Call For Papers: The 3rd International Confernce on Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC 2012)

Posted on November 1, 2011 by admin

The 3rd International Confernce on Mobile,
Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC 2012)

http://www.ftrai.org/music2012

Vancouver, Canada, 26-28 June 2012

Published by IEEE – Conference Publishing Services (CPS)
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[Important Dates]
Workshop Proposal: October 20, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline: December 15, 2011

[Proceeding]
All accepted regular/full papers will be included in the conference proceedings as IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS), and all accepted and presented papers will be included CSDL and Xplore.

[Special Issues]
All accepted and presented papers in MUSIC 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals: (Pending)
@ The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) – Springer (SCI)
@ Interacting with Computers – Elsevier (SCI) (Pending)
@ International Journal of Computer Mathematics – TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Wireless Personal Communications – Springer (SCIE)
@ Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing – Springer (SCIE)
@ Journal of Internet Technology – Taiwan-NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIV. (SCIE)
@ Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE)
@ Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Cluster Computing – Springer (SCIE)
@ International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing – Inderscience (SCIE)

@ Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
@ International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
@ Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA

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The MUSIC 2012 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of Mobile, Ubiquitous and Intelligent computing. The MUSIC 2012 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of intelligent technologies in mobile and ubiquitous computing environment. In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories, modeling, and practical applications in MUSIC. Furthermore, we expect that the conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

MUSIC 2012 is the next event in a series of highly successful the International Workshop on Multimedia, Communication and Convergence technologies MCC-11 (Crete, Greece, June 2011), MCC-10 (Cebu, Philippines, August 2010).

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Topics (4 Tracks)
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We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Track 1. Mobile Computing
– Tiny Operating systems and Middleware supports
– Peer to Peer Network
– Machine-to-Machine Communications
– Mobile agents
– Mobile system performance
– Wireless communications
– Wireless Body Area Network
– Internet access and mobility
– Trustworthy Internet and communications
– Secured mobile communications
– Mobile data management and processing
– Mobile service management and delivery
– Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
– Algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks
– Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Vehicular Technology
– WiMax / Wi-Fi, UWB, Bluetooth Technology
– Mobility Management
– Modeling and simulation of mobile systems
– Smartphone and mobile devices
– Social networks and computing

Track 2. Ubiquitous Computing
– Ubiquitous Computing and Communications
– Embedded systems and softwares
– Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
– Context modeling and reasoning
– Adaptive and context-aware computing
– Smart object
– Multimodal sensing
– Intelligent platforms
– Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID
– Internet computing and applications
– Parallel/Distributed system
– Grid and cloud computing
– Ad hoc and sensor network
– Human-Computer Interaction
– Human centric computing
– Physical model of UI & SW
– Ethical and psychological factors
– Security and fault tolerance applications
– Ubiquitous database methodologies
– U-learning and E-learning system
– U-Healthcare services
– U-Commerece and E-Commerce

Track 3. Intelligent Computing
– Artificial Intelligence
– Pattern and Speech Recognition
– Fuzzy logic and soft computing
– Neural networks and applications
– Expert systems
– Decision support systems
– Automated problem solving
– Knowledge discovery and representation
– Knowledge acquisition
– Intelligent web-based business
– Intelligent agents and user interface
– Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
– Intelligent information fusion
– Search and meta-heuristics
– Data Warehousing and Data Mining
– Data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
– Robotics and Automation
– Integration of AI with other technologies
– Evaluation of AI tools

Track 4. Intelligent and Mobile Services
– Mobile Multimedia system and services
– Mobile Gaming and entertainment
– Agent technologies in wearable and mobile systems
– Location Based Services
– Bioinformatics
– Ambient Intelligence
– Ubiquitous Application Interfaces
– Smart Home Network Middleware
– Smart Home/building/spaces and Generic Interfaces
– Green IT services
– Semantic Web and Grid Services
– Surveillance System

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Organizing Committee
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== Steering Chair ==
James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea

== General Chair ==
Sang Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

== General Vice Chairs ==
Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Central Police University, Taiwan
Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea

== Program Chairs ==
Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Uyen Trang Nguyen, York University, Canada
Yu Chen, State University of New York – Binghamton, USA

== Program Vice Chairs ==
Track 1. Mobile Computing:
Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan
Shengli Fu, University of North Texas, USA

Track 2. Ubiquitous Computing:
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, NY, USA

Track 3. Intelligent Computing:
Tat-Chee Wan, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Track 4. Intelligent and Mobile Services:
Prakash Veeraraghavan, La Trobe University, Austrailia

