Call for Papers: The International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP 2012)

Posted on September 1, 2011 by admin

The International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management, CAMP’12 (Capaian Maklumat dan Pengurusan Pengetahuan), will be held in Mines Wellness Hotel, Malaysia on March 13-15, 2012. The conference is organized by the Malaysia Society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (PECAMP), together with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), will be supported by the IEEE Malaysian Section and IEEE Computer Society.

Scope and Main Theme

The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to share ideas and experience in the generation of research products, design, and application development with reference to the theme ‘Towards Global Information Seeking and Knowledge Success’. The theme of CAMP’12 is centered within the range of areas chosen to give broad coverage of topic areas such as Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistic, and Knowledge Management. Advances in the field of the IR and KM has enabled useful information to be retrieved swiftly and efficiently from within massive data stores as well as ranking the results according to their significance.

However, there still exist challenges in global information access where natural and efficient communication with an automated system that influences World-Wide structured and unstructured data in any language is needed in order to satisfy human information needs. The rapid growth of the Internet and the surfacing of the information society, new challenges in language technology have also been triggered. The global web can be dominated with the support of multilingual tools for the purpose of indexing and navigating and the obstacles of language in systems for education, e-Commerce, and International Cooperation will be able to be overcome with the development of systems with crosslingual information and knowledge management.

Link: http://pgcs.upm.edu.my/camp12/

Important dates

When Mar 13, 2012 – Mar 15, 2012
Where Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Submission Deadline Oct 1, 2011
Notification Due Nov 13, 2011
Final Version Due Jan 13, 2012
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Call For Papers: IJCNDS Special Issue on Modeling of Emerging Internet Services: Social Networks and Crowdsourcing (IJCNDS-SI-MEIS 2011)Call For Papers: IJCNDS Special Issue on Modeling of Emerging Internet Services: Social Networks and Crowdsourcing (IJCNDS-SI-MEIS 2011)

Posted on August 17, 2011 by admin

In the last decades, the Internet changed dramatically in an economic way, but also in a technical way. The Internet evolved from a simple collection of websites providing pure information towards a service and application platform by implementing new paradigms. The rise of the Peer-to-Peer paradigm led to new applications and services which allowed Internet users sharing files and user generated content among each others. Later on, the application of the Web 2.0 paradigm empowered Internet users to become application and service developer themselves. Examples of this new generation of websites are blogs, wikis or media-sharing platforms. Thereby, the users are connected to each other by means of social networks creating new path to communicate and share information. Prominent examples for such social media networks are Facebook or YouTube.

Nowadays, a newly emerging service platform and business model in the Internet is established by the crowdsourcing paradigm. In contrast to outsourcing, where a job is performed by a designated worker or employee, crowdsourcing means to outsource a job to a large, anonymous crowd of workers, the so-called human cloud, in the form of an open call. This human cloud is abstracted by a crowdsourcing platform, which distributes the work submitted by an employer among the human worker resources and acts as mediator between worker and employer. The crowdsourcing paradigm is changing dramatically the future of work and work organization in the Internet. The work is organized at a finer granularity and jobs are split into cheap micro-tasks, that can be fast performed by the human cloud.

Due to the increasing interest in social networks and crowdsourcing, there is a lot of ongoing research in this area. However, there are a lot of open research issues. The impact of social networks and crowdsourcing platforms on future Internet traffic is still unknown. Due to the size of these networks and the human cloud, these platforms will change significantly the Internet traffic in a similar manner as Facebook or other social media networks today. Thus, it is an important telecommunications issue to model and analyze these communication platforms and the evolving complex networks, like the dynamics and the growth of social media network and crowdsourcing platforms.

On this background, this Special Issue focuses on modeling of emerging Internet platform, in particular social networks and crowdsourcing platforms. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Measurement, modeling and analysis of social networks
* characterization and evolution of network topologies and interaction networks
* detection of user communities and user interactions
* inference of topology, friend relationships or interactions in social networks
* population models and structural models for network dynamics
* measurement methods and approximation techniques like sampling
* properties of complex networks, appropriate complex networks metrics
* information diffusion and epidemic spreading
* opinion formation and consensus, community formation, collective decisions
* bio-inspired and socio-physical models

