13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012), Bangalore, India

MDM 2012 - Call for Papers

13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012)

July 23-26, 2012

Bangalore, India

(www.mdmconferences.org/mdm2012)

 
MDM 2012 to be held in Bangalore, India (July 23-26, 2012) solicits original research contributions related to all aspects of mobile data management.
Based on quality criteria, accepted submissions will be selected as full papers, short papers, and poster papers.
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
•             Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems and services
•             Context-aware computing and location-based services
•             Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
•             Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
•             Data management in the mobile cloud
•             Data mining for mobile applications
•             Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments
•             Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
•             OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
•             Indexing and query processing for moving objects
•             Query processing and optimization for mobile users
•             Resource advertising and discovery techniques
•             Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
•             OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
•             Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
•             Data stream security for mobile sensor networks
•             Web data processing and security on mobile devices
•             Mobile Web 2.0
•             Pervasive data management middlewares and services
•             Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
•             Location and trajectory data management, mining, learning
•             Publish/subscribe and query processing middleware for mobile data
•             Mobile cloud computing
•             Mobile semantic data management
•             Mobile multimedia information management
•             Human-centric activity recognition and exploitation
•             Augmented reality systems, data issues
•             Managing pervasive data, sensor data streams and user devices
•             Data management of mobile/ephemeral social network services
•             People-centric mobile sensing networks and smart urban spaces
•             Mining/Management of community sensing/participatory sensing data
•             Data management middlewares and services in converged networks
•             Mobile social applications and services
•             Green and sustainable energy-aware mobile data management
•             Cyber-physical mobility and data management
•             Data management in intelligent transportation systems
 
IMPORTANT DATES
 
•             Abstract registration:                                    November 25, 2011
•             Paper submission:                                          December 2, 2011
•             Acceptance notification:                              February 20, 2012
•             Camera-ready paper submission:             April 5, 2012
 
PAPER SUBMISSION
 
The conference invites original, unpublished work, not exceeding 10 pages, including figures, tables and references. Papers must be in IEEE camera-ready format www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.
 
Submissions in PDF are to be uploaded to the conference submission site at https://cmt2.research.microsoft.com/MDM2012/Default.aspx.

ACM TIST Special Issue on Social Web Mining

Call for Papers 

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) 

Special Issue on Social Web Mining

Social network platforms (e.g., Facebook, Google+, Twitter) have been drawing increasing attention from everyday users worldwide to research communities and industries. For instance, it is reported that there are more than 750 million active Facebook users, of which 50% log on in any given day. The success of the social network platform provides a wealth of information, which brings great opportunities for e-Commerce, policy making, social media recommendations, and much more. However, it can be challenging to model the social networks and make predictions, given this prosperity of social networks leading to information overload.
Social web mining aims at modeling social interactions (e.g., posting and messaging in Facebook) and relationships (e.g., friendship in Facebook, Followed / Following in Twitter, Friends / Family / Acquaintances / Following in Google+), and then learning inductive rules for predictions, which are carried out by leveraging the information available via various social networks and recent advances in machine learning and data mining.
This special issue is aimed at providing a forum to highlight the leading works from the data mining and
machine learning communities for making sense of social networks.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Community detection
- Crawling of social networks
- Large scale graph mining
- Multi-relational data mining
- News/social media recommender systems
- Preference learning and elicitation in social networks
- Privacy protection in social networks
- Sentiment analysis in social networks (e.g., opinion mining in Twitter)

Submissions
On-Line Submission (will be available around January 1, 2012):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select "Special Issue: Social Web Mining" as the manuscript type)
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website:
http://tist.acm.org/
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Important Dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012
Review Notification: April 1, 2012,
Final Manuscript: May 1, 2012,
Electronic Publication Date: June, 2012,
Guest Editors
Francesco Bonchi
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
http://www.francescobonchi.com/
Wray Buntine
NICTA - ANU, Australia
http://www.nicta.com.au/people/buntinew
Ricard Gavaldà
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~gavalda/
Shengbo Guo
Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/Research-Development/Services-Innovation-Laborator
y/Machine-Learning-for-Optimisation-and-Services/People/Shengbo-Guo
Questions?
bonchi@yahoo-inc.com, wray.buntine@nicta.com.au,
gavalda@lsi.upc.edu, shengbo.guo@xrce.xerox.com

Exploratory Analysis in Dynamic Social Networks: theoretical and practical applications

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
"Exploratory Analysis in Dynamic Social Networks: theoretical and practical
applications"

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012

A book edited by Dr. Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro, Analytics Lab, Oi Telecom,
Brazil and Dr. Markus Helfert, School of Computing, Dublin City University,
Ireland

To be published by iConcept Press: http://www.iconceptpress.com.

