Call For Papers: 3rd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2012)

Posted on January 3, 2012 by admin

3rd IUI Workshop on
Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2012)

February 14, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline: Jan 6, 2012
http://www.semais.org

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WORKSHOP GOALS

Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role also for the design, development, and execution of user interfaces and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or interface models in model-driven design, generation at design time as well as at runtime, and integration of user interfaces. Ontologies may enhance the visualization and interaction capabilities of user interfaces in various ways, e.g., by providing input assistance, intelligently clustering information, or adapting the user interface according to the user’s context.

Especially in the latter case, ontologies can be applied for representing the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive systems. In particular, they have promised to provide a technique for representing external physical context factors such as location, time or technical parameters and ‘internal’ context such as user interest profiles or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g., between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI generation.

There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Following up the successful SEMAIS workshops at IUI 2010 and 2011, the workshop will address, among others, the following research issues:

– Improve UI quality by using semantic models.
– Representing user models, systems and their behavior, domain knowledge and interaction context by means of semantic models.
– Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation spreading for semantic user models.
– Context-aware interaction based on semantic models.
– Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g. recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and others.
– Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and support traceability.
– Scalability and performance of semantic model-based interactive systems.
– Semantic model-driven UI development.
– Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems.
– Suitability of highly formal vs. light-weight semantic representations.
– Consuming linked data in user interfaces.
– Bringing ontologies together with current UI modeling languages, such as UsiXML.
– Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction.

In this year’s workshop, we especially encourage contributions that
– focus on intuitive interaction
– dynamically adapt to the user and/or group over long time periods
– leverage information contained in Linked Open Data

SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION

Prospective participants should submit the work that they intend to present workshop on or before Jan 6 2012. Submissions should be 8-12 pages in Springer LNCS format. We will select participants based on the abstract’s quality and the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an interdisciplinary group. Accepted submissions will be published as online proceedings at CEUR-WS.ORG. Based on the overall quality of the submissions, selected papers will be considered for a journal special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES

– Jan 6: Submission due
– Jan 20: Notification of acceptance
– Feb 6: Camera ready version due
– Feb 14: Workshop

ORGANIZERS

Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology
Heiko Paulheim, TU Darmstadt
Juergen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen
Gaelle Calvary, University of Grenoble

Program Committee

Anna Fensel, STI Innsbruck
Christina Feilmayr, University of Linz
Sean P. Goggins, Drexel University
Artem Katasonov, VTT Finland
Jörg Haake, FU Hagen
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen
Tobias Ley, Tallinn University
Steffen Lohmann, University Carlos III de Madrid
Pablo Mendes, FU Berlin
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen
Florian Probst, SAP Research
Benedikt Schmidt, SAP Research
Dirk Veiel, FU Hagen
[to be extended]

Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org

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Call For Papers: 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012)

Posted on December 9, 2011 by admin

ESWC12 – 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference
May 27 – 31, 2012

Info at: http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/

The mission of ESWC is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantic technologies. Building on its past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other relevant research areas in which semantics in a Web context plays an important role. The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services. This network of knowledge-based functionality will weave together a large network of human knowledge, and make this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. It will support novel applications allowing to combine content from heterogeneous sites in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs and content.

Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which spans unstructured, RDF as well as multimedia content and services requires the collaboration of many disciplines, including but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.

In addition to the research and in-use tracks, we have furthermore introduced two special tracks this year, putting particular emphasis on inter-disciplinary research topics and areas that show the potential of exciting synergies for the future.

*Important Dates*

Abstract submission December 5th, 2011
Full-paper submission December 12th, 2011
Notification of acceptance/rejection February 22nd, 2012
Camera-ready papers March 9th, 2012

*Additional Information*

ESWC2012 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the Web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC2012 will be electronic via the conference submissions site. Each paper must be assigned to one of the tracks below:

General Chair
– Elena Simperl

Program Chairs
– Philipp Cimiano
– Axel Polleres

Research tracks
– Ontologies (Chairs: Chiara Ghidini, Dimitris Plexousakis)
– Reasoning (Chairs: Giovambattista Ianni, Markus Kroetzsch)
– Semantic Data Management (Chairs: Claudio Gutierrez, Andreas Harth)
– Linked Open Data (Chairs: Soren Auer, Juan Sequeda)
– Social Web and Web Science (Chairs: Fabien Gandon, Matthew Rowe)
– Software, Services, Processes and Cloud Computing (Chairs: Mathias Klusch, Carlos Pedrinaci)
– Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (Chairs: Paul Buitelaar, Johanna Volker)
– Mobile and Sensor Web (Chairs: Alasdair J G Gray, Kerry Taylor)
– Machine Learning (Chairs: Claudia D’Amato, Volker Tresp)