Measurement, modeling and analysis of crowdsourcing
* evolution of crowdsourcing platforms, trends like mobile crowdsourcing
* use cases for crowdsourcing, e.g. for enterprises or in mobile domains
* modeling the granularity of work, key components of crowdsourcing
* modeling and analysis of the human cloud and individual user behavior
* models from different perspectives: platform operator, employer, worker
* quality, costs, and completion times of crowdsourcing jobs
* modeling quality assurance mechanisms, incentive mechanisms
* classification models for jobs and campaigns, skills and experience of workers
* modeling recommendation systems and their impact

Papers must address original work not submitted or published elsewhere. Submission of previously published conference/workshop papers must be clearly identified and a statement from the authors explaining how such work has been further extended should also be submitted. Camera-ready papers may not exceed 7000 words or 20 pages of IJCNDS. Detailed instructions for authors are found at http://www.inderscience.com/guidelines. Submission of papers in the form of a single PDF attached to an e-mail to the guest editors.

Guest Editors
Dr. Tobias Hoßfeld and Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia
University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science
hossfeld@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
trangia@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Important Dates
Full papers due September 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance November 30, 2011
Camera-ready papers due January 15, 2011
Tentative date of appearance Fall 2012

In the last decades, the Internet changed dramatically in an economic way, but also in a technical way. The Internet evolved from a simple collection of websites providing pure information towards a service and application platform by implementing new paradigms. The rise of the Peer-to-Peer paradigm led to new applications and services which allowed Internet users sharing files and user generated content among each others. Later on, the application of the Web 2.0 paradigm empowered Internet users to become application and service developer themselves. Examples of this new generation of websites are blogs, wikis or media-sharing platforms. Thereby, the users are connected to each other by means of social networks creating new path to communicate and share information. Prominent examples for such social media networks are Facebook or YouTube.

Nowadays, a newly emerging service platform and business model in the Internet is established by the crowdsourcing paradigm. In contrast to outsourcing, where a job is performed by a designated worker or employee, crowdsourcing means to outsource a job to a large, anonymous crowd of workers, the so-called human cloud, in the form of an open call. This human cloud is abstracted by a crowdsourcing platform, which distributes the work submitted by an employer among the human worker resources and acts as mediator between worker and employer. The crowdsourcing paradigm is changing dramatically the future of work and work organization in the Internet. The work is organized at a finer granularity and jobs are split into cheap micro-tasks, that can be fast performed by the human cloud.

Due to the increasing interest in social networks and crowdsourcing, there is a lot of ongoing research in this area. However, there are a lot of open research issues. The impact of social networks and crowdsourcing platforms on future Internet traffic is still unknown. Due to the size of these networks and the human cloud, these platforms will change significantly the Internet traffic in a similar manner as Facebook or other social media networks today. Thus, it is an important telecommunications issue to model and analyze these communication platforms and the evolving complex networks, like the dynamics and the growth of social media network and crowdsourcing platforms.

On this background, this Special Issue focuses on modeling of emerging Internet platform, in particular social networks and crowdsourcing platforms. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Measurement, modeling and analysis of social networks
* characterization and evolution of network topologies and interaction networks
* detection of user communities and user interactions
* inference of topology, friend relationships or interactions in social networks
* population models and structural models for network dynamics
* measurement methods and approximation techniques like sampling
* properties of complex networks, appropriate complex networks metrics
* information diffusion and epidemic spreading
* opinion formation and consensus, community formation, collective decisions
* bio-inspired and socio-physical models

Measurement, modeling and analysis of crowdsourcing
* evolution of crowdsourcing platforms, trends like mobile crowdsourcing
* use cases for crowdsourcing, e.g. for enterprises or in mobile domains
* modeling the granularity of work, key components of crowdsourcing
* modeling and analysis of the human cloud and individual user behavior
* models from different perspectives: platform operator, employer, worker
* quality, costs, and completion times of crowdsourcing jobs
* modeling quality assurance mechanisms, incentive mechanisms
* classification models for jobs and campaigns, skills and experience of workers
* modeling recommendation systems and their impact

Papers must address original work not submitted or published elsewhere. Submission of previously published conference/workshop papers must be clearly identified and a statement from the authors explaining how such work has been further extended should also be submitted. Camera-ready papers may not exceed 7000 words or 20 pages of IJCNDS. Detailed instructions for authors are found at http://www.inderscience.com/guidelines. Submission of papers in the form of a single PDF attached to an e-mail to the guest editors.

Guest Editors
Dr. Tobias Hoßfeld and Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia
University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science
hossfeld@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
trangia@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Important Dates
Full papers due September 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance November 30, 2011
Camera-ready papers due January 15, 2011
Tentative date of appearance Fall 2012

In the last decades, the Internet changed dramatically in an economic way, but also in a technical way. The Internet evolved from a simple collection of websites providing pure information towards a service and application platform by implementing new paradigms. The rise of the Peer-to-Peer paradigm led to new applications and services which allowed Internet users sharing files and user generated content among each others. Later on, the application of the Web 2.0 paradigm empowered Internet users to become application and service developer themselves. Examples of this new generation of websites are blogs, wikis or media-sharing platforms. Thereby, the users are connected to each other by means of social networks creating new path to communicate and share information. Prominent examples for such social media networks are Facebook or YouTube.

Nowadays, a newly emerging service platform and business model in the Internet is established by the crowdsourcing paradigm. In contrast to outsourcing, where a job is performed by a designated worker or employee, crowdsourcing means to outsource a job to a large, anonymous crowd of workers, the so-called human cloud, in the form of an open call. This human cloud is abstracted by a crowdsourcing platform, which distributes the work submitted by an employer among the human worker resources and acts as mediator between worker and employer. The crowdsourcing paradigm is changing dramatically the future of work and work organization in the Internet. The work is organized at a finer granularity and jobs are split into cheap micro-tasks, that can be fast performed by the human cloud.

Due to the increasing interest in social networks and crowdsourcing, there is a lot of ongoing research in this area. However, there are a lot of open research issues. The impact of social networks and crowdsourcing platforms on future Internet traffic is still unknown. Due to the size of these networks and the human cloud, these platforms will change significantly the Internet traffic in a similar manner as Facebook or other social media networks today. Thus, it is an important telecommunications issue to model and analyze these communication platforms and the evolving complex networks, like the dynamics and the growth of social media network and crowdsourcing platforms.

On this background, this Special Issue focuses on modeling of emerging Internet platform, in particular social networks and crowdsourcing platforms. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Measurement, modeling and analysis of social networks
* characterization and evolution of network topologies and interaction networks
* detection of user communities and user interactions
* inference of topology, friend relationships or interactions in social networks
* population models and structural models for network dynamics
* measurement methods and approximation techniques like sampling
* properties of complex networks, appropriate complex networks metrics
* information diffusion and epidemic spreading
* opinion formation and consensus, community formation, collective decisions
* bio-inspired and socio-physical models

Measurement, modeling and analysis of crowdsourcing
* evolution of crowdsourcing platforms, trends like mobile crowdsourcing
* use cases for crowdsourcing, e.g. for enterprises or in mobile domains
* modeling the granularity of work, key components of crowdsourcing
* modeling and analysis of the human cloud and individual user behavior
* models from different perspectives: platform operator, employer, worker
* quality, costs, and completion times of crowdsourcing jobs
* modeling quality assurance mechanisms, incentive mechanisms
* classification models for jobs and campaigns, skills and experience of workers
* modeling recommendation systems and their impact

Papers must address original work not submitted or published elsewhere. Submission of previously published conference/workshop papers must be clearly identified and a statement from the authors explaining how such work has been further extended should also be submitted. Camera-ready papers may not exceed 7000 words or 20 pages of IJCNDS. Detailed instructions for authors are found at http://www.inderscience.com/guidelines. Submission of papers in the form of a single PDF attached to an e-mail to the guest editors.

Guest Editors
Dr. Tobias Hoßfeld and Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia
University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science
hossfeld@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
trangia@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Important Dates
Full papers due September 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance November 30, 2011
Camera-ready papers due January 15, 2011
Tentative date of appearance Fall 2012

In the last decades, the Internet changed dramatically in an economic way, but also in a technical way. The Internet evolved from a simple collection of websites providing pure information towards a service and application platform by implementing new paradigms. The rise of the Peer-to-Peer paradigm led to new applications and services which allowed Internet users sharing files and user generated content among each others. Later on, the application of the Web 2.0 paradigm empowered Internet users to become application and service developer themselves. Examples of this new generation of websites are blogs, wikis or media-sharing platforms. Thereby, the users are connected to each other by means of social networks creating new path to communicate and share information. Prominent examples for such social media networks are Facebook or YouTube.

