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The 18th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2012)

                           CALL FOR PAPERS
    The 18th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2012)
                          January 4-6, 2012
               Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria.

The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading
international conference (http://mmm2012.org) for researchers and
industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research
results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas.
The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results
and demonstrations in, but not limited to, the following areas related to
multimedia modeling technologies and applications:

1. Multimedia Content Analysis
1.1    Multimedia Indexing
1.2    Multimedia Mining
1.3    Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
1.4    Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
1.5    Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
1.6    Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
1.7    Multimedia Fusion Methods
1.8    Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools

2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
2.1    Media Representation and Algorithms
2.2    Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
2.3    Multimedia Security and Content Protection
2.4    Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
2.5    Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming
2.6    Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
2.7    Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking

3. Multimedia Applications and Services
3.1    Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
3.2    Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
3.3    Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
3.4    Mobile Multimedia Applications
3.5    Multimedia Web Applications
3.6    Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization
3.7    Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
3.8    Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)


Paper Submission Guidelines:
============================
Papers should be no more than 10-12 pages in length (demo papers 3 pages), conforming to
the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Papers will be judged by an international program committee based on their
originality, significance, correctness and clarity.
All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through
the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmm2012).
The review process is single-blind, therefore please do not conceal authors’
identities from reviewers. To publish the paper in the conference, one of the
authors needs to register and present the paper in the conference.


Important Dates:
================
Submission of full papers: July 22, 2011
Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2011
Camera-ready papers due: October 10, 2011
Author registration: October 10, 2011
Conference: January 4-6, 2012


Committees:
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General Chairs:
* Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria
* Bernard Merialdo, Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France
* Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
* Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong
* Yiannis Andreopoulos, UCL, London, UK
* Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Local Organizing and Finance Chair:
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Special Session Co-Chairs:
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria
* Marco Bertini, University of Florence, Italy

Demo Co-Chairs:
* Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Frank Hopfgartner, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Publicity & Sponsorship Co-Chairs:
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Publication Co-Chairs:
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, Austria
* Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria

US Liaisons:
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA
* Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

Asian Liaison:
* Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China

European Liaison:
* Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany

Steering Committee:
* Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
* Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Tosiyasu L. Kunii, University of Tokyo, Japan
* Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
* Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland


For more information, please visit http://mmm2012.org

Special Session on Multimedia Preservation at 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling 2012

Call for Papers 

18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling 

Special Session on Multimedia Preservation: How to ensure multimedia access over time? 

Introduction
Multimedia data is vital to all domains. Examples range from medical and healthcare records like CT scans, security applications coping with large GEO-data gathered by satellites up to the social sector dealing with large collections of photos and videos. The ability to effectively manage multimedia content and its preservation over time has become a necessity for both, the business as well as the general public. But what does digital preservation mean? The American Library Association1 (ALA) has identified the main issues related to preservation as follows: “Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to digital content over time”. Although this initiative is mainly driven by libraries, interoperable access to digital data and its prevention towards the loss of data by e.g. technology changes affects everyone.

This is especially true by considering recent statistics illustrating the growth of multimedia data in the area of the social web. For instance, the well known online photo management and sharing application Flickr hosts 5 billion images and has a minute-by-minute increase of more than 3000 images2. How can this amount of data be accessed in 50 years despite technological changes? Are recent research achievements like the Linked Open Data movement suitable to improve current issues of multimedia preservation? Therefore, technologies, concepts and methodologies are needed to lower the barrier between systems and to guarantee interoperable access between different domains. In this context, the special session is planed to bring together researchers in the field of interoperable multimedia access (e.g., metadata modelling, retrieval) and processing (e.g., transmission, coding) on the one side as well as experts in the area of cultural heritage (e.g., libraries, museums) on the other side.

Regarding this, we expect innovative submissions addressing visionary concepts and ideas in order to improve the current situation in multimedia preservation.

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Interoperable multimedia access.

• Interoperable multimedia frameworks.

• Interoperable multimedia storage and exchange formats.

• Linked Open Data and digital libraries.

• Access policies (digital rights).

• Applications and methodologies for the preservation of multimedia items: content and metadata.

• Cultural heritage and multimedia.


Important Dates
. Papers due: 22 July 2011
. Notification:19 September 2011
. Camera-ready paper due: 10 October 2011


Submission Guidelines:
The submission guidelines for the special session are the same as for the main conference (http://mmm2012.org/publication/). Papers should follow the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/LNCS/ for details).The first page must contain an abstract, a classification of the topic covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages. Papers in PDF should be submitted electronically to the review web site https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mmm2012.


Special Session Chairs
• Mario Döller, University of Passau, Germany
• Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada
• Walter Allasia, EURIX Group, Italy
• Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, Germany


1 http://www.ala.org/ 
2 http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/ 

International Workshop on Social Signal Processing at ACM Multimedia 2011

Third International Workshop on Social Signal Processing
Scottsdale (USA)
http://sspnet.eu/2011/05/wssp/
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person
we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence.
Social Intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has
been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important
for success in life. A widely accepted prediction is that next
generation computing needs to include the essence of social
intelligence - the ability to recognize and generate social
signals and social behaviours - in order to become more effective
and more efficient. Due to this vision of the future, automated
analysis and synthesis of social signals and social behaviours,
including social interactions (like turn taking and backchanelling),
social attitude (like alliance), and social relations/ roles, have
attracted increasing attention.
Machine analysis of human social interactions and social signals is
progressing rapidly with new or pending applications in HCI, psychology,
biomedicine, politics, and entertainment technology, among other fields.
With these advances come new conceptual and methodological challenges.
The workshop aims at presenting cutting-edge research and new challenges
in automatic analysis and synthesis of human social interactions and
signalling in an interdisciplinary forum of computer and behavioral
scientists.
We seek to attract contributions representing the state-of-the-art
efforts to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring
human social communication, decode communicative intent, and generate
the appropriate socially-adept responses.
Relevant topics for the workshop include but are by no means limited to:
- Social psychology and social signals processing
- Facial behaviour analysis and synthesis in social interactions
- Expressive speech analysis and synthesis in social interactions
- Human gesture and action recognition and synthesis in social interactions
- Multimodal human behavior analysis and synthesis in social interactions
- Perceptual, multimodal, and socially-aware user interfaces
- Socially-adept Embodied Conversational Agents
- Databases for training and testing
- Socially-aware computing and applications

Important Dates
Deadline to register a paper for submission: July 6th, 2011
Paper submission: July 11th, 2011
Notification to authors: August 12th, 2011
Camera ready papers: September 5th, 2011
Workshop: December 1, 2011

Workshop Organizers
Maja Pantic
Imperial College London, Computing Dept. / University of Twente, EEMCS
Email: m.pantic@imperial.ac.uk
Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: pentland@mit.edu
Alessandro Vinciarelli
University of Glasgow / Idiap Research Institute
Email: vincia@dcs.gla.ac.uk

ACM Multimedia 2011 -- workshops submission deadline extension

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION
Workshops at ACM Multimedia 2011
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Nov.28-Dec.1, 2011
http://www.acmmm11.org

The ACM Multimedia Workshops have new extended submission deadlines:
Jul. 6, 2011, 11:59pm PDT : deadline to register a paper for
workshop submission.
Jul. 11, 2011, 11:59pm PDT : deadline to submit the paper.
Aug. 12, 2011 : notification.

*Full Day Workshops*
- Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal
Strategies (MIRUM'11)
- Multimedia in Forensics and Intelligence (MiFor '11)
- Automated Media Analysis and Production for Novel TV Services
(AIEMPro 2011)
- Social Media (WSM11)
- Social and Behavioural Networked Media Access (SBNMA'11)
*Full Day Joint Workshops*
- Modeling and Representing Events (J-MRE'11)
-- part 1: Events in Multimedia (EiMM11)
-- part 2: Sparse Representationfor Event Detection in Multimedia
(SRED'11)
- Human Gesture and Behavior Understanding (J-HGBU'11)
-- part 1: Social Signal Processing (SSPW'11)
-- part 2: Multimedia access to 3D Human Objects (MA3HO'11)
*Half Day Workshops*
- Medical Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval (MMAR)
- Story Representation, Mechanism, and Context (SRMC'11)
- Ubiquitous Meta User Interfaces (Ubi-MUI'11)
- Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning (MTDL'11)
- Interactive Multimedia on Mobile and Portable Devices (IMMPD'11)

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ACM RecSys 2011 International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011)

Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in

Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011)

27th October 2011 | Chicago, IL, USA

http://ir.ii.uam.es/hetrec2011

Held in conjunction with the

5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011)

http://recsys.acm.org/2011

Keynote update
We are pleased to announce that Yehuda Koren, from Yahoo! Research, will be our invited speaker.
The title of his talk is "I Want to Answer, Who Has a Question? Yahoo! Answers Recommender System."
More details in: http://ir.ii.uam.es/hetrec2011/keynote.html

Important dates
* Paper submission: 25 July 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 19 August 2011
* Camera-ready version due: 12 September 2011
* HetRec 2011 Workshop: 27 October 2011

Motivation
In recent years, increasing attention has been given to finding ways for
combining, integrating and mediating heterogeneous sources of information
for the purpose of providing better personalized services in many
information seeking and e-commerce applications. Information heterogeneity
can indeed be identified in any of the pillars of a recommender system: the
modeling of user preferences, the description of resource contents, the
modeling and exploitation of the context in which recommendations are made,
and the characteristics of the suggested resource lists.
Almost all current recommender systems are designed for specific domains and
applications, and thus usually try to make best use of a local user model,
using a single kind of personal data, and without explicitly addressing the
heterogeneity of the existing personal information that may be freely
available (on social networks, homepages, etc.). Recognizing this
limitation, among other issues: a) user models could be based on different
types of explicit and implicit personal preferences, such as ratings, tags,
textual reviews, records of views, queries, and purchases; b) recommended
resources may belong to several domains and media, and may be described with
multilingual metadata; c) context could be modeled and exploited in
multi-dimensional feature spaces; d) and ranked recommendation lists could
be diverse according to particular user preferences and resource attributes,
oriented to groups of users, and driven by multiple user evaluation
criteria.
The aim of HetRec workshop is to bring together students, faculty,
researchers and professionals from both academia and industry who are
interested in addressing any of the above forms of information heterogeneity
and fusion in recommender systems.
The workshop goals are broad. We would like to raise awareness of the
potential of using multiple sources of information, and look for sharing
expertise and suitable models and techniques. Another dire need is for
strong datasets, and one of our aims is to establish benchmarks and standard
datasets on which the problems could be investigated.

Topics of interest
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
interested in addressing the challenges posed by information heterogeneity
in recommender systems, and studying information fusion in this context.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Fusion of user profiles from different representations, e.g. ratings, text reviews, tags, and bookmarks
* Combination of short- and long-term user preferences
* Combination of different types of user preferences: tastes, interests, needs, goals, mood
* Cross-domain recommendations, based on user preferences about different interest aspects, e.g. by merging movie and music tastes
* Cross-representation recommendations, considering diverse sources of user preferences: explicit and implicit feedback
* Recommendation of resources of different nature: news, reviews, scientific papers, etc.
* Recommendation of resources belonging to different multimedia: text, image, audio, video
* Recommendation of diverse resources, e.g. according to content attributes, and user consuming behaviors
* Recommendation of resources annotated in different languages
* Contextualization of multiple user preferences, e.g. by distinguishing user preferences at work and on holidays
* Cross-context recommendations, e.g. by merging information about location, time and social aspects
* Multi-dimensional recommendation based on several contextual features, e.g. physical and social environment, device and network settings, and external events
* Multi-criteria recommendation, exploiting ratings and evaluations about multiple user/item characteristics
* Group recommendation, oriented to several users, e.g. suggesting tourist attractions to a group of friends, and suggesting a TV show to a family

Datasets
In this edition of the workshop, we make available on-line datasets with
heterogeneous information from several social systems.
* hetrec11-movielens-2k: a subset of the MovieLens10M dataset with its
movie data merged with IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. Main characteristics: 2.1K
users, 10.2K movies, 13.2K tags, 855.6K ratings.
* hetrec11-delicious-2k: a dataset that contains social networking,
bookmarking, and tagging information of a set of users from Delicious social
bookmarking system. Main characteristics: 1.8K users, 69.2K bookmarks, 53.4K
tags, 7.7K social relations.
* hetrec11-lastfm-2k: a dataset that contains social networking,
tagging, and music listening information of a set of users from Last.fm
music website. Main characteristics: 1.9K users, 17.6K artists, 11.9K tags,
186.5K listening records, 12.7K social relations.
These datasets can be used by participants to experiment and evaluate their
recommendation approaches, and be enriched with additional data, which may
be published at the workshop website for future use.
More details in:
http://ir.ii.uam.es/hetrec2011/datasets.html

Organizing Committee
* Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel

Contact information
Contact e-mail: hetrec2011@easychair.org

PhD position for Cloud-based management of Web data in INRIA Saclay (Paris suburb), France

PhD position in INRIA Saclay (Paris suburb), France

Cloud-based management of Web data (application deadline: *** June 28, 2011 ***)

Cloud-based data management has gained significant momentum in industry but also in the data management research community. In INRIA Saclay, the Leo team (http://leo.saclay.inria.fr) has been working on large-scale distributed data management, and in particular recently started a project on managing Web data (XML and RDF) within a cloud environment. The project involves several faculty members, an engineer starting from the fall, and several students. The position advertised here is in particular concerned with architectures and algorithms for the efficient scalable management of Semantic Web data (RDF) in a cloud architecture.

The work is part of our involvement in the "Cloud Computing" Research Action Line of ICT Labs (http://eit.ictlabs.eu), a network of European centers collaborating on IT topics.

We seek a candidate with a strong academic record, whose Master must not be obtained in France, for a 3-years funded PhD position (the standard duration of French PhDs is 3 years).

The PhD will take place within the Leo team, associated between INRIA Saclay (http://en.inria.fr/inria-research-centre/saclay-ile-de-france) and the Computer Science Research laboratory of University of Paris Sud (http://www.lri.fr).

The supervisors are Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, http://www-roc.inria.fr/~manolesc) and Francois Goasdoue (LRI, http://www.lri.fr/~goasdoue).

To apply:

* contact Ioana and Francois (ioana.manolescu@inria.fr, francois.goasdoue@lri.fr) as soon as possible and *** no later than June 28, 2011 (hard deadline) ***

* send:

- a CV including a contact phone number

- academic transcripts as complete as possible. If final MS grades are not available, send partial and/or informal transcripts

- recommendation letters OR the name and contact info for one or several professors which know and appreciate you, which we may contact for a quick reference

More information:

INRIA: http://en.inria.fr

INRIA Saclay: http://en.inria.fr/inria-research-centre/saclay-ile-de-france

University of Paris Sud: http://www.u-psud.fr/en/index.html

Being a PhD student at INRIA: http://en.inria.fr/institute/recruitment/offers/phd/faq

Crowdsourcing, Value Co-Creation, and Innovation in the Digital Economy Track at ACIS 2011

Call for Papers: ACIS 2011 Sydney Crowdsourcing Track

Australasian Conference for Information Systems Sydney, Australia 30th November - 2nd December, 2011

Submission Deadline 18 July 2011

Crowdsourcing, Value Co-Creation, and Innovation in the Digital Economy Track

Today's pervasiveness of the Internet gives organisations new opportunities to access a global network with hundreds of millions of people. In the last years, we have seen a myriad of emerging business models and platforms, which evolve around the idea of tapping into the knowledge, creativity, and wisdom of this crowd. These phenomena are commonly described as Crowdsourcing which can be defined as the act of outsourcing a function or task, traditionally performed by a contractor or employee, to an undefined network of people using a type of open call. Today, the term is used for various notions like open innovation, user generated content, social engagement, knowledge aggregation, or prediction. Crowdsourcing can be viewed as one particular instance of co-creation, which more generally refers to the joint creation of value involving various stakeholders.

As crowdsourcing and co-creation have become global phenomena, new questions and challenges arise that point to the need for analysing and understanding these phenomena from an Information Systems? 

perspective. Today, organisations apply a large variety of crowdsourcing and co-creation concepts or use methods to realise new business models. Service economies like Australia are becoming a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., Freelancer.com, 99designs, DesignCrowd, etc.). However, for the effective adoption of these new capabilities, organisations depend on theoretically founded decision frameworks, governing processes, and supporting tools. 

Crowdsourcing and co-creation processes can further be applied within an organisation to provide new capabilities and drive innovation.

While research on these concepts is part of many different areas in computer science and the social sciences, the primary goal of this track is to analyse which role Information Systems play in crowdsourcing and co-creation. A particular aim is to move from special aspects and applications to general, multi-disciplinary knowledge, insight, and theory. This track encourages submissions based on a variety of research methods, including explanatory/theoretical research, empirical studies (action research, case studies, surveys, experiments), and design science.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

     Taxonomies and Classifications

     Open Innovation

     Crowd Wisdom and Collective Intelligence

     Crowdsourcing Ecosystems and Markets

     Co-Creation in Service Management

     Adoption of Crowdsourcing Business Models

     Value of Virtual Communities

     Platforms, Tools, and Technologies supporting Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation

     Human Computation

     Microtasks and Cloud Labour (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk)

     Motivation to participate and incentive structures

     Task Characteristics and Task Design

     Quality Assurance Mechanisms and Metrics

     Design of Crowdsourcing Workflows and Processes

     Economics of Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation

     Success Factors in Crowdfunding

     Social Implications of Crowdsourcing

     Cross Cultural Differences in Customer Integration

     Innovative Projects and Implementations

     Comparison of Crowdsourcing, Outsourcing and Freelancing

Important Dates

     Paper submission deadline: 18th July 2011

     Notification of paper acceptance: 19th September 2011

     ACIS Conference: 30th November-2nd December 2011

Track Chairs

     Prof. Martin Schader (University of Mannheim, Germany)

     Prof. Michael Rosemann (QUT, Brisbane, Australia)

     Prof. Atreyi Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore)

     Dr. Axel Korthaus (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)

     Thimo Schulze (University of Mannheim, Germany)

     Kukkuru Manjunatha (Infosys Technologies Ltd., Infosys Labs, India)

Editorial Board

     Prof. Daren Brabham (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

     Prof. Andrea Carignani (IULM University Italy)

     Dana Chandler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

     Prof. Jonathan R. Corney (University of Strathclyde, UK)

     Prof. Joseph G. Davis (University of Sydney)

     David Geiger (University of Mannheim, Germany)

     Prof. Armin Heinzl (University of Mannheim, Germany)

     John J. Horton, PhD (Harvard University, USA)

     Robert Kern (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

     Markus Krause (University of Bremen, Germany)

     Prof. Matt Lease (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

     Prof. Jan Marco Leimeister (University of Kassel, Germany)

     Negri Lorenzo (IULM University, Italy)

     Prof. Robert Nickerson (San Francisco State University, USA)

     Prof. Anne Rouse (Deakin Graduate School of Business, Australia)

     Yongqiang Sun (City University of Hong Kong, China)

     Maja Vukovic, PhD (IBM Research, TJ Watson, Hawthorne, USA)

For more information, please visit

http://www.acis2011.org/conference/tracks/crowdsourcing

Special Issue on Semantic Multimedia at International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC)

Call for Papers - International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC)

Special Issue on Semantic Multimedia

http://www.worldscinet.com/ijsc/mkt/callforpapers.shtml

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SCOPE

In the new millennium Multimedia Computing plays an increasingly important role as more and more users produce and share a constantly growing amount of multimedia documents. The sheer number of documents available in large media repositories or even the World Wide Web makes indexing and retrieval of multimedia documents as well as browsing and annotation more important tasks than ever before. Research in this area is of great importance because of the very limited understanding of the semantics of such data sources as well as the limited ways in which they can be accessed by the users today. The field of Semantic Computing has much to offer with respect to these challenges. This special issue invites articles that bring together Semantic Computing and Multimedia to address the challenges arising by the constant growth of Multimedia.



AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to):

Semantics in Multimedia

*     The Role of Multimedia Objects in the Semantic Web
*     Multimedia Ontologies and Infrastructures
*     Integration of Multimedia Processing and Semantic Web Technologies

Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Documents

*     Content-Based Multimedia Analysis
*     Knowledge Assisted Multimedia Analysis and Data Mining

Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia Documents

*     Semantic-Driven Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
*     Machine Learning and Relevance Feedback for Semantic Retrieval
*     Semantic-Driven Multimedia Content Adaption and Summarization

Linked Data and Multimedia

*     Data Integration for Multimedia Documents
*     Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation of Linked Data Entities in Multimedia Documents

Semantic User Interfaces for Multimedia Documents

*     Human-Computer Interfaces for Multimedia Data Access
*     Content Organization of Multimedia Documents
*     Smart Visualization and Browsing of Multimedia Documents
*     Visualization of Structured, Linked and Aggregated Data, Originating from Multiple Sources
*     Ontology-based Interaction with Collections of Multimedia Data

Semantic Annotation and Tagging of Multimedia Documents

*     User Generated Semantic Metadata for Multimedia Documents
*     Interfaces and Personalization for Interaction and Annotation of
      Multimedia Documents

Semantic Metadata Management for Multimedia

*     Metadata Management for Multimedia Documents
*     Bridging Multimedia and Knowledge Domains
*     Semantic-Driven Data Integration/Fusion of Media Streams in Multimedia Documents

Applications of Semantic Multimedia

*     Semantic Multimedia Mash-ups
*     Semantic-Driven Multimedia Applications in eLearning
*     Semantic-Driven Multimedia Applications in Cultural Heritage Contexts


EDITORIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
Tobias Buerger Capgemini, sd&m, Germany
Fabio Ciravegna, U. of Sheffield, England Thierry Declerck, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany Sigfried Handschuh, DERI, National U. of Ireland Lynda Hardman, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wolfgang Huerst, Utrecht U., The Netherlands Ruediger Klein, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Steffen Lohmann, U. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Matthias Lux, Alpen-Adria U. Klagenfurt, Austria Antonio Penta, U. of Southampton, England Tobias Thelen, U. of Osnabrueck, Germany Rapha‘l Troncy, EURECOM, France


SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit high quality articles in IJSC formatting to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smijsc2011

The guidelines for contributions including formatting templates for MS Word and Latex can be found at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijsc/mkt/guidelines.shtml

In case of questions, please contact the guest editors at robert.mertens@iais.fraunhofer.de or harald.sack@hpi.uni-potsdam.de


IMPORTANT DATES

   * June 24, 2011: Submissions due
   * August 3, 2011: Notification date
   * October 18, 2011: Final versions due

WXG (Gateway for XMPP over WebSocket) released as FLOSS on github

WXG (Gateway for XMPP over WebSocket) released as FLOSS on github

Today Christian Hocken and Dominik Renzel from the XMPP experience group at our chair released WXG, a gateway for XMPP over WebSocket.

Check it out at https://github.com/hocken/wxg!

WXG (pronounce as "Wixig") is a Java-implementation of a gateway enabling communication with native XMPP [1] servers over the WebSocket protocol [2] and API [3], as specified in [4].
Until now, one of the common techniques for using XMPP in JS-powered Web applications was to make use of BOSH [5] and XMPP over BOSH[6]. However, with the advent of the WebSocket protocol and API already widely available in modern Web browsers, the unstable and slow BOSH technique should be replaced. Currently, only few servers are equipped with connectors for receiving and delivering stanzas over the WebSocket protocol as specified in [4], among them our LAS/MobSOS Server and the ejabberd XMPP server. For all those servers not yet equipped with XMPP over WebSocket connectors, WXG should be worth a try.
The following scheme shows the basic functionality of WXG:
Client <----> ws(xmpp) <----> WXG <----> xmpp <----> XMPP Server


As such, WXG realizes two basic use cases:

1. When a client sends an XMPP stanza encapsulated in a WebSocket message, WXG "unpacks" the stanza and forwards it to the XMPP server natively.
2. When an XMPP server directs a stanza to one of its clients, WXG receives the native stanza, wraps it into a WebSocket message and forwards it to the client.

Clients in the world of ROLE are XMPP-enabled OpenSocial gadgets, the building blocks of ROLEs. With XMPP over WebSockets-enabled gadgets we can get rid of the comparably unstable, uncomfortable, and error-prone BOSH technique, which does not work for any widget running on a container not under our control (e.g. iGoogle). With a FLOSS solution for such a gateway, the way is paved for XMPP PubSub-based remote interwidget communication and any other extension protocol.

References

1. P. Saint-Andre. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core. RFC3920. Oct 2004. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt
2. I. Fette. The WebSocket protocol. HyBi Working Group Internet Draft. Jun 2011. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-09
3. I. Hickson. The WebSocket API. W3C Editor's draft. Jun 2011. http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
4. J. Moffit, E. Cestari. An XMPP Sub-protocol for WebSocket. HyBi Working Group Internet Draft. Dec 2010. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moffitt-xmpp-over-websocket-00
5. I. Paterson, D. Smith, P. Saint-Andre, J. Moffitt. XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH). XSF Draft Standard. Jul 2010. http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html
6. I. Paterson, P. Saint-Andre. XEP-0206: XMPP Over BOSH. XSF Draft Standard. Jul 2010. http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html

Fifth International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M'11) at EC-TEL 2011

Fifth International Workshop on

Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M'11) 

http://seam.eun.org

Palermo, Italy – September 20 or 21 (to be confirmed), 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS – Submission Deadline: June 30, 2011

CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

Over the last fifteen years, considerable effort has been spent on the development of standards and specifications to improve the interoperability of e-learning systems, repositories, and content.  These efforts have led to significant advances in the arena of technical interoperability.  These advances have made possible the emergence and expansion of successful federations and alliances of learning object repositories such as the Learning Resource Exchange, ARIADNE, GLOBE, and more recently the Learning Registry.  The evolution and adoption of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), and the Simple Query Interface (SQI) provided the building blocks for these successes.  More recent developments in this field include the definition of a Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) and the ongoing work within the IMS Global Learning Consortium on the Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE) specification to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection.  The development of best practices (for example by projects like ASPECT and ICOPER), enabling more efficient use of these standards and specifications, has also proven instrumental for current learning content retrieval infrastructures.
However, newly emerging practices emphasizing community driven learning necessitate that researchers and practitioners approach the concept of learning resource as a more expansive category that includes people, events and tools.  Seen from this perspective, it is imperative to extend currently available tools, specifications and techniques to support the integration and interoperability of three components.   The first of these components will remain content in learning object repositories.  The second component can be people themselves who often play more than one role in learning and teaching (teachers, co-learners, coaches, tutors, subject experts, museum curators, community groups, etc.) and events relevant for teaching and learning. Tools and services are the third component. These may include authoring tools; synchronous and asynchronous communication and collaboration tools; learning planning and management tools; interactive learning and teaching devices including whiteboards, response systems and scientific input devices such as data loggers; resource discovery and information management services etc.

To further developments in this field, the main goal of this international workshop is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices for exchanging and describing learning content, roles, actors, tools and services.  This year's workshop will include presentations of both long and short refereed papers as well as panel discussions and a keynote presentation.

NB: SE@M 2011 is organized as a workshop of EC-TEL 2011 (http://www.ec-tel.eu/) 20-23 September, 2011.

THEMES (include, but are not limited to)

• Infrastructures for resource (e.g., content, people, tools and services) discovery and exchange
o   Interoperable resources and metadata repositories
o   Protocols for exposing resources
o   Federations of learning resources
o   Service registries
• Metadata Management
o   Standards, application profiles and application profile registries
o   Metadata conformance, testing and validation services
o   Automatic metadata generation versus human indexing
o   Controlled vocabularies, translations, crosswalks and controlled vocabulary management and tools
o   Protocols and techniques for metadata exchange
o   Infrastructure for mass metadata processing
o   Techniques for achieving metadata interoperability
o   Inclusion of other types of content (library, cultural heritage)
• Discovering content
o   User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
o   Retrieval of learning resources (searching, browsing)
o   Interoperable query languages
o   Enhanced search mechanism (sorting, ranking)
o   Paradata and recommendation systems
o   Cross-border reuse of resources
• Exchanging resources
o   Resource identification
o   Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
o   Use tracking
• Beyond content

SUBMISSIONS

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

Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see ÒFor AuthorsÓ instructions at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions, and questions, should be sent to seam@eun.org

Those interested in demonstrating their work during the workshop are also invited to contact the organizers at seam@eun.org.


IMPORTANT DATES

• 30 June 2011: Paper Submission deadline
• 3 August 2011: Notification of acceptance
• 15 August 2011: Camera Ready Submission
• 20 or 21 September 2011: Workshop

LOCATION
The workshop will take place at the same venue as EC-TEL 2011 http://www.ec-tel.eu/

ORGANISERS

David Massart, European Schoolnet, Belgium Elena Shulman, European Schoolnet, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Luis Anido, University of Vigo, Spain
• Jean-Noel Colin, University of Namur, Belgium
• Ingo Dahn, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Manuel Kolp, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Eugenijus Kurilovas, ITC, Centre of Information Technologies of Education, Lithuania
• Tien-Dung Le, European Schoolnet, Belgium
• Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
• Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Jon Phipps, JES&Co, USA
• Alain Pirotte, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Daniel Rehak, ADL, USA
• Griff Richards, Athabasca University, Canada
• Bernd Simon, WU-Wien, Austria              
• Stefaan Ternier, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
• Michael Totschnig, WU-Wien, Austria
• Frans Van Assche, Ariadne Foundation, Belgium
• Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium
• Nigel Ward, University of Queensland, Australia

Challenges in Evaluating Educative Experiences of Flexible and Personal Learning Environments (E3FPLE) at ECTEL 2011

 Challenges in Evaluating Educative Experiences of Flexible and Personal Learning Environments (E³FPLE)

            in conjunction with ECTEL 2011 ((http://www.ec-tel.eu/)

20^th or 21^st September 2011 (to be confirmed)

Palermo, Italy

Website: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/E3FPLE/index.php?s=138

Deadline for Paper Submission: 15^th July 2011

BACKGROUND

Recognition of the necessity and utility of lifelong learning has led to the shift from a centralised institutional teaching approach to a more learner-centred decentralised learning approach (Wilson, 2008).  It is necessary to provide various supports for learners to easily construct and maintain their own Personal Learning Environment (PLE).  Technically, PLEs are built upon an interoperability framework that allows learning components (i.e. services, tools, resources) to be easily adapted and new systems to be assembled in a responsive way.  Pedagogically, open design accommodating the unpredictability of the usage scenarios becomes essential (Giovannella & Graf, 2010).   This openness renders the educative experience with PLEs even more unpredictable than that with traditional educational technologies.

Consequently, evaluation of such flexible and personal learning environments which will constantly change and be adopted by diverse user groups is extremely challenging.   Such evaluation should be an ongoing process with empirical findings being used as well as provided by the developer and researcher communities; the successful interplay between software evaluation and development is hard to sustain.  Another critical issue is the inherent difficulty in defining and operationalising qualities of user experience (UX) (Law et al., 2009) in general and those of learning processes in particular.  Furthermore, technological, personal, and social factors are so highly intertwined that it seems an insurmountable task to ascribe weights for their respective influence on the learning effect.

All in all, there is a strong need to develop as well as validate new evaluation methodologies that are applicable to organic flexible and personal learning environments.

GOALS & RESEARCH QUESTIONS

E³FPLE aims to offer an interdisciplinary arena to investigate the complexity that will characterize the future educative experiences.  The major challenges are to operationalize relevant qualities and processes of such experiences, and to model and monitor their trajectories. The overarching goal is to inform the development of effective supports to enhance educative experiences of the stakeholders involved. We intend to explore the following research questions in the workshop:

·         Whether and how the existing evaluation methods from the field of Technology-enhanced Learning (TEL) and Human-computer Interaction (HCI) should be extended to address specific requirements of FPLEs?

·         Whether and how compartmentalize the respective impact of software quality (i.e. interoperability), interaction quality (i.e. usability and user experience with individual widgets and their orchestration), information quality (i.e. contents delivered by widgets and their integration), and personal quality (i.e. individual goals, value and expertise) on educative experiences?

·         Which experiential qualities are relevant to successful educative processes in FPLEs? Are hedonic qualities (Hassenzahl, 2001) such as identification, stimulation and evocation particularly relevant? Should the learner experience certain negative emotional responses (e.g. challenge, tension, bewildered) or, in contrast, positive ones to achieve a stronger learning effect?

·         How should the interplay between experiential evaluation feedback and redesign of the learning environments be enhanced? In which ways should the evaluation feedback be collected and presented (qualitative vs. quantitative; level of granularity; monomodal vs. multimodal) to the design and development team to improve the uptake of evaluation results?

In the Workshop, these and other questions arising from the workshop submissions and discussions will be addressed.   Submissions addressing the above listed and other related questions/ideas are invited.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester, UK (elaw@mcs.le.ac.uk)
Carlo Giovannella, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (mifav@roma2.infn.it)

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed and completed):

• Felix Mödritscher, Vienna University of Economics & Businesses, Austria
• Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
• Denis Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland
• Katrien Verbert, KUL, Belgium
• Marcel Berthold, TU Graz, Austria
• Carsten Ulrich, Shanghai Jiao Tung University, China
• Nikolas Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
• Ardito Carmelo, University of Bari, Italy

REGISTRATION:
See the ECTEL 2011 Conference website: http://www.ec-tel.eu/registration

IMPORTANT DATES:

·         Deadline for submission: 15th July 2011 (Wed)

·         Notification of acceptance: 8^thAugust, 2011 (Monday)

·         Camera ready submission: 5^th September, 2011

SUBMISSION TYPES:

Submissions addressing the workshop’s Goal and Research Questions and other related questions/ideas are invited.  Two types of submissions are solicited: full papers with up to 12 pages describing substantial, completed work, and position papers with 4 pages describing either results that can be concisely reported or work in progress. All papers should be written according to IxD&A Journal's Guidelines.

All papers will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee with regard to the relevance and originality of the work and their ability to generate discussions among the participants of the workshop.

Paper submission and Proceedings:

Papers should be submitted to the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=u2x4ple
The workshop proceedings will be published in a special issue of the IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745): http://www.scuolaiad.it/IxDEA/

MTDL 2011 - with a special issue of the World Wide Web journal

The Third ACM International Workshop on
Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (MTDL) 2011

In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011
Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A., Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2011
URL: http://MTDL2011.mine.tku.edu.tw

Multimedia technologies and networking infrastructure have changed human social behavior. One typical example is education. The impact of distance learning to traditional universities in particular allows educational professionals to rethink about how to efficiently and effectively apply multimedia technologies to improve instruction, as well as to encourage students to learn. Although multimedia technologies have already been used widely in e-learning, various considerations should be carefully addressed from both pedagogical and technological perspectives, to ensure the successful incorporation of these technologies in e-learning.

This ACM workshop aims to discuss problems, current studies, and solutions in how to use multimedia and communication technologies to improve e-learning. Especially, presentations should address the difference between using and without using multimedia technologies in education. Practical solutions are encouraged, although pedagogical theories may be used to support the solutions.

The first MTDL 2009 Workshop was held in Beijing, China, followed by MTDL 2010, which was held in Firenze, Italy. This is the third MTDL Workshop in the series.

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:

•   Efficient Authoring Methods for Instruction Creation/Generation
•   Management of Multimedia Learning Objects
•   Multimedia Edutainment Technologies
•   Multimedia Technologies for Collaborative Learning
•   Multimedia Technologies for Mobile/Situated Learning
•   Multimodal Interactions for e-Learning
•   Game-based Learning
•   Pedagogical Issues of using Multimedia Technologies in e-Learning
•   Real-time Delivery of Multimedia Instructions
•   Retrieval of Multimedia Learning Objects
•   Server and System Architecture for Multimedia Instructions
•   Usability Study of Multimedia Learning Objects

Submission Details:

Each paper for submission should be formatted using the ACM Proceedings templates. It should be written in 9 points and must not be longer than 10 pages in length, including references and figures. Authors may submit their papers in PDF format via the ACM Multimedia 2011 paper submission system. Note that the review process is double-blind, i.e., all submissions must contain no information identifying the authors or their organizations. We will post the information on how to submit papers soon.

For more information, please contact Frederick Li (frederick.li@durham.ac.uk) and Neil Yen (neil219@gmail.com).


Important Date:

Paper Registration Deadline: July 6, 2011 (11:59PM PDT)
Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2011 (11:59PM PDT)
Notification of Acceptance: August 12, 2011 


Special Issue:

Authors of the best papers presented in this conference will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for further review and possible publication in a special issue of the World Wide Web journal, Springer.


Conference Organization:

Workshop Co-Chairs
-  Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
-  Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan

Technical Program Co-Chairs
-  Frederick Li, Durham University, United Kingdom
-  Neil Yen, Waseda University, Japan

Web and Media Chair
-  Christopher Watson, Durham University, United Kingdom

iStar Showcase’11 Program

iStar Showcase'11

Exploring the Goals of your Systems and Businesses  Practical experiences with i* modelling

June 21st, 2011, 13.00-17.00

City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V0HB

Co-sponsored by the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group and City University London

http://www.city.ac.uk/informatics/school-organisation/centre-for-human-computer-interaction-design/istar11


Concerned about how to model the goals of diverse actors in your system or business? Need new means to analyze business and system goals so that your organization meets its objectives? Unsure how to explore complex goal trade-offs? This half-day symposium will introduce the i* approach then report a series of case studies in which it has been used to model complex system and business goals, analyze these models for system-level qualities, and inform organizational, process and system redesign. Presentations of the case studies will be supported by posters and demonstrations of software tools developed to support i*. Pronounced eye-star, i* is a powerful approach for modelling and reasoning about the goals of heterogeneous actors in business and socio-technical systems, and for choosing systems architectures that best meet these goals. GRL, a version of i*, is part of the User Requirements Notation (URN), an ITU-T international standard since 2008. Leveraging experiences from more than a decade of experimentation, you can now use i* modelling in your organization to discover, describe, model and reason about complex system and business goals.

Who should attend?

Practitioners, vendors and academics interested in describing, modelling and reasoning about business and system goals during the earlier stages of organizational restructuring, process redesign and systems development. Attend if you want to know more about new and more effective goal modelling techniques, how to model goals for the distributed and heterogeneous systems that are often found in business and industrial applications, or how to use goals to make decisions about your systems development projects.

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 iStar Showcase'11 Program
June 21st, 2011, 13.00-17.00
City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V0HB

Opening remarks

●       Ian Alexander – ScenarioPlus, UK; Chair, BCS RESG

An Overview of i* modeling

●       Eric Yu, University of Toronto

Sample projects - long presentations

●       Using i* Modelling as a Bridge between Air Traffic Management Operational Concepts and Agent-Based Simulation Analysis

○       James Lockerbie¹, David Bush², Neil Maiden¹, Henk Blom³, Mariken Everdij³

○       ¹ City University London, ² NATS, UK, ³ NLR National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), The Netherlands

●       Evaluating the Impact of Evolving Requirements in HIV/AIDS monitoring systems in the UK

○       Jorgen Engmann¹, Neil Maiden², James Lockerbie²

○       ¹ Health Protection Agency/UCL, ² City University London

●       Agile Software Practices - Pre-adoption Analysis Using Strategic Modeling and Empirical Knowledge

○       Hesam Chiniforooshan¹, Eric Yu¹, Maria Carmela Annosi²

○       ¹ University of Toronto, Canada, ² Ericsson Research Italy

Sample projects - short presentations

Civil and mechanical engineering

●       Modelling Requirements for an Integrated Management System for Civil Construction

○       Fernanda Alencar¹, Jaelson Castro², José Roberto R de Menezes³, José Jeferson R Silva³, Emanuel Santos²

○       ¹ Dep. Eletrônica e Sistemas; ² Centro de Informática; ³ Dep. Engenharia Civil,

○       Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

●       Managing Requirements Knowledge - a Case Ctudy on Control Cystems

○       Dominik Schmitz¹, Matthias Jarke^1,2, Hans W. Nissen³, Thomas Rose²

○       ¹ RWTH Aachen University, ² Fraunhofer FIT, ³ Cologne University of Applied Sciences, ⁴ VEMAC, ⁵ AVL

Business and innovation

●       Designing the Trentino Innovation Network: Applying Tropos to TasLab

○       Fabiano Dalpiaz¹, Paolo Giorgini¹, Valentina Ferrari², Stefano Tinella²

○       ¹ University of Trento, Italy; ² Informatica Trentina, Italy; ³ Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Italy

●       Analyzing Requirements for Online Presence

○       S. M. Easterbrook¹, E. Yu², J. Aranda³, J. Horkoff¹, M. Strohmaier⁴, Y. Fan¹, M. Leica¹, and R. A. Qadir²

○       ¹ Department of Computer Science, ² Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; ³ Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria; ⁴ Knowledge Management Institute, Faculty of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology; ⁵ Kids Help Phone

●       Using URN and Key Performance Indicators for Performance Management in Small and Medium Enterprises

○       Alireza Pourshahid^1,2 Daniel Amyot², Greg Richards³, Heather Meek⁴

○       ¹ IBM Canada, ² SITE, University of Ottawa, ³ Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, ⁴ Boomerang Kids

Healthcare

●       Proactive Adverse Event Management in Healthcare

○       Saeed Ahmadi Behnam¹ Daniel Amyot¹, Alan J. Forster²

○       ¹ University of Ottawa, ² The Ottawa Hospital

●       Collaborative social modeling for designing a patient wellness tracking system in a Nurse-Managed Health Care Center

○       Y. An¹, P. Gerrity², P. W. Dalrymple³, J. Horkoff⁴, M. Rogers¹, E. Yu⁵

○       ¹ iSchool at Drexel, ² College of Nursing and Health Professions, ³ Institute for Healthcare Informatics, iSchool at Drexel, Drexel University, Philadelphia USA; ⁴ Department of Computer Science, ⁵ Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, CA.

●       Bridging User Privacy Goals and the Privacy Features of Personal Health Records Systems

○       Reza Samavi¹, Thodoros Topaloglu²

○       ¹University of Toronto, ²Rouge Valley Health System, Ontario, Canada

Software and system development

●       Architecting hybrid systems: the Etapatelecom and Cuenca Airport cases

○       Juan Pablo Carvallo¹, Xavier Franch²

○       ¹ Universidad del Pacífico, Cuenca, Ecuador, ² Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

●       Modeling Requirements with i* in the Development of a Data Warehouse for a University

○       Paul Hernández¹, Jose-Norberto Mazón¹, Juan Trujillo¹, Carlos Cares²

○       ¹ Lucentia Research Group Universidad de Alicante, Spain, ² Universidad de La Frontera, Chile

●       Understanding Stakeholders' Viewpoints in Enterprise SOA  

○       Daniel Gross¹, Eric Yu¹, Sharon Volk², Sharon Al-Al²,

○       ¹ University of Toronto, ² The Pheonix Insurance, Tel Aviv, Israel

Compliance and Assurance

●       Regulatory Compliance of Requirements of Health Care  Information Systems - Experience with Nomos

○       Alberto Siena¹, G. Armellin², G. Mameli³, John Mylopoulos¹, Anna Perini³, Angelo Susi³

○       ¹University of Trento,  ²GPI srl, ³FBK-irst, Trento, Italy

●       Assurance Requirements for Public Serivces

○       André Rifaut, Eric Dubois, Sylvain Kubicki, Sophie Ramel

○       Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Security and Trust

●       Modelling Trust and Security Requirements: the Air Traffic Management Experience

○       Elda Paja¹, Fabiano Dalpiaz¹, Paolo Giorgini¹, Stéphane Paul², Per Håkon Meland³

○       ¹University of Trento, Italy; ²Thales Research and Technology, France; ³SINTEF, Norway

●       Using Secure Tropos to Develop a Pre-Employment Screening System

○       Shareeful Islam¹, Haralambos Mouratidis¹, Miao Kang²

○       ¹ School of Computing, IT and Engineering, University of East London; ² PowerchexLtd.

●       Modeling and Analysis of White-Box Security Patterns in i*

○       Golnaz Elahi¹, Eric Yu¹, Yuan Xiang Gu²,

○       ¹University of Toronto, ²Irdeto Canada