== Advisory Committee ==
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Dimitrios G. Stratogiannis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
V. Clincy, Kennesaw State University, USA

== Workshop Chairs ==
Min Choi, Wonkwang University, Korea
Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Kin F. Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Neal Naixue XiongNe, Georgia State University, USA

== Publicity Chairs ==
Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Binod Vaidya, University of Ottawa, Canada
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Bo-Chao Cheng, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA

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Prgram Committee
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Rachid Anane, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Nik Bessis, Derby University, United Kingdom
Wee Siong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Joel Rodrigue, Institute of Telecommunications, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Gyozo Gidofalvi, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rene Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Lidan Shou, Zhejiang University, China
Quanqing Xu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bin Yang, Max Planck institute for Informatics, South Africa
Oliver Amft, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Shu Chen Cheng, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany
Qing Tan, Athabasca University, Canada
Andry Rakotonirainy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
Mohamed Mostafa A. Azim, Faculty of Computer science and Engineering, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Falowo Emmanuel, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Binod Vaidya, Institute of Telecommunications, Portuga
Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Gaoxi Xiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Eric Renault, Institut Telecom — Telecom SudParis, France
Younosuke Furui, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Shao-Shin Hung, CSIE of WuFeng Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Jun Xiao, East China Normal University, China
Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Jin-Hee Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory , USA
Junfeng Li, JAIST, Japan
Kok Seng Wong, Soongsil University, Korea
KuoYuan Hwa, Natinoal Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
FuFang LI, School of Computer Science & Educational Software,Guangzhou University, China
Pramode Verma, The University of Oklahoma, USA
Yared Rami, JAIST, Japan
Song Guo, University of Aizu, Japan
Tzu-Chuen Lu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Xinqing Yan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Wuyi Yue, Konan University, Japan
Yuka Kato, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Xuan Zhang, Network research center, Tsinghua University, Beijing , China

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SUBMISSION and Publicatoions
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There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS).

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.

Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available here:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)

Submission system:
http://www.editorialsystem.net/music2012/track1/
http://www.editorialsystem.net/music2012/track2/
http://www.editorialsystem.net/music2012/track3/
http://www.editorialsystem.net/music2012/track4/

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in MUSIC 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:
– The Journal of Supercomputing – Springer (SCI) (Pending)
– Interacting with Computers – Elsevier (SCI) (Pending)
– International Journal of Computer Mathematics – TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE) (Pending)
– Wireless Personal Communications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
– Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
– Journal of Internet Technology – Taiwan-NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIV. (SCIE) (Pending)
– Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
– Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
– Cluster Computing – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
– International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing – Inderscience (SCIE) (Pending)

– Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
– International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
– Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA

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Important Dates
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Paper Submission deadline : December 15, 2011
Acceptacne Notification : February 28, 2012
Camera-ready Due : March 15, 2012
Registration Due : March 15, 2012
Conference Dates : June 26-28, 2012

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Call for Workshop Proposals

Several workshops will be held in conjunction with MUSIC 2012 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology. Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome.

Please send a workshop proposal by October 20, 2011 to Workshop Co-chair Prof. Min Choi (mchoi@wku.ac.kr).

Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:
If a workshop were organized successfully, the organizer (1 organizer per 1 workshop) will get:
* At least 10 papers registration: Free 1 registration
* At least 20 papers registration: Free 2 registration

== Important Dates ==
October 20, 2011 Workshop Proposal Submission Due
October 31, 2011 Workshop Acceptance Notification
March 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper due
June 26-28, 2012 Workshop/Conference events
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Contact Information
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If you have any question about the CFP and paper submission,
please email to Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (sangsooyeo@gmail.com) or Dr. Seungmin Rho (pc.seungminrho@gmail.com).

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Call For Papers: 18th ACM SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012)

Posted on October 31, 2011 by admin

18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2012)
August 12-16, 2012
Beijing, China

http://www.kdd.org/kdd2012/

Key Dates:
Papers due: February 10, 2012
Acceptance notification: May 4, 2012

Paper submission and reviewing will be handled electronically. Authors should consult the conference Web site for full details regarding paper preparation and submission guidelines.

Papers submitted to KDD 2012 should be original work and substantively different from papers that have been previously published or are under review in a journal or another conference/workshop.

As per KDD tradition, reviews are not double-blind, and author names and affiliations should be listed.

