BooksOnline'10 Workshop

BooksOnline'10 Workshop:  Research Advances in Large Digital Book  Repositories and Complementary Media

CIKM 2010, October 26, 2010, Toronto, Canada

<http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/>http://research.microsoft.com/

booksonline10/

Call for Posters and Participation

Keynotes

The Present and Future of Google Books
James Crawford (Google Books)

The Metadata Challenge: Promoting Discovery, Access, and Usability for Online Books
John Ockerbloom (University of Pennsylvania)

Goals
The 3rd BooksOnline workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners in Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, eBooks, Human Computer Interaction, Publishing industry and on-line book services to foster progress on addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media.
The workshop will serve as a forum for the presentation of research papers and the discussion of the challenges and opportunities identified in the position papers and project proposals. Participants will be encouraged to jointly create innovative solutions in collaboration around the themes that emerge from the submissions and discussions at the workshop. A seed fund of £3,000, provided by Microsoft Research, will be awarded to one or more selected projects as judged by the workshop organizers and a selected panel of experts.

Call for Posters
We solicit posters (1-5 pages in length) describing last minute results, new ideas and research directions, latest developments, and project proposals to be presented at the workshop. Please note that posters will not be published by ACM, but will be posted on the workshop website and disseminated at the workshop. The purpose of the posters is to attract community attention, leading to possible collaborations. Posters of project proposals will also be considered for the £3,000 seed fund.

Topics of interest


The following is only a sample listing of possible topics of interests:
· Enriched digital collections:
o Virtual learning environments and eBooks and eBooks in teaching
o eBooks as integrated content, data, and media
o Knowledge discovery and sharing in digital book repositories
o Cross-referencing and sense making
o Community interests and social context.
· Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services:
o Affordances of physical books and electronic media
o Mobile and multi-touch devices for reading and annotating
o Ink-based applications
o Social navigation and annotations, social interactions
o User profiles and content types
o Children and electronic reading
o Usage scenarios: searching, browsing, collection building, annotations, authoring, sharing
o Personalization and context sensitivity
o Ubiquitous access
o Immersive user experience
o User studies and study design
· Design and technology
o eBook UI and interaction designs, e.g., for active reading
o Usability issues when reading digital books
o Feature engineering for collection browsing
o Content representation and discovery
o Indexing and retrieval
o Scalability and interoperability
o Technologies for searching, browsing, filtering, and information extraction
o Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata
o Integration of complementary content and services
o Evaluation methodology and practices

Poster submission
Submissions must be written in English, formatted using the <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> ACM
templates: using the "Option 2" style. Posters must be submitted as pdf files via the
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=booksonline10>
BooksOnline'10 Easychair submission site. Please note that you may need to create an Easychair account first. Contributions will be reviewed by the organising committee within two  weeks of submission and notifications sent to authors. Final  submission deadline is September 30, 2010. Please note however that
spaces are limited and earlier submissions are encouraged. One author per accepted poster is required to register and attend the workshop.

Workshop format
The one day workshop will include keynote and selected paper presentations, a poster session, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and research ideas, and a panel discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions. The £3,000 seed fund will be awarded following the workshop to one or more research project proposals selected by a panel of judges from those presented or proposed at the workshop.

Accepted papers

HCI Design Principles for eReaders
Jennifer Pearson (Swansea University), George Buchanan (City University) and Harold Thimbleby (Swansea University)

The sBook: Towards Social and Personalized Learning Experiences Myriam Ribière, Jérome Picault and Sylvain Squedin (Alcatel-Lucent  Bell Labs France)

Real-Time Document Collaboration Using iPads
Jennifer Pearson (Swansea University) and George Buchanan (City University)

Ebooks Children Would Want to Read and Engage with
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano)

A System for the Collaborative Reading of Digital Books with the Partially Sighted
W. Xavier Snelgrove and Ronald M. Baecker (University of Toronto)

Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Building Upon Research Foundations to Understand Books and Reading in the Digital Age
Ray Siemens and Julie Meloni (University of Victoria)

Working with First Nations: On-Demand Book Service
Nadia Caidi and Margaret Lam (University of Toronto)

Biblioteca de Livros Digitais: The Privileged Space of a Transliterate Experience for Children Reading Online
Fernanda Bonacho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Evaluating E-books
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano)

Organizers
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Programme Committee
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (State and University Library, Denmark)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Gilles Falquet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg, Germany)
Gene Golovchinsky (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.)
Ananda Gunawardena (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Ivan Koychev (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
Ray Larson (University of California, Berkeley, US)
Michael E. Lesk (Rutgers University, US)
Catherine C. Marshall (Microsoft Corporation, US)
John Ockerbloom (University of Pennsylvania, US)
Prakash Reddy (Hewlett-Packard)
Ian Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Further information
For further information, please visit
<http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/>http://research.microsoft.com/
booksonline10/

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on MANAGEMENT OF DATA (SIGMOD 2011)

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on MANAGEMENT OF DATA (SIGMOD 2011)
June 12 - June 16, 2011, Athens, Greece
http://www.sigmod2011.org

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions. We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of data management defined broadly, and particularly encourage work on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities.

--- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to the following topics:
* New data management architectures, distributed data management (e.g., data stream management, P2P, replication, and cloud)
* Data management applications (e.g., Web services and mashups, social networks scientific databases, sensor networks, decision-making and analytics)
* Data models and languages (e.g., semi-structured, probabilistic, multi-media, temporal, spatial)
* Data-centric workflow and process management
* Data integration, meta-data management, data quality, data cleaning
* Performance, scalability and dependability of information systems
* Benchmarking and experimental methodology
* Other aspects of modern information systems such as data security, data privacy, personalization, user interfaces, etc.

--- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---
All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the paper formatting instructions.
Double-blind reviewing: As has become the tradition for SIGMOD, research papers will be judged for quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the
reviewers. Thus, author names and affiliation must not appear in the paper, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity. Submissions should be uploaded through the submission site at:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGMOD2011

--- IMPORTANT DATES ---
Monday October 25, 2010: Abstract Submission, 3pm EDT
Monday November 1, 2010: Research Paper submission, 3pm EDT
Monday February 14, 2011: Notification of acceptance
Monday March 14, 2011: Final camera-ready papers due, 9am EDT

--- ORGANIZERS ---
General Chair:
Timos Sellis (Inst. for the Mgmt. of Info. Systems)

Program Chair:
Renée J. Miller (University of Toronto)

Proceedings Chairs:
Anastasios Kementsietsidis (IBM Research – Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.)
Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento)

Tutorial Chairs:
Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania)
Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

Keynote Chair:
Pat Selinger (IBM Research - Almaden)

Industrial Program Chair:
Richard Hull (IBM Research – Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.)

Advisory Committee:
Laura Hass (IBM Research - Almaden)
Donald Kossmann (ETH Zürich)

Demo Chair:
Chris Jermaine (Rice University)
New Research Symposium Chairs:
Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts)
Chris Olston (Yahoo! Research)

Workshop Chair:
Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)

Undergraduate Research Program Chair:
Irini Fundulaki (Institute of Computer Science – FORTH)

Finance Chair:
Mike Hatzopoulos (University of Athens)

Publicity Chairs:
Dieter Pfoser (Inst. for the Mgmt. of Info. Systems)
Ariel Fuxman (Microsoft Research)

Sponsorship Chairs:
Mike Carey (University of California – Irvine)
Vasilis Vassalos (Athens University of Economics & Business)

Exhibits Chairs:
Theodore Dalamagas (Inst. for the Mgmt. of Info. Systems)
Flip Korn (AT&T)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Yannis Kotidis (Athens U. of Economics & Business)

Registration Chair:
Alex Delis (University of Athens)

Demonstration Local Arrangements Chair:
Maria Halkidi (University of Piraeus)

Web/Information Chair:
Yannis Stavrakas (Inst. for the Mgmt. of Info. Systems)

Job Opening in Visual Analytics for Network Security

The University of Konstanz has a job opening in the group for data analysis and visualization of Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim at the faculty of computer and information science. We are searching for an academic employee (TV-L 13) for the EU project "VIS-SENSE: Visual Analytic Representation of Large Datasets for Enhancing Network Security". Applications are to be sent by e-mail or post to Dr. Florian Mansmann, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Box 78, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany until August 31, 2010.

Open PostDoc and PhD position at TU Delft, the Netherlands

A PostDoc position (2 years) and a PhD position (4 years) are available in the Systems Engineering Section (http://www.sk.tbm.tudelft.nl/) at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Both positions will be embedded within the SMART VORTEX project which is a large-scale project involving industrial partners (e.g. Volvo, Philips) and is funded by the European Commission. The project¹s goal is to provide a technological infrastructure consisting of a comprehensive suite of interoperable tools, services, and methods for intelligent management and analysis of massive data streams to achieve better collaboration and decision making around the whole product lifecycle in an engineering context.
The PostDoc position will focus on the analysis and design of decision-making and collaboration processes in the product life cycle and corresponding support tools. For more information about the open PostDoc position please refer to: http://www.academictransfer.com/5971
The PhD position will focus on the design and development of an adaptive collaboration support system. For more information about the open PhD position please refer to: http://www.academictransfer.com/5970

4th International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups (Mashups'10) @ ECOWS

Mashups'10 

4th International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups @ ECOWS 

* Call for Papers 

1 December 2010 

Associated with the 8th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) 2010 

Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 1 December 2010 

http://mashup.inf.unisi.ch/mashups2010/ 

Services computing and Web 2.0 are converging into a programmable Web today. The interaction and integration of services computing and Web 2.0 technologies, however, exposes various complexities that have to be faced. This workshop looks specifically at Services Mashups – end-user-oriented compositions of Web APIs, Web content and Web data sources. 

