Multimedia on the Web 2011: Deadline Extension until 06.05.2011 & MTAP Special Issue Announcement

IMPORTANT WORKSHOP UPDATES

Submission Deadline Extended until 06.05.2011 

CfP Update: MTAP Special Issue granted for selected extended workshop paper!

MMWeb2011 // Workshop on Multimedia on the Web

in conjunction with i-Know and i-Semantics 2011

8th September 2011, Graz, Austria

http://www.mmweb2011.org/

Streaming video has recently surpassed peer-to-peer networks in terms of network capacity hunger. Reports estimate a share of 40% of peak network capacity dedicated to entertainment, mostly streaming video.
A large share of this traffic originates from web based services. YouTube alone takes up to 8% of the prime time internet traffic. So multimedia on the web is currently a big issue. While transmission currently works in a best effort system, multimedia information systemon the web are far from being perfect. Retrieval, annotation, validated and useful metadata, reliable and trusted services, and user interaction and context-based adaptation are still under discussion and allow improvement. Currently, the Web itself faces dramatic changes, looking for example at the spread of social networks, Linked Data or the impact of HTML5 or WebM. These activities also have a deep effect on multimedia data and content provider. Following this, we aim to bring
together researchers from the area of multimedia and the web to discuss innovative ideas and new directions in this workshop.

Topics of interest
We encourage the submission of high quality papers from applied and basic research as well as applications for multimedia on the web. Submissions have to relate to multimedia on the web, or more specifically on the following topics:
* Annotation of multimedia for the web
* Multimedia databases and metadata models
* Multimedia & metadata adaptation
* Multimedia in the social web
* Multimedia user communities
* Multimedia semantics & ontologies for the web
* Proactive delivery and recommender systems
* Semantic multimedia information services
* User interaction & context
* Web based emergence and self-organization
* Web based multimedia search and retrieval

Organization

The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community (http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/)which has already organized  many successful events in the past. The Multimedia Metadata Community aims to extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

Submission

Full paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 4 pages and demo/poster submission to 2 pages. The papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column format. All submitted papers will be issue to a peer review by at least 3 program committee members. All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore.
A special issue in the international journal Multimedia Tools and Applications called "Multimedia on the Web" is guest-edited by the organization committee of the workshop. The submission deadline is shortly after the workshop dates. Best papers of the workshop will be invited to submit to this special MTAP issue.
Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mmweb2011

Important Dates
All papers:
* Submission deadline: May 6, 2011 (extended)
* Notification of acceptance: May 20th, 2011
* Camera ready papers due: June 15th, 2011

Contact
For any requests, please contact: chairs[at]mmweb2011[dot]org

Committees

Chairs:
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria (General Chair)
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA (Co-Chair)
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria (Co-Chair)
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany (Co-Chair)
* Florian Stegmaier, Passau University, Germany (Demo Chair & W3C Liaison)
* Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria (Demo Chair & W3C Liaison)

Workshop Technical Programme Committee
* Marco Bertini (University of Firenze, Italy)
* Tobias Bürger (Capgemini SD&M, Germany)
* Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
* Anna Carreras (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Pablo Cesar (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands)
* Vincent Charvillat (University of Toulouse, France)
* Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, Dijon-France)
* Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
* Jaime Delgado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Thierry Delot (University of Valenciennes, France)
* Mario Doeller (University of Passau, Germany)
* Jean-Pierre Evain (European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland)
* William Grosky (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
* Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany)
* Thomas Kurz (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria)
* Christian Körner (TU Graz, Austria)
* Martha Larson (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
* Erik Mannens (Ghent University, Belgium)
* Klaus Meyer-Wegener (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
* Vincent Oria (University Heights, USA)
* Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
* Dominik Renzel (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
* Silvia Pfeiffer (Vquence, Australia)
* Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
* Marc Spaniol (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)
* Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
* Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France)

Third International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2011)

Third International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks  (CASoN 2011) 

Salamanca, Spain 

October 19-21, 2011 

  http://www.mirlabs.net/cason11

Technically Sponsored by:
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society - Spanish Chapter
IEEE Spain
IEEE IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society (pending approval)

Technically Supported by:
Technical Committee on Soft Computing of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society

Publication: IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) Indexing:
Conference publications published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) are professionally indexed through INSPEC®  http://www.iee.org/publish/inspec/

All CPS conference publications are also submitted for indexing to EI's Engineering Information Index, Compendex®, (Elsevier http://www.ei.org/), and ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings®, ISTP®/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette® (ISI Thomson  http://www.isinet.com/).

IEEE conference publications may also be indexed into specialized indexing services based on their content topic. All abstract and indexing services are operated by independent companies and the IEEE has no control over their editorial practices and policies.

International Journal:
Authors of accepted papers presented at CASoN 2011 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in the following International Journal:
Social Network Analysis and Mining
Lecture Notes in Social Networks
ICST Social Informatics Journal

Objective:
The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks organized in Salamanca, Spain brings together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied to Social Network, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Industrial Workshop/Tutorials and conference sessions will allow individuals interested in the theory, methods, or applications of social network analysis to share ideas and explore common interests.

Welcome to Salamanca, Spain and we look forward to seeing you during CASoN 2011!

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on Social Network computing. Methods such as (but not restricted to) :

Neural Networks and Connectionist Models
Evolutionary Algorithms
Fuzzy Logic
Knowledge Management
Multi-valued Logic
Semantic Networks
Rough Sets
Intelligent Agents
Ontologies
Reinforcement Learning

Applications on Social Networks:

Network evolution
Network evolution and growth mechanisms.
Online communities and computer networks.
Information diffusion in social networks.
Detection of communities by document analysis.
Topology of real networks.

Recommendation
Information diffusion in social networks.
Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations.
Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network.
Classification models and their application in social recommender systems.

Advertisement models
Economical impact of social network discovery.
Social advertising.
Use of social networks for marketing.

Search in network
Web page ranking informed by social media. Search algorithms on social networks.
Collaborative Filtering.

Security
Anomaly detection in social network evolution.
Data protection inside communities. Crime data mining and network analysis.
Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.
Misbehavior detection in communities.

Network geography
Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation.
Social geography.
International Collaborations in e-Social network.

Web
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
Link Topology and Site Hierarchy.
Web mining algorithms.
Web communities.
Web-Based Cooperative Work.

Evaluation
Test collection.
Benchmark creation.
Measures and methodologies.


We invite you to submit a:

 * Full Paper (Upto 6 pages): Oral Presentation is required
 * Short Paper (Upto 4 pages): Poster Presentation

Author Guidelines:
Submission of paper should be made through the submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cason2011
Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE. It is mandatory at least an author registers for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference. Expanded versions of CASoN 2011 selected papers will be published in special issues of internationally referred journals.

Important Dates:
Paper Submission:    June 01, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    July 20, 2011
Camera-ready of accepted papers:    August 20, 2011

Call for Events:
Your idea of CASoN events, such as special sessions, workshops, competitions, panel discussions, demonstration booths, and any others, are welcome. Please describe how to realize, schedule for preparation, estimated cost, and others in a proposal form in free format and submit to the Special Event Chair. They are reviewed taking account of necessary space, cost, time, attractive effects, and others and approved.

Event Proposal Due: May 01, 2011

CASoN 2011 Organizing team:

Honorary Chairs
D.Carolina Blasco - Director of Telecommunication, Regional Government of Castilla y León, Spain
Manuel Castro - IEEE Sección España (Chairman), Spain
Jacinto Canales, President of CCII-Spain, Colegios de Ingeniería en Informática, Spain

General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, EU
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

Program Chairs
Redda Alhaj, University of Calgary, Canada
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Special Events Chair
Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, ESIGETEL, France

Information Contact:
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Dr. Emilio Corchado
Plaza de la Merced,s/n
Faculty of Science.
CP. 37008
University of Salamanca.
Salamanca, Spain
Phone: 0034 616 44 9888
email: escorchado@usal.es

28th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)

CALL FOR RESEARCH and INDUSTRIAL PAPERS

ICDE 2012: 28th International Conference on Data Engineering 

Washington, DC, USA
April 1-5 2012
http://www.icde12.org/

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

The annual ICDE conference addresses research issues in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data-intensive systems and applications. It is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions and industrial papers, as well as proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, and demonstrations.
ICDE 2012 will be held in Washington, DC, USA, April 1-5, 2012. Washington DC is the national capital of USA.  Washington DC is a perfect spot to ring in Spring, with famous and beautiful cherry blossoms, and is a cosmopolitan city brimming with a unique American history.  The conference will be held at Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel near the Regan National Airport.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format and submitted to the CMT system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2012. Research and industrial paper submissions are limited to 12 pages. A paper submitted to ICDE 2012 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2012, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work (other than posters or short papers with a length of up to 4 pages when converted into the IEEE format). Submissions to the industrial program may be paper-length or extended abstracts of 1-2 pages. They should present interesting aspects of commercial products and services and lessons learned from practical usage, not research results or prototypes from industry labs.
Submissions are reviewed in a single-blind manner. Authors of research papers will have an opportunity to give concise feedback on preliminary reviews within a one-week time window.
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings. The online proceedings may be published as early as February 1, 2012.  Accepted papers will be 12 pages long.  The best papers will be selected for extended versions to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the authors do not attend the conference to present their paper.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL PAPERS
Abstract due: July 12, 2011
Full paper submissions due: July 19, 2011
Author feedback time window: Sept 8 - Sep 13, 2011
Notification to authors: Sept. 27, 2011
Final versions due: Nov. 8, 2011
Conference: April 1-5, 2012

*Call for proposals for demos, seminars (tutorials), and workshops are to be issued separately.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION


General Chairs
X. Sean Wang (US NSF & University of Vermont, USA)
Nabil R. Adam (US DHS S&T, Rutgers University, USA)
General Vice Chairs
Alex Brodsky (George Mason University, USA)
Vijay Atluri (Rutgers University, USA)
Program Committee Chairs
Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA)
Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Program Committee Area Vice Chairs
Cloud, data warehousing, and large data
Volker Markl (TU Berlin, Germany)
Data Integration, metadata management, interoperability
Erhard Rahm (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany)
Data Mining and knowledge discovery
Anthony Tung (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Distributed, peer-to-peer, grid, and mobile data management
Aoying Zhou (East Normal University, China)
Indexing and Storage
Lei Chen (University of Science and Technology, Hongkong)
Privacy and Security
Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria, Italy)
Query processing and query optimization
Kaushik Chakrabarti (Microsoft Research USA)
Scientific data and data visualization
Zack Ives (University of Pennsylvania USA)
Semistructured data, RDF, XML
Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France)
Social networks, web, and personal information management
Aris Gionis (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Spatial, temporal, and multimedia data
Heng Tao Shen (University of Queensland, Australia)
Streams, sensor networks, and complex events processing
Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University, USA)
Systems, performance, and transaction management
Bettina Kemme (McGill University, Canada)
Text, graphs, and search
Venkatesh Ganti (Google, USA)
Uncertain and probabilistic data
Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Industrial Program Chairs
Nick Bruno (Microsoft Research, USA)
Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM Research, USA)
Seminars (Tutorial) Chair
Aryya Gangopadhyay(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Workshop Chairs
Sharad Mehrotra (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Panel Chairs
Alex Tuzhilin(New York University, USA)
Michael Gertz (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Poster Chairs
Jaideep Vaidya(Rutgers University, USA)
Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Demo Chairs
Christof Bornhoevd(SAP, Germany)
Richard Goodwin (IBM Research, USA)
Mirek Riedewald (Northeastern University, USA)
Proceedings Chair
Jens Dittrich (Saarland University, Switzerland)
Local Organization Chairs
Carlotta Domeniconi (George Mason University, USA)
Huzefa Rangwala(George Mason University, USA)
Finance Chairs
Hui Xiong (Rutgers University, USA)
Publicity Chair
Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)
Web Chair
Micah Sherr (Georgetown University, USA)

A Clustering Approach for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation UsingSocial Network Analysis

(M. Pham, Y. Cao, R. Klamma, M. Jarke) A Clustering Approach for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation UsingSocial Network Analysis, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Springer, 17(4):583-604, 2011

Manh Cuong Pham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Abstract: Collaborative Filtering(CF) is a well-known technique in recommender systems. CF exploits relationships between users and recommends items to the active user according to the ratings of his/her neighbors. CF suffers from the data sparsity problem, where users only rate a small set of items. That makes the computation of similarity between users imprecise and consequently reduces the accuracy of CF algorithms. In this article, we propose a clustering approach based on the social information of users to derive the recommendations. We study the application of this approach in two application scenarios: academic venue recommendation based on collaboration information and trust-based recommendation. Using the data from DBLP digital library and Epinion, the evaluation shows that our clustering technique based CF performs better than traditional CF algorithms.

Keywords: clustering, collaborative filtering, social network analysis, trust"

Our journal article "Development of computer science disciplines: a social network analysis approach" has now been published online with Springer SNAM. Please check it out.

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND MINING

DOI: 10.1007/s13278-011-0024-x

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Development of computer science disciplines: a social network analysis approach

Manh Cuong Pham, Ralf Klamma und Matthias Jarke

PDF File

In contrast to many other scientific disciplines, computer science considers conference publications. Conferences have the advantage of providing fast publication of papers and of bringing researchers together to present and discuss the paper with peers. Previous work on knowledge mapping focused on the map of all sciences or a particular domain based on ISI published Journal Citation Report (JCR). Although this data cover most of the important journals, it lacks computer science conference and workshop proceedings, which results in an imprecise and incomplete analysis of the computer science knowledge. This paper presents an analysis on the computer science knowledge network constructed from all types of publications, aiming at providing a complete view of computer science research. Based on the combination of two important digital libraries (DBLP and CiteSeerX), we study the knowledge network created at journal/conference level using citation linkage, to identify the development of sub-disciplines. We investigate the collaborative and citation behavior of journals/conferences by analyzing the properties of their co-authorship and citation subgraphs. The paper draws several important conclusions. First, conferences constitute social structures that shape the computer science knowledge. Second, computer science is becoming more interdisciplinary. Third, experts are the key success factor for sustainability of journals/conferences.

Post-Doctoral Fellow Position at the MADMUC Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

The MADMUC lab at the Computer Science Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, is looking to fill a post-doctoral fellow position to work on designing social infrastructures encouraging behaviour change and participation through personalized incentives.
This is an area on the cross-road of user modeling/personalization, social computing, and multi-agent systems.
The ideal candidate will have:
- PhD in an area closely related to one of the following areas: social computing, user modeling and personalization, recommender systems, trust and reputation mechanisms, multi-agent systems, machine learning, social learning environments, persuasion.
- strong publications record,
- good command of English.
The successful candidate is expected to contribute actively in the research projects carried out in the lab, to work with students and participate in teaching.
The salary is according to the University of Saskatchewan guidelines for post-doctoral fellows. Opportunities for additional income and gaining teaching experience are available through sessional lectureship (no more
than 1 one-semester-long course per year). The MADMUC Lab (www.madmuc.com) is a vibrant place with widely international graduate students.
The University of Saskatchewan is one of the top 10 Universities in Canada in the category of Medical Doctor Universities according to the McLeans Magazine
(http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/11/10/our-20th-annual-university
-rankings/). Saskatoon is a Prairie town with booming economy and population of 220,000. It offers a relaxed and comfortable lifestyle, with 4 months of brilliant summer, 2 months of crisp golden fall and 6 months of squeaky white snow.
The position is for one year and can be renewed depending on performance. Starting date - as soon as possible.
To apply, please, send to Julita Vassileva (jiv@cs.usask.ca) :
- a cover letter stating how their background and qualifications match the position,
- a brief statement of research interests,
- a curriculum vitae with your full list of publications,
- three selected sample publications (as PDF files), and
- the names and email addresses of three references.

Post-docs, PhD student, and system developer positions in cloud computing, Umea, Sweden

Post-docs, PhD student, and system developer positions in cloud computing, Umea University, Sweden
Umea University, Department of Computing Science, is seeking outstanding candidates for 2-3 post-doc fellowships, 1 PhD student position, and 1-2 system developers within the field of cloud computing. Research topics of interest span from distributed systems fundamentals to cloud and grid computing infrastructures, virtualization technology, and their academic and industrial applications, including, e.g., eScience applications.
For full announcement and instructions how to apply, see http://www.cloudresearch.se
For further information, please contact Johan Tordsson or Erik Elmroth ({tordsson, elmroth}@cs.umu.se).
Deadline: May 10, 2011

4th Workshop Digital Social Networks at INFORMATIK 2011

One Day Workshop at the annual meeting of the  German Society for Computer Science (GI), 

Oct. 4th – Oct. 7th, 2011, Berlin 

Date of the Workshop: to be announced

Positioning of the Event: After the good acceptance of the 1st Workshop  (annual meeting of the GI in 2008) and the 2nd Workshop (GI 2009 in  Lübeck), a Dagstuhl Perspectives Seminar and the 3rd Workshop (GI 2010  in Leipzig) took place. This is the call for papers of the 4th Workshop  on Digital Social Networks. An overview of the past events can be found  on the website www.digitale-soziale-netze.de.

Structure of the Workshop: Since 2008 the research landscape changed. With new topics and interests new communities arose. But there is an overall topic. This workshop takes place with two other workshops

- Social Software for Collaborative Decision Processes (Chairs: Tanja Röchert-Voigt, Niels Proske, Priscilla Heinze)
- Social Informatics (Chairs: Karsten Wendland, Christa Weßel)

These are also part of the annual meeting in 2011.

Topic:Social relations and the resulting social networks are an  important basis for social and technological development. With the  technologies and concepts of Web 2.0,new digital forms of support are available for a development of participatory social networks.Social Software and Social Media as new form of cooperation systems enable new modes of collaboration. The economic success of portals illustrates the demand for such solutions as well as the difficulty of a proper economic evaluation. From the point of view of the user, questions of privacy,data protection and identity theft are getting more important. Users of several systems need interoperability and data exchange.
Besides purely technological questions also topics of media presence in open and semi open forums and sociological phenomena are becoming relevant.With ubiquitous access to human communication acts on these
platforms new possibilities for analyzing social networks become possible – up to the prognosis of social trends. Specific Issues: The workshop on digital social networks will analyze these issues from theoretical and practical points of view.

Contributions are solicited on these topics:
- Social software and "social media"
- Social search engines and aggregators
- Methods for analyzing digital social networks and social interaction
- Trust, reputation, authentic contents and social control in digital  networks
- Applications, services and APIs on social portals
- Social networking services in science
- Special graph properties in social networks
- Regulations and freedom in digital social networks
- Technical modeling of social structures
- Business cases and economic evaluation of digital social networks
- Legal and social aspects of online communities
- Social networks and games
- Security, privacy, identity protection and media usage in social portals
- Interoperability, data exchange and data synchronization in social portals
- Personalization and adaptation to user preference
- User behavior in digital social networks
- Case studies, if they exhibit unique features

Program: The contributions shall be up to 15 pages in length in LNI  format and present in German or English language original, unpublished research results. The papers will be published in a printed proceedings
volume Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) of the annual meeting of the GI. Reports on practical experiences are welcome if they exhibit new or special features, also interdisciplinary contributions are solicited.
The goal is a good mixture of theoretical and practical research, each of which will be presented in a half-day session. All contributions are refereed anonymously by at least three members of the program committee.
Contributions of the program committee are permitted. More information about the LNI format can be found on the website
http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/ .
Acceptance Criteria: The criteria for acceptance are especially originality, novelty, innovation, selection and presentation of the ideas. As last year we will have a Future Network Best Paper Award sponsored by
http://www.future-network.at/

Deadlines:
Paper Submission : May 1st, 2011
Notice to Authors: May 23rd, 2011
Final Version : July 1st, 2011

Submission on
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=informatik2011
Registration http://www.informatik2011.de

Program Committee
Chair: Clemens Cap (University of Rostock)
Stephan Baumann (DFKI)
Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web School Wien)
Oliver Bohl (The Montecito Group)
Ulrik Brandes (Universität Konstanz)
Francois Bry (Universität München)
Carsten Busch (HTW Berlin)
Ingo Dahm (T-Systems)
Nicola Döring (TU Ilmenau)
Kai Fischbach (Universität zu Köln)
Peter Gloor (MIT Sloan School)
Georg Groh (TU München)
Bettina Hainschink (Future Network)
Andreas Henrich (Universität Bamberg)
Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen)
Michael Koch (Uni der Bundeswehr München)
Lothar Krempel (MPI für Gesellschaftsforschung)
Friedrich Krotz (Universität Erfurt)
Thomas Mandl (Universität Hildesheim)
Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT)
Reinhard Riedl (Bern Univ of Applied Sciences)
Stefan Rohde (Ziemo GmbH)
Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research)
Mathias Trier (TU Berlin)
Martin Warnke (Universität Lüneburg)
Volker Wulf (Universität Siegen)

Data Mining in e-Health Communities- PhD Offer, Saint Etienne, France

PhD application

The University of Saint-Etienne (France) invites applications for a *fully funded 3-year PhD position* at the Hubert-Curien lab.
Main points of the studentship:
*Data mining on stress and emotion information and e-health communities
*Dead line for application: May 13th 2011. Decision for expected funds: June 2011. Expected starting date: October 2011.
*In cooperation with the University of Tokyo (Living Environment Laboratory)
This project concerns the design of new data mining algorithms to exploit the symbolic data resulting from stress and emotion data transformation, in order to make discoveries (abnormal evolution signs, regular patterns, etc.). This knowledge will be used in e-health community services to implement scenarios such as user support, group debriefing, emergency processes.
The selected candidate will join the machine learning group composed of about 20 researchers working at the crossroads of data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, semantics and social networks. Candidates must have demonstrable interest and expertise in data mining as well as in knowledge modeling and e-health. A background in psychology is highly desirable but not essential. A good level in English is also essential. Some interest in the Japanese culture is also desirable. Applicants should have or be in the process of getting a *Master's degree in Computer Science*.

Some publications of the team:


[1] MUHLENBACH F., LALLICH S., ZIGHED D.A., "Identifying and Handling Mislabelled Instances", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 22 (1), pp. 89-109, 2004.


[2] MUHLENBACH F., LALLICH S., "A New Clustering Algorithm Based on Regions of Influence with Self-Detection of the Best Number of Clusters", in W. Wang, H. Kargupta, S. Ranka, P. S. Yu, and X. Wu, editors, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'09), Miami, Florida,
December 6-9, 2009, pp. 884-888. 2009.

[3] ELLOUMI L., GRAVIER C., MARET P., "Ad-hoc virtual communities for rehabilitation exercising", in Prodeedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Health 2010, Freiburg, Germany. 2010.

[4] SUBERCAZE J., EL MORR C., MARET P., JOLY A., KOIVISTO M., ANTONIADIS P., IHARA M., "Towards Successful Virtual Communities", in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'09), Milan, Italy. 2009.

Applications should be sent as soon as possible (at the latest on May 13th , 2011) to:
pierre.maret@univ-st-etienne.fr and fabrice.muhlenbach@univ-st-etienne.fr
Application will include :
-motivation letter
-CV
-Records of the last two academic years
-Publications, Master thesis (if available)
-Name, position, email of 2 researchers/professors who could recommend your application.
*Some links:*
-Research team :
http://labh-curien.univ-st-etienne.fr/MachineLearning/index.php
-Some facts about Saint-Etienne can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Étienne.
-Saint Etienne is a medium size city near Lyon, France.
-The University of Saint Etienne is a member of the University of Lyon
consortium.
-The closest airport is Lyon Saint Exupéry (http://www.lyon.aeroport.fr).
-The city is surrounded by the Pilat Regional Parc in which almost any outdoor activity can be practiced (http://www.parc-naturel-pilat.fr/en/).
-From a cultural point of view, the art museum in Saint-Etienne holds the second national contemporary art collection, and classical music concerts, dance shows, and operas are performed at the Saint-Etienne "Massenet Opera".

Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE 2011) - Extended deadline

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 29th, 2011

Call for Papers - International Workshop on

Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE)

http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/pale2011/

July 2011, Girona, Spain

in conjunction with UMAP 2011 (http://www.umap2011.org/)

The benefits of the personalization and adaptation of computer applications have been widely reported both in e-learning, i.e. the use of electronic media to teach or assess, or otherwise support learning;, and b-learning,
i.e. to combine traditional face-to-face instruction with electronic media (blended learning).
The International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE) is the result of merging the experience and background of three workshops focused on applying user modelling, personalization and adaptation in learning environments (see workshop history for details). Each of them focused on very specific topics, as follows:

- APLEC: Adaptation and Personalization in E-B/Learning using Pedagogic Conversational Agents
- ROLE: Personalizing Responsive Open Learning Environments
- TUMAS-A: Towards User Modeling and Adaptive Systems for All

Following the experience in previous editions of these workshops, PALE will follow the Learning Cafe methodology to promote discussions on some of the open issues regarding personalisation in learning environments. A Learning Cafe session will be run by each of the original workshops. In particular,
the following three Learning Cafe sessions have been organised:
- Learning Cafe 1 (LC1): focused on the APLEC open issues in interactive learning environments that build the knowledge with the student through a set of interactions, such as in natural language by using animated Pedagogic Conversational Agents (PCAs).
- Learning Cafe 2 (LC2): focused on the ROLE open issues in responsive open learning environments that permits personalization of the entire learning environment and its functionalities, i.e. individualization of its components and their adjustment or replacement by alternative solutions.
- Learning Cafe 3 (LC3): focused on the TUMAS-A open issues in inclusive learning environments to provide a personalized, accessible and ubiquitous support for their users (learners, facilitators, professors) using the appropriate technologies and standards as well as the evaluation procedures that can measure the impact
of the personalized and inclusive support for all, but considering their individual and evolving needs, in their particular context.
The submission procedure (see below) will be common for the three Learning Cafes, but authors should indicate the Learning Cafe where they consider that their submission fits best.
Each Learning Cafe will last 2 hours and will consist in brief presentations of the key questions posed and small group discussions with participants randomly grouped in three tables. Each table will be moderated by one of the organisers. Following the methodology, participants will change tables during the discussion with the aim to share ideas among the groups.

TOPICS
======
The topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the following:
- Motivation, benefits, and issues of personalization of learning environments
- Approaches for the personalization of inclusive learning environments
- Approaches for the personalization of responsive learning environments
- Approaches for the personalization of interactive learning environments
- Techniques and Methods
- Results and Metrics
- Social and Educational Issues
- Use of Pedagogic Conversational Agents
- Affective Computing

KEY QUESTIONS
=============
The higher-level research question to be addressed in the workshop is the following: Which
approaches can be followed to personalize learning environments? Nevertheless, each Learning Cafe is focused on specific research questions, as follows.
Learning Cafe 1 - APLEC:
Organizers: Diana Perez-Marin, Susan Bull and Noboru Matsuda
- Which pedagogic agents are currently taking into account information of the learner model to guide the dialogue?
- What does an effective conversation between the student and the agent look like?
- How could a learner model be used to adapt the pedagogical agent to the student to provide adaptive emotional support?
- How should the effect of such an adaptation be measured?
- How could the affect of a pedagogical agent improve a student's motivation?
Learning Cafe 2 - ROLE:
Organizers: Milos Kravcik, Alexander Nussbaumer and Effie Law
- How can a whole learning environment or its components be personalized to the needs of
learners?
- What can be personalized and for which purposes?
- Which models and techniques can be used for personalization?
- How to adjust the user control of personalization and adaptation to his or her needs?
- How can adaptive support and guidance for personalization be provided?
- Which monitoring or tracking methods can be used to automatically create learner profiles?
Learning Cafe 3 - TUMAS-A:
Organizers: Olga C. Santos and Jesus G. Boticario
- Which scenarios for personalized inclusive e-learning (PIL) systems can be identified?
- What user features are required to support PIL scenarios?
- Which computational methods in PIL exist?
- What evaluation approaches can be used in PIL scenarios?
- Which developing methodologies are to be used in PIL?
- How current standards can be used/adapted/extended to cope with PIL?
- Which multi-modal and context-based interaction issues impinge on PIL?
- What are the most appropriate support and guidance approaches to provide adaptation in PIL?

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
====================================
Papers must be prepared in 4-page LNCS format and be submitted through EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pale2011) in .pdf format. All papers will be
double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the area.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published on-line by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1613-0073) and at the workshop webpage.

Contact info: pale2011 AT easychair.org

DEADLINES
=========
April 29, 2011: Submission of papers (EXTENDED!!!)
May 13, 2011: Notification of acceptance
June 31, 2011: Camera-ready paper
July 15, 2011: PALE workshop

COMMITTEES
==========
Organizing Committee
--------------------
Jesus G. Boticario, Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED), Spain
Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Milos Kravcik, RWTH University Aachen, Germany
Effie Law, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Noboru Matsuda, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alexander Nussbaumer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Diana Perez-Marin,Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Olga C. Santos, Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED), Spain

Program Committee
-----------------
APLEC:
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University. U.S.A.
Zoraida Callejas, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Federica Cena, University of Torino. Italy
David Griol, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Ramon Lopez-Cozar, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Jose Antonio Macias, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Spain
Liliana Santacruz, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Spain
Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, University of Athens. Greece
Kate Taylor, Sanger Institute. U.K.
George Veletsianos, University of Texas. U.S.A.
ROLE:
Daniel Dahrendorf, IMC, Germany
Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Sylvana Kroop, Centre for Social Innovation, Austria
Alexander Mikroyannidis, The Open University, UK
Felix Moedritscher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, Portugal
Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
Carsten Ullrich, Shanghai University, China
Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
TUMAS-A:
Silvia Baldiris, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
Rosa Carro, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Ramon Fabregat, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Sabine Graf, Athabascau University, Canada
Emmanuelle Gutierrez y Restrepo, SIDAR Foundation, Spain
Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
Kinshuk, Athabascau University, Canada
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, USA
Loic Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Alexandros Paramythis, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Jutta Treviranus, OCAD University, Canada

WORKSHOP HISTORY
================
The first APLEC was held last year in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization. APLEC2010 focused on new techniques to model learners using the Pedagogic Conversational Agent (PCA) technologies. The ROLE workshop is born in the project of the same name and has already organized a successful workshop at the PLE 2010 Conference. It aims to empower the learner to take control over his or her own learning processes. It develops an infrastructure that enables learners to construct their own learning environments according to their personal and contextual needs such as accreditation and corporate goals. The challenge is to implement and test a user-driven framework based on Web 2.0 technologies. ROLE fosters the idea that most learning takes place informally, in different contexts and scenarios, and that content is not provided by one single provider.
TUMAS-A is a series of workshops being organized in conjunction with relevant conferences from different but related fields. The 1st TUMAS-A workshop was organized in 2007 in the User Modeling conference. Relevant feedback was obtained regarding how users and their interactions should be modeled. The 2nd TUMAS-A workshop was held in the WI/IAT 2008 conference and put the focus on the intelligent technology that could be used to support that modeling. The 3rd TUMAS-A workshop took place in the AIED 2009 conference and provided new insights on knowledge representation for learning systems that
care for any type of user, including their interaction and accessibility needs. In the last edition, the TUMASA
workshop was embedded in the RecSysTEL workshop at ACM RecSys 2010 conference and focused on how recommender systems can be used in e-learning environments to support learners and educators in their learning and teaching tasks.

ECML/PKDD 2011 Recommender System Challenge

ECML/PKDD 2011 challenge starts on 18th April 2011. Prize fund is EUR 5,000.

Discovery challenge affiliated with ECML/PKDD 2011 Conference started on April 18th. It is organized and sponsored by EU project e-LICO and launched via the TunedIT platform. The challenge is related to recommendation of lectures recorded at VideoLectures.Net site and is based on lecture viewing sequences and contents from the site.
Best solutions will be awarded with prizes worth 5,000 EUR.
Competition web page: http://tunedit.org/challenge/VLNetChallenge

VideoLectures.net is a free and open access multimedia repository of video lectures, mainly of research and educational character. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and
prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified
through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments. The challenge is organized in order to improve the website's recommender system. The challenge consists of two main tasks and a "side-by" contest. Due to the nature of the problem, each of the tasks has its own merit: the first task simulates new-user and new-item recommendation (cold-start mode) situation; the second task simulates (normal mode) clickstream based recommendation. A side-by contest is organized for the best computational workflow, to be chosen by an expert panel. The competition will last till 8th July 2011.


e-LICO is a virtual laboratory for interdisciplinary collaborative research in data mining and data-intensive sciences, built through an EU FP 7. e-LICO lab consists of three layers: the e-science layer, data mining layer and application domains, one of which is related to the domain of multimedia repositories and problem of recommendation.
ECML/PKDD - The European Conference on "Machine Learning" and "Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases" provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in all areas related to machine learning, knowledge discovery in databases, data mining and new innovative application domains. ECML/PKDD 2011 is held in Athens, Greece on September 5-9.
TunedIT is a web platform for data mining researchers and practitioners. It delivers a set of tools that facilitate experimental investigation and scientific collaboration in the field of data mining and machine learning.

Workshop on Multimedia on the Web (MMWeb 2011)

MMWeb2011 // Workshop on Multimedia on the Web

in conjunction with i-Know and i-Semantics 2011

8th September 2011, Graz, Austria

http://www.mmweb2011.org/

Streaming video has recently surpassed peer-to-peer networks in terms of network capacity hunger. Reports estimate a share of 40% of peak network capacity dedicated to entertainment, mostly streaming video. A large share of this traffic originates from web based services. YouTube alone takes up to 8% of the prime time internet traffic. So multimedia on the web is currently a big issue. While transmission currently works in a best effort system, multimedia information system on the web are far from being perfect. Retrieval, annotation, validated and useful metadata, reliable and trusted services, and user interaction and context-based adaptation are still under discussion and allow improvement. Currently, the Web itself faces dramatic changes, looking for example at the spread of social networks, Linked Data or the impact of HTML5 or WebM. These activities also have a deep effect on multimedia data and content provider. Following this, we aim to bring together researchers from the area of multimedia and the web to discuss innovative ideas and new directions in this workshop.

Topics of interest
We encourage the submission of high quality papers from applied and basic research as well as applications for multimedia on the web. Submissions have to relate to multimedia on the web, or more specifically on the following topics:
* Annotation of multimedia for the web
* Multimedia databases and metadata models
* Multimedia & metadata adaptation
* Multimedia in the social web
* Multimedia user communities
* Multimedia semantics & ontologies for the web
* Proactive delivery and recommender systems
* Semantic multimedia information services
* User interaction & context
* Web based emergence and self-organization
* Web based multimedia search and retrieval

Organization
The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community (http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/)which has already organized many successful events in the past. The Multimedia Metadata Community aims to extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

Submission
Full paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 4 pages and demo/poster submission to 2 pages. The papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column format. All submitted papers will be issue to a peer review by at least 3 program committee members. All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the  IEEExplore. A special issue in the international journal Multimedia Tools and Applications called “Multimedia on the Web” is guest-edited by the organization committee of the workshop. The submission deadline is shortly after the workshop dates. Best papers of the workshop will be invited to submit to this special MTAP issue. Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mmweb2011

Important Dates

All papers:
* Submission deadline: April 30th, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: May 20th, 2011
* Camera ready papers due: June 15th, 2011

Contact
For any requests, please contact: chairs[at]mmweb2011[dot]org

Committees
Chairs:
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria (General Chair)
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA (Co-Chair)
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria (Co-Chair)
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany (Co-Chair)
* Florian Stegmaier, Passau University, Germany (Demo Chair & W3C Liaison)
* Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria (Demo Chair & W3C Liaison)

Workshop Technical Programme Committee (tentative):
* Marco Bertini (University of Firenze, Italy)
* Tobias Bürger (Capgemini SD&M, Germany)
* Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
* Anna Carreras (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Pablo Cesar (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands)
* Vincent Charvillat (University of Toulouse, France)
* Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, Dijon-France)
* Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
* Jaime Delgado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Thierry Delot (University of Valenciennes, France)
* Mario Doeller (University of Passau, Germany)
* Jean-Pierre Evain (European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland)
* William Grosky (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
* Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany)
* Thomas Kurz (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria)
* Christian Körner (TU Graz, Austria)
* Martha Larson (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
* Erik Mannens (Ghent University, Belgium)
* Klaus Meyer-Wegener (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
* Vincent Oria (University Heights, USA)
* Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
* Dominik Renzel (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
* Silvia Pfeiffer (Vquence, Australia)
* Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
* Marc Spaniol (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)
* Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
* Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France)

The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2011)

Call for Papers

The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

(IEEE ICSC 2011)

September 18-21, 2011, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

www.ieee-icsc.org

The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc. The fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field.
The event is located in Palo Alto, CA on the campus of Stanford University. The technical program of ICSC 2011 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, industrial 'show and tells', demonstrations, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited. Please refer to the conference website for further information: www.ieee-icsc.org/

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper), and Workshop and Special Session Proposals.
More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Technical paper authors MUST
submit their manuscripts through EasyChair. Please follow this link:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icsc2011
(please register if not an EasyChair user). Manuscripts may only be submitted in PDF format.
A copyright form needs to be submitted upon acceptance of the paper and is not required at this stage.

AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to):
Semantics based Analysis
- Natural language processing
- Image and video analysis
- Audio and speech analysis
- Data and web mining
- Behavior of software, services and networks
- Privacy
- Security
- Analysis of social networks
Semantic Integration
- Metadata and other description languages
- Database schema integration
- Ontology integration
- Interoperability and service integration
- Semantic programming languages and software engineering
- Semantic system design and synthesis
Applications using Semantics
- Search engines and question answering
- Semantic web services
- Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing
- Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
- Digital library applications
- Machine translation
- Music description
- Medicine and Biology
- GIS systems and architecture
Semantic Interfaces
- Natural language interfaces
- Multimodal interfaces
- Human centered computing

IMPORTANT DATES
* Feb 22nd, 2011: Special Session Proposals
* Feb 22nd, 2011: Workshop Proposals
* May 3rd, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
* May 3rd, 2011: Demo Descriptions & Posters
* June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
* July 15th, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration

Post-Doctoral Research Fellows at Research Center for Science and Technology for Learning, Taiwan]

The Research Center for Science and Technology is seeking for motivated and enthusiastic post-doctoral research fellows to join an ongoing project led by Prof. Tak-Wai Chan. The project is funded by National Science Council, Taiwan: one-to-one technology enhanced classrooms and research community.

The project is an interdisciplinary project, aiming to transform formal and informal education through one-to-one learning, in which every student uses at least one computing device to learn, enables learning experience to continue even the situated learning environments may switch from one another. We have observed the emergence of mobile, connected, personal, and low-priced computing device is thrusting technology enhanced learning into a new realm, both in research and in practice. Thus, the real world education, formal and informal, will be potentially greatly improved by one-to-one learning.

The post-doc fellows will be associated with three research groups under the project: game platform, content design, and experimental schools. The three groups aim to investigate how one-to-one technologies could foster digital classroom learning from the three different perspectives of information and game technology, digital content and pedagogical design, and classroom practice and teacher training, respectively. In addition, the fellows will be expected to contribute to the coordination among these three research groups so that the research project could be conducted smoothly. A PhD degree in the relevant field, such as computer science, educational technology, and educational psychology, is required.

Location: National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

Salary: TWD 74.25 K/year

Target start date: As soon as possible. Exact start date is negotiable.

More information about this project is available here:

http://chan.lst.ncu.edu.tw/

http://www.cl.ncu.edu.tw/

http://www.g1to1.org/

To apply, please send your CV, research statement, and up to three representative publications to hon@cl.ncu.edu.tw 

ACM Transactions TIST Special Issue: Intelligent Mobile Knowledge Discovery and Management System

Call For Papers

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

Special Issue on Intelligent Mobile Knowledge Discovery and Management Systems

WEB: http://datamining.rutgers.edu/tist.htm

Advances in wireless communication, mobile information infrastructures such as GPS, WiFi, and mobile phone technologies have enabled us to collect, process and manage massive amounts of mobile data from diverse information sources. These mobile data are fine-grained, information-rich, and provide unparalleled opportunities for us to understand mobile user behaviours and generate useful knowledge, which in turn allows the delivery of intelligence for real-time decision making in various real-world applications. In this context, knowledge discovery is the process of automatic extraction of interesting and useful knowledge from large amounts of mobile data, whereas knowledge management consists of a range of strategies and practices to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable the adoption of novel insights and experiences for decision making. There is a critical emerging need to investigate knowledge discovery and management issues in mobile context.
The ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) announces a Special Issue on Intelligent Mobile Knowledge Discovery and Management Systems. The goal of this journal special issue is to bring together top quality articles on the art and practice of mobile knowledge discovery and management systems that exhibit a level of intelligence. Manuscripts are solicited to address a wide
range of intelligent system related topics in mobile knowledge discovery and management areas,
including but not limit to the following topics:

- Activity Recognition and Sensing for Mobile Social Applications
- Concepts and Case Studies of Mobile Knowledge Discovery and Management
- Distributed and Cloud Data Mining on Mobile Data
- Intelligent GIS-enabled Mobile Services
- Knowledge Discovery and Management on the Mobile Internet
- Location Privacy and Security for Mobile Knowledge Discovery and Mangement
- Location-tagging-based Media Sharing and Mining
- Microblogging and the Mobile Web
- Mobile and Location-dependent Recommender Systems
- Mobile Social Network Modeling, Social Services, Social Networks and Applications
- Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge Representation for the Mobile Social Web
- Sustainability and Mobile Data Mining
- Mobile Knowledge Discovery in Intelligent Transportation and Smart Cities

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2011
Preliminary Results: 10 March 2012
Revised Version: 10 April 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 10 May 2012
Final Manuscripts Due: 10 June 2012
Anticipated Publication: Late 2012/Early 2013

Submission Guidelines
Submission information can be found on the journal web page (http://tist.acm.org/) by  clicking on "Author Info" on the sidebar. Authors should submit their manuscripts using ACM manuscript online system. To submit your article, go to the online manuscript submission page (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist), create a user account, and, when prompted, choose "Special Issue: IMKDMS" as the article type. Please feel
free to contact the guest editors if you have any questions.

Guest editors
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, http://datamining.rutgers.edu/

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/


Alexander Tuzhiline, New York University, http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~atuzhili/

9th Int. Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'11)

AMR 2011 - 9th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval

July 18-19, 2011

Universitat de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

http://stel.ub.edu/amr2011/

(co-located with IJCAI 2011)

Systems for searching and organizing multimedia information have matured during the last few years. However, retrieving specific media objects is still a challenging task, especially if the query can only be vaguely defined or a similar object, e.g. a piece of music, should be retrieved. The main reasons for the problems in multimedia search are still on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the
form of a well-defined query due to insufficient support from the interface, and on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant (semantic) features from the multimedia objects itself. Besides, ideally user specific interests should be considered when ranking or automatically organizing result sets. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop advanced techniques able to support the user in the interactive retrieval process.
The goals of the workshop are to intensify the exchange of ideas between different research communities, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between the diverse involved research communities and research in AI.

Topics of interest:
The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, and visualization methods
as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia retrieval systems (text, image, audio, video and mixed-media)
- Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining
- Intelligent multimedia data modeling, indexing and structure extraction
- Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems
- Metadata for multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia and multi-modal mining
- Semantic content analysis for multimedia
- Semantic web and ontologies
- Multimedia Interaction
- Affect Detection for Multimedia Content
- Soft Computing in Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Adaptive query languages
- Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures)
- User and preference modeling (including feedback models)
- Methods for adaptive data visualisation and user interfaces

Important Dates:May 15th, 2011 Deadline for paper submission
June 17th, 2011 Notification of acceptance/rejection
July 3rd, 2011 Deadline for final paper submission

Submissions: cf. http://stel.ub.edu/amr2011/

Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format.

Committee: cf. http://stel.ub.edu/amr2011/

Program Chairs
Marcin Detyniecki CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France
Ana García-Serrano Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Andreas Nuernberger University of Magdeburg, Germany

Further details can be found on the Web page of the workshop:
http://stel.ub.edu/amr2011/

Social Networks Analysis and Mining Journal (SNAM) Journal by Springer

On behalf of the editorial board I invite you to submit an article to "Social Networks Analysis and Mining Journal," (SNAM) which provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research articles in all areas of social networks analysis and mining as interdisciplinary research platform.
Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online at http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278.
The rapid increase in the interest in social networks has motivated the need for a more specialized venue with wider spectrum capable of meeting the needs and expectations of a variety of researchers and readers. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) is a multidisciplinary journal to serve both academia and industry as a main venue for a wide range of researchers and readers from social sciences, mathematical sciences, medical and biological sciences and computer science.
SNAM Journal is proud to have an outstanding group of editors who widely and rigorously cover the multidisciplinary score of the journal. They are known to be research leaders in the field of social networks analysis and mining. Further, SNAM journal is characterized by providing thorough constructive reviews by experts in the field and by the reduced turn-around time which allows research results to be disseminated and shared on timely basis. The target of the editors is to complete the first round of the refereeing process within about 8 to 10 weeks of submission. Accepted papers go to the online first list and are immediately made available for access by the research community.

Social Network Analysis and Mining
Published by Springer
Volume 1 / Number 2 / April 2011: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1869-5450/1/2/

Article 1: Spectral counting of triangles via element-wise sparsification and triangle-based link recommendation: Charalampos E. Tsourakakis, Petros Drineas, Eirinaios Michelakis, Ioannis Koutis and Christos Faloutsos

Article 2: Communities and hierarchical structures in dynamic social networks: analysis and visualization: Frédéric Gilbert, Paolo Simonetto, Faraz Zaidi, Fabien Jourdan and Romain Bourqui

Article 3: Market basket analysis with networks: Troy Raeder and Nitesh V. Chawla


Article 4: Understanding actor loyalty to event-based groups in affiliation networks: Hossam Sharara, Lisa Singh, Lise Getoor and Janet Mann

Article 5: Seeing similarity in the face of difference: enabling comparison of online production systems: Claudia Müller-Birn, Benedikt Meuthrath, Andreas Erber, Sebastian Burkhart and Anne Baumgrass, et al.

13th IEEE Int. Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2011)

13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2011)

September 30, 2011

Williamsburg, VA, USA

http://www.WebSystemsEvolution.org/2011

Co-located with the 27nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2011)

PRESENTATION

Since its inception in 1999, the Web Systems Evolution (WSE) series of events has provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work on subjects related to the disciplined evolution of large-scale Web-based systems. WSE 2011 aims to attract participants from different research communities, ranging from the software maintenance and evolution community to the Web engineering and service-oriented computing community. WSE 2011 strives to provide researchers and practitioners with a stimulating environment to discuss exciting results and exchange ideas. It is planned that the program of WSE 2011 will include an invited talk, technical paper presentations, and a panel discussion or working session.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

WSE 2011 Special Theme is Access for All. Since WSE 2001 in Florence, over the last decade there have been numerous advances related to the accessibility of Web applications for the disabled, including multilingual Web sites, beyond-desktop (non-PC) devices for Web content, and new navigation paradigms and technologies. These advances have profound implications for the systematic evolution of modern Web applications. Starting from this special theme, WSE topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects of Web systems design, development, maintenance and evolution:

* Accessibility of Web systems
* Mobile Web systems
* Model-driven reengineering and re-design of Web systems
* Requirements Evolution for Web Systems
* Migration towards Web 2.0, SOA, and the Cloud
* Web systems with self-adaptive and autonomic features
* Novel Web paradigms and their impact
* Traceability of Web systems
* Reverse engineering and analysis of Web systems
* Security and privacy in Web systems
* Evaluation, testing and quality assessment of Web systems
* Multilingual Web systems
* Semantic Web
* Empirical studies of Web systems

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract due:  May 2, 2011
Papers due:     May 9, 2011
Conference:    September 30, 2011


SUBMISSION PROCESS

The WSE Symposium solicits the submission of  full research papers or experience reports, not exceeding 10 pages (IEEE conference format), including figures and references. It also invites  short papers  (max. 4 pages IEEE format), which can present novel ideas and preliminary research results. Abstracts (max. 200 words) must be received by May 2, 2011. Papers must be submitted online via the EasyChair system by May 9, 2011, in PDF. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special journal issue (to be announced).
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE WSE 2011 Proceedings (print-version) and made available on the IEEE Digital Library.

ORGANIZATION
General Chair
Holger Kienle, Mälardalen University, Sweden & University of Victoria, Canada

Program Chairs
Davide Bolchini, Indiana University, USA
Porfirio Tramontana, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Steering Committee
Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA (Chair)
Tom Dean, Queen's University, Canada
Damiano Distante, Unitelma Sapienza University, Italy
Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy
Kenny Wong, University of Alberta, Canada

Program Commitee
Xiaoying Bai - Tsinghua University (China)
Mario Luca Bernardi - University of Sannio, Italy
Andrea De Lucia - University of Salerno (Italy)
Giuseppe Di Lucca - University of Sannio, Italy
Massimiliano Di Penta - University of Sannio (Italy)
Anna Rita Fasolino - University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
Akos Kiss - University of Szeged (Hungary)
Marin Litoiu – York University (Canada)
Mircea Lungu - University of Berne (Switzerland)
Luca Mainetti – University of Salento
Alessandro Marchetto - Fondazione Bruno Kessler – IRST (Italy)
Tommi Mikkonen - Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
David Millard – University of Southampton (UK)
Hausi Muller - University of Victoria (Canada)
Cesare Pautasso – University of Lugano (Switzerland)
Gustavo Rossi - Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
Giuseppe Scanniello - University of Basilicata (Italy)
Antero Taivalsaari - Nokia Research Center and Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
Paolo Tonella - Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST (Italy)
Stephane Vaucher- University of Montreal  (Canada)
Erik Wilde – University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Ji Wu - Beihang University (China)
Ying (Jenny) Zou - Queen's University, Canada


FURTHER INFORMATION:  http://www.WebSystemsEvolution.org/2011