Informatik 5 Developer's Day 2010 at RWTH Aachen University

RWTH Aachen University

Chair of Information Systems and Databases

presents

4th annual Developer's Day 2010

Since 2006 our chair supports students organizing a developers' day. The aim of the developer's day was to give our students the platform to teach other students about actual development knowledge not necessarily needed for actual daily work within our group.

Have a look at the nice video our students produced for promoting their event.

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings July 2010

This is a list of very exciting job openings for doctoral and post-doctoral research positions I have collected in July2010. All job offers are selected due to my personal taste. I take no responsibility for the content nor I can answer specific questions. If you have specific job offers, please feel to send me by email.

• PhD Studentship Learning Design The University of Bolton - The Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC)
• PhD position available at France Telecom/Orange Sociology lab
• Postdoctoral Position in the University of Hong Kong 2010
• Ph.D. positions at Aalborg University, Denmark
• Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Cloud Data Management, Aix-Marseille University, France

Older job opening can be found below.

• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings June 2010

Current call for papers in July 2010

Here is a list of call for papers for conferences and workshops I am currently involved in.

Deadlines very close!

• ECTEL 2010 Doctoral Consortium @ EC-TEL 2010,
  July 23, 2010
• 10th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, Zurich, Switzerland,
  August 28, 2010

Deadlines more relaxed.

• The Third International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG 2010),
  September 24, 2010
• T2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SMDT 2010),
  October 1, 2010
• The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on
  Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds (PerCoSC 2011),
  October 31, 2010
• 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C & T 2011,
  December 10, 2010

I do not take any responsibilities for the correctness of dates! Please check the websites for updates.

The Third International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG 2010)

The Third International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG 2010) 

in conjunction with 

the 9th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010) 

Shanghai, China 

December 8-10, 2010


http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/steg10

Stories and story-telling are cultural achievements of significant relevance even in modern times. Nowadays, story-telling is being enhanced with the convergence of sociology, pedagogy, and technology. Recently, computer gaming is also deployed for educational purposes and has proved to be an effective approach to mental stimulation and intelligence development. Many conceptual similarities and some procedural correlation exist between story-telling and educational gaming. Therefore these two areas can be clubbed for research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Many facets of story-telling and educational gaming emulate real life processes, which can be represented either as complex story graphs or as interleaved sub-problems.

While the integration of learning and gaming provides a great opportunity, several motivational challenges must also be addressed to ensure successful realization. Non-linear digital stories are an ideal starting point for the creation of educational games, since each story addresses a certain problem, so that the story recipient can benefit from other users? experiences. This leads to the development of more realistic stories providing the kernel for non-trivial educational videogames.  These stories cover the instructional part of an educational game, while the game adds the motivation and engagement part.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, experts and practitioners from the domains of non-linear digital interactive story-telling and educational gaming to share ideas and knowledge. There is a great amount of separate research in these two fields and the celebration of this workshop will allow the participants to discover and leverage potential synergies.
Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
* Theories in story-telling and games
* Story and game design paradigms for Web-based Learning
* Augmented story-telling and gaming
* Story-telling and educational gaming with social software
* Mobile story-telling and educational gaming
* Cross-media/transmedia story-telling and gaming
* Computer gaming for story-telling (Game design for narrative architectures)
* Multimedia story and game authoring
* Story-telling and educational gaming applications

Important dates
Paper Submission: September 24, 2010
Notification of acceptance: October 22, 2010
Camera Ready Submission: November 12, 2010
Workshop date: December 8-10, 2010

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 pages) according to the Springer LNCS format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published online as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073.

