Call For Papers: ACM Multimedia Systems 2012 (MMSys 2012)Call For Papers: ACM Multimedia Systems 2012 (MMSys 2012)

Posted on August 9, 2011 by admin

The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers,  and scientist to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems is regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to view the intersections and interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types. Furthermore, MMSys provides an avenue for communicating research that addresses multimedia systems holistically.

At MMSys 2012, papers that investigate research questions concerning MPEG DASH will be fully integrated into the main MMSys conference from 2012. Highly appreciated program points such as the data set track of MMSys 2011 will of course also return for MMSys 2012.

Link: http://www.mmsys.org/?q=node/49

When Feb 22, 2012 – Feb 24, 2012
Where Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Submission Deadline Sep 19, 2011
Notification Due Nov 1, 2011
Final Version Due Dec 15, 2011

The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers,  and scientist to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems is regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to view the intersections and interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types. Furthermore, MMSys provides an avenue for communicating research that addresses multimedia systems holistically.

At MMSys 2012, papers that investigate research questions concerning MPEG DASH will be fully integrated into the main MMSys conference from 2012. Highly appreciated program points such as the data set track of MMSys 2011 will of course also return for MMSys 2012.

Link: http://www.mmsys.org/?q=node/49

When Feb 22, 2012 – Feb 24, 2012
Where Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Submission Deadline Sep 19, 2011
Notification Due Nov 1, 2011
Final Version Due Dec 15, 2011
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Call For Papers: The 2011 International Workshop on Web and Multimedia Services (WMS 2011)Call For Papers: The 2011 International Workshop on Web and Multimedia Services (WMS 2011)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by admin

The 2011 International Workshop on Web and Multimedia Services (WMS-11)

Link: http://web.ftrai.org/wms2011

December 12 – 15, 2011, Jeju, Korea
———————————————————————————————–

Important Dates

Paper submission due: August 20, 2011

[Proceedings]
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes
in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

[Special Issues]
Distinguished papers accepted and presented in WMS-11, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

– International Journal of Web and Grid Services(IJWGS)- Inderscience (SCIE)
– Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE)
– International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
– Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA Publishing
– Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
– Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) – KIPS (KCIE)

OVERVIEW

With the popularity of multimedia data on the web, efficiently accessing and
managing the explosively growing multimedia content from large-scale web
archives and multimedia database has become essential.
During the last decades, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to
automatic multimedia analysis and processing, such as acquisition, generation,
storage, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information.
However, despite these techniques already provide promising results, there
are still several key difficulties such as semantic gap and user gap in
multimedia analysis/processing and annotation/tagging, respectively.

This workshop is calling for papers that investigate the emerging research
challenges in the field of multimedia and web which could be helped by reducing
the semantic and user gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia
and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media.
Semantic web and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to submit
their research papers which are related to the following topics
(but are not limited to).

TOPICS (included, but are not limited to):

* Artificial intelligence in multimedia
* Collective intelligence in multimedia
* HCI in multimedia
* Machine learning in multimedia
* Multimedia applications
* Multimedia content analysis
* Multimedia mining
* Multimedia networking
* Multimedia ontology
* Multimedia Processing
* Multimedia retrieval
* Multimedia security
* Pattern recognition in multimedia
* Semantic multimedia
* Semantic web
* Service-oriented computing
* Social networks
* Web services
* Web mining
* Smart devices and the web
* Data and content management on the web

Organizing Committee

**General Chair**
Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea

**General Co-Chair**
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA

**Program Chairs**
Younggap Kim, Korea University, Korea
Marco Bertini, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany

Program Committee (TBA)

Andrew D. Bagdanov, Computer Vision Centre, Spain
Stefano Berretti, University of Florence, Italy
Arianna D’Ulizia, National Research Council, IRPPS, Rome, Italy
Chandratilak De Silva LIYANAGE, University of Brunei Darussalam, New Zealand
Chris Poppe, Ghent University, Belgium
Anne Verroust, INRIA, France
Jungong Han, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Christoph Rensing, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, India
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Datchakorn Tancharoen, Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology, Thailand
Wonsuk Lee, ETRI, Korea
Gamhewage C. de Silva, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Sumon Shahriar, University of South Australia, Australia
Namunu C. Maddage, RMIT University, Australia
Benjamin Bustos, University of Chile, Chile
Vasek Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Thi Lan Le, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam
Sergio Escalera (Dr.), University of Barcelona, Spain
XiaoHui Liu , University of Brunel, UK
Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Ali Salah, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Soocheol Lee, Korea Intellectual Property Office, Korea
Philip Azariadis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Lasse Lehmann, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Pradeep Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, Canada
Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, TELECOM Lille1 / LIFL, France
Bartosz Ziolko, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland
Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University, UK
Ramanathan Subramanian, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Francisco Perales, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due: August 20, 2011
Author Notification: September 10, 2011
Camera Ready Due: September 25, 2011
Conference Dates: December 12 – 15, 2011

Paper Submission and Publication

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 Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) – Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

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)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Instructions for papers in the Springer’s LNEE Note that the paper format of LNEE is the same as that of LNCS.

– Prepare your paper in the exact format as the sample paper for LNEE. Failure to do so may result in the exclusion of your paper from the proceedings. Please read the authors’ instructions carefully before preparing your papers.
– Springer accepts both Microsoft Word and LaTex format in the Lecture Note Series. However, FTRA does not accept the use of LaTex. Therefore, you should use the Microsoft Word instead of using LaTex (The paper will be excluded from the proceeding if you use LaTex). Springer provides the relevant templates and sample files for both PC (sv-lncs.dot) and Mac (sv-lncs) environments.
– Please download word.zip (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-72919-0). If you need more help on preparing your papers, please visit Springer’s LNCS web page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0).