Special tracks 2012
– EGovernment: Using Semantics for Promoting Interoperability in the Public Sector (Chairs: Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Vassilios Peristeras)
– Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage (Chairs: Antoine Isaac, Vivienne Petras)

In-use & Industrial track
– In-use & Industrial track (Chairs: Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Yves Raimond)

Check the website for detailed descriptions of each of these tracks.

Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission – details of this process will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors).

Submission will be through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eswc2012

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Call For Papers: 4th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence – Technologies and Applications (ICCCI 2012)

Posted on December 7, 2011 by admin

4th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence –
Technologies And Applications (ICCCI 2012)

28-30 November 2012, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) of Springer-Verlag

http://www.iccci2012.vn/
e-mail: iccci@pwr.wroc.pl

ABOUT
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ICCCI 2012 is an international scientific conference for research in the field of Computational Collective Intelligence (CCI), to be held on 28-30 November, 2012 in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI sub-field dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions.

The aim of this conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems.

ICCCI 2012 is organized by University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University HCM and Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland.

ICCCI 2012 is organized in cooperation with IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence and International Society of Applied Intelligence.

SCOPE
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The scope of the conference includes:

– Methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of computational collective intelligence such as group decision making, collective action coordination, knowledge integration, understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural).
– The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., to support human and other collective intelligence and creation of new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems.

Three subfields of application of computational intelligence technologies to support various forms of collective intelligence are of special attention but are not the only ones: semantic web (as an advanced tool increasing collective intelligence), social network analysis (as the field targeted to the emergence of new forms of CCI), and multiagent systems (as a computational and modeling paradigm especially tailored to capture the nature of CCI emergence in populations of autonomous individuals).

Apart of the Main Track, including general aspects of computational collective intelligence, the conference will offer Special Sessions and Workshop for selected topics in the conference scope. Also, there will be Doctoral Track offering students opportunity to exchange experience and to discuss both work in progress and almost finished dissertations.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
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We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics:
– Agent Theory and Application
– Automated Reasoning
– Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems
– Collective Intelligence
– Computational Biology
– Computer Vision
– Computational Intelligence
– Computational Security
– Cooperative Systems and Control
– Cybernetics for Informatics
– Data Mining for Social Networks
– Distributed Intelligence
– Evolutionary computing
– Fuzzy Systems
– Grey Theory
– Hybrid Systems
– Information Retrieval and Integration
– Information Hiding
– Intelligent Architectures
– Intelligent Applications
– Intelligent Building
– Intelligent Control
– Intelligent e-learning/tutoring
– Intelligent Image Processing
– Intelligent Networks
– Intelligent Transportation Systems
– Knowledge Representation
– Knowledge-Based Systems
– Logic in Intelligence
– Machine Learning
– Mobile Intelligence
– Natural Language Processing
– Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
– Pattern Recognition
– Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning
– Semantic Web
– Smart Living Technology
– Smart Sensor Networks
– Soft computing
– Social Networks
– Ubiquitous computing and its applications
– Web Intelligence and Interaction

PROCEEDINGS
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The conference proceedings will be published in the prestigious series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence of Springer-Verlag (the publication announcement has already been included in the list of LNCS Forthcoming Proceedings) and indexed by ISI (CP), EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library etc.

ORGANISATION
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Honorary Chairs
– Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada
– Phan Thanh Binh, President of National University VNU-HCM, Vietnam
– Tadeusz Wieckowski, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

General Chairs
– Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM , Vietnam
– Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Steering Committee Chair
– Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Program Chairs
– Dimitar Filev, IEEE SMC, USA
– Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
– Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan
– Edward Szczerbicki, University of Newcastle, Australia

Liaison Chairs
– Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea
– Manh Thanh Le, Hue University, Vietnam

Organizing Co-Chairs
– Nguyen Bao Le, Institute of Science and Advanced Technology Development, VIPUA, Vietnam
– Radoslaw Katarzyniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Special Session Chairs
– Amine Chohra, Paris-East University, France
– Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Publicity Chairs
– Dariusz Barbucha, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
– Phi Khu Nguyen, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM , Vietnam