Organizers
Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio, University of Athens, Greece
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
David Farrell, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Dominik Renzel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Tentative Programme Committee
Amanda Gower (British Telecommunications plc)
Anna Hannemann (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
Ansgar Scherp (UC Irvine, CA, USA)
Armin Weinberger (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Bailing Zhang (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
Baltasar Fernandez Manj¢n (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Carlos Delgado Kloos (Carlos III University, Spain)
Christian Guetl (Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Cord Hockemeyer, University of Graz, Austria
Dietrich Albert (Unversit„t Graz, Graz, Austria)
Daniel Burgos (ATOS Origin, Spain)
Dominik Renzel (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athen, Greece
Georg Thallinger (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
Griff Richards (Athabasca University, Canada)
Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany)
Hermann Maurer (Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Irma Lindt (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)
Jose Luis Sierra (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Kinshuk (Athabasca University, Canada)
Lionel Brunie (INSA de Lyon, France)
Marc Spaniol (MPI, Saarbrcken, Germany)
Marius Preda (Institut National des T‚l‚communications, France)
Martin Haller (TU Berlin, Germany)
Michael Granitzer (Know Center, Graz, Austria)
Michael Hausenblas (Joanneum Research, Austria)
Nalin Sharda (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
Pablo Moreno-Ger (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Peter Schallauer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
Raphael Troncy (CWI, The Netherlands)
Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
Richard Chbeir (LE2I Laboratory (UMR - CNRS) - Bourgogne University, France)
Romulus Grigoras (ENSEEIHT, France)
Stamatia Dasiopoulou (ITI Thessaloniki, Greece)
Stefan Göbel, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Vedran Sabol (Know-Center Graz, Austria)
Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios (University of Technology Graz, Austria)
Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT, France)
Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)
Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
Werner Klieber (Know-Center Graz, Austria)
Wolfgang Gräther (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)
Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)
Zinayida Petrushyna (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

Research positions available at Brunel University

Vacancies for research assistants at Brunel University

Applications are invited for the posts of Research Assistant on the OpenScout and iCOPER EU projects.

School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics

Research Assistant                                                  Vacancy Ref: BHA0281-1

                                                                                    recruitbha@brunel.ac.uk

Salary R1: pro-rata of £28,689 - £37,812 per annum incl. London Weighting

Part-time (50%), fixed-term until 31 July 2012

This new role is part of the OpenScout Project, which is a collaboration between twelve European partners. Reporting to the Principal Investigator – Dr Lampros Stergioulas. The OpenScout Project explores new ways to reuse open learning content. OpenScout aims at developing new methods, systems and tools for integrated access and use of open, digital educational and training content.

The person appointed will support the Principal Investigator and the OpenScout team, and conduct research in the the development of Skill and Competence Based Services, integrating and evaluating tools for supporting end users (learners) in adapting, re-mixing and re-publishing e-learning content, and building conceptual/logical and semantic models.  The position could be extended for a further period, if further funding is won.

A computing or education/pedagogy graduate with expertise in technology enhanced learning and proven experience in e-learning systems development and evaluation, Social Web / Web 2.0 technologies, system/process evaluation, semantic and conceptual modelling would be a suitable candidate. The successful candidate will need to have a strong  background and proven experience in ICT in education.

You should possess a relevant degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Pedagogy/Education (preferably at postgraduate level) and have sufficient professional experience, in the capacity of project manager or researcher, in the field of technology enhanced learning. Duties of the role include providing a variety of technical and research support, working both on and off campus with the OpenScout team. You will also work independently and to tight deadlines. The post holder will be expected to be cooperative and flexible.

Closing date for applications:  Tuesday 17 August 2010

For further details regarding this post please contact:

Dr Lampros Stergioulas, Lampros.Stergioulas@brunel.ac.uk

For further details and to apply please visit https://jobs.brunel.ac.uk/WRL/

Human Resources, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH

COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND REPRESENTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE

School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics

Research Assistant                                                  Vacancy Ref: BHA0282-1

                                                                                    recruitbha@brunel.ac.uk

Salary R1: pro-rata of £28,689 - £37,812 per annum incl. London Weighting 

Part-time (50%), fixed-term until 31 January 2011

This new role is part of the iCOPER Project, which is a collaboration between many European partners. Reporting to the Principal Investigator – Dr Lampros Stergioulas. The person appointed will support the Principal Investigator and the iCOPER development team in the activities of conceptual/logical modelling, data modelling, and physical modelling of the iCOPER reference model, to assist in the validation of the reference model in all three levels, and in general to contribute to the technical work of the project.  The iCOPER Project explores new ways to reuse open learning content. iCOPER aims at developing methods, concepts and standards for competency-based education and training content. The position could be extended for a further period, if further funding is won.

A technical expert in modelling, database development, and data reference model development with some technical expertise, and experience in developing and validating reference models and in similar applications would be a suitable candidate. The successful candidate will need to have a strong technical background and proven relevant experience.