Submission system: http://www.editorialsystem.net/wms2011

Special Issues

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in WMS-11, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:
– International Journal of Web and Grid Services(IJWGS)- Inderscience (SCIE)
– Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE)
– International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
– Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA Publishing
– Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
– Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) – KIPS (KCIE)

Contact Information

If you have any question about the CFPs and papers submission,
please email to Dr. Seungmin Rho (pc.seungminrho@gmail.com).The 2011 International Workshop on Web and Multimedia Services (WMS-11)

Link: http://web.ftrai.org/wms2011

December 12 – 15, 2011, Jeju, Korea
———————————————————————————————–

Important Dates

Paper submission due: August 20, 2011

[Proceedings]
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes
in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

[Special Issues]
Distinguished papers accepted and presented in WMS-11, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

– International Journal of Web and Grid Services(IJWGS)- Inderscience (SCIE)
– Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE)
– International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
– Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA Publishing
– Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
– Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) – KIPS (KCIE)

OVERVIEW

With the popularity of multimedia data on the web, efficiently accessing and
managing the explosively growing multimedia content from large-scale web
archives and multimedia database has become essential.
During the last decades, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to
automatic multimedia analysis and processing, such as acquisition, generation,
storage, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information.
However, despite these techniques already provide promising results, there
are still several key difficulties such as semantic gap and user gap in
multimedia analysis/processing and annotation/tagging, respectively.

This workshop is calling for papers that investigate the emerging research
challenges in the field of multimedia and web which could be helped by reducing
the semantic and user gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia
and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media.
Semantic web and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to submit
their research papers which are related to the following topics
(but are not limited to).

TOPICS (included, but are not limited to):

* Artificial intelligence in multimedia
* Collective intelligence in multimedia
* HCI in multimedia
* Machine learning in multimedia
* Multimedia applications
* Multimedia content analysis
* Multimedia mining
* Multimedia networking
* Multimedia ontology
* Multimedia Processing
* Multimedia retrieval
* Multimedia security
* Pattern recognition in multimedia
* Semantic multimedia
* Semantic web
* Service-oriented computing
* Social networks
* Web services
* Web mining
* Smart devices and the web
* Data and content management on the web

Organizing Committee

**General Chair**
Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea

**General Co-Chair**
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA

**Program Chairs**
Younggap Kim, Korea University, Korea
Marco Bertini, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany

Program Committee (TBA)

Andrew D. Bagdanov, Computer Vision Centre, Spain
Stefano Berretti, University of Florence, Italy
Arianna D’Ulizia, National Research Council, IRPPS, Rome, Italy
Chandratilak De Silva LIYANAGE, University of Brunei Darussalam, New Zealand
Chris Poppe, Ghent University, Belgium
Anne Verroust, INRIA, France
Jungong Han, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Christoph Rensing, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, India
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Datchakorn Tancharoen, Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology, Thailand
Wonsuk Lee, ETRI, Korea
Gamhewage C. de Silva, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Sumon Shahriar, University of South Australia, Australia
Namunu C. Maddage, RMIT University, Australia
Benjamin Bustos, University of Chile, Chile
Vasek Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Thi Lan Le, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam
Sergio Escalera (Dr.), University of Barcelona, Spain
XiaoHui Liu , University of Brunel, UK
Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Ali Salah, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Soocheol Lee, Korea Intellectual Property Office, Korea
Philip Azariadis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Lasse Lehmann, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Pradeep Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, Canada
Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, TELECOM Lille1 / LIFL, France
Bartosz Ziolko, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland
Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University, UK
Ramanathan Subramanian, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Francisco Perales, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due: August 20, 2011
Author Notification: September 10, 2011
Camera Ready Due: September 25, 2011
Conference Dates: December 12 – 15, 2011

Paper Submission and Publication

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 Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) – Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

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)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Instructions for papers in the Springer’s LNEE Note that the paper format of LNEE is the same as that of LNCS.

– Prepare your paper in the exact format as the sample paper for LNEE. Failure to do so may result in the exclusion of your paper from the proceedings. Please read the authors’ instructions carefully before preparing your papers.
– Springer accepts both Microsoft Word and LaTex format in the Lecture Note Series. However, FTRA does not accept the use of LaTex. Therefore, you should use the Microsoft Word instead of using LaTex (The paper will be excluded from the proceeding if you use LaTex). Springer provides the relevant templates and sample files for both PC (sv-lncs.dot) and Mac (sv-lncs) environments.
– Please download word.zip (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-72919-0). If you need more help on preparing your papers, please visit Springer’s LNCS web page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0).

Submission system: http://www.editorialsystem.net/wms2011

Special Issues

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in WMS-11, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:
– International Journal of Web and Grid Services(IJWGS)- Inderscience (SCIE)
– Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE)
– International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
– Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA Publishing
– Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
– Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) – KIPS (KCIE)

Contact Information

If you have any question about the CFPs and papers submission,
please email to Dr. Seungmin Rho (pc.seungminrho@gmail.com).

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Call For Papers: The 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2012)Call For Papers: The 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2012)

Posted on August 4, 2011 by admin

The 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

W4A 2012 (use #w4a12)

Co-Located with the 21th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2012
in Lyon, France, 16-17 April 2012

Link: http://www.w4a.info/2012/

====================================================================

‘The Web of Data and Web Accessibility’

Topics and Content
————————————-
The World Wide Web has changed the way we search, access, consume and produce information. While existing superficial content allows us to browse and interact with the Web, we are far from taking full advantage of it. Laying beneath the surface of the Web there are a number of phenomena such as trends and patterns in information structure and in user behaviour that do shape the way we communicate, consume and browse. As far as accessibility is concerned, Web content plays a central role in an ecosystem where user agents, authoring tools, crowd-sourcing frameworks and testing tools determine how  ccessible is the Web. As these components are moving to the cloud, their mere activity and interplay produces large amounts of data. For instance, thousands of testing reports are  being generated every day by automatic tools and auditors. Moreover, crowd-sourcing tools are facilitating a myriad of accessibility fixes and providing guidance to users.

In parallel, announcements made by UK and US governments, amongst others, to make public data available are contributing to adding enormous amounts of data to the Web. While some of these data repositories consist of raw data, some other are explicitly structured and semantically annotated set of documents. However, users still find it difficult to access to these data mainly because of information overload and access barriers. So even if the major goal of Open Government initiatives is to foster transparency, the reality is that citizens struggle to access.