Doctoral Track Chairs
– Hong Hai Dam Quang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM , Vietnam
– Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan

Organizing Committee
– Truong Hai Bang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM , Vietnam
– Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
– Grzegorz Skorupa, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
– Nguyen Dinh Thuan, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM , Vietnam

IMPORTANT DATES
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Special Session proposals: 15 April 2012
Submission of papers: 15 May 2012
Notification of acceptance: 20 July 2012
Final papers to be received: 20 August 2012
Conference: 28-30 November 2012

CONTACT
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Wroclaw University of Technology
Institute of Informatics
Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27
50-370 Wroclaw
Poland
tel: +48 71 320 29 08
fax: +48 71 320 38 84

e-mail: iccci@pwr.wroc.pl
http://www.iccci2012.vn/

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Call For Papers: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks Journal (PDCN 2011)

Posted on December 5, 2011 by admin

This is an interdisciplinary journal covering all areas of parallel processing and/or distributed computing and networks that apply to the engineering and computer technology communities. The interdisciplinary approach of the publication ensures that the editors draw from researchers worldwide in a diverse range of fields. The scope of PDCN includes: algorithms, broadband networks, cloud computing, cluster computing, compilers, data mining, data warehousing, distributed databases, distributed knowledge-based systems, distributed multimedia, distributed real-time systems, distributed programming, fault tolerance, grid computing, heterogeneous computing, high performance computing, interconnection networks, Internet tools, many-core computing, memory and I/O systems, mobile computing, modelling and simulation, multi-core computing, operating systems, parallel computing systems, parallel processing and programming, performance evaluation, personal computing, planning protocols, real-time and embedded systems, reliability, resource allocation, reusability, routing, scheduling, supercomputing, web technologies and wireless networks.

For more information on submitting a paper, please see the following link:
http://www.actapress.com/submissioninfo.aspx

Submission Deadline: Dec 31, 2011

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Call For Papers: 27th IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2012)

Posted on December 2, 2011 by admin

27th IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference
(SEC 2012)
Creta Maris Hotel, Heraklion, Crete, Greece – June 4-6, 2012
http://www.sec2012.org

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security are solicited for submission to the 27th IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference. The focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Papers should focus on topics which include, but are not limited to, the following:

– Access Control
– Accountability
– Anonymity
– Applied Cryptography
– Attacks & Malicious Code
– Authentication & Delegation
– Awareness & Education
– Data Integrity
– Database Security
– Identity Management
– Information Security Culture
– Formal Security Verification
– Mobile Code Security
– Policies & Standards
– Privacy Attitudes & Practices
– Risk Analysis & Management
– Security Architectures
– Security Economics
– Security in Location Services
– Security in Social Networks
– Security Models
– Social Engineering & other Human-related Risks
– System Security
– Usable Security
– Trust Models & Management
– Trust Theories
– Trustworthy User Devices

After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in a major security-focused journal. Those papers will undergo at least another review round.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
The proceedings will be published by Springer in the IFIP Advances in ICT Series. All submissions should follow the proper template from the time they are submitted. They should be not more than 12 pages (using 11-point font), including bibliography and
appendices. PC members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English.

Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the conference web site (www.sec2012.org) and following the requirements stated therein.

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early date indicated by the organizers, and
present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: January 10, 2012
Notification to authors: March 1, 2012
Camera-ready version: March 10, 2012

CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR
S. Katsikas, University of Piraeus (GR)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
D. Gritzalis, AUEB (GR)
S. Furnell, Plymouth University (UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
V. Atluri, Rutgers University (US)
J. Biskup, University of Dortmund (DE)
J. Camenisch, IBM Research (CH)
S. De Capitani di Vimercati, U. degli Studi di Milano (IT)
N. Clarke, Plymouth University (UK)
J. Crume, IBM (US)
F. Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne (FR)
N. Cuppens, UEB (FR)
B. de Decker, K.U. Leuven (BE)
G. Dhillon, Virginia C/wealth University (US)
T. Dimitrakos, BT (UK)
R. Dodge, US Military Academy (US)
S. Fischer-Huebner, Karlstadt University (SE)
D. Gollmann, Hamburg Univ. of Technology (DE)
J.-H. Hoepman, TNO & Radboud U. Nijmegen (NL)
T. Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum (DE)
S. Ioannidis, FORTH (GR)
B. Jacobs, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen (NL)
S. Jajodia, George Mason University (US)
L. Janczewski, Univ. of Auckland (NZ)
T. Karygiannis, NIST (US)
V. Katos, University of Thrace (GR)
P. Katsaros, University of Thessaloniki (GR)
S. Katzenbeisser, T.U. Darmstadt (DE)
D. Kesdogan, University of Siegen (DE)
C. Lambrinoudakis, Univ. of Piraeus (GR)
C. Landwehr, Univ. of Maryland (US)
R. E. Leenes, Tilburg University (NL)
J. Lopez, University of Malaga (ES)
E. Markatos, FORTH and Univ. of Crete (GR)
S. Marsh, Communications Research Center (CA)
I. Mavridis, University of Macedonia (GR)
N. Miloslavskaya, National Nuclear Research University (RU)
Y. Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University (JP)
E. Okamoto, Univ. of Tsukuba (JP)
M. Olivier, University of Pretoria (SA)
O. Ouzounis, ENISA (EU)
J. I. Pagter, Alexandra Instituttet, (DK)
M. Papadaki, Plymouth University (UK)
M. Pattinson, University of Adelaide (AU)
P. Peleties, USB Bank (CY)
H. Pohl, UAS Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (DE)
S. Qing, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
M. Rajarajan, City University (UK)
K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt (DE)
C. Rieder, HSW Luzern (CH)
P. Samarati, Univ. degli Studi di Milano (IT)
R. Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University (JP)
I. Schaumuller-Bichl, UAS Hagenberg (AT)
A. K. Seip, Finanstilsynet (NO)
R. von Solms, NMMU (SA)
T. Tryfonas, University of Bristol (UK)
C. Valli, Edith Cowan University (AU)
J. Vyskoc, VaF (SK)
J. Ward, Hewlett Packard (UK)
T. Welzer, Univ. of Maribor (SI)
D. Westhoff, HAW Hamburg (DE)
L. Yngstrom, Univ. of Stockholm (SE)
M. Yung, Google (US)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS & OFFICERS
M. Theoharidou, AUEB (GR)
N. Kyrloglou, ACCI (GR)
S. Foresti, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano (IT)

This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://www.sec2012.org

For information regarding the conference you may contact: info@sec2012.org

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Call For Papers: 5th International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS 2012)

Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin

5th International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS’12)  (http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/pais12/)

In conjunction with EDBT/ICDT 2012

March 30, 2012, Berlin (Germany)

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submission: Monday, December 14, 2011
* Notification to authors: Monday, January 23, 2012
* Camera-ready copy due: Thursday, February 2, 2012
* Workshop date: Friday, March 30, 2012

ABSTRACT
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Organizations collect vast amounts of information on individuals, and at the same time they  have access to ever-increasing levels of computational power. Although this  conjunction of information and power provides great benefits to society, it also threatens  individual privacy. As a result legislators for many countries try to regulate the use and the disclosure of confidential information. Various privacy regulations (such as USA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Canadian Standard Association’s Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, Australian Privacy Amendment Act, etc.) have been enacted in many countries all over the world. Data privacy and protecting individuals’ anonymity have become a mainstream avenue for research. While privacy is a topic discussed everywhere, data anonymity recently established itself as an emerging area of computer science. Its goal is to produce useful computational solutions for releasing data, while providing scientific guarantees that the identities and other sensitive information of the individuals who are the subjects of the data are protected.

The PAIS’12 Workshop will provide an open yet focused platform for researchers and practitioners from computer science and other fields that are interacting with computer science in the privacy area such as statistics, healthcare informatics, and law to discuss and present current research challenges and advances in data privacy and anonymity research. We welcome original research papers that present novel research ideas, position papers that discuss new technology trends and provide new insights into this area, integrative papers that present interdisciplinary research in the privacy area, as well as industry  papers that share practical experiences.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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* Attacks against De-identified Data
* Data Anonymity
* Differential Privacy
* Disclosure Control Techniques
* Disclosure Risk and Information Loss Assessment
* Emerging Privacy Threats
* Financial Privacy
* Genetic Privacy
* Implementing Privacy Regulations
* Integration of Security and Privacy
* Location Anonymity Techniques
* Privacy and Security for Healthcare Data
* Privacy in Social Networks
* Privacy and Security on the Web
* Privacy Implications for National Security
* Privacy Implications of Biometric Technology
* Privacy in Geographic Information Systems
* Privacy in Spatio-Temporal Databases
* Privacy in Statistical Databases
* Privacy Models
* Privacy Ontologies
* Privacy Preserving Data Mining
* Privacy Technologies
* Private Information Retrieval
* Query Execution over Sensitive Data
* Real-life Privacy Solutions
* Statistical Disclosure Control
* Wireless Privacy

WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS
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* Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University, USA
* Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
* Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)
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* Osman Abul, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
* Maurizio Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
* Daniel Barth-Jones, Columbia University, USA
* Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
* Alina Campan, Northern Kentucky University, USA
* Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
* Rinku Devri, Denver University
* Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili , Catalonia
* Benjamin Fung, Concordia University, Canada
* Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland
* William Grosky, University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA
* Wei Jiang, Missouri University, USA
* Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
* Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia
* Jun-Lin Lin, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
* Bradley Malin, Vanderbilt University, USA
* Pierangela Samarati, University of Milano, Italy
* Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
* Jianhua Shao, Cardiff University, UK
* Daniela Stan-Raicu, DePaul University, USA
* Dan Suciu, University of Washington, USA
* Vicenç Torra, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
* Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
* Xintao Wu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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We welcome original research papers that present novel research ideas, position papers that discuss new technology trends and provide new insights into this area, integrative papers that present interdisciplinary research in the privacy area, as well as industry papers that share practical experiences.

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not exceed 10 pages following ACM guidelines. Papers may be accepted for full presentation at the workshop and publication as regular papers (10 pages), or for a short/poster presentation and publication as short papers (5 pages).

Authors shall submit their papers electronically via EasyChair ( https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=pais12 ) before the due date in PDF format. All accepted papers will be published in the online workshop proceedings. The proceedings of all EDBT workshops will also be published in ACM Digital Library.

Following the PAIS 2012 workshop, the authors of selected workshop papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the Transactions on Data Privacy Journal.

At least one author of each paper is expected to participate in the PAIS’12 workshop and present his/her work.

SPONSORS
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The UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/) is offering travel support to participants coming from “transition countries”, which are nations other such as USA, Canada, Western Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc. (other countries may also be excluded at the discretion of the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy). For more information see: http://cscdb.nku.edu/pais/grants.html.

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Call For Papers: Transnational Social Networks (TSN 2012)

Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin

Transnational Social Networks (TSN 2012)

Deadline for submission of proposals
15th January 2012
For the focused topic on “Transnational Social Networks” of the journal “Transnational
Social Review – A Social Work Journal” (TSR) the guest editors (Andreas Herz and Claudia
Olivier) invite submissions of proposal abstracts.

I. Research Interest of the Focused Topic
Research in transnationalism has proliferated in the last twenty years. Transnational studies focus on the border-crossing activities of individuals, migrant groups, corporations and social movements. A central innovation of the concept “transnationalism” depends on a perspective which refers to cross-border relationships and networks (Mau 2010). Relational ideas underly transnational studies from the beginning (Glick Schiller, Basch & Blanc Szanton 1995; Vertovec 2009), because the investigation of social networks helps to understand the crosscutting transfer of ideas, transnational support as well as the formation of opinions and lifestyles beyond nation states. The social network perspective also enables an analysis of how the embeddedness in transnational social relations represents both, constraints and opportunities for social action in reconstructing relational power and dependency conditions. Transnational social networks are organized in different ways, which range from informal contacts to formalized frameworks. They can be studied with methodological approaches ranging from qualitative and ethnographical studies, mixed-methods, to quantitative approaches by using various methods, e.g.social network analysis (SNA). To illustrate the relevance of transnational social networks in social work theoretical or empirical contributions are invited for the third issue on “Transnational Social Networks” of the journal TSR. Contributions should focus on social relations or social structures of individuals’, communities’ or organizations’ interaction that cross nation-state boundaries and are located in more than one national context.
Abstracts are invited for original articles with the following foci:

* Social support
* Social capital
* Interlocking directorates
* Epistemic communities
* Knowledge circulation
* Learning-, educational- and development-processes
* Diffusion, interlinks and power relations

“Transnational Social Networks” can be brought up in the following contexts:
* Migration and mobility
* Family and households
* Development cooperation,
* Science
* Entrepreneurship
* Media
* Labor

II. Concept and Objective of the Journal TSR
“Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal” is a peer reviewed journal and offers an international forum to discuss social work and related disciplines and professions from a transnational perspective. It responds to the challenges resulting from the  increasing impact of transnational social, political, economic, and cultural processes and  structures upon social work. The journal aims at the transnational opening and  development of social work and related fields. Its main objective is to open perspectives for making the concept of transnationalism part of the knowledge structure and practice, in  order to extend and transform the legitimation, concepts, research, and methods which to date are primarily nationally-focused.

