WWW 2012 Workshop - Linked Learning 2012 (LiLe 2012): 2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data

LinkedLearning2012 - 

2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (LiLe2012)

In conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW2012)

Lyon, France, 17 April 2012

- http://linkededucation.org/lile2012 -

IMPORTANT DATES
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* 10 February 2012: Full & short research paper submission deadline
* 05 March 2012: Notification of acceptance
* 05 March 2012: Poster & demo submission deadline
* 20 March 2012: Camera-ready paper
* 17 April 2012: LinkedLearning 2012 workshop day


OVERVIEW
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Distance education and openly available educational resources on the Web are becoming common practices with public higher education institutions as well as private training organisations realising the benefits of online resources. However, most of the research in E-learning has been focusing on creating a variety of metadata formats and environments for the exchange of educational resources. This has led to a fragmented landscape of Web standards and approaches used in the educational domain. Consequently, it is not only the case that interoperability between repositories of educational resources remains a challenge, but also that educational Web resources remain underexploited, as their connection, reuse and repurposing are barely supported by such technologies.

The very nature of the Linked Data approach offers promising solutions that can address these open challenges in the education arena. In addition, the Linked Data movement has produced a vast body of knowledge and data which can substantially support and contribute to educational services and content. Building on the overwhelming success of Linked Learning 2011, the Linked Learning 2012 workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners making innovative use of Linked Data technologies for educational purposes on the Web to discuss, exchange and disseminate their work.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in the broad area of education by gathering researchers from the areas of the Semantic Web, Social Web, E-Learning, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Open Educational Repositories, pedagogy and education. We will welcome high-quality papers about actual trends in (a) how education takes advantage of the Web of Data, especially through Linked Data technologies and (b) how Linked Data principles are being applied in educational contexts. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics:

* Linked data for informal learning
* Using the Web of Data for personalisation and context-awareness in E-Learning
* Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and linked data
* Light-weight educational metadata schemas
* Exposing learning objects to the Web of Data
* Semantic & syntactic mappings between educational metadata schemas
* Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for E-Learning
* Personal & mobile learning environments on the Web
* Learning flows and designs with Semantic Web technologies
* Linked data in (visual) learning analytics and educational data mining
* Linked data in organizational learning and learning organizations
* Linked data for harmonizing individual learning goals and organizational objectives
* Competency management with linked data
* Collaborative learning on the Web of Data
* Linked-data enhanced social learning


SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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We welcome the following types of contributions.

  * Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers
     
  * Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should
    not exceed 2 pages.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted
according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at

 * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lile2012

Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

The main workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Furthermore, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a journal special issue .


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center (DE)
* Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK)
* Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University (Canada)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Dan Brickley, W3C & Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Christopher Brooks, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
* Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
* Gianluca Demartini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
* Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
* Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
* Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands
* Hannes Ebner, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
* Nicola Henze, L3S Research Center, Germany
* Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Eleni Kaldoudi, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
* Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany
* Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, Germany
* David Millard, University of Southampton, UK
* Lyndon Nixon, Semantic Technologies Institute, Austria
* Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
* Melody Siadaty, Simon Fraser University & Athabasca University, Canada
* Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Italy
* Dhavalkumar Thakker, University of Leeds, UK
* Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK
* Carlo Torniai, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
* Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

For further questions please contact the organisers via lile2012@linkededucation.org.

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Deadline Extension for CAiSE'12

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

New paper submision deadline - 5 December 2011 (Hard)

OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:
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. Informat!
ion 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
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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.
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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).
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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 Matulevi?ius, 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. Caplinskas, Lithuania; S. Castano, Italy; J. Castro, Brazil; C. Cauvet, France; I. Comyn-Wattiau, France; P. Constantopoulos, Greece; A. Cuzzocrea, Itay; 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, USA; 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. Matulevicius, 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; J-C. Trujillo Mondéjar, 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

WWW 2012 Workshop - 2nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012]

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012)

in conjunction with WWW 2012

April 17, 2012, Lyon, France

http://www.temporalweb.net/

Objectives:
The objective of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers of
all domains (IE/IR, Web mining etc.) where the temporal dimension opens up
an entirely new range of challenges and possibilities. The workshop's
ambition is to help shaping a community of interest on the research
challenges and possibilities resulting from the introduction of the time
dimension in Web analysis.
TempWeb focuses on temporal data analysis along the time dimension for Web
data that has been collected over extended time periods. A major challenge
in this regard is the sheer size of the data it exposes and the ability to
make sense of it in a useful and meaningful manner for its users. Web
scale data analytics therefore needs to develop infrastructures and
extended analytical tools to make sense of these. TempWeb will take place
April 17, 2012 in conjunction with International World Wide Web Conference
in Lyon, France.