BACKGROUND 

The Web is now programmable. Part of this programmability comes from the many Web APIs available from Web sites and services. An interesting consequence of these APIs is the ability to combine the resulting data and process into new data and processes achieving higher-level value than originally exposed by the initial APIs. 

A classic example is to combine mapping APIs (e.g., Google Maps) and Atom data APIs (e.g. from New York Times) to have a new service that displays listing on the map. These resulting new Web applications, or mashups, add new value to the initial Web APIs that individually they would not be able to do alone. 

While mashups have taken off and 1000s of them are currently available for various purposes, there remains various challenges and opportunities, that if addressed would make mashups even more applicable and accessible on the Web. Some of the main challenges are: 

1. Devising programming models (languages, frameworks, platforms) for the composition of Web-accessible services and data of all kinds and architectural styles (REST, Atom, RSS, AtomPub, and SOAP/WSDL) and development of integrated user-interfaces 
2. Ensuring quality of service for mashups, including performance, reliability, and security 
3. Understanding social and economic factors in the creation, acceptance, and sustainability of services mashups, including software-as-services markets, services marketplaces and intermediaries, digital communities, and pricing, incentive and contracting models 
4. Integrating mashups into social computing platforms, such as Facebook and OpenSocial-enabled social networks, which provide a huge user base with profiles and social graphs data 
5. Scaling mashups, maybe taking advantage cloud computing infrastructure 
6. Providing the necessary primitives to secure resulting data from mashups and also maintain privacy concerns of the original data and APIs 
7. Simplifying mashup platforms and tools to a point that they could be generated by end-users with minimal programming 
8. Enabling mashups for mobile platforms, such as smartphones, which also expose interesting new kind of information such as location and profile data 

In this fourth installment of the International Mashups Workshop we will solicit contributions addressing these issues and aim to bring 
together several relevant communities from academia and industry working on a) mashup-based applications, b) generic mashup tools, 
platforms and infrastructure, c) cross-cutting concerns of software service engineering and d) related topics from areas like social 
networking or economics. 

We plan to continue the tradition of the three previous Mashups workshops (2007 in Vienna, 2008 in Sydney and 2009 in Orlando) of not 
only selecting a broad range of papers in the space but also getting keynote speakers from leading industry groups that are currently 
offering mashup tools and platforms for wide-consumptions and availability. 

Contributors are invited to submit original research papers addressing relevant aspects of mashup applications, technologies and engineering. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: 

* Languages, frameworks, and platforms for the design, implementation, testing and maintenance of services mashups, including dynamic languages and frameworks 
* New approaches to mashup construction: dataflow-, document-, spreadsheet- and process-oriented mashups, end-user mashup development, mashups on the cloud 
* Novel applications of mashups, e.g., mobile mashups, location-aware mashups, wiki-based mashups 
* Specific service mashup application and technology examples with respect to design, architecture, implementation, usability and user-experience 
* Mashups within social software platforms, e.g., OpenSocial or Facebook 
* Mashups within and across enterprises 
* Quality of service and mashups: performance, reliability, security, and other non-functional aspects 
* Analysis of and experience with services mashups (creation, deployment, and usage) from social and economical perspectives; services markets and marketplaces, digital communities, pricing and contracting models 
* Experience reports on short-term and long-term maintenance and evolution of mashups 

Peer-reviewed workshop papers will be published as part of the ACM Digital Library. Two kinds of contributions are 
sought: short position papers (not to exceed 4 pages) describing particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop, and full research papers (not to exceed 8 pages) describing novel solutions to relevant problems. Papers need to comply to ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and are to be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mashups2010). 