You should possess a relevant degree in Computer Science (at least at MSc level) and be proficient in XML as well as in database design and implementation (e.g. Oracle, IBM DB2 etc.). Duties of the role include providing a variety of technical and research support, working both on and off campus with the iCOPER team. You will also work independently and to tight deadlines. The post holder will be expected to be cooperative and flexible.

Closing date for applications:    Monday 16 August 2010.

For further details regarding this post please contact:

Dr Lampros Stergioulas, Lampros.Stergioulas@brunel.ac.uk

For further details and to apply please visit https://jobs.brunel.ac.uk/WRL/

Human Resources, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH

COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND REPRESENTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE

The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds (PerCoSC 2011)

The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on 

Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds (PerCoSC 2011)

Held in conjunction with 

9th Annual IEEE International Conference on 

Pervasive Computing and Communications 2011 (PerCom 2011), 

March 21, 2011, Seattle, USA

URL: http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/PerCoSC2011/ 

email: percosc2011@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds aims to offer researchers, Ph.D. students, and practitioners a forum to present and discuss research advances and challenges related to cloud computing support for pervasive communities. The workshop thus aims to enable the sharing of insights and experiences related to the development and use of cloud computing technologies, often called service clouds, for supporting pervasive communities. Pervasive communities are user communities that are enabled by pervasive computing technologies. Service clouds denote the totality of cloud computing services, applications, platforms, and infrastructure that comply with the service-oriented architecture paradigm.
Pervasive community services deal with data sensed and collected from the users’ physical environments via networked mobile devices. Hence, they support data exchange, communication, and collaboration among mobile users. Pervasive communities of users with mobile devices and network connections have been increasing. Thus, the pervasive technologies to support pervasive communities face new requirements, e.g., related to mobility support, context-awareness, spatiotemporal intelligence, connectivity to communities, information sharing, collaboration, pervasive interaction, and privacy and security issues. However, the computational capabilities of mobile devices remain limited, when faced with pervasive communities who share large data volumes. Cloud computing technologies offer computational resources on a pay-per-use basis and are capable of abstracting technical details from the mobile devices. These technologies thus hold the potential for enabling pervasive community services with varying computing requirements in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Indeed, service clouds may envision future pervasive computing and enables innovative pervasive community services and applications.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following topics:
* cloud computing (services, platforms, infrastructure, and standards etc.) for pervasive communities
* cloud computing for pervasive technologies
* user-targeted pervasive, mobile and context-aware services and applications
* location-based, temporal, or spatiotemporal services and applications
* software architectures for cloud computing and pervasive computing
* data modeling and management for cloud computing and pervasive communities
* social software and Web 2.0 in cloud computing and pervasive computing
* augmented reality for pervasive communities
* security and privacy in cloud computing and pervasive communities


Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers limited to 6 pages formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The submission system EDAS will be open soon.

Important Dates

* October 31, 2010 Deadline for workshop paper submission
* January 7, 2011 Notification of acceptance
* January 28, 2011 Deadline for camera ready papers
* March 21, 2011 PerCom 2011

Workshop Organizers

Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Christian S. Jensen, University Aalborg, Denmark
Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Preliminary Program Committee

Christian Bischof, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Daniel Catrein, Ericsson Eurolab, Germany
Vincent Charvillat, ENSEEIHT, France
Chang Wen Chen, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Michael Granitzer, Know Center Graz, Austria
Wolfgang Gräther, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Antony D. Joseph, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Vincent Oria, New Jersey's Science & Technology University, USA
Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands
Markus Strohmaier, Know Center Graz, Austria
Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
Mark Vorwerk, Ericsson Eurolab, Germany
Weichao Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Felix Wolf, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering

CALL FOR PAPERS
IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering - ME'11
Engineering Methods in the Service-Oriented Context
20 – 22 April 2011, Paris, France
http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/ME11/

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Engineering methods, techniques and tools for the analysis, design and evolution of Information Systems is one of the main IFIP WG 8.1 research areas. Successful Working Conferences have been organized on this topic in Atlanta in 1996, in Kanazawa in 2002 and in Geneva in 2007. The new edition of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering aims to create a dedicated forum where researchers and practitioners will overview the evolution of the field, exchange research ideas and results and discuss the future perspectives. The conference will be held in the beautiful city of Paris in France. The conference program will feature invited talks, paper presentations, interactive panel sessions and tutorials. The format of a working conference provides the participants an opportunity to have extensive and interactive paper discussions featured by discussant reviews in plenary sessions.

THEME

Over the last two decades the discipline of Method Engineering has evolved from simple Ad-Hoc method construction to Situational and Domain-Specific Method Engineering approaches as a response to the increasing complexity and diversity of information systems developments. Nowadays, the evolution of enterprise software and information systems towards service-oriented architectures again asks for new ways of working, thinking and designing systems that we could call now service-oriented systems. New methods,
techniques and tools based on the concept of service and better fitting the current development situations are under development and experimentation and are the main topic of this conference. Besides, the notion of service is also emerging in the domain of Method Engineering as a new type of method building block and therefore becomes a new fundamental concept of the discipline.

TOPICS

Research topics relevant for submissions include, but are not limited to the following :
Fundamentals of Method Engineering:
* Service-Oriented Method Engineering
* Method as a Service (MaaS)
* Meta-modelling and method ontologies for services
* Situational method engineering
* Situation factors and suitability
* Method adaptation, configuration and extension for service-oriented development
* Method simulation and enactment
Methods and Tools for Specific Domains:
* Service design
* Service-oriented IS development
* Web-IS engineering
* Requirements engineering
* E-business applications
* Web-applications and web services
* Software architecture
* Model-driven architecture (MDA)
* Agent information systems
* Product software
* IS evolution
* Business process engineering and improvement
* Enterprise architecture
* Knowledge engineering and management
* Organizational engineering
* Mobile systems
Method Evaluation and Experiences:
* Experience reports on method engineering
* Method comparison
* Best practice guides
* Case studies
* Surveys of method usage
Supportive tools:
* Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME)
* MaaS engineering
* Method knowledge infrastructures
* Computer aided software engineering (CASE)
* MetaCASE

PAPER TYPES

The Program Committee solicits original contributions in four categories:
Research papers (max 15 pages) should describe original research contribution to the field of Method Engineering (ME) related to the Service-Oriented Context. A research paper should clearly describe the
problem tackled, the state of the art with respect to the problem, the solution suggested and the potential - or even better the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.
Practice reports (max 15 pages) including case studies, experience reports and problem statements in the domain of Method Engineering in the Service-Oriented Context. People from industry are especially encouraged to submit problem statements and experience reports, which may address mismatches between current ME practice and research.
Position papers (max 6 pages) should state the author's research position with respect to current Method Engineering practice, relations between current ME practice and ME research, and/or research methodology and ontological assumptions. Papers should emphasise topics that are particularly important within ME the Service-Oriented Context at present.
Posters and tool demonstrations (max 4 pages) should present results of innovative projects and prototypes as well as promising new approaches as short papers.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions should follow the Springer IFIP series format (see http://www.springer.com/series/6102 for instructions). Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format using the
paper submission tool available at the conference web site. All contributions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality and relevance to the conference theme. The accepted contributions
will be included in the proceedings published by the IFIP publisher Springer.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 15 October 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2010
Camera ready copy due: 20 December 2010

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair
Jolita RALYTE, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Program Chair
Isabelle MIRBEL, University of Nice, France
Organising Chair
Rebecca DENECKERE, University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne, France
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jacky AKOKA, France
David AVISON, France
Marko BAJEC, Slovenia
Sjaak BRINKKEMPER, The Netherlands
Albertas CAPLINSKAS, Lithuania
Corine CAUVET, France
Massimo COSSENTINO, Italy
Donald FIRESMITH, USA
Xavier FRANCH, Spain
Cesar GONZALEZ-PEREZ, Spain
John GRUNDY, Australia
Remigijus GUSTAS, Sweden
Frank HARMSEN, The Netherlands
Peter HAUMER, USA
Brian HENDERSON-SELLERS, Australia
Charlotte HUG, France
Manfred JEUSFELD, The Netherlands
Paul JOHANNESSON, Sweden
Steven KELLY, Finland
John KROGSTIE, Norway
Susanne LEIST, Germany
Michel LEONARD, Switzerland
Mauri LEPPANEN, Finland
Pericles LOUCOPOULOS; UK
Kalle LYYTINEN, USA
Haralambos MOURATIDIS, UK
Mohan NARASIPURAM, Hong Kong
Leon J. OSTERWEIL, USA
Oscar PASTOR, Spain
Juan PAVON, Spain
Anne PERSSON, Sweden
Yves PIGNEUR, Switzerland
Naveen PRAKASH, India
Erik PROPER, The Netherlands
Iris REINHARTZ BERGER, Israel
Dominique RIEU, France
Colette ROLLAND, France
Matti ROSSI, Finland
Motoshi SAEKI, Japan
Keng SIAU, USA
Guttorm SINDRE, Norway
Juha-Pekka TOLVANEN, Finland
Inge VAN DE WEERD, The Netherlands
Robert WINTER, Switzerland
Bostjan ZVANUT, Slovenia

The Latest Issue of IEEE TLT with a special section on Open Learnig Resources is Online

This is to notify you that the April-June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 2) issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies is now online. You can access any of the following articles and columns individually from the table of contents. To login, please click the text link "Register/Login," located in the blue bar at the top of the page.

To access the articles in this issue, use your IEEE user name and password.

EDITORIAL

EIC Editorial
Wolfgang Nejdl, Peter Brusilovsky
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.10

Guest Editorial: Open Educational Resources
Erik Duval, David Wiley
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.11

SPECIAL SECTION ON OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

A Frankenstein Approach to Open Source: The Construction of a 3D Game Engine as Meaningful Educational Process
Brett E. Shelton, Jon Scoresby, Tim Stowell, Michael R. Capell, Marco A. Alvarez, K. Chad Coats
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.3

Architecture for Learning Objects Sharing among Learning Institutions‹LOP2P
Rafael de Santiago, Andre L.A. Raabe
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.9

Bootstrapping a Culture of Sharing to Facilitate Open Educational Resources
Hugh C. Davis, Leslie Carr, Jessie M.N. Hey, Yvonne Howard, David Millard, Debra Morris, Su White
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.34

Bridging the Bandwidth Gap: Open Educational Resources and the Digital Divide
Bjorn Hassler, Alan McNeil Jackson
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.8

Information Architecture and Design Solutions Scaffolding Authoring of Open Educational Resources
Teemu Leinonen, Jukka Purma, Hans Poldoja, Tarmo Toikkanen
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2010.2

REGULAR PAPERS

NVLab, a Networking Virtual Web-Based Laboratory that Implements Virtualization and Virtual Network Computing Technologies
Muhammad Wannous, Hiroshi Nakano
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.31

Layered Architecture for Automatic Generation of Conflictive Animations in Programming Education
Andres Moreno, Mike Joy, Niko Myller, Erkki Sutinen
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.36

Adapting the eBlock Platform for Middle School STEM Projects: Initial Platform Usability Testing
Anuradha Phalke, Susan Lysecky
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.41

Recommendations in Online Discussion Forums for E-Learning Systems
Fabian Abel, Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Evandro Costa, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause, Julita Vassileva
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.40

IEEE Social Network Analysis Workshop: BASNA 2010

IEEE International workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis - BASNA 2010

December 15, 2010, Bangalore (India)

http://sites.google.com/site/basna2010/

The aim of this workshop is to encourage multidisciplinary discussions related to novel ideas and application geared towards analyzing social network data. By bringing together researchers in the fields of Social Network Analysis (SNA), data mining, and management studies, the workshop will focus on identifying the “grey” areas of collaboration among their respective disciplines:

- The role of data mining techniques in identifying scalable methods for the extraction and organization of social relations for management research and business practice

- The role of management research in guiding data mining efforts and SNA metrics development towards theoretically-grounded discoveries about social network emergence.

- The role of Social Network Analysis in developing and applying metrics and tools for the mapping, evaluation, visualization, and design of social relations in organizations.

Topics:

The workshop's topics of interest include (but are not limited to the following):

Algorithms for data mining social networks, graphs, links

Applications of social network data mining to address a real world business scenario

Anomaly detection in network based applications like intrusion detection in telecommunication

Fraud detection in telecommunication network

Mobile social networks

Community discovery in social networks

Contextual applications for social networks

Data mining applications for micro-blogging (real time mining)

Data mining on large graphs

Mining Wikipedia like graph/network structure

Data mining applications for viral marketing

Behavioral analysis in social networks

Social semantic web

Privacy issues in social networks

Recommendations in social networks

Social Network Analysis (SNA) -based:

Knowledge Management (identifying experts, fostering knowledge exchange and integration, creating and developing communities of practice)

Marketing (identifying new customers, customer relationship management)

Innovation Support (enhancing innovation capacity, supporting new product development teams)

Change Management (managing change, post-merger integration, identifying key enablers)

Talent Management (hiring and career development)

Leadership Development (decision-making, identifying leaders)

Intra-Organizational Coordination (supporting coordination and information flows among organizational members and units)

Inter-Organizational Coordination (supporting collaboration in consortia, industrial districts, inter-organizational alliances)

IMPORTANT DATES:

                Paper submission: 19th September 2010 (EST, USA)

                Paper review notification: 11th October 2010 (EST, USA)

                Paper camera ready: 31th October 2010 (EST, USA)

Organizing Committee:

    * Koustuv Dasgupta, IBM Research

    * Roberto Dandi, Luiss Business School, Italy

    * Avik Sarkar, Nokia Siemens Networks

Technical Program Committee:

    * Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo Research, Spain

    * Samit Paul, Samsung India Software Operations

    * Ashish Tendulkar, IIT Madras

    * Akshay Java, MSN, Microsoft, USA

Call for papers: Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL

Call for Papers (Deadline extended: July 23, 2010)

Doctoral Consortium at ECTEL 2010,

29 September, 2010

Barcelona, Spain

http://www.ectel2010.org/

OBJECTIVES:

The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The doctoral consortium will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the
discussions. The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EC-TEL 2010 conference. The Doctoral Consortium language is English.

The intention of this doctoral consortium is to support and inspire Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor officially submitted their thesis before the doctoral consortium (September 2010). To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting.

FEES, SCHOLARSHIPS for the Doctoral Consortium:
For a limited number of accepted contributions we secure funding either from ECTEL 2010 (http://www.ectel2010.org) or STELLAR (http://www.stellarnet.eu) so that registration fees are waived for
participants.

ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION PROCESS:
In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work!
Therefore, the following elements have to be addressed in the papers:
* A clear formulation of the research question,
* An identification of the significant problems in the field of research,
* An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions,
* A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far,
* A sketch of the applied research methodology,
* A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution,
* A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the doctoral consortium committee who will be selected from the EC-TEL 2010 programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings at http://CEUR-WS.org. Accepted students will be asked to peer-review two accepted papers prior to the Doctoral Consortium. Only electronic submissions are accepted. Please use
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcectel2010 for uploading. Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF format before July 23, 2010. Authors should use the Springer LNCS format. For
camera-ready format instructions, please see For Authors instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages. A supporting letter by the supervisor of the PhD works should be also uploaded.

Accepted students should prepare:
1. A firehouse introduction of themselves and their PhD project for the introductory session.
Duration: 60 sec max. No slides.
2. A poster of their PhD project to be used for introducing their project (15-20 minutes) and
its main issues during the small group sessions.

All papers will be reviewed after acceptance by at least two senior researchers and one of the accepted doctoral candidates. A discussant, a member of the doctoral consortium committee, will be appointed to
each paper. Discussant comments will be followed by a plenary discussion of the paper. At the end of the consortium there will be a general discussion, including a brainstorming session about current and future research topics in the area.

Research topics for the Doctoral Consortium at ECTEL 2010:

Technological underpinning
* Large scale sharing and interoperability
* Technologies for personalisation and adaptation
* Context-aware systems
* Social computing and web 2.0
* Semantic web and web 3.0
* Mobile technologies
* Intelligent games
* Network infrastructures and architectures for TEL
* Sensors and sensor networks
* Roomware and ubiquitous computing
* Data mining and information retrieval
* Natural language processing and latent semantic analysis
* eLearning specifications and standards Pedagogical underpinning
* Problem- and project-based learning / Inquiry based learning
* Computer supported collaborative learning
* Collaborative knowledge building
* Game-based and simulation-based learning
* Story-telling and reflection-based learning
* Instructional design and Design approaches
* Communities of learners & Communities of practice
* Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning
* Learner motivation and engagement
* Evaluation methods for TEL

Individual, social  and organisational learning processes
* Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge acquisition and construction
* Self-regulated and Self-directed learning
* Social processes in teams and communities
* Social awareness
* Knowledge management and organisational learning
* Sustainability & TEL business models and cases
* Business-learning models

Learning contexts and domains
* Applications of TEL in various domains
* Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial (continuing education)
* Workplace learning in small, medium and large companies
* Aggregated learning at the workplace Distance and online learning
* Lifelong learning (cradle to grave)
* Vocational training
* Informal learning
* Non-formal learning
* Ubiquitous learning

TEL in developing countries
* ICT Inclusion for learning
* Digital divide and learning
* Generation divide and learning
* Education policies
* Rural learning

TEL, functional diversity and users with special needs
* Accessible learning for all
* Visual, hearing and physical impairments
* Psycho-pedagogic support for users
* Educational guidance for tutors
* Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process
* Standards about accessibility and learning

CALENDAR:
July 18, 2010: Deadline for submitting applications to the ECTEL Doctoral Consortium ******Now extended to 23rd July *********
July 30, 2010: Notification of acceptance, Assignment of Peer Reviews
August 27, 2010: Peer reviews and discussant reviews sent to students
September 17, 2010: Final version of Doctoral Consortium Submission sent for publishing
September 29, 2010: Doctoral Consortium at ECTEL

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Tomaz Klobucar, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
Katherine Maillet, Institut Telecom, France

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be announced)

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Cloud Data Management, Aix-Marseille University, Fran

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Cloud Data Management, LSIS lab.,

Aix-Marseille University, France.

The LSIS lab at Aix-Marseille University has an opening for a postdoctoral position (one year) 

starting September-October 2010. The appointee will conduct research in Provenance in Cloud Computing, within the WiCSi team (Web, Content and Services). The team is conducting research in data integration, web services and web mining.

More information about the team can be found at http://www.lsis.org/wicsi Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science (or related field) and be fluent in written and spoken English.  The ideal candidate has a strong background and interest in one or several of the following areas: data/workflow provenance,  distributed data management, web services. Experience with Cloud Computing as well as Software-as-a-Service will be an advantage. Interested applicants should send a letter of motivation describing past and current research interests together with a Resume, including a list of publications and three international referees, to Omar Boucelma, omar.boucelma@lsis.org

IEEE Network Magazine- Special Issue on Cloud Computing

Call for Papers

IEEE Network magazine - Special Issue on Cloud Computing

http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/cfp/cfpnetwork711.htm

Background
Cloud Computing is a recent trend in information technology and scientific computing that moves computing and data away from desktop and portable PCs into large Data Centers. Cloud computing is based on a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud Computing opens new perspectives in internetworking technologies, raising new issues in the architecture, design and implementation of existing networks and data centers. The relevant research has just recently gained momentum and the space of potential ideas and solutions is still far from being widely explored.

Scope
This special issue of the IEEE Network Magazine will feature articles that discuss networking aspects of cloud computing. Specifically, it aims at delivering the state-of-the-art research on current cloud computing networking topics, and at promoting the networking discipline by bringing to the attention of the community novel problems that must be investigated.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data center architecture
Server interconnection
Routers (switching technology) for data center deployment
Centralization of network administration/routing
Energy-efficient cloud networking
Low energy routing
Green data centers
Measurement-based network management
Traffic engineering
Network anomaly detection
Usage-based pricing
Security issues in clouds
Secure routing
Security threats and countermeasures
Virtual network security
Virtual Networking
Virtualized network resource management
Virtual cloud storage
Futuristic topics
Interclouds
Cloud computing support for mobile users

Manuscript Submission

Authors should submit their manuscript electronically in PDF format by email to all the guest editors according to the timetable. Authors are encouraged to register their papers by submitting the paper abstract, the paper title, authors and keywords by the corresponding deadline. Prospective authors must prepare their original submissions in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Articles should not exceed 4500 words, be tutorial in nature, and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. The title page should include the paper title, authors and keywords. Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.

Schedule
Abstract submission: January 9, 2011
Deadline for paper submission: January 15, 2011
First round of reviews: February 28, 2011
Revisions due: March 15, 2011
Author notification: March 26, 2011
Publication materials due: May 1, 2011
Publication date: July, 2011

Guest Editors
Swami Sivasubramanian
Amazon, USA
swami@amazon.com
Dimitrios Katsaros
University of Thessaly, Greece
dkatsar@inf.uth.gr
George Pallis
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
gpallis@cs.ucy.ac.cy
Athena Vakali
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
avakali@csd.auth.gr

Ph.D. positions at Aalborg University, Denmark

Center for Data-Intensive Systems, Daisy (http://daisy.aau.dk/), has two fully funded Ph.D. positions available.
The positions concern research in data management technologies for spatio-temporal data.
Two separate positions are available:

Position 1:
Mobile phone networks consume large amounts of energy, which can be reduced by only switching on the needed parts of the infrastructure. The main hypothesis is: Utilizing simultaneous coverage from multiple wireless access devices and exploiting knowledge about typical  spatio-temporal communication patterns obtained through spatio-temporal data mining techniques, it is possible to predict which links can be kept in a low power state at certain times, while still allowing data packets to be routed in the mobile core network, and thereby reducing the overall power consumption very significantly. The project will develop, implement, and test spatio-temporal data mining methods and algorithms aimed at this scenario. The project is a collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electronic Systems. The Ph.D. candidate will work with co-advisors from both departments. Qualification requirements: An M.Sc. in computer science, or a closely related field from a recognized institution, with excellent results. Potential candidates should have a background in databases, data mining, and/or spatio-temporal data management, combined with an interest in wireless communications.

Position 2:
Many emerging services on the rapidly growing mobile Internet will rely on solid foundations for the management of very large volumes of dynamic spatio-temporal data. The research project will explore howadvances in computational, spatio-temporal statistics can contribute to our understanding of the data-dependent behavior of algorithms and data structures for spatio-temporal data. The project aims to exploit this foundation for enabling more efficient, robust, and scalable data management.The project is a collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
The Ph.D. candidate will work with co-advisors from both departments. Qualification requirements: An M.Sc. in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or a closely related field from a recognized institution, with excellent results. Potential candidates should have a background in statistics, databases, algorithms, and data structures.  Applicants with strong mathematical background as well as experience in implementing algorithms and data structures will be preferred.

Very good communication skills in English, oral as well as written, are required.

With more than 20 members, Daisy provides a very active research environment that is well integrated into the global database research community.  Aalborg is the center of a beautiful region of Denmark,with nice beaches, unique nature, and clean air. The monthly salary is approximately DKK 25,000 before taxes (EUR 1 approximately equals DKK 7.5), plus pensions contributions.

The application deadline is August 12, 2010. Potential applicants can contact Professor Torben Bach Pedersen (tbp@...) (position 1)  or Associate Professor Simonas Saltenis (simas@...) (position 2),
where "..." = "cs.aau.dk" if they have specific questions. Further information about the position and the application procedure can be found at http://kortlink.dk/7wg7 Please read the material carefully, and follow the indicated application procedure.
Note that applications via e-mail will NOT be considered.

JTEL Summer School 2010 Farewell Video

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Postdoctoral Position in the University of Hong Kong 2010

A full-time postdoctoral research position in the area of data management is available at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong, starting from September 2010. The position is for one year and renewable to up to three years, depending on the performance of the applicant, assessed by the publication of the work in top peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Interested applicants must have a strong background in the area of large-scale and complex data management, with a good working knowledge of mathematics demonstrated through publications in international conferences and journals. Experience in database system development would be a plus. Themes that the postdoc is expected to work on include, but not limited to:
- modeling, querying, mining of uncertain databases;
- design of an uncertain DBMS; and
- managing uncertainty in various domains, e.g., location-based applications, sensor networks, data integration, and scientific databases.

Excellent verbal and written skills in English are required. The monthly salary of the appointed researcher will be in the range US$2850 to US$4560 depending on qualifications and experience. Please send your CV which
includes your research achievements and the names, contact email addresses and telephone numbers of at least two referees to Dr. Reynold Cheng (ckcheng@cs.hku.hk). The review of applications will commence immediately, and applications that are received before July 2010 will be given full consideration.