Workshop topics of TempWeb therefore include, but are not limited to
following:
• Web scale data analytics
• Temporal Web analytics
• Distributed data analytics
• Web science
• Web dynamics
• Data quality metrics
• Web spam evolution
• Content evolution on the Web
• Systematic exploitation of Web archives
• Large scale data storage
• Large scale data processing
• Time aware Web archiving
• Data aggregation
• Web trends
• Topic mining
• Terminology evolution
• Community detection and evolution
Important Dates:
• Paper submission deadline: February 17, 2012
• Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2012
• Camera ready copy deadline: March 16, 2012
• Workshop: April 17, 2012
Please post your submission (up to 8 pages) using the ACM template:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tempweb2012
Workshop Officials:
PC-Chairs and Organizers:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Julien Masanès (Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands)
Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Program Committee (tentative):
Eytan Adar (University of Michigan, USA)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA)
Srikanta Bedathur (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Andras Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Science)
Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Christian König (Microsoft Research, USA)
Michael Matthews (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Frank McCown (Harding University, USA)
Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Nikos Ntarmos (University of Patras, Greece)
Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Philippe Rigaux (Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands)
Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Pierre Senellart (Télécom ParisTech, France)
Torsten Suel (NYU Polytechnic, USA)
Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo University, Japan)
Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras, Greece)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business & École
Polytechnique)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

WWW 2012 Workshop - 4th International Workshop on Web Intelligence & Communites (WI&C'12)

 

4th International Workshop on

WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)

to be held at the World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012)
Lyon, France, April 2012Important Dates:



Paper submission deadline: January 27th, 2012
Acceptance notification : February 27th, 2012
Camera ready paper : March 23rd, 2012
Workshop : April 16th, 2012

Link to the previous editions:

• WI&C 2011
• WIVE 2010
• WIVE 2009

INVITED SPEAKER

We are honored to have a invited talk from Ashwin Ram (PARC & Georgia Tech) to the WI&C'12 workshop.

Title: Health & Wellness 2.0 with social networks for healthcare

Abstract coming soon...

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design, knowledge management, and so forth.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:

• Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
• Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
• Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
• Web-based applications and plate-forms for VC
• Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
• Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
• Self-* models and techniques for VC
• Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
• Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
• Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
• Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
• VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
• Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
• Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
• Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
• Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling
• Surveys on WI and VC

SUBMISSIONS

The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Discussion papers and demonstration papers (for presentation during the workshop) are also welcomes.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references. The paper must be formatted in pdf according to the style guidelines available here:ACM SIG Proceedings Template

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2012

CO-CHAIRS

• Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
• Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France
• Laurent Vercouter, INSA de Rouen, France

Special Issue CFP: The Power of Prediction with Social Media

Special issue on "The Power of Prediction with Social Media"

Special issue call for papers from Internet Research, ISSN: 1066-2243

Editor in Chief: Jim Jansen

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/intr.htm

Overview
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Social media today provide an impressive amount of data about users and
their societal interactions, thereby offering computer scientists, social
scientists, economists, and statisticians many new opportunities for
research exploration. Arguably one of the most interesting lines of work is
that of forecasting future events and developments based on social media
data, as we have recently seen in the areas of politics, finance,
entertainment, market demands, health, etc.
But what can successfully be predicted and why? Since the first algorithms
and techniques emerged rather recently, little is known about their overall
potential, limitations and general applicability to different domains.
Better understanding the predictive power and limitations of social media is
therefore of utmost importance, in order to --for example-- avoid false
expectations, misinformation or unintended consequences. Today, current
methods and techniques are far from being well understood, and it is mostly
unclear to what extent or under what conditions the different methods for
prediction can be applied to social media. While there exists a respectable
and growing amount of literature in this area, current work is fragmented,
characterized by a lack of common evaluation approaches. Yet, this research
seems to have reached a sufficient level of interest and relevance to
justify a dedicated special issue.
This special issue aims to shape a vision of important questions to be
addressed in this field and fill the gaps in current research by soliciting
presentations of early research on algorithms, techniques, methods and
empirical studies aimed at the prediction of future or present events based
on user generated content in social media.

Topics
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To address this guiding theme the special issue will be articulated around,
but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Politics, branding, and public opinion mining (e.g., electoral, market or
stock market prediction).
2. Health, mood, and threats (e.g., epidemic outbreaks, social movements).
3. Methodological aspects (e.g., data collection, data sampling, privacy and
data de-identification).
4. Success and failure case studies (e.g., reproducibility of previous
research or selection of baselines).
Schedule
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- Manuscript due date: June 1, 2012
- Decisions due: August 1, 2012
- Revised paper due: September 15, 2012
- Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2012
- Submission of final manuscript: October 31, 2012
- Publication date: late 2012 / early 2013 (tentative)
Submission
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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.
Submissions must adhere to the "Author Guidelines" available at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=intr

Detailed instructions will be announced later this year.

Guest editors
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- Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo (Spain), dani@uniovi.es
- Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College and Harvard University (USA),
pmetaxas@seas.harvard.edu
- Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College (USA), emustafa@wellesley.edu
- Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology (Austria),
markus.strohmaier@tugraz.at
- Harald Schoen, University of Bamberg (Germany),
harald.schoen@uni-bamberg.de
- Peter Gloor, MIT (USA), pgloor@mit.edu
Feel free to contact the guest editors if you have any question.

Postdoctoral position - User Modelling - Ecole Centrale Paris

Postdoctoral position in user modeling for socio-semantic search

Ecole Centrale Paris

Recent trends in the personalized semantic search focus on using the specific information request, including the profile person behind the request, the personal setting, preferences, and search context.

Current research and promising trends aims at improving user modeling and adaptation with semantic and social technologies in order to provide users with personalized recommendations and context-based results.

In the literature, several approaches have been proposed to model a user according to:

- Explicit information about users

- Spatial information about users

- Search context or goal (search history, fuzzy domain ontology)

- Social information (using neighbors’ profiles to perform social collaborative filtering)

The objective is to define and build a user model including evolution of social context and user-preferences, in the presence of modular domain ontologies.