Due to the large number of submissions, papers submitted to the research track will not be considered for publication in the industry/government track and vice-versa. Authors are encouraged to carefully read the conference CFP and choose an appropriate track for their submissions. In case of doubts, authors are encouraged to get in touch with the chairs of the corresponding track at least a week before the submission deadline.

RESEARCH TRACK

We invite submission of papers describing innovative research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining. Examples of topic of interest include (but are not limited to): association analysis, classification and regression methods, semi-supervised learning, clustering, factorization, transfer and multi-task learning, feature selection, social networks, mining of graph data, temporal and spatial data analysis, scalability, privacy, security, visualization, text analysis, Web mining, mining mobile data, recommender systems, bioinformatics, e-commerce, online advertising, anomaly detection, and knowledge discovery from big data, including the data on the cloud. Papers emphasizing theoretical foundations, novel modeling and algorithmic approaches to specific data mining problems in scientific, business, medical, and engineering applications are particularly encouraged. We welcome submissions by authors who are new to the KDD conference, as well as visionary papers on new and emerging topics. Authors are explicitly discouraged from submitting papers that contain only incremental results and that do not provide significant advances over existing approaches. Application oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research are welcome.

Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and repeatable. Authors are strongly encouraged to make data and code publicly available whenever possible.

INDUSTRY & GOVERNMENT TRACK

The Industrial/Government Applications Track solicits papers describing implementations of KDD solutions relevant to industrial or government settings. The primary emphasis is on papers that advance the understanding of practical, applied, or pragmatic issues related to the use of KDD technologies in industry and government and highlight new research challenges arising from attempts to create such real KDD applications. Applications can be in any field including, but not limited to: e-commerce, medical and pharmaceutical, defense, public policy, finance, engineering, environment, manufacturing, telecommunications, and government.

The Industrial/Government Applications Track will consist of competitively-selected contributed papers. Submitters must clearly identify in which of the following three sub-areas their paper should be evaluated as distinct review criteria will be used to evaluate each category of submission.

· Deployed KDD systems that are providing real value to industry, Government, or other organizations or professions. These deployed systems could support ongoing knowledge discovery or could be applications that employ discovered knowledge, or some combination of the two.

· Discoveries of knowledge with demonstrable value to Industry, Government, or other users (e.g., scientific or medical professions). This knowledge must be “externally validated” as interesting and useful; it can not simply be a model that has better performance on some traditional KDD metric such as accuracy or area under the curve.

· Emerging applications and technology that provide insight relevant to the above value propositions. These emerging applications must have clear user interest and support to distinguish them from KDD research papers, or they must provide insight into issues and factors that affect the successful use of KDD technology and methods. Papers that describe infrastructure that enables the large-scale deployment of KDD techniques also are in this area.

ON BEHALF OF THE KDD-2012 ORGANIZERS

Research Program Co-chairs:
· Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Research
· Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University

Industry and Government Program Co-chairs:
· Michael Zeller, Zementis
· Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

General Chair:
· Qiang Yang, HKUST

Associate General Chair
· Dou Shen, CityGrid Media

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Call For Papers: The 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by admin

ICWSM-12
THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
4-8 JUNE 2012: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND

Call for Papers
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Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Technical Paper Submission Site: Available November 1, 2011

Abstracts Due: January 13, 2012
Full Papers Due: January 18, 2012 (by midnight Pacific Time)

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and computational approaches are especially encouraged.

Though this conference is just in its sixth year, it has become one of the premier venues for social scientists and technologists to gather and discuss cutting-edge research in social media. This is largely due to a typical acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in our conference proceedings and support from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

For ICWSM-12, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from
prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on the success of the first workshops program in 2011 and our regular tutorials day, ICWSM-12 will also hold a workshops and tutorials day just before the main conference.

Disciplines
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* Computational linguistics/NLP
* Text mining/data mining
* Psychology
* Sociology (including social network analysis)
* Communication
* Anthropology
* Media studies
* Visualization
* Political science
* Computational social science
* HCI
* Economics
* Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical
models

Media
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* Weblogs, including comments
* Social networking sites
* Microblogs
* Wikis (Wikipedia)
* Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups
* Community media sites (YouTube, Flickr)

Topics Include
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* Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
* Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
* Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
* Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
* Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on blogs and microblogs
* Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
* Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
* Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
* Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
* Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
* Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
* Social innovation and effecting change through social media

Keynotes
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* Andrew Tomkins (Google+)
* More to be announced

Author Submission Account
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Authors must set up an account (or add ICWSM-12 to your list of conferences) at the ICWSM-12 web-based technical paper submission site, which will be available November 1, 2011. Please make a note of your password, as this will allow you to log on to submit
an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are encouraged to set up their account as soon as possible, and well in advance of the January 13, 2012 abstract deadline.