IMPORTANT DATES 

* Paper Submission: 1.10.2010 
* Paper Acceptance Notification: 5.11.2010 
* Camera Ready: 16.12.2010 
* Mashups'10 Workshop: 1.12.2010 

PROGRAM CHAIRS 

* Agnes Koschmider, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland 
* Christian Zirpins, KIT, Germany 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

* Christoph Bussler, MercedSystems, Inc, USA 
* Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy 
* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria 
* George Feuerlicht, University of Technology, Sydney 
* Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany 
* Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano, Switzerland 
* Gerti Kappel, TU Wien, Austria 
* Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane 
* Rania Khalaf, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 
* Peep Küngas, University of Estonia, Estonia 
* Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Lab, USA 
* Alexander Paar, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
* Ajith Ranabahu, Apache Foundation 
* Stefan Tai, KIT, Germany 
* Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 
* Victoria Torres, UP Valencia, Spain 
* Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, University of Tilburg, Netherlands 
* Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks, Australia 
* Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA 
* Eric Wohlstadter, UBC, Canada 

CONTACT 

If you have further queries please email the workshop chairs on: 
mashups2010 easychair.org 

You can find the latest updates about Mashups'10 on http://twitter.com/mashups2010/ 
http://mashup.inf.unisi.ch/mashups2010/ 


Mashups 2010 Proceedings will be published in the ACM digital library. 

Fifth IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS'2011)

RCIS 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 5th International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION

SCIENCE

MAY 19-21, 2011, Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

*Papers submission deadline*: December 10, 2010

http://rcis-conf.com/

SCOPE AND TOPICS:
The Fifth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS) aims at providing an international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of information science areas. While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges in these main topics:
- Information System Engineering
- Business applications
- Database and Information System Integration
- Decision Information Systems
- Data Management
- Internet computing
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Discovery from Data
- Management applications
- Spatial Information Systems
Each of these topics areas is expanded on the conference web page (http://www.rcis-conf.com/call.php). Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the conference main topics.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS AND BEST PAPERS
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publications at RCIS'2011. Authors are invited to submit papers in English using the
paper format indicated below. Each submitted paper will have to be associated to one of the four following categories.
*Technical solution papers* present solutions which are novel or significantly improve on existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in later research.
*Evaluation papers* evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate.
*Industrial practice* and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given.
*Doctoral Papers* are papers submitted *by doctoral students only* and are related to research work in progress.

PAPER SUBMISSION
By submitting a paper, *authors implicitly agree that at least one* *of them will register to the conference and present the paper*. Submitted papers will be evaluated by the RCIS'2011 Program Committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. A "blind" paper evaluation method will be used. Therefore authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, without any reference to the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, the paper category (Technical solution, Evaluation, Industrial or Doctoral), an abstract and a list of keywords but no names or contact details are to be included in any part of the file. Notification of paper acceptance/rejection will be sent by email.

*Papers that have been presented by their authors* during the conference *will be published in IEEE Proceedings*. Authors of papers that obtain the highest marks in the reviewing process will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal.

Since Proceedings will be published with the IEEE Conference Publications Program through IEEE Xplore digital library, paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format. See *Conference Templates* at: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html

Paper submissions should be limited to *a maximum of 12 pages and be submitted in PDF format*. Please use the *IEEE PDF eXpress tool* (http://www.pdf-express.org/ with Conference ID: rcis11x) to convert
your source file into IEEE Xplore compliant PDF File or to check if your own PDF file is IEEE Xplore compliant. IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to IEEE conferences, allowing their authors to make IEEE
Xplore-compatible PDFs (Conversion function) or to check PDFs that authors have made themselves for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF Check function). It is important to note that *submitting a file to IEEE PDF eXpress* is *only for creation of a compliant PDF file*, *you must still submit* your final paper *through online submission*. *How to use IEEE PDF express* (Conference ID: rcis11x) http://www.farcampus.com/rcis/express.php
*Papers must be submitted electronically at* http://rcis-conf.com/

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
*General Chair*
Colette Rolland (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France)
*Program Committee Chair*
Martine Collard (University of Antilles and Guyane)
*RCIS Steering Committee Chairs*
Oscar Pastor (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Peri Loucopoulos (Loughborough University, UK)
*Doctoral Papers Workshop Chair*
André Flory (INSA de Lyon, France)
*Operating Committee Chairs*
Michel Geoffroy (University of Antilles and Guyane)
Alain Pietrus (University of Antilles and Guyane)
Jean-Louis Cavarero (RCIS)
*Publicity Chair*
Selmin Nurcan (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.rcis-conf.com/committees.php?option=3
IMPORTANT DATES:
*Papers submission deadline*: DECEMBER 10, 2010
Notification of acceptance and Registration opening: FEBRUARY 7, 2011
RCIS'2011 Conference: MAY 19-21, 2011

Conference contact: office@rcis-conf.com

MTAP Special Issue on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production

Call for Papers

Special Issue on

Automated Information Extraction in Media Production in Multimedia Tools and Applications
(Springer Journal)