Research topics for this postdoctoral position can be summarized by:

-          User modeling including information on social context, preferences and dialogue history.

-          Semantic technologies (ontologies) and social data (facebook, twitter)) for social user  modeling:

-          Similarity measures to identify users sharing similar search interests.

-          User Model adaptation according to user interest in certain entities (scores associated to entities could be positive or negative to represent users’ interest and disinterest to search subject).

Competencies and profile

Education, experience

Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science. A strong academic record, excellent analytical skills and a clear aptitude for autonomous, creative research will be priority selection criteria.

Technical skills

- Solid background in Computer Science, good knowledge of user modeling, social technologies principles and challenges and semantic technologies (ontology)

- Strong experience in development tools for diverse environments.

- Strong programming skills.

- Good learning and adaptation capabilities.

- Excellent communication skills in English. French is not mandatory. Mandarin speaking is a plus.

Environment and Location

Ecole Centrale Paris, an elite French Institution, was founded in 1829. It was the first major engineering school to train engineers in the early days of industry. Today the primary vocation of ECP is still to train scientific leaders, innovators and managers for industry, a role which gives it a unique position among the major French engineering schools.

URL: http://www.ecp.fr/lang/en/home/Centrale-Paris.

The Academic Chair in Business Intelligence aims at  inventing the future of Business Intelligence, dealing with high-level semantics, reasoning about unstructured content and structured data, and providing a simplified access and a better understanding of BI tools. See our website for more details: http://www.mas.ecp.fr/BI/New/.

This posdoctoral position is related to the EU funded PARLANCE project: http://perso.ecp.fr/~aufaurema/project.htm, https://sites.google.com/site/parlanceprojectofficial/

Duration:                            18 months

Start date:                          as soon as possible

Location:                            France (near Paris)

Annual gross salary:     around 35 000 Euros including health insurance

How to apply

- A cover letter stating your motivation.

- A detailed CV including your PhD subject and a complete list of publications

- Recommendation letters from leaders in academia or the industry are a plus

Applications must be sent to (deadline: December, 15th 2011)

Prof. Marie-Aude AUFAURE

Ecole Centrale Paris - MAS Laboratory

Grande Voie des Vignes

92 295 Chatenay-Malabry Cedex

France

Email : Marie-Aude.Aufaure@ecp.fr

Postdoctoral position in Social Networks - Ecole Centrale Paris

Networks and more precisely, Social Networks, take an increasing and incredibly important place in our lives and in the digital world nowadays. Moreover they bring new features and new possibilities every month.

Graph mining techniques like detection of communities are well known nowadays and can be interesting when applied on these networks, but most of the times, these methods work on classical graphs which are homogeneous and without attributes, while modern social networks must be modeled by heterogeneous attributed graphs.  Indeed any person in a social network is not only a node in a graph, but has several important attributes: qualitative ones (like name, surname,...), but also quantitative ones (collected by the social network by example, or by geo-localization). The nature of links is not always the same for all entities in social networks unlike in classical graphs.

On the other hand grouping nodes of such networks is not the only useful task, because these real-world networks are also vectors of information, opinions and moods. Considering the huge quantity of data carried every day, the need for methods that monitor and organize this information increases constantly. Modern Social Networks are also very dynamic, as new nodes and new links appear every day; moreover,  nodes, and more likely, links, disappear also every day. Predicting correctly such dis/appearance of nodes and links could be a valuable knowledge.
Finally, many uses of modern Social Networks are registered  and are daily users of more than one Networks. As they are not always known with the same name in these networks, the entity resolution problem (i.e. determine which reference in the data/network refers to the same real-world entity) becomes a very interesting issue. In the same idea, the fusion/aggregation of results of clustering on several networks could bring new outlooks in graph mining.

Research topics for this postdoctoral position can be summarized by:
- graph mining on heterogeneous and/or attributed graphs,
- graph mining on social networks with geo-localization data,
- design models of information diffusion processes in social networks/media,
- prediction of changes in social networks,
- graph mining on several different networks.

Competencies and profile
Education, experience
Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science. A strong academic record, excellent analytical skills and a clear aptitude for autonomous, creative research will be priority selection criteria.
Technical skills
- Solid background in Computer Science, good knowledge of graphs and social networks theory, principles and challenges, data mining and machine learning methods and algorithms.
- Strong experience in development tools for diverse environments.
- Strong programming skills.
- Good learning and adaptation capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills in English. French is not mandatory.

Environment and Location
Ecole Centrale Paris, an elite French Institution, was founded in 1829. It was the first major engineering school to train engineers in the early days of industry. Today the primary vocation of ECP is still to train scientific leaders, innovators and managers for industry, a role which gives it a unique position among the major French engineering schools.
 URL: http://www.ecp.fr/lang/en/home/Centrale-Paris.
The Academic Chair in Business Intelligence aims at  inventing the future of Business Intelligence, dealing with high-level semantics, reasoning about unstructured content and structured data, and providing a simplified access and a better understanding of BI tools. The team is composed of 1 faculty members, 2 postdoctoral researchers and 7 PhD students and is involved in European and National projects. See our website for more details: http://www.mas.ecp.fr/BI/New/.
Duration: 12 to 18 months
Start date: as soon as possible
Location: France (near Paris)
Annual gross salary: 35 000 Euros
How to apply
- A cover letter stating your motivation.
- A detailed CV including your PhD subject and a complete list of publications
- Recommendation letters from leaders in academia or the industry are a plus
Applications must be sent to (deadline: December, 15 2011)
Prof. Marie-Aude AUFAURE
Ecole Centrale Paris - MAS Laboratory
Grande Voie des Vignes
92 295 Chatenay-Malabry Cedex
France
Email : Marie-Aude.Aufaure@ecp.fr

J.UCS Special Issue: Technology for learning across physical and virtual spaces

Call for Papers

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Special Issue on

Technology for learning across physical and virtual spaces

Introduction
Nowadays education does not happen exclusively face-to-face, in the physical space. Neither does it happen exclusively through online tools in the virtual space, like Virtual Learning Environments, blogs or wikis. There is a continuous transfer from one space to another: certain activities are done in the classroom, some are accessed on a web virtual learning environment or a 3D world, then the students perform the activities and collaborate ubiquitously either physically or digitally.
This is what has been traditionally understood under the heading of blended learning, but recent technological advances have opened broad opportunities to link these spaces more profoundly, thus enabling the realization of learning activities across spaces that incorporate and coordinate objects from them all. Examples are: the use of augmented reality, that superimposes a digital layer on top of the physical space, providing extra information or linking objects; the use of 3D virtual spaces mirroring the physical space (e.g. showing an image from the physical world coming from a camera); sensors or RFID technology in the physical space that can provide information such as identity or location to digital applications; or tangible computing devices that enable the manipulation of objects in the physical space that have impact on the digital space…
The main different spaces that can be linked to support innovative activities include virtual learning environments, 3D virtual worlds, physical classrooms and open learning spaces that can be integrated with virtual spaces through roomware, mobile and location-aware technologies. New research questions arise in this new technological and learning context: How to design and technologically support innovative learning scenarios across physical and virtual spaces? What are the opportunities and challenges that learning scenarios across spaces pose to the learners' assessment? Can educational technology specifications offer interoperability solutions to facilitate the transfer between spaces? How can educators orchestrate, adapt, monitor and evaluate the learning process occurring across different virtual and physical spaces?
Topics
Educational scenarios, technological solutions and evaluation studies focused on learning activities happening across spaces, which can include, but are not limited to:

• Virtual Learning Environments
• 3D Virtual Worlds
• Roomware and other pervasive devices for the classroom
• Mobile and location-aware technologies for open learning space

Transversal topics include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures, frameworks, models
• Design of activities, assessment
• Interoperability, educational technology specifications, data flow, linked data
• Orchestration, adaptation, monitoring, evaluation

Related topics include also:

• Augmented reality
• Augmented virtuality
• Mediated reality

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 15 December 2011
• Decision notification after first round of reviews: 15 February 2012
• Submission of revised version: 31 March 2012
• Final decision: 15 May 2012
• Submission of final version: 31 May 2012

Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages. All submissions must be in English, formatted according to the guidelines of Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS), and submitted as pdf-files. The submission guidelines can be found at http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted via email to the guest editors. The subject of the submission email should be: "JUCS SI Submission: Technology for learning across physical and virtual spaces".
Guest Editors
Carlos Delgado-Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), cdk at it.uc3m.es
Davinia Hernández-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), davinia.hernandez at upf.edu
Juan I. Asensio-Pérez, Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), juaase at tel.uva.es

3rd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Web Mining (SNSM'2012)

Call for Papers

3rd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Web Mining in

conjunction with DASFAA 2012

DASFAA2012, Busan, Korea, April 15-18, 2012

http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/snsm2012/

[Workshop Description]:
Today the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such as
social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies, brings in tremendous
freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing
between users. Along with the interaction between users and computers,
social media are rapidly becoming an important part of our digital
experience, ranging from digital textual information to diverse multimedia
forms. These aspects and characteristics constitute of the core of second
generation of Web.
A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast pool of data to
extract, represent and exploit meaningful knowledge and to leverage
structures and dynamics of emerging social networks residing in the social
media. Social networks and social media mining combines data mining with
social computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities
for developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content
mining to link mining.
The 3rd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Web Mining in
conjunction with DASFAA 2012 will bring together the academia, researchers
and industrial practitioners from computer science, information systems,
statistics, sociology, behavior science and organization science discipline,
and provide a forum for recent advances in the field of social networks and
social media, from the perspectives of data management and mining.
We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of
this field. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the
following:

* Computational models for social media
* Search in Social Networks and Social Media
* Blog Search and Retrieval, Social Aspects of Blogosphere
* Sentiment Analysis; Polarity/Opinion Identification and Extraction
* Techniques for Social Network Analysis and for the Analysis of
Social-Media Phenomena
* Link Analysis and Network Structure Discovery, Community Detection and
Evolution
* Group interaction, Collaboration, and Recommendation
* Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial
Intelligence in Social Contexts
* Human Interface and Interaction techniques for Social Media, Social
Media tools; Navigation and Visualization
* Influence, Trust, and Privacy
* Social Behavior Modeling, Social Intelligence, Social Cognition
* Trend Identification and Tracking; Time Series Forecasting; Measuring
Predictability of Phenomena based on Social Media
* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
* Query processing and optimization
* Influence, trust, and privacy
* Search in social networks and social media
* Interoperability among social applications and social media
* Techniques for social-network and social-media analysis/mining
* Adversarial blogging and counter measures
* Link analysis and network structure discovery
* Community detection and evolution
* Blog search and retrieval
* Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation
* Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic
detection)
* Social aspects of Blogosphere
* Human interface and interaction techniques for social media
[Instruction]:
Authors are invited to submit electronically original, English-language
research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All submitted
papers should be Springer LNCS camera-ready format. The style files are
available from Springer LNCS site:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
All submissions files should be in PDF formats. We employ the single blind
review system (in which the authors don't know the reviewers, but the
reviewers know the authors). The number of pages should not exceed 14 pages.
Any papers more than 14 pages will be rejected.
[Publication]:
All accepted papers will be published in a combined volume of Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series published by Springer. The best quality
accepted papers after the presentation on the workshop day will be
recommended for possible publication in the following journals: World Wide
Web Journal (SCI), Jounral of Database Management (SCIE), Social Network
Analysis and Mining (Springer), Journal of Information Technology and
Architecture (KEA), International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data
Mining (InderScience), International Journal of Web Engineering and
Technology (InderScience).
[Submission Website]:
Please submit manuscripts in PDF formats to the submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snsm2012
[Important Dates]:
Paper submission
December 10, 2011, 5PM (Pacific Time)
Notification
December 31, 2011, 5PM (Pacific Time)
Camera-Ready
January 15, 2012, 5PM (Pacific Time)
[Workshop Co-Chairs]:

Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea

[Program Committee]: (to be added)
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA
Toshiyuki AMAGASA, Tsukuba University, Japan
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
Li Chen, Hongkong Baptist University, China
Ling Chen, UTS ,Australia
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Irene Garrigos, University of Alicante, Spain
Yanhui Gu, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wenxin Liang Dalian University of Technology, China
Satoshi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan
Tieyun Qian, Wuhan University, China
Sherif Sakr, NICTA, Australia
Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Daling Wang, Northeastern University, China
Zongda Wu, Wenzhou University, China
Zhenglu Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan
Junjie Yao, Peking University, China
Jianwei Zhang, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT, Australia
Yu Zong, West Anhui University, China
Lei Zou, Peking University, China

The 2012 International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services (SocialComNet 2012)

The 2012 International Workshop on 

Social Computing, Network, and Services (SocialComNet 2012)

http://www.ftrai.org/socialcomnet2012

June 26-28, 2012, Vancouver, Canada

In Conjunction with FutureTech 2012

Overview
==========

Recently, social computing and networking has been driving dramatic evolution in the way people communicate and interact with each other, attracting great attention from the research community as well as the business world.
Social computing not only includes Web 2.0 elements such as blogs, twitter, and wikis, etc, but also stands for a collection of the technologies that gather, process, compute, and visualize social information and the studies that model and analyze dynamics of participants in social networks.
With the advent of the social computing era, SocialComNet-2012 aims at reporting the most recent progresses, trends, and concerns in this rapidly growing area.
This workshop will provide a forum for participants from the computing and social science communities and publish state-of-art research papers.
Furthermore, we expect that the workshop and its publications will trigger related research and technology innovation in this important subject.



Topic
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- Social Computing Theories
- Data Mining and Machine Learning for Social Computing
- Information Retrieval for Social Computing
- Artificial Intelligence for Social Computing
- Social Behavior Modeling
- Social Intelligence and Cognition
- Collaborative and Multi-Agent Systems for Social Computing
- Information Diffusion in Social Networks
- Peer-to-Peer System
- Cloud computing for Social Computing
- Grid, Cluster, and Internet Computing
- Semantic Web Technologies and Their Applications for Social Network
- Context-Awareness and Context Sharing
- Search and Discovery Techniques for Social Network
- RFID and Internet of Things
- Human Computer Interactions
- Smart Object, Space/Environment & System
- Social Network and Smart-phone Services
- Ubiquitous Sensing with Inputs from Social Sensors
- Location Aware Services for Social Network
- Social Computing and Entertainment
- E-Learning, Edutainment, and Infotainment in Social Network
- Social Computing for E-Commerce and E-Society, etc
- Video Distribution (IPTV, VoD) in Social Network
- Developing and Managing Web2.0 Services
- Use of Social Networks for Marketing
- Web Page Ranking Informed by Social Media
- Collaborative Filtering
- Social Recommender Systems
- Social System Design and Architectures
- Social Media Business Models
- Social Computing Services and Case Studies
- Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks
- Social and Ethical Issues of Networked World



Important Dates
===================

Submission Deadline : Jan. 15, 2012
Authors Notification: Feb. 15, 2012
Camera Ready Upload Deadline: Mar. 15, 2012
Author Registration Deadline: Mar. 15, 2012



Paper Submission and Proceeding
===================================

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.

- Full Paper: 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Poster Paper: 2 pages (FTRA Publishing Proceeding with ISBN)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

SocialComNet-2012¡¯s submission web site: http://www.editorialsystem.net/socialcomnet2012


All accepted papers will bepublished in the Springer CCIS proceedings (EI and ISTP), which will be indexed by the following services: EI Compendex(Since 2010), ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, DBLP and Scopus.

Instructions for papers in the Springer's CCIS£¨Note that the paper format of CCIS is the same as that of LNCS£©

- Prepare your paper in the exact format as the sample paper for CCIS. Failure to do so may result in the exclusion of your paper from the proceedings. Please read the authors' instructions carefully before preparing your papers.
- Springer accepts both Microsoft Word and LaTex format in the Lecture Note Series. However, FTRA does not accept the use of LaTex. Therefore, you should use the Microsoft Word instead of using LaTex (The paper will be excluded from the proceeding if you use LaTex). Springer provides the relevant templates and sample files for both PC (sv-lncs.dot) and Mac (sv-lncs) environments.
- Please download word.zip (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-72919-0). If you need more help on preparing your papers, please visit Springer's LNCS web page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0).


In addition, distinguished papers accepted and presented in SocialComNet-2012 will be recommended to the following international journals:
1) The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
2) Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)
3) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)
4) Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)
5) Human-Centric Computing and Information Science (HCIS) - Springer
6) International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
7) Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing





Organization
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General Chairs
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James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, SeoulTech, Korea


Program Chairs  
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Kae Won Choi, SeoulTech, Korea
Nasrullah Memon, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark


Publicity Chairs
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TBA



Contact
=============

If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email to Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) or Prof. Kae Won Choi (kaewon.choi@gmail.com).

Post-doc fellow positions in data mining and social computing at Paris, France

The Network and Service Dept. at Institut Telecom SudParis, France is pleased to invite applications for postdoctoral fellow in areas like machine learning and data analysis, social media computing, mobile social network, web mining and human centric sesing. In particular, we are looking for one post-doc fellow urgently that can conduct research on a very large-scale real-world taxi dataset (7000 taxis' GPS traces for one year in a big city in China). We wish to discover patterns related to drivers' behaviors, energy efficiency, people mobility, urban planning, etc, using data mining (such as latent structure analysis) and machine learning (spatio-temporal statisitical models).

The post-doc positions can be 1-3 years (supported by EU and French National Projects), which are supposed to start in 2012.

Ideal candidates should be dedicated and open-minded, speak English fluently, hold a PhD degree from a leading organization, work well independently and willing to work with a strong team to achieve world-class results. You also wish to cooperate with other scientists in the domain, take initiatives to develop new ideas, systems and projects.

Please submit your application consisting of a CV and a research statement by Dec . 15 th, 2011
to: daqingi2r@yahoo.com

Prof. Daqing ZHANG
ALPS Group

Network and Services Department
Institut TELECOM SudParis
9, rue Charles Fourier 91011 Evry Cedex, France

ACM Web Science Conference 2012

4th ACM Web Science Conference

June 22-24, 2012, Northwestern University

Call for Papers

Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast information
network of people and communities. It also includes the study of
people and communities using the digital records of user activity
mediated by the Web. An understanding of human behavior and social
interaction can contribute to our understanding of the Web, and data
obtained from the Web can contribute to our understanding of human
behavior and social interaction. Accordingly, Web Science involves
analysis and design of Web architecture and applications, as well as
studies of the people, organizations, and policies that shape and are
shaped by the Web.

To address these diverse goals, the Web Science conference is
inherently interdisciplinary, integrating computer and information
sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology,
economics, law, political science, and other disciplines. This
conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these
disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite
papers from all the above disciplines, as well as those that cross
traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh,
and WebSci'11 in Koblenz, we are seeking papers and research notes
that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field
of Web Science, as well as extended abstracts that discuss novel and
thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress.

Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Analysis of human behavior and social interaction using data from
 social media, online networks and communities
- Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based large-scale human
 interaction and behavior
- Network analysis of the Web
- Microlevel processes and interactions on the Web
- Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing
- Structure and organization on the Web
- Web communities and online lifestyles
- Web, society, and innovation
- Intellectual property and the commons
- Governance, trust, and privacy
- Web access, literacy, and democracy
- Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web
- People-driven Web technologies, including social search, open
 data, and new interfaces
- Using the digital records of user activity mediated by the Web
- New research questions and thought-provoking ideas, emphasizing the
 intersection of design and social interaction


Submission

Web Science is a strongly interdisciplinary field, with areas
representing different traditions for conferences and
publications. Therefore this year we are providing three different
submission formats (papers, notes, and abstracts) to allow for a wide
range of submissions from all disciplines relevant for Web Science.

Submission Guidelines for Research Papers & Research Notes

Research papers and research notes should present new results and
original work that has not been previously published. Research papers
should present significant theoretical, empirical, methodological, or
policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Research
notes should describe brief and focused research contributions that
are noteworthy.

Papers can be up to 10 pages; notes up to 4 pages. All submissions
should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings
template and submitted via EasyChair.

Submission Guidelines for Extended Abstracts

Extended abstracts should describe either (1) thought-provoking ideas
with the potential for interesting discussions at the conference, or
(2) works-in-progress for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback
on early-stage work, or fostering discussions and collaborations among
colleagues.

Extended abstracts can be up to 6 pages, and should be formatted
according to the official ACM SIG abstract template and submitted via
EasyChair.


Review, Publication, and Presentation

The WebScience program committee consists of a senior program
committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science as well as
regular program committee members from these areas. Each submission
will be refereed by at least 3 PC members and one senior PC member, to
cover both the research background of each submission as well as the
necessary interdisciplinary aspects.  Review criteria for all types of
submissions include significance, originality, presentation, validity,
and the ability to stimulate discussion, with different emphases
depending on the submission category to allow for consideration of all
relevant works contributing to the advancement of Web Science.