Introduction
Interactions within social networks have been subject of recent studies. As
insights into these interactions offer great opportunities, many practical
applications have been proposed. Recent approaches focus on using social
network analysis' methodology to study different aspects of societies,
communities, knowledge networks and competitive markets, such as Social
Medias through the Internet and Telecommunications environments. By
understanding social structures and its interactions it is possible to
understand how individuals and consumers relate to each other allowing to
subsequently forecasts behavior and social structures.
Most of the current efforts in analyzing social networks are in respect to
static structures. The social networks are considered by viewing snapshots
of a specific point in time. However, analyzing dynamic aspects of social
networks could provide insight how these structures evolve. The dynamic
approach for social network analysis might provide insight into new
perspectives in terms of pattern recognition, predictive and simulation of
social structures. With new technologies, such as sensor data, analyses of
movements and directions within social networks are also subject of recent
studies viewing social networks dynamically.
In order to perceive how social relations evolve through time it is
necessary to collect the distinct snapshots of the social structures in a
timeline perspective. A sequence of pictures about social structures should
be taken into consideration to allow particular analyses about how the
members relate to each other but mostly how those relationships have been
changed over time.
Measures typically used in traditional social networks analysis can be used
such as characteristics of nodes and links in a static perspective,
depicting strength, overall distances and paths among related nodes, amounts
of connections, and others. The dynamic perspective on social networks
provides a historical view on data for particular events; such as
purchasing, acquisition, churn, fraud, and others; in a similar way
presented in predictive modeling. Due to historical information about social
structure and its movements throughout time, it is possible to analyze the
network in terms of behavior, structure and topology.
Objective of the Book
This book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and practical
applications of innovative approaches to analyze social networks from a
dynamic perspective. The key objective of this book is to reflect and
document the current discussion about algorithms, metrics, mechanisms and
particular applications and solutions in terms of dynamic analyses of social
networks. Theories about new metrics to describe social structures over the
time, considering nodes and links, its weights, distances and paths, and so
on, are subject of discussion. Real world applications in respect to
particular industries such as telecommunications, insurance, retail and
mostly internet are also particularly welcome and encouraged.
Target Audience
The main goal of this book is to be a guide edition suitable for
practitioners and researchers in the area of social network analysis,
particular to the ones performed over time, considering the evolvement of
social structures in a timeline perspective.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Fraud detection by using social network analysis
* Application of social network analysis and mining
* Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline
social networks
* Dynamics and evolution of patterns in social networks
* Geography applications for social networks analysis
* Impact of social networks in recommendations systems
* Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
* Misbehavior detection in communities
* Migration between communities over the time
* Recommendations for product adoption, customer acquisition and churn
prevention by using social network analysis
* Scalability of social networks
* Statistical modeling of large networks
* Temporal analysis on social networks topologies and structures
* Visual representation of dynamic social networks
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit by January 31, 2012, a
full chapter containing up to 12,000 words (around 20 pages). Authors of
accepted draft chapters will be notified by April 15, 2012 about the status
of their submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as
reviewers for this project.
All submissions should be proceeded by registering an account through the
iConcept Press' website at www.iconceptpress.com.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by iConcept Press Ltd. iConcept Press
is a young publishing company established in the summer of 2009. Their main
goals are:
* To open the door to the world's library of scientific knowledge by giving
people anywhere in the world unlimited access to the latest scientific
research.
* To facilitate research and education by making it possible to search the
full text of every article in our library for free.
* To enable scientists, researchers, librarians, publishers, and
entrepreneurs to develop innovative ways to explore and use the world's
treasury of scientific ideas and discoveries.
For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.iconceptpress.com. The publication is targeted for early 2012.

Important Dates
January 31, 2012: Draft Chapter Submission Deadline
April 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
June 30, 2012: Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members
Dr. Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro, Analytics Lab, Oi Telecom, Brazil.
Dr. Markus Helfert, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to:
Dr. Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro (cpinheiro@computing.dcu.ie).
Dr. Markus Helfert (markus.helfert@computing.dcu.ie).

"Social Media", Special Issue Journal "Künstliche Intelligenz KI"

Call for Papers on “Social Media“,
Special Issue Journal “Künstliche Intelligenz KI”

KI – Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence) http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/ A Springer publication, ISSN 0933-1875 (Print) 1610-1987 (Online)

Call for Papers

Social Media has led to radical paradigm shifts in the ways we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create information. Technology allows virtually anyone to disseminate information to a global audience almost instantaneously. Information published by peers in the form of Tweets, blog posts, or Web documents through online social networking services has proliferated on an unprecedented scale, contributing to an exponentially growing data deluge. A new level of connectedness among peers adds new ways for the consumption of (traditional) media. We are witnessing new forms of collaboration, including the phenomenon of an emergent ‘collective intelligence’. This intelligence of crowds can be harnessed in myriad ways, ranging from outsourcing simple, repetitive tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, to solving complex challenges such as proving a mathematical theorem creatively and collaboratively.