The explosive growth of new media distribution channels in the Internet and the resulting new production workflows based on computerized tools offer substantial new directions for research in this area. Media is substantially influenced by the new ways of acquiring, elaborating, and publishing audiovisual material, as well as by bandwidth adaptive streaming through Internet portals. Novel multimedia content analysis methods are the key to make media production processes easier and more cost effective, help to disseminate existing archives, and allow for new media experiences, sometimes even for old content. This special issue aims at presenting cutting edge research articles from researchers and practitioners in the field of automatic information extraction related to the media production process. We particularly encourage work on real-life applications and on real-life material. Authors are encouraged to submit papers on which they enlighten the features of existing or novel tools in the key aspects of future media production based on automated information extraction, including acquisition, editing, publishing, archiving and repurposing of audiovisual material. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• High- and low-Level acoustic, visual, and multimodal indexing in media acquisition
• Automated repurposing of archived material on new media channels
• Automated news production
• Computational Journalism
• Efficient navigation and retrieval of multimedia streams
• Automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting, and search
• Personality identification (e.g. face or speaker identification)
• Collaborative systems for media production. broadcast, and presentation
• Multimodal topic and concept detection, categorization, and genre detection
• Information Retrieval systems from Multimedia Archives
• Mechanism for the estimation of the trust of news
• Opinion mining
• Ontologies and metadata formats for radio and TV programming
• HCI for efficient annotation and retrieval
• Automated copyright infringement detection and watermarking
• Content summarization (e.g., sports highlights)
• Audiovisual genre and editorial format detection and characterisation
• Automated cross-media linking and integration
• Content segmentation tools (e.g., shot and semantic scene segmentation)
• Applications of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standard
• Evaluation methods for TV and radio content analysis tools, including data sets and standard resources

Submission
Submissions must not have been previously published, with the exception that substantial extensions of conference papers are considered. Submission should be made through Springer's online submission system:
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042

Submission deadline: December 1st, 2010

Optional Test Material
A considerable amount of audiovisual material taken from some of the major European and Asian broadcasters archives is available for experimentation. Perspective authors may test their technologies on this material, in order to further prove the effectiveness of their research in a real scenario. The test
material for experimentation is available at the Online Media Asset Management  System "Mammie" provided by the organizers of this special issue. Download is  conditioned to terms and conditions for the use of the material. You can find the  full text on the register page of the Mammie system:
http://media.ibbt.be/mammie

Guest Editors
Robbie De Sutter - VRT Medialab <robbie.desutter@vrt.be>
Jean-Pierre Evain, European Broadcasting Union <evain@ebu.ch>,
Gerald Friedland, - ICSI <friedland@icsi.berkeley.edu>
Alberto Messina, RAI Research & Development <a.messina@rai.it>
Masanori Sano, NHK Research and Development <sano.m-fo@nhk.or.jp>

The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations at HICSS 2011

CFP: Workshop on The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations at HICSS

(January 4th 2011)

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/

Following on from successful workshops at CHI and CSCW we call for 3- to 4-page position papers on the following topics, especially those with a focus on understanding or supporting changing practices in these areas:
- Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing, and visualization
- Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization
- Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations
- Research on the scientific software ecosystem
- Social networks of scientists
- Repurposing social software for science Publish Post
- Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software
- Distributed data gathering and analysis
- Time-critical scientific applications
- Studies of generational differences in how science is done
- Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to a non-scientific field
- Science and Innovation policy questions on these issues at science funding bodies and beyond.
The workshop will bring together
- researchers who study scientific practices and collaboration
- designers and software developers deploying new types of collaborative systems

The goal of the workshop is to produce a white paper to report on the state of the field and to delineate themes and current challenges.
Please email workshop papers to James Howison <jhowison@cs.cmu.edu> by October 1st.

Workshop on Mobile Web and Social Networks (MWSN 2010) at the International IEEE SITIS 2010 Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 6th International IEEE Conference on

SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS'10)

In cooperation with ACM Sigapp, IFIP, IEEE pending)

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MOBILE WEB AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (MWSN10)

