The 5th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2011)

The 5th FTRA International Conference on

Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2011)

http://www.ftrai.org/mue2011

Crete, Greece, June 28-30, 2011

Important Dates
Workshop/SI Proposal Due            : November 1, 2010
Paper Submission deadline           : January 3, 2011
Acceptacne Notification             : March 30, 2011
Camera-ready Due                    : April 15, 2011
Presenting Author Registration Due  : April 30, 2011
Conference Dates                    : June 28-30, 2011

Special Issues
After conference, special issues of international journals with high qualities will be arranged for selected papers as follows.

- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)   http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/journal/11227
- International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing - Inderscience (SCIE)  http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=145
- Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)  http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence - Inderscience  http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijitcc
- Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA  http://www.ftrai.org/joc/
- Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)
   http://jips.kips.or.kr/

Paper Submission and Proceeding
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE Press (Pending)
and will be included in the IEEE Xplorer (Pending).

Please use the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (US letter size, available for download here: IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings) for submission.

MUE 2011's submission web site : http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2011/

Overview
The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across
a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains.

This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.

The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.

MUE 2011 is the next event in a series of highly successful the International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering  MUE-10 (Cebu, Philippines, August 2010), MUE-09 (Qingdao, China, June 2009), MUE-08 (Busan, Korea, April 2008), and MUE-07 (Seoul, Korea, April 2007).

Topics  
We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Track 1. Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond
  - Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
  - Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
  - Parallel/Distributed/Grid Computing  
  - Novel Machine Architectures
  - Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid  
  - Smart Home and Generic Interfaces

Track 2. Multimedia Modeling and Processing
  - AI and Soft Computing in Multimedia  
  - Computer Graphics and Simulation
  - Multimedia Information Retrieval (images, videos, hypertexts, etc.)
  - Internet Multimedia Mining              
  - Medical Image and Signal Processing
  - Multimedia Indexing and Compression
  - Virtual Reality and Game Technology
  - Current Challenges in Multimedia

Track 3. Ubiquitous Services and Applications
  - Protocols for Ubiquitous Services      
  - Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
  - Ubiquitous Application Interfaces      
  - IPv6 Foundations and Applications
  - Smart Home Network Middleware      
  - Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID
  - U-Commerce and Other Applications  
  - Databases and Data Mining

Track 4  Multimedia Services and Applications
  - Multimedia RDBMS Platforms            
  - Multimedia in Telemedicine
  - Multimedia Embedded Systems          
  - Entertainment Industry
  - E-Commerce and E-Learning              
  - Novel Multimedia Applications
  - Computer Graphics

Track 5. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Security
  - Security in Commerce and Industry    
  - Security in Ubiquitous Databases
  - Key Management and Authentication  
  - Privacy in Ubiquitous Environment
  - Sensor Networks and RFID Security    
  - Multimedia Information Security
  - Forensics and Image Watermarking

Track 6. Multimedia network transmission/streaming

Track 7. Other IT and Multimedia Applications


Call for Workshop Proposals

In conjunction with MUE-2011, we will organize some workshops.
The workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshops Chairs, Jianliang Gao (gao-j@email.ulster.ac.uk), and Menghui Yang (yangmenghui@ruc.edu.cn), by November 1, 2010.

Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome. It is expected that the proceedings of the workshop programs will be published by IEEE Press (Pending).
In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome.

Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:

If a workshop were organized successfully, the organizer (1 organizer per 1 workshop) will get:
    * At least 8 papers registration: Free registration
    * At least 16 papers registration: Free registration and Free accommodation (Max. 2 nights).

Important Dates
November 1, 2010 Workshop Proposal Submission Due
November 15, 2010 Workshop Acceptance Notification
April 1, 2011 Camera-ready paper due
June 28 - 30, 2011 Conference events

Organizing Committee

== Steering Committee Chair ==
James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)


== General Chairs ==  
Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK)
Sang Soo Yeo (Mokwon University, Korea)


== Program Chairs ==
Weifeng Chen (California University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Seungmin Rho (Korea University, Korea)


== Program Vice Chairs ==
Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond
         Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Track 2: Multimedia Modeling and Processing
         Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Aisa, China

Track 3: Ubiquitous Services and Applications
         Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark

Track 4: Multimedia Services and Applications
         Wen-Nung Lie, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Track 5: Multimedia and Ubiquitous Security
         Mehran Asadi, West Chester University of PA, USA

Track 6: Other IT and Multimedia Applications
         Hongwei Zheng, University of Heidelberg, Germany


== Workshop Co-chairs ==
Jianliang Gao (University of Ulster, UK)
Menghui Yang (Renmin University of China, China)


== Steering Committee ==
Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway)
Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Han-Chieh (Chao National Ilan University, Taiwan)
Hai Jin (HUST, China)
Weijia Jia (City U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Laurence T. Yang (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Jianhua Ma (Hosei University, Japan)


== Publicity Co-chairs ==
Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Is-Haka Mkwawa, University of Plymouth, UK
Sang Yep Nam, Kookje College, Korea
Taekyoung Kwon, Rutgers University, USA
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Wonjun Lee, Korea University, Korea

== Publication Chairs ==
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Hui Cheng,University of Leicester, UK


== Local organizing Committee ==
Hatem Musbah Ibrahim (University of Bradford, UK)


== Web and System Management Chairs ==
Yang Sun Lee (Chosun University, Korea)


== Program Committee ==
TBA

Contact Information
If you have any question about the CFP and paper submission,
please email to Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (sangsooyeo@gmail.com).

Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '11)

Call for papers

Computer Science Education Research Conference

(CSERC '11)

7 - 8 April 2011

Heerlen, the Netherlands

http://www.ou.nl/cserc

Over the years, it has become clear that there is a need for more fundamental knowledge about and input into computer science education. To contribute to this, an international scientific conference will be organised, creating a platform for researchers in the field of computer science education. The conference is organised in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.
Contributions at the scientific conference will be solicited from all over the world. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital library.

Themes

Themes of the conference will be:

    * designing a Computer Science curriculum
    * didactics and teaching methods for Computer Science subjects
    * development of professional competencies in Computer Science
    * tools and instruments supporting Computer Science Education
    * field studies in Computer Science Education
    * cultural and regional differences in Computer Science Education
    * convergence and divergence in Computer Science bachelor and master Education
    * vocational and professional Computer Science Education

Collocation with NIOC2011

CSERC '11 will be organised collocated with the NIOC 2011 conference. Although CSERC is organised separately, people attending either one, may freely visit the other. The two conferences take place at the same time, at the same locations.
NIOC is a Dutch, easily accessible conference for computer science teachers, working at high schools, at universities, or in industry. Every two years NIOC is organised in a different city in the Netherlands. NIOC is attended by up to 300 participants.
Organisation

As the initiative to this conference is developed by the hosting institute, the Conference Chairs have been invited from the Open University of the Netherlands: prof. dr. Gerrit van der Veer, prof. dr. Peter Sloep and prof. dr. Marko van Eekelen.
The Organizing Committee will be chaired by Evert van de Vrie and Mieke Haemers. The organisers cooperate with ACM SIGCSE to develop an International Programme Committee.
The Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '11) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of computer science education. It embraces a broad view of current and future trends in computer science education and aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results. CSERC '11 considers full papers for presentation at the conference. A formal refereeing process selects the best presentations for publication in the ACM Digital library.

Categories

CSERC solicits high-quality articles in any of three categories:

    * Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research
    * Position Papers: advocating or critiquing new trends
    * Project Papers: lessons drawn from completed projects

Articles must be original and not submitted to any other forum for publication. They may consider any aspect of computer science education. Theory, trends, implementation, experience and projects, all lie within the scope of the conference. Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed:

    * designing a Computer Science curriculum
    * didactics and teaching methods for Computer Science subjects
    * development of professional competencies in Computer Science
    * tools and instruments supporting Computer Science Education
    * field studies in Computer Science Education
    * cultural and regional differences in Computer Science Education
    * convergence and divergence in Computer Science bachelor and master Education
    * vocational and professional Computer Science Education

Preparing and Submitting Manuscripts

Full papers (up to 16 pages) can be submitted for presentation at the conference. Each submission must declare its category (research article, position paper, project paper).
Prepare your manuscript according to the instructions available at the ACM website.
Send your submission in pdf.
Papers can be submitted through Easychair. All submissions are screened by the programme committee.
Proceedings in the ACM digital Library

Proceedings available at the conference will contain all accepted papers. The conference proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
Deadlines
Paper submission deadline January 9, 2011
Notification of acceptance February 27, 2011
Camera-ready full paper deadline March 27, 2011
CSERC '11 April 7-8, 2011

Conference Refereeing

The conference proceedings contains the papers from the conference. These will be refereed using normal conference standards, and the papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be judged on their contributions with appropriate criteria applied to each category of paper, see below.

General criteria for all papers

    * Formatting strictly follows ACM requirements
    * No more than 16 pages
    * Content is original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere for publication
    * Topic is clearly stated
    * Category of submission is clearly indicated (research article, position paper, project paper)
    * English, well-written, well-structured, and well-illustrated
    * Has an abstract, an introduction, and a conclusion
    * Contribution is explained in the context of related work
    * Self-contained (i.e. understanding the article is not overly dependent on references to websites or other publications)

Research article criteria

    * The general criteria for all papers
    * Convincing motivation for the relevance of the problem in computer science education
    * Analysis of the problem
    * Clear outline of the approach taken to investigate or solve the problem
    * Description of research results or the solution
    * Conclusion: summarize the problem, the solution and results, and how the work solves the problem
    * Overview of related work and the current state-of-the-art

Position paper criteria

    * The general criteria for all papers
    * A convincing academic motivation for what should become a new trend or critiquing recent trends
    * Inclusion of academic arguments and convincing examples
    * Well motivated academically realistic prospects
    * Overview of related work and the current state-of-the-art

Project paper criteria

    * The general criteria for all papers
    * Convincing motivation for the relevance of the research project
    * Description of the project, its goals, its academic results and its research results
    * Description and motivation of the essential choices that were made during the project and evaluation of these choices
    * Reflection on the received results
    * Discussion on how this project may influence computer science education
    * Overview of related and future projects and work

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

Call for Bids: Hosting ECTEL 2011

The European Association for Technology Enhanced Learning is pleased to call for proposals for organizing the 6th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning, ECTEL 2011.
This event will be the latest in the series of this successful and highly competitive event: see e.g. the 5th ECTEL Conference in Barcelona, Spain (http://www.ectel10.org).

DEADLINE for Provisional Bids: November 19, 2010.
Submissions to: martin.wolpers@fit.fraunhofer.de

Short proposals are invited at this point to organize this event.
Proposals should be a short 2 page proposal with some indications of the following issues:

Each bid should contain the following information:

* Why EC-TEL'11 in XY?
o Background on the city / location
o Background on the organizing group
o Short bio of local organizers
* Conference Organization
o Suggested conference date
o Suggested conference venue and facilities
o Traveling to/from/in XY (incl. some price information)
o Lodging/Hotels (incl. some price information)
o Suggestion for the special event / conference dinner
o Provisionary Budget, including suggested registration fees

And any other information you feel is relevant. Bidders are STRONGLY encouraged to contact a member of the EATEL executive to discuss possible bids as soon as possible. A sub committee appointed by the EATEL executive will consider shortlisted bids and provide feedback to the association.

IUI 2011 Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2011)

2nd IUI Workshop on
Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2011)
February 13, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract submission deadline: November 19, 2010
http://www.semais.org
Proceedings will be published electronically (CEUR-WS)


WORKSHOP GOALS
Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role also for the design, development, and execution of user interfaces and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or interface models in model-driven design, generation at design time as well as at runtime, and integration of user interfaces. Ontologies may enhance the visualization and interaction capabilities of user interfaces in various ways, e.g., by providing input assistance, intelligently clustering information, or adapting the user interface according to the user's context. Especially in the latter case, ontologies can be applied for representing the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive systems. In particular, they have promised to provide a technique for representing external physical context factors such as location, time or technical parameters and ‚"internal" context such as user interest profiles or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g., between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI generation. There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a
basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific
tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Following up the succesfull 1st SEMAIS workshop at IUI 2010, the workshop will address, among others, the following research issues:
- Improve UI quality by using semantic models.
- Representing user models, systems and their behavior, domain knowledge and interaction context by means of semantic models.
- Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation spreading for semantic user models.
- Context-aware interaction based on semantic models.
- Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g. recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and others.
- Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and support traceability.
- Scalability and performance of semantic model-based interactive systems.
- Semantic model-driven UI development.
- Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems.
- Suitability of highly formal vs. light-weight semantic representations.
- Consuming linked data in user interfaces.
- Bringing ontologies together with current UI modeling languages, such as UsiXML.
- Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction.

SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION
Prospective participants should submit a 2-page position paper describing their interests and work in the topic of the workshop. First comments on (one or more of) the following topics we intend to discuss at the workshop are also welcome, but not mandatory (additional questions are also welcome):
- What are the major challenges (technical, organizational etc.) for developing or generating user interfaces based on semantic models?
- For which kinds of systems or applications are semantic models particularly useful?
- In which ways will semantic technologies affect user interfaces in the future?
- What kinds of context-adaptivity do you see as particularly promising?
- How can adaptive model driven user interfaces be evaluated?

We will select participants based on the abstract's quality and the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an interdisciplinary group. The selected presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position
paper one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views and to provide a starting point for the discussion.
Accepted submissions will be published electronically via CEUR-WS. Please submit your contributions in PDF format to submissions@semais.org.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: November 19, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 26, 2010
Revised, formatted document due: December 22, 2010
Workshop date: February 13, 2011

ORGANIZERS
Tim Hussein (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Heiko Paulheim (SAP Research Center Darmstadt, Germany)
Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Gaëlle Calvary (University of Grenoble, France)
Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org

5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2011)

2nd Call for Papers

5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – C&T 2011

29 June – 2 July 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,

Australia

http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/

NEWS
Two birds one stone!
C&T 2011 followed by the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
(PACIS) 2011 in Brisbane
Missed the CHI paper deadline?
Submissions for C&T 2011 are still open until 10th Dec 2010
First C&T workshops announced:
Digital Cities 7: Real World Experiences
Making Sense of Twitter: Quantitative Analysis Using Twapperkeeper and Other Tools
Ethnographic Fiction and Speculative Design: Supporting Community
Participation in the Development and Implementation of New Technologies

C&T 2011 OVERVIEW
The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. C&T 2011 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. The conference program will
include competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as pre-conference workshops, a doctoral consortium, and invited keynote and panel speakers.
We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Brisbane, Australia's new world city.

IMPORTANT DATES
10 December 2010: Full papers and workshop proposals due
24 January 2011: Review reports due
18 February 2011: Notification of acceptances sent to authors
4 March 2011: Camera ready papers due
30 April 2011: Workshop papers, Doctoral Consortium and Student Volunteer applications due
29 June 2011: Pre-conference workshops and Doctoral Consortium
30 June – 2 July 2011: C&T 2011 conference at QUT, Brisbane, Australia

CONFERENCE TOPICS
C&T 2011 welcomes contributions in all areas of community and technology research, design and development. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics:
Augmented Reality
Civic Intelligence
Context and Location Awareness
Community-centred Design and Evaluation Methodologies
Community Engagement
E-research with Communities
E-government and E-governance
Participation
Smart Community Services
Sustainability
Universal Usability and Accessibility
Urban Informatics
Tangible Interfaces for Community Interaction
Technologies of Scale Making
Visualisation Techniques
Working across Cultures

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
All submissions must be written in English. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. Please format papers using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform. Full papers must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, contact information and affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. Papers submitted by the due date will undergo a double blind peer review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, innovation, academic rigour, and clarity of writing. Accepted papers will be included in the published conference proceedings if at least one author of any accepted submission has registered and attends the conference. Papers are submitted via an online submission system that will be opened in September 2010.
Please send any questions to Jesper Kjeldskov, Technical Program Chair: jesper AT cs.aau.dk

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Workshops are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. Workshop proposals (max of 2 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available athttp://www.sigchi.org/chipubform) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. If you are working in an emerging area of Communities and Technologies, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. C&T workshops might address basic or applied research and practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management
and organisational issues, or education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the C&T community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may
consider including this goal in your workshop proposal. Please send proposals to Jaz Choi, Workshop Chair: h.choi AT qut.edu.au

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. The Doctoral Consortium offers research students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. Research students wishing to attend the consortium should submit 4 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform, addressing 4 headings:
Aims and Background; Significance and Innovation; Methodology; Questions and Issues (that is, identify those areas you seek feedback on). Places at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals. Please send applications to Christine Satchell, Doctoral Consortium Chair: christine.satchell AT qut.edu.au

VOLUNTEERS
C&T actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the research community, meet other students in the field, and attend an international ACM conference. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in C&T research and development, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply,
email us your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a CV, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 30 April 2011. Please send applications to Ronald Schroeter, Volunteers Chair: r.schroeter AT qut.edu.au

http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/
#ct2011

PhD Position: Auto-adaptability of APIs for corporate data management, Clermont-Ferrand, France

PhD Position: Auto-adaptability of APIs for corporate data management

What's your challenge?
- How can a user-friendly web application interact and connect with a huge amount of web services?
- ### API Platforms are the central elements. To be able to use an API, a software connector must be developed. Automating the generation of connectors is already possible. But automatically detecting any change occurring in an API is hardly possible, especially when the associated connector is to be updated simultaneously. When changes occur in the API of a service, it results in a new semantics for this service: the corresponding application does not run as before, or the generated outputs are different. The aim of this thesis is to propose automatic processing of classes of API changes. This is the so-called "API auto-adaptability" problem. ###

What's in it for you?
- Completing a PhD and upgrading your career to an international level, whether in a business or academic field
- Acquiring skills in leading web technologies: web services and APIs, semantic web, business process management
- Developing a cutting edge web-based application and making a big impact on a growing company
- Working for a well-funded, energetic, start-up located in France
- Working with world class engineers and doctors in a great working environment

What do you need for this position?
- Master's degree or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field
- Solid command of algorithms, data structures and software design
- Developing and/or designing large web applications
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Experience with Object Oriented programming, preferably PHP 5
- Ability to write both scientific publications and blog posts

the following would be appreciated...
- Web services knowledge (REST, SOAP, XML, JSON)
- Semantic web knowledge (RDF, OWL)
- Experience with Linux environment (LAMP)
- Experience with GIT

The PhD thesis will take place at :
- Blaise Pascal University (LIMOS laboratory) in Clermont-Ferrand
(France) -http://www.isima.fr/limos/
- Rootsystem company in Vichy (France) -http://www.rootsystem.fr/
- Those locations are 3 hours from Paris

Your advisors will be :
 - Pr. Farouk TOUMANI (Blaise Pascal University, France)
 - Dr. Christophe REY (Blaise Pascal University, France)
 - Ing. Franck MARTIN (Rootsystem, France)

For your hard work, you will be rewarded :
- 30,000 euros before taxes per year.

Applications :
- Applications are solicited immediately and will be considered starting from October 2010 until the position is filled, but no later than January 2011.
- Send resume + cover letter in PDF to tojobs@rootsystem.fr  with the following reference : [QMS-LIMOS]

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2011)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 

ICALT2011

Athens, Georgia, USA

July 6-8, 2011

http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2011/

Deadline: January 17th, 2011

ICALT is an annual international conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning organized by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. After its kick-off as IWALT in Palmerston North, New Zealand (2000), ICALT has been held in New Zealand (2000), Madisson, USA (2001), Kazan, Russia (2002), Athens, Greece(2003), Joensuu, Finland (2004), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2005), Kerkade, The Netherlands (2006), Niigata, Japan (2007), Santander, Spain (2008), Riga, Latvia (2009), Sousse, Tunisia (2010). The 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2011) will be held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia,
USA. Athens is located in Northeast Georgia about an hour and a half shuttle ride from the Atlanta airport. The theme for ICALT 20111 is "Educational Technology Forecast: Cloudy with a Slight Chance of Gain", with cloud-based learning and assessment as featured topics. The technical program will feature keynote addresses, workshops, tutorials in addition to presentations of refereed papers.
Selected Papers will be considered for publication to Educational Technology and Society Journal [http://www.ifets.info], ISSN 1436-4522 [included in SSCI, Impact Factor: 1.067/2009 - Thomson Scientific 2009 Journal Citations Report] IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt], IEEE [a joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society], ISSN 1939-1382, started January 2008

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Learning Systems Platforms and Architectures
* Rethinking Pedagogy in Technology-enhanced Learning
* Adaptive and Personalized Technology-enhanced Learning
* Intelligent Educational Systems
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning
* Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments for Learning
* Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Computing for Learning and Knowledge Sharing
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for Learning Systems
* Affective and Pervasive Computing for Learning
* Human-Centered Web Science and its Applications to Technology-enhanced Learning
* Virtual Worlds for Academic, Organizational, and Life-Long Learning
* e- Assessment and new Assessment Theories and Methodologies
* Data Mining and Web Mining in Education
* Knowledge and Competencies Management
* Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
* Advanced Learning Technologies for Disabled and Non-Disabled People
* Technology-enhanced Science Education
* International Alliance for Open Source, Open Standards, and federated repositories
* School of the Future and Future Classrooms
* E-learning in the Workplace
* Cloud-based Learning and Assessment

IMPORTANT DATES
January 17, 2011: Submissions All types (Papers, Workshops, Panels and Tutorials)
February 14, 2011: Authors' Notification on the review process results
March 15, 2011: Authors' Registration Deadline
April 15, 2011: Final Camera-Ready Manuscript and IEEE Copyright Form submission
April 29, 2011: Early Bird Registration
July 6-8, 2011: ICALT2011 Conference

SUBMISSIONS
We invite submission of papers reporting original academic or industrial research in the area of Advanced Learning Technologies. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Complete papers are required to be reviewed. The expected types of submissions include:
The anticipated types of submissions are:
* Full paper: 5 pages
* Short paper: 3 pages
* Posters: 2 pages
* Doctoral consortium paper: 2 pages (first author must be a PhD student)
* Tutorial proposals: 2 pages (The tutorial proposal should clearly outline the novelty of the content, the expected audience, objectives, and outcomes. Each tutorial will be 3 hours)
* Panel proposals: 2 pages (The panel proposal should clearly outline the theme, its significance, the expected audience, and have 5 or more panelists. Each panel will be one and a half hour. Panelists will have the
possibility of submitting two-page papers for review and inclusion in the proceedings)
* Workshops: 2 pages (The workshop proposal should clearly define workshop objectives, the expected audience, anticipated outcomes, and the names and short CVs of workshop proposers. Workshop leaders will have the possibility of submitting two-page papers for review and inclusion in the proceedings)

For additional information, please contact the General Conference co-Chair,
Prof. Mike Spector at mspector@uga.edu.
Please submit your manuscript using the ASK-Conference System at: http://www.ask4research.info/conference/upload.php. If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you can contact ICALT 2011 Technical Manager at: icalt-operations@iti.gr (Subject: ICALT2011 Submission Enquiry) and the conference organizers will contact you for further assistance.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Organized by
The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
College of Education, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology
Conference Proceedings are published by
IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General Chairs
* J. Michael Spector, The University of Georgia, USA
* Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

Program Chairs
* Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
* Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
* Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
* Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Barbara Lockee, Virginia Tech, USA

Tutorials Chairs
* Ikseon Choi, The University of Georgia, USA
* Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK
* Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia

Workshops and Panels Chairs
* Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
* Janette Hill, The University of Georgia, USA
* Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Finance Chair
* Tracy Elder, The University of Georgia, USA

Technical Manager
* Panagiotis Zervas, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece

Local Arrangements/Committee Co-Chairs
* Janette Hill, The University of Georgia, USA
* Ikseon Choi, The University of Georgia, USA

Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2011)

8th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

21-22 May 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (co-located with ICSE 2011)

OVERVIEW
Software repositories such as source control systems, archived communications between project personnel, and defect tracking systems are used to help manage the progress of software projects. Software practitioners and researchers are recognizing the benefits of mining this information to support the maintenance of software systems, improve software design/reuse, and empirically validate novel ideas and techniques. Research is now proceeding to uncover the ways in which mining these repositories can help to understand software development and software evolution, to support predictions about software development, and to exploit this knowledge concretely in planning future development. The goal of this two-day working conference is to advance the science and practice of software engineering via the analysis of data stored in software repositories. We solicit short papers (4 pages) and research papers (10 pages). Short papers should discuss controversial issues in the field, or describe interesting or thought provoking ideas that are not yet fully
developed. Accepted short papers will present their ideas in poster form during a poster session at the conference, and in a short lightning talk. Full research papers are expected to describe new research results, and have a higher degree of technical rigor than short papers. Accepted full papers will present their ideas in a
research talk at the conference. A selection of the best research papers will be invited for consideration in a special issue of the Springer journal Empirical Software Engineering. In the Mining Challenge, we invite researchers to demonstrate the usefulness of their mining tools on preselected software repositories
(Eclipse, Netbeans, Firefox, Chrome) and summarize their findings in a challenge report (4 pages). Accepted reports will be included in the proceedings as challenge papers. The winner of the MSR Challenge will
receive an award. Please see the MSR homepage for more information about requirements and rules.

TOPICS
Papers may address issues along the general themes, including but not limited to the following:
* Analysis of software ecosystems and mining of repositories across multiple projects
* Models for social and development processes that occur in large software projects
* Prediction of future software qualities via analysis of software repositories
* Models of software project evolution based on historical repository data
* Characterization, classification, and prediction of software defects based on analysis of software repositories
* Techniques to model reliability and defect occurrences
* Search-based software engineering, including search techniques to assist developers in finding suitable components and code fragments for reuse, and software search engines
* Analysis of change patterns and trends to assist in future development
* Visualization techniques and models of mined data
* Techniques and tools for capturing new forms of data for storage in software repositories, such as effort data, fine-grained changes, and refactoring
* Approaches, applications, and tools for software repository mining
* Characterization of bias in mining and guidelines to ensure quality results
* Privacy and ethics in mining software repositories
* Meta-models, exchange formats, and infrastructure tools to facilitate the sharing of extracted data and to encourage reuse and repeatability
* Case studies on extracting data from repositories of large long-lived and/or industrial projects
* Methods of integrating mined data from various historical sources

IMPORTANT DATES
Research/short papers: January 26, 2011
Challenge papers: February 16th, 2011
Author notification: March 4, 2011
Camera-ready copy: March 25, 2011
Conference dates: May 21-22, 2011
Note:
All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Apia, Samoa Time) on the dates indicated.

SUBMISSION
Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. ACM plagiarism policies and procedures shall be followed for cases of double submission. All papers must conform at time of submission to the ICSE (and MSR) 2011 Format and Submission Guidelines and must not exceed the page limits (research papers: 10 pages; short papers: 4 pages; challenge reports: 4 pages), including all text, references, appendices and figures. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must be in PDF format.
Papers must be submitted electronically through EasyChair. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msr2011 Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an ACM Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. At least one author of each paper is expected to present the results at the MSR 2011 conference. All accepted contributions will be published in the conference electronic proceedings.

ORGANIZATION

General Chair:
Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Program Co-chairs:
Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA
Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA

Program Committee:
Mithun Acharya, ABB Research, USA
Giuliano Antoniol, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Sushil Bajracharya, University of California, Irvine, USA
Andrew Begel, Microsoft Corp., USA
Christian Bird, Microsoft Corp., USA
Prem Devanbu, University of California, Davis, USA
Daniel German, University of Victoria, Canada
Mike Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada
Carsten Goerg, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen's University, Canada
Israel Herraiz, University Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain
Emily Hill, Montclair State University, USA
Abram Hindle, University of California, Davis, USA
Reid Holmes, University of Waterloo, Canada
Katsuro Inoue, University of Osaka, Japan
Lingxiao Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Huzefa Kagdi, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Miryung Kim, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sunghun Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Kenichi Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA
Audris Mockus, Avaya, USA
Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dewayne E. Perry, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA
Rahul Premraj, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bill Pugh, University of Maryland, USA
Romain Robbes, University of Chile, Chile
Peter Rotella, Cisco, USA
Westley Weimer, University of Virginia, USA
Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA
Andy Zaidman, Delft Technical University, Netherlands
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany
Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Corp., China

Challenge Chair:
Adrian Schröter, University of Victoria, Canada

Challenge Committee:
Alberto Bacchelli, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Giacomo Gezzi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Lile Hattori, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Kim Herzig, Saarland University, Germany
Emily Hill, Montclair State University, USA
Irwin Kwan, University of Victoria, Canada
Ahmed Lamkanfi, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Erik Linstead, Chapman Univeristy, USA
Thanh Nguyen, Queen's University, Canada
Peter Rigby, University of Victoria, Canada
Emad Shihab, Queen's Univeristy, Canada
Suresh Thummalapenta, North Carolina State University, USA
Annie Ying, McGill University, Canada

Web Chair:
Emad Shihab, Queen's University, Canada

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings September 2010

Searching for a new opportunity as a Postdoc? Finished your master and looking for a PhD position?
This is a list of very exciting job openings for doctoral and post-doctoral research positions I have collected in September 2010. 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.

• Open Faculty Positions at Isik University, Istanbul
• Doctoral Researcher in EU FP7 Integrating Project on Policy and Security Configuration Management (POSECCO), Innsbruck, Austria
• Postdoc position at University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Blended Learning post at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
• Two postdoctoral positions at Birkbeck, University of London
• Postdoc vacancies in OUCL Information Systems Group, Oxford, UK
• Ph.D. position in mobile data management at Aalborg University, Denmark
• 10 PhD student positions in Computational Logic at Vienna University of Technology
• Post-doctoral position for Social Network Analysis, France Telecom R&D
• Research Associate for GALA and TELMAP at Informatik 5 (Information Systems), RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Ph.D. position in Datalog, Ghent, Belgium

Older job opening can be found below.

• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings August 2010
  
• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings July 2010
• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings June 2010

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings August 2010

Summer is almost over. Time to find new research opportunities. This is a list of very exciting job openings for doctoral and post-doctoral research positions I have collected in August 2010. 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.

• Postdoc Position in Semantic Search, Linked Data and Adaptive Web for ImREAL (FP7) at TU Delft
• PhD position (4 year, fully funded) in SeeQR project at TU Eindhoven
• PhD Position – Medical data management in clouds at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand (France)
• Job Opening in Visual Analytics for Network Security
• Open PostDoc and PhD position at TU Delft, the Netherlands
• Ph.D. position at K.U.Leuven: "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics"Data Management Postdoctoral Position in the University of Hong KongSeveral PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano, Italy - Deadline Oct. 18, 2010

Older job opening can be found below.

• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings July 2010
• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Job Openings June 2010

Doctoral Researcher in EU FP7 Integrating Project on Policy and Security Configuration Management (POSECCO), Innsbruck, Austria

In collaboration with several partners from academia and industry, the Innsbruck Information Systems (IIS) group of the Innsbruck University School of Management currently embarks on a highly competitive EU FP7 integrating project. The IIS group is now looking for prospective PhD students interested in the areas of research that will be elaborated within the scope of the project and willing to get involved in a determined and well-networked information systems research group located in Innsbruck, Austria. The PhD positions will be embedded in the POSECCO project which just started in October 2010 and is scheduled for 36 months.

The POSECCO project proceeds on the assumption that today's shortcomings with regard to policy and security configuration management impact trustworthiness, compliance and profitability of Internet applications. Core activities are creating and maintaining consistent security policies and their correct and traceable enforcement by security configurations of all infrastructure elements. The project's vision is to establish and maintain a consistent, transparent, sustainable and traceable link between high-level, business-driven security and compliance requirements on the one side and low-level technical configuration settings of individual infrastructure elements on the other side. Such an end-to-end link shall be maintained in operating conditions, i.e., considering a constant evolution caused by new or changing security and compliance requirements as well as a continuously changing landscape. It is intended to maintain this end-to-end link by automated means where possible and to offer decision support where human interaction is inevitable.

The technical research work conducted within the scope of the POSECCO project is complemented by a business-focused work package that investigates organizational processes putting particular emphasis on the involved stakeholders, their information needs, usability aspects and cost/benefit issues. This work package is led by the IIS group. Among others, the IIS group will conduct an empirical study in close cooperation with other project partners with the purpose of better understanding the end-user requirements with respect to policy and security configuration management and develop and measure KPIs for the project evaluation as well as for the discussion of the economic viability of the project outcomes.

A suitable candidate:

·         has a Master's degree in information systems, business administration, computer science or a comparable field.

·         has the ambition to complete a high-quality PhD project within 3 years.

·         has a strong research mindset.

·         speaks and writes fluently in English.

·         likes to work in an international setting.

To find out more about the IIS group, please watch the short presentation video available on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1RNRNeLZHg) or visit the research group's website (http://www.uibk.ac.at/iwi/).

The IIS group offers temporary contracts for 3 years, preferably full-time. Recruitment is carried out in accordance to the laws and regulations applicable to the University of Innsbruck.

To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV along with a letter of application to daniel.bachlechner@uibk.ac.at.

Deadline Extension: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Databases (SMDT 2010) @ SAMT2010

Deadline Extension

October 15, 2010

SMDT2010 || 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies

12th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

The workshop is collocated with the 5th International Conference on

Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT)

1-3 December 2010

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 15, 2010 - Deadline for Workshop Papers
* November 01, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance for Workshop Papers
* November 08, 2009 - Camera-ready Workshop Papers due

Committees

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
 * Anna Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
* Antonio Penta (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
* 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)
* Jaime Delgado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
* Lionel Brunie (INSA de Lyon, France)
* Markus Strohmaier (Know Center, Graz, Austria)
* Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
* Prateek Jain (Wright State University, USA)
* Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France)
* Savvas Chatzichristofis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
* Thierry Delot (University of Valenciennes, France)
* Timothy Shih (NTUE, Taiwan)
* Timo Ojala (University of Oulu, Finland)
* Tobias Bürger (Salzburg Research, Austria)
* Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT, France)
* Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)
* Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
* Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
* Yu Cao (California State University at Fresno, USA)

Open Faculty Positions at Isik University, Istanbul

Open Faculty Positions, Department of Information Technologies

Department of Information Technologies at Isik University, Istanbul (http://entest.isikun.edu.tr/) invites applications for full-time faculty positions at the assistant professor level.

We are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching interests in the areas of Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, and Management Information Systems.

The faculty member is expected to conduct high-quality research in IT and MIS area; to develop and teach courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs in the related field; as well as actively participate in research based projects.  Applicants should possess a PhD degree in related field, as well as have a convincing background towards the listed requirements above. 

Candidates are encouraged to send their cv by email to vedatcoskun@isikun.edu.tr (Vedat COSKUN, IT Department Chair). Applicants are expected to submit detailed curriculum vitae, copies of publications, details of teaching experience and projects involved, and the names of at least 3 references.

Established in 1996, Isik University is the pride of the 122-year old Feyziye Mektepleri Vakfı foundation. şık University's Şile campus houses 3 faculties, 2 institutes and research centers. It's Maslak campus houses the Faculty of Fine Arts which began in the 2007-2008 academic year. Işık University continues to provide educational facilities with its 162 member faculty, to 2214 students, 1075 of which are on scholarships of varying degrees. Işık University aims to raise individuals with dynamic and flexible minds, prepared to adapt to rapidly changing global demands, capable of critical and creative thinking, with a desire to stand out on international platforms .

Postdoc position at University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

ANNOUNCEMENT OF POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION


The SeQuOIAS (Service and QUality Oriented Information Systems) group of Prof. Carlo Batini at University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) seeks applications for a post-doctoral position on *Pervasive and Augmented Services for Cultural Heritage*, starting in November 2010 (or soon after). The position is financially supported by Lombardy Region, University of Milano-Bicocca and IBM Italy Foundation.
The position research topic is the design, implementation and evaluation of pervasive and augmented services for cultural heritage, and, in perspective, other fields. The research activity has the following objectives:

- Definition of a meta-model for semantic representation of service information: in order to support automatic service selection and composition, accurate service description must be defined. The meta-model will support description of functional and non-functional properties (QoS, business, context and legal term) of a service.


- Definition of a methodology for pervasive and augmented service design: the methodology will support the design of multi-channel services characterized by high accessibility, usability and adaptability to user's context.


- Development of demonstrative services: in order to test the proposed meta-model and methodology, demonstrative multi-channel services in the cultural heritage domain will be developed. Particular attention will be given to the use of innovative technologies such as Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth and RFID.

The ideal candidate:
- has a solid background in Service Science and Knowledge Representation. A Ph.D. thesis and strong publication records on these topics are relevant evaluation criteria.

- has good teamwork skills and experience, necessary to collaborate with the SeQuOIAS group in researching new solutions, as well as to contribute to the development of research prototypes.

- knowledge of Italian, although welcome, is not strictly required. The SeQuOIAS group is already international, and the research results will be written in English.

Salary is 20,000 EUR gross/year for 2 years. The position is full-time. Applicants should e-mail a curriculum vitae, list of publications, a short list of research interests (max. 2 pages) to Prof. Carlo Batini (batini@disco.unimib.it, tel. +390264487826, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca), and Andrea Maurino, maurino@disco.unimib.it. Requests for more information and clarifications are welcome and should be addressed to the same contact persons.

Two postdoctoral positions at Birkbeck, University of London

Overview
The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking two post-doctoral researchers on an  interdisciplinary project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council titled "Weaving Communities of Practice: Textiles, Culture  and Identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach".  This project is about developing a knowledge base to store 3D Andean  textile patterns together with rich cultural and historic context  information using an ontology based on CIDOC-CRM.

General requirements
You will have a PhD, or equivalent, in Computer Science or a related field and an emerging research and publication record. Experience in interdisciplinary projects, especially cultural heritage projects, are beneficial, but not required. In addition to this, you hold a work permit for the UK (e.g. EEA citizenship).

Job descriptions
The specific purpose of the first post is to design and develop the inference engine for semantic retrieval (liaising with the ontology developers) and to integrate this engine and the database system. Experience in one or more of the following areas would be desirable: ontologies, inference engines, and database management systems. The specific purpose of the second post is to design and develop textile pattern representations for retrieval and to integrate this subsystem into the graphical user interface of the knowledge base. Experience in one or more of the following areas would be desirable: data representation, indexing, and topology (in areas such as knot theory).

Contract terms
Both posts are full-time fixed term posts for a duration of 18 months. The salary is GBP 33,669 rising to GBP 38,568 per annum inclusive of London Allowance. The initial salary award will be dependent on the skills and
experience of the successful applicant.

Additional information
The closing date for completed applications is Monday 18th October 2010. Interviews are due to be held at the end of October/beginning of November. For more details (and to apply) see:
http://tinyurl.com/39csz9z
http://tinyurl.com/3yo38yp
Informal enquiries can be made to Sven Helmer: sven@dcs.bbk.ac.uk

Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (JMPT)

(http://www.dline.info/jmpt)

Print ISSN: 0976-4127
Online ISSN: 0976-4135
Quarterly
Format: Print and online
Editor-in-chief:
Richard Chbeir
University of Bourgogne
France

Description
The Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (JMPT) aims to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to present and discuss theory and research, development, architectures, networking, system support tools and
applications as well as case studies of multimedia and hypermedia. It also features experimental and survey articles. It seeks to fill the gap that exists between several fields and communities such as image processing,
video processing, audio analysis, information retrieval and understanding, data management and mining, security, and education. The journal is intended for academic researchers, practitioners, industrial professionals, consultants, managers, students, educators, policy makers and engineers working in the field and/or are involved in multimedia system research, design and applications.  All papers are peer reviewed.

Aim and Scope
The Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (JMPT) invites original, previously unpublished, research, survey and tutorial papers, experiments, plus case studies and short research notes, on both applied and theoretical aspects of multimedia and hypermedia. These areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• multimedia systems
• multimedia data management
• multimedia database
• multimedia and visual information systems
• multimedia networking and collaboration
• multimedia applications
• multimedia security and protection
• multimedia semantics
• multimedia sensors
• multimedia education
• multimedia coding and compression
• multimedia retrieval
• upcoming areas of haptics
• multimedia in mobile and ambient systems
• multimedia in medical and health care, legal, banking, shopping,
tourism, etc.
• multi-modality devices/systems
• multimedia tools
• system software and Hypermedia
• multimedia authoring tools
• visualization and Human-Machine Interfaces
• animation and Visualization
• multimedia indexing and annotation
• metadata analysis in multimedia
• spatio-temporal analysis
• context-aware modeling and processing
• multimedia digital library
• multimedia at home
• pervasive media services;
• Web-based multimedia services
• media streaming
• personalization
• cross-modal ontologies

Review Process
Each paper will be handled by the editor-in-chief, Richard Chbeir, who collects three reviews and makes the decision to (a) accept the paper with minor revisions, (b) accept the paper with major revisions, or (c) reject
the paper. The editor-in-chief will communicate with the author(s) about the decision, and provide reviews. The goal is to provide the first round of reviews within three months of the paper assignment. The authors with papers requesting major revisions should submit the major revisions within one month after they were informed about the decision. Authors who need more time are kindly requested to contact the Editor. The Editor reserves the right to reject a paper if it does not meet the aims and scope of the journal, it is not technically sound, it is not revised satisfactorily, or if it is inadequate in presentation.

Revised and Final Version Submission
Revised version should follow the same requirements as for the final version to format the paper, plus a detailed document about the modifications authors have made and author's response to reviewer's comments. Authors are requested to use the Journal Style for preparing the final camera-ready version.  All enquiries concerning the publication of accepted papers should be addressed to the editor-in-chief. (richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr)

Author Guidelines
Authors should upload full original papers in electronic format at the Journal Management Online System
(http://www.dline.info/jmpt/submission.php). The papers should not be longer than 20-25 pages, single column, double space, 11 or 12 pt font, including figures, tables and references. If the submitted papers are extensions of existing conference publications, the authors must submit a corresponding letter, specifying clearly what is new in the journal paper and how the submitted paper distinguishes itself from the published conference paper. We require in minimum 25% of new material in such a paper. Any submitted paper
must not be fully or partially be submitted to another Journal, Conference, or Workshop!