So we can find data produced by the accessibility ecosystem -users and tools- and  intentionally uploaded data. The former, if adequately exploited, can yield invaluable knowledge to better understand web accessibility as a phenomenon. The latter provide us mechanisms to arrange these data on the web so that they are accessible for machines although not for humans.

As a result, topics of interests include
(but are not limited to):

* Intelligent processing of the massively produced reports by accessibility testing tools.
* Web mining and AI techniques for accessibility testing and repairing.
* Usage patterns of accessibility tools on the cloud.
* How to use data produced by means of crowd-sourcing accessibility fixes.
* How data produced while interacting and traversing the Web can improve accessibility.
* How to create user profiles from log data.
* The characterization of the Web at a macro and micro-scale.
* Accessibility of Linked Data repositories.
* Using Linked Data to better organise knowledge on Web accessibility.
* Web authoring guidelines and tools
* Mobile accessibility
* User modeling and the adaptive web
* Adaptation and transformation of existing Web content
* Design and best practice to support Web accessibility
* Technological advances to support Web accessibility
* End user tools
* Accessibility guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools
* Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios
* Innovative techniques to support accessibility
* Universally accessible graphical design approaches
* Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation

Microsoft Web Accessibility Challenge
————————————-
Sponsored by Microsoft since 2008, the “Web Accessibility Challenge” is organised to give an opportunity to researchers and developers of  advanced Web accessibility technologies for showcasing their technologies to technical leaders in this area not only from academia and industry but also from end-users.

Submission
————————————-
We will accept position and technical papers, and short communications. Position papers should only be submitted as a communication of (up to 4-pages) whereas technical papers should be in full paper format (up to 10-pages). The official language of the Conference is
English.

Submission details are available at:
http://www.w4a.info/2012/submissions

Important Dates
————————————-
All Submissions Close (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time)
04-Feb-2012

Author Rebuttal Period Ends (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time)
18-Feb-2012

All Decisions
28-Feb-2012

All Final Versions
16-Mar-2012

More details: http://www.w4a.info/2012/submissions/important-dates

General Chairs
————————————-
Julio Abascal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Markel Vigo, University of Manchester, UK

Programme Chairs
————————————-
Rui Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Paola Salomoni, University of Bologna, Italy

Challenge Chairs
————————————-
Jeffrey Bigham, University of Rochester, USA
Eugene Bodorin, SUNY, USA

Google Student Award
————————————-
Anna Cavender, Google
Shari Trewin, IBM Research

Special Issue
————————————-
Chieko Asakawa, IBM Japan
Hironobu Takagi, IBM Japan

Publications
————————————-
Accepted papers and communications will appear in the Conference proceedings contained on the Conference CD, and will also be accessible to the general public via the ACM Digital Library website. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in a journal to be announced.

W4A stats
————————————-
As of July 2011 average downloads per article at the ACM Digital Library is 387 and average citations per article 2.43. To see the stats check the ACM Digital Library site for the W4A conference at http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE143

W4A on the Web
————————————-
http://www.w4a.info
http://www.w4a.info/updates.xml (RSS/ATOM News Feed)

DON’T BE DETERRED!
While ‘The Web of Data’ is this years theme, please don’t be deterred if this somewhat unique area is not yours. We would like to see all quality work on Web Accessibility regardless of the particular field within accessibility. The overriding reason for a paper being accepted is its high quality in relation to the broad area of Web Accessibility.The 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

W4A 2012 (use #w4a12)

Co-Located with the 21th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2012
in Lyon, France, 16-17 April 2012

Link: http://www.w4a.info/2012/

====================================================================

‘The Web of Data and Web Accessibility’

Topics and Content
————————————-
The World Wide Web has changed the way we search, access, consume and produce information. While existing superficial content allows us to browse and interact with the Web, we are far from taking full advantage of it. Laying beneath the surface of the Web there are a number of phenomena such as trends and patterns in information structure and in user behaviour that do shape the way we communicate, consume and browse. As far as accessibility is concerned, Web content plays a central role in an ecosystem where user agents, authoring tools, crowd-sourcing frameworks and testing tools determine how  ccessible is the Web. As these components are moving to the cloud, their mere activity and interplay produces large amounts of data. For instance, thousands of testing reports are  being generated every day by automatic tools and auditors. Moreover, crowd-sourcing tools are facilitating a myriad of accessibility fixes and providing guidance to users.

In parallel, announcements made by UK and US governments, amongst others, to make public data available are contributing to adding enormous amounts of data to the Web. While some of these data repositories consist of raw data, some other are explicitly structured and semantically annotated set of documents. However, users still find it difficult to access to these data mainly because of information overload and access barriers. So even if the major goal of Open Government initiatives is to foster transparency, the reality is that citizens struggle to access.

So we can find data produced by the accessibility ecosystem -users and tools- and  intentionally uploaded data. The former, if adequately exploited, can yield invaluable knowledge to better understand web accessibility as a phenomenon. The latter provide us mechanisms to arrange these data on the web so that they are accessible for machines although not for humans.

As a result, topics of interests include
(but are not limited to):

* Intelligent processing of the massively produced reports by accessibility testing tools.
* Web mining and AI techniques for accessibility testing and repairing.
* Usage patterns of accessibility tools on the cloud.
* How to use data produced by means of crowd-sourcing accessibility fixes.
* How data produced while interacting and traversing the Web can improve accessibility.
* How to create user profiles from log data.
* The characterization of the Web at a macro and micro-scale.
* Accessibility of Linked Data repositories.
* Using Linked Data to better organise knowledge on Web accessibility.
* Web authoring guidelines and tools
* Mobile accessibility
* User modeling and the adaptive web
* Adaptation and transformation of existing Web content
* Design and best practice to support Web accessibility
* Technological advances to support Web accessibility
* End user tools
* Accessibility guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools
* Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios
* Innovative techniques to support accessibility
* Universally accessible graphical design approaches
* Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation

Microsoft Web Accessibility Challenge
————————————-
Sponsored by Microsoft since 2008, the “Web Accessibility Challenge” is organised to give an opportunity to researchers and developers of  advanced Web accessibility technologies for showcasing their technologies to technical leaders in this area not only from academia and industry but also from end-users.

