Call For Papers: Collective Intelligence 2012 (CI 2012)Call For Papers: Collective Intelligence 2012 (CI 2012)

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

Collective Intelligence 2012

MIT, Cambridge, MA
April 18-20, 2012
www.ci2012.org
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• human computation
• social computing
• crowdsourcing
• wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
• group memory and problem-solving
• deliberative democracy
• animal collective behavior
• organizational design
• public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)
• ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “digital sweatshops”)
• computational models of group search and optimization
• emergence and evolution of intelligence
• new technologies for making groups smarter

See www.ci2012.org for more details about topics and submission format.

Format

The conference will consist of
• invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence
• oral paper presentations
• poster sessions.

Submission

Papers of three types are invited:
• Reports of original research results
• Reviews of previous research in one or more fields relevant to collective intelligence
• Position papers about research agendas for the field of collective intelligence

Some of the papers submitted will be invited for oral presentation, others for presentation as posters.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: November 4, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance / rejection: January 15 2012
Camera-ready papers due: February 15, 2012
Conference dates: April 18 – 20, 2012

Chairs

Thomas Malone (MIT)
Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University)

Organizing committe

Robert Goldstone (Indiana University)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)
Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrew Lo (MIT)
Paul Resnick (University of Michigan)
Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research)

Sponsor

National Science Foundation

Collective Intelligence 2012

MIT, Cambridge, MA
April 18-20, 2012
www.ci2012.org
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• human computation
• social computing
• crowdsourcing
• wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
• group memory and problem-solving
• deliberative democracy
• animal collective behavior
• organizational design
• public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)
• ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “digital sweatshops”)
• computational models of group search and optimization
• emergence and evolution of intelligence
• new technologies for making groups smarter

See www.ci2012.org for more details about topics and submission format.

Format

The conference will consist of
• invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence
• oral paper presentations
• poster sessions.

Submission

Papers of three types are invited:
• Reports of original research results
• Reviews of previous research in one or more fields relevant to collective intelligence
• Position papers about research agendas for the field of collective intelligence

Some of the papers submitted will be invited for oral presentation, others for presentation as posters.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: November 4, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance / rejection: January 15 2012
Camera-ready papers due: February 15, 2012
Conference dates: April 18 – 20, 2012

Chairs

Thomas Malone (MIT)
Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University)

Organizing committe

Robert Goldstone (Indiana University)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)
Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrew Lo (MIT)
Paul Resnick (University of Michigan)
Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research)

Sponsor

National Science Foundation

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Call For Papers: IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ICTEE 2012)Call For Papers: IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ICTEE 2012)

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

THEME: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIETAL BENEFIT

When Jan 3, 2012 – Jan 5, 2012
Where Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Submission Deadline Aug 31, 2011
Notification Due Nov 15, 2011
Final Version Due Dec 10, 2011

Link: http://www.amrita.edu/ictee

On behalf of the organising committee, it is our pleasure to invite you to the IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education: ICTEE 2012, India’s first IEEE Education Society conference, to be held at Amrita University, in Kerala, India, from January 3-5, 2012. The mission of ICTEE 2012 is to provide an international forum for discussion and dissemination of recent innovations in the use of technology in education at both higher education and K-12 levels.

The theme of this conference is Educational Technology for Societal Benefit. This theme reflects the technological development occurring in the region and indeed worldwide, and the role of innovation in the sustainable application of technology in education. We will involve highly reputed faculty and researchers from Amrita University as well as from top American, Indian and European Universities in the paper review process and in conference presentations.

We invite participation and contribution of original research in topics including:

  • Adaptive and Personalized Educational systems.
  • Virtual and Remote Labs, Virtual Learning Environment.
  • Haptics in Education.
  • Advanced learning technologies for differently abled learners.
  • Information Retrieval and Visualisation Methods for Learning.
  • Data Mining, Text Mining, and Web Mining in education.
  • Peer-to-Peer Learning Applications.
  • Architecture of Context Aware Learning Technology Systems.
  • Mobile Learning Applications.
  • Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Technologies.
  • Web 2.0 and Social computing for learning.

We look forward to your presence at the ICTEE 2012 at Amritapuri, in “God’s Own Country,” Kerala, India.

THEME: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIETAL BENEFIT 

When Jan 3, 2012 – Jan 5, 2012
Where Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Submission Deadline Aug 31, 2011
Notification Due Nov 15, 2011
Final Version Due Dec 10, 2011

Link: http://www.amrita.edu/ictee

On behalf of the organising committee, it is our pleasure to invite you to the IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education: ICTEE 2012, India’s first IEEE Education Society conference, to be held at Amrita University, in Kerala, India, from January 3-5, 2012. The mission of ICTEE 2012 is to provide an international forum for discussion and dissemination of recent innovations in the use of technology in education at both higher education and K-12 levels.

The theme of this conference is Educational Technology for Societal Benefit. This theme reflects the technological development occurring in the region and indeed worldwide, and the role of innovation in the sustainable application of technology in education. We will involve highly reputed faculty and researchers from Amrita University as well as from top American, Indian and European Universities in the paper review process and in conference presentations.

