through the disaggregation of learning activities and other services. Academic leadership is provided by Professor Bill Olivier, a Co-editor of the IMS LD specification, and Dr David (Dai) Griffiths, who has published extensively on IMS Learning Design. There is a strong development team including Phillip Beauvoir, Paul Sharples, Scott Wilson and Kris Popat, who have produced key IMS LD applications such as Reload, Recourse, the Astro Learning Design Player and the Wookie widget server (now in the Apache Incubator).
The successful candidate will be a European Union citizen who is eager to develop a deep understanding of the pedagogical issues raised by IMS Learning Design. They should have good communication skills to: work with authors and learners to understand their concerns and priorities and engage them in the development process. They must also have the technical expertise needed to:
• Develop graphical UIs
• Implement prototypes using Web technologies, such as HTML5, Javascript, Ajax and XML
• Be able to upgrade and extend existing Open Source software, in particular:
• Recourse authoring tool - Java using Eclipse
• Astro LD runtime front end - Java server-side tools
They will also be expected to collaborate with the team in publishing papers and reports, and organising and attending meetings and events.
A PhD candidate from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, will be resident at IEC throughout 2010 - 11, and will be working on pedagogical and cultural aspects of IMS LD. It is anticipated that there will be opportunities to build on this collaboration in the research work carried out, with the potential for a return visit to China in 2011 - 12. An interest in building on these opportunities would be an advantage to the applicant.
The closing date for applications is 9.00 am, Friday 9th July 2010.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held on Tuesday 20th July.
To apply, please
• complete this application form
• write up to 1000 words describing your relevant experience and ideas regarding the research to be carried out
• and submit the above together with a covering letter by email to Dr. Dai Griffiths, d.e.griffiths@bolton.ac.uk
Dr. Griffiths will also respond to requests for further details, informal inquiries and questions or feedback on draft proposals.
The IEC team has an outstanding record of contributing to the development and implementation of IMS Learning Design, and in investigating the questions raised by the specification. Research focuses on systems which facilitate pedagogical and organisational change, and exploration of the concept of the Personal Learning Environment (originally proposed by the IEC) through the disaggregation of learning activities and other services. Academic leadership is provided by Professor Bill Olivier, a Co-editor of the IMS LD specification, and Dr David (Dai) Griffiths, who has published extensively on IMS Learning Design. There is a strong development team including Phillip Beauvoir, Paul Sharples, Scott Wilson and Kris Popat, who have produced key IMS LD applications such as Reload, Recourse, the Astro Learning Design Player and the Wookie widget server (now in the Apache Incubator).
The successful candidate will be a European Union citizen who is eager to develop a deep understanding of the pedagogical issues raised by IMS Learning Design. They should have good communication skills to: work with authors and learners to understand their concerns and priorities and engage them in the development process. They must also have the technical expertise needed to:
• Develop graphical UIs
• Implement prototypes using Web technologies, such as HTML5, Javascript, Ajax and XML
• Be able to upgrade and extend existing Open Source software, in particular:
• Recourse authoring tool - Java using Eclipse
• Astro LD runtime front end - Java server-side tools
They will also be expected to collaborate with the team in publishing papers and reports, and organising and attending meetings and events.
A PhD candidate from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, will be resident at IEC throughout 2010 - 11, and will be working on pedagogical and cultural aspects of IMS LD. It is anticipated that there will be opportunities to build on this collaboration in the research work carried out, with the potential for a return visit to China in 2011 - 12. An interest in building on these opportunities would be an advantage to the applicant.
The closing date for applications is 9.00 am, Friday 9th July 2010.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held on Tuesday 20th July.
To apply, please
• complete this application form
• write up to 1000 words describing your relevant experience and ideas regarding the research to be carried out
• and submit the above together with a covering letter by email to Dr. Dai Griffiths, d.e.griffiths@bolton.ac.uk
Dr. Griffiths will also respond to requests for further details, informal inquiries and questions or feedback on draft proposals.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA)
Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA)
held as special session in conjunction with
USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
November 4th-5th 2010
Klagenfurt, Austria
URL: http://tinyurl.com/wima2010
Multimedia applications have become ubiquitous lately. People record and watch videos on mobile and stationary devices, they use non linear video editors, and they share and organize their personal multimedia archives. Lots of research has been done on the technical aspects of multimedia, like streaming, presentation, transcoding, adaptation and content based retrieval and analysis. But handling multimedia is an interactive process and users have to be taken into account. Even consumption is often accompanied with communication, non linear browsing and search. This interactivity in multimedia applications is a challenging yet very promising topic as especially in multimedia applications people more often accept innovative ideas and fundamental changes more easily.