December 15 – 18, 2010 

KUALA LUMPUR – MALAYSIA

http://www.ubourgogne.fr/sitis

AIM AND SCOPE
New generation of computers and network infrastructures has driven the evolution of architectures from centralized and sequential to parallel, distributed and mobile. Nowadays most of software applications are built of distributed components running in a concurrent mode, and some of them are so-called mobile, i.e.
applications deployed in wireless networks comprising dynamic nodes. As services become ubiquitous information systems are now challenged to locate and deliver the right service to the right person, at the right time and location, with the appropriate rendering.
Mobile web is becoming increasingly popular, but mobile Web access today still suffers from interoperability and usability problems. Web applications need more and more to encompass a much wider range of devices (Cameras, copiers, scanners, printers, home appliances of all kinds, environmental sensors and effectors, specialized engines for speech, handwriting, etc.) Social networking services have become very popular in recent years, especially among younger people. While many people still sit behind a desktop computer to upload photos, write blogs and communicate with friends in the virtual world, an increasing trend
enabled by the development of wireless networks and location sensing technologies is to track and share
personal location information on the fly with mobile devices. By adding a location dimension, social networking has now been brought from the virtual world back to real life and our real-life experiences can
be shared in the virtual world. The objective of this workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers
and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art of Mobile and ubiquitous Web and location based social network development and applications, present their ideas and contributions, and set future directions
in emerging innovative research for mobile web.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop includes the following:
* Mobile Web and Services
-Mobile Web for Social Development
-Ubiquitous Web Applications
-Interoperability for mobile web
-Ontologies for mobile web
-Mobile Web applications
-Mobile system design
-Software architecture
-Expansion of information systems
-Information/data access and integration
-Quality of service assurance
-Information consistency
* Location Based Applications and Mobile Web
-Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery
-Indexing and querying in highly distributed and heterogeneous environments
-Resource optimization,
-Personal location/trajectory data mining
-Spatial query log mining
-Geo-tagged multimedia mining
-Hybrid index for spatial, textual and multimedia data
-Index for moving objects
-Location based social network analysis
-Geographical information extraction and retrieval
-Spatial data visualization and computer human interface
-Location privacy, data sharing and security
-Navigation and traffic prediction
-Systems, architectures and middleware
* Social Network
-Web page ranking informed by social media
-Search algorithms on social networks
-Collaborative Filtering
-Anomaly detection in social network evolution.
-Data protection inside communities.
-Modeling trust and reputation in social networks
-Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
-Social geography.
-Collaborations in e-Social network.
-Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks
-Web mining algorithms
-Web communities
-Web-Based Cooperative Work.
-Measures and methodologies

SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION
We invite submission of high quality and original papers on the workshop topics described above. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics.
Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore and major indexes. A selection of accepted papers will be considered  for publication as a journal special issue.


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: September 20, 2010
Acceptance/Reject notification: October 15, 2010
Camera ready: October 30, 2010
Early registration: October 30, 2010

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Ahmed LBATH, University of Grenoble 1, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
See conference web site at http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis

Ph.D. position at K.U.Leuven: "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics"

The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) is looking for a Research Assistant for the project "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics", starting on 1 October 2010 for 1 year, with the possibility of extension for a further 3 years. The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) is a research group of the Faculty of Business and Economics at K.U.Leuven, Belgium.
The analysis of the event logs of information systems and/or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is a new and promising way of acquiring insights into business processes. Building upon previous research describing techniques that represent process mining as a first-order classification problem on event logs supplemented with artificial negative events, it is examined how rule induction techniques can be applied to various process mining tasks. The research also tries to improve existing algorithms and establish a general framework for the evaluation of induced process models with negative events. The theoretical contributions will be empirically validated for applications in audit compliance, risk management and healthcare, and also for semi-structured processes. Candidates preferably have a master's degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Commercial Engineering in Informatics or Information Management.

Applications must be received no later than 30/08/2010.
You will conduct research and work towards a Ph.D. in cooperation with Prof.
Dr. Jan Vanthienen and Prof. Dr. Bart Baesens.


For more information:
http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/eng/fac/admin/vacancies/default.htm

2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SMDT 2010)

2nd Call for Contributions 

SMDT 2010 || 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies

12th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

at

Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT)
 1-3 December 2010

The workshop is collocated with the 5th International Conference on

Saarbrücken, Germany

http://smdt2010.fim.uni-passau.de/

The 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SMDT2010)searches for research contributions on the mapping and integration of multimedia metadata and ontologies into databases, on multimedia query languages, on the optimization and processing of semantic queries. Moreover, we are interested how multimedia data services are conceived to ensure interoperability, how to improve security and reliability of access and storage of multimedia data and metadata.

It is the 12th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community:
http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/


Contributions

We invite the following types of contributions:

* Full papers (8-12 Pages)
* Position papers (4-8 Pages)
* Poster and Demo papers (3-4 Pages)


Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS style and submitted in PDF format. Please use the link below for your submission. The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of an international journal.
In case of questions, please contact: smdt2010@easychair.org

Topics

* Multimedia metadata models and mappings to databases
* Multimedia ontology and interoperability
* Multimedia ontology to database mapping and processing
* Multimedia query optimization and processing
* Ontology query languages and multimedia
* Semantic retrieval in multimedia databases
* Database management: security, indexing, reliability, distribution, transactions
* Indexing strategies for multimedia databases
* Semantic enrichment and annotation of multimedia
* Semantic metadata management
* Uncertainty in multimedia databases
* Human-computer interfaces for multimedia database access
* Mobile multimedia database services
* Context-aware multimedia
* Semantic adaptation of multimedia
* Proactive semantic multimedia delivery & distribution services
* Self-organization in service oriented multimedia architectures
* Semantic multimedia demonstrations and applications