We invite participation and contribution of original research in topics including:

  • Adaptive and Personalized Educational systems.
  • Virtual and Remote Labs, Virtual Learning Environment.
  • Haptics in Education.
  • Advanced learning technologies for differently abled learners.
  • Information Retrieval and Visualisation Methods for Learning.
  • Data Mining, Text Mining, and Web Mining in education.
  • Peer-to-Peer Learning Applications.
  • Architecture of Context Aware Learning Technology Systems.
  • Mobile Learning Applications.
  • Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Technologies.
  • Web 2.0 and Social computing for learning.

We look forward to your presence at the ICTEE 2012 at Amritapuri, in “God’s Own Country,” Kerala, India.

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Call For Papers: 3rd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2012)Call For Papers: 3rd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2012)

Posted on July 12, 2011 by admin

Game theory is a resourceful mathematical framework to analyze complex interactions of cooperative or competing decision makers taking into account their preferences and requirements. The far-reaching achievements of Game Theory are well manifested by 8 Nobel prizes for researchers in this field, most recently in 2007 for “the foundations of mechanism design theory”.

GameNets 2012 aims to bring together the leading researchers in Game Theory together for an informal yet informative gathering which hopefully will lead into new collaborative research initiatives and help advance the state-of-the-art. Hereby we encourage prospective authors to submit their original, unpublished work covering (but not limited to) the following topics:

Novel solution concepts such as equilibrium or core solutions
Dynamic and stochastic games
Coalition formation games
Evolutionary game theory for wireless networks
Super-modular and sub-modular games
Mechanism design
Truthfulness and profitability in auctions and their applications to communication
networks
Correlated equilibrium
Analysis of security and privacy in networks via game theory
Reinforcement and Q-learning
Imperfect/asymmetric information games
Self-organizing and cognitive radio networks
Femto-cell coexistence and scheduling
Multi-armed and restless bandit
Game Theory for Cloud Computing and its Application
Investigation of the Price of Anarchy (PoA)

Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions as extended abstracts of up to 8 pages in single-column format with one-and-a-half line spacing, and containing sufficient information to allow for a detailed review. Paper submission is through EasyChair via the following link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gamenets2012

Final versions of papers to be included in the program will be up to 16 pages using LNICST single column format (Please visit http://gamenets.org/ for submission guidelines). A conference CD will be available at the conference, as part of the conference registration package.

Important Dates:
Manuscript Submission: Dec. 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: Feb 29, 2012
Final Submission and Early Registration Deadline: April 15, 2012
Workshops Proposal Deadline: Dec. 1, 2011
Conference Dates: May 24-26, 2012Game theory is a resourceful mathematical framework to analyze complex interactions of cooperative or competing decision makers taking into account their preferences and requirements. The far-reaching achievements of Game Theory are well manifested by 8 Nobel prizes for researchers in this field, most recently in 2007 for “the foundations of mechanism design theory”.

GameNets 2012 aims to bring together the leading researchers in Game Theory together for an informal yet informative gathering which hopefully will lead into new collaborative research initiatives and help advance the state-of-the-art. Hereby we encourage prospective authors to submit their original, unpublished work covering (but not limited to) the following topics:

Novel solution concepts such as equilibrium or core solutions
Dynamic and stochastic games
Coalition formation games
Evolutionary game theory for wireless networks
Super-modular and sub-modular games
Mechanism design
Truthfulness and profitability in auctions and their applications to communication
networks
Correlated equilibrium
Analysis of security and privacy in networks via game theory
Reinforcement and Q-learning
Imperfect/asymmetric information games
Self-organizing and cognitive radio networks
Femto-cell coexistence and scheduling
Multi-armed and restless bandit
Game Theory for Cloud Computing and its Application
Investigation of the Price of Anarchy (PoA)

Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions as extended abstracts of up to 8 pages in single-column format with one-and-a-half line spacing, and containing sufficient information to allow for a detailed review. Paper submission is through EasyChair via the following link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gamenets2012

Final versions of papers to be included in the program will be up to 16 pages using LNICST single column format (Please visit http://gamenets.org/ for submission guidelines). A conference CD will be available at the conference, as part of the conference registration package.

Important Dates:
Manuscript Submission: Dec. 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: Feb 29, 2012
Final Submission and Early Registration Deadline: April 15, 2012
Workshops Proposal Deadline: Dec. 1, 2011
Conference Dates: May 24-26, 2012

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Call For Papers: Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2012)all For Papers: Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2012)

Posted on July 11, 2011 by admin

WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The Fifth ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA during February 8-12, 2012.