Abstract and Paper Submission
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Electronic abstract submission through the ICWSM-12 paper submission site is required on or preferably before January 13, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Full papers are due via the submission site no later than Monday, January 18, 2012 at midnight PST. We cannot
accept submissions by e-mail or fax. Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts and papers, including a paper number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with papers.

Content Guidelines
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Submissions to other conferences or journals: ICWSM-12 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience. If in doubt please contact the PC Chairs.

If duplicate submissions are identified during the review process then:

* All submissions from that author will be disqualified from the current ICWSM conference;
* And authors will not be permitted to submit papers to the ICWSM conference in the following year.

Format: Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Full papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including references, poster papers must be no longer than 4
pages, and demo descriptions must be no longer than 2 pages, and all must be submitted by the deadlines given above, and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page ). Please note that the formatting and submission instructions at the author site are for final, accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase and no copyright form is required until a paper is accepted for publication.

_Anonymity:_ ICWSM-12 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. Citations to authors’ own prior relevant work should be included, either by not specifying that this is the authors’ own work, or where this is not possible, by anonymizing the citation itself. It is up to the authors’ discretion how much to further modify the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does not extend outside of the review process, e.g. the authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers over the Internet before the program committee meeting. Even in cases where the author’s identity is known to a reviewer, the double blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard to authors’ reputation.

_Language:_ All submissions must be in English.

Conference Registration
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All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. In addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present the paper in person.

Publication
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All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.

Datasets
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This year, for the first time, we will be providing a service for hosting datasets pertaining to research presented at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to
share the datasets on which their papers are based, while adhering to the terms and conditions of the data provider. Of these datasets, one will be selected for an award which will be based on the quality, scope, and timeliness of each dataset. More information will be available on our website.

Conference Website
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http://icwsm.org/

For general information regarding ICWSM-12, please write to
icwsm12@aaai.org.

Committee
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General Chair:

John Breslin, NUI Galway

Programme Chairs:

Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University
James G. Shanahan, Church and Duncan Group Inc.
Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Local Chairs:

Derek Greene, University College Dublin
Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Sponsorship Chair:

Meenakshi Nagarajan, IBM

Data Chairs:

Derek Ruths, McGill University
Ian Soboroff, NIST

Demos Chair:

Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo!

Social Media / Publicity Chair:

Max L. Wilson, Swansea University

Tutorials Chair:

Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute

Workshops Chair:

Sofus Macskassy, USC and Fetch Labs

Regional Chairs:

Americas: Raquel Recuero, Universidade Católica de Pelotas
Asia Pacific: Hideaki Takeda, National Institute for Informatics
Europe: Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institut
Middle East and Africa: Sihem Amer-Yahia, Qatar Computing
Research Institute

Webmaster:

Ritesh Agrawal, AT&T Labs Research

Venue
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Student Awards
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We will be providing an increased number of student awards this
year to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and
registration to the ICWSM-12 conference. Details will be posted
on the conference website.

Important Dates
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Papers / Posters / Demos:

Abstract Submission: January 13, 2012
Full Paper, Poster and Demo Submission: January 18, 2012 (by
midnight Pacific Time)
Notification of Acceptance: February 27, 2012
Camera Ready Due: March 12, 2012
ICWSM-12, Dublin: June 4-8, 2012

Tutorials:

Tutorial Proposal Submission: January 9, 2012
Tutorial Acceptance: January 23, 2012

Workshops:

Workshop Proposal Submission: December 14, 2011
Workshop Acceptance: January 6, 2012
Workshop Paper Submission: March 2, 2012
Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: March 16, 2012
Workshop Paper Final Camera-Ready Copy Due: April 2, 2012

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Call For Papers: IET Information Security – Special Issue on Trust and Identity Management in Mobile and Internet Computing and Communications (IET IS – TrustID 2012)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by admin

 

Trust is typically interpreted as the confidence, belief, and expectation regarding the reliability, integrity and ability of an entity on which we depend, while identity generally consists of a name and a set of attributes used to select and recognize a unique entity within a domain. With the rapid innovation in mobile and Internet computing and communications, there is an exponential growth in the number of entities that we interact with and that we depend on for our welfare. Trust and identity are therefore becoming essential factors for the sustainability of the mobile and Internet computing revolution.