Nowadays, a newly emerging service platform and business model in the Internet is established by the crowdsourcing paradigm. In contrast to outsourcing, where a job is performed by a designated worker or employee, crowdsourcing means to outsource a job to a large, anonymous crowd of workers, the so-called human cloud, in the form of an open call. This human cloud is abstracted by a crowdsourcing platform, which distributes the work submitted by an employer among the human worker resources and acts as mediator between worker and employer. The crowdsourcing paradigm is changing dramatically the future of work and work organization in the Internet. The work is organized at a finer granularity and jobs are split into cheap micro-tasks, that can be fast performed by the human cloud.

Due to the increasing interest in social networks and crowdsourcing, there is a lot of ongoing research in this area. However, there are a lot of open research issues. The impact of social networks and crowdsourcing platforms on future Internet traffic is still unknown. Due to the size of these networks and the human cloud, these platforms will change significantly the Internet traffic in a similar manner as Facebook or other social media networks today. Thus, it is an important telecommunications issue to model and analyze these communication platforms and the evolving complex networks, like the dynamics and the growth of social media network and crowdsourcing platforms.

On this background, this Special Issue focuses on modeling of emerging Internet platform, in particular social networks and crowdsourcing platforms. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Measurement, modeling and analysis of social networks
* characterization and evolution of network topologies and interaction networks
* detection of user communities and user interactions
* inference of topology, friend relationships or interactions in social networks
* population models and structural models for network dynamics
* measurement methods and approximation techniques like sampling
* properties of complex networks, appropriate complex networks metrics
* information diffusion and epidemic spreading
* opinion formation and consensus, community formation, collective decisions
* bio-inspired and socio-physical models

Measurement, modeling and analysis of crowdsourcing
* evolution of crowdsourcing platforms, trends like mobile crowdsourcing
* use cases for crowdsourcing, e.g. for enterprises or in mobile domains
* modeling the granularity of work, key components of crowdsourcing
* modeling and analysis of the human cloud and individual user behavior
* models from different perspectives: platform operator, employer, worker
* quality, costs, and completion times of crowdsourcing jobs
* modeling quality assurance mechanisms, incentive mechanisms
* classification models for jobs and campaigns, skills and experience of workers
* modeling recommendation systems and their impact

Papers must address original work not submitted or published elsewhere. Submission of previously published conference/workshop papers must be clearly identified and a statement from the authors explaining how such work has been further extended should also be submitted. Camera-ready papers may not exceed 7000 words or 20 pages of IJCNDS. Detailed instructions for authors are found at http://www.inderscience.com/guidelines. Submission of papers in the form of a single PDF attached to an e-mail to the guest editors.

Guest Editors
Dr. Tobias Hoßfeld and Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia
University of Würzburg, Institute of Computer Science
hossfeld@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
trangia@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Important Dates
Full papers due September 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance November 30, 2011
Camera-ready papers due January 15, 2011
Tentative date of appearance Fall 2012

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Call For Papers: The 2012 Stochastic Networks Conference (SNC 2012)Call For Papers: The 2012 Stochastic Networks Conference (SNC 2012)

Posted on August 16, 2011 by admin

The 2012 Stochastic Networks Conference
June 18 – 22, 2012
MIT

The tenth international Conference on Stochastic Networks will be held on June 18-22, 2012, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

This week-long event continues a tradition that was started in 1987 and that has now become a biennial event. Its aim is to bring together researchers who share an interest in stochastic network models, to survey recent developments, and identify future research directions. As in the past, the meeting will be structured in a workshop format, with approximately twenty hour-long invited talks, and ample free time, so as to maximize interactions between speakers and participants, and to facilitate a fruitful exchange of ideas. In addition, there will be a poster session for contributed papers.

Stochastic networks is a multifaceted area of research dealing with the modeling, stability, control, performance, approximation, and design of stochastic networks. It gives rise to challenging and subtle mathematical problems, whose solution often requires a combination of ideas and techniques from several branches of mathematics, including probability theory, stochastic processes, analysis, optimization, algorithms, combinatorics, and graph theory. Research in this area is strongly motivated by applications in diverse domains, ranging from the traditional areas of telecommunications and manufacturing to service operations, biological and social networks, revenue management, and health care. Like its predecessors, the 2012 Stochastic Networks Conference will emphasize new model structures and new mathematical problems that are motivated by contemporary developments in various application domains, as well as new mathematical methods for stochastic network analysis.