III. Frequency and Structure of the Journal TSR
TSR appears twice a year by an international team of editors and board members at Barbara Budrich Publishers in Germany. The journal pursues an interdisciplinary approach and fits the criteria of the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). All articles undergo rigorous peer reviews, based on initial editor screening and anonymous reviews by two or more referees to ensure the high quality of the journal. TSR is available online as well as in print. Its main publishing language is English but the online version offers the option to include versions of the contributions in the language in which they are originally written.
Each issue consists of a cluster of articles on a focused topic as well as general articles and book reviews. The online version additionally includes an open-access section of brief,  up-todate reports on research, teaching, social policies, practices and everyday-life concerning the transnational worlds of social work. The first issue was published in Fall 2011 under the topic “The Transnational Organization of Care”. The second issue deals with “Researching Transnationalism in Social Work” and will appear in Spring 2012. The third issue will focus on “Transnational Social Networks” and will be published in Fall 2012.

IV. Requirements for Submissions
The guest editors welcome the submission of contributions. A proposal, in the form of an
abstract, should be no more than 500 words in length and should address the following:
background of the proposed paper; outline of content; and main discussion points.
For those proposals accepted, the deadline for submission of full articles is 31st March 2012.
The following table contains all deadlines and the time schedule of the focused topic on
“Transnational Social Networks”:
15th January 2012 Submission of proposal abstracts
31st March 2012 Submission of full articles
March and April 2012 Peer Review
Mai and June 2012 Revision of articles, if necessary
15th June 2012 Final submission of publishable articles
October 2012 Publication
Articles are to be up to 8,000 words in length. The authors are responsible for submitting
proof-read and formatted articles. For the manuscript preparation please use the style sheet and the formatting guideline, which are available here: www.tss.uni-mainz.de/103.php

V. Contact
Inquiries and all proposals should be sent to the guest editors of the third focused topic on
“Transnational Social Networks”:
Andreas Herz Claudia Olivier
University of Hildesheim Foundation Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Institute of Social- and Organizational Institute of Education
Paedagogy 55099 Mainz, Germany
31141 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-(0)6131 39-20794
Phone: +49-(0)5121 883-569 Mail: olivier@uni-mainz.de
Mail: andreas.herz@uni-hildesheim.de
Homepage of the Journal TSR: www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/tsr
VI. References
Glick Schiller, N., Basch, L., & Blanc Szanton, C. (1995). From immigrant to transmigrant:
theorizing transnational migration. Anthropology Quarterly, 68, S. 48-63.
Mau, S. (2010). Social Transnationalism. Life worlds Beyond The Nation State. London/ New York: Routledge.
Vertovec, S. (2009). Transnationalism. London: Routledge.

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Call For Papers: 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2012)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2012)

Venue: Porto, Portugal

Event Date: 16-18 April, 2012

SCOPE
CSEDU 2012, the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology-based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers. In particular, the Web is currently a preferred medium for distance learning and the learning practice in this context is usually referred to as e-learning. CSEDU 2012 is expected to give an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in the academic and corporate world.

Conference Areas
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING
2. LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT
3. SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
4. DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES
5. UBIQUITOUS LEARNING

AREA 1: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING

Intelligent Tutoring Systems
e-Learning Hardware and Software
Digital Libraries for e-Learning
Web-based Learning, Wikis and Blogs
e-Learning Platforms, Portals
Authoring Tools and Content Development
Groupware Tools
Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning
Security Aspects
AV-Communication and Multimedia
Ontologies and Meta-Data Standards

AREA 2: LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT

Simulated Communities and Online Mentoring
e-Testing and new Test Theories
Supervising and Managing Student Projects
Pedagogy Enhancement with e-Learning
Educating the Educators
Immersive Learning
Blended Learning
Computer-Aided Assessment
Metrics and Performance Measurement
Assessment Software Tools
Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments

AREA 3: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

Learning Organizations
Teacher Evaluation
Assessment and Accreditation of Courses and Institutions
Course Design and e-Learning Curriculae
Collaborative Learning
Community Building
Lifelong Learning: Continuing Professional Training and Development
Theoretical Bases of e-Learning Environments
International Partnerships in Teaching
Distance and e-Learning in a Global Context
Cooperation with Industry in Teaching
Higher Education vs. Vocational Training