Submission
————————————-
We will accept position and technical papers, and short communications. Position papers should only be submitted as a communication of (up to 4-pages) whereas technical papers should be in full paper format (up to 10-pages). The official language of the Conference is
English.

Submission details are available at:
http://www.w4a.info/2012/submissions

Important Dates
————————————-
All Submissions Close (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time)
04-Feb-2012

Author Rebuttal Period Ends (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time)
18-Feb-2012

All Decisions
28-Feb-2012

All Final Versions
16-Mar-2012

More details: http://www.w4a.info/2012/submissions/important-dates

General Chairs
————————————-
Julio Abascal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Markel Vigo, University of Manchester, UK

Programme Chairs
————————————-
Rui Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Paola Salomoni, University of Bologna, Italy

Challenge Chairs
————————————-
Jeffrey Bigham, University of Rochester, USA
Eugene Bodorin, SUNY, USA

Google Student Award
————————————-
Anna Cavender, Google
Shari Trewin, IBM Research

Special Issue
————————————-
Chieko Asakawa, IBM Japan
Hironobu Takagi, IBM Japan

Publications
————————————-
Accepted papers and communications will appear in the Conference proceedings contained on the Conference CD, and will also be accessible to the general public via the ACM Digital Library website. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in a journal to be announced.

W4A stats
————————————-
As of July 2011 average downloads per article at the ACM Digital Library is 387 and average citations per article 2.43. To see the stats check the ACM Digital Library site for the W4A conference at http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE143

W4A on the Web
————————————-
http://www.w4a.info
http://www.w4a.info/updates.xml (RSS/ATOM News Feed)

DON’T BE DETERRED!
While ‘The Web of Data’ is this years theme, please don’t be deterred if this somewhat unique area is not yours. We would like to see all quality work on Web Accessibility regardless of the particular field within accessibility. The overriding reason for a paper being accepted is its high quality in relation to the broad area of Web Accessibility.

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Call For Papers: The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2012)Call For Papers: The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2012)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by admin

The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference
11th-13th, April, Kunming, China

Link:http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/apweb2012/apweb.html

APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou (2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011).
APWeb2012 includes but is not limited to the following areas:
o Advanced application of databases
o Content management
o Data caching
o Data mining and knowledge discovery
o Data and information quality Control
o Data grid
o Data migration and integration
o Deep Web
o Digital libraries
o Distributed and parallel Processing
o Grid computing
o Emerging Web techniques
o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
o Information retrieval
o Information security
o Location-based services
o Mobile computing and data management
o Multidimensional databases and OLAP
o Multimedia information systems
o Parallel and distributed database systems
o Peer-to-peer systems
o Performance and benchmarking
o Query processing and optimization
o Semantic web and web ontology
o Security, privacy and trust
o Sensor networks
o Service-oriented computing
o Spatial and temporal databases
o Stream data processing
o Storage management and access methods
o Web-based collaboration
o Web-based database integration
o Web community analysis
o Web mining
o Web search and meta-search
o Web service and information management
o Workflow and E-services
o XML and semi-structured query processing

PAPER SUBMISSION

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/APWEB2012
APWeb2012 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Paper submission will be electronic through the APWeb12 Web site. Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and may not exceed 12 pages.

Full paper due: Nov. 15, 2011
Acceptance notification: December 15, 2011
Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2012
Workshop Proposals: Aug.30, 2011
Panel/Tutorial Proposals: December 5, 2011

Conference Organization

Honorary General Chair

Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University

General Co-Chairs
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University
Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Tokyo University

Program Co-Chairs
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University

Workshop and Tutorial chairs
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University

Local arrangement chairs
Jianfeng HE, Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technology

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University

Publication Chair
Guandong Xu, Victoria University

Publicity Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University

Keynote Speech
* Professor Vijay Varadharajan ?C Macquarie University, Australia
* Prof. Z. Meral ?zsoyo?lu, Case Western Reserve University, U. S. A
PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval).

One special issue on World Wide Web Journal will be organized based on the accepted paper of APweb2012. (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280)

WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
In addition to technical contributions, APWeb12 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb2012 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb2012 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb2012@gmail.com.The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference
11th-13th, April, Kunming, China

Link:http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/apweb2012/apweb.html

APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou (2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011).
APWeb2012 includes but is not limited to the following areas:
o Advanced application of databases
o Content management
o Data caching
o Data mining and knowledge discovery
o Data and information quality Control
o Data grid
o Data migration and integration
o Deep Web
o Digital libraries
o Distributed and parallel Processing
o Grid computing
o Emerging Web techniques
o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
o Information retrieval
o Information security
o Location-based services
o Mobile computing and data management
o Multidimensional databases and OLAP
o Multimedia information systems
o Parallel and distributed database systems
o Peer-to-peer systems
o Performance and benchmarking
o Query processing and optimization
o Semantic web and web ontology
o Security, privacy and trust
o Sensor networks
o Service-oriented computing
o Spatial and temporal databases
o Stream data processing
o Storage management and access methods
o Web-based collaboration
o Web-based database integration
o Web community analysis
o Web mining
o Web search and meta-search
o Web service and information management
o Workflow and E-services
o XML and semi-structured query processing

PAPER SUBMISSION

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/APWEB2012
APWeb2012 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Paper submission will be electronic through the APWeb12 Web site. Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and may not exceed 12 pages.

Full paper due: Nov. 15, 2011
Acceptance notification: December 15, 2011
Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2012
Workshop Proposals: Aug.30, 2011
Panel/Tutorial Proposals: December 5, 2011

Conference Organization

Honorary General Chair

Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University

General Co-Chairs
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University
Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Tokyo University

Program Co-Chairs
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University

Workshop and Tutorial chairs
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University

Local arrangement chairs
Jianfeng HE, Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technology

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University

Publication Chair
Guandong Xu, Victoria University

Publicity Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University

Keynote Speech
* Professor Vijay Varadharajan ?C Macquarie University, Australia
* Prof. Z. Meral ?zsoyo?lu, Case Western Reserve University, U. S. A
PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval).