Important Dates
All Papers
October 01, 2010 - Deadline for Workshop Papers
November 01, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance for Workshop Papers
November 08, 2009 - Camera-ready Workshop Papers due

General and Local Chairs
Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Mathias Lux, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut of Informatic, Germany
Florian Stegmaier, Local Chair, University Passau, Germany

Workshop Technical Programme Committee (prelimenary)
# Anna Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
# Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
# Baltasar Fernández-Manjón (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
# Bill Grosky (University of Michigan, USA)
# Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
# Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria)
# Chris Poppe (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium)
# Dominik Renzel (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
# François Bry (LMU, University of Munich, Germany)
# Giuseppe Amato (ISTI Pisa, Italy)
# Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
# Lionel Brunie (INSA de Lyon, France)
# Marc Spaniol (MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany)
# Markus Strohmaier (Know Center, Graz, Austria)
# Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
# Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
# Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France)
# Romulus Grigoras (ENSEEIHT, France)
# Savvas Chatzichristofis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
# Thierry Delot (University of Valenciennes, France)
# Timothy Shih (NTUE, Taiwan)
# Timo Ojala (University of Oulu, Finland)
# Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT, France)
# Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)
# Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
# Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

Networks Theory and Applications workshop at NIPS 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Networks Across Disciplines in Theory and Applications

a workshop in conjunction with

24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

(NIPS 2010)

December 10 or 11, 2010 Whistler, BC, Canada

http://morrislab.med.utoronto.ca/~anna/networksnips2010

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, October 29, 2010

Notification of Decision: Sunday, November 7, 2010

Overview:
Networks are used across a wide variety of disciplines to describe interactions between entities -- in sociology these are relations between people, such as friendships (Facebook); in biology, physical interactions between genes; the Internet, sensor networks, transport networks, ecological networks just to name a few. Researchers in machine learning, statistics and physics communities search for ways to explain and model the phenomena observed across the multitude of these disciplines. The theoretical findings stemming from different areas are heterogeneous and often complementary yet there are few means for intellectual exchange and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries.
The goal of our workshop is to actively promote a collaborative effort in addressing statistical and computational issues arising when modeling collections of data represented by networks, static or dynamic; to "cross-pollinate" fields with ideas from different areas; to introduce new questions to the theoretical modeling audience and to broaden the focus by considering new areas.
Presentations will include novel network models, the application of established models to new domains, theoretical and computational issues, limitations of current methods and directions for future research.

Online Submissions:
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We welcome the following types of papers:
1. Research papers that introduce new models or apply established models to novel domains,
2. Research papers that explore theoretical and computational issues, or
3. Position papers that discuss shortcomings and desiderata of current approaches, or propose new directions for future research.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed; exceptional work will be considered for oral presentation. We encourage authors to emphasize the role of learning and its relevance to the application domains at hand. In addition, we hope to identify current successes in the area, and will therefore consider papers that apply previously proposed models to novel domains and data sets.
Submissions should be 4-to-8 pages long, and adhere to NIPS format (http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles). Please email your submissions to: networksnips2010@gmail.com

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, October 29, 2010
Notification of Decision: Sunday, November 7 2010

Format:
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This is a one-day workshop. The program will feature 4-6 invited talks (TBD), poster spotlights and a poster session, and panel discussions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed; exceptional work will be considered for oral presentation. More details about the program will be announced soon.

Organizers:
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Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto
Edo Airoldi, Harvard University
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University

International Workshop on Ontologies for Multimedia Interpretation and Retrieval (OMIR 2010) at SAMT 2010

OMIR-2010:

International Workshop on

Ontologies for Multimedia Interpretation and Retrieval

1-3 December, 2010

Saarbruecken, Germany

Collocated with SAMT-2010: 

the 5th International Conference on Semantic

and Digital Media Technologies || http://www.samt2010.org/

Invited Speakers:
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Yiannis Kompadsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute,
Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
Cees Snoek (to be confirmed), Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