The transfer of the social constructs of trust and reputation into digital and computational concepts help in designing and implementing large scale online markets and communities, and will also play an important role in the converging mobile and Internet environments. Trust management is emerging as a promising technology to facilitate collaboration among entities in environments where traditional security paradigms are insufficient due to incomplete knowledge about remote parties and the lack of centralized control. However, without the proper support of identity management, trust management cannot be practically deployed in real networks. Identity management and trust management rely on each other in complex ways, e.g. through the necessity of correct identification when evaluating trust relationships between entities, and through the need for identity trust in order to achieve dependable search, discovery, recognition and connection. Identity management is also an essential factor for authorization policy definition, authentication, access control, and personalized services.

Current research in trust and identity management still faces a number of challenges with regard to e.g., usability, robustness, privacy, adaptability and scalability. Due to the dynamic constraints of mobile computing environments such as limited computing capacity, restricted user interface for human-device interaction, power management issues, radio signal exposure, network tracking capabilities, and user privacy requirements, all the above challenges are exacerbated.

This special issue in the IET Information Security aims at presenting advanced research results related to trust and identity management in the area of mobile and Internet computing and communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 Models and technologies for trust and identity and their interdependency
 Perspectives, theories and fundamental concepts in trust and identity management
 Standardization for trust and identity
 Scalability, mobility and federation of identity
 Evaluation of trust and reputation
 Robustness of trust, reputation and identity management systems
 Inter-domain trust, reputation and identity management
 Mobile computing trust and identity technologies
 Recommender systems and personalization
 Privacy in mobile and Internet computing and communications
 Applications and case studies of trust and identity management systems
 Challenges and issues for practical deployment of trust and identity management
 Social and psychological issues of trust and identity
 Business issues related to trust and identity
 Human-computer interaction for trust and identity
 Studies in usable trust and identity management

Submissions

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal’s online submission and peer-review systems at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-ifs. Please follow the paper format and instructions given on this website and indicate that the submission is to the special issue ‘TrustID’. Each paper will go through a rigorous peer-review process by at least three international researchers.

Important Dates

Paper submissions due: February 15th, 2012
Notification of decision: April 15th, 2012
Revision due: June 1st, 2012
Acceptance notification: July 15th, 2012
Final version due: August 1st, 2012

Guest Editors

Zheng Yan, XiDian University, China/Aalto University, Finland
Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo, Norway

Contacts:

Please email inquiries concerning this special issue to:
zhengyan.pz@gmail.com;
csgjwang@gmail.com;
robertdeng@smu.edu.sg;
josang@mn.uio.no

Trust is typically interpreted as the confidence, belief, and expectation regarding the reliability, integrity and ability of an entity on which we depend, while identity generally consists of a name and a set of attributes used to select and recognize a unique entity within a domain. With the rapid innovation in mobile and Internet computing and communications, there is an exponential growth in the number of entities that we interact with and that we depend on for our welfare. Trust and identity are therefore becoming essential factors for the sustainability of the mobile and Internet computing revolution.

The transfer of the social constructs of trust and reputation into digital and computational concepts help in designing and implementing large scale online markets and communities, and will also play an important role in the converging mobile and Internet environments. Trust management is emerging as a promising technology to facilitate collaboration among entities in environments where traditional security paradigms are insufficient due to incomplete knowledge about remote parties and the lack of centralized control. However, without the proper support of identity management, trust management cannot be practically deployed in real networks. Identity management and trust management rely on each other in complex ways, e.g. through the necessity of correct identification when evaluating trust relationships between entities, and through the need for identity trust in order to achieve dependable search, discovery, recognition and connection. Identity management is also an essential factor for authorization policy definition, authentication, access control, and personalized services.

Current research in trust and identity management still faces a number of challenges with regard to e.g., usability, robustness, privacy, adaptability and scalability. Due to the dynamic constraints of mobile computing environments such as limited computing capacity, restricted user interface for human-device interaction, power management issues, radio signal exposure, network tracking capabilities, and user privacy requirements, all the above challenges are exacerbated.