This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI). In this workshop we aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also first results of greenhouse work in the field of interactive multimedia applications. We also encourage the submission of papers presenting studies on interactivity in multimedia systems or discussing the development of applications in this field.
Topics of interest
==================
Topics include the aspects of interactivity in the following fields:
* Multimedia Retrieval, Browsing & Navigation
* User Intentions in Multimedia Search, Annotation & Production
* Multimedia Production and Post-Production
* Multimedia in Specialized Domains (e.g. Medical Scenarios, Sports, Security, etc.)
* Image, Audio and Video Analysis
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia on the Web
* Social Multimedia
* Multimedia Management and Databases
* Distributed Multimedia Systems
We also encourage the submission of greenhouse work and preliminary
results to be discussed in the workshop.
Submission
==========
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
* Full papers (14-20 pages)
* Short papers (6-14 pages)
* Posters (4 pages)
All papers have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Submission is handled by easychair, see http://tinyurl.com/wima2010 for
details.
Important Dates
===============
* July 11, 2010 EXTENDED Deadline for Paper Submission
* July 30, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* August 22, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline
* Nov 4 & 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
Program Committee
=================
* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Dalibor Mitrovic, TU Wien, AT
* Frank Hopfgartner, International Computer Science Institute, USA
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, DE
* Mario Döller, University of Passau, DE
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, AT
* Martha Larson, TU Delft, NL
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, US
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China
* Vincent Charvillait, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, FR
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, AT
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Yu Cao, California State University of Fresno, US
Workshop Chairs
===============
* Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, AT
For further questions please contact the program chairs at
wima2010@itec.uni-klu.ac.at
held as special session in conjunction with
USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
November 4th-5th 2010
Klagenfurt, Austria
URL: http://tinyurl.com/wima2010
Multimedia applications have become ubiquitous lately. People record and watch videos on mobile and stationary devices, they use non linear video editors, and they share and organize their personal multimedia archives. Lots of research has been done on the technical aspects of multimedia, like streaming, presentation, transcoding, adaptation and content based retrieval and analysis. But handling multimedia is an interactive process and users have to be taken into account. Even consumption is often accompanied with communication, non linear browsing and search. This interactivity in multimedia applications is a challenging yet very promising topic as especially in multimedia applications people more often accept innovative ideas and fundamental changes more easily.
This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI). In this workshop we aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also first results of greenhouse work in the field of interactive multimedia applications. We also encourage the submission of papers presenting studies on interactivity in multimedia systems or discussing the development of applications in this field.
Topics of interest
==================
Topics include the aspects of interactivity in the following fields:
* Multimedia Retrieval, Browsing & Navigation
* User Intentions in Multimedia Search, Annotation & Production
* Multimedia Production and Post-Production
* Multimedia in Specialized Domains (e.g. Medical Scenarios, Sports, Security, etc.)
* Image, Audio and Video Analysis
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia on the Web
* Social Multimedia
* Multimedia Management and Databases
* Distributed Multimedia Systems
We also encourage the submission of greenhouse work and preliminary
results to be discussed in the workshop.
Submission
==========
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
* Full papers (14-20 pages)
* Short papers (6-14 pages)
* Posters (4 pages)
All papers have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Submission is handled by easychair, see http://tinyurl.com/wima2010 for
details.
Important Dates
===============
* July 11, 2010 EXTENDED Deadline for Paper Submission
* July 30, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* August 22, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline
* Nov 4 & 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
Program Committee
=================
* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Dalibor Mitrovic, TU Wien, AT
* Frank Hopfgartner, International Computer Science Institute, USA
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, DE
* Mario Döller, University of Passau, DE
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, AT
* Martha Larson, TU Delft, NL
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, US
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China
* Vincent Charvillait, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, FR
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, AT
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Yu Cao, California State University of Fresno, US
Workshop Chairs
===============
* Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, AT
For further questions please contact the program chairs at
wima2010@itec.uni-klu.ac.at
Current call for papers in June 2010
Here is a list of call for papers for conferences and workshops I am currently involved in.
Deadlines very close!
Deadlines more relaxed.
I do not take any responsibilities for the correctness of dates! Please check the websites for updates.