One of the challenging issues in the field of multimedia analysis is to extract high-level semantics from a document. As opposed to the domain of analysis and indexing of textual documents, the visual domain has to face the important challenge of matching human interpretations of image information with the numerical image signature derivable by a computer, defined as the semantic gap problem. Bridging the semantic gap has spurred continued interest recently, in particular concerning the explicit representations of a priori knowledge. In many domains, ontologies are gradually being accepted as the key technology to describe the semantics
of information. In the multimedia domain, they have shown to be a promising solution for making semantics explicit. As a consequence, many multimedia ontologies have been built either to assist multimedia search and retrieval or to navigate in large multimedia collections. These ontologies are usually only hierarchically structured multimedia concept lexicons (or thesauri), rarely used as formal models that support different kinds of reasoning (through description logics) or engineering operations (ontology building, ontology matching, ontology evolution and dynamics, modularization, etc.). Although an integral part of other research fields, such as text analysis, the full exploitation of ontologies for multimedia analysis is still largely unexplored. The goal of this workshop is to gather three communities of researchers working in close, yet quite disconnected areas, related to semantic image interpretation: i) Image annotation and retrieval, ii) knowledge-based image analysis and iii) ontological engineering and reasoning including fundamental work on description logics or conceptual graphs.

Topics of Interest:
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· Representations and merging of cross-media semantics;
· Common ontologies and knowledge-based models for image (multimedia) analysis;
· Ontology-based image annotation;
· (Multimedia) Ontology management:
· development,
· integration,
· matching,
· maintenance,
· modularization,
· and evolution;
· Description logics for multimedia representation and analysis;
· Standard and non-standard semantic reasoning for image (multimedia) analysis;
· Image semantics ground truth databases;
· Multimodal representations of multimedia content;
· Machine learning approaches for the linguistic description of visual content;
· Contextual knowledge modeling for image annotation including folksonomies.

Submission Guidelines:
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* Long Papers (up to 12 pages)
* Short Papers (up to 8 pages)

Submissions should be formatted to LNCS style and submitted as PDF files. The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Selected papers will form the basis of a special issue of the journal "Applied Ontology". Please, send submissions to the workshop directly to the workshop chairs using the following emails:
* celine.hudelot@ecp.fr
* ktodorov@uos.de
* herve.le-borgne@cea.fr

Important Dates:
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* October 1 2010 - Papers Submission Deadline
* November 1 2010 - Authors Notification of Acceptance
* November 10 2010 - Camera-Ready Versions Submission Deadline
* December 1-3 2010 - OMIR 2010

Committees:
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Chairs:
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* Céline Hudelot, MAS Laboratory, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
* Konstantin Todorov, MAS Laboratory, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
* Hervé Le Borgne, Vision and Content Engineering Laboratory, CEA – LIST, France

Program Committee:
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* Jamal Atif, IRD Guiana, France
* Marco Bertini, University of Florence, Italy
* Alain Boucher, Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI-AUF), Vietnam
* Isabelle Bloch, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
* Marine Campedel, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
* Jérôme David, INRIA Grenoble, France
* Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
* Bertrand Delezoide, CEA LIST Paris, France
* Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble, France
* Peter Geibel, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
* Laura Hollink, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Xian-Sheng Hua, Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research Asia, China
* Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
* Henning Müller, SIM, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
* Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
* Adrian Popescu, Telecom Bretagne, France
* Cees Snoek Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Umberto Straccia, ISTI–CNR, Italy
* Tonio Wandmacher, CEA Paris, France

First ROLE Developer Camp in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23-27, 2010

Second Announcement for our

In the week from 23 - 27 August, 2010 the FP 7 TEL IP ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) hosts the first ROLE Developer Camp at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. The whole week is filled with an interesting blend of presentations, conceptual discussions, brainstorming sessions, hands-on developer tutorials and practical programming sessions around central topics in personal learning environment (PLE) development such as Interoperability, Monitoring, Learner and Skill Profiling, Recommendations, and Infrastructure. ROLE developers share their knowledge and experiences with participants to enable their application to the accomplishment of practical tasks in PLE development. The whole event will be broadcasted live, and we cordially invite everybody interested in latest developments towards responsive open learning environments to remotely join the event. Every session features a moderator dedicated to the involvement of remote participants into the discussions.

The technical program of the whole week as well as a complete list of links to the respective Flashmeetings is available here.

Technical Program

The program booklet is available for download in PDF format:

ROLE Developer Camp 2010 - Technical Program (PDF)

Remote Participation

Remote participation via Flashmeeting is possible for all sessions. The following table provides links to Flashmeetings for all sessions at ROLE Developer Camp 2010. Sessions will be recorded, and recordings will be publicly available after the event. Please feel free to jump in and drop out whenever you like. We are looking forward to meet you in the sessions!

	Monday Aug 23, 2010	Tuesday Aug 24, 2010	Wednesday Aug 25, 2010	Thursday Aug 26, 2010	Friday Aug 27, 2010
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Data Management Postdoctoral Position in the University of Hong Kong

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 October 2010. The position is 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. Research experience in uncertain database management would be a plus. 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 August 2010 will be given full consideration.