This special issue in the IET Information Security aims at presenting advanced research results related to trust and identity management in the area of mobile and Internet computing and communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Models and technologies for trust and identity and their interdependency
* Perspectives, theories and fundamental concepts in trust and identity management
* Standardization for trust and identity
* Scalability, mobility and federation of identity
* Evaluation of trust and reputation
* Robustness of trust, reputation and identity management systems
* Inter-domain trust, reputation and identity management
* Mobile computing trust and identity technologies
* Recommender systems and personalization
* Privacy in mobile and Internet computing and communications
* Applications and case studies of trust and identity management systems
* Challenges and issues for practical deployment of trust and identity management
* Social and psychological issues of trust and identity
* Business issues related to trust and identity
* Human-computer interaction for trust and identity
* Studies in usable trust and identity management

Submissions

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal’s online submission and peer-review systems at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-ifs. Please follow the paper format and instructions given on this website and indicate that the submission is to the special issue ‘TrustID’. Each paper will go through a rigorous peer-review process by at least three international researchers.

Important Dates

Paper submissions due: February 15th, 2012
Notification of decision: April 15th, 2012
Revision due: June 1st, 2012
Acceptance notification: July 15th, 2012
Final version due: August 1st, 2012

Guest Editors

Zheng Yan, XiDian University, China/Aalto University, Finland
Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo, Norway

Contacts:

Please email inquiries concerning this special issue to:
zhengyan.pz@gmail.com;
csgjwang@gmail.com;
robertdeng@smu.edu.sg;
josang@mn.uio.no

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Call For Papers: International Conference on Business Information Systems (ICBIS 2012)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by admin

The VIII. International Conference on Business Information Systems is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Business Information Systems. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Business process management
Semantic business process management
Adaptive and dynamic processes
Supply chain processes
ERP implementations
Integration of data and processes
Collaborative BPM

Ontologies
Creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation of ontologies
Ontologies for enterprise content management
Natural language processing and cognitive science
Semantic integration of heterogeneous semi structured information sources
Interoperability of heterogeneous information systems
Business models for Web information integration and aggregation

Contexts
Location aware and geography centric information systems
Wireless and mobile applications
Multi agent distributed systems
Semantic web personalization
Ambient computing

Content retrieval and filtering
Hidden Web search and crawling
Data integration from Web information sources
Modeling and describing evolving data sources
Adaptive integration of evolving data sources
Information gathering support for knowledge intensive enterprises
Search over semi structural Web sources
Business models for a content

Collaboration
Knowledge based collaboration
Social networks and social wikis
Enterprise mash ups, Enterprise 2.0
Infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.)
Semantic grid
Security in distributed systems
Web based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse

Web services
Service oriented computing (SOA)
Semantic web services
Composition, choreography and orchestration
Open, decentralized self service
Trust and quality of service (QoS)
Service level agreements

Link: http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/paris/icbis/index.php

When Jun 27, 2012 – Jun 29, 2012
Where Paris, France
Submission Deadline Jan 31, 2012
Notification Due Feb 29, 2012
Final Version Due Mar 30, 2012
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Call For Papers: Special Issue on Collaborative usage and development of models and other visualizations (CollabViz 2012)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by admin

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International Journal of e-Collaboration
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on

Collaborative Usage and Development of Models and other Visualizations (CollabViz)
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Guest Editors:
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* Michael Prilla, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
* Alexander Nolte, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
* Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
* Stephan Lukosch, TU Delft, Netherlands
* Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, TU Delft, Netherlands

IJeC editor:
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Ned Kock, Texas A&M International University, USA

Important Dates:
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* Submissions due on January 6, 2012
* Special Issue out in Winter/Spring 2012/2013

Links:
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* IJeC: http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-collaboration-ijec/1090
* Topic of Special Issue: http://www.imtm-iaw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/events/ecscw/index.html.en

Theme and Topics:
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Graphical representations are commonly used tools in many organizations, ranging form process models to conceptual models and mind maps. They are used to support multiple tasks such as software development, design and engineering, process optimization and reengineering, knowledge explication and transfer as well as marketing, strategic development and cooperation planning. These representations should not only be used by single users for special purposes, but rather to support a wide range of users and organizational issues such as shared understanding of work practices. This accounts for their development and their usage for everyday tasks. However, in practice they are hardly used by or available for non-experts – even if they are created collaboratively they still have little impact on actual work in these processes.

Today, we only know little about the interaction of non-expert users with models, that is, how people can make use of them in practice and interact with them. Supporting such interaction needs insights on means for increasing the usage and availability of models after their creation and on suitable tools and modes of interaction with models for people who are not modeling professionals. Also, there is a lack of knowledge on collaborative development of graphical representations, including processes of cooperation and settings for such development. Fostering the collaborative development of models and including non-expert users into this process needs ways to enable users to contribute actively to creation and maintenance, whether they are co-located or dislocated, synchronous or asynchronous in time or possess different levels of expertise in modeling.

This special issue intends to shed light on the collaborative usage and development of graphical representations such as models. For this, we welcome submissions dealing with theoretical frameworks, empirical and case study research as well as applications in the context of this area. Examples of topics for submissions include, but are not limited to the following:

* Designing means and functionality for user interaction with models and visualizations, e.g. contributing to models (formally and informally) and using them in daily work.
* Supporting work and collaboration with models and visualizations, e.g. communicating about models, using them for learning, reflection, documentation or knowledge transfer as well as collaborative design and engineering.
* Supporting collaborative development of models and visualizations, e.g. tools supporting collaborative modeling in collocated and remote settings, typical settings and roles in collaborative modeling.
* The influence of users on models (e.g. collaborative modeling participants’ influence on model outcomes) and the influence of models on users (e.g. users discussing a model and behavior changes)

Additional information:
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Additional information, news, updates and the extended Call for Papers on the Special Issue can be found on the CollabViz website: http://www.imtm-iaw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/events/ecscw/index.html.en

Submission:
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All submissions must be in English, and should represent the original work of the authors. Improved versions of papers previously published in conference proceedings are welcome, provided that no copyright limitations exist. Submissions must be made electronically via e-mail to the guest editors (collabviz@iaw.rub.de). The manuscript should be included as an attachment in MS Word format. Further information on submission format etc. can be found in the extended Call for Papers available from the CollabViz website.

Contact
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The editors of the Special Issue can be contacted via collabviz@iaw.rub.de

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Call For Papers: IEEE Multimedia Special Issue on Social Media as Sensors (IEEE MM SI SMaS 2012)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by admin

SPECIAL ISSUE ON Social Media as Sensors
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA

INTRODUCTION:
Web 2.0 applications and social media have transformed the Web into an interactive sharing platform where users upload data and media, comment on and share this content within their social circles. Each content item is associated with an abundance of metadata and related information such as location, tags, comments, favourites, access patterns and logs etc. At the same time all this information is implicitly or explicitly interconnected based on various properties such as social links between users, groups, communities, etc. These properties transform social media to data sources of an extremely dynamic nature that reflect topics of interests, events, and the evolution of community opinion and focus. Social media offer a unique opportunity to structure and extract information and to benefit multiple areas ranging from computer vision to sociology and marketing.

SCOPE:
This special issue targets a mixed audience of researchers from several communities, i.e. computer vision, multimedia analysis, data mining, machine learning, information extraction, social networks, complex systems, and information retrieval. The emphasis of the special issue is on recognition, discovery, and detection of topics and real-world events, as well as on monitoring and prediction of trends and events using social media sites as sensors. Both theoretical contributions and applications  validated on larges-cale social media datasets are welcome.

TOPICS:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

– Scalable and multimodal social media analysis
– (Near) real-time social media analysis
– Data mining and knowledge extraction from social media
– Community detection and clustering in social media
– Spatio-temporal analysis for event discovery and detection
– Social media applications for prediction and monitoring
– Behaviour analysis in social media
– Analysis of world events from social media streams
– Social media systems applied to political analysis, emergency management, and news generation
– Social media as a source for sensing reality
– Social media enabled applications (e.g. tourism, augmented reality, e-participation, etc)
– Other applications of social media as sensors

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not  appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at (http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia guidelines for authors (please visit: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/tmm/author_info.html).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions deadline: 16-Aug-2012
First notification: 1-Nov-2012
Revised manuscript: 30-Jan-2013
Final Manuscript: 15-Apr-2013
Notification of acceptance: 15-Mar-2013
Publication date: August 2013

GUEST EDITORS:
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) , Switzerland
Jiebo Luo, University of Rochester, US
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia

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Call for Papers: The Fourth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer computing and Online Social networking (HotPOST 2012)

Posted on October 25, 2011 by admin

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems and applications are widely used in today’s Internet and produce the most significant portion of its traffic. The increasing penetration of wireless technologies, the popularity of mobile and handheld devices, and the rapid growth of their user base call for innovative algorithms, protocols, and applications that benefit from infrastructure-less P2P technologies to support ever-increasing demand.

Following the success of the predecessor of HotPOST; P2PNet’09 in St.-Petersburg and P2PNet’10 in Shanghai, we further expand the scope of this workshop by including online social networks (OSNs) as well since 2011. By attracting more than half a billion users worldwide, OSNs are a new venue of innovation with many challenging and practical research problems. In particular, more and more P2P applications involve social information to enhance the user experience. Also, P2P based solutions play an important role in preventing OSN from privacy violations.

As an ICDCS’12 workshop, HotPOST’12 is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers working on the intersection of both topics to present and discuss their latest research results and ideas, thereby promoting the development and evolution of this area. All submissions on P2P and OSN related to architecture, design, implementation, simulation, analysis and measurement are welcomed. We highly encourage novel and innovative previously unpublished work, even reporting work in early stage.

Topics include but are not limited to:
– Social network analysis for P2P and distributed computing systems
– OSN-based systems and designs
– P2P-based social networking architectures
– P2P-based solutions to cloud computing and data center problems
– Evolution of P2P communities and systems
– Reputation, security, incentives, and economics in P2P systems
– Mobile P2P and social networking systems
– P2P overlays, file sharing, and streaming systems
– User behavior analysis and modeling in OSNs
– Security and privacy in OSNs
– Evolutions and dynamics of OSNs and their implications
– Decentralized OSN Applications
– Social graph analysis

Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of P2P/OSN. Papers must be submitted electronically in EasyChair. The maximum size of papers should be 6 pages including tables and figures. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author’s e-mail and postal address. Each submission will receive at least three independent blind reviews from the TPC. At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present their work at the workshop.

Contact Information

yebl@nju.edu.cn

Link: http://hotpost.info/

When Jun 21, 2011 – Jun 21, 2011
Where Macau, China
Submission Deadline Jan 31, 2012
Notification Due Mar 1, 2012
Final Version Due Mar 14, 2012
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Call For Papers: Academeia: Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewed Journal (Academeia 2012)

Posted on October 24, 2011 by admin

Akademeia is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that provides its services to authors and readers free of charge. We are currently accepting submissions from the sciences and liberal arts. Prospective authors should consult the most recent Guide For Authors, available on our website, www.akademeia.ca. All submissions (either in the form of research articles, essays, literature, hypotheses, canvas, or reviews) are subjected to double-blinded peer review.

Link: http://www.akademeia.ca

Submit for next issue by 05-31-12

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Call for Chapter Proposals: MTAP Special Issue on Multimedia on the Web (MTAP SI MW 2011)

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

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***** Special Issue on “Multimedia on the Web” *****

of the Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) Journal, Springer.

*** DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION November 15, 2011 ***
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Special Issue Description
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Streaming video has recently surpassed peer-to-peer networks in terms of network capacity hunger. Reports estimate a share of 40% of peak network capacity dedicated to entertainment, mostly streaming video. A large share of this traffic originates from web based services. YouTube alone takes up to 8% of the prime time internet traffic. So  multimedia on the web is currently a big issue. While transmission currently works in a best effort system, multimedia information systems on the web are far from being perfect. Retrieval, annotation, validated and useful metadata, reliable and trusted services, and user interaction and context-based adaptation are still under discussion and allow improvement. Currently, the Web itself faces dramatic changes, looking for example at the spread of social networks, Linked Data or the impact of HTML5 or WebM. These activities also have a deep effect on multimedia data and content provider. This special issue shall collect high quality papers from applied and basic research as well as applications for multimedia on the web.

Topics
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Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

O Annotation of multimedia for the Web
O Multimedia databases and metadata models
O Multimedia & metadata adaptation
O Multimedia in the Social Web
O Multimedia & Linked Data
O Multimedia user communities
O Multimedia semantics & ontologies for the Web
O Proactive delivery and recommender systems
O Semantic multimedia information services
O User interaction & context
O Web based emergence and self-organization
O Web based multimedia search and retrieval

Paper Submission, Review, and Publication
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All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by Multimedia Tools and Applications (http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042).
Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/ choosing “Multimedia on the Web” as article type, no later than November 15, 2011.

Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author’s contact,
abstract, and keywords) should also be sent to the corresponding editor Prof. Harald Kosch
(harald.kosch (at) uni-passau.de). All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the MTAP
reviewing procedures.

In submitting a manuscript to this special issue, the authors acknowledge that no paper
substantially similar in content has been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Contact
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For any requests, please contact: chairs[at]mmweb2011[dot]org

Guest Editors
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Harald Kosch & Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, Germany
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Ralf Klamma , RWTH Aachen, Germany
Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria

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