For links to previous meetings, visit http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/sn/

Program Committee

Francois Baccelli francois.baccelli@ens.fr
Jose Blanchet jose.blanchet@columbia.edu
Jim Dai dai@gatech.edu
Michel Mandjes m.r.h.mandjes@uva.nl
Kavita Ramanan kavita_ramanan@brown.edu
R. Srikant rsrikant@illinois.edu
Ruth Williams williams@stochastic.ucsd.edu
John Tsitsiklis jnt@mit.edu

The 2012 Stochastic Networks Conference
June 18 – 22, 2012
MIT

The tenth international Conference on Stochastic Networks will be held on June 18-22, 2012, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

This week-long event continues a tradition that was started in 1987 and that has now become a biennial event. Its aim is to bring together researchers who share an interest in stochastic network models, to survey recent developments, and identify future research directions. As in the past, the meeting will be structured in a workshop format, with approximately twenty hour-long invited talks, and ample free time, so as to maximize interactions between speakers and participants, and to facilitate a fruitful exchange of ideas. In addition, there will be a poster session for contributed papers.

Stochastic networks is a multifaceted area of research dealing with the modeling, stability, control, performance, approximation, and design of stochastic networks. It gives rise to challenging and subtle mathematical problems, whose solution often requires a combination of ideas and techniques from several branches of mathematics, including probability theory, stochastic processes, analysis, optimization, algorithms, combinatorics, and graph theory. Research in this area is strongly motivated by applications in diverse domains, ranging from the traditional areas of telecommunications and manufacturing to service operations, biological and social networks, revenue management, and health care. Like its predecessors, the 2012 Stochastic Networks Conference will emphasize new model structures and new mathematical problems that are motivated by contemporary developments in various application domains, as well as new mathematical methods for stochastic network analysis.

For links to previous meetings, visit http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/sn/

Program Committee

Francois Baccelli francois.baccelli@ens.fr
Jose Blanchet jose.blanchet@columbia.edu
Jim Dai dai@gatech.edu
Michel Mandjes m.r.h.mandjes@uva.nl
Kavita Ramanan kavita_ramanan@brown.edu
R. Srikant rsrikant@illinois.edu
Ruth Williams williams@stochastic.ucsd.edu
John Tsitsiklis jnt@mit.edu
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Call For Papers: 4th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2011)Call For Papers: 4th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2011)

Posted on August 15, 2011 by admin

SPeL 2011
4th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities
Link: http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/

in conjunction with ICWL 2011
The 10th International Conference on Web-based Learning
Link: http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011/

Hong Kong
8-10 December 2011

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Motivation
==========

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009 and SPeL 2010 editions (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/previous.php). The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities.

Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, media-sharing services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called “digital natives” want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs.

This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities, leading towards the creation of a truly social and adaptive learning environment. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners.

This installment of the workshop is intended to have as a special theme the provision of intelligent, adaptive support for collaborative learning. In this context, we will solicit contributions that converge on this topic, either from the perspective of collaborative learning theory and practice (highlighting opportunities for the introduction of intelligent support in the process), or from the perspective of adaptive learning methods and techniques (traditionally more individual learner-oriented). This is aimed at complementing the workshop’s general themes, and focusing on an emergent research area that is expected to have major impact in the area of e-learning in the coming years.

Topics of interest
==================

The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about:

* Social learning environments
* Theory and modeling of social computing in education
* Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
* Lifelong learning networks
* Social- and group- learning theory
* Knowledge community formation and support
* Virtual spaces for learning communities
* Social networks analysis and mining
* Computer-supported collaborative learning
* Personalized and adaptive learning
* Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
* Intelligent learner and group modeling
* Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
* Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
* Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
* Social information retrieval
* Mobile e-learning applications
* Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
* Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
* Practice and experience sharing

Paper submission and publication
=================================

All accepted workshop papers will be published as a post-proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This will give authors an opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the feedback they will receive during the paper presentations and discussions at the ICWL 2011 conference.

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2011.

Important dates
===============

September 3, 2011 Abstract submission
September 10, 2011 Full paper submission
October 5, 2011 Acceptance notification
October 15, 2011 Camera ready paper & Registration
December 8-10, 2011 ICWL 2011 conference (exact workshop date is TBA)

Workshop Chairs
===============

Elvira Popescu – University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf – Athabasca University, Canada
Alexandros Paramythis – Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stavros Demetriadis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Program Committee
=================

http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/committee.php

Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011) for more information and send us email at spel2011@easychair.org for any inquiry.SPeL 2011
4th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities
Link: http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/

in conjunction with ICWL 2011
The 10th International Conference on Web-based Learning
Link: http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011/

Hong Kong
8-10 December 2011

***************************************************************************

Motivation
==========

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009 and SPeL 2010 editions (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/previous.php). The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities.

Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, media-sharing services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called “digital natives” want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs.

This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities, leading towards the creation of a truly social and adaptive learning environment. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners.

This installment of the workshop is intended to have as a special theme the provision of intelligent, adaptive support for collaborative learning. In this context, we will solicit contributions that converge on this topic, either from the perspective of collaborative learning theory and practice (highlighting opportunities for the introduction of intelligent support in the process), or from the perspective of adaptive learning methods and techniques (traditionally more individual learner-oriented). This is aimed at complementing the workshop’s general themes, and focusing on an emergent research area that is expected to have major impact in the area of e-learning in the coming years.

Topics of interest
==================

The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about:

* Social learning environments
* Theory and modeling of social computing in education
* Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
* Lifelong learning networks
* Social- and group- learning theory
* Knowledge community formation and support
* Virtual spaces for learning communities
* Social networks analysis and mining
* Computer-supported collaborative learning
* Personalized and adaptive learning
* Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
* Intelligent learner and group modeling
* Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
* Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
* Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
* Social information retrieval
* Mobile e-learning applications
* Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
* Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
* Practice and experience sharing

Paper submission and publication
=================================

All accepted workshop papers will be published as a post-proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This will give authors an opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the feedback they will receive during the paper presentations and discussions at the ICWL 2011 conference.

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2011.

Important dates
===============

September 3, 2011 Abstract submission
September 10, 2011 Full paper submission
October 5, 2011 Acceptance notification
October 15, 2011 Camera ready paper & Registration
December 8-10, 2011 ICWL 2011 conference (exact workshop date is TBA)

Workshop Chairs
===============

Elvira Popescu – University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf – Athabasca University, Canada
Alexandros Paramythis – Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stavros Demetriadis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Program Committee
=================

http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/committee.php

Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011) for more information and send us email at spel2011@easychair.org for any inquiry.

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Call For Papers: Intelligent Web Services meet Social Computing AAAI Spring Symposium (IWEBSS 2012)Call For Papers: Intelligent Web Services meet Social Computing AAAI Spring Symposium (IWEBSS 2012)

Posted on August 12, 2011 by admin

Intelligent Web Services meet Social Computing AAAI Spring Symposium

Link: http://vitvar.com/events/aaai-ss12

When Mar 26, 2012 – Mar 28, 2012
Where Stanford, CA
Submission Deadline Oct 7, 2011
Notification Due Nov 9, 2011
Final Version Due Jan 10, 2012

Development of web services faces significant challenges concerning quality of design, development costs, endorsement of services by the community, integration and interoperability of services from different domains and effective sharing of services among users and developers. This spring symposium will bring together two lines of research whose combination can help in dealing with these issues, namely intelligent web services and social computing research. Social Computing is a promising approach that can help to understand user and community behaviour and related computational challenges around Web services development.

The topics of the symposium include the following:

– Social and technical requirements for collaborative web service development
– Platforms and user interfaces for crowdsourcing web service development, and verification
– Techniques for contextualized reviewing and rating of web services
– Methods to incentivize, boost, and influence community participation throughout the lifecycle of web services
– Methods to define and mashup service descriptions with Linked Data vocabularies
– Systems and techniques for context- and social-based recommendation of web services
– Methods for collaborative authoring of semantic annotations (for example RDFa, SAWSDL)
– Argumentation frameworks and norms for reaching consensus on service implementation, description, and integration
– Trust in collaborative web service construction
– Mining, monitoring and analysis of behaviour and activities of web service online communities (such as ProgrammableWeb, and Seekda)
– Analysis of web service usage patterns and associated social and technical parameters
– Extraction of web service descriptions from tags
– Case studies for use of social computing to construct and manage web servicesIntelligent Web Services meet Social Computing AAAI Spring Symposium

Link: http://vitvar.com/events/aaai-ss12

When Mar 26, 2012 – Mar 28, 2012
Where Stanford, CA
Submission Deadline Oct 7, 2011
Notification Due Nov 9, 2011
Final Version Due Jan 10, 2012

Development of web services faces significant challenges concerning quality of design, development costs, endorsement of services by the community, integration and interoperability of services from different domains and effective sharing of services among users and developers. This spring symposium will bring together two lines of research whose combination can help in dealing with these issues, namely intelligent web services and social computing research. Social Computing is a promising approach that can help to understand user and community behaviour and related computational challenges around Web services development.

The topics of the symposium include the following:

– Social and technical requirements for collaborative web service development
– Platforms and user interfaces for crowdsourcing web service development, and verification
– Techniques for contextualized reviewing and rating of web services
– Methods to incentivize, boost, and influence community participation throughout the lifecycle of web services
– Methods to define and mashup service descriptions with Linked Data vocabularies
– Systems and techniques for context- and social-based recommendation of web services
– Methods for collaborative authoring of semantic annotations (for example RDFa, SAWSDL)
– Argumentation frameworks and norms for reaching consensus on service implementation, description, and integration
– Trust in collaborative web service construction
– Mining, monitoring and analysis of behaviour and activities of web service online communities (such as ProgrammableWeb, and Seekda)
– Analysis of web service usage patterns and associated social and technical parameters
– Extraction of web service descriptions from tags
– Case studies for use of social computing to construct and manage web services

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Call For Papers: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: Cloud-Based Mobile Media: Infrastructure, Services and Applications (TMM 2012)Call For Papers: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: Cloud-Based Mobile Media: Infrastructure, Services and Applications (TMM 2012)

Posted on August 11, 2011 by admin

Recent advances in smart phone technologies have fueled a new wave of user demands for rich mobile experience. Today’s mobile users not only expect broadband connection wherever they go and interaction with each other via social network on the road, but also seek ubiquitous access to a wealth of media-based contents and services. Since mobile devices are inherently resource-limited, cloud computing is emerging as a promising technology to provide additional resources for many media-rich mobile applications. However, the synthesis between mobile media and cloud computing should be well orchestrated to address many technical challenges arising in this exciting space. The fundamental tension between resource-hungry multimedia streams and power-limited mobile devices has yet to be resolved, and is complicated by novel ways of operating mobile devices as both media clients and content providers. Efforts for providing a universal rich-media experience across any screen is typically hindered by the heterogeneity amongst ever-evolving mobile devices, as manifested in their different physical form factors, middleware platforms, and interactive features. This challenge is further aggravated by business concerns from different service providers (e.g., Telcos, MSOs and ISPs), as well as security concerns from users and content providers. These daunting challenges are better tackled by an interdisciplinary approach. In this special issue, we invite original research and review articles that study the interactions among advanced multimedia technology, cloud computing, mobility, and social networking.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

* Enhanced QoS for mobile media
* Mobile multimedia content delivery
* Multimedia search on mobile devices
* Distributed caching of media data
* Cloud-based multimedia processing
* Media cloud resource management
* Cloud-assisted media content recommendation
* User-centric media adaptation in the cloud
* Interactive media rendering
* Service-oriented media management
* Cloud-based mobile media system
* Mobile media security and privacy

Authors are encouraged to contact guest editors for the appropriateness of their topics. Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-author-info/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia online manuscript system, Manuscript Central, via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee according to the following timetable:

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Manuscript Due: February 15, 2012
First Round of Editorial Decision: June 1, 2012
Final Editorial Decision: August 1, 2012
Camera Ready Paper Due: October 1, 2012
Publication Date: February 2013
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Guest Editors
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Chang Wen Chen (chencw@buffalo.edu)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, USA

Xiaoqing Zhu (zhuxq@stanfordalumni.org)
Advanced Architecture & Research, Cisco Systems Inc., USA