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

WSDM 2012 is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to：

Web Search

  1. Web dynamics and search
  2. Multifaceted and task-driven search
  3. Multimedia Web search
  4. Security and privacy in Web search and mining
  5. User interfaces and interaction
  6. User and search modeling
  7. Personalized search and ranking
  8. Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
  9. Vertical portals and search
  10. Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
  11. Ranking and machine learning for ranking
  12. Searching social and real-time content

Web Mining

  1. Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
  2. Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
  3. Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
  4. Multimodal data mining
  5. Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
  6. Sense and entity disambiguation
  7. Data integration and data cleaning
  8. Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
  9. Traffic and log analysis
  10. Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining

Social Search and Mining

  1. Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
  2. Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
  3. Social reputation, influence, and trust
  4. User profiling and recommendation systems
  5. User activity modeling and exploitation
  6. Tags, users, and search
  7. Collaborative search and question answering
  8. Searching social media and collaboratively generated content

Important Dates

Dates Description
August 4, 2011 Paper abstracts deadline
August 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline
October 26, 2011 Author notification

Organizing Committee

Conference General Chairs

  1. Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, USA
  2. Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA

Program Committee Chairs

  1. Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
  2. Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel

 

Treasurer

  1. Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research, USA

Local Chairs

  1. Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research, USA
  2. Jeff Huang, University of Washington, USA

Workshop Chair

  1. Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

 

Tutorial Chair

  1. Paul Bennett, Microsoft Research, USA

 

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

  1. Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA
  2. Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA

Senior Program Committee

  1. Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
  2. Ziv Bar-Yossef, Technion and Google, Israel
  3. András Benczúr, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
  4. Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy
  5. Ed Chang, Google Beijing, China
  6. Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
  7. Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  8. Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Labs, USA
  9. Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo!, USA
  10. Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, USA
  11. Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong and AT&T Labs Research, Hong Kong/USA
  12. Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
  13. Ronny Lempel, Yahoo!, Israel
  14. Jure Lescovec, Stanford, USA
  15. Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  16. Kevin McCurley, Google, USA
  17. Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA
  18. Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
  19. Fillip Radlinski, Microsoft, Canada
  20. Chua Tat-Seng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  21. Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA
  22. Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany
  23. Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA
  24. ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Paper Format

Author notification:  October 26 (Wed)

Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated). Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines and style files to fit within 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices if any. A submitted paper must be self-contained and in English.

Submissions

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web site. PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the problem. Please contact wsdm2012 [at] easychair.org for any questions on the submission or review process.

Review Process

The review process will be single-blind (that is, the identity of authors is known to the reviewers). Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members and one or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

Publication and Presentation

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At the conference, all the papers will be allocated a slot at the interactive poster session to encourage discussion. Additionally, selected papers will be presented during the plenary oral sessions; others will be included in a short “madness” session. WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The Fifth ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA during February 8-12, 2012.

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

WSDM 2012 is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to：

Web Search

  1. Web dynamics and search
  2. Multifaceted and task-driven search
  3. Multimedia Web search
  4. Security and privacy in Web search and mining
  5. User interfaces and interaction
  6. User and search modeling
  7. Personalized search and ranking
  8. Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
  9. Vertical portals and search
  10. Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
  11. Ranking and machine learning for ranking
  12. Searching social and real-time content

Web Mining

  1. Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
  2. Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
  3. Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
  4. Multimodal data mining
  5. Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
  6. Sense and entity disambiguation
  7. Data integration and data cleaning
  8. Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
  9. Traffic and log analysis
  10. Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining

Social Search and Mining

  1. Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
  2. Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
  3. Social reputation, influence, and trust
  4. User profiling and recommendation systems
  5. User activity modeling and exploitation
  6. Tags, users, and search
  7. Collaborative search and question answering
  8. Searching social media and collaboratively generated content

Important Dates

Dates Description
August 4, 2011 Paper abstracts deadline
August 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline
October 26, 2011 Author notification

Organizing Committee

Conference General Chairs

  1. Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, USA
  2. Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA

Program Committee Chairs

  1. Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
  2. Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel

 

Treasurer

  1. Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research, USA

Local Chairs

  1. Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research, USA
  2. Jeff Huang, University of Washington, USA

Workshop Chair

  1. Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

 

Tutorial Chair

  1. Paul Bennett, Microsoft Research, USA

 

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

  1. Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA
  2. Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA

Senior Program Committee

  1. Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
  2. Ziv Bar-Yossef, Technion and Google, Israel
  3. András Benczúr, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
  4. Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy
  5. Ed Chang, Google Beijing, China
  6. Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
  7. Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  8. Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Labs, USA
  9. Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo!, USA
  10. Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, USA
  11. Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong and AT&T Labs Research, Hong Kong/USA
  12. Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
  13. Ronny Lempel, Yahoo!, Israel
  14. Jure Lescovec, Stanford, USA
  15. Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  16. Kevin McCurley, Google, USA
  17. Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA
  18. Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
  19. Fillip Radlinski, Microsoft, Canada
  20. Chua Tat-Seng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  21. Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA
  22. Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany
  23. Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA
  24. ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Paper Format

Author notification: October 26 (Wed)

Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated). Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines and style files to fit within 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices if any. A submitted paper must be self-contained and in English.

Submissions

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web site. PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the problem. Please contact wsdm2012 [at] easychair.org for any questions on the submission or review process.

Review Process

The review process will be single-blind (that is, the identity of authors is known to the reviewers). Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members and one or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

Publication and Presentation

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At the conference, all the papers will be allocated a slot at the interactive poster session to encourage discussion. Additionally, selected papers will be presented during the plenary oral sessions; others will be included in a short “madness” session.

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Call For Papers: International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (CSC 2011)Call For Papers: International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (CSC 2011)

Posted on July 10, 2011 by admin
December 12-14, 2011, Hong Kong, China

*** Submissin deadline: 15 July, 2011 ***

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2010 International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing
(CSC) is a cross-area international forum on cloud computing and service
computing*. CSC2011 will be held in Hong Kong with the aim of bringing
together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing and service computing.

SCOPE AND INTERESTS

CSC 2011 brings together computer scientists, industrial engineers,
and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical
results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and
trend?setting ideas in the areas of cloud computing and service
computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Communications in Cloud & Service Computing

+. IaaS & PaaS
+. Service-Oriented Architectures
+. Virtualization of Hardware& Software Resources
+. Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems, etc. in Cloud& Service Computing
+. P2P, Pervasive Networks& Communications Architecture, Software, Services& Tools in Cloud& Service Computing
+. SaaS, EaaS, Web Service, Semantic Web, Ubiquitous Service, etc.
+. Design, Testing & Evaluation Tools in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Cyber-Physical Systems in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Software Engineering in Cloud& Service Computing Security,

Dependability, Trust & Quality in Cloud & Service Computing

+. Quality of Service in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Security Models & Quantifications
+. Dependability Models & Evaluation Algorithms
+. Trusted Computing & Autonomic Computing in Cloud& Service Computing
+. Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing
+. Fault Diagnosis, Health Monitoring & Fault tolerance in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Job Scheduling , Load Balancing, Performance Evaluation & Improvement in Cloud & Service

Computing Knowledge & Data Engineering in Cloud & Service Computing

+. Semantic Knowledge Portals
+. Web Knowledge Discovery
+. Large-Scale Distributed Knowledge Management
+. Ontology Information/ Knowledge/Service Integration
+. Knowledge Flow Network
+. Internet-based Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering

Business Models and Applications of Cloud & Service Computing

+. Case studies, business, industrial and other areas of applications
+. Multimedia Technologies & Applications, E-learning

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Accepted papers will appear in CSC2011 proceedings to be published
by IEEE Computer Society Press and to be indexed by EI. Selected papers
will be published in special issues of some top SCI-indexed journals.

Prepare your paper in PDF file with no more than 8 pages for main
conference and 6 pages for workshops/symposia. The template files for
LATEX or WORD can be downloaded on CSC2011 Website. Submit your paper(s) at the CSC2011 submissionsite:
http://csc2011.comp.polyu.edu.hk/

Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library. * IEEE sponsorship pending upon approval

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 15 July, 2011
Notification of acceptance: 12 Sept. 2011
Final manuscript due: 30 Sept. 2011
Conference: 12 – 14 Dec. 2011

HONORARY CHAIR

Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China

GENERAL CHAIRS

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Jian-nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
Bo Yang, Univ. of Electronic Science& Technology of China

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS

Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China
Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland
Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua Univ, Taiwan, China
Jacky Keung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Lin Gu, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., China
Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan

PANEL CHAIR

Henry Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

DEMO CHAIRS

Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

PUBLICATION CHAIR

Chuang Wu, University of Hong Kong, China

FINANCE AND REGISTRATION CHAIR
Wenting Lian, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR

Dan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

STEERING COMMITTEE

Deyi Li (Chair), Chinese Academy of Engineering, China
Rulin Liu, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China
Weiming Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shi Ying, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China
Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Electronic Science& Technology of China
Bing Li, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

CONFERENCE SECRETARIES

Runhua Lin, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China

FURTHER CONTACTS

Wenting Lian,lian_wenting@ciecloud.org.cn

Carmen Au,Carmen.Au@inet.polyu.edu.hk

December 12-14, 2011, Hong Kong, China

*** Submissin deadline: 15 July, 2011 ***

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2010 International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing
(CSC) is a cross-area international forum on cloud computing and service
computing*. CSC2011 will be held in Hong Kong with the aim of bringing
together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing and service computing.

SCOPE AND INTERESTS

CSC 2011 brings together computer scientists, industrial engineers,
and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical
results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and
trend?setting ideas in the areas of cloud computing and service
computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Communications in Cloud & Service Computing

+. IaaS & PaaS
+. Service-Oriented Architectures
+. Virtualization of Hardware& Software Resources
+. Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems, etc. in Cloud& Service Computing
+. P2P, Pervasive Networks& Communications Architecture, Software, Services& Tools in Cloud& Service Computing
+. SaaS, EaaS, Web Service, Semantic Web, Ubiquitous Service, etc.
+. Design, Testing & Evaluation Tools in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Cyber-Physical Systems in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Software Engineering in Cloud& Service Computing Security,

Dependability, Trust & Quality in Cloud & Service Computing

+. Quality of Service in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Security Models & Quantifications
+. Dependability Models & Evaluation Algorithms
+. Trusted Computing & Autonomic Computing in Cloud& Service Computing
+. Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing
+. Fault Diagnosis, Health Monitoring & Fault tolerance in Cloud & Service Computing
+. Job Scheduling , Load Balancing, Performance Evaluation & Improvement in Cloud & Service

Computing Knowledge & Data Engineering in Cloud & Service Computing

+. Semantic Knowledge Portals
+. Web Knowledge Discovery
+. Large-Scale Distributed Knowledge Management
+. Ontology Information/ Knowledge/Service Integration
+. Knowledge Flow Network
+. Internet-based Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering

Business Models and Applications of Cloud & Service Computing

+. Case studies, business, industrial and other areas of applications
+. Multimedia Technologies & Applications, E-learning

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Accepted papers will appear in CSC2011 proceedings to be published
by IEEE Computer Society Press and to be indexed by EI. Selected papers
will be published in special issues of some top SCI-indexed journals.

Prepare your paper in PDF file with no more than 8 pages for main
conference and 6 pages for workshops/symposia. The template files for
LATEX or WORD can be downloaded on CSC2011 Website. Submit your paper(s) at the CSC2011 submissionsite:
http://csc2011.comp.polyu.edu.hk/

Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library. * IEEE sponsorship pending upon approval

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 15 July, 2011
Notification of acceptance: 12 Sept. 2011
Final manuscript due: 30 Sept. 2011
Conference: 12 – 14 Dec. 2011

HONORARY CHAIR

Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China

GENERAL CHAIRS

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Jian-nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
Bo Yang, Univ. of Electronic Science& Technology of China

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS

Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China
Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland
Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua Univ, Taiwan, China
Jacky Keung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Lin Gu, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., China
Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan

PANEL CHAIR

Henry Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

DEMO CHAIRS

Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

PUBLICATION CHAIR

Chuang Wu, University of Hong Kong, China

FINANCE AND REGISTRATION CHAIR
Wenting Lian, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR

Dan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

STEERING COMMITTEE

Deyi Li (Chair), Chinese Academy of Engineering, China
Rulin Liu, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China
Weiming Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shi Ying, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China
Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Electronic Science& Technology of China
Bing Li, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

CONFERENCE SECRETARIES

Runhua Lin, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China

FURTHER CONTACTS

Wenting Lian,lian_wenting@ciecloud.org.cn

Carmen Au,Carmen.Au@inet.polyu.edu.hk

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Call for Papers: Word Wide Web 2012 (www2012)Call for Papers: Word Wide Web 2012 (www2012)

Posted on July 9, 2011 by admin

www2012 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers may be submitted to the following tracks. Please follow the links to individual tracks in the list below for further details as well as for Program Committee composition.

Submissions should present original results and substantial new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field, using for instance proper evaluation methods. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to offer links to full proofs of theorems, empirical work may want to offer download of training and test data and experimental results, case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner.
We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
General queries regarding the submission process can be sent to: www2012@uni-koblenz.de
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an International Program Committee. Submissions will evaluated first within tracks; promising papers identified in each track will then be discussed in an in-person meeting of track chairs and deputy chairs, where the final selections will be made. Once the paper selection is complete, the technical sessions for the conference will be formed based on the topics of the accepted papers (regardless of which track handled them). Accepted papers will appear in the conference online proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference’s web site. Authors of accepted papers will retain proprietary rights to their work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form (pdf file) to IW3C2.
The Program Committee will select a small number of outstanding papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB). One paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award.

Please see detailed submission information and requirements from topics specific pages.

the submission site will come online one month before the abstract due date.

Submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template.

Important dates :

All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm PST.

November 1st, 2011 Abstracts for papers due
November 7th, 2011 Papers due
January 30th, 2012 Paper notifications out
February 28th, 2012 Camera ready papers due
April 16th, 2012 Conference begins

Remark: some tracks may have specific date constraints described on their own page…

www2012 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers may be submitted to the following tracks. Please follow the links to individual tracks in the list below for further details as well as for Program Committee composition.

Submissions should present original results and substantial new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field, using for instance proper evaluation methods. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. Depending on the type of the paper and the proposed approach indications for repeatability may vary. For instance, theoretical papers may want to offer links to full proofs of theorems, empirical work may want to offer download of training and test data and experimental results, case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, approaches that describe algorithms may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner.
We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
General queries regarding the submission process can be sent to: www2012@uni-koblenz.de
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an International Program Committee. Submissions will evaluated first within tracks; promising papers identified in each track will then be discussed in an in-person meeting of track chairs and deputy chairs, where the final selections will be made. Once the paper selection is complete, the technical sessions for the conference will be formed based on the topics of the accepted papers (regardless of which track handled them). Accepted papers will appear in the conference online proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference’s web site. Authors of accepted papers will retain proprietary rights to their work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form (pdf file) to IW3C2.
The Program Committee will select a small number of outstanding papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB). One paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award.

Please see detailed submission information and requirements from topics specific pages.

the submission site will come online one month before the abstract due date.

Submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template.

Important dates :

All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm PST.

November 1st, 2011 Abstracts for papers due
November 7th, 2011 Papers due
January 30th, 2012 Paper notifications out
February 28th, 2012 Camera ready papers due
April 16th, 2012 Conference begins

Remark: some tracks may have specific date constraints described on their own page…

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Call For Papers: Business Applications of Social Networks Analysis and Mining (BASNAM 2012)Call For Papers: Business Applications of Social Networks Analysis and Mining (BASNAM 2012)

Posted on July 8, 2011 by admin

Introduction

In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly, thanks to the prevalence of the online social websites and the availability of a variety of offline large-scale social network systems. In this context on-line social networks have generated great expectations as they relate to their potential business value. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of business challenges residing in these network systems, including applying advanced knowledge discovery (data mining) algorithms for analyzing the static and dynamic (temporal) properties during the formation and evolution of these social networks. Those issues have a significant impact on value creation in companies, and have important implications for new business models, customer relationship management, strategy development, organizational management, and so on..

We especially welcome papers (book chapters) that address the following issues:

  • Business models for monetizing social networks
  • Competing with social networks
  • Reality mining for business applications
  • Social network analysis for organizational behavior research
  • Customer referrals and purchase influence analysis in social networks
  • Creating digital marketing strategy with social networks
  • Consumer behavior and behavioral analysis in social networks
  • Customer relationship management in social networks
  • Interactive and one-to-one marketing based on social relations
  • Location based social networks in business applications
  • Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
  • Cascading behavior and information diffusion in social networks
  • Analysis of the social network mining algorithms for a business applications
  • Creating business models with network effects

Submissions and publication

Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages inclusive of all references and figures, and should be submitted using the Springer Verlag template to: jerzy.surma @ gmail.com. Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of Springer. All papers must based on original material, and must be not under consideration by any other journal or conference. The extended version of the selected conference papers might be accepted. The book will be published in 2012 by Springer Verlag in Intelligent Systems Reference Library.

Important Dates

15/10/2011 Deadline for Submissions
31/12/2011       Notification of Acceptance
31/01/2012      Submission of Camera Ready Chapters
31/09/2012      Book Publishing

Editor

Dr. Jerzy Surma
Department of Value Based Management
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Email: jerzy.surma @ gmail.com
Web site: http://www.surma.edu.pl/surma.htmlIntroduction

In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly, thanks to the prevalence of the online social websites and the availability of a variety of offline large-scale social network systems. In this context on-line social networks have generated great expectations as they relate to their potential business value. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of business challenges residing in these network systems, including applying advanced knowledge discovery (data mining) algorithms for analyzing the static and dynamic (temporal) properties during the formation and evolution of these social networks. Those issues have a significant impact on value creation in companies, and have important implications for new business models, customer relationship management, strategy development, organizational management, and so on..

We especially welcome papers (book chapters) that address the following issues:

  • Business models for monetizing social networks
  • Competing with social networks
  • Reality mining for business applications
  • Social network analysis for organizational behavior research
  • Customer referrals and purchase influence analysis in social networks
  • Creating digital marketing strategy with social networks
  • Consumer behavior and behavioral analysis in social networks
  • Customer relationship management in social networks
  • Interactive and one-to-one marketing based on social relations
  • Location based social networks in business applications
  • Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
  • Cascading behavior and information diffusion in social networks
  • Analysis of the social network mining algorithms for a business applications
  • Creating business models with network effects

Submissions and publication

Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages inclusive of all references and figures, and should be submitted using the Springer Verlag template to: jerzy.surma @ gmail.com. Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of Springer. All papers must based on original material, and must be not under consideration by any other journal or conference. The extended version of the selected conference papers might be accepted. The book will be published in 2012 by Springer Verlag in Intelligent Systems Reference Library.

Important Dates

15/10/2011 Deadline for Submissions
31/12/2011 Notification of Acceptance
31/01/2012 Submission of Camera Ready Chapters
31/09/2012 Book Publishing

Editor

Dr. Jerzy Surma
Department of Value Based Management
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Email: jerzy.surma @ gmail.com
Web site: http://www.surma.edu.pl/surma.html

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Collaborative Communities for Social Computing (SocialComp 2011)Call for Papers: Workshop on Collaborative Communities for Social Computing (SocialComp 2011)

Posted on July 7, 2011 by admin

A workshop of the CollaborateCom 2011 conference
Orlando, Florida, USA, October 15-18, 2011

Link: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SocialComp11

Social computing is an emergent field of computational sciences which harvests
the collective intelligence and social relationships of users to create value.
In contrast to the centralization and automation tendencies of many computing
approaches, social computing shifts the locus of intelligence from the computer
to the human user, from the server to the client and from the core to the edge
of the network.

Moreover, the widespread adoption of Web 2.0 related technologies has
facilitated user collaboration and knowledge sharing. Thanks to these
technologies, collaborative communities are today one of the emerging trends in
the ICT ( Information and Communication Technology) area. Collaborative tools
based on the Web 2.0 are today more and more used not only by single users, but
also at the enterprise level to communicate, share information, taking
decisions, and doing business. As such, the application of collaborative tools
for social computing is creating both interesting opportunities and challenges.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers in various disciplines to
explore the effect of social computing on different scenario. Our ultimate goal
is to foster communication and collaboration across disciplines to enable
interdisciplinary approaches for social computing.

For this workshop, we are requesting submissions on all topics relevant to
social computing, including but not restricted to:

* Social networks
* Collective intelligence
* Prediction markets
* Collaborative filtering and tagging
* Recommendation systems
* Online auction systems
* Negotiation models
* Reputation and trust in social computing
* Privacy and anonymity in social computing
* Incentive design, motivations
* Implementation approaches, architectures for social computing
* Scalability of social computing
* Mobile and location aware social computing

Important dates

* Paper submission: July 22, 2011
* Author notification: August 19, 2011
* Camera ready: August 30, 2011

Submission Guidelines

Research papers for Collaborative Communities for Social Computing should be up
to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format. Please follow the instructions provided in
CollaborateCom submission page at http://www.collaboratecom.org/2011/.
Submission of papers is through the EasyChair conference system. Authors
need to have an account in the system or obtain one prior to submission.A workshop of the CollaborateCom 2011 conference
Orlando, Florida, USA, October 15-18, 2011

Link: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SocialComp11

Social computing is an emergent field of computational sciences which harvests
the collective intelligence and social relationships of users to create value.
In contrast to the centralization and automation tendencies of many computing
approaches, social computing shifts the locus of intelligence from the computer
to the human user, from the server to the client and from the core to the edge
of the network.

Moreover, the widespread adoption of Web 2.0 related technologies has
facilitated user collaboration and knowledge sharing. Thanks to these
technologies, collaborative communities are today one of the emerging trends in
the ICT ( Information and Communication Technology) area. Collaborative tools
based on the Web 2.0 are today more and more used not only by single users, but
also at the enterprise level to communicate, share information, taking
decisions, and doing business. As such, the application of collaborative tools
for social computing is creating both interesting opportunities and challenges.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers in various disciplines to
explore the effect of social computing on different scenario. Our ultimate goal
is to foster communication and collaboration across disciplines to enable
interdisciplinary approaches for social computing.

For this workshop, we are requesting submissions on all topics relevant to
social computing, including but not restricted to:

* Social networks
* Collective intelligence
* Prediction markets
* Collaborative filtering and tagging
* Recommendation systems
* Online auction systems
* Negotiation models
* Reputation and trust in social computing
* Privacy and anonymity in social computing
* Incentive design, motivations
* Implementation approaches, architectures for social computing
* Scalability of social computing
* Mobile and location aware social computing

Important dates

* Paper submission: July 22, 2011
* Author notification: August 19, 2011
* Camera ready: August 30, 2011

Submission Guidelines

Research papers for Collaborative Communities for Social Computing should be up
to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format. Please follow the instructions provided in
CollaborateCom submission page at http://www.collaboratecom.org/2011/.
Submission of papers is through the EasyChair conference system. Authors
need to have an account in the system or obtain one prior to submission.

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Call For Papers: International Workshop on Social Object Networks (SocialObjects 2011)Call For Papers: International Workshop on Social Object Networks (SocialObjects 2011)

Posted on July 5, 2011 by admin

International Workshop on Social Object Networks (SocialObjects 2011) organised in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011)

Boston, MA, USA, 9th or 11th October 2011

Paper submission deadline: 5th August 2011
Link: http://ir.ii.uam.es/socialobjects2011

Description

The Web has become the de facto space where we run many of our daily
activities, such as shopping, reading news and books, listening to music,
watching videos, sharing our views on current topics and objects, connecting
and chatting to friends, etc. The availability of such activities in a
digital form has been fueling social-network related research and development
for decades, where such social connections are abstracted to large networks of
nodes (i.e., people) and edges (i.e., types of social connections), and then
exploited in various ways and for various purposes, such as for web science,
consumer analysis, business intelligence, and targeted marketing, to name just
a few.

The nuclei of most of these social networks are “Social Objects”; which are the
objects around which people interact. Examples of such social objects include
pictures on Flickr, songs on Last.fm, tags on Delicious, places on Foursquare,
posts on Twitter, goods on Amazon, etc. Hence anything that allows people to
connect, whether directly or indirectly, can be regarded as a social object,
and can produce a social network graph. The different examples convey the
breadth of object types around which we interact with others on a regular
basis.

Most current works, however, seem to flatten such multi-dimensional networks,
where the social objects are often left out of the networks and analysis, and
replaced with direct edges between the people in question (e.g. people who
watched the same film on Netflix are represented as two directly connected
nodes in a graph).

With more social networking sites becoming more open (e.g. through APIs,
exportable profiles, 3rd party applications), it is now possible to generate
very rich cross-community social networks that capture social connections in
many different forms and around many different social objects. This raises a
series of new questions and research challenges that this workshop is trying
to highlight, such as:

* What impact do the type and properties of a social object have on the
particular social connection it generates?
* How do social connections and networks around heterogeneous social objects
compare in terms of their dynamics and transitivity?
* What are the risks and opportunities associated with acquiring such multiple
dimensional graphs?
* What technical challenges exist for acquiring, representing and analyzing
such social-object centered networks?
* What new knowledge can be extracted from such rich object-centered social
networks?
* How can social connections and interactions around specific social objects
be fostered and exploited more intelligently for commercial and scientific
purposes?
* What kind of new services and applications do knowledge captured through
social objects networks enable?
* How do social object networks impact privacy of individuals and groups?

Submissions

We invite two main types of contributions: short papers (max. 6 pages) and
posters (max. 2 pages). Both types of contributions could be new research
ideas, position statements, critiques of existing approaches, or experiment
reports.

Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical
content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be
reviewed by at least three independent referees.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Typology and representation of social objects
* Generation and analysis of objects centered networks
* Dynamics and patterns of social networks with different social objects
* Properties of social objects: value as social connectors, forms of
social connections they enable, longevity of their social connections, etc.
* Social objects as connectors between cross-domain social networks/communities
* Semantics of social objects-based links
* Characteristics of social interactions w.r.t type and properties of object
* Building interaction profiles around social objects
* Identifying interests and social connections through social objects
* Privacy and ethical issues to do with social object networks acquisition and
analysis
* Augmentation of social object knowledge based on social interactions

The above are just a few examples of the multi-disciplinary questions that this
workshop will raise, by inviting researchers and practitioners from a wide range
of backgrounds and expertise to contribute and attend the event.

Important dates

* Papers due: 5th August 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 22nd August 2011
* Camera-ready: 29th August 2011
* Workshop: 9th or 10th October 2011

Organizers

* Jérôme Picault, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France
* Myriam Ribière, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France
* Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Harith Alani, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

Programme committee

* Ching-Man Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
* Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Manuel Cebrián, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
* Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research, UK
* Dimitre Kostadinov, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
* Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
* Alexandre Passant, DERI, Ireland
* Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
* Mathias Wagner, DoCoMo Labs, GermanyInternational Workshop on Social Object Networks (SocialObjects 2011) organised in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011)

Boston, MA, USA, 9th or 11th October 2011

Paper submission deadline: 5th August 2011
Link: http://ir.ii.uam.es/socialobjects2011

Description

The Web has become the de facto space where we run many of our daily
activities, such as shopping, reading news and books, listening to music,
watching videos, sharing our views on current topics and objects, connecting
and chatting to friends, etc. The availability of such activities in a
digital form has been fueling social-network related research and development
for decades, where such social connections are abstracted to large networks of
nodes (i.e., people) and edges (i.e., types of social connections), and then
exploited in various ways and for various purposes, such as for web science,
consumer analysis, business intelligence, and targeted marketing, to name just
a few.

The nuclei of most of these social networks are “Social Objects”; which are the
objects around which people interact. Examples of such social objects include
pictures on Flickr, songs on Last.fm, tags on Delicious, places on Foursquare,
posts on Twitter, goods on Amazon, etc. Hence anything that allows people to
connect, whether directly or indirectly, can be regarded as a social object,
and can produce a social network graph. The different examples convey the
breadth of object types around which we interact with others on a regular
basis.

Most current works, however, seem to flatten such multi-dimensional networks,
where the social objects are often left out of the networks and analysis, and
replaced with direct edges between the people in question (e.g. people who
watched the same film on Netflix are represented as two directly connected
nodes in a graph).

With more social networking sites becoming more open (e.g. through APIs,
exportable profiles, 3rd party applications), it is now possible to generate
very rich cross-community social networks that capture social connections in
many different forms and around many different social objects. This raises a
series of new questions and research challenges that this workshop is trying
to highlight, such as:

* What impact do the type and properties of a social object have on the
particular social connection it generates?
* How do social connections and networks around heterogeneous social objects
compare in terms of their dynamics and transitivity?
* What are the risks and opportunities associated with acquiring such multiple
dimensional graphs?
* What technical challenges exist for acquiring, representing and analyzing
such social-object centered networks?
* What new knowledge can be extracted from such rich object-centered social
networks?
* How can social connections and interactions around specific social objects
be fostered and exploited more intelligently for commercial and scientific
purposes?
* What kind of new services and applications do knowledge captured through
social objects networks enable?
* How do social object networks impact privacy of individuals and groups?

Submissions

We invite two main types of contributions: short papers (max. 6 pages) and
posters (max. 2 pages). Both types of contributions could be new research
ideas, position statements, critiques of existing approaches, or experiment
reports.

Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical
content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be
reviewed by at least three independent referees.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Typology and representation of social objects
* Generation and analysis of objects centered networks
* Dynamics and patterns of social networks with different social objects
* Properties of social objects: value as social connectors, forms of
social connections they enable, longevity of their social connections, etc.
* Social objects as connectors between cross-domain social networks/communities
* Semantics of social objects-based links
* Characteristics of social interactions w.r.t type and properties of object
* Building interaction profiles around social objects
* Identifying interests and social connections through social objects
* Privacy and ethical issues to do with social object networks acquisition and
analysis
* Augmentation of social object knowledge based on social interactions

The above are just a few examples of the multi-disciplinary questions that this
workshop will raise, by inviting researchers and practitioners from a wide range
of backgrounds and expertise to contribute and attend the event.

Important dates

* Papers due: 5th August 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 22nd August 2011
* Camera-ready: 29th August 2011
* Workshop: 9th or 10th October 2011

Organizers

* Jérôme Picault, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France
* Myriam Ribière, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France
* Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Harith Alani, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

Programme committee

* Ching-Man Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
* Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Manuel Cebrián, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
* Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research, UK
* Dimitre Kostadinov, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
* Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
* Alexandre Passant, DERI, Ireland
* Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
* Mathias Wagner, DoCoMo Labs, Germany

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