All accepted papers, notes, and extended abstracts will appear in the
WebScience 2012 Conference Proceedings and will also be available
through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the
submission. Regardless of the submission format, accepted submissions
will be presented in one of three formats: 1) as a 20-minute
presentation followed by discussion, 2) during one of the poster
presentations and discussion sessions, 3) or as part of a panel
discussion. Research papers, research notes, and extended abstracts
are eligible for presentation in any of the three formats, depending
on reviewer recommendations. Submissions that are thought-provoking
and novel will be more appropriate for longer presentation, while
those that are expected to stimulate discussion will be ideal for
presentation in smaller groups or as posters.


Deadlines

February 12: Submissions of papers and notes due
February 26: Submissions of extended abstracts due
March 31: Notification of acceptance
April 29: Final versions of papers, notes, and extended abstracts due
June 22-24: Web Science 2011 Conference, Evanston, Illinois, USA


General Chair

Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, US


Program Chairs

Michael Macy, Cornell University, US
Wolfgang Nejd, L3S Research Center, Germany


Web Site

http://www.websci12.org/

Call for Book Chapters: Studies in Mining Social Networks and Security Informatics, Springer

Call for Book Chapters

Studies in Mining Social Networks and Security Informatics 

by Springer Verlag

Editors: Zeki Erdem, Tansel Özyer, Suheil Khoury, Jon Rokne

Motivation
--------------------
Recent studies in social networks and security informatics gained
attraction from the industry and academia. Advances in information
technologhy rendered the use of almost every kind of data such as web,
health, social networking sites, bibliographic data, political,
homeland-related data as well as any other types of data intrinsically
having the network structure. The common feature of the data is that
it can be well represented with graph structure and can be mined to
accomplish given tasks by using data mining techniques including
artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and stochastic
methods.

Scope
--------
General areas of interest to the book include information science and
mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational
studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics,
homeland security studies, biology and medicine.

Topics
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More specialized topics within Social Network Analysis and Mining
include, but are not limited to:
Anomaly detection
Application of social network analysis and mining
Authorship analysis and identification for security informatics
Community discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline
social networks
Community discovery and analysis in social networks
Computational Criminology
Contextual social network analysis and mining
Crime data mining and network analysis
Criminal network visualization
Cybercrime/cyber terrorism and anaylsis
Dark Web
Detection of communities by document and text analysis
Detection of communities in the Web
Detection of patterns in the Web
Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
Graph algorithms for social network analysis
Graph matching
Graph Mining Techniques and Applications to Social Network Analysis
Group detection and discovery
Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
Social network construction
Link Analysis, prediction and Mining
Misuse detection in communities
Open source intelligence
Organized crime detection
Pattern Detection and Analysis
Political and economical impact of social network analysis
Preparing data for Web mining
Privacy issues in Security Informatics
Privacy issues in social networks
Recommendations for product purchase, and information acquisition
Scalability of social networks
Spatio-temporal analysis on social networks
Spatio-temporal data mining for crime analysis and security informatics
Terrorism Informatics
Terrorist threats prediction
Visual representation of dynamic social networks
Web mining

Submission guidelines
--------------------------------------
- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to
the above topics are solicited.
- Full paper submission deadline is January 08, 2012. These papers will
follow an academic review process.
- Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 25
pages preferred(using the LNCS 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.
- You should submit your expanded paper using the easychair.org
- submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snsi2012.
- The attachment must be in PDF.

Tentative deadlines
------------------------
Submissions Due : 08 January 2011
Notification of Acceptance : 23 February 2012
Revised version due : 23 March 2012
Final Notification of Acceptance: 23 April 2012
Final camera-ready version : 13 May 2012
Summer 2012 : Publication Date (tentative)

Selection criteria
------------------------
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.

Editors
----------
Zeki Erdem
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
BILGEM Information Technologies Institute
Gebze, Kocaeli Turkey
zeki [dot] erdem at bte [dot] tubitak [dot] gov [dot] tr
Tansel Özyer
Department of Computer Engineering
Tobb University, Ankara Turkey
ozyer [at] etu [dot] edu [dot] tr
Suheil Khoury
American University of Sharjah
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Sharjah, UAE
skhoury [at] aus [dot] edu
Jon Rokne
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB Canada
rokne [at] ucalgary [dot] ca

16th International Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS2012) - Call for Papers

Call for Papers

16th International Conference on

ADVANCES IN DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ADBIS)