One special issue on World Wide Web Journal will be organized based on the accepted paper of APweb2012. (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280)

WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
In addition to technical contributions, APWeb12 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb2012 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb2012 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb2012@gmail.com.

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Call For Papers: IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science And Informatio System (MCCSIS 2012)Call For Papers: IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science And Informatio System (MCCSIS 2012)

Posted on July 29, 2011 by admin

The World Wide Web has migrated from information space into opportunities for social communication. Social Media are growing rapidly and play an increasingly important role in the development of Online Communities. They are all about identity, reputation, presence and relationships. Web based communities announce themselves both in your professional and private life through several new media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, etc. In order to keep you up to date with the pace of these new technological developments this IADIS
Conference offers a dedicated overview and informative discussion on today’s most relevant issues in new media for social life on the web.

Social Media are growing rapidly and play an increasingly important role in the development of Online Communities. Social Network Sites and Web-based communities announce themselves both in your professional and private life through new media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, etc. Social media allow more dynamic roles in participation, virtual presence and online communities. These new ways to communicate via online social media have great societal effects and are motivating the creation of best practices to help individuals, corporations and authorities to make the best of it. It raises the awareness of the growing impact of social media and the influence of web based communities in today’s users / consumers behavior; many organizations spend an increasing share of their budget in online social marketing strategies.
The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities, while helping to disseminate and understand the latest developments social media and their impact.

Link:www.webcommunities-conf.org/2012/cfp.asp

Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and a CD-ROM with ISBN. The better papers will be candidate for the “International Journal of Web Based Communities” (IJWBC); ISSN: 1477 – 8394 [4 issues per year]

Topics of submission/Subject indications (but not limited to):

The History, Architecture and Future of Virtual Communities

– From Mobility to Connectivity
– Strategic Investment in Social Networks
– Identity and Augmented Ideologies
– Visionary Web Architectures, Implanted Computers
– Network Revolutions, Post-Colonial and Post-Modern Societies
– Escaping from Reality, Virtual Reality and Multi-User Games
– Towards Alternative Ways of Presence

Group Processes and Self-Organization

– Tele-Democracy, Morality, Netiquette
– Social Networks, Tribal and Open Communities, Peace Education
– Computer Mediated, Hyper and Narrative Communication, Woven Stories
– MUDs, MOOs and Avatars
– Hosting Web-Based Communities
– Nationalities, Ethnicities and Gender Effects

Cyborgs, Teleworking, Telemedicine, Art Games and Learning Communities

– Fading Hierarchies and Epistemic Dictatorship
– Distributed Cognition, the Electronic Cortex and Constructivism
– Community Directories
– Mechanic World, Organic Computer
– Agents and the Virtual Self
– Beyond Metaphors: Imagining and Representation
– Communizing as a Marketing Approach

Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities

– The WWW as Digital Market Place
– The Enterprise as a Learning Community
– The Learning as a Road Map for Business
– Universities as Online Communities
– Business-to-Business Communication in Profit and non Profit Sectors

Virtual Communities for People with Special Needs

– Access to Public Spaces
– Accessibility and Long-Term Disabilities
– Virtual Communities in Health Care

Social Media

– Monitoring Trends in Social Media
– After Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn?
– Effects of Web Experience on Consumer Choice
– Profiles of Social Networking Sites
– Adoption of Social Networking
– Connecting Small and Medium Enterprises
– Social Media for B2B Marketing
– Multicultural Organizations
– Social Networking at Work
– Social Media, Trust, Reputation and Public Opinion

The Conference will be composed of several types of contributions:

  • Full Papers
    – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).
  • Short Papers
    – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum
    (2,500 words).
  • Reflection Papers
    – These might review recent research literature pertaining to a particular problem or approach, indicate what
    the findings suggest, and/or provide a suggestion – with rationale and justification – for a different approach or perspective on that
    problem. Reflection papers might also analyze general trends or discuss important issues in topics related to the conference. These
    have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).
  • Posters / Demonstrations
    – These contain implementation information or work-in-progress and have two pages
    at maximum (1,250 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the conference.
  • Tutorials
    – Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or company representatives. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.
  • Invited Talks
    – These will be made of contributions from well-known scholars and company representatives. An abstract will be
    included in the conference proceedings.
  • Panels
    – Discussions on selected topics will be held. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.
  • Doctoral Consortium
    – A Doctoral Consortium will discuss in group, individual projects and on going work of PhD students.
    Prospective students should send a report of their PhD projects and work so far with a maximum of 4 pages (2,500 words).
  • Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions
    – The former enables companies to present recent developments and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of your future directions and showcase company’s noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their presentation in a room. The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its latest offerings of hardware, software, tools, services and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details please contact the publicity chair – secretariat@mccsis.org .

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.The World Wide Web has migrated from information space into opportunities for social communication. Social Media are growing rapidly and play an increasingly important role in the development of Online Communities. They are all about identity, reputation, presence and relationships. Web based communities announce themselves both in your professional and private life through several new media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, etc. In order to keep you up to date with the pace of these new technological developments this IADIS
Conference offers a dedicated overview and informative discussion on today’s most relevant issues in new media for social life on the web.

Social Media are growing rapidly and play an increasingly important role in the development of Online Communities. Social Network Sites and Web-based communities announce themselves both in your professional and private life through new media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, etc. Social media allow more dynamic roles in participation, virtual presence and online communities. These new ways to communicate via online social media have great societal effects and are motivating the creation of best practices to help individuals, corporations and authorities to make the best of it. It raises the awareness of the growing impact of social media and the influence of web based communities in today’s users / consumers behavior; many organizations spend an increasing share of their budget in online social marketing strategies.
The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities, while helping to disseminate and understand the latest developments social media and their impact.