Yonggang Wen (ygwen@ntu.edu.sg)
School of Computing Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Joel Rodrigues (joeljr@ieee.org)
Institute of Telecommunications, University of Beira Interior, PortugalRecent advances in smart phone technologies have fueled a new wave of user demands for rich mobile experience. Today’s mobile users not only expect broadband connection wherever they go and interaction with each other via social network on the road, but also seek ubiquitous access to a wealth of media-based contents and services. Since mobile devices are inherently resource-limited, cloud computing is emerging as a promising technology to provide additional resources for many media-rich mobile applications. However, the synthesis between mobile media and cloud computing should be well orchestrated to address many technical challenges arising in this exciting space. The fundamental tension between resource-hungry multimedia streams and power-limited mobile devices has yet to be resolved, and is complicated by novel ways of operating mobile devices as both media clients and content providers. Efforts for providing a universal rich-media experience across any screen is typically hindered by the heterogeneity amongst ever-evolving mobile devices, as manifested in their different physical form factors, middleware platforms, and interactive features. This challenge is further aggravated by business concerns from different service providers (e.g., Telcos, MSOs and ISPs), as well as security concerns from users and content providers. These daunting challenges are better tackled by an interdisciplinary approach. In this special issue, we invite original research and review articles that study the interactions among advanced multimedia technology, cloud computing, mobility, and social networking.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

* Enhanced QoS for mobile media
* Mobile multimedia content delivery
* Multimedia search on mobile devices
* Distributed caching of media data
* Cloud-based multimedia processing
* Media cloud resource management
* Cloud-assisted media content recommendation
* User-centric media adaptation in the cloud
* Interactive media rendering
* Service-oriented media management
* Cloud-based mobile media system
* Mobile media security and privacy

Authors are encouraged to contact guest editors for the appropriateness of their topics. Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-author-info/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia online manuscript system, Manuscript Central, via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee according to the following timetable:

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Manuscript Due: February 15, 2012
First Round of Editorial Decision: June 1, 2012
Final Editorial Decision: August 1, 2012
Camera Ready Paper Due: October 1, 2012
Publication Date: February 2013
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Guest Editors
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Chang Wen Chen (chencw@buffalo.edu)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, USA

Xiaoqing Zhu (zhuxq@stanfordalumni.org)
Advanced Architecture & Research, Cisco Systems Inc., USA

Yonggang Wen (ygwen@ntu.edu.sg)
School of Computing Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Joel Rodrigues (joeljr@ieee.org)
Institute of Telecommunications, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

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Call For Papers: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2012)Call For Papers: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2012)

Posted on August 10, 2011 by admin

International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2012)

When Jun 5, 2012 – Jun 5, 2012
Where Hong Kong
Submission Deadline Jan 15, 2012
Notification Due Mar 15, 2012
Final Version Due Apr 5, 2012

Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, is set up to illuminate the state of the arts in multimedia (text, image, video and audio) retrieval.

ACM ICMR 2012 is soliciting original high quality papers addressing challenging issues in the broad field of multimedia retrieval.

Topics of Interest (not limited to)

• Content/semantic/affective based indexing and retrieval
• Large-scale and web-scale multimedia processing
• Integration of content, meta data and social network
• Scalable and distributed search
• User behavior and HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics
• Multimedia fusion
• High performance indexing algorithms
• Machine learning for multimedia retrieval
• Ontology for annotation and search
• 3D video and model processing
• Large-scale summarization and visualization
• Performance evaluation
• Very large scale multimedia corpus
• Navigation and browsing on the Web
• Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
• Database architectures for storage and retrieval
• Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
• Applications in forensic, biomedical image and video collections

Important Dates

Paper Submission: January 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 5, 2012

Link: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~yjiang/icmr2012/cfp.html

 

International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2012)

When Jun 5, 2012 – Jun 5, 2012
Where Hong Kong
Submission Deadline Jan 15, 2012
Notification Due Mar 15, 2012
Final Version Due Apr 5, 2012

Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, is set up to illuminate the state of the arts in multimedia (text, image, video and audio) retrieval.

ACM ICMR 2012 is soliciting original high quality papers addressing challenging issues in the broad field of multimedia retrieval.

Topics of Interest (not limited to)

• Content/semantic/affective based indexing and retrieval
• Large-scale and web-scale multimedia processing
• Integration of content, meta data and social network
• Scalable and distributed search
• User behavior and HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics
• Multimedia fusion
• High performance indexing algorithms
• Machine learning for multimedia retrieval
• Ontology for annotation and search
• 3D video and model processing
• Large-scale summarization and visualization
• Performance evaluation
• Very large scale multimedia corpus
• Navigation and browsing on the Web
• Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
• Database architectures for storage and retrieval
• Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
• Applications in forensic, biomedical image and video collections

Important Dates

Paper Submission: January 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 5, 2012

Link: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~yjiang/icmr2012/cfp.html

 

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