Sep 18-21, 2012,

Poznan, Poland

http://adbis.cs.put.poznan.pl

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AIMS and SCOPE
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The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide
a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to
promote interaction and collaboration between the database and
information systems research communities. The ADBIS conferences
provide an international platform for the presentation of research on
database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their
advanced applications.
The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical
contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by
an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and
tutorials presented by leading scientists. A doctoral consortium and
several workshops focusing on specific topics will be held in line
with the main conference. The official language of the conference
will be English.
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AREAS of INTEREST
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The main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Theoretical foundations of databases and information systems
* Data models and languages
* Advanced databases (OO, web-based, multimedia, temporal, spatial,
active, deductive, grid, real-time, etc.)
* Semi-structured data, XML and databases
* Data modeling and database design
* New database architectures, distributed data management (e.g., P2P,
cloud computing)
* Data management on new hardware
* Energy-efficient data management
* Indexing and search
* Query processing and optimization
* Concurrency control, logging & recovery
* Replication and caching
* Physical database design and tuning
* Benchmarking and experimental methodology
* Security and privacy in databases and information systems
* Personalization in databases and information systems
* Middleware, workflow and process management
* Business process modeling, advanced transaction models, Web services
* Services in information systems
* Database systems as services
* Data and information systems integration and interoperability,
meta-data management, data quality, data cleansing
* Data warehousing, data mining and knowledge discovery
* Data streams
* Complex event processing
* Semantic information processing (ontologies, interoperability,
meta-modeling, etc.)
* Content management
* Text databases and information retrieval
* Knowledge management and information systems
* Advanced database applications
* Modern applications of information systems (e.g., social networks)
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TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS, and PHD CONSORTIUM
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ADBIS 2012 is planned to be accompanied by turorials, workshops and
PhD consortium covering the research areas of data management and
information systems.
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PUBLICATIONS
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As in the past, full research papers will be published in a
Springer-Verlag LNCS volume. Full papers must not exceed 14 pages in
the LNCS format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
The best short research papers and PhD consortium papers will be
published as a special issue of the international journal Foundation
of Computing and Decision Science (http://fcds.cs.put.poznan.pl/fcds2/).
Short and PhD consortium papers must not exceed 8 pages in the FCDS
format (available at the ADBIS 2012 web page).
Workshop papers will be published as a special issue of the
international journal Control and Cybernetics
(http://control.ibspan.waw.pl:3000/mainpage/index),
which is indexed by Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded.
Workshop papers must not exceed 10 papers in the C&C format (available
at the ADBIS 2012 web page).
The LNCS volume and the special issues will be DBLP indexed.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Full, short, PhD consortium, and workshop papers must be submitted
via the CMT system, available at:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ADBIS2012/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Main conference
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Submission deadline for the conference papers: April 7
Notification of paper acceptance: May 14
Camera-ready papers: June 15
Conference: September 18-21
Workshops, Tutorials, Panels
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Submission of workshop, tutorial, and panel proposals: January 14
Notification of workshop, tutorial, and panel acceptance: January 21
Workshops: September 17
Workshops, Tutorials, and Panels should be submited to one of the
chairs:
Mykola Pechenizkiy (m.pechenizkiy@tue.nl)
Marek Wojciechowski (Marek.Wojciechowski@cs.put.poznan.pl)
PhD consortium
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Submission deadline for PhD papers: May 12
Notification of PhD paper acceptance: June 9
Camera ready PhD papers: June 30
PhD consortium: September 17
PhD Consortium papers should be submited to one of the chairs:
Alexandros Nanopoulos (nanopoulos@ismll.de)
Mikolaj Morzy (Mikolaj.Morzy@cs.put.poznan.pl)
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CONFERENCE VENUE
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The event will take place in Poznan (Poland), which is an important
centre of trade, industry, and education in Poland. With almost
a million inhabitants in the urban agglomeration, there are over
140 000 students. The city is among the oldest in Poland with its
history dating back to the early days of Polish statehood.
Poznan offers all the infrastructure and facilities of a global
technology hub, combining rich historical heritage and culture.
It hosts regular international trade fairs and other important events
such as the UN Climate Change Conference and UEFA EURO 2012. Major
attractions include numerous museums and heritage sites. More
information about Poland and Poznan can be found at:
http://www.poznan.pl/mim/public/turystyka/index.html?lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poznan
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KEY CONFERENCE OFFFICIALS
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General Chair:
Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Theo Haerder, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Workshops Co-Chairs:
Mykola Pechenizkiy, Eindhoven University of Technology, the
Netherladns
Marek Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
PhD Consortium Co-Chairs:
Alexandros Nanopoulos, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Mikolaj Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Program Committee:
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Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Andras Benczur, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary
Ladjel Bellatreche, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et
d'Aérotechnique, France
Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Albertas Caplinskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Barbara Catania, University of Genova, Italy
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan School of Economy, Poland
Ricardo Rodrigues Ciferri, Universidade Federal de Săo Carlos, Brazil
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Todd Eavis, Concordia University, Canada
Johann Eder, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Johann Gamper, Bolzano University, Italy
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Grece
Jarek Gryz, York University, Canada and
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Goetz Graefe, HP Labs, USA
Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Adam Grzech, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Mirjana Ivanovic, University od Novo Sadu, Serbia
Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Acaedmy of Science, Russia
Ahto Kalja, Küberneetika Instituut, Estonia
Alfons Kemper, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Martin Kersten, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Attila Kiss, Eötvös Lorand University, Hungary
Margita Kon-Popovska, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia
Christian Koncilia, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Stanislaw Kozielski, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Sergei Kuznetsov, University of Colorado, USA
Wolfgang Lehner, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Rainer Manthey, Universitaet Bonn, Germany
Bernhard Mitschang, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik, Germany
Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technoloy, Slovakia
Anisoara Nica, Sybase, SAP, Canada
Mykola Nikitchenko, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Boris Novikov, University of St.Petersburg, Russia
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Grece
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden
Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Center, Austria
Holger Schwarz, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
Timos Sellis, Research Center "Athena" and
National Technical University of Athen, Greece
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
José Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceara, Brasil
Bela Stantic, Griffith University, Australia
Janis Stirna, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Xin Wang, Columbia University, Canada
Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Peter Vojtas, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Gottfried Vossen, Universität Münster, Germany
Florian Waas, Greenplum/EMC, USA
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China
Esteban Zimanyi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium