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CFP: The 2010 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining (ASNOAM 2010)

2009-11-09T11:30:00.000+01:00

ASONAM 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS

(A printable typeset version of a more extensive CfP can be found at
<http://asonam2010.hau.gr/>.)

The 2010 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and
Data Mining.

http://asonam2010.hau.gr/

Following the great success of ASONAM09 in Athens (20-22 July 2009), ASONAM2010 will be held in Odense, Denmark, August 9-11, 2010, and the proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (pending final approval).

ASONAM will provide an interdisciplinary venue for practitioners and researchers from a variety of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices with a specific focus on emerging trends.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publications Service. Selected best papers will be invited for submission to special issues of journals and books (see the website for further details).

Submissions of papers are solicited all areas of SNAM including, but not limited to:

- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Application of social network analysis
- Application of social network mining
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
- Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
- Contextual social network analysis
- Contextual social network mining
- Crime data mining and network analysis
- Cyber anthropology
- Dark Web
- Data protection inside communities
- Detection of communities by document analysis
- Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
- Economical impact of social network discovery
- Evolution of patterns in the Web
- Evolution of communities in the Web
- Evolution of communities in organizations
- Geography of social networks
- Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
- Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
- Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
- Knowledge networks
- Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
- Misbehavior detection in communities
- Migration between communities
- Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
- Open source intelligence
- Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
- Personalization for search and for social interaction
- Preparing data for Web mining
- Political impact of social network discovery
- Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
- Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
- Recommendation networks
- Scalability of social networks
- Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Social geography
- Social psychology of information diffusion
- Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
- Visual representation of dynamic social networks
- Web mining algorithms
- Web communities

Important dates

* November 1, 2009 Paper submission process opens
* December 1, 2009 Workshop/special session proposal
* February 28, 2010 Full paper submission deadline
* May 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance
* May 20, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
* May 20, 2010 Presenting author registration due
* August 9-11, 2010 Conference

Please visit the conference website http://asonam2010.hau.gr/ for paper format guidelines, submission instructions and further information.

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Senior Research Fellows in Complex Networks

2009-11-06T12:46:00.001+01:00

This is from the website of the CABDyN Complexity Centre in Oxford.

Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks

CABDyN Complexity Centre,
Grade 8
(£36,532 - £43,622 with discretionary range to £47,666)

Fixed term post for two years

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. The full further particulars for the post are available here.

The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre’s new projects:

‘SATURN – Self-organising Adaptive Technology Underlying Resilient Networks’ is co-funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Since the project involves collaboration with both academic and industrial partners, the postholder should anticipate making regular UK based research visits as well as regular project meetings.

The successful candidate will be working with and analysing the large-scale empirical datasets used in the project, using their working knowledge of large-scale engineered networks and liaising with engineers from the project’s industrial partners about the project’s work on engineering based systems. S/He will develop novel metrics to characterise network resilience, transport and dynamics in large technological systems, and dynamic processes on complex networks. S/He will be expected to then integrate specific research findings with the work of all project partners and co-author articles for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals in different disciplines, presenting research results at international workshops and conferences. S/He will be expected to oversee the day to day management of the project and contribute to the training and development needs of graduate students.

Selection criteria
Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in an appropriate discipline (e.g physical, mathematical, engineering or computer sciences) with postdoctoral training in complex systems and networks, with a track record of serious interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement. An appropriate track record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications on complex systems and networks, good programming skills and demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale empirical data sets will be essential. Candidates will be expected to have experience of giving research seminars on complex systems and networks to an inter-disciplinary audience and the ability to contribute to the organisation of seminar, workshops and conferences. In addition, candidates will be expected to have demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale engineered systems either through training or research or both. Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence applications and processes and/or Cloud Computing is desirable. Track record of successful grant writing is also desirable

The Senior Research Fellow will be based at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, under the direction of Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School). The post is funded for two years, ideally commencing 1st February 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.

If no suitable applicant is forthcoming an appointment on the scale £28,839 – £35,469 with discretionary range to £38,757 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.
Applicants who would need a work visa if appointed to the post are asked to note that under the UK’s new point’s based migration system they will need to demonstrate that they have sufficient points.
To apply send a detailed covering letter indicating how you fulfil the requirements of the post together with a detailed curriculum vitae and the names and complete contact details (including email addresses if possible) of two referees, to vacancies@sbs.ox.ac.uk or to the HR Department at the Saïd Business School, Egrove Park, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NY.
This is an international recruitment round. Please note that letters of application in the UK have to be much more detailed than in some other countries. Applicants are encouraged to address in detail most, if not all, of the points outlined in the selection criteria in their covering letter.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon (GMT) on Wednesday 2 December 2009. It is expected that interviews will be held in the week commencing 4 January 2010.

Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks

CABDyN Complexity Centre
Grade 8 (£36,532 - £43,622 with discretionary range to £47,666)
Fixed term post for two and a half years

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. The full further particulars for the post are available here.

The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre’s new projects:

‘ICTeCollective Project – Harnessing ICT-enabled Collective Social Behaviour’ is funded under the European Commission’s Framework 7, Future of Emerging Technologies Open Scheme. Since the project involves a European collaboration with partner institutions in Finland, Italy, Hungary and Poland, the postholder should anticipate making at least 2 European research visits per annum.

The successful candidate will be working with and analysing the large-scale empirical datasets used in this project, developing novel metrics to characterise network dynamics in large social systems, and dynamic processes on complex networks. S/He will be expected to develop agent-based or stochastic models for the adoption of innovations in online social networks that can be compared with empirical data and to contribute to the development of new models of social influence processes. S/He will be expected to then integrate specific research findings with the work of all project partners and co-author articles for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals in different disciplines, presenting research results at international workshops and conferences. S/He will be expected to oversee the day to day management of the project and contribute to the training and development needs of graduate students.

Selection criteria
Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in an appropriate discipline (e.g physical, mathematical, engineering, computer or analytic social sciences) with postdoctoral training in complex systems and networks, with a track record of serious interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement. An appropriate track record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications on complex systems and networks, good programming skills and demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale empirical data sets will be essential. Candidates will be expected to have experience of giving research seminars on complex systems and networks to an inter-disciplinary audience and the ability to contribute to the organisation of seminar, workshops and conferences. Track record of successful grant writing is desirable.

The Senior Research Fellow will be based at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, under the direction of Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School). The post is funded for two and a half years, ideally commencing 1st April 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.

If no suitable applicant is forthcoming an appointment on the scale £28,839 – £35,469 with discretionary range to £38,757 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.
Applicants who would need a work visa if appointed to the post are asked to note that under the UK’s new point’s based migration system they will need to demonstrate that they have sufficient points.
To apply send a detailed covering letter indicating how you fulfil the requirements of the post together with a detailed curriculum vitae and the names and complete contact details (including email addresses if possible) of two referees, to vacancies@sbs.ox.ac.uk or to the HR Department at the Saïd Business School, Egrove Park, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NY.
This is an international recruitment round. Please note that letters of application in the U.K. have to be much more detailed than in some other countries. Applicants are encouraged to address in detail most, if not all, of the points outlined in the selection criteria in their covering letter.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon (GMT) on Wednesday 2 December 2009. It is expected that interviews will be held in the week commencing 4 January 2010.

We would be pleased to discuss individual fellowship applications regarding interdisciplinary research on complex systems and networks, especially if they are directly related to current interests of one or more CABDyN members. In the first instance please contact info.cabdyn@sbs.ox.ac.uk

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

2009-11-06T11:18:00.002+01:00

We have now finished a first preliminary Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media 2010) in Jinhua, China. It is my pleasure to be one of the programme chairs.

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

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Positions in personalized recommender systems for epidemic events at AAU

2009-11-04T16:40:00.004+01:00

Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University in Denmark offers several vacancies at different levels: PhD Fellow, research assistant or post doc expected to start on January 1 2010 or as soon as possible after with a deadline for applications on November 30 2009

The vacancies are available within Intelligent Web and Information Systems group (IWIS, http://iwis.cs.aau.dk).

The funding is available within FP7 projects KIWI, idSpace and MEco.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas:

- advanced personalized information retrieval and recommender systems techniques based on social activities such as tagging
- web engineering in the system area of information retrieval, event detection, recommender systems and social web portals
- with focus on application domain in medical and epidemic events identification from social media

Interested candidates should have following competencies:
- excellent master or PhD degree in computer science preferably in information retrieval, recommender systems, database management with focus on web, web engineering or related areas
- advanced programming skills and experiences from web portals development and integration preferably in technologies related to JAVA
- fluent in English (speaking and writing)
- good social and collaboration skills
- knowledge in medical domain especially with relevance to epidemic events is an advantage
- experiences in collaborative research projects is an advantage

Your main duties will be to perform research and programming within the IWIS group and the associated projects as well as help with daily tasks in the group. IWIS group is a young, dynamic, and international research group. Currently active research areas of the group are influenced by world wide web research and includes:

* infrastructures for intelligent information systems on the web
* web personalization strategies and algorithms
* engineering adaptive web

PhD fellow and research assistant positions are intended for candidates who would like to pursue a PhD degree. Post Doc position is intended for candidates who would like to further develop and deepen their research profile as well as help with management tasks. You will be given an opportunity to develop your teaching skills as well.

Your salary will depend on position and ranges between approximately 24 000 DKK and 30000 DKK before taxes per month (1EUR is approximately 7.5 DKK). Aalborg is a regional center of a very beautiful area with nice beaches and nature.

Further information on how to apply can be found at the following web site:

PhD Fellow: http://stillinger.aau.dk/vis.php?nr=4895

Research Assistant and PostDoc: http://stillinger.aau.dk/vis.php?nr=4894

Please note that you have to apply by normal post and identify propoerly which position you are applying for:

PhD Fellow: 562/06-16-29204

Research Assistant: V29013

PostDoc: P29017

Please send your application no later than November 30 2009.

As described at above mentioned web site, we will expect within your application usual documents such as cv, copies of your degree certificates, list of publications (if any), transcripts of your university study results, master thesis extended abstract as well as motivation letter containing suggestions how to approach the above mentioned area in the project.

For further inquires please contact Associate Professor Peter Dolog: dolog@cs.aau.dk

IEEE First International Workshop on Social Networks

2009-11-04T14:50:00.000+01:00

IEEE First International Workshop on Social Networks

Cape Town, South Africa, May 27, 2010
in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications

Social networks treating relationship as connections to form networks become an emerging technology in Internet and mobile computing/communications, as the foundation of popular personalized but anonymous applications/services of networking and communication infrastructure. However, there are tremendous knowledge and technology challenges, which are open to research community to facilitate state-of-the-art systems and networks of user attraction. This workshop will focus on but not limited to the following potential subjects of
interests:

* Social network behaviors, dynamics, modeling, and analysis
* Representation, measurement, modeling of relationship
* Social network topology, complex network theory, random graph, and relationship to statistical mechanics or biology
* Web connections and grid/cloud computing
* Belief and message propagation, search technology over Internet
* Trusted networking, security, privacy, and digital right management over social networking
* Cognitive modeling, machine learning, game theory, computational intelligence, applied in social networks
* Applications and services to Internet, multimedia networks, e-commerce, and mobile-commerce

The manuscripts must be originally written in English, and no more than 6 two-column pages following IEEE format in PDF. Please visit www.comm.ntu.edu.tw/socialnet and submit your paper through EDAS with the following schedule:

Submission Deadline: November 20, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 20, 2010
Camera-Ready Due: February 20, 2010

Accepted papers will be published at the IEEE Xplore. Further questions can be addressed to social.net@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw

TPC Members:

Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Ulrik Brandes (U. of Konstanz)
Klaus David (Universität Kassel)
Mads Haahr (Trinity College Dublin)
Symeon Papavassiliou (Nat'l Technical U. of Athens)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Kazumi Saito (University of Shizuoka)
Knud Skouby (Aalborg University)
Yan Sun (University of Rhode Islands)
Stephen Wicker (Cornell University)
Ja-Lin Wu (National Taiwan University)
Vicky Zhao (University of Alberta)

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)

Workshop Secretary:

Phone Lin (National Taiwan University)

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AGILE'2010 Call For Papers: Reminder

2009-11-03T13:30:00.000+01:00

13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science: “Geospatial Thinking”

11-14 May 2010

Guimarães, Portugal

http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt

****** Call for Papers

On behalf of the AGILE council, we invite you to participate at the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, scheduled to take place in Guimarães, Portugal.

The program will offer parallel paper presentation sessions, keynote sessions, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including state-of-the-art applications, and to network with the professionals from academia, industry, and government who are interested in promoting GI teaching and research activities among GI laboratories at the European level.

Potential contributors are invited to submit:

- Full-paper submission (maximum 6000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research. High-quality scientific submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography.

- Short paper submission (2000 to 3000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished research work. High-quality scientific and strategic (industrial and governmental) submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the AGILE proceedings volume (with ISSN). Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

- Poster submission (500 to 1000-word manuscript) of original scientific and strategic research work. High-quality submissions will be accepted for poster presentations at the conference and provide the exceptional opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas.

Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

Authors’ instructions are available at http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt. All submissions must be sent electronically via the on-line conference manager.

****** Conference Topics

Contributions are invited on all topics within the fields of geoinformation, geomatics and geocomputation, including (but not limited to):

- Perception and Representation of Geographic Phenomena

- Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Modelling and Reasoning

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Analysis

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Visualisation

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

- Spatial Semantics and Spatiotemporal Ontologies

- Semantic Web and GIS

- Web Services, Geospatial Systems and Real-time Applications

- Location Based Services and Mobile GI Applications

- Geospatial Decision Support Systems

- Public Participation GIS and Participatory uses of Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies

- Volunteered Geographic Information

- GIScience Education and Training

- Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling

- Environmental/Ecological and Urban/Regional Modelling

- Health and Medical Informatics

- Natural Resources Management and Monitoring

- Disaster and Risk Management

- Geosensor Networks

****** Important Deadlines

- Full paper submission: November 6th 2009

- Pre-conference workshop proposal: November 13th 2009

- Notification of workshop acceptance: December 15th 2009

- Notification of full paper acceptance: December 21st 2009

- Camera-ready full paper copies due: January 15th 2010

- Short paper and poster submissions: January 29th 2010

- Notification of short paper and poster acceptance: March 5th 2010

- Camera-ready short paper copies due: March 29th 2010

- Early registration: March 31st 2010

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Call for Papers: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2010)

2009-11-02T18:54:00.003+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

ICALT2010

Sousse, Tunisia

July 5-7, 2010

http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2010/

Deadline: January 15th, 2010

ICALT is an annual international conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning organized by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. After its kick-off as IWALT in Palmerston North, New Zealand (2000), ICALT has been held in New Zealand (2000), Madisson, USA (2001), Kazan, Russia (2002), Athens, Greece (2003), Joensuu, Finland (2004), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2005), Kerkrade, The Netherlands (2006), Niigata, Japan (2007), Santander, Spain (2008), Riga, Latvia (2009). The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2010) will be held in Sousse, Tunisia, a city with rich culture and a long-standing tradition in computer-based learning. The technical program will feature keynote addresses, workshops, tutorials, in addition to presentations of refereed papers.

Selected Papers will be considered for publication to

* Educational Technology and Society Journal [http://www.ifets.com], ISSN 1436-4522 [included in SSCI, Impact Factor: 0.904/2008 - Thomson Scientific 2008 Journal Citations Report]

* IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies [http://www.computer.org/portal/site/transactions/menuitem.eda2ca84d8d67764cfe79d108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=transactions_level1&path=transactions/tlt/content&file=index.xml&xsl=article.xsl&] (TLT), IEEE [a joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society], ISSN 1939-1382

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Learning Systems Platforms and Architectures
* Rethinking Pedagogy in Technology-enhanced Learning
* Adaptive and Personalized Technology-enhanced Learning
* Intelligent Educational Systems
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning
* Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments for Learning
* Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Computing for Learning and Knowledge Sharing
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for Learning Systems
* Affective and Pervasive Computing for Learning
* Human-Centered Web Science and its Applications to Technology-enhanced Learning
* Virtual Worlds for Academic, Organizational, and Life-Long Learning
* e-Assessment and new Assessment Theories and Methodologies
* Data Mining and Web Mining in Education
* Knowledge and Competencies Management
* Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
* Advanced Learning Technologies for Disabled and Non-Disabled People
* Technology-enhanced Science Education
* International Alliance for Open Source, Open Standards, and federated repositories
* School of the Future and Future Classrooms
* E-learning in the Workplace

IMPORTANT DATES

* January 15, 2010: Submissions all types (Full, Short Papers and Posters)
* February 19, 2010: Authors' Notification on the review process results
* March 15, 2010: Author's Registration Deadline
* April 12, 2010: Final Camera-Ready Manuscript and IEEE Copyright Form submission
* April 30, 2010: Advance Registration
* July 5-7, 2010: ICALT2010 Conference

SUBMISSIONS

We invite the submission of original papers reporting high quality new academic or innovative industrial research in the area of Advanced Learning Technologies. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by three reviewers. Abstracts or incomplete papers are not included to the review process.

The anticipated types of submissions are:
* Full paper: 5 pages
* Short paper: 3 pages
* Posters: 2 pages
* Doctoral consortium papers: 2 pages (first author must be a PhD student)

Please submit your manuscript using the ASK-Conference System at:
http://www.ask4research.info/conference/upload.php
If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you can send the manuscript by email to icalt-operations@iti.gr (subject: ICALT2010 Submission).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Organized by
University of Tunis, Tunisia
Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas

Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology

Conference Proceedings are published by
IEEE Computer Society Press

CONFERENCE FEES POLICY

Author's Registration* (until March 15th)

IEEE Member 300 Euro
IEEE Non-Member 375 Euro
IEEE Member -
Student
IEEE Non-Member -
Student
IEEE Life/Retired -
Member

Non-Authors Advance Registration (until April 30th)

IEEE Member 320 Euro
IEEE Non-Member 400 Euro
IEEE Member 175 Euro
Student
IEEE Non-Member 225 Euro
Student
IEEE Life/Retired 175 Euro
Member

Non-Authors Late Registration (after April 30th)

IEEE Member 450 Euro
IEEE Non-Member 570 Euro
IEEE Member 245 Euro
Student
IEEE Non-Member 310 Euro
Student
IEEE Life/Retired 245 Euro
Member

* At least one author for each accepted paper is required to register as ICALT 2010 Author at flat authors' rate 300 € (IEEE Member) or 375 € (IEEE Non-Member). In cases where the same person plans to present 2
or more papers (Full, Short, Poster or Workshop) in the conference, it is still required that for each paper a single different registration is made (Registration 1:1 Policy). For Doctoral consortium papers to be published in the proceedings and presented in ICALT, the PhD Student who proposed the paper should register as a Student Author at IEEE (175 €) or non-IEEE Rates (245 €)

The conference fees include full entry to all events (Keynotes/ Invited Speeches, Workshops, Papers Presentations, Poster/Demos Sessions and Panels), Welcome Reception and Conference Banquet, Coffee Breaks and Luncheons, as well as one copy of the ICALT 2010 Proceedings (in CD-ROM).

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General Chairs
* Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunisia, Tunisia
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece

Program Chairs
* Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
* J. Michael Spector, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
* Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan
* Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain

Tutorial Chair
* Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Workshop and Panels Chair
* Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Local Chair
* Prof. Rafik Brahem, University of Tunisia, Tunisia

Finance Chair
* Panagiotis Zervas, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

Program Committee (not yet complete)
Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Colin Allison, University of St-Andrews, United Kingdom
Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada
Arif Altun, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Eralp Altun, Ege University, Turkey
Rachid Anane, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Albert Angehrn, INSEAD CALT Fontainebleau, France
Luis E. Anido-Rifon, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Reuven Aviv, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Werner Beuschel, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany
Bani Bhattacharya, Centre for Educational Technology - Indian Institute of Technology, India
MJ Bishop, Lehigh University College of Education, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Josep Blat, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Patrick Blumschein, University of Freiburg, Germany
Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy
Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Christos Bouras, University Patras and CTI, Greece
Francis Brouns, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Mark Brown, Massey University, New Zealand
Martha Burkle, CISCO e-Learning, USA
Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain
Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Ni Chang, Indiana University, USA
Yam-San Chee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gwo-Dong Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Irene Ya-Ling Chen, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Sherry Y. Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia, USA
Christophe Choquet, Universiti du Maine, France
Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK
Vassilis Dagdilelis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Isabel Fernandez De Castro, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Stavros N. Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Austria
Giuliana Dettori, Institute for Educational Technology, Italy
Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, EU
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Angelique Dimitracopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Monica Divitini, Norwegian Universtity of Science and Technology, Norway
Juan Manuel Dodero, Universidad de Cadiz, Spain
Ian Douglas, Florida State University, USA
Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
Mark Dutchuk, Vancouver Island University, Canada
Jan Elen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jon Elorriaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Yoram Eshet, Open University, Israel
Sanaz Fallahkhair, University of Brighton, UK
Carla Falsetti, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Paola Forcheri, IMA-CNR, Italy
Sarfo K. Frederick, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Mike Freeman, Camber Corporation, USA
Domingo J. Gallego, UNED, Spain
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Demetrius Georgiou, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Tiong Goh, Vicrotia University of Wellington, New Zealand
Vladimir A. Goodkovsky, Independent Consultant, Virginia, USA
Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan
Monique Grandbastien, Universite Henri Poincare, France
Dai Griffiths, The Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton, UK
Maria Grigoriadou, University of Athens, Greece
Yasemin Gulbahar, Baskent University, Turkey
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Friedrich Hesse, Knowledge Media Research Centre, Germany
Tsukasa Hirashima, Hiroshima University, Japan
Pete Holt, Athabascau University, Canada
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Yi-chuan Jane Hsieh, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Ray Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Hans Hummel, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Taiwan, Taiwan
Wu Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan
Dirk Ifenthaler, University or Freiburg, Germany
Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Russell Johnson, Massey University, New Zealand
Mike Joy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Charalambos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Keiso Katsura, Senri Kinran University, Japan
Ian Kennedy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
ChanMin Kim, Florida State University, USA
MinKyu Kim, Florida State University, USA
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Rody Klein, Paris 8 University, France
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Gerald Knezek, University of North Texas, USA
Sandhya Kode, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Ah-Choo Koo, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Maria Kordaki, Computer Institute of Technology, Greece
Ari Korhonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tiffany Koszalka, Syracuse University, USA
K. Robert Lai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Aparna Lalingkar, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India
Monica Landoni, University of Lugano, Swiss
Chien Ching Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapure
Chien Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Luigi Lella, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Davinia Hernandez-Leo, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Steve Leung, Athabasca University, Canada
Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy
Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada
Andreas Lingnau, Knowledge Media Research Center, UK
Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Barbara Lockee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
John Loewen, Vancouver Island University, Canada
Jacques Lonchamp, University of Nancy, France
Flavio Manganello, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Alke Martens, University of Rostock, Germany
Trey Martindale, University of Memphis, Tennessee
Jonathan McKeown, Florida State University, USA
Veijo Meisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland
Anastasios Mikropoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Marcelo Milrad, Vaxjo University, Sweden
Punya Mishra, Michigan State University, USA
Boris Misnevs, Transport and Communication Institute, Latvia
Roberto Moriyon, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Constantinos Mourlas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Jari Multisilta, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Sahana Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian
Kandan Muthusamy, IBM India, India
Jehad Najjar, Synergetics NV, Belgium
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Manuel Ortega Cantero, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain
Kyparisia Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece
Foteini Paraskeva, University of Piraeus, Greece
Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece
Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Panagiotis Pintelas, University of Patras, Greece
Sarantos Psycharis, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece
Srinivasa Ramani, IIITB, Bangalore, India
Lloyd Reiber, University of Georgia, USA
Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Marco Ronchetti, University di Trento, Italy
Devshri Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Ali Fawaz Shareef, Center for Open Learning, Maldives
Ji Shen, University of Georgia, USA
Valerie Shute, Florida State University, USA
Katherine Sinitsa, Intl Res. and Trng Ctr of Info. Tech. and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine
Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Amy Soller, USA
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
J. Michael Spector, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
Christian M. Stracke, University of Duisburg-Essen
Jarkko Suhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Qing Tan, Athabasca University, Canada
Carmen Taran, Managing Partner at Rexi Media, UK
Pierre Tchounikine, Universiti du Maine, France
Chin-Chung Tsai, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Maomi Ueno, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Wouter van Joolingen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michael Verhaart, Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway
Dunwei Wen, Athabasca University, Canada
Jie Chi Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Hsiu-Ping Yueh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Larisa Zaitseva, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Second Call for Abstracts - TELDAP International Conference 2010, 2-4 March 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

2009-11-02T14:00:00.000+01:00

TELDAP International Conference 2010

2-4 March 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

http://collab.teldap.tw/teldap2010/

It is a pleasure to announce that the TELDAP International Conference 2010 will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan from Tuesday March 2 until Thursday March 4, 2010.

The Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) International Conference 2010 will be held at the Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan from Tuesday March 2 until Thursday March 4 2010. The conference is organized by International Collaboration and Promotion of Taiwan e-Learning & Digital Archives Program.

This conference provides an international forum for researchers throughout the world to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, latest research results and future development suggestions. The Conference covers topics such as the progress status of TELDAP's results, in-depth application of TELDAP content, new applications and technologies based on digitized contents and e-Learning, etc. By exchanging their experiences on how to develop digitization technology and applications, this Conference would provide the Digital Archive community with invaluable insights for future collaboration.

On behalf of the Program Committee, we are pleased to invite submissions for presentation on the following topics.

Call for Abstracts

Date: 23 Oct. - 30 Nov. 2009

Online Submission at: http://collab.teldap.tw/teldap2010/onlineabstractsubmission.html

Topics of Interest Include

l Biosphere & Nature

How can digitized assets change the way we perceive our planet? What applications can be built so that we can improve natural resource management with the digital archive? The digitization of natural history collections has greatly aided in the research workflow of fundamental systematics, as well as provides an overview of the species composition of the past. By comparing that with geo-referenced observations in the present, scientists can study the human impact on biodiversity. When further evaluated with environmental factors, we start to gain insights into the bio-complexity in this age of extreme climate change. Invited speakers in this session will demonstrate several exciting practices showing how scientists utilize digitization methods on observation data to model and to hypothesize the possible decision support for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in the future.

l Lives & Culture

Taiwan is an island country which is composed of various ethnic groups. The different life styles and habits of those groups have shaped a historical culture which is rich, unique, and full of diversity. Through Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP), the Life and Culture Thematic Group of Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project attempts to reserve the beauty of this characteristic Taiwan culture, such as researching of the excavated relics and digitalizing the collections of the materials, documentary information, diaries, photos, traditional folklores and cultural skills of Aboriginal, Minan, Hakka, migrants from Mainland China and other minorities. In order to share, spread the results of digitalization in archeology and anthropology in Taiwan, by exchanging the digital archives techniques and experienced practices of many programs, TELDAP International Conference 2010, would help the research, promotion and sustainable management of digitalization worldwide. Researchers of digital archive organizations in archeology and cultures, or technicians of related fields are welcome to summit your papers.

l Archives & Databases

The proposed panel aims to foster interoperability and collaboration between institutions, groups, and individuals creating and using archives and databases. The aim is to further cooperation and discussion of all matters related to better integration of the digital archives. Such matters include (but not limited to) standards for interchange of data and metadata, best practices, sample implementations and coordination of identifier definition, catalog mapping, emerging technologies, and so forth. To achieve this goal, select groups and individuals will be invited to participate in the discussions in the TELDAP panel. The proposed panel will focus on bringing together speakers from different fields to commemorate previous achievements and lay the foundations for future developments in various studies. It is our hope that the panel will revitalize cooperation between various archives and projects in these fields as well as between those projects funded by NDAP. The panel will also accommodate and benefit scholars and innovators in the field of Digital Learning.

l Arts & Illustrations

In the past few years, the members of The Art and Illustrations Thematic Group of Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project have done fruitful work in digital archives. The digitalized outcome contains both 2D and 3D visual art works, such as painting, calligraphy, rubbing, seal cutting, jade craft, ceramic, glove puppet, musical instrument, sculpture, Peking operas, Kunqu and fabrics. These precious original art works were once only presented to the public with their aesthetic effects by actually being exhibited in the museums; but now with the digital techniques and internet access, 'Art' has become much more accessible to the general public.

With the purposes of sharing and exchanging the digital archiving techniques and experiences, as well as promoting art work digitalizing techniques, we would like to invite those who are specialized in digitalization techniques or painting and craft conservation to gather together by holding the 'TELDAP International Conference 2010'.

We invite submission of full papers particularly in the following topics:

-Collaboration between digitalization technique and methods for art history study

-Color management

-Quality assurance and efficient digitization workflows

-3D Image capture technology

-2D, calligraphy and scroll image capture technology

l Maps & Architectures

With the geographical features and historical background, the charm of cultural and natural landscape in Taiwan flourishes in different forms. Map and Architecture Thematic Group, one of six thematic groups in "Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project", has precious collection on symbolic features in Taiwanese architecture and geographical information. With techniques such as photographing, scanning, 3D modeling, LIDAR, and Virtual Reality, different forms and features in the specific time and space make possible to be recorded and preserved. For the 2010 TELDAP International Conference, we would like to invite you to share the work we have achieved as well as to discuss and explore the further possibility for digital technologies with special use on recording map and architecture.

We invite submission of full papers particularly respond to the following main themes:

-Knowledge development of Taiwan architecture in association with living space

-Knowledge in architecture integrated by digital content

-Discussion on the further study of digital content

-Study on the presentation of space and time in GIS

-Study on the linkage between the usage and promotion of the digital content database to its users

l Languages & Multimedia

Abstract submissions are cordially invited for peer review on recent advances in the following topics related to Language and Multimedia.

-Journalism & (New) media: digital archives, digital contents and application

-Sign/Spoken languages corpora: theory, practice and application

l e-Learning

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

-Technology Enhanced Science Learning

-Digital Technology Enhanced Learning & Society

-Classroom, Ubiquitous and Mobile Technologies Enhanced Learning

-Technology Enhanced Language Learning

-Testing and Assessment

-Innovative Design of Learning Software

Call for Full-Paper Submissions

We highly encourage the 2010 speakers (both invited and accepted CFP submission) to submit the full-papers of their presentations for publication. The papers should be only submitted in English and will be published in the Conference Proceedings afterwards. The maximum page length for full paper is 10 pages. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be announced on the conference website.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2009

Notification of Acceptance: 30 December 2009

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 20 February 2010

Thank you very much for your attention and we look forward to seeing you in March 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan.

For more information please contact

Conference Secretariat
Ms. Annie Lin, Ms. Molly Wu and Ms. Cindy Chen
Tel: +886-2-2789-8310~8311
Fax: +886-2-2783-7653
Email: teldap-collab@twgrid.org
Address: No.128, Sec2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies on Game-Based Learning

2009-11-02T13:40:00.000+01:00

all For Papers

Game-Based Learning

Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies

Guest Editors: Timothy Shih, Kurt Squrie, and Rynson Lau

Aims

Edutainment and serious games introduce a new important direction to practical technologies such as multimedia communications, human-computer interaction, and ubiquitous computing. This exciting outcome also points out the educational potential using computer games. Several commercially successful games, although not intentionally designed for, have interesting learning, socializing, and interaction strategies embedded in the games. These fundamental and intrinsic learning aspects of successful games must be investigated. How to explore pedagogical principles for serious games, to design and implement systems for Game-Based Learning (GBL), and to assess the achievement of student learning are essential focuses of the special issue..

Topics

In this special issue, we call for original papers that describe the design, implementation, evaluation and experimental study of practical Game-Based Learning systems. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

· Game Based Collaborative Learning

· Assessment of Learning Performance in GBL

· Authoring Tools for GBL

· Game Engine Development and Customization to GBL

· Artificial Intelligent for GBL

· On-Line and Mobile Game Technologies

· Location-Aware Games and Ubiquitous Technologies

· Multimodality Interactions in GBL

· Evaluation and User Experiences of GBL Systems

· Social Impacts of GBL

· Educational Game Design

Submission

Original papers for submission should be formatted and submitted according to the author guidelines. Papers with earlier results published in conferences are required to make substantial changes in contributions, elaboroations and/or experimental results. Recommendation of submission from top conferences related to GBL are also welcomed. Updated information of this call can be found at: www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~rynson/tlt/tlt-cfp.html.

Schedule

Deadline for paper submission: December 1, 2009
Completion of first review: March 1, 2010
Revision due: May 1, 2010
Final decision notification: June 1, 2010
Publication materials due: August 1, 2010
Publication date: December 2010 issue (tentative)

Guest Editors

Timothy Shih
Department of Computer Science
NTUE

Taiwan
Email: timothykshih@gmail.com

Kurt Squrie
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Wisconsin-Madison
U.S.A.
Email: kdsquire@education.wisc.edu

Rynson W.H. Lau
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Email: Rynson.Lau@cityu.edu.hk

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Back Issues of JMM - Journal of Multimedia

International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010)

2009-10-30T17:30:00.000+01:00

First Call for Papers

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010)

July 19-23, 2010 • Singapore

With around 1000 submissions and 500 participants each year, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 6-page full paper according to the guidelines available from the conference website at http://www.icme2010.org/. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Speech, audio, image, graphics, video, text processing
Signal processing for media integration
Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
Multimedia communications and networking
Multimedia security and content protection
Multimedia databases and digital libraries
Multimedia computing systems and applications
Multimedia analysis and social media
Hardware and software for multimedia systems
Multimedia standards and related issues
Multimedia quality assessment

ICME 2010 aims to have the top 15% papers accepted for oral presentation and additional 15% papers accepted for poster presentation. Several awards sponsored by industry and institutions will be given out. Best papers will be presented in a single-track session to all participants. Accepted papers should be presented; otherwise, they will not be included in the IEEE Xplore Library.

A number of Workshops will be organized by the sponsoring societies. To further foster new emerging topics, ICME 2010 also welcomes researchers, developers and practitioners to organize regular Workshops. Interested organizers please contact the Workshop Chairs for further details. Proposals for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demos, and Exhibitions are also encouraged. Please visit the ICME 2010 website for submission details.


Regular Paper Abstract Submission:	December 18, 2009
Regular Paper Submission:	December 31, 2009
Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance:	March 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper Due:	April 15, 2010

Special Session Proposal Due:	December 5, 2009
Workshop Proposal Due:	December 31, 2009
Tutorial Proposal Due:	January 31, 2010

SAMT 2009: Call for Participation - EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO NOV. 8

2009-10-29T19:57:00.003+01:00

Call for Participation

SAMT 2009
4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
2-4 December 2009
Graz, Austria

EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO November 8th -

Please also note that the block reservation at the conference hotel expires next week, we cannot guarantee rooms at the conference rate after that.

The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009) targets at narrowing the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.

The preliminary program of SAMT 2009 can be found at http://www.samt2009.org/program Next to the full and short papers of the main conference SAMT offers:

* Keynotes

- Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research Barcelona

- Stefan Rüger, Open University

* Industry day with presentations about how semantic multimedia technologies are put into practice

* Tutorials

- Web of Data in the Context of Multimedia
Bernhard Haslhofer, Bernhard Schandl, Andreas Langegger, Wolfgang Halb and Tobias Buerger

- MPEG Metadata for Context-Aware Multimedia Applications
Christian Timmerer and Mathias Lux

- A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media
Lynda Hardman and Raphaël Troncy

* Workshops

- Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies
http://semudate2009.fim.uni-passau.de/

- 3rd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals
http://lsas2009.dke-research.de/

We hope to see you in Graz!

International Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW 2010)

2009-10-29T10:54:00.001+01:00

International Workshop on
User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW 2010)

In conjunction with the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010)
Hong Kong, China
February 7 - 10, 2010
http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/UDISW2010/

OVERVIEW

Nowadays, people leave their marks at a multitude of applications distributed across the Web: They share their bookmarks in Delicious, fill in profiles at social networking services such as Facebook and Orkut, browse and buy products on Amazon, search with Google and Yahoo and interact with diverse other sites for information and services. This distributed and heterogeneous corpus of user data is a valuable source of information for systems that aim for personalization and user adaptation.

With the advent of Web 2.0, standards such as OpenID, RSS and OAuth, as well as mashup tools like Yahoo pipes or Semantic Web pipes, interlinking of different services has become easier. However, limited interoperability still prevents applications to exchange, reuse, and integrate their user models for personalization across application and domain boundaries. Research carried out in the field of Semantic Web supports applications to provide extensibility, flexibility, interoperability and reusability. Further, the Linked Data initiative and the Data Portability project focus on pragmatic approaches that help applications to share and connect data.

Nevertheless, using the Web as a homogeneous knowledge infrastructure, which serves as input for cross-application and cross-domain user modeling, is still an unsolved vision, because syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of the fragmented and distributed user data Ã¢â‚¬â€œ which might be unstructured Ã¢â‚¬â€œ can hardly be handled by application developers. In addition, requirements concerning privacy, scrutability and trust complicate the intermixing of user data from different sources.

This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of Intelligent User Interfaces, Interaction Systems, Social Media, Semantic Web, User Modeling, and Personalization in order to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, open research issues, applications, and experiences for common benefit.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop will tackle challenges posed by user modeling beyond application boundaries, including, but not limited to, the following themes:

* Aggregation and integration of distributed user data and profiles
* Smart mashup interfaces
* Techniques for visualizing distributed user data
* User interfaces enabling maintenance of distributed user profiles
* Inter-system scrutability of user profiles
* Semantic methods for exchanging user profiles
* Intertwining social networking services
* Studies assessing the use of external/public user data for personalization
* Applications demonstrating intermixing of user profiles from different sources

PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. All submission must be in English. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. Research papers must be prepared in the two-column SIGCHI conference format; templates are available at:

* Microsoft Word document template (http://iuiconf.org/chi2009pubsformat.doc)
* LaTeX class file (http://iuiconf.org/chi2009_LaTeX.zip)

We welcome both full papers and short papers (e.g. experience reports, preliminary reports of work in progress, system demonstration, etc). Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages in length, short papers should not exceed 4 pages. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=udisw2010.

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
* 27 November 2009 : Full & short paper submission deadline (11:59pm Hawaiian time (GMT-10))
* 12 December 2009 : Notification of acceptance
* 08 January 2010 : Final camera-ready paper due
* 07 February 2010 : UDISW 2010 workshop day

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
* Fabian Abel (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Nicola Henze (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
* Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
* Erwin Leonardi (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
* Available at http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/UDISW2010/

For further questions please contact us at e.leonardi@tudelft.nl or abel@l3s.de

First Call for Papers: IEEE CLOUD 2010

2009-10-28T10:58:00.002+01:00

First Call for Papers

(Accepting paper submissions from Nov. 1, 2009)

The Third IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010)
July 5-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2010

(Download a full-page color poster (in November 2009 and December 2009 Issues of the Communications of ACM and IEEE Computer) for the largest Services Computing event in 2010!)
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2010/ServicesComputing-ACM.pdf
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2010/ServicesComputing-Computer.pdf

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (IEEE Computer Society), the Third IEEE 2010 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010) will be co-located with the 6th IEEE 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), the 8th IEEE 2010 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2010), and the 7th IEEE 2010 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010) to grow itself to continute to be the most prestigious professional conference dedicated to cloud computing.

"Change we are leading" is the theme of CLOUD 2010. Cloud Computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g. hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g. Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g. business process as a service).

In the fast growing Services Computing community, we have launched a series of events to promote and grow Cloud Computing in the past years. In 2002, we promoted Business Grid to share business processes and applications. In early 2008, The IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) has adopted Cloud Computing to be included in the taxonomy as a body of knowledge area of Services Computing. In July 2008, the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008) has delivered a keynote panel "Business Cloud: Bridging The Power of SOA and Cloud Computing" and a keynote "Cloud Computing". In September 2008, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008) has delivered a keynote "Web Services: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Communication, and Beyond" and a panel "Cloud Computing and IT as a Service: Opportunities and Challenges" to further motivate the community members to define Cloud Computing in various areas.

Based on the technology foundations and industry driving forces, the 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2009) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud Computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Cloud Computing. CLOUD 2009 is the hot-topic conference co-located with the 2009 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009). The two well-established theme conferences, the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) held in July 2009 in USA and the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009) held in September 2009 in India, also enjoyed the success of launching CLOUD-I 2009 and CLOUD-II 2009. CLOUD 2009 was jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) and Services Society. As a community, we have ac! complished very well around CLOUD 2009's theme "Change We Can Lead" in 2009.

To discuss this emerging enabling technology of the modern services industry, CLOUD 2010 invites you to join the largest academic conference to explores modern services and software sciences in the field of Services Computing, which was formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.

CLOUD 2010 tries to attract researchers, practitioners, and industry business leaders in all the following areas to help define and shape cloud computing, and its related modernization strategy and directions of the services industry. You are invited to submit research, engineering, and business innovation papers to the following areas:

.Infrastructure Cloud
.Software Cloud
.Application Cloud
.Business Cloud
.Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing
.Vituralization of Hardware Resources
.Virtualization of Software Resources
.Cloud Computing Consulting Methods
.Design Tool for Cloud Computing
.Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
.Cloud Computing Architecture
.Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries
Paper Submission and Review Process

Please use the submission page (http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2010/submission.html) to find the right tracks and events to submit your papers.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from all conferences without review.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be published in the CD-ROM version and online version of the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010), which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers published in CLOUD 2010 will be invited for potential publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). The CLOUD 2010 Proceedings is expected to be included in EI Compendex and other indexing systems. JWSR is indexed in SCI-E and EI Compendex.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found from this web site.

Paper Review Policy

IEEE CLOUD 2010's Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access providers. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.

Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due Date: March 6, 2010 (Accepting paper submissions from Nov. 1, 2009)
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 30, 2010

Please join us at IEEE Services Computing Community (https://www.ieeecommunities.org/services). Press the "JOIN" button to apply for a FREE membership. As a member, you will be permitted to login andparticipate in the community. This invitation allows you to join a communitydesigned to facilitate collaboration among a group while minimizing e-mails to your inbox. As a registered member of the Services Computing Community, you can also access IEEE Body of Knowledge on Services Computing (http://www.servicescomputing.tv).

Knowledge Multimedia Processes in Technology Enhanced Learning

2009-10-23T17:18:00.001+02:00

Here are my slides from the ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Technologies and Distant Education. Thanks to my Chinese colleagues for organizing it.

Knowledge Multimedia Processes in Technology Enhanced Learning

View more documents from Ralf Klamma.

CFP doctoral consortium in conjunction with UMAP 2010

2009-10-23T11:30:00.000+02:00

CALL FOR PAPERS DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM (DC)

To be held in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization: UMAP 2010 in the Big Island of Hawaii, between 20-24 June 2010, http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: January 31, 2010
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: March 15, 2010

The UMAP 2010 Conference will include, as usual, a Doctoral Consortium

Session. This has been a tradition of UMAP Conferences since 1994, where lively and useful discussions enabled students to receive suggestions and feedback about their on-going research, and allowed more experienced participants to hear about the emerging work in the field. Students will benefit in several ways by participating in the consortium; primarily by presenting work to a knowledgeable audience, but also by meeting established researchers and other graduate students working in the field.

FORMAT OF THE CONSORTIUM
Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to scholars and researchers in the field who will provide constructive comments about their work. Students are expected to document in a brief submission the thesis topic, the approach to be taken and the amount of work that has already been completed. Good quality applications will be chosen by the consortium committee to present their work in a short (15-20 minute) presentation, which may include a
demonstration if appropriate.

Each student will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student¹s work, and collate feedback from other Program Committee members. Students whose submissions are selected for presentation will be asked to submit a short list of questions to the committee to help
identify areas where the students feel that the Committee can be of assistance. After the presentation, these and other questions can be discussed with the audience of the Consortium.

The Doctoral Consortium will be conducted in one or two separate sessions, totaling about 3-4 hours in length. A limited number of fellowships will be available to enable students with accepted
contributions to participate in the meeting.

Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published as a book by Springer. In addition, the Proceedings will be made available on the World Wide Web.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
Just as the research in User Modeling spans different areas, graduate research may cover a wide range of topics, but should contribute to some aspect of user modeling and user-adapted interaction. These include (but are not limited to) the topic areas listed in the general
Call for Papers http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/cfp.txt

DC COMMITTEE:
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
Anne Boyer, LORIA, Nancy University, France
Armelle Brun, LORIA, Nancy University, France
Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David Chin, University of Hawaii, Hawaii
Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, Washington
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, Minnesota
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, Illinois
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan

DC CO-CHAIRS:
Ingrid Zukerman, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University,
Ingrid.Zukerman@infotech.monash.edu.au
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, lr.isv@cbs.dk

SUBMISSION FORMAT
Students are asked to submit to the conference web site an abstract of maximum 4 pages (including references and pictures) describing their doctoral research. Submissions should be in the Springer LNCS format specified in the UMAP2010 Call for Papers. Only pdf documents will be accepted. The document should comprise keywords identifying the thesis main topic areas, a statement regarding the main contributions that the thesis aims to achieve, a description of the approach, and information regarding the amount of work that has already been completed so far,
and the timing for this work. Students should also include the stage they are in the PhD programme, and a brief description of their background in order to enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Ingrid Zukerman, Ingrid.Zukerman@infotech.monash.edu.au
Liana Razmerita, lr.isv@cbs.dk

First CfP: MobileHCI 2010

2009-10-23T11:00:00.000+02:00

MobileHCI2010 || Call for Papers

12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010), September 7-10, 2010, Lisboa, Portugal

A Mobile World for All

http://www.mobilehci2010.org

MobileHCI 2010 will be held September 7-10, 2010, in Lisboa, Portugal

Doctoral Consortium Day, Workshops and Tutorials on September 7^th, 2010.

MobileHCI 2010 is organised by the University of Lisboa, with the collaboration of the New University of Lisboa and the research centres LaSIGE and CITI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

*Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates

- Full and Short Paper submission: 29^th January, 2010

- Workshop submission (organisers): 22^nd January, 2010

- Conference Dates: September 7^th-10^th, 2010

Chairs

General Chairs

- Luís Carriço and Marco de Sá, University of Lisboa

Program Chair:

- Nuno Correia, New University of Lisboa

Conference Scope and Description

MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services. MobileHCI is now on its 12^th Edition with some of the previous events taking place in Bonn (2009), Amsterdam (2008), Singapore (2007), Espoo (2006), Salzburg (2005), Glasgow (2004), Udine (2003), Pisa (2002), Lille (2001), Edinburgh (1999), Glasgow (1998).

Paper Submission

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submissions should be at most 10 pages in ACM MobileHCI format. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer-reviewers. Additional guidelines can be found on the conference’s website.

The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library.

Accepted Full Papers, Short Papers, Workshop Abstracts, Poster Abstracts, Demonstration Abstracts, Panel Abstracts, Industrial Case Studies, and Doctoral Consortium Abstracts will be available via the ACM Digital Library.

Topics

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere focusing on the following topics (but not limited to):

- Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques
- Mobile social networks
- Context-aware systems
- Perception and modelling of the environment
- Personal assistance with mobile devices
- Multimodal interaction (including audio and speech)
- Group interaction and mobility
- Mobility and work environments
- Mobile accessibility
- Mobile social networks
- Interfaces for mobile communities
- Multi-cultural interaction
- Mobile devices including PDAs, Pocket PCs, WAP phones
- 3G/4G devices and services
- Services for mobile devices
- Wearable computing, smart clothes, new devices and sensors
- Mobile entertainment
- Mobile storytelling and location based gaming
- Mobile art
- Designing Web sites for mobile devices
- Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services
- User centred design tools and methods for mobile systems
- Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology
- Model-based design of interactive mobile systems
- Visualization techniques for the mobile context (including 3D graphics on mobile devices)
- Safety issues e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments
- Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile applications & services

Sponsors

MobileHCI 2010 is supported by Nokