Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Science Education: Software Modeling in Education

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Science Education 

SOFTWARE MODELING IN EDUCATION

(http://edusymp.big.tuwien.ac.at/cse-models/)

In software engineering, the model-driven development (MDD) paradigm is one emerging solution for handling the complexity of software systems. Industry and academia successfully implemented several MDD approaches and provide expressive modeling languages and mature tools for the practical application
of MDD techniques. Nevertheless, the widespread adoption advances slowly. In order to fully exploit the power of MDD, developers are needed who recognize the potential of models and who do not consider them as pretty pictures only. Although most computer science curricula include some education in modeling
software systems and therefore provide the basic building blocks for MDD, the whole spectrum of model-driven development is rarely captured. A number of languages (e.g., UML, OCL), approaches (e.g., OMG's MDA, MIC, Multi-Modeling), and tools (e.g., Alloy, Fujaba, GME, USE, OCLE) have been proposed for the model-driven development of software-based systems, however the research literature contains few reports on the impact these languages, approaches, and tools have had on pedagogy. The Journal of Computer Science Education (CSE, http://www.informaworld.com/cse) invites original, high-quality submissions for the special issue on "Software Modeling in Education", which is focused on the following topics:

* Experience reports on integrating modeling and meta-modeling into the software engineering curricula in academia.
* Comparative studies of the tools used to support modeling and meta-modeling in academia.
* Studies that assess approaches used to integrate MDD into existing software engineering curricula.
* Studies on the impact modeling have on students’ ability to think abstractly.
* Studies on teaching abstraction and complexity handling through modeling.
* Experience reports or case studies on approaches used to train practitioners on using modeling techniques in industry.
* Industry's assessment of the MDD training done in academia.
* Studies on the use of education artifacts that are shared through a community-based MDD resource.
* Survey of modeling tools used to support pedagogy.
* Studies on novel pedagogical methods, including active teaching and e-learning, related to software modeling.

Important Dates
Paper submission: 30 April 2011
Initial notification: 15 June 2011
Second round submission: 15 July 2011
Final Notification: 15 August 2011
Camera ready submission: 30 August 2011

Submission information:

The submitted papers shall be research papers or experience reports contributing to the field of  MDD education or presenting the use of models in software engineering education and training. Papers are strongly encouraged to have an experimental section or a case study to evaluate the effectiveness of the research or the presented class room experiences. Each paper should contain between 5000-7000 words. Please check http://edusymp.big.tuwien.ac.at/cse-models/ for additional submission details, e.g.,  submission format and the submission site.

Guest Editors
Martina Seidl, Vienna Technical University
Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University, USA

Editors-in-Chief

Sally Fincher, University of Kent
Laurie Murphy, Pacific Lutheran University

Further information

If you have any questions or require additional information regarding this special issue please contact
the guest editors at cse-edusym.AT.cis.fiu.edu

Program online for Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds Workshop (PerCoSC 2011)

Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds Workshop
held in conjunction with 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2011 (PerCom 2011)

Seattle, USA
March 21, 2011

The 1st IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds aims to discuss and present research challenges, state-of-the-art technologies, and advanced research of cloud computing and services to support pervasive communities. Pervasive computing technologies support applications for user communities greatly. These user communities are pervasive communities. Service clouds offer services, applications, platforms and infrastructure with cloud computing technologies in order to enhance computation and data management capacities in pervasive computing environments. The PerCoSC'11 Workshop topics cover a wide spectrum relevant to cloud computing, pervasive computing technologies, and pervasive community services and applications.
Powered by pervasive computing technologies, pervasive communities create, manage and share data at any time anywhere. High cost and complexity on the data management level raise problems and also brings new challenges on collecting and utilization of multimedia, context, location and other sensor data from the physical environment with high interactivity. Service clouds will be promising solutions to real-time context and multimedia information processing to offer pervasive communities better user experiences. Cloud computing unlocks computing resources and data storage from devices and opens new classes of applications for pervasive communities.


PerCoSC 2011 Program (download here)

9:00 - 10:00 Session 1 Mobile Cloud Computing

• Adaption of Archetype Patterns for mobile cloud-based business apps
  Jakob Strauch, FH Aachen, Germany
  Thomas Ritz, FH Aachen, Germany
• Challenges in Securing the Interface Between the Cloud and Mobile Systems
  Brent J. Lagesse, CSIIR, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

10:30 -12:00 Session 2 Overview of Service Clouds

• Cloud Computing Oriented Network Operating Systems and Service Platform
  Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China
  Yanming Ye, Zhejiang University, China
  Bin Wu, Zhejiang University, China
  Zuoning Chen, National Parallel Computing Engineering Research Center, Beijing, China
• Mobile Search and the Cloud: The Benefits of Offloading
  Eemil Lagerspetz, University of Helisinki, Finland Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helisinki, Finland
• Ubiquitous Cloud: Managing Service Resources for Adaptive Ubiquitous Computing
  Koichi Egami, Kobe University, Japan
  Masahide Nakamura, Kobe University, Japan
  Matsumoto Shinsuke Kobe University, Japan
  

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3 Pervasive Community Services and Applications

• Contemporary Ubiquitous Media Services: Content Recommendation and Adaptation
  Wenyuan Yin, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
  Xinglei Zhu, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
  Chang Wen Chen, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
• Improving Pervasive Positioning through Three-tier Cyber Foraging
  Mads Darø Kristensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Thomas Toftkjær, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Sourav Bhattacharya, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
  
• Home Automation and Security for Mobile Devices
  Somak Das, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Silvia Chita, Washington State University, USA
  Nina Peterson, Lewis-Clark State College, USA
  Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA
  Medha Bhadkamkar, Washington State University, USA

15:30 – 16:30 Discussion and Wrap-up   

10th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE '11) in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2011

10th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE '11)

Sunday, June 12, 2011 / Athens, Greece

(collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2011)

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~mobide11

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

This is the tenth of a successful series of workshops that aims to act as a bridge between the data management, wireless networking, and mobile computing communities.
The 1st MobiDE workshop took place in Seattle (August 1999), in conjunction with MobiCom 1999; the 2nd MobiDE workshop took place in Santa Barbara (May 2001), together with SIGMOD 2001; the 3rd MobiDE workshop took place in San Diego (September 2003), together with MobiCom 2003; the 4th MobiDE workshop was held in Baltimore (June 2005). In 2006, MobiDE was organized in Chicago (June 2006). The 6th MobiDE was held in Beijing, China (June 2007). The 7th MobiDE was held in Vancouver, Canada in June 2008. MobiDE 2009 was held in Providence, Rhode Island in June 2009, and MobiDE 2010 was held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June 2010. The last six MobiDE workshops were held together with the SIGMOD conference. The workshop will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in data management for mobile and wireless access. The topics of interest related to mobile and wireless data engineering include, but are not limited to:

* ad-hoc networked databases
* consistency maintenance and management
* context-aware data access and query processing
* data caching, replication and view materialization
* data publication modes: push, broadcast, and multicast
* data server models and architectures
* database issues for moving objects: storing, indexing, etc.
* energy-efficient techniques for mobile data management
* m-commerce
* mobile access and sensing with smart phones
* mobile agent models and languages
* mobile data management in the cloud
* mobile database privacy and security
* mobile databases in scientific, medical, and engineering applications
* mobile peer-to-peer applications and services
* mobile sensor network databases
* mobile transaction models and management
* mobile web services
* mobile workflow management
* mobility-aware data mining and warehousing
* mobility awareness and adaptability
* pervasive computing
* prototype design of mobile databases
* quality of service for mobile databases
* static sensor network databases
* transaction migration, recovery and commit processing
* wireless multimedia systems
* wireless web

The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides paper presentations, time will be allocated to open discussion forums, informal discussions or panels. In addition to regular papers, vision or work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or open challenges are especially encouraged. Proposals for panels on newly-emerging or controversial topics are also especially welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE)
Abstract Registration: Mon, March 21, 2011 (midnight EST)
Regular Paper Submissions: Mon, March 28, 2011 (midnight EST)
Notification of acceptance: Mon, May 2, 2011
Camera-ready version due: Mon, May 16, 2011
Workshop date: Sunday, Jun 12, 2011

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. Electronic versions of the papers will be included in the ACM DL and DiSC'11. All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Detailed submission information will be posted on the web site of the workshop (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~mobide11/). Full research papers should be formatted in the ACM proceedings format and be at most 8 double-columned pages in 9pt font.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Hui Lei
IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
E-mail: hlei@us.ibm.com
Suman Nath
Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
E-mail: sumann@microsoft.com

Program Co-Chairs:
George Kollios
Department of Computer Science
Boston University
Email: gkollios@cs.bu.edu
Yufei Tao
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Publicity Chair:
Mohamed Sharaf
University of Queensland
m.sharaf@uq.edu.au

Publication Chair:
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
University of Pittsburgh
kpele@sis.pitt.edu

STEERING COMMITTEE
Panos K. Chrysanthis University of Pittsburgh, USA
Phillip B. Gibbons Intel Research Pittsburgh
Evaggelia Pitoura University of Ioannina, Greece
Demetris Zeinalipour University of Cyprus, Cyprus

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Yannis Kotidis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA
Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri Uni. of Science and Technology, USA
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway
Stavros Papadopoulos, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Claudia Roncancio, Grenoble INP / LIG, France
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
Mohamed A. Sharaf, University of Queensland, Australia
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Vassilis Tsotras, University of California Riverside, USA
Stratis D. Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
Xiaokui Xiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Workshop on Interdependent Networks (WIN2011) at the 22nd ACM Hypertext 2011

CFP: Workshop on Interdependent Networks: Quality, Influence and Evolution in Social and Information Networks (WIN2011)

at the 22nd ACM Hypertext 2011 which will be held in Eindhoven, NL on June

6-9 2011.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ht2011win/

The emergence of new social technologies has not only changed our everyday life but also has led to new forms of collective information goods such as media collections, commentary and software. Innovative online production systems have been designed for people to share their ideas, their experiences and their knowledge enabling the collaborative production of such information goods.
The nature of these collective information goods produced using online production systems ranges from pooled information (e.g., Flickr, del.icio.us, Slashdot) to structured information (e.g., Wikipedia, Factual.com), and tightly coupled information (e.g., open source software). This spectrum describes both the coupling of the components of an information good as well as to what extent certain coordination, communication and collaboration processes between participants were required to develop this good. Concretely, these information goods consist of a social dimension which comprises links between people based on their interactions and the information dimension which are links based on syntactic, semantic or logical relations within these goods. Thus, to effectively understand collective information goods, one must take a multi-dimensional approach that addresses the interdependence between social relationships and the networked information that those relationships produce.
Only recently have researchers begun to study the collective information goods using multi-dimensional approaches. This workshop aims to bring together experts in network analysis, information networks, semantics and social media to further the development and exchange of knowledge around computational network analysis methods for multi-dimensional networks. We are particularly interested in work that convers the following three areas:
* Quality - how do we measure quality of a collective information good using network analysis? What is the relationship between quality information and reputation? How do online production systems cater for quality?
* Influence - how do we measure the influence of information networks on social networks and vice versa? Are types of networks more influential than others?
* Evolution - how do information and social networks co-evolve? What techniques can be used for measuring and describing evolution?

+++Topics include+++
* Models of influence in social media including Twitter, Facebook and others
* Measures and techniques for assessing quality in online production systems such as reputation systems in Wikipedia
* Measures and techniques for assessing influence in online production systems
* Empirical studies of influence, quality and evolution in social media
* Approaches towards influencing users and quality in online production systems
* (Co-)evolution of social and information networks
* Network visualizations of quality, influence and evolution

+++Important Dates+++
April 1, 2011: Submission Date
April 29, 2011: Notification Date
May 10, 2011: Early conference registration deadline
June 6, 2011: Workshop Date

+++Contributions+++
We invite paper submissions consisting of original, unpublished research that is not under review by another conference, journal, or workshop. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to present their work at the workshop, and at least one author of each paper must register for the workshop. Submissions should be six (6) pages in length and should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair.
All accepted papers will be included in the online workshop proceedings, which will be published via CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/).

+++ Organizers+++
Paul Groth, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria and Palo Alto Research Center, USA

+++Program Committee+++
Fabian Abel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wouter van Atteveldt, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Pablo Castels, Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid, Spain
Marcelo Cataldo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Denis Helic, TU Graz, Austria
Lichan Hong, PARC, USA
George Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Sheila Kinsela, DERI NUI Galway, Ireland
Christian Körner TU Graz, Austria
Kristina Lerman, Information Science Institute - USC, USA
Jacco van Ossebruggen, CWI, The Netherlands
Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Camille Roth, CNRS, France
Jérôme Kunegis, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Bongwon Suh, PARC, USA
Sharoda Paul, PARC, USA
Shenghui Wang, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arkaitz Zubiaga, UNED, Spain

International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2011)

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS

International Conference on Signal Processing and

Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP 2011

Website: http://sigmap.icete.org

July 18 - 21, 2011

Seville, Spain

In cooperation with IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), SWIM (Special Interest Group on Software Interprise Modeling), ATI (Asociacion de Tecnicos de Informatica),
CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), FIDETIA (Fundacion para la Investigacion y el Desarrollo de las Tecnologias de la Informacion en Andalucia), INES (Iniciativa Española de Software y Servicios) and ACM SIGMM (ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia)

In collaboration with the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, University of Seville
Sponsored by INSTICC
INSTICC is member of WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition)

Important Deadlines:
Position Paper Submission: April 8, 2011
Authors Notification (position papers): May 4, 2011
Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: May 17, 2011
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations,
methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topics.

BORL
The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster". Please check further details about position papers submission at the conference web site
(http://www.sigmap.icete.org/submission_guidelines.asp).
SIGMAP 2011 is part of the International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2011) that has 5 more conferences with very strong synergies between them, namely:
- DCNET: Int'l Conference on Data Communication Networking (http://dcnet.icete.org)
- ICE-B: Int'l Conference on e-Business (http://ice-b.icete.org)
- OPTICS: Int'l Conference on Optical Communication Systems (http://optics.icete.org)
- SECRYPT: Int'l Conference on Security and Cryptography (http://secrypt.icete.org)
- WINSYS: Int'l Conf on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (http://winsys.icete.org)

These six concurrent conferences are held in parallel and registration to one warrants delegates to attend all six. ICETE is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 422 submissions, 11% were accepted as full papers, 18% were presented as short papers and 14% as posters.
The conference program features a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, namely:
- Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan, China
- Vincenzo Piuri, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Enrique Cabello, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.icete.org/keynote_speakers.asp
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
Additionally, a short list of papers presented at the conference, will also be selected for publication in the CEPIS UPGRADE Journal and in the REICIS Journal. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.sigmap.icete.org/best_paper_awards.asp).
In addition to these six conferences, ICETE will also include some satellite events (workshops), that will provide a more interactive and focused platform for presenting and discussing new and emerging ideas.

WORKSHOPS:
Regular Paper Submission Deadline: March 14, 2011
* Applications of Cooperative Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks (ACWAdSN 2011)
* Model-Based and Policy-Based Engineering in Information Security (MPEIS 2011)
http://www.icete.org/workshops.asp

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please contact the secretariat. Workshop chairs
and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, U.S.A.
Jose Sevillano, University of Seville, Spain
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Alejandro Linares Barranco, University of Seville, Spain
George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
TOPIC AREAS:
AREA 1: MULTIMEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
> Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting
> Architecture and Protocols
> Performance Measurement and Evaluation, QoS.
> Mobile Multimedia (GSM, GPRS, RF, Wi-Fi,.)
> Multimedia Security and Cryptography
> MPEG Standards and Related Issues
> Interactive Multimedia: Games and Digital Television
> Multimedia Devices
AREA 2: MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING
> Image and Video Processing, Compression and Segmentation
> Multidimensional Signal Processing
> Multimodal Signal Processing
> Biometrics and Pattern Recognition
> Education in Signal Processing
> Neural Networks, Spiking Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic
> Perceptual/Human Audiovisual System Modeling
> Sensors and Multimedia
AREA 3: MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
> Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
> Authentication and Watermarking
> Distributed Multimedia Systems
> Multimedia Authoring, Editing and Sharing
> Human-Machine Interface
> Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
> Audio and Video Quality Assessment
> e-Learning, e-Commerce and e-Society Applications
> Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
> Biomedical Applications
> Location Based Applications
> 3D Virtual Environments and Surveillance Applications
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available at http://www.sigmap.icete.org/program_committee.asp

Please check further details at the conference website (http://sigmap.icete.org).

PhD Position in Privacy and Social Networks at K.U. Leuven

PhD Position in Privacy and Social Networks at K.U. Leuven

Do you like the Web and sharing in online social networks, but get worried about who might see these data and what might happen with them? Are you wondering where the present challenges of privacy, leaking, hiding and sharing will lead? Would you like to seek answers from a computational perspective, but with the open mind, curiosity and persistence to also work on interdisciplinary solutions? Do you hold a Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field and have a background in data mining techniques as well as a keen interest in the wider field of privacy studies? Then you should consider applying for a PhD position in the FWO project "Privacy and Social Networks". The position offers exciting possibilities of working in a number of nested contexts:

* with the Web Mining group
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~berendt/udm.html


* with the partner groups in the "Privacy and Social Networks"
project: https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/index.html,
http://adrem.ua.ac.be/adrem


* with the related interdisciplinary project SPION ("Security and
Privacy for Online Social Networks"):
http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/spion


* in the Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.kuleuven.be) of
KU Leuven (http://www.kuleuven.be)

Please send enquiries and applications (a CV including certificates/transcripts and a meaningful motivation letter) to Bettina Berendt at berendt.psn@gmail.com by 18 March.

2nd RE Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Electronic Voting Systems (REVOTE'11)

Call for Papers 

2nd RE Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Electronic Voting Systems (REVOTE'11) 

August 29, 2011 Trento, Italy

URL: http://ed.fbk.eu/revote/

On behalf of the 2nd RE Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Electronic Voting Systems (REVOTE'11) program committee, we invite you to submit papers covering all aspects of e-voting systems including, but not limited to, requirements, system development, and experimentation.
The focus of REVOTE'11 is the identification of best-practices for the engineering of e-voting system requirements and business process models, and to improve the current specification and development of the e-voting system standards and accreditation (certification) processes.
The Program Committee strongly encourages cross-disciplinary interactions between fields, including, but not limited to, requirements engineering, business process reengineering, formal analysis, and policy. Convincing results based on well-established techniques (e.g., an integrated analysis of the voting scenarios and clear allocation of the requirements for the different components of an election system) will be strongly favored.
We will also select position papers that show potential to stimulate or catalyze further research and explorations of new directions in e-voting, including preliminary results. Papers are solicited on topics in all areas relating to e-voting, specifically:
- The role of business process (re)engineering techniques for e-voting system development.
- Usability requirements for complexity (huge, complex ballots sheets) and for verifiability mechanisms and tradeoffs between different other requirements.
- New requirements like unconditional election secrecy, complaints management, transparency.
- Empirical analysis concerning the impact of poorly specified requirements on current e-voting technology.
- The role of formal methods in specification and verification of system properties, with particular interest in security, verifiability and anonymity.
- Evaluation of systems according to security and usability requirements.
- Requirements maintenance, domain engineering and (software) product lines.
- Usability requirements for verifiability mechanisms and tradeoffs between different other requirements.
- Legal requirements, deducing technical requirements from legal ones.
-Analysis of voting requirements documents and requirements capture processes, including those that predate e-voting.
- Procedural Security modeling and Analysis.
- New protocol ideas to support specific requirements (such as verifiability).
-Realistic threat models.

Submissions are due May 25, 2011, at 11:59:59pm Apia, Samoa time). For submission guidelines and more information, please see the complete Call for Papers at http://ed.fbk.eu/revote/index.php?p=call
REVOTE '11 will be co-located with the 19th IEEE Requirement Engineering Conference (RE'11), which will take place August 29 - September 2nd, 2011. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Ruediger Grimm, University of Koblenz (DE)
Melanie Volkamer, CASED (DE)
Steve Schneider, Surrey University (UK)
Komminist Weldemariam, FBK (IT)
REVOTE'11 Organizers
revote11@easychair.org

6th Int'l Conf. on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2011) - Position Papers

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS

6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software

Engineering - ENASE 2011

Website: http://www.enase.org

June 8 - 11, 2011 

Beijing, China

Hosted by Beijing Jiaotong University

Submission deadline: March 7, 2011

Let me kindly inform you that the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2011), to be held in Beijing, China (8 - 11 June, 2011) is now welcoming the submission of position papers. The submission deadline is scheduled for next March 7th. A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper". BPYB ENASE 2011 will be held in Beijing, China next June 8-11 and will be hosted by the Beijing Jiaotong University. It will be held in conjuction with ICEIS 2011 (http://www.iceis.org) and LISS 2011 (http://www.liss.scitevents.org).
Registration to one of the conferences warrants free attendance to any technical sessions of the other ones.
ENASE is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 70 submissions, 27% were accepted as full papers and 16% were presented as short papers.
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. Revised and extended versions of all full papers which are presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.enase.org).

ENASE Website: http://www.enase.org
June 8 - 11, 2011
Beijing, China

IMPORTANT DATES:
Position Paper Submission: March 7, 2011
Authors Notification (position papers): April 5, 2011
Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: April 15, 2011

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
* Software and Systems Development Methodologies
* "3A" (Agile, Aspect-oriented and Agent-oriented) Software Engineering
* Service-oriented Software Engineering and Management
* Component-based Software Engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Systems
* Model-driven Engineering
* Meta Programming Systems and Meta-modeling
* Knowledge Management and Engineering
* Architectural Design and Meta Architectures
* Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering
* Process-centric Paradigms
* Service-oriented Architectures
* Service Science
* Application Integration Technologies
* Enterprise Integration Strategies and Patterns
* e-Business Technologies
* Requirements Engineering Frameworks and Models
* Collaborative Requirements Management Systems
* Business and Software Modeling Languages
* Software Quality Management
* Software Change and Configuration Management
* Geographically Distributed Software Development Environments
* Cross-feeding between Data and Software Engineering
* Design Thinking as a Paradigm for Software Development
* Formal Methods
* Software Process Improvement


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Harold Krikke
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Xuewei Li
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Kecheng Liu
University of Reading, U.K.
Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland
Yannis A. Phillis
Technical University of Crete, Greece
Shoubo Xu
Chinese Academy of Engineering / Beijing Jiaotong University, China
For more information please visit the conference website:
http://www.enase.org/keynote_speakers.asp

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Joaquim Filipe
Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~
Wroclaw, Poland
Kang Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available at http://www.enase.org/call_for_papers.asp
WORKSHOPS
Workshops Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: March 7, 2011
Authors Notification: March 29, 2011
Final Paper Submission and Registration: April 8, 2011

3rd International Workshop on Model-Driven Architecture and Modeling-Driven
Software Development - MDA & MDSD 2011
http://www.enase.org/MDA_MDSD.asp
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Janis Osis
Riga Technical University
Latvia
Oksana Nikiforova
Riga Technical University
Latvia

1st International Workshop on Evaluating Cloud Computing and Services -
EVACCS 2011
http://www.enase.org/EVACCS.asp
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Parastoo Mohagheghi
SINTEF and NTNU
Norway
Muhammad Ali Babar
IT University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Yanbo Han
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

1st International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies
- EAST 2011
http://www.enase.org/EAST.asp
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
He Zhang
National ICT Australia
University of New South Wales
Australia
Ye Yang
Institute of Software,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Reidar Conradi
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway

World Wide Web Journal Special Issue on Social Networks and Social Web Mining

CALL FOR PAPERS

World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ) - Springer

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280

Special Issue on

Social Networks & Social Web Mining

CFP in PDF: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-11280-20110218.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1083637-p35553315

Background and Scope

Nowadays the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites ¨C Facebook, LinkedIn, wikis ¨C Wikipedia, microblogging - Twitter and folksonomies ¨C Delicious, Flickr and so on, brings in tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. And along with the interactions between users and computers, social Web is rapidly becoming an important part of our digital experience, ranging from digital textual information to rich multimedia formats.

Social networks have played an important role in different domains for about one decade, particularly involved in a broad range of social activities like user interaction, establishing friendship relationships, sharing and recommending resources, suggesting friends, creating groups and communities, commenting friends activities and opinions and so on.

These aspects and characteristics form the most active and challenging parts of Web 2.0. a large amount of challenges and opportunities have arisen with the propagation and popularity of new applications and technologies. A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast volume of data to extract, represent and exploit meaningful knowledge, and to leverage structures and dynamics of emerging social networks residing in the social Web, especially social media. Social networks and social Web mining combines data mining with social Web computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities for developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content mining to link mining and community detection and so on.

The primary goal of this special issue is to showcase the cutting edge research advances on the intersection of Social Web, Social Network and Data mining, in order to provide a landscape of research progresses and application potentials in related areas. We are interested in not only, the papers with strong algorithmic innovations, but also the works with solid application-oriented experiment evaluations. More specialized topics within Social Web Mining and Social Networks include, but are not limited to the following:

?    Computational models for social media
?    Graph and matrix methods for computational social science
?    Probabilistic models for computational social science
?    Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
?    Data management in collaborative open applications
?    Collaborative filtering and content ranking using social media
?    Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation
?    Web2.0 and Collaborative Tagging
?    Link analysis and network structure discovery
?    Community detection and evolution
?    Search in social networks and social media
?    Interoperability among social applications and social media
?    Techniques for social network analysis/mining and for the analysis of social media phenomena
?    Blog search and retrieval
?    User behaviour modeling
?    Social media analysis
?    Social aspects of Blogosphere
?    Web mining algorithms and Web communities
?    Semantic Web
?    Semantic Web Mining
?    Adversarial blogging and counter measures
?    Contextual advertising
?    Opinion mining
?    Sentiment and Search
?    Social navigation and visualization
?    Application of social Web mining
?    Applications of social network analysis


Important Dates:

Submission deadline:    July 1, 2011
Notification:           September 1, 2011
Final Version due:      November. 1, 2011
Publication:            Early 2012

Submission Guidelines

Manuscript preparation: Instructions for Authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280

Manuscript submission: http://www.editorialmanager.com/wwwj/

When submitting, select SI: Social Networks & Social Web Mining.


Guest Editors

Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia, guandong.xu@vu.edu.au
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, yu@se.cuhk.edu.hk

Learning Analytics for the Lifelong Long Tail Learner

Wim Westera from the OUNL was so kind to invite me for a presentation at CELSTEC. After being in Heerlen, I want to share the slides with all the people attending the meeting as well with everybody else interested in learning analytics.

Learning Analytics for the Lifelong Long Tail Learner

View more presentations from Ralf Klamma

4th Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS 2011)

SNS 2011: 4th Workshop on Social Network Systems, April 10, Salzburg, Austria.

Web site: http://research.microsoft.com/ldg/sns2011.aspx

The fourth workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS 2011) will gather researchers to discuss novel ideas about computer systems and social networks. Online social networks are among the most popular sites on the Web and continue to grow rapidly. They provide mechanisms to establish identities, share information, and create relationships. The resulting social graph provides a basis for communicating, distributing and locating
content. This workshop will focus on the systems issues of online social networks, including the following infrastructure support for social networks (including distributed systems, databases, and storage systems, ways of leveraging social networks in systems design, and measurement and analysis of existing deployed social networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
• Management and querying of large social graphs.
• Graph query engines and query optimization for online processing
• Support for consistency among concurrent readers and writers to a large distributed social graph.
• Partitioning large social graphs.
• Data storage and organization.
• Benchmarking, modeling, and workload characterization.
• Crawlers and other mechanisms for observing social network structure.
• Experiences with deployed systems.
• Leveraging social network properties in systems design.
• Issues of privacy and security.
• Tools for designing and deploying social networks.
• Application programming interfaces for social networks.
• System support for social analytics and network dynamics.
• Methods for integrating multiple networks.
• Performance measurement and analysis of online social networks systems.

Workshop Organization:


Chairs
Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft Research)
Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge)


Program Committee
Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)
Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL)
Yuxiong He (Microsoft Research)
Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA)
Ant Rowstron (Microsoft Research)
Tao Stein (Facebook)
Joe Sventek (University of Glasgow)
Steering Committee
Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge)
Eran Gabber (Google)
Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA)
Tao Stein (Facebook)

Important Dates:
Paper submission: 4 March 2011, 11:59 PM PST
Acceptance notification: 14 March 2011
Camera-ready: 21 March 2011
Workshop date: 10 April 2011

Venue:
Workshop is collocated with EuroSys 2011 in Salzburg, Austria.

ACM Multimedia 2011 -- Description of the Areas

ACM Multimedia 2011

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Nov.28-Dec.1, 2011

http://www.acmmm11.org

*Description of the Areas*
Starting with ACM Multimedia 2011, the conference will have ten areas, instead of the familiar tracks of content, systems, applications and human-centered computing. The introduction of areas allows the community to solicit papers from a wide range of timely multimedia-related topics. For example, this change has allowed us to focus on crosscutting topics, including scalability and mobility, as areas of interest.
When submitting a paper, you should select the primary area that best matches the primary focus of your submission. The selection of a secondary area is optional; select the secondary area when the research crosses over to other areas.

List of areas:
1/ multi-modal integration and understanding in the imperfect world,
2/ media analysis and search,
3/ scalability in media processing, analysis, and applications,
4/ multimedia systems and middleware,
5/ media transport and sharing,
6/ multimedia security,
7/ media authoring and production,
8/ location-based and mobile multimedia,
9/ human, social, and educational aspects of multimedia,
10/ arts and contemporary digital culture.

Please check the ACM Multimedia 2011 web site to get a description of the scope of each area as well as the name of the area chairs. See: http://www.acmmm11.org/content-areas.html

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The Second International Workshop on Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom (CTUW'11)

 The Second International Workshop on Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom (CTUW'11)

August 18-20, 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada
In conjunction with
10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC 2011)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc2011/

Recent years, many new theories and technologies for Web Wisdom have made the Web much wiser. Among these technologies, Cognitive-based text understanding (CTU) is one of the newest directions of Web Wisdom and should be paid more attention to. The machine understanding of Web resources is the basis of Web Wisdom. Cognitive Informatics (CI) is an emerging discipline that studies the natural intelligence, internal information processing mechanisms of the brain and the processes involved in perception and cognition as well. CTU simulates the cognitive process of human brain understanding text, so it takes advantage of cognitive theories to make the machine understanding of Web resources effectively and promotes Web Wisdom to a great extent.

The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of Web Wisdom (especially the aspect of Cognitive-based text understanding). The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

・         Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Representation

・         Cognitive-based Text Complexity Measurement

・         Cognitive-based Text Readability Measurement

・         Cognitive-based Text Trust Measurement

・         Cognitive-based Interactive Computing

・         Cognitive-based Web Mining and Information Retrieval

・         Theories and Practices of World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)

・         Data Link and Semantic Link

・         Cognitive Models and Computational Models for W4

・         Web Knowledge Organization and Fusion

・         Web Knowledge Flow

・         Web-based Cooperation model

・         Intelligent Web Searching and Services

Submission Requirements：
An electronic copy of papers in PDF format in English should be also submitted to EasyChair-ICCICC'11 via https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iccicc2011 by March 16, 2011 with detailed information of author(s). Full papers should be around 6-8 pages in length in IEEE double column format as posted in the web site.

Publication of Papers：
The proceedings of ICCI*CC'11 will be published by IEEE CS Press and indexed by EI and DBLP. Selected papers will be published in International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), and others.

Important Dates：
Full paper submission due: March 16, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2011
Camera-ready paper due: May 16, 2011
Conference presentation: August 18-20, 2011

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China

Program Committee：
Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK
Chantal Soule-Dupuy, Université de Toulouse, France
Didier Schwab, University of Grenoble, France
Farhad Arbab, Leiden University, Netherlands
Feiyue Ye, Shanghai University, China
Florence Sèdes, Université de Toulouse, France
Jan van Leeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA
Michael Zock, LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France
Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany
Roche Christophe, Université de Savoie, France
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Styliani K. Loizou, University of Leeds, UK
Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China
Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China
Xiao Wei, Shanghai University, China

For enquiries, please contact luoxf@shu.edu.cn

IEEE TLT Special Section on: Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching Support in Higher Education

Submission deadline 1 April 2011 - tentative publication: October-November issue 2011

Call For Papers: Special Section of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technology
(http://www.computer.org/tlt):

SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING SUPPORT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Guest Editors: Hugh Davis, David Millard, Thanassis Tiropanis
University of Southampton – Electronics and Computer Science – Learning
Societies Lab
{hcd, dem, tt2}@ecs.soton.ac.uk


AIMS
Semantic Web technologies appear to hold the promise of providing efficient support for learning and teaching in Higher Education (HE) institutions. Initially, semantic technology adoption was hindered by issues such as
ontology consensus, large-scale annotation of learning content, and the underpinning pedagogy. However, the emergence of Web 2.0 strategies for learning content annotation and linked data approaches to data  integration seem to introduce a fresh and promising perspective. There have been recent reports identifying the potential of semantic technologies and linked data in terms of addressing HE challenges. For example, the JISC-funded SemTech report outlined a roadmap for semantic technology adoption in Higher Education, and the Linked Data Horizon Scan provides recommendations for the effective use of linked data in the HE sector. The emerging linked data movement appears to bring significant value in terms of interoperability, well-formed metadata, data integration, reasoning across resources, and novel ways of collaboration and  personalization, which can provide better support for learning and teaching in HE and which benefit
teachers, students, and staff. In addition, innovative approaches that use semantic technologies for argumentation support and critical thinking are being developed. There are opportunities and challenges in this emerging era of semantic technology adoption that need to be considered and addressed. This special section invites high quality long and short papers that report work analyzing these challenges and testing different strategies to address them.

TOPICS
Papers are invited including (but not limited to) work in any of the following areas:
- Semantic applications for Learning Support in Higher Education
- Use of linked data in repositories inside or across institutions
- Collaborative learning and critical thinking enabled by semantic applications
- Interoperability among universities based on Semantic Web standards
- Ontologies and reasoning to support pedagogical models
- Transition from soft semantics and lightweight knowledge modelling to machine processable, hard semantics
- University workflows using Semantic Web applications and standards

SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt/author). Please be sure to select
the special issue when submitting through ScholarOne Manuscripts. The manuscripts should not have been published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

DATES
Deadline for paper submission: 1 April 2011
Notification following first review: 23 May 2011
Revisions due: 17 June 2011
Final decision notification: 29 July 2011
Camera-ready version due: 29 August 2011
Publication date: October-December issue 2011 (tentative)

Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011)

First CALL FOR PAPERS

RecSys 2011: Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

http://recsys.acm.org/2011/

October, 2011

Chicago, IL, USA

Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: May 9, 2011

Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2011

We are pleased to invite you once again to participate in the premier annual event on research and applications of recommendation technologies, the Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. The previous conferences have been distinguished by a strong level of interaction between practitioners and researchers in the sharing of ideas, problems and solutions, and the 2011 conference will continue in this tradition. The fully-refereed proceedings will be published by the ACM and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from
collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Therefore, topics of interest for RecSys 2011 include (but are not limited to):

* Case studies of recommender system implementations
* Computational advertising
* Conversational recommender systems
* Context-aware and multidimensional recommender systems
* Evaluation of recommender systems
* Group recommenders
* Impact of recommenders in practice
* Innovative recommender applications
* Machine learning and recommender systems
* Novel paradigms of recommender systems
* Personalization
* Preference elicitation
* Recommendation algorithms
* Recommendation in social networks
* Recommender system interfaces
* Scalability of recommendation techniques
* Security, privacy, trust, and robustness
* Semantic web technologies for recommender systems
* Theoretical aspects of recommender systems
* User modeling and recommender systems
* User studies

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposals: March 21
Deadline for abstracts (mandatory for long/short papers): May 9, 11.59 pm (PST)
Paper submission deadline: May 16, 11.59 pm (PST)
Paper Acceptance Notifications: July 15
Workshop paper submission deadline: July, 25
Doctoral Symposium Applications: to be announced
Camera-ready copy: August 7
Workshop papers acceptance notification: August, 19

PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION
All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically in PDF format. RecSys 2011 submissions should be prepared according to the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. For your convenience, we provide
paper templates in Microsoft Word and LaTeX on the conference website. More details on the submission procedure will be available soon at the conference website http://recsys.acm.org/2011/
There are two paper submission categories:
- LONG PAPER submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format.
- SHORT PAPER submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. Each accepted short paper will be presented in a poster/demo session. The presentation may include a
system demonstration. The maximum length is 4 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Bamshad Mobasher, General Chair,
DePaul University, USA
Robin Burke, General Chair,
DePaul University, USA
Dietmar Jannach, Program Chair,
TU Dortmund, Germany
Gediminas Adomavicius, Program Chair,
University of Minnesota, USA

VLDB 2011 Omnibus Call For Submissions

VLDB is a premier annual international forum for data management and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. This year's conference will be held August 29-September 3, in Seattle, WA, USA. The conference will feature research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. It will cover current issues in data management, database and information systems research. VLDB 2011 is now welcoming submissions for all tracks, and deadlines are approaching. Please consider submitting your best work to the conference. A brief list of dates is given below; please follow links for more information.

- Research Track final deadline: 3/1/2011.
http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/5
- Industrial and Applications Track deadline: 3/31/2011.
http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/15
- Tutorial proposal deadline: 3/31 2011.
http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/13

- Challenges and Visions Track deadline: 4/1/2011.
http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/17
- PhD Workshop Track deadline: 4/1/2011.
http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/16
- Demonstration proposal deadline: 4/1/2011.
http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/14

4th International Conference on Interactive Computer-Aided Blended Learning (ICBL 2011)

 4th International Conference on Interactive Computer-Aided Blended Learning

2-4 November 2011 in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

www.icbl-conference.org

ICBL 2011 Call for Papers

                                                                               
This interdisciplinary conference aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive computer aided blended learning. Therefore pilot projects, applications and products will also be welcome. This conference will be organized by Galileo University (Research and Development Department GES), Guatemala in cooperation with:

  International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)

  IEEE Foundation

  IEEE Education Society (IEEE EduSoc)

  The International E-Learning Association (IELA)

Invited Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rob Reilly Ed.D. (President IEEE Education Society)

* Submission instructions: *
Please visit icbl website, submission through https://www.conftool.net/icbl-conference

* Types of contributions *

• Full Papers (peer reviewed, 20 minutes presentation followed by a panel discussion)
• Short Papers (15 minutes presentation)
• Interactive Demonstrations (15 minutes presentation, also on-line demonstrations)
• Round Table Discussions (work in progress, doctoral thesis discussions, research cooperation with LA)
• Poster Presentations

* Important dates *

• 31 March 2011 Submission of full and short papers
• 15 April 2011 Submission of 2 pages extended abstract for other contributions
• 15 June 2011 Notification of acceptance, authors' registration
• 15 September 2011 Camera-ready due and registration
• 2-4 November 2011 Conference ICBL2011

* Proceedings *
All accepted submissions will be published in the ICBL2011 proceedings (with ISBN – Kassel University Press).

For a full version of the CfP visit: http://icbl.galileo.edu/documents/ICBL_CfP_2011_Guatemala.pdf

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

*  Collecting experiences and needs of Education Institutions/Organizations in e-Learning
     o Advanced strategies and conceptions
     o Best praxis
     o Advanced methods
     o Teaching/Learning strategies
     o Regional differences
     o Language learning
     o Embedded learning and learning on demand
     o Knowledge management and learning
     o Quality assurance, sustainability
     o Cost-effectiveness
     o Education policies
     o Digital divide and learning
* Technology-Enhanced Learning methodologies, tools
     o Platforms and authoring tools
     o Environments and tools for e-learning / m-learning / lifelong learning
     o Language Learning Platforms and authoring tools
     o CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning)
     o GIS (Geographical Information Systems) in Education
     o LBS (Location-Based Services) for TEL
     o Mash-Up technologies
     o Networks/Grids for learning
     o Adaptive learning environments
     o Responsive environments
     o Tools for interactive learning and teaching
     o Methods of content adaptation
     o Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process
* Individual, social & organizational learning processes
     o Knowledge management and learning
     o Workplace learning
     o Learning orchestration
     o Ubiquitous learning
     o Context-aware learning
     o Self-regulated and Self-directed learning
     o Cultural awareness
* Pedagogical and psychological issues
     o New learning models and applications
     o New roles of the instructor & learner
     o Problem and project based learning
     o Collaborative knowledge building
     o Serious game-based and simulated-based learning
     o Story-telling and relfection-based learning
     o Instructional design and learning design approaches
     o Teaching techniques and strategies for blended learning
     o Evaluation and outcomes assessment
     o Social networks for learning
* Technical and theoretical issues
     o Learning Objects and Reusability
     o Platforms and authoring tools
     o Applications of the Semantic Web
     o Remote and virtual laboratories
     o Standards and style-guides
     o Hypermedia applications and virtual reality worlds
     o Ubiquous computing
     o Digital HDTV and 3DTV supporting learning
     o Embedded learning and learning ond demand
     o Human-centered computing
     o Accesible learning for all: visual, hearing and physical impairments
     o Standards about accessibility and learning
   * Real world experiences
   * Mobile applications in learning
   * Pilot projects / Products / Applications

For more information and questions visit:  www.icbl-conference.org
Contact:   icbl@galileo.edu
                info@icbl-conference.org

Asia-Pacific Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2011 (APTEL 2011)

Call for Papers

Asia-Pacific Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2011 (APTEL 2011)

http://www.aptel.org

http://elearning.teldap.tw/aptel2011/

Conference Date: August 12-14, 2011

Conference Venue: Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China

APTEL2011 provides a forum for researchers who study technology enhanced learning to publish research findings and exchange experiences in conducting related projects. The main theme of this year’s APTEL is Technology Enhanced Language Learning. Best papers will be invited for submission to the following journals. Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL), International Journal of Digital Learning Technology, Educational Technology & Society.

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

–        Affective and Pervasive Computing for Learning

–        Classroom, Ubiquitous and Mobile Technologies Enhanced Learning (CUMTEL)

–        Development and applications of digital content for e-learning

–        Discipline-based cases for e-learning

–        e-Learning Accessibility (EA)

–        Emerging tools and technologies for e-learning

–        Game-based Learning

–        Information Society & Culture (ISC)

–        Innovative Design of Learning Software (IDOLS)

–        Joyful Learning & Society (JL&S)

–        Learning and Knowledge Management

–        Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning

–        Social computing in e-learning

–        Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)

–        Technology Enhanced Science Learning (TESL)

–        Technology Facilitated Testing and Assessment (TFTA)

–        Theoretical foundations for e-learning

–        Trends in content/courseware development

Paper Submissions

–        Maximum length: 8 pages, A4 size

–        Language: English

–        Online submission: http://elearning.teldap.tw/aptel2011/

–        Submission guidelines: Visithttp://elearning.teldap.tw/aptel2011/  

Important Dates

–        Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2011

–        Author Notification: June 1, 2011

–        Final Paper Deadline: June 15, 2011

–        Conference Date: August 12-14, 2011

Hosting Organizations

–        Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an

–        Tsinghua University, Beijing

Organizing Organization

–        International Collaboration on e-Learning Project, TELDAP, Taiwan

Contacts

–        Prof. Gangshan Fu, fugsh@snnu.edu.cn, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an

–        Prof. Wenlan Zhang, wenlan19@163.com, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an

–        Prof. Xibin Han, hanxb@tsinghua.edu.cn, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Tour information

–        http://en1.xian-tourism.com/