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International Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional approaches (ALICE 2011)

ALICE 2011: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

******OUTSTANDING NEWS*******

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Naomi Miyake, CoREF, University of Tokyo
Keynote title: "Knowledge constructive jigsaw as an adaptive learning
framework: Its design principles and network supports"
SPECIAL ISSUE
Best papers of the ALICE 2011 Workshop will be invited for potential
inclusion of an extended version in a Special Issue of the Journal of
Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL). ISSN: 0266-4909. Indexed in ISI Journal
Citation Reports® 2010: Education & Educational Research: 41 / 177 (Q1):
Impact Factor: 1.25

ALICE 2011: International Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive,
Collaborative and Emotional approaches
http://www.aliceproject.eu/
In conjunction with the INCOS 2011: Third International Conference on
Networking and Collaborative Systems
(http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~incos2011)
November 30 - December 2, 2011
Fukuoka, Japan

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: ***August 5, 2011***(HARD DEADLINE)
Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2011
Camera-Ready Submission: September 15, 2011
Registration: September 15, 2011
Workshop and INCoS main Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2011

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Nicola Capuano, University of Salerno, Italy

SUPPORTED AND ORGANIZED by
The FP7-EU project ALICE (http://www.aliceproject.eu/).

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Despite a great potential and some initial successes, e-learning systems do
not yet have the impact that many believe is possible. Moreover, the gap
seems to be increasing because of the greater expectations of the current
generation (Digital Natives) who have grown up with modern technology. There
are also more general problems. In particular, an over-emphasis on cost
effectiveness has meant that content is often not as strong as it needs to
be and this deficiency has contributed to a lack of user engagement and some
high attrition rates. Studies have consistently highlighted the important
relationship between engagement and learning, with students who are highly
motivated being more likely to engage in the learning process.
The international workshop ALICE 2011 aims at providing a forum for
innovative adaptive e-learning combining personalization, collaboration and
simulation aspects within an affective/emotional based approach able to
contribute to the overcoming of the quoted limitations of current e-learning
systems and content. Special emphasis is given to environments that are
interactive, challenging and context aware while enabling learners' demand
of empowerment, social identity, and authentic learning experience.
The expected contributions should be able to effectively involve learners in
educational, cultural and informative activities. Empirical results from
real users in real learning and training settings will be very valuable in
order to evaluate and discuss the impact of the proposed innovative
features. Academic researchers, professionals and practitioners are invited
to exchange their experiences and ideas about problems and solutions related
to the design, development and use of advanced and innovative learning
systems and applications. Researchers can report their ideas, models,
designs and experiences on the proposed topics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The main topics of interest within the scope of advances and innovative
e-Learning systems include, but are not limited to:
- Live and Virtualized Collaboration (CSCL Approaches)
- Affective and Emotional Approaches
- Simulation and Serious Games
- New Forms of e-Assessment
- Storytelling
- Adaptive Technologies

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Saverio Salerno, University of Salerno, Italy
Anna Pierri, Modelli Matematici e Applicazioni S.r.l., Italy
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Sara de Freitas, Coventry University, UK
Angel Juan, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Jordi Conesa, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Josep Prieto, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
David Gañan, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Nestor Mora, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Jose Mangione, University of Salerno, Italy
Gerardo Iovane, University of Salerno, Italy
Germano Ingenito, University of Salerno, Italy
Panagiotis Petridis, Coventry University, UK
Ian Dunwell, Coventry University, UK
Nick Scerbakov, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Margit Höfler, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Marcello Rosciano, Modelli Matematici e Applicazioni S.r.l., Italy
Francesco Zurolo, Modelli Matematici e Applicazioni S.r.l., Italy
Sergio Miranda, Modelli Matematici e Applicazioni S.r.l., Italy
Mihalis Feidakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Maria Kordaki, University of the Aegean, Greece
Luis Casillas, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

PAST EVENTS (in conjunction with)
INCoS 2010: Tutorial on Intelligent Tools for Networking and Collaborative
Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece.
CISIS 2009: International Track on Complex Intelligent Techniques for
E-Learning (CITEL 2009), Fukuoka, Japan.
CISIS 2008: International Workshop on Collaborative e-Learning Systems and
Applications (CESA 2008), Barcelona, Spain.

PAPER PRESENTATION
Regular Papers, Oral Presentations and Posters.

INTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
The manuscripts should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in
the Proceedings, which will be maximum 6 pages in IEEE double column format.
Please format your paper, as described in the IEEE Computer Society Press
Proceedings Author Guidelines where you can find instructions (Word, PDF,
Postscript).
See further details at main conference web site of INCOS 2011:
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~incos2011

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers (presented orally or as a poster) with paid registration
will be included in the Proceedings of INCOS 2011. ALICE 2011 papers will be
published by IEEE Computer Society. After the conference, selected papers
will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for inclusion
in related journals and books (to be announced).
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.
Best papers presented in ALICE 2011 Workshop will be invited for potential
inclusion of an extended version in a Special Issue of the Journal of
Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL). ISSN: 0266-4909. Indexed in ISI Journal
Citation Reports® 2010: Education & Educational Research: 41 / 177 (Q1):
Impact Factor: 1.25

SUBMISSIONS
The submission site for INCOS-2011 and all workshops is found at
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~incos2011/submission.html
The file format of the initial submissions and final accepted papers should
be PDF. In order to proceed with the submission, please use the submission
system of INCOS 2011.

CONTACT
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
scaballe@uoc.edu
Nicola Capuano, University of Salerno, Italy
ncapuano@unisa.it
http://www.aliceproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53:t
itolo-news&catid=1:ultime&Itemid=48

ACM Multimedia 2011 -- Call for Student Scholarship Applications

ACM Multimedia 2011 Call for Student Scholarship Applications
http://www.acmmm11.org/content-call-student-scholarship-applications.html

The ACM Multimedia conference is the main annual conference of ACM SIGMM. It provides a great opportunity for researchers to present their work, get acquainted with the work of others, and discuss with colleagues both junior and senior. To promote this form of cooperation, the SIG and its sponsor, the US National Science Foundation (NSF), make
conference participation grants available for several students.
A scholarship is meant to support personal attendance of one student at the main conference. Students selected for the award will be reimbursed for the advance registration fee (including main conference, workshop and/or tutorials) and travel expenses up to 400 USD. Individual scholarships may cover additional expenses subject to conditions of individual sponsors. Students will have to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation.

Eligibility
Sponsored by the US NSF, students are encouraged to apply.
- Students being the primary authors of an accepted paper in the main conference or workshops will be given preference in the selection process.
- Students selected to attend the Doctoral Symposium, Women Mentoring Workshop, and Open Source Software Competition will be given high priority.
- Students without papers accepted for publication at ACMMM 2011, but involved in research closely related to the topics of ACMMM will be considered.
As additional criteria, we will also work on the institutional diversity of the awardees to broaden the participation among institutions. We will also aim to encourage diversity and participation by female and minority students.

Application Procedure
To apply for a grant, the students must submit the necessary materials through the website (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/mmc2011/) under the track "Student Travel Grant," no later than August 15 (11:59pm PST),2011. Students are encouraged to have the applications sent as soon as possible. Applications arriving after the deadline will not be considered. The notification date is August 26, 2011. Please include the following materials (in the ZIP or the PDF format) in an application:
1. a recommendation letter from a faculty member of the student's host institution (preferably from academic/dissertation advisors);
2. an application letter from the student with the following information:
a. the faculty's full name and email address, student's full name and email address;
b. the name and nationality of the institution;
c. the student's academic status and expected year of graduation;
d. whether the student is (co-)author of a paper that was accepted for the main conference or if the student contributes to any other part of the conference;
e. if the student is a (co-)author, the paper title, author list, the student's contribution to the paper, and whether the student will present the paper;
f. the reason for applying for the grant, including the expected benefits that the students will have from attending the conference, research significance, the funding status of the student, and the budget of the student travel;
g. a brief statement by the student about his or her current research interests and research accomplishments to date, or a link to his/her CV.
3. a one-page abstract from the student, summarizing a broad view of his/her PhD research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress.
a. the abstracts must be written in English;
b. the abstract has to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format (http://www.acmmm11.org/content-general-submission-guidelines.html);
c. the accepted abstract will appear in the proceedings;
d. the accepted abstract will be presented as a poster at the Doctoral Symposium.
Questions can be directed to the Travel Grant Co-chairs (Dr. Jong Wook Kim, JongWook.Kim [AT] Teradata.com; Dr. Tao Mei, tmei [AT] microsoft.com;
and Prof. Antonio Picariello, picus [AT] unina.it) with the subject "ACM MM 2011 Student Conference Participation Grant."

Important Dates
- Application submission: August 15, 11:59pm PST, 2011
- Application notification: August 26, 2011

We look forward to receiving your applications!
Note: Each accepted paper at ACMMM11 must have at least one author registered with the REGULAR (NON-STUDENT) rate at the camera ready submission deadline. Award of student scholarship does NOT waive this requirement. Please see conference registration page for details.

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Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining (ASONAM 2011)

ASONAM 2011

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 

25-27 July 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

[http://asonam2011.im.nuk.edu.tw/]

(The 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining)

Conference Information:
Following the great success of ASONAM09 in Athens, ASONAM2010 in Odense,
ASONAM 2011 will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 25-27, 2011. ASONAM
will provide an interdisciplinary venue for practitioners and researchers
from a variety of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) fields to
promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices with a specific
focus on emerging trends.

Registration:
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Registration details can be accessed
from [http://asonam.im.nuk.edu.tw/registration]
Final ASONAM 2011 Program can be downloaded from
[http://asonam.im.nuk.edu.tw/sites/default/files/ASONAM2011program.pdf]
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ASONAM 2011 Keynote Speakers:
Professor Ming-Syan Chen, Director, Research Center for Information
Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Title: Information Processing in Social Networks

Johnny Engell-Hansen, Head of Operation Unit, Council of the European Union
Title:Can Early Warning be Improved by Enhancing Open Source Intelligence through better Exploitation of
Societal Data and Information

Professor Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title:Towards Integrated Mining of Multiple Social and Information Networks

Professor Yutaka Matsuo, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title:Social Network Mining for People Search

Professor Philippa Pattison, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Title:Statistical models for the analysis of social networks

Arno H. P. Reuser, Chief, Open Source Intelligence, Defence Intelligence and Security Service
Title: A changing nature of warfare requires a change of mindset of defense intelligence and the role of OSINT and social networks therein

Ninth Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 2011) @KDD 2011

Call for Participation

Ninth Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs 2011 (MLG-2011)

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/mlg2011/index.html

San Diego, CA, USA, August, 20-21, 2011

(co-located with KDD 2011)

*** Register before July 31st for discounted rates ***
This year's workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs will be held in
conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining that will take place in August 21-24, 2011, in San Deigo,
CA, USA.
There is a growing need and interest in analyzing data that is best
represented as a graph, such as the World Wide Web, social networks, social
media, biological networks, communication networks, and physical network
systems. Traditionally, methods for mining and learning with such graphs
has been studied independently in several research areas, including machine
learning, statistics, data mining, information retrieval, natural language
processing, computational biology, statistical physics, and sociology.
However, we note that contributions developed in one area can, and should,
impact work in the other areas and disciplines. One goal of this workshop is
to foster this type of interdisciplinary exchange, by encouraging
abstraction of the underlying problem (and solution) characteristics.
To reflect the broad scope of work on mining and learning with graphs,
we encouraged submissions that span the spectrum from theoretical analysis
of
methods, to algorithms and implementation, to applications and empirical
studies. In terms of application areas, the growth of user-generated
content on blogs, microblogs, discussion forums, product reviews, etc.,
has given rise to a host of new opportunities for graph mining in the
analysis of Social Media. Social Media Analytics is a fertile ground for
research at the intersection of mining graphs and text. As such, this
year we especially encouraged submissions on theory, methods, and
applications
focusing on the analysis of social media.

Registration
============
You can register via http://www.kdd.org/kdd2011/registration.shtml

Program
=======
Both days will consist of keynote speakers and short presentations
showcasing accepted papers. To promote dialog we will have a
panel discussion and a poster session.
The program features the following invited talks and accepted papers:
Invited Talks
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* Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
* Karsten Borgwardt, Max Planck Institute
* William Cohen, Carnegie Melon University
* Charles Elkan, University of California, San Diego
* Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland
* Alon Halevy, Google Inc.
* Peter Hoff, Univeristy of Washington
* Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
Accepted Papers
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* Comparing Generalizations of Unweighted Network Measures
Sherief Abdallah and Habab Musa
* A Framework for Hypothesis Learning Over Sets of Vectors
Karim Abou-Moustafa and Frank Ferrie
* All-at-once Optimization for Coupled Matrix and Tensor Factorizations
Evrim Acar, Tamara Kolda and Daniel Dunlavy
* Evaluating Markov Logic Networks for Collective Classification
Robert Crane and Luke Mcdowell
* Graph Based Statistical Analysis of Network Traffic
Hristo Djidjev, Gary Sandine, Curtis Storlie and Scott Vander Wiel
* Compression versus Frequency for Mining Patterns and Anomalies in Graphs
William Eberle and Lawrence Holder
* Learning from Plane Graphs
Thomas Fannes and Jan Ramon
* Bayesian Optimal Active Search on Graphs
Roman Garnett, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Donghan Wang, Jeff Schneider and
Richard Mann
* Can't See Forest through the Trees? Understanding Mixed Network Traffic
Graphs from Application Class Distribution
Yu Jin, Nick Duffield, Patrick Haffner, Subhabrata Sen and Zhi-Li Zhang
* Graph Classification via Topological and Label Attributes
Geng Li, Murat Semerci, Bülent Yener and Mohammed Zaki
* Adaptation of Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Methods to Large-Scale Text Data
Frank Lin and William W. Cohen
* Building a Semantic Graph based on Sequential Language Model for
Topic-Sensitive
Content Extraction
Yan Liang and Ying Liu
* Small Network Segmentation with Template Guidance
Kristin Lui and Ian Davidson
* Generating Similar Graphs from Spherical Features
Dalton Lunga and Sergey Kirshner
* Predicting Dynamic Difficulty
Olana Missura and Thomas Gaertner
* Mining Differential Hubs in Homogenous Networks
Omar Odibat and Chandan K. Reddy
* Integrating Logic Knowledge into Graph Regularization: an application to
image tagging
Claudio Sacca, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Gori and Marco Maggini
* Exploring Co-Occurrence on a Meso and Global Level Using Network Analysis
and Rule Mining
Maximilian Schich and Michele Coscia
* Transductive Classification Methods for Mixed Graphs
Sundararajan Sellamanickam and Sathiya Keerthi
* Graph Mining of Motif Profiles For Computer Network Activity Inference
William Turkett, Errin Fulp, Charles Lever and Edward Allan
* Trading off Propagation and Misspecification Error to Reduce Inference
Error
in Probabilistic Relational Models
Rongjing Xiang and Jennifer Neville
* Visualizing the Temporal Evolution of Dynamic Networks
Kevin Xu, Mark Kliger and Alfred Hero
We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn
Prem Melville, IBM Research
Jennifer Neville, Purdue University
C. David Page Jr., University of Wisconsin Medical School

IEEE TSCloud 2011 - Trust and Security in Cloud Computing

Call for Papers

1st IEEE International Workshop on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing ( IEEE TSCloud 2011 )

in conjunction with

10th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom '11)

Changsha, China -- November 16-18, 2011

Web-site:

http://www.tscloud.org/

The TSCloud workshop tries to bring together researchers with an interest in
theoretical foundations and practical approaches to trust and security in
cloud computing. The emphasis is on high-impact, novel/adopted theories and
paradigms that address mathematical and logical underpinnings in trust and
security in cloud computing, e.g. encryption, obfuscation, virtualisation
security, governance, accountability, etc.
Topics of interest for both main and demo tracks include, but are not
limited to:
* Malware detection in cloud computing
* Cryptography and encryption techniques for cloud computing
* Data obfuscation for cloud computing
* Accountability in cloud computing
* Security in virtualised environments
* Governance, regulation and compliance in cloud computing
* Data analytics for security in cloud computing
* Visualization for security in cloud computing
* Cloud computing threat detection techniques
* Trust in cloud services
* Trust reputation systems for cloud computing
* Reports on critical, real-life security and trust use cases in cloud
computing
* Secure and trusted workflows in cloud computing
* Position papers on issues in security and trust in cloud computing

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Publication
+++++++++++
All accepted papers in this workshop will be published by IEEE Computer
Society in the IEEE TrustCom 2011 conference/workshop proceedings (indexed
by EI Compendex and ISTP). Distinguished papers, after further revisions,
will be invited for possible publication in special issues of prestige
international journals indexed by SCI and EI (pending).

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Submission Instructions
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All submissions must be written in English, with a maximum length of 6 pages
(or 10 pages maximum with page-excess charges) in the IEEE Proceedings
Format. All submissions must be submitted into EasyChair system:
1. Login at the following URL:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tscloud2011
2. Choose the 'TSCloud 2011 Main Track' option.

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Best Paper Award
++++++++++++++++
A Best Paper Award will be given for the best submission as judged by the
Technical Committee.

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Important Dates
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Paper Submission: July 8, 2011
Notification: August 30, 2011
Camera-Ready Papers: September 30, 2011
Workshop (tentative): November 16, 2011

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Program Co-Chairs
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Ryan K L Ko, HP Labs, Singapore
Markus Kirchberg, HP Labs, Singapore

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Technical Committee
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http://www.tscloud.org/committee/

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Contact
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Please email all enquiries concerning IEEE TSCloud 2011 to the workshop
organisers at TSCloud2011@gmail.com

MediaBase Commander - An interface to Web resources in technology enhanced learning

Screenshot of the MediaBase Commander

The MediaBase assesses cross-media digital discourses and archives in the field of technology enhanced learning. We are gathering the latest information in this field from different reputable sources by monitoring mailing lists, newsletters, websites, and RSS/atom feeds.

Mailing lists, newsletters, websites, RSS/atom feeds and blogs are the monitored items. For each of them, the following features are implemented:

• comparison statistics
• detailed information
• entries / screenshots
• members
• search on various criteria
• adding / modifying / deleting projects

Our MediaBase has been enriched with new features and implements a completely new community interface:

• community based
• personalization
• tagging system
• Firefox plugin
• view/modify Mediabase content "on-the-fly"

To gain the full access to MediaBase you will need a more recent version of the Firefox browser (v2.0+) with the MediaBase Commander plug-in which you can download and install from here.

The MediaBase and the MediaBase Commander are supported by TELMAP (Future gazing Technology Enhanced Learning - The Roadmap for the unknown Learning Landscape - EU FP7 ICT SA). 

This project focuses on ‘exploratory/Roadmapping activities for fundamentally new forms of learning’ to support take-up of those new forms, via ‘Awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in TEL’ and ‘socio-economic evaluations in education and for SMEs’. We gather information on the current, desired and emerging position of TEL, and on awareness and appropriation (by educators and SMEs) of RTD results in TEL. We codify that information using state of the art knowledge management tools/ methods, at three levels of scale: 1) macro (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental), 2) meso (organisation of education and training systems and institutions), and 3) micro (enacted paradigms of learning and teaching). Cutting across these levels of scale is the categorisation of changes as exogenous or endogenous relative to forms of learning and to the TEL community. This provides direct input to TEL-relevant decisions at all three levels, including economic, political, and research discussions. With a 10-year horizon, we co-develop a portfolio of stakeholder-specific roadmaps and influence maps, to gain insights into fundamentally new forms of Learning, Education and Training activities (LET) and into what makes for effective transfer and scalability. Our collaborative development approach leads to a Multi-perspective Dynamic Roadmap to track, anticipate and manage knowledge about new forms of LET and their impact on TEL. This extends established TEL Roadmapping methods in novel, powerful and cost-effective ways, with high potential for sustainability and for targeting each stakeholder’s goals. Outcomes include well-grounded recommendations on TEL and LET innovations, plus a platform and a sustainable dynamic process that will foster collaboration and consensus-building across specialized communities and stakeholder groups.

International Workshop on Cloud and Social Networking (CSN2011)@SCA2011

Call for Papers

2011 International Workshop on Cloud and Social Networking (CSN2011) in

conjunction with SCA2011 

December 12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia

http://sci.vu.edu.au/~xu/CSN2011/index.htm

Cloud Computing and Social Networking are important trends of Information
Technology infrastructure as well as Informatics engineering. Cloud
Computing means using multiple server computers via a digital network, as
though they were one computer. The goal of Cloud Computing is to consolidate
infrastructure, and share resources among the service consumers, partners,
and vendors in the cloud value chain. Social Networking is a social
structure made up of individuals called ¡°nodes¡±, which are tied by one or
more specific types of interdependency networks. Social networking consists
of graph type and the analysis of social network is the important problem.
Recently these two topics make a romantic rendezvous and produce
motivational insights to the future research and industries.
This workshop evidences new advances and research results in the fields of
cloud computing and social networking. The workshop will bring together
leading researchers, engineers, scientists, developers in the domain of
interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include,
but are not limited to:
Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing Architecture
- Software and Application-as-a-Service Clouds
- Economic and Business Model for Cloud Computing
- Virtualization Clouds
- Programming Models and Systems/Tools
- Cloud Computing Consulting Methods
- Design Tool for Cloud Computing
- Energy Efficiency and Clouds
- Monitoring, Management and Maintenance of Clouds
- Security and Privacy in Clouds
- Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds
- Software Architecture and Enterprise Architecture for Clouds
Social Networking
- Weblogs, including comments
- Graph theory
- Application of social networking
- Data model of social networking
- Analysis patterns of human
- Hybrid social networking
- Social network analysis
- Social recommender systems
- Linkage analysis and friend recommendation
- Visualization
- Monitoring, Management and Maintenance of Social Networks
- Hybrid social networks
- Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds

Submission
Submissions must include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference,
including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX
or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent
original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at
least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be
regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one
of the authors will register for the conference and present the work.
Publications
All accepted papers will be included in a combined workshop proceedings. The
best quality accepted paper after the presentation on the workshop day will
be invited for extension for possible publication in the following journals:
World Wide Web Journal (SCI), Journal of Database Management (SCIE), Social
Network Analysis & Mining (Springer), Journal of Information Technology and
Architecture (KEA), International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data
Mining (InderScience).
Important dates:
Submission due: 30/08/2011
Announcement due: 25/09/2011
Camera-ready (registration) due: 10/10/2011
Workshop organizers and contacts:
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia, Guandong.Xu@vu.edu.au
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea, trinity@inha.ac.kr
Ling Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Ling.Chen@uts.edu.au
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China, lichen@Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK

Special Issue on dataTEL "Datasets and Data Supported Learning in Technology-Enhanced Learning" International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL)

CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS
Special Issue on dataTEL
"Datasets and Data Supported Learning in Technology-Enhanced Learning"
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL)
ISSN (Online): 1753-5263<tel:1753-5263> - ISSN (Print): 1753-5255<tel:1753-5255>
Deadline of submissions: 25 October 2011<x-apple-data-detectors://2>

SCOPE
The prospect of great growth of open and linked data in the knowledge society creates opportunities for new insights through advanced analysis methods based on e.g., information extraction, filtering, and retrieval technologies. Educational institutions also create and own large datasets on their students' and course activities. The analytic use of such data, however, is very limited, when considering new educational services, recommending suitable peers or content or processes or goals, and improving the personalization of learning. Nevertheless, personalized learning is expected to have the potential to create more effective learning experiences, and accelerate learners' time-to-competence. In the educational world, the literature is sparse on how to build upon today's very limited public datasets and how to accommodate the lack of agreed quality standards on the personalization of learning.
The special issue on dataTEL in IJTEL aims to address this issue by collecting high value research papers to develop a body of knowledge about data-based personalization of learning. So far, there is no consensus on algorithms that can be successfully applied to make reliable analyses of data in a specific learning setting. Having an initial collection of datasets, coupled with case studies of their use in TEL, could be a first major step towards a theory of personalisation within TEL that can be based on empirical experiments with verifiable and valid results.
However, data driven research confronts researchers with a new set of challenges, for instance, a lack of common dataset formats or policies to share educational datasets, a huge variety of different evaluation methods for comparing diverse personalization techniques, and new ethical and privacy issues that arise from the ability to link and mine information.
Therefore, the objective of this special issue is to explore suitable datasets for TEL – with a specific focus on recommender and information filtering systems that can take advantage of these datasets. In this context, new challenges emerge like unclear legal protection rights and privacy issues, suitable policies and formats to share data, required pre-processing procedures and rules to create sharable data sets, common evaluation criteria for recommender systems in TEL and how a data set driven future in TEL could look like.

TOPICS
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- descriptions of datasets that can be used for experimentation
- descriptions of data experiments (methods or results of experiments)
- experiences with those datasets
- dealing with legal protection rights towards datasets on a European level
- privacy preservation for educational datasets
- methods of effective anonymisation of educational datasets
- management and pre-processing procedures for educational datasets
- future scenarios for educational datasets
- impact of educational datasets for learners, teachers, and parents
- mash-ups based on educational datasets
- recommender approaches that are based on educational data
- evaluation methodologies and metrics for educational recommender systems

SPECIAL ISSUE CO-EDITORS
Hendrik Drachsler, Open University, The Netherlands
Katrien Verbert, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies, Greece
Stefanie Lindstaedt, KnowCenter, Austria
Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany
Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as papers. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity, and quality. In addition, the authors are asked to contribute short abstracts of their submissions to the dataTEL group space at TELeurope.
Submission will be available through the EasyChair submission system:
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datatel2011>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datatel2011
Details of the journal, manuscript preparation are available on the here:<http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorguide.pdf>http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorguide.pdf
Any questions and submissions should be sent to: <mailto:hendrik.drachsler@ou.nl> hendrik.drachsler@ou.nl<mailto:hendrik.drachsler@ou.nl>

REVIEW COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)
Erik Duval, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Seda Gurses, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Abelardo Pardo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Julià Minguillón, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Olga Santos, aDeNu, Spanish National University for Distance Education, Spain
Julien Broisin, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Christoph Rensing, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia
John Stamper, Datashop, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, USA
Eelco Herder, Forschungszentrum L3S, Germany
Martin Memmel, DFKI, Germany
Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
Fridolin Wild, KMI, Open University, UK
Wolfgang Reinhardt, University of Paderborn, Germany
Wolfgang Greller, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
Marco Kalz, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
Adriana Berlanga, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
Peter Sloep, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Pythagoras Karampiperis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Giannis Stoitsis, IEEE, Greece

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of manuscripts: 25 October 2011<x-apple-data-detectors://6>
Completion of first review: 30 November 2011<x-apple-data-detectors://7>
Submission of revised manuscripts: 15 January 2011
Final decision notification: 10 February 2012<x-apple-data-detectors://9>
Publication date (tentative): February 2012

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The manuscripts should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to the International Journal on Technology-Enhanced Learning and during the review process.
Please carefully follow the author guidelines at <http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31> http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31while preparing your manuscript. To get familiarity with the style of the journal, please see a previous issue at <http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=246> http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=246
All manuscripts will be subject to the usual high standards of peer review. Each paper will undergo double blind review.
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Deadline Extension: Challenges in Evaluating Educative Experiences of Flexible and Personal Learning Environments (E3FPLE) in conjunction with ECTEL 2011

Deadline Extension 

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

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

Date: 21st September 2011

Place: Palermo, Italy

Website: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/E3FPLE/index.php

Extended Deadline for Paper Submission: 30th July 2011

GOALS & RESEARCH QUESTIONS

E3FPLE aims to offer an interdisciplinary arena to investigate the complexity that will characterize more and more the evaluation of future educative experiences (see lso workshop background). The major challenges are to identify and operationalize relevant qualities 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.

Accordingly the workshops intends to explore the following research

questions:

· 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 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.

More on the workshop background can be found here:

http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/E3FPLE/index.php

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:

* Carmelo Ardito, University of Bari, Italy

* Nikolas Avouris, University of Patras, Greece

* Marcel Berthold, TU Graz, Austria

* Antonella Carbonaro, University of Bologna, Italy

* Denis Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland

* Alke Martens, Universitaet Rostock, Germany

* Felix Mödritscher, Vienna University of Economics & Businesses, Austria

* Tessy C. Pargman, KHT, Sweden

* Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania

* Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands

* Carsten Ulrich, Shanghai Jiao Tung University, China

* Katrien Verbert,  KUL, Belgium

* Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

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/

3rd Workshop on Context-aware Recommender Systems (CARS 2011) at ACM Recommender Systems

                         2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

       3RD WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS (CARS-2011)

  (In conjunction with the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems)

               October 23, 2011 - Chicago, USA

                    http://www.cars-workshop.org

Update: The workshop organizers are planning a special issue on this topic in an ISI-rated journal.

This workshop builds upon the success of the previous two Workshops on Context-Aware Recommender Systems held in New York in October 2009, and Barcelona September 2010, which brought together an international group of researchers to explore the importance and use of contextual information in recommender systems as well as to discuss new research directions.

The importance of contextual information has been recognized by researchers and practitioners in many disciplines, including e-commerce personalization, information retrieval, ubiquitous and mobile computing, data mining, marketing, and management. While a substantial amount of research has already been performed in the area of recommender systems, the vast majority of existing approaches focuses on recommending the most relevant items to users and does not take into account any additional contextual information, such as time, location, weather, or the company of other people. Therefore, this workshop aims to bring together researchers with wide-ranging backgrounds to identify important research questions, to exchange ideas from different research disciplines, and, more generally, to facilitate

discussion and innovation in the area of   context-aware recommender systems

(CARS).   In particular, topics of interest for this workshop include (but

are not limited to):

-- Context modeling techniques for recommender systems;

-- Context-aware user modeling for recommender systems;

-- Data sets for context-dependent recommendations;

-- Algorithms for detecting the relevance of contextual data;

-- Algorithms for incorporating contextual information into recommendation process;

-- Algorithms for building explicit dependencies between contextual features and ratings;

-- Interacting with context-aware recommender systems;

-- Novel applications for context-aware recommender systems;

-- Mobile context-aware recommender systems;

-- Context-aware group recommendations;

-- Large-scale context-aware recommender systems;

-- Evaluation of context-aware recommender systems.

In case the main topic of the paper is a challenging dataset for context-aware recommender systems, the author(s) should describe the data model and the main features of this dataset, and make the dataset available for the research community.

PAPER SUBMISSION

The length of submissions is 5 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format.  Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates for papers in ACM SIG format are provided at:

      http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions must be in English and the files should be in PDF format.

Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically; each paper will be evaluated by the workshop program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity.  All papers must be submitted through the CARS-2011 page on the EasyChair conference management site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cars2011).

ACCEPTED PAPERS

The accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website and on CEUR Workshop proceedings (to confirm). Authors will present their work in front of the workshop audience.

The workshop will NOT request the copyright transfer from the authors; therefore, after receiving feedback at the workshop, the authors will be able to submit the improved versions of their papers to conferences and journals (the workshop organizers are currently exploring the possibilities to organize a special issue on this topic in the UMUAI journal).

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: July 25, 2011 Notification of acceptance: August 19, 2011 Final versions due: September 12, 2011

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Gediminas Adomavicius, University of Minnesota, USA Linas Baltrunas, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA

PUBLICITY and LIAISON CHAIR

Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Xavier Amatriain, Netflix, USA

Sarabjot Anand, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Hideki Asoh, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, Japan Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Pablo Castells, Universidad Autononoma de Madrid, Spain Ernesto William De Luca, TU Berlin, Germany Zeno Gantner, University of Hildesheim, Germany Michele Gorgoglione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica Research, Spain Antonio Krueger, DFKI GmbH, Germany Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Kenta Oku, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Kurt Partridge, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Alan Said, TU Berlin, Germany Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland 

IEEE Workshop Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL 2011)

The Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)

in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2011

(ISM2011)

December 5-7, 2011, Dana Point, CA, USA

http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/pub/conferences/mtel-2011/cfp.html

Call for Papers

Due to its potential to make learning easier, more convenient, and more
effective, education is one of the preeminent areas of applications for
multimedia. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are
interested in the intersection area between the technological point of view
and the human-centered view of multimedia technologies for E-Learning.

The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
* Lecture Recording, Multimedia Authoring & Classroom Methodology
- Automated lecture recording and presentation techniques
- Classroom note taking and whiteboard capturing and analysis
- Multimedia authoring software for e-learning

* Information Retrieval & Search in Multimedia
- Multimedia information retrieval
- Automated lecture analysis and indexing
- Intelligent searching and navigation in e-learning portals
* Experiments, Laboratories & Virtual Reality
- Simulations, animations, and virtual laboratories in teaching
- Virtual reality and augmented reality in education
* Multimedia Architectures & Repositories
- Repositories for multimedia education
- Architectures for User Tracking
- Technical infrastructures for large scale web lecture repositories
* Semantic Multimedia in e-Learning Scenarios
- Context aware semantic analysis of e-Learning content
- Semantic modelling and ontological engineering for e-Learning
scenarios
- Semantic Web based online educational systems
* Feedback, Adaptation & Personalization
- Automated analysis of learning and teaching interactions
- Implicit and explicit learner feedback
- Social Web technologies for adaptation and personalization of
e-Learning applications

Workshop Proceedings
Workshop papers will be official publications of IEEE which will be included
in IEEEXplore and also be available as printed workshop proceedings. A number
of selected papers will be invited for extension and publication in a special
issue of ITSE (International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart
Education) published by Emerald.

Submission Details
Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. Papers should be submitted in electronic form as
PDF file to the organizers. Submissions must be formatted according to the
8.5x11 inch double column IEEE CS proceedings format and must not exceed 6
pages. Submit to: ieeemtel@gmail.com

Important Dates
Submission due: July 20, 2011
Notification: August 20, 2011
Camera-Ready due: September 07, 2011

Co-Chairs
Markus Ketterl, Univ. of Osnabrueck, Germany
Robert Mertens, ICSI Berkeley, USA
Harald Sack, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

Advisory Chairs
Gerald Friedland, ICSI Berkeley, USA
Lars Knipping, Berlin Inst. of Technology, Germany

Program Committee (Pending)
Lora Aroyo, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michael Auer, Univ. of Appl. Sc. Kaernten, Austria
Oliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Helmar Burkhart, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland
Christopher Brooks, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada
Paul Dickson, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands
Ulrich Kortenkamp, Univ. of Edu. Karlsruhe, Germany
Fleming Lampi, Kavisio, Germany
Ying Li, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Thomas Richter, Univ. of Stuttgart
Jochen Schwenniger, Fraunhofer IAIS
Jürgen Steimle, Darmstadt Inst. of Techn., Germany
Georg Turban, Darmstadt Inst. of Techn., Germany
Dominique Vaufreydaz, Univ. Pierre-Mendes
Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke, Ilmenau Inst. of Technology
Peter Ziewer, Munich Inst. of Technology

8th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop of the Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS) at the German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS)

8th Tuning Workshop of the

Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS)

at the German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS)

Aachen, 5-9 September 2011

http://www.grs-sim.de/news-events/tuning-workshop/

To help improve the quality and accelerate the development process of
complex simulation codes in science and engineering, the Virtual
Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing develops software tools
for checking the correctness and analyzing the performance of parallel
applications. Emphasis is given to the programming models MPI & OpenMP.

This workshop will:

* give an overview of our programming tools suite

* explain the functionality of individual tools, and how to use them
effectively

* offer hands-on experience and expert assistance using the tools

The workshop will be held in English and runs from 09:00 to not later
than 18:00 each day, with breaks for lunch and refreshments.
There is no fee for participation, however, participants are
responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

Classroom capacity is limited, therefore priority will be given to
applicants with parallel codes already running on the workshop
systems, and those bringing codes from similar systems to work on.
Participants are therefore encouraged to prepare their own MPI,
OpenMP and hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallel application codes for analysis.

For further information and to register, please visit the GRS
workshop web page at:

http://www.grs-sim.de/news-events/tuning-workshop/

For information about other VI-HPS workshops and tutorials, and to
sign up to the mailing list for announcements, visit:

http://www.vi-hps.org/training/

Contact:

Daniel Becker (GRS) +49 241  80-99751
Brian Wylie   (JSC) +49 2461 61-6589

The Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing is a joint
initiative of Forschungszentrum Juelich, the German Research School
for Simulation Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, Technische
Universitaet Dresden, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, University of
Tennessee, University of Oregon, and University of Stuttgart.
For more information, please visit www.vi-hps.org .

Extended Deadline: ACM MEDES 2011 - San Francisco, USA

-=-=-=-=-= Submission deadline extended to August 20th, 2011 =-=-=-=-=-

CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital
EcoSystems (MEDES 2011)
In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6
http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/11/
November 21-24, 2011
San Francisco, California, USA

Description and Objectives
---------------------------
In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of
digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital
ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as
individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one
or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships
among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments,
thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in
which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and
used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative
services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to
the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their
characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also
leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower
digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of
Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of
how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits
and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These
technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and
methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies,
networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence,
e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of
digital ecosystems and manage their resources.
The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital
EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community
from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring
the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital
Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be
evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original
research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations.

Topics
-------
In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not
published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and
application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Service systems and Engineering
- Emergent Intelligence
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Social Networks
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Green computing
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement
- Digital Library
- Open Source

Paper Submission
----------------
Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be
uploaded using the conference website.
The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages.
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions
will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary
notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer
inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers
notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include:
relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and
quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging
positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At
least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM
Digital Library and DBLP.
Important Dates
----------------
- Extended Submission Date: August 20th, 2011
- Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September, 5th 2011
- Rebuttal Date: September 15th, 2011
- Final Notification of Acceptance: September, 20th 2011
- Camera Ready: September 30th, 2011
- Conference Dates: November 21-24, 2011
Special issues and Journal Publication
---------------------------------------
Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the
following reviewed journals.
-International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)
-International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
-International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)
General Chair
--------------
William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA
Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA
Program Chair
--------------
Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France

International Advisory Board Members
------------------------------------
Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Steering Committee Members
--------------------------
Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand
Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK

Keynote Speakers
----------------
Paul Hofmann, VP Office of the Chief Scientist at SAP Labs
Ruoyi Zhou, Senior Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center

Publicity Chair
----------------
Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK

Publication Chair
----------------
Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France

International Program Committee:
--------------------------------
(Please check the web site for the full list)

Deadline extension: MSM 2011 (Modeling Social Media), co-located with IEEE SocialCom

Extended Deadline: July 22, 2011 due to multiple requests.

The call for papers and the submission details are below, or take a look at:
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2011/

MSM 2011: Modeling Social Media, co-located with IEEE SocialCom

Objectives
Continuing the success of MSM 2010, we would like to address the user
interface aspects of modeling social media. Much, if not all,
interaction is done through some sort of user interface, however how to
model social media through the user interface has still not been
standardized. For example, people interact with their Facebook friends
through the Facebook interface or perhaps another SNS interface like
Seesmic. How do we model this user interface, and can this model be
replicated to other social media and other form factors like new
pad-based devices like the Apple iPad and to more recent high
graphics-oriented smartphones like the Apple iPhone 4?
The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on
modeling social media, focusing on the user interface modeling.
The workshop aims to attract and discuss various aspects of user
interface modeling in social media using a wide range of modeling
perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive,
formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling,
conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc).
We want to bring together social networking researchers and user
interface designers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds
interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to
modeling complex social media phenomena and systems through the user
interface, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of
social media can serve, and 3) issues of integrating and validating user
interfaces in social media systems.

Topics of Interest
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* New modeling techniques and approaches for user interfaces in
social media
* Application design for user interfaces of social media (phone,
pad-based, PC, web)
* modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
* Modeling user behaviour in social media
* User-centered design for social media
* Models of user cooperation and collaboration in social media
* Trust and user-acceptance of social media
* Integrating user interface design with social media
* Testing user interface models and social media applications
* Usability in social media interfaces (is usability not much of a
concern since connectivity is more important?)
We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other
areas to the workshop topics.

Workshop Organizers
* Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China
* Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
* Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee
* Ed Chi, Google, USA
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France
* Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
* Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany
* Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy
* Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA
* Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
* Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
* Else Nygren, Uppsala University, USA
* Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel
* Pranam Kolari, Yahoo Research, USA

Submission and Proceedings
We intend to publish proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and include
them on the conference CD.
We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research
papers (4-8 papers) in the IEEE conference paper style.
Please submit at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm20111

EU IPTS Newsletter with report on our TELLNET project

Our project partner, the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies IPTS from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has released its July Newsletter with a short article about our TELLNET project.

How can social learning networks support teachers’
professional development?

The IS Unit is currently participating as a project partner in the "Teachers’ Lifelong Learning Network (TeLLNet)" project, which aims to understand how social learning networks can support teachers' competence building through visualisation, social network analysis (SNA), prospective scenario building exercises and a number of complimentary methods. The research focuses on identifying drivers and barriers for lifelong professional development of networked teachers, mechanisms for disseminating practices and innovations within and across networks, and implementing new peer-learning approaches within a Europe-wide networking platform for teachers. As part of this project, IPTS in collaboration with European Schoolnet recently conducted two workshops with teachers during the annual eTwinning Conference, which took place in
Budapest from 31 March to 2 April.

Currently, more than 86,000 teachers belong to the eTwinning network. For these workshops, six typologies of eTwinning personas were created and then explored with teachers (see presentations). A workshop took place at the IPTS premises on 6-7 June 2011 to explore what teacher collaboration networks will be like in 2025 with various experts from education, foresight and
information systems technology networks.

Deadline extension: Workshop on Social Informatics and Social COmputing (SISCO 2011)

                       
                           **DEADLINE EXTENDED**


                   Workshop on Social Informatics and Social COmputing
                               SISCO 2011

                                   at

                    The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'11)
                           http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/11/
                         
                           November 21-24, 2011, San-Francisco, USA

                               
                                Call for Papers


Description of the workshop


Social Informatics and Social Computing consider relationships between the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the pervasiveness of new devices and embedded sensors, which enable a wide access of data and information by people, and an effective
use of new services. In this scenario the emerging technologies are stimulated and stimulate social evolution, considering that they will be used by very heterogeneous people according to their social, cultural and technological features.
This workshop aims to animate and support the discussion on theories, studies and research activities about the dynamic influences of the evolution of ICTs and changes in the society and vice-versa.
SISCO will contribute to the field of Emergent Digital EcoSystems developing theories, studies and researches on artificial social systems and in particular adaptive open socio-technical systems.


Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

   -Social computing theories and models,

   -Social media,

   -Software for social learning and collaborative learning,

   -Collaborative applications and social software,

   -Social behaviour modelling,

   -Group representation and profiling,

   -Group interaction and collaboration,

   -Cultural patterns and representation,

   -Cultural modelling and dynamics,

   -Viral communication and information diffusion,

   -Architecture and services for user-generated contents,

   -Agent-based modelling,

   -Accessibility and Human Machine Interaction,

   -Information and services accessibility,

   -Machine Learning.

   -Security and Privacy



Organizers

   Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
   Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
   Maria Chiara Caschera, IRPPS-CNR, Italy



Programme Committee

   Albert Levi, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

   Aneta Takhtamysheva, Digital Media Group, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany

   Daniel Schall, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

   David Robertson, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

   Deborah Dahl, Speech Technology Consulting Services, Conversational Technologies, USA

   Fei-Yue Wang, Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, USA

   Howard Rosenbaum, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

   Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council Campus de la UAB, Catatonia, Spain

   Marko Turpeinen, Digital Content Communities Research Group, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland

   Massimo Poesio, Center for Mind / Brain Sciences, Universita' di Trento, Italy

   Wasif Afzal, School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

   Werthner Hannes, Electronic Commerce Group, Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

   Wenji Mao, Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Sciences, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China



Important dates

Paper abstracts:  July 31st, 2011

Full papers: August 20th, 2011

Notification: September 20th, 2011

Camera-ready papers: September 30th, 2011



Submissions

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers.
Papers should be submitted to:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=medes11

You have to sign up for an account. After, you can choose "new submission" and select  "Workshop on Social Informatics and Social Computing".
At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper.
The best papers, opportunely selected will be published on a special issue on an international journal.

Juniorprofessorship Position in Web Information Retrieval and Social Search Hannover / L3S Research Center

The Faculty of Faculty of Electrical Engieneering and Computer Science
of Leibniz Universität Hannover invites applications for a

       Junior Professorship (Salary Scale W 1 BBesO)
       in Web Information Retrieval and Social Search

to be appointed on February 1st, 2012. The position is limited to
three years, with an extension option for a further three years.

This new professorship focuses on Web Information Retrieval and Social
Search, in the context of the focus topic "Connected World" within the
faculty, as well as the L3S Research Center with its focus on Web
Science. The owner of this position will represent the area of Web
Information Retrieval both in research as well as in graduate
teaching. Active participation, third party project acquisition and
research in the L3S Research Center is possible and important.

Applicants are expected to have completed their Ph.D. degree on topics
relevant for the World Wide Web, Information Retrieval, Data Mining,
Social Networks or related areas, and should already have achieved a
strong research and publication record in their area. International
cooperations and project management experience are useful as well.

The general tasks, responsibilities and required qualification for
employment are specified in the Higher Education Act of Niedersachsen
(NHG). Information on specific aspects will be supplied upon request.

Leibniz Universität Hannover is a member university of Niedersachsen
Institutes of Technology (NTH), to which the vacant professorship is
attached. Applicants are therefore expected to be willing to
participate in coordinated interdisciplinary programmes and to be
involved in the cooperation of the technically-oriented universities
in Niedersachsen in research and teaching, especially within the
framework of NTH.

Part-time employment is possible.  As an equal opportunities employer,
Leibniz Universität Hannover wishes to support women in the context of
statutory requirements. For this reason suitably qualified women are
specifically invited to apply. Equally qualified applicants with
disabilities will be given preferential treatment. Applications from
international candidates are highly encouraged.

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl,
Tel. +49 511 762 19710, nejdl@kbs.uni-hannover.de, who will be pleased
to answer further questions.

Please send your application with the usual documents and papers by
September 5th, 2011 to the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Appelstr. 11, 30167 Hannover, Germany

http://www.uni-hannover.de/jobs

12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing (CCGrid 2012)

12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Grid and Cloud

Computing (CCGrid 2012) Ottawa, Canada

May 13-16, 2012

http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware
technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing,
ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and
emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences,
sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing
together international researchers, developers, and users and to
provide an international forum to present leading research activities
and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and
paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes,
technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops,
tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live
demonstrations.

In 2012, CCGrid will come to Canada for the first time and will be
held in Ottawa, the capital city. CCGrid 2012 will have a focus on
important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all
aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex
  problems in science, engineering, business and society; User
  studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or
  applications.

* Architecture: System architectures, Design and deployment.

* Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self managed behavior,
  models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches
  (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired
  approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement;

* Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring
  and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance;
  Benchmarks and testbeds.

* Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing:
  Programming models for cluster, clouds and grid computing; fault
  tolerant infrastructure and algorithms; systems software to enable
  efficient computing.

* Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing: Software and application
  techniques to utilize multicore architectures and
  accelerators/heterogeneous computing systems.

* Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and
  resources on clusters, clouds and grid computing platforms.

* Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques
  for clouds.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted
manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not
exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and
references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print
area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high,
two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8
inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully
justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be
returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF
format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses
letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is
English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of
presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers
not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and
further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and
sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date,
exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be
considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more
information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE
Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through
the IEEE Digital Library.

Submission Link:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccgrid2012


CHAIRS

General Chair
* Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Program Committee Vice-chairs
* Daniel S. Katz (Applications and Experiences)
* Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Architecture)
* Manish Parashar (Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure)
* Ahmad Afsahi (Performance Modeling and Analysis)
* Xian-He Sun (Performance Measurement and Evaluation)
* William Gropp (Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant computing)
* David Bader (Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing)
* Thomas Fahringer (Scheduling and Resource Management)
* Ignacio Martin Llorente and Madhusudhan Govindaraju (Cloud Computing)

Honorary Chair
* Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA  


IMPORTANT DATES

 Papers Due:            25 November 2011
 Notification of Acceptance:    30 January 2012
 Camera Ready Papers Due:    27 February 2012

 Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society (TCSE) & ACM SIGARCH (approval pending)

ROLE SDK first release available

The  first version of the ROLE SDK for creating responsive open learning environments is released now and is available from SourceForge in zip and tarball versions:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/role-project/files/role-m1-sdk/

Please download, try it out, give feedback, and advertise.

AACHEN CONCURRENCY AND DEPENDABILITY WEEK, 5-10 Sep 2011

AACHEN CONCURRENCY AND DEPENDABILITY WEEK 

CONCUR: 22th Int. Conference on Concurrency Theory 

QEST: 8th Int. Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems 

TGC: 6th Int. Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing 

6 Tutorials + 9 Workshops 

 September 5 - September 10, 2011 Aachen, Germany 

  http://concur2011.rwth-aachen.de 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Early Registration Until July 31! 

REGISTRATION

Online registration: http://concur2011.rwth-aachen.de/registration
Early registration deadline: July 31;
Late registration deadline: August 25.

CONCUR/QEST 2011 INVITED SPEAKERS

Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Wil van der Aalst (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Ursula Goltz (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)
Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, USA)
Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 

QEST 2011 TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Peter Buchholz (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST Austria, Vienna, Austria)
Kousha Etessami (LFCS University of Edinburgh, UK)
Boris Köpf (IMDEA Software, Madrid, Spain)
Aad van Moorsel (Newcastle University, UK)
Verena Wolf (Saarland University, Germany) 

TGC 2011 INVITED SPEAKERS
Michael Backes (MPI and Saarland University, Germany)
Michele Bugliesi (University of Venice, Italy)
Mariangiola Dezani (University of Torino, Italy)
Matthias Hoelzl (LMU Munich, Germany)
Bernd Werther (Volkswagen AG, Germany) 

Host City: Aachen, Germany

Aachen is Germany's most westerly city and is situated directly on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands. It was a royal residence of the emperor Charlemagne, and it served as the principal coronation site of Holy Roman emperors and of German kings from the Middle Ages to the Reformation. The Aachen Cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978. The city has a flair and atmosphere of its own. The attractive layout of the old city center, the important historic monuments, the wells and baths over the hottest natural springs in Europe, the cultural diversity and quality and the many recreational and leisure activities make Aachen an exciting and pleasant place to visit and host a conference. Aachen is conveniently located in an extensive highway network with regard to transport facilities in the direction of Brussels, Paris and Antwerp. The international airports in Frankfurt, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Eindhoven and Maastricht-Aachen (NL) together with the international railway network ensure a good connectivity. Every two hours, the high-speed train Thalys operates via Aachen between Paris and Cologne and ICE trains run from Frankfurt to Brussels via Aachen.

The AACHEN CONCURRENCY AND DEPENDABILITY WEEK is organized by the Software Modeling and Verification Group, Dept. of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University and will take place in the Super C building in the centre of the town.

Affiliated Workshops
COMPMOD Computational Models for Cell Processes
EXPRESS Expressiveness in Concurrency
FOCLASA Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures
GASICS Games for Design, Verification and Synthesis
LAM Logics, Agents, and Mobility
MLQA Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis
SECCO Security Issues in Concurrency
SOS Structural Operational Semantics
YR-CONCUR Young Researchers on Concurrency Theory 

Organization
General Chair: Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
CONCUR PC Chairs: Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Barbara König (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
QEST PC Chairs: Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Alma Riska (EMC Corporation, USA)

TGC PC Chairs:
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Vladimiro Sassone (University of Southhampton, UK) 

Contact
See http://concur2011.rwth-aachen.de
For further questions, please contact acdw2011@cs.rwth-aachen.de