Deadlines very close!
- Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF 2010),
July 1st 2010 - The 9th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010), July 9,2010
- Joint Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, RecSysTel @ EC-TEL 2010,
June 30, 2010 - SMUC2010: 2nd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents @ CIKM 2010,
June 30, 2010
- Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA),
July 11, 2010
Deadlines more relaxed.
I do not take any responsibilities for the correctness of dates! Please check the websites for updates.
Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings June 2010
This is a list of very exciting job openings for doctoral and post-doctoral research positions I have collected in June 2010. All job offers are selected due to my personal taste. I take no responsibility for the content nor I can answer specific questions.
- Funded PhD Studentship in Real-Time Analytics for Large-Scale Online Communities, DERI, Galway
- Post-doctoral position at the Vienna University of Technology
- Post-Doctoral Position LIRIS Lab
- Research position in the fields of data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval, Weimar
- Ph.D. Position at L3S Research Center, Hannover
- Postdoc position on "Declarative approaches for interesting pattern mining problems", Lyon, France
- Postdoc and Junior-researcher Positions in Semantic Search, Linked Data, and Adaptive Web, TU Delft
- Ph.D. Position: Modeling Sensor Data and Incorporating Social Feedback and Community Sharing, NUI Galway
Funded PhD Studentship in Real-Time Analytics for Large-Scale Online Communities
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland Galway is seeking applications for a funded PhD student position in Large-Scale Dynamic Network Analysis, Mining and Modelling. The successful candidate will join a research team in DERI at NUI Galway in a large EU-funded project focusing on Real-Time Analytics for Large-Scale Online Communities
The Research
************
Our research project focuses on developing scalable analytics of structure, behaviours and content in large on-line communities in order to predict risks and opportunities and thus make suitable suggestions for rapid action or intervention. Online communities represent valuable information ecosystems whose micro- and macro dynamics in terms of structure, information, behaviour are not well understood. Thus, they are vulnerable to risks and failure to capitalise on emergent opportunities. We are interested in developing techniques for measurement, management, analysis, protection and optimisation of the health and functionality of online communities. Existing approaches fail the challenges of scale and cannot cope with the imminent growth predicted for online communities. New techniques are required to cope with the scale of data management, the speed at which timely analysis and action is needed and the complexity of people’s online behaviour. A major objective of the!
project is to combine risk management, community analysis and community forecasting in large scale to benefit individual users and businesses. The project consortium consists of European academic and industrial partners.
DERI Galway
************
DERI Galway (www.deri.ie) is one of the largest Semantic Web and Web Science organisations in the world. DERI's mission is to enable networked knowledge, globally interlinking information from the Web and the physical world. DERI's role in the project consortium is to produce a suite of novel, highly scalable analytical methods and tools for on-line communities. This requires to extract reusable, interpretable analytics in real time from the streams of dynamically, socially produced data from on-line communities. The group focuses on 4 non-disjoint dimensions: Structural Analysis, Behavioural Analysis, Content/Social-Semantic analysis, and Cross-community Analysis. The work will be achieved in close cooperation with other units and projects in DERI, as well as with the other partners from the project consortium.
Areas of Interest
*******************
These include but are not limited to:
* Feature Selection and Merging to provide appropriate, tractable abstractions;
* Graph theoretic analysis of communities in order to measure and understand emergent structural, communication, and behavioural characteristics;
* Scalable methods for mining and matching behavioural motifs;
* Techniques for detecting and tracking qualitative measurements of topic dynamics;
* Uncovering and measuring how community structures and substructures influence each other;
* Designing real-time algorithms for stream mining and cluster-based computing;
The successful candidate should have at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science, maths, science or engineering, and have the pre-requisites for PhD studies at NUI Galway (www.nuigalway.ie), and must be fluent in English. The PhD studentship covers academic fees, a generous monthly stipend and a research travel allowance for a three year period, as well as the use of DERI's facilities for experimentation and research.
Desireable Criteria
**********************
In addition, the following criteria are desirable but not necessary:
* Familiarity with graph analysis and theory and with social network analysis;
* Familiarity with large-scale, dynamic data analysis (e.g., data streaming algorithms);
* Familiarity with data mining, feature selection and machine learning, especially graph mining and graph grammars;
* Familiarity with parallel algorithm
* Familiarity with modelling and simulation;
* Masters or equivalent degree in a relevant discipline or topic;
* Good programming skills and good English writing skills;
The successful candidate will join the project team led by DERI Principle Investigator, Dr. Conor Hayes in DERI, Galway. There will be extensive opportunities for collaboration with other researchers and with other research groups and projects in DERI and Europe, and with other world-wide institutes with whom DERI collaborates.
How to apply:
****************
Interested applicants should send an application with the subject header UIMR_PhD_10 to conor.hayes@deri.org. The application must contain the following:
* A CV
* A one page statement explaining the candidate's interest in and compatibility with the objectives of the position
* A list of (minimum two) referees
* Additionally, publications and other materials that the student may be consider relevant - as links to resources available online
Applications that do not follow this format will not be considered.
Closing date: Jul 5th, 2010.
The Research
************
Our research project focuses on developing scalable analytics of structure, behaviours and content in large on-line communities in order to predict risks and opportunities and thus make suitable suggestions for rapid action or intervention. Online communities represent valuable information ecosystems whose micro- and macro dynamics in terms of structure, information, behaviour are not well understood. Thus, they are vulnerable to risks and failure to capitalise on emergent opportunities. We are interested in developing techniques for measurement, management, analysis, protection and optimisation of the health and functionality of online communities. Existing approaches fail the challenges of scale and cannot cope with the imminent growth predicted for online communities. New techniques are required to cope with the scale of data management, the speed at which timely analysis and action is needed and the complexity of people’s online behaviour. A major objective of the!
project is to combine risk management, community analysis and community forecasting in large scale to benefit individual users and businesses. The project consortium consists of European academic and industrial partners.
DERI Galway
************
DERI Galway (www.deri.ie) is one of the largest Semantic Web and Web Science organisations in the world. DERI's mission is to enable networked knowledge, globally interlinking information from the Web and the physical world. DERI's role in the project consortium is to produce a suite of novel, highly scalable analytical methods and tools for on-line communities. This requires to extract reusable, interpretable analytics in real time from the streams of dynamically, socially produced data from on-line communities. The group focuses on 4 non-disjoint dimensions: Structural Analysis, Behavioural Analysis, Content/Social-Semantic analysis, and Cross-community Analysis. The work will be achieved in close cooperation with other units and projects in DERI, as well as with the other partners from the project consortium.
Areas of Interest
*******************
These include but are not limited to:
* Feature Selection and Merging to provide appropriate, tractable abstractions;
* Graph theoretic analysis of communities in order to measure and understand emergent structural, communication, and behavioural characteristics;
* Scalable methods for mining and matching behavioural motifs;
* Techniques for detecting and tracking qualitative measurements of topic dynamics;
* Uncovering and measuring how community structures and substructures influence each other;
* Designing real-time algorithms for stream mining and cluster-based computing;
The successful candidate should have at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science, maths, science or engineering, and have the pre-requisites for PhD studies at NUI Galway (www.nuigalway.ie), and must be fluent in English. The PhD studentship covers academic fees, a generous monthly stipend and a research travel allowance for a three year period, as well as the use of DERI's facilities for experimentation and research.
Desireable Criteria
**********************
In addition, the following criteria are desirable but not necessary:
* Familiarity with graph analysis and theory and with social network analysis;
* Familiarity with large-scale, dynamic data analysis (e.g., data streaming algorithms);
* Familiarity with data mining, feature selection and machine learning, especially graph mining and graph grammars;
* Familiarity with parallel algorithm
* Familiarity with modelling and simulation;
* Masters or equivalent degree in a relevant discipline or topic;
* Good programming skills and good English writing skills;
The successful candidate will join the project team led by DERI Principle Investigator, Dr. Conor Hayes in DERI, Galway. There will be extensive opportunities for collaboration with other researchers and with other research groups and projects in DERI and Europe, and with other world-wide institutes with whom DERI collaborates.
How to apply:
****************
Interested applicants should send an application with the subject header UIMR_PhD_10 to conor.hayes@deri.org. The application must contain the following:
* A CV
* A one page statement explaining the candidate's interest in and compatibility with the objectives of the position
* A list of (minimum two) referees
* Additionally, publications and other materials that the student may be consider relevant - as links to resources available online
Applications that do not follow this format will not be considered.
Closing date: Jul 5th, 2010.
Friday, June 25, 2010
8th Intl. Workshop on Personalization and Recommendation on the Web and Beyond ABIS 2010: Extended Deadline 11 July
ABIS 2010 – 18th Intl. Workshop on Personalization and Recommendation on the Web and Beyond
4-6 October 2010, Kassel, Germany
Extended deadline: 11 July (was 27 June)
Personalization is great. But personalization can go awfully wrong, too. Systems may draw wrong conclusions about your search actions and constantly annoy you with personalized menus that do not work or recommendations for books that you couldn't care less for. And do you really want your friends and colleagues to know what products you searched for yesterday?
We invite you to submit full or short papers, position statements, Ph.D. research plans and demos, between 4 and 8 pages in length. Submission instructions and templates are available at the workshop website.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Obtaining user data: logging tools, aggregation of data from social networks and other Web 2.0 services, location tracking
- Modeling the user data: collaborative filtering, cross-application issues, contextualization and disambiguation, use of ontologies and folksonomies
- Personalization and recommendation: applications in social networks, search, online stores, mobile computing, e-learning and mash-ups
- Evaluation and user studies: laboratory studies, empirical studies and analysis of existing corpora of usage data
- Emerging and important issues: future applications, new paradigms in human-computer interactions, privacy awareness
ABIS 2010 is an international workshop, organized by the German SIG on Adaptivity and User Modeling of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. ABIS takes place in connection with LWA2010, together with related workshops on information retrieval, machine learning and information management.
*Important dates*
- Submission of papers: 11 July (extended)
- Notification of acceptance: 16 August
- Camera ready copies due: 27 August
- Workshop: 4–6 October 2010
*Organization*
- Eelco Herder and Daniel Krause (L3S Research Center, Hannover)
- Melanie Hartmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
- Andreas Nauerz (IBM Deutschland)
*More information*
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/conf/lwa10
http://abis.l3s.de/
*Program Committee*
Mária Bieliková, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK
Betsy van Dijk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Birgitta König-Ries, Universität Jena, Germany
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Melanie Hartmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Dominikus Heckmann, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, Germany
Vera Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Daniel Krause, L3S Research Center, Germany
Erwin Leonardi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Andreas Nauerz, IBM Deutschland
Alexandros Paramythis, Johannes-Kepler-University, Linz, Austria
Wolfgang Reinhardt, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Sven Schwarz, DFKI, Germany
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Rapid Knowledge Deployment in an Organizational-Memory-Based Workflow Environment
This is a paper from 2000 which was published and presented at the ECIS 2000 in Vienna. I can remember that Fons Wijnhoven introduced Eric Stein to me after my presentation. But I was too exhausted and did not recognize that the Eric standing in front of me was the same Eric I cited in my paper. I really put my foot in it.
Ralf Klamma, S. Schlaphof: Rapid Knowledge Deployment in an Organizational-Memory-Based Workflow Environment, in: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2000), Vienna, Austria, 2000, pp. 364-371.
Ralf Klamma, S. Schlaphof: Rapid Knowledge Deployment in an Organizational-Memory-Based Workflow Environment, in: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2000), Vienna, Austria, 2000, pp. 364-371.
Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF 2010): extended deadline July 1st 2010
Final CALL FOR PAPERS Due to requests from potential authors we have decided to extend the submission deadline for fullpapers July 1st, 2010 3rd Special Track on Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF 2010) In conjunction with 13th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL 2010) CAF 2010 - 15. - 17. September 2010 - Hasselt, Belgium. 3rd Special Track on Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF) This special track will take place during ICL 2010 in Hasselt, Belgium (15 - 17 September 2010) as a special program item. The Special Track CAF 2010 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of computer-based knowledge & skill assessment in learning settings and based on that feedback provision for students and teachers. The International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL) is an interdisciplinary conference which 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. Background Our modern life at the beginning of the 21st century is strongly influenced by effects such as rapidly changing and developing information, technology-enhanced communication and information access, and new forms of production and services in a globalized world. This situation requires individuals to adapt their skills and competencies. Consequently, educational objectives and societal expectations have changed significantly in recent years. Modern learning settings must consider learning community aspects as well as learner-centered, knowledge-centered and assessment-centered aspects. By focusing on the assessment, this concept can be further distinguished in (1) summative assessment, performed at the end of a set of learning activities, and (2) formative assessment, which is intended to give continuous feedback to students and teachers. The latter mentioned formative assessment gives information about the current state of knowledge and/or the degree of knowledge acquisition within learning activities. Assessment is an important component of modern teaching and learning processes in face-to-face courses as well as in e-learning environments; it provides valuable feedback to teachers and students which allows the revision and adaptation of teaching and learning activities. Furthermore, assessment activities and results can also be utilized for building and strengthening metacognitive skills. However, continuous and frequent assessment in learning processes may cause excessive efforts and costs. Therefore, computer-assisted assessment systems (CaAS) and computer-based assessment systems (CbAS) have become of increasing interest over the years. Assessment systems may support parts or the entire chain of the assessment lifecycle. This lifecycle includes authoring and management of assessment items, compilation of specific tests, performance of assessments, and compilation and management results. Additionally, emerging interest in the sharing and re-use of assessment items or compiled assessment tests and the exchangeability of assessment outcomes has resulted in standardization efforts, such as the IMS Question & Test Interoperability Specification (IMS QTI). The special track will bring together international researchers as well as practitioners from different organisations who will have plenty of time for networking and real-world knowledge sharing. We invite submissions that deal with issues including, but not limited to:
Important Dates
Submission Procedure File Types: Word for Windows Language: English (British or US) Style Guides & Template: http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2010/documents/template.doc Paper Submission System: Please use the Electronic Submission Page http://www.conftool.com/icl-conference/ In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at CAF2010@iicm.edu. Notification of Acceptance and Publishing Accepted papers will be published within the ICL conference proceedings. At least one author has to register within 2 weeks after the notification of acceptance to be included into the conference programme (15. Aug. 2010). Authors fee is applicable only once per paper! Some authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in the "European Journal of Open and Distance Learning" (EURODL) or the "International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning" (iJET). CAF 2010 Chair Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria CAF 2010 Organization team Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz, Austria Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria CAF 2010 Program Committee (preliminary, invited)
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5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, C&T 2011, Brisbane 29 June - 2 July 2011
Call for Papers
5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – C&T 2011
29 June – 2 July 2011,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
IMPORTANT DATES
10 December 2010: Full papers and workshop proposals due
24 January 2011: Review reports due
18 February 2011: Notification of acceptances sent to authors
4 March 2011: Camera ready papers due
30 April 2011: Workshop papers, Doctoral Consortium and Student Volunteer applications due
29 June 2011: Pre-conference workshops and Doctoral Consortium
30 June – 2 July 2011: C&T 2011 conference at QUT, Brisbane, Australia
CONFERENCE TOPICS
C&T 2011 welcomes contributions in all areas of community and technology research, design and development. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics:
Augmented Reality
Civic Intelligence
Context and Location Awareness
Community-centred Design and Evaluation Methodologies
Community Engagement
E-research with Communities
E-government and E-governance
Participation
Smart Community Services
Sustainability
Universal Usability and Accessibility
Urban Informatics
Tangible Interfaces for Community Interaction
Technologies of Scale Making
Visualisation Techniques
Working across Cultures
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
All submissions must be written in English. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. Please format papers using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform. Full papers must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, contact information and affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. Papers submitted by the due date will undergo a double blind peer review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, innovation, academic rigour, and clarity of writing.
Accepted papers will be included in the published conference proceedings if at least one author of any accepted submission has registered and attends the conference. Papers are submitted via an online submission system that will be opened in September 2010. Please send any questions to Jesper Kjeldskov, Technical Program Chair: jesper AT cs.aau.dk
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Workshops are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. Workshop proposals (max of 2 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. If you are working in an emerging area of Communities and Technologies, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. C&T workshops might address basic or applied research and practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management
and organisational issues, or education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the C&T community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in your workshop proposal. Please send proposals to Jaz Choi, Workshop Chair: h.choi AT qut.edu.au
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. The Doctoral Consortium offers research students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. Research students wishing to attend the consortium should submit 4 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform, addressing 4 headings: Aims and Background; Significance and Innovation; Methodology; Questions and Issues (that is, identify those areas you seek feedback on). Places at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals. Please send applications to Christine Satchell, Doctoral Consortium Chair: christine.satchell AT qut.edu.au
VOLUNTEERS
C&T actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the research community, meet other students in the field, and attend an international ACM conference. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in C&T research and development, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply,
email us your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a CV, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 30 April 2011.
Please send applications to Ronald Schroeter, Volunteers Chair: r.schroeter AT qut.edu.au
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
he 9th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010) submission deadline has been extended till July 9,2010
ICWL2010 paper submission deadline has been extended till July 9,2010. This extension is going to be "last and final" as well as "strict".
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), which will be indexed by 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: July 9, 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/
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