Link:www.webcommunities-conf.org/2012/cfp.asp

Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and a CD-ROM with ISBN. The better papers will be candidate for the “International Journal of Web Based Communities” (IJWBC); ISSN: 1477 – 8394 [4 issues per year]

Topics of submission/Subject indications (but not limited to):

The History, Architecture and Future of Virtual Communities

– From Mobility to Connectivity
– Strategic Investment in Social Networks
– Identity and Augmented Ideologies
– Visionary Web Architectures, Implanted Computers
– Network Revolutions, Post-Colonial and Post-Modern Societies
– Escaping from Reality, Virtual Reality and Multi-User Games
– Towards Alternative Ways of Presence

Group Processes and Self-Organization

– Tele-Democracy, Morality, Netiquette
– Social Networks, Tribal and Open Communities, Peace Education
– Computer Mediated, Hyper and Narrative Communication, Woven Stories
– MUDs, MOOs and Avatars
– Hosting Web-Based Communities
– Nationalities, Ethnicities and Gender Effects

Cyborgs, Teleworking, Telemedicine, Art Games and Learning Communities

– Fading Hierarchies and Epistemic Dictatorship
– Distributed Cognition, the Electronic Cortex and Constructivism
– Community Directories
– Mechanic World, Organic Computer
– Agents and the Virtual Self
– Beyond Metaphors: Imagining and Representation
– Communizing as a Marketing Approach

Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities

– The WWW as Digital Market Place
– The Enterprise as a Learning Community
– The Learning as a Road Map for Business
– Universities as Online Communities
– Business-to-Business Communication in Profit and non Profit Sectors

Virtual Communities for People with Special Needs

– Access to Public Spaces
– Accessibility and Long-Term Disabilities
– Virtual Communities in Health Care

Social Media

– Monitoring Trends in Social Media
– After Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn?
– Effects of Web Experience on Consumer Choice
– Profiles of Social Networking Sites
– Adoption of Social Networking
– Connecting Small and Medium Enterprises
– Social Media for B2B Marketing
– Multicultural Organizations
– Social Networking at Work
– Social Media, Trust, Reputation and Public Opinion

The Conference will be composed of several types of contributions:

  • Full Papers
    – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).
  • Short Papers
    – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum
    (2,500 words).
  • Reflection Papers
    – These might review recent research literature pertaining to a particular problem or approach, indicate what
    the findings suggest, and/or provide a suggestion – with rationale and justification – for a different approach or perspective on that
    problem. Reflection papers might also analyze general trends or discuss important issues in topics related to the conference. These
    have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).
  • Posters / Demonstrations
    – These contain implementation information or work-in-progress and have two pages
    at maximum (1,250 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the conference.
  • Tutorials
    – Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or company representatives. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.
  • Invited Talks
    – These will be made of contributions from well-known scholars and company representatives. An abstract will be
    included in the conference proceedings.
  • Panels
    – Discussions on selected topics will be held. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.
  • Doctoral Consortium
    – A Doctoral Consortium will discuss in group, individual projects and on going work of PhD students.
    Prospective students should send a report of their PhD projects and work so far with a maximum of 4 pages (2,500 words).
  • Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions
    – The former enables companies to present recent developments and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of your future directions and showcase company’s noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their presentation in a room. The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its latest offerings of hardware, software, tools, services and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details please contact the publicity chair – secretariat@mccsis.org .

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.

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Call For Papers: Sixth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information (RCIS 2012)Call For Papers: Sixth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information (RCIS 2012)

Posted on July 28, 2011 by admin

Sixth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 16-18 2012, Valencia, Spain
From May 16, 2012 to May 18, 2012,
Valencia, SPAIN

http://wwww.rcis-conf.com/rcis2012

RCIS 2012 is a conference of RCIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Scientific Topics
The Sixth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS) aims at providing an international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of information science areas. While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges in these main topics:

* Information System Engineering
* Business Applications
* Database and Information System Integration
* Decision Information Systems
* Data Management
* Internet Computing
* Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Discovery from Data
* Management Applications
* Spatial Information Systems
* Software Testing
* Human-Computer Interaction

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 conference main topics.
Conference Publications and Best Papers
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2012. Authors are invited to submit papers in English. Each submitted paper will have to be associated to one of the four following categories.

Technical solution papers present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in later research.

Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate.

Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given.

Doctoral Papers are papers submitted by doctoral students only and are related to research work in progress.

Papers should be limited to a maximum of 12 pages. Authors of papers that obtain the highest marks in the reviewing process will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal.Sixth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 16-18 2012, Valencia, Spain
From May 16, 2012 to May 18, 2012,
Valencia, SPAIN

http://wwww.rcis-conf.com/rcis2012

RCIS 2012 is a conference of RCIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Scientific Topics
The Sixth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS) aims at providing an international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of information science areas. While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges in these main topics:

* Information System Engineering
* Business Applications
* Database and Information System Integration
* Decision Information Systems
* Data Management
* Internet Computing
* Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Discovery from Data
* Management Applications
* Spatial Information Systems
* Software Testing
* Human-Computer Interaction

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 conference main topics.
Conference Publications and Best Papers
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2012. Authors are invited to submit papers in English. Each submitted paper will have to be associated to one of the four following categories.

Technical solution papers present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in later research.

Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate.

Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given.

Doctoral Papers are papers submitted by doctoral students only and are related to research work in progress.

Papers should be limited to a maximum of 12 pages. Authors of papers that obtain the highest marks in the reviewing process will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal.

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Call For Papers: Second International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2012)Call For Papers: Second International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2012)

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin

The Second International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2012) will be held in Wuhan, China during March 23-25, 2012, as a sequel to ICIST 2011 (Nanjing). ICIST 2012 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and applications of information science and technology. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. The ICIST 2012 Proceedings (IEEE catalog number: CFP1242M-CDR and ISBN: 978-1-61284-0344-7) will be indexed by EI. In addition, selected high-quality papers would be published in special issues of SCI-journals.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ICIST 2012. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ICIST 2012. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Link: http://icist.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/icist2012/The Second International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2012) will be held in Wuhan, China during March 23-25, 2012, as a sequel to ICIST 2011 (Nanjing). ICIST 2012 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and applications of information science and technology. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. The ICIST 2012 Proceedings (IEEE catalog number: CFP1242M-CDR and ISBN: 978-1-61284-0344-7) will be indexed by EI. In addition, selected high-quality papers would be published in special issues of SCI-journals.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ICIST 2012. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ICIST 2012. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Link: http://icist.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/icist2012/

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Call For Papers: Social Media and Web Science – Das Web als Lebensraum (DGI 2012)

Posted on July 25, 2011 by admin

Das noch immer wachsende Angebot an Social Media und Social Software hat längst dazu geführt, dass sich immer mehr Bereiche des täglichen Lebens (auch) ins World Wide Web verlagern. Das Web ist damit weit mehr als ein technisches Hilfsmittel zur Arbeitserleichterung für bestimmte Berufsfelder oder spezialisierte Informationsbedarfe. Es ist Nachrichtenmedium, Bibliothek und Nachschlagewerk, Schreibtisch, Shoppingcenter, Stammtisch, Familienfotoalbum, Reiseführer, Geldautomat und vieles mehr.

Mit dieser Variantenvielfalt steigen die Herausforderungen an Information Professionals, die sich stets auf die neuesten Entwicklungen einstellen müssen – dabei aber bewährte, langjährige Traditionen nicht vergessen dürfen. Doch gleichzeitig wachsen auch ihre Möglichkeiten und Einsatzbereiche: Informationskompetenz und informations­wissenschaftliche Fachkenntnisse sowie Expertenwissen über das Web und seine zahlreichen Bezüge zu verschiedenen Lebensbereichen können im Zusammenspiel mit anderen Berufsfeldern und wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen neue Ideen und Lösungen liefern. Daraus resultieren nicht selten auch neue Geschäftsmodelle. Auch auf Unternehmensseite spielt die Beobachtung aktueller Trends im Social Web eine wichtige Rolle, sei es für die Unternehmenskommunikation, Marketing und Trend-Monitoring oder für die Ausweitung des eigenen Angebots in die digitale Welt.

Diesen Entwicklungen wird mit zunehmend interdisziplinären Ansätzen aus verschiedenen Wissenschafts- und Praxisbereichen bereits Rechnung getragen. Die Bezeichnung Web Science wurde eingeführt, um derartige Ansätze zusammenzubringen und einen Austausch zu bündeln. Unter diesem Namen soll künftig verstärkt das vielfältige sozio-technologische Wechselspiel zwischen Internettechnologien und Gesellschaft diskutiert und erforscht werden. Hierunter fallen sowohl klassische und innovative technische Verbesserungen für alltägliche Situationen (von der Web-Suchmaschine bis zum eLearning-Tool), kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Phänomene (von Wikipedia-Artikeln in bedrohten Sprachen bis zur Nutzung Sozialer Netzwerke in politischen Krisengebieten) als auch die problematischen und gefährlichen Seiten des Web (von der allgemeinen Rechtslage bis zur Verhinderung von Cyberverbrechen).

Die DGI lädt daher zur interdisziplinären Fachdiskussion ein: Führungs- und Fachkräfte, Strategen, Entwickler, Information Professionals, Wissensmanager, Studierende und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Informationswissenschaft, Bibliothekswissenschaft, Dokumentationswissenschaft und Informatik sowie aus angrenzenden und komplementären Themenbereichen z.B. aus Rechtswissenschaft, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften sowie Mitglieder aus Forschungseinrichtungen, aus der Wirtschaft, aus der Verwaltung und aus dem Bildungswesen sind aufgerufen, ihre aktuelle Position und neue Erkenntnisse vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Insbesondere freuen wir uns über die Einreichung von Originalbeiträgen zu folgenden thematischen Aspekten:

Social Media

* Kollaborative und kollektive Informationsdienste (z.B. Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Wikis, Mash-Ups, virtuelle Kollaboratorien)
* Information Retrieval im Social Web / Social Search
* Wissensrepräsentation im Social Web (z.B. Social Tagging und Folksonomies)
* Social Semantic Web
* Social Software Use Cases & Policies (z.B. im Unternehmen, in Forschung und Lehre, in Bibliotheken)
* Enterprise 2.0: Wissensmanagement im Social Web oder der Einsatz von Social Software im Wissensmanagement
* Social Analytics, Metriken zur Vermessung von Sozialen Netzwerken und Social Software
* Marktforschung und Trendmonitoring, Erfolgsmessung von Social Media
* Identitätsmanagement und Reputation im Social Web
* Communities of Practice und Nutzernetzwerke
* Werbung im Social Web, Web-Ökonomie
* Netzwerkökonomie des Web
* Neue Geschäftsmodelle im Social Web (z.B. App Economy), Anpassung traditioneller Angebote an neue Nutzeranforderungen
* Linked Data und Open Data im Social Web

Web Science

* Kommunikation und Kommunikationsformen im Web (z.B. Blogs, Microblogging)
* Informationskompetenz und Didaktik der Informationswissenschaft
* Messung von Informationsverhalten
* Informationsverhalten und Informationsbedürfnisse spezieller Zielgruppen
* Visualisierung von Daten- und Nutzerstrukturen und Informationen
* Wissenschaft und Internet: eScience, Digital Humanities, digitale Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftskommunikation
* eLearning
* Serious Games und Online-Spiele (z.B. browser-based Games)
* (digitale) Bibliotheken
* Digital Divide, Zugang zu Web-Informationen, Accessibility, Usability
* Emotionen im Web
* Rechtliche Aspekte im (Social) Web (z.B. Zugangsrechte, Urheberrechte)
* Vertrauen und Privatsphäre im Web
* Cybercrime und Gefahren im Web
* eGovernment & eGovernance & eDemocracy
* eActivism & eProtest (z.B. Guttenplag-Wiki, Wikileaks)
* Informationspolitik
* Crowdsourcing (z.B. in der Politik, in der Wissenschaft, in Unternehmen)
* Informationsgesellschaft
* Mobiles Web und Location Based Services
* Webometrie
* Interdisziplinäre Ansätze zur Erforschung des WWW, beispielsweise unter Berücksichtigung der folgenden Disziplinen: Informatik, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Rechtswissenschaft, Linguistik, Psychologie.

Vorschläge

Originalbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache können über das Konferenztool Easychair (Link folgt in Kürze) eingereicht werden. Unterschieden werden die folgenden Beitragsformen:

* Wissenschaftliche Langbeiträge: max. 36.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (wissenschaftlicher Aufbau der Arbeit, Zitierapparat im APA-Zitationsstil, Darstellung durchgeführter Forschungsprojekte und ausführliche Ergebnispräsentation).
* Praxisorientierte Kurzbeiträge: max. 18.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (Erfahrungsberichte, Fallbeispiele aus Anwendungsumgebungen/Case Studies, innovative Ansätze und Lösungen im Bereich der Konferenzthemen).
* Posterbeiträge: max. 6.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (Darstellung aktuellster Forschungsergebnisse oder Work in Progress).

Bitte reichen Sie Ihre Beiträge als Microsoft Word-Dokumente (.doc oder .docx Dateien) ein, Abbildungen sollten schwarz-weiß bzw. in Graustufen gut erkennbar sein (min. 300 dpi Auflösung); Literaturangaben geben Sie bitte im APA-Zitationsstil an. Die Texte sollten jeweils mit einem kurzen Abstract beginnen. Sie brauchen darüber hinaus keine speziellen Formatierungen vorzunehmen.

Akzeptierte Beiträge werden als Vorträge (in deutscher Sprache) bzw. als Poster bei der DGI Konferenz 2012 vorgestellt und im begleitenden Tagungsband veröffentlicht.

Studierende und Auszubildende sind herzlich eingeladen, ihre Arbeiten in einer der drei Beitragsformen einzureichen. Die Vorschläge durchlaufen den normalen Peer-Review-Prozess und werden bei positiver Begutachtung in das allgemeine Konferenzprogramm eingebunden. Die besten Beiträge von Studierenden oder Auszubildenden werden zudem mit einem Nachwuchspreis ausgezeichnet (Young Information Professionals Best Paper Award, Details folgen). Damit Beiträge für diesen Preis in Frage kommen können, kennzeichnen die Autoren bei der Einreichung über Easychair bitte ihren Beitrag, indem Sie in das Keyword-Feld das zusätzliche Kennwort „Nachwuchsbeitrag“ eintragen.
Einreichungen

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Termine

Einreichung von wissenschaftlichen Langbeiträgen: 31.08.2011
Einreichung von praxisorientierten Kurzbeiträgen: 15.09.2011
Einreichung von Posterbeiträgen: 15.10.2011
Benachrichtigung über die Annahme: 21.11.2011
Einreichung der druckfertigen (überarbeiteten) Version: 21.12.2011

European Afternoon
Im Rahmen der DGI Konferenz 2012 soll auch die internationale Community stärker einbezogen werden. Der „European Afternoon“ ist als Teilveranstaltung innerhalb der Konferenz geplant. Am 22.03.2012 wird ein halber Veranstaltungstag für englischsprachige Beiträge von Vertretern aus Wissenschaft und Praxis aus dem europäischen Ausland reserviert.
Weitere Informationen und den separaten englischsprachiger Call for Papers finden Sie hier: http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx.

Programmkomitee/ Programme Committee

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters
(Programme Chairs)

Praxisbeiträge: Sonja Gust von Loh
(Chair Industry Papers)

Nachwuchs-Beiträge: Kathrin Knautz
(Chair Student/Young Professionals Papers)

Begutachtungsverfahren: Tobias Siebenlist

Mitglieder des Programmkomitees (Gutachter) /
(Programme committee members / reviewers)

Anne Bein, Swets Information Services
Michael Beurskens, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Christoph Bieber, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Ingo Blees, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)
Stephan Büttner, Fachhochschule Potsdam
Michael Dreusicke, Paux Technologes GmbH
Karsten Ehms, Siemens
Matthias Fank, Fachhochschule Köln
Michael Fanning, Online Consultants International GmbH
Jens Fauldrath, Telekom
Michael Fellmann, Universität Osnabrück
Stefan Geißler , TEMIS
Ursula Georgy, Fachhochschule Köln
Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz
Joachim Griesbaum, Universität Hildesheim
Rainer Hammwöhner, Universität Regensburg
Stefanie Haustein, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Isabell Held, Deutsche Bank AG / DB Research
Lambert Heller, TIB Hannover
Nadine Höchstötter, Webscout
Karin Holste-Flinsbach, Stauffenberg Berufsschule
Heinz Ulrich Hoppe, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Andreas Hotho, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Dirk Lewandowski, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg
Philipp Mayr, GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Hochschule Darmstadt
Thomas Meyer, Deutsche Bank AG / DB Research
Michael Nentwich, Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung Wien
Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Cornelius Puschmann, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Wolf Rauch, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Alexander Richter, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Marc Rittberger, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)
Christian Schlögl, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Jan Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung Hamburg
Michael Schöttner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Rolf Schulmeister, Universität Hamburg
Wolfgang Semar, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Chur
Matthias Staab, Sanofi-Aventis
Wolfgang G. Stock, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Alexander Stocker, Joanneum Research
Markus Strohmaier, Technische Universität Graz
Stefan Thalmann, Universität Innsbruck
Klaus Tochtermann, Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (ZBW)
Gerhard Vowe, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Christian Wolff, Universität Regensburg
Christa Womser-Hacker, Universität Hildesheim

Veranstalter/Organiser
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft
und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI)
Windmühlstraße 3
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Telefon +49 (0)69 430313
Telefax +49 (0)69 4909096
E-Mail: mail@dgi-info.de
Internet: www.dgi-info.de

Ansprechpartner/Contact:
Nadja Strein (Leiterin der Geschäftsstelle)

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