AREA 4: DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES

e-Learning Success Cases
Errors in e-Learning
Critical Success Factors in Distance Learning
e-learning in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Information Engineering
Medical Applications
Interdisciplinary Programs for Distance Education
Impact and Achievements of International Initiatives
Joint Degrees

AREA 5: UBIQUITOUS LEARNING

Mobile Learning (M-learning)
Technology Enhanced Learning
Technology Support for Pervasive Learning
Accessibility to Disabled Users
Virtual Labs and Virtual Classrooms
Distance Education
Context Dependent Learning
Standards and Interoperability

Important Dates

Conference Date: 16 – 18 April, 2012
Regular Paper Submission: November 22, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): January 25, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 14, 2012

Contacts:

CSEDU Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq., 2910-595 Setúbal – Setúbal Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8596
e-mail: csedu.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.csedu.org/

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Call For Papers: Journal of Information Security Research (JISR 2011)

Posted on November 25, 2011 by admin

Journal of Information Security Research (JISR)
ISSN 0976-4143 (Print) ISSN 0976-4151 (Online)

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief:
Victor Ralevich
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Ontario,
Canada

Submissions at: http://www.dline.info/jisr/submission.php
Submission Deadline: Dec 31, 2011
Notification Due: Dec 31, 2011
Final Version Due: Dec 31, 2011

Journal of Information Security Research (JISR) is a peer reviewed scholarly publication of  the DLINE (http://www.dline.info). The journal aims to be an internationally recognized forum attracting authors and audiences from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering original and innovative research contributions in information  systems security and related domains are solicited for submission. The primary focus is on  original, high quality, and unpublished research- and implementation-related contributions. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board of JISR will strive to attract the authors who, in their papers, demonstrate highest level of scientific rigour and provide  assurance of  complete reproducibility of the experimental methods undertaken.

We also encourage submission of papers discussing industrial research and development,  as well as social and legal issues related to information security. Position papers summarizing advancements in the field are also invited. Each volume of JISR will be  published in electronic and printed formats, and will consist of: editorials and  peer-reviewed high quality research and position papers. The JISR is published four times a year, with at least one volume dedicated to some specific topic. The JISR will publish papers in the following themes.

Access Control
Accountability
Anonymity
Applied Cryptography
Assurance of service
Attacks and Viral Software
Authentication and Delegation
Biometrics
Computer crime prevention and detection
Computer forensics
Computer security
Confidentiality protection
Critical infrastructure security issues
Cryptography and data protection
Data hiding
Data Integrity
Database and data security
Digital forensics
Digital rights management
E-commerce security
IS Security Education
e-Health for Public Health
E-surveillance
IS Security and ethics
Formal Security Methods
Fraud detection and prevention
Hacker and terrorist detection
Identity Management
Information ethics
Information privacy issues
Information system security
Information warfare
Internet security
Intrusion tolerance

Review Process

Each paper will be handled by the editor-in-chief, Victor Ralevich, who collects three reviews and makes the decision to (a) accept the paper with minor revisions, (b) accept the paper with major revisions, or (c) reject the paper. The editor-in-chief will communicate  with the author(s) about the decision, and provide reviews. The goal is to provide the first round of reviews within three months of the paper assignment. The authors with papers requesting major revisions should submit the major revisions within one month after they were informed about the decision. Authors who need more time are kindly requested to contact the Editor. The Editor reserves the right to reject a paper if it does not meet the aims and scope of the journal, it is not technically sound, it is not revised satisfactorily, or if it is inadequate in presentation.

Author Guidelines

Authors should upload full original papers in electronic format at the Journal Management Online System (http://www.dline.info/jisr/submission.php). The papers should not be longer than 20-25 pages, single column, double space, 10pt font, including figures, tables and references. If the submitted papers are extensions of existing conference publications, the authors must submit a corresponding letter, specifying clearly what is new in the journal paper and how the submitted paper distinguishes itself from the published conference paper. We require in minimum 25% of new material in such a paper. Any submitted paper must not be fully or partially be submitted to another Journal, Conference, or Workshop! All paper submissions should be ONLY online at http://www.dline.info/jisr/submission.php
Copyright: Authors should transfer the publication rights to the publishers.

Contact: For further information please contact director@dline.info

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