This call for papers welcomes contributions showing:

1) How to make sense of Social Media data, i.e. how to condense, distill, or integrate highly decentralized and dispersed data resulting from human communication, including sensor-collected data to a meaningful entity or information service, or

2) How Social Media contributes to innovation, collaboration, and collective intelligence.

We invite papers covering all aspects of Social Media analysis including Social Media in Business (especially for Marketing, Innovation, and Collaboration), Entertainment (especially Social News, Social Music Services, Social TV, and Social Network Games), as well as Art (e.g. City Installations). Applications of Social Media in art may be understood as a playing field for translating highly decentralized ‘social data’ into centralized forms of artful expression, thus furthering our intuitive understanding of these complex emergent phenomena.

The list of topics mentioned below is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Insightful artifacts and methods as well as analytical, conceptual, empirical, and theoretical approaches (using any kind of research method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on) are within the scope.

Ø  Information/Web mining (e.g. opinion mining)

Ø  Prognosis (e.g. trend and hot topic identification)

Ø  Collective Intelligence

Ø  Crowdsourcing

Ø  Swarm Creativity, Collaborative Innovation Networks

Ø  (Dynamic) Social Media Monitoring

Ø  Sentiment, Natural Language Processing

Ø  Social Media within and for Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Energy

Ø  Social Networks for the collaboration of large communities

Ø  User behavior, social interaction

Ø  Social Network Analysis (SNA), semantic network analysis

Ø  Social search engines and aggregators

Ø  Social network games

Ø  Personalization and adaptation to user preference

Ø  Trust, reputation, social control, privacy

Ø  Information reliability, Web spam, content authenticity (e.g., detecting ‘astroturfing’)

Deadlines

Ø  Submissions open until January 9, 2012

Ø  Camera-ready copies of revised papers by April 30, 2012

Ø  Pre-Publication of accepted papers via Springer Online First™ in June 2012

Ø  Printed version of this Special Issue: Fall 2012

In addition to complete research papers, this Special Issue will accept dissertation and conference reports, as well as practical project and innovative software descriptions in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the current activities in this area.

All submitted manuscripts should be original contributions and not be under consideration in any other venue. Publication of an enhanced version of a previously published conference paper is possible if the review process determines that the revision contains significant enhancements, amplification or clarification of the original material. Any prior appearance of a substantial amount of a submission should be noted in the submission letter and on the title page
.

Guest Editors

Ø  Detlef Schoder, Prof. Dr., schoder@wim.uni-koeln.de, University of Cologne (Koeln), Department of Information Systems and Information Management, Cologne, Germany

Ø  Peter A. Gloor, PhD, pgloor@mit.edu, MIT Sloan School of Management, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA

Ø  Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, PhD, Prof., pmetaxas@seas.harvard.edu, Wellesley College, Department of Computer Science, Wellesley, MA, and Harvard University, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Cambridge, MA, USA

For inquiries and submissions please contact:

Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder, University of Cologne (Koeln), Department of Information Systems and Information Management, Pohligstrasse 1, D-50969 Cologne/Germany, Phone: +49 / (0)221 470-5325, Fax: +49 / (0)221 470-5393, URL: http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de/, Email: schoder@wim.uni-koeln.de

University of Siegen: Assistent Professorships (W1) in Informal Learning

The University of Siegen is developping a new research focus by
investigating into practices of informal learning. To foster this line
of research, three positions on the level of an assistant professor are
available: http://www.uni-siegen.de/uni/stellen/prof/398685.html?lang=de
One of these positions will be in the Department of Information Systems
(IS). This position should specifically look into informal learning at
the work place and opportunities to design IT tools in support of
leaning practices. A relevant field of investigation could be, for
instance, informal learning within IT or design projects.
We look for candidates with a background in areas such as Computer
Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL), Computer Supported Cooperative
Work (CSCW), Knowledge Management (KM) or Work Place Studies. While the
ability to teach in German langueges would be appreciated, it is not
required.

For further information with regard to the IS position please contact:
Dr. Markus Rohde, Institute for Information Systems, University of
Siegen, Hoelderlinstr. 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany, email:
Markus.Rohde@uni-siegen.de

The 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012) - Istanbul, Turkey

The 2012 International Conference on
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

ASONAM 2012

26-29 August, 2012, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

Call for Papers

Click here(http://asonam2012.etu.edu.tr/ASONAM2012-CFP.pdf) for the PDF version of the call.

The study of social networks originated in social and business communities. In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly; the development of sophisticated techniques for Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) has been highly influenced by the online social Web sites, email logs, phone logs and instant messaging systems, which are widely analyzed using graph theory and machine learning techniques. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, community formation and evolution. This has led to a rising prominence of SNAM in academia, politics, homeland security and business. This follows the pattern of known entities of our society that have evolved into networks in which actors are increasingly dependent on their structural embedding.

The international conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012) will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue that will bring together practitioners and researchers from a variety of SNAM fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices. ASONAM 2012 is intended to address important aspects with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and theoretical works on social network analysis and mining along with their application to real life situations.

General areas of interest to ASONAM 2012 include information science and mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine.

More specialized topics within ASONAM include, but are not limited to:

    * Adoption of new services on social network platforms
    * Agent based social simulation, agent based computational models
    * Anomaly detection in social network evolution
    * Application of social network analysis
    * Application of social network mining
    * Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
    * Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
    * Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
    * Contextual social network analysis
    * Contextual social network mining
    * Crime data mining and network analysis
    * Cyber anthropology
    * Dark Web
    * Data models for social networks and social media
    * Data protection inside communities
    * Detection of communities by document analysis
    * Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
    * Economical impact of social network discovery
    * Evolution of patterns in the Web
    * Evolution of communities in the Web
    * Evolution of communities in organizations
    * Geography of social networks
    * Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
    * Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization
    * Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
    * Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
    * Knowledge networks
    * Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
    * Misbehavior detection in communities
    * Migration between communities
    * Multi-Actor/Multiple-Relationship Networks
    * Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
    * Open source intelligence
    * Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
    * Personalization for search and for social interaction
    * Preparing data for Web mining
    * Political impact of social network discovery
    * Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
    * Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
    * Recommendation networks
    * Scalability of social networks
    * Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
    * Social and cultural anthropology
    * Social geography
    * Social psychology of information diffusion
    * Spatial Networks
    * Statistical modeling of large networks
    * Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
    * Trust networks, evolution of trust
    * Visual representation of dynamic social networks
    * Web mining algorithms
    * Web communities


Tentative deadlines

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited (Proceeding indexed by EI). Full paper submission deadline is March 15, 2012. These papers will follow an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted to the Conference Web site: asonam2012.etu.edu.tr. If Web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to ozyer@etu.edu.tr by March 15, 2012. The attachment must be in PDF or Word .doc format.

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work. Paper submission implies that the intent is for one of the authors to present the paper if accepted and that at least one of the authors register for a full conference fee.

Proceedings will be published by the prestigious IEEE CS -- CPS.

Call for Exhibition, Demo, Panel and Tutorials: Advances in Social Network analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)

The 2012 International Conference on
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

ASONAM 2012

26-29 August, 2012, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

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This text contains 2 calls. You should scroll down to view all the calls:
-Call for Panels, Exhibits & Demos Due April 8, 2012
-Call for Tutorials Due April 1, 2012

Call for Panels, Exhibits & Demos
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ASONAM 2012 will hold a panels, exhibits and demos section which intends to demonstrate the potential and the diversity of advanced research into social network analysis and mining. The aim of the call is to bring together a mix of substantial achievements as well as research in its embryonic stage of development. Ideas, prototypes and software that can be demonstrated are all welcome.
A panel proposal should be submitted by the panel moderator. The proposal should tackle a state of the art evolving and of increasing interest problem in the area of social network analysis and mining. The proposal should include a title, a brief up to two pages description and a list of the potential panelists who are experts in the field and are expected to attend ASONAM 2012. The exhibits and demos call is set to attract presenters from a diverse range of disciplines, technologies, and domains. The target audience will be made up of academics, researchers, various scientific communities, private enterprise, and government representatives from around the world. This call is open particularly to organizations that are involved in the long term development and research of social network analysis and mining technologies. We would be pleased to receive proposals from university researchers, research institutes and centres, not-for-profit organizations, public authorities, private companies, non-government organizations independent of the size of department or organization.
The exhibition will be a key element of the conference and will be set up for the duration of the conference. It is hoped that delegates will not only learn about cutting edge social network analysis and mining tools and
techniques but that they will be stimulated by the visual representations that they view as they walk around the exhibits and demonstrations. Proposals that offer delegates a hands-on walkthrough capability via a
demonstration will be looked upon favourably. Scenario-based proposals will also give delegates the ability to grasp the application of the idea, proof of concept, or operational software. Methodological rigour behind the demonstrations should also be an element of the presentation that exhibitors can provide delegates who are more interested in how the process or software works, than the actual software itself.
The Chairs are willing to consider proposals that can demonstrate the potential of social network analysis and mining with a view to specific contexts and application areas which can be enriched by such analysis. The panels, exhibits and demonstrations can be at the proof of concept level involve mock-ups of proposed implementation, or fully-fledged and tested systems. It is hoped that participants can receive critical feedback about their solutions and research achievements from delegates who themselves might be users of such social network analysis technology. Presentations can feature preliminary results or final outcomes.
Panels, exhibits and demonstrations should:
* show conceptual and methodological elements, as well as solid preliminary results from cutting edge research and development work. They should be of interest to a wide audience of specialists from multiple
disciplines (computer science and engineering) as well as to non specialists (e.g. potential customers of social network analysis tools, and the media);
* contain strong visual aspects and, if possible, allow hands-on experiences for visitors. They should be based scenarios or contexts so that delegates can grasp the usefulness and application of the software or
process developments. The objects, artefacts and applied technologies should largely tell their own story. Exhibits that show mainly mathematical results without a plain English description are discouraged;
* be attractive and captivating, not based purely on poster and screen display, although both posters and screen displays will be considered.
Posters should only be used as eye-catchers and mainly be illustrative application areas, with textual content minimised. Videos are encouraged or scrolling powerpoint presentations. Availability of physical prototypes,
interactivity and originality will be taken into consideration for selection.

Selection Criteria
Exhibit proposals will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria:
1. Is the research of a long term nature in the domain of social network analysis and mining?
2. Visual impact, quality of visitor experience and originality. Does the exhibit look attractive? Is the content clear and of relevance to the audience?
3. Is the exhibit easy to understand. Does it efficiently illustrate the foundational research work and its potential transformative impact on application contexts? How easy is it to understand what is going on? What is the level of interactivity? How exciting will be the 'visitor experience'? What is original in the proposed exhibit?

Logistics
The following will be available free of charge to successful applicants:
* the space allocated to your panel, exhibit or demonstration;
* walls and construction elements;
* some furniture (1 brochure rack, 1 demonstration table and 2 chairs);
* technical arrangements and infrastructure (LAN, bandwidth needed, electrical power, lighting, etc)
* Internet access
* 1 printed poster A0 format board to stick visuals onto
* 1 PC Screen

The following items are NOT provided and the costs must be borne by the applicant:
* Insurance costs. The conference cannot be held liable for lost, damaged or stolen property.

Deadlines and How to Submit Proposal
The deadline for submission of exhibit proposals is 8th April 2012. The proposals should be no longer than 1000 words addressing the above-mentioned criteria. Please submit your proposals to the Panels, Exhibits, and Demos Chairs, Hasan Davulcu (HasanDavulcu AT asu DOT edu) of Arizona State University and Katina Michael (katina AT uow DOT edu DOT au) of the University of Wollongong. Please provide URLs in your proposal that the Chairs can visit in making their decision with the review panel. The URLs might include example posters to be presented, working software solutions, presentations or proof of concepts, among other items.

Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection via email by 10th May 2012.
There will be a best exhibitors award announced at the conclusion of the exhibition section.

Call for Tutorials
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ASONAM has established itself as the world's premier research conference in social network analysis and mining. ASONAM 2012 provides a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, demos, etc. ASONAM 2012 welcomes proposals for short and long tutorials that focus on new research directions and initiatives. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program, and are free of charge to the attendees of the conference. Tutorial presenter(s) will receive complimentary registration; up to two free registrations will be provided per tutorial.
Though not guaranteed, one presenter per tutorial may receive up to $750 to partially cover travel expenses; this will depend on the final budget of the conference and will be finalized in June/July 2012.
We invite proposals for tutorials from active researchers and experienced tutors. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research, development and applications in a specific social network analysis and
mining direction, and stimulate and facilitate future work. A tutorial should be general and comprehensive rather than a repetition of presenter(s) own research achievements. High preference will be given to tutorials on interdisciplinary directions, novel and emerging applications. A proposal should cover the following items.
* Title
* Abstract (up to 150 words)
* Rationale of presenting the tutorial at ASONAM 2012 (up to 250 words)
* Target audience and prerequisites (up to 100 words)
* A list of forums with their time, locations and estimate of the number of attendees if the tutorial or a similar/highly related tutorial has been presented by the same author(s) before, and highlight the similarity/difference between those and the one proposed for ASONAM 2012 (up to 150 words for each entry)
* A list of tutorials on the same/similar/highly related topics given by other people, and highlight the difference between yours and theirs (up to 150 words for each entry)
* A list of other tutorials given by the authors, please list the titles, the presenters, the forums, locations and estimate of the number of attendees only
* Tutors' short bio and their expertise related to the tutorial (up to 150 words per tutor)
* An outline of the tutorial in the form of a bullet list (up to one page)
* Length of the tutorial: short (1.5-2 hours) or long (3-4 hours). A list of up to 25 most important references that will be covered in the tutorial
* Any specific audio/video/computer requirements for the tutorial
* URLs of the slides/notes of the previous tutorials given by the authors

Tutorial Co-Chairs
Please kindly send your proposals to Tutorial Co-Chairs:
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, klamma AT informatik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
* Huan Liu, Arizona State University, huan.liu AT asu DOT edu
* Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, jietang AT tsinghua DOT edu DOT cn

The deadline for submission of tutorial proposals
The deadline for submission of tutorial proposals: April 1, 2012
Selection results to be announce: May 1, 2012

An Android Based Mobile Learning Game Engine

Today, our student Marvin Hoffmann has successfully defended his master thesis "Mobile Learning Game Engine" at RWTH Aachen University. Here is the nice demo video he produced for this event.

PhD Position in Web Multimedia Mining at EURECOM

PhD Position in Web Multimedia Mining at EURECOM
http://www.eurecom.fr/resources/documents/0_Institut/Open_Positions/MM/2011/
MM_Phd_linkedTV_Huet_octobre_2011_USx.pdf
Start date: As soon as possible and no later than January 2012
Duration: 36 months

Description:

EURECOM's Multimedia Communications Department invites applications for a full-time, fully-funded 36-
month PhD position related to a project recently awarded from the EU Seventh Framework Program named LinkedTV. TV and the Internet are going through an exciting phase of convergence, with TV being delivered on-demand via the Web while access to Web content is ever more a part of the TV experience.
The European project "Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV)" will bring this convergence to its fulfillment, neatly interweaving TV and Web content into a single, integrated experience. The LinkedTV project will develop several technologies and tools to analyse and annotate audio-visual content, interlink parts of the content with other content, deliver this enriched audio-visual content via different networks to the end user and provide intuitive user interfaces on the end device to allow easy access to and browsing of related content within the program.
The selected candidate will have a chance to develop an expertise in diverse areas, such as multimedia mining, search and retrieval, large scale / cloud computing etc… In particular the successful candidate will research and develop methodologies for;

· Efficient Web multimedia mining

· Improving concept identification and disambiguating in hypervideo

· Concept labeling refinement through Web content mining.

Examples of past or ongoing research on these areas can be found at http://www.eurecom.fr/~huet/.

Requirements:
The successful candidate will have been awarded a Master's degree in a relevant field of Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related area, preferably with a focus on multimedia analysis.
You are also expected to have good analytical skills, some background in the area of data mining and good
programming skills. You will be highly motivated to undertake challenging, applied research and have
excellent English language speaking and writing skills. French language skills are a bonus.
Applications Please send to the address below (i) a one page statement of research interests and motivation, (ii) your CV and (iii) contact details for two referees (preferably one from your master's or most recent research supervisor) no later than 31st of October 2011.

Contact: Dr. Benoit HUET
Postal address: 2229 Route des Crêtes BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis
cedex, France
Email address: benoithuet(AT)eurecom.fr

EURECOM is located in Sophia Antipolis, a vibrant science park on the French Riviera. It is in close proximity with a large number of research units of leading multi-national corporations in the
telecommunications, semiconductor and biotechnology sectors, as well as other outstanding research and teaching institutions. A freethinking, multinational population and the unique geographic location provide a quality of life without equal.

International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012)

CALL FOR PAPERS
CAISE 2012 – The 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
25-29 June 2012, Gdansk, Poland
http://www.caise2012.univ.gda.pl

IMPORTANT DATES:
20 October 2011: Workshop submission deadline
30 November 2011: Paper submission deadline
16 December 2011: Tutorial submission deadline
17 February 2012: Notification of acceptance
25-29 June 2012: Conference, Workshops & Related Events

CONFERENCE THEME
The special theme of the 24th edition of CAiSE is Information Services. The notion of service plays a more and more extensive role in the enterprise development. Indeed, most of the enterprise management and manufacture is based on the exchange of services: services to the customers and/or citizens, services to support the inter-organisational collaboration as well as services to accomplish intra-organisational activities. Many organizations and companies are sharing services with others, interfacing services from others, or outsourcing their ICT resources to various locations worldwide aided by the internet. For all of them, the concept of service becomes a cornerstone of their processes of collaboration, innovation and value creation. In this context, the information systems (IS) engineering is moving towards the adoption of service-driven architectures where intra- and inter-organisational business activities are carried out with the help of information services. Information services are considered as a new means to deal with the complexity, modularity and interoperability of the constantly growing IS. Design and development of information services and information service-driven architectures become key to the success of organisations and their business. Therefore, the service-driven IS domain becomes a new complex domain, which requires new interdisciplinary approaches and new transdisciplinary ways of thinking.

CAiSE'12 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering and invites papers that address all these challenges. The topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:
Methodologies and Approaches for IS Engineering:
- Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling
- Service science
- Requirements engineering
- Business process modelling and management
- Model, component, and software reuse
- IS reengineering
- Adaptive IS engineering approaches
- Knowledge patterns and ontologies for IS engineering
- IS engineering approaches for adaptive and flexible information systems
- IS in networked & virtual organizations
- Method engineering
- Knowledge, information, and data quality
- Quality of models and of modelling languages
Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS engineering:
- Service-oriented architecture
- Model-driven architecture
- Component based development
- Agent architecture
- Distributed, mobile, and open architecture
- Innovative database technology
- Semantic web
- IS and ubiquitous technologies
- Adaptive and context-aware IS
Engineering of specific kinds of IS:
- eGovernment
- Enterprise applications (ERP, CRM)
- Data warehousing and business intelligence
- Workflow systems
- Knowledge management systems
- Content management systems
- Sustainability-aware IS

AUTHOR GUIDELINES
We invite four types of original and scientific papers:
- Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or
problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential - or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.
- Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate.
- Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to draw conclusions for their own practice.
- Exploratory Papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools or new kinds of activities or new IS challenges. They must describe precisely the situation and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the identified situation.

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.Three to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.
Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE'12 and published in the conference proceedings, which are published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Steering Committee:
- Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
- John Krogstie, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Techn., Norway
Advisory Committee:
- Arne Solvberg, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Techn., Norway
- Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
General Chair
- Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Program Chairs
- Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Organising Chair
- Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Workshops Chairs
- Marco Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Johann Eder, Alpen Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
Tutorial Chairs
- Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Raimundas Matuleviius, University of Tartu, Estonia
Forum Chairs
- Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Industry Chair
- Erik Proper, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
- Isabelle Mirbel, University of Nice, France
- Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Publication Chair
- Claudia P. Ayala, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Publicity Chairs
- Rébecca Deneckère, University of Paris 1, France
- Carina Alvés, UFPE, Recife, Brasil
- Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
- Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
- Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Program Board
M. Bajec, Slovenia; J. Falcão e Cunha, Portugal; G. Guizzardi, Brazil; J. Krogstie, Norway; J. Mendling, Germany; H. Mouratidis, UK; O. Pastor, Spain; B. Pernici, Italy; A. Persson, Sweden; M. Petit, Belgium; E. Proper, Luxembourg; C. Rolland, France; C. Salinesi, France; P. Soffer, Israel
Program Committee
W.v.d. Aalst, Netherlands; D. Amyot, Canada; P. Avgeriou, Netherlands; L. Baresi, Italy; Z. Bellahsene, France; B. Benatallah, Australia; G. Berio, France; N. Boudjilida, France; M. Brambilla, Italy; J. Cabot, France; A. ?aplinskas, Lithuania; S. Castano, Italy; J. Castro, Brazil; C. Cauvet, France; I. Comyn-Wattiau, France; P. Constantopoulos, Greece; F. Dalpiaz, Italy; V. De Antonellis, Italy; R. Deneckère, France; E. Dubois, Luxembourg; J. Eder, Austria; P. Giorgini, Italy; C. Gómez, Spain; G. Geerts, USA; S. Gritzalis, Greece; M. Grossniklaus, USA; I. Hadar, Israel; M. Helfert, Ireland; T. Halpin, Australia; B. Henderson-Sellers, Australia; W.-J. v. Heuvel, Netherlands; M. Indulska, Australia; M. Jarke, Germany; M. Jeusfeld, Netherlands; P. Johannesson, Sweden; I. Jureta, Belgium; H. Kaiya, Japan; D. Karagiannis, Austria; P. Karras, Singapore; E. Kavakli, Greece; M. Kirikova, Latvia; C. Kop, Austria; R. Laleau, France; A. Lapouchnian, Canada; W. Lemahieu, Belgium; M. Léonard, Switzerland; L. Liu, China; K. Liu, UK; K. Lyytinen, USA; L. Madeyski, Poland; R. Matuleviius, Estonia; I. Mirbel, France; J. Nawrocki, Poland; - M. Norrie, Switzerland; S. Nurcan, France; A. Oberweis, Germany; A. Olivé, Spain; A. Opdahl, Norway; M. Pantazoglou, Greece; M. Papazoglou, Netherlands; G. Perrouin, Belgium; Y. Pigneur, Switzerland; D. Plexousakis, Greece; G. Poels, Belgium; K. Pohl, Germany; N. Prakash, India; S. Ram, USA; R. Raventós, Spain; M. Reichert, Germany; I. Reinhartz-Berger, Israel; D. Rieu, France; M. Rosemann, Australia; G. Rossi, Argentina; - M. Rossi, Finland; A. Ruiz Cortés, Spain; M. Saeki, Japan; A. Šaša, Slovenia; K. Siau, USA; G. Sindre, Norway; M. Snoeck, Belgium; J. Stirna, Sweden; A. Sturm, Israel; B. Thalheim, Germany; D. Taniar, Australia; E. Teniente, Spain; I. Vanderfeesten, Netherlands; O. Vasilecas, Lithuania; Y. Wand, Canada; Y. Vassiliou, Greece; B. Weber, Austria; H. Weigand, Netherlands; J. Weglarz, Poland; M. Weske, Germany; J. Whittle, UK; R. Wieringa, Netherlands; J. Zdravkovic, Sweden; D. Zowghi, Australia; M. Zuo, China

Identification of Compentences in Self-regulated Learning Processes

Yesterday, I gave a very short presentation at the track of the Professional Training Facts 2011, in Stuttgart, Germany. My colleagues Diana, Manuel and Manuel helped me to make it a successful outlet of ROLE activities. We demonstrated the ROLE widget store and the ROLE showcase platform as well the use of ROLE widgets in the FESTO Academy personalized learning management system (PLMS).

Self-regulated Competence Management in Responsive Open Learning Environments

Self-regulated and self-paced learning and thus competence management are becoming of more importance for professional careers and learning histories, e.g. in keeping the employability of an aging workforce. These new forms of learning fit more in our modern life-styles where work-life balance and career development is an integral part of our personalities. Life-long learners need not only an e-portfolio-based management of competences but also reliable recommendations and responses for future learning activities, learning materials and learning communities based on different assessment strategies. In the EU large-scale integrating project ROLE partners from industry and academia are researching and developing personal learning environments for life-long professional training in the face of self-regulated learning and the ever growing need for competence development.

Identification of Competences in Self-regulated Learning ProcessesRalf Klamma,
RWTH Aachen, Germany

Finding and Using Web Widgets for Self-Regulated Learning Diana Dikke,
imc AG, Germany

Fit for Self-Regulated Learning - Competencies for Working with Responsive Open Learning EnvironmentsManuel Schmidt,
Festo Lernzentrum Saar GmbH, Germany

Competence Challenges in InnovationManuel Fradinho Duarte de Oliveira,
Sintef, Norway

Organised by: Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Identification of Compentences in Self-regulated Learning Processes

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TELMAP Deliverable - Mediabase Ready and First Analysis Report

Mediabase Ready and First Analysis Report

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Virtual Campfire - XMPP Inter-widget Communication for Distributed Mobile Web Interfaces - UMIC Day 2011 Poster

XMPP Inter-widget Communication for Distributed Mobile Web Interfaces

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Virtual Campfire:
Distributed Mobile/Web Interfaces Based on XMPP Inter-widget Communication

Informatik 5 and LFG Städtebaugeschichte (SBG)

In the post-desktop era, many devices (laptops, smartphones, tablet PCs) have proliferated and have become undividable part of our digital lives. However, each device comes with different input methods (multi-touch, mouse, and voice), sensors (accelerometer, compass, GPS) and display sizes. Moreover, they are mostly used for separate tasks, e.g. phones for calling, tablets for reading and web browsing, and laptops for text editing. It may be convenient to use one of the devices for one type of application, while the device may be limited to run the other types of applications.  Why shouldn’t we take advantage of all of our personal computing devices and to act as one logical device?

In this Virtual Campfire demo, we present a framework for rich internet applications with user interfaces distributed over a federation of heterogeneous commodity devices with multimodality, i.e. laptops, smartphones, and tablet computers. The UI is based on web widgets, running in widget containers such as iGoogle or OpenSocial. We employ the latest Web technologies including XMPP and HTML5 WebSockets to realize cross-platform inter-widget communication, based on the SDK of the EU Project ROLE and i5 Mobile Cloud Infrastructure. This underlying technology virtually connects the distributed UI parts (widgets) and enables real-time input fusion and output fission. We show the framework in action with a prototype for the use case of collaborative semantic video annotation (SeViAnno 2.0), which was already pilot tested for documentation purposes in cultural heritage management. The user has more flexible control over the different parts of the application by using his smartphone or tablet computer with multi-touch functionality, e.g. to navigate over a digital map or preview and annotate videos, and carry out other text input tasks from a laptop. 

Causal vs. Effectual Behavior - Support for Entrepreneurs

A result of our project OBIP (Overcoming Barriers in the Innovation Process) is this paper about the differences between two types of entrepreneurial behavior: Causation and Effectuation.

“Effectuation” is a new approach to explain the success or failure of entrepreneurs. In contrast to the traditional “causation” approach the entrepreneur is not considered to be driven by a concrete goal and to choose between different alternatives in regard to how well they help to achieve this goal. Instead the entrepreneur evaluates the alternatives, in particular the choice of strategic partners, in regard to their potential for future success. The goals are adapted to the choices and in particular the needs of the strategic partners. Agent-based simulations are intended to help identifying the settings where one approach is more appropriate than the other.

Jan Schlüter, Dominik Schmitz, Malte Brettel, Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma: Causal vs. Effectual Behavior - Support for Entrepreneurs, Proceedings of the 5th International i* Workshop 2011, Trento, Italy, August 28-29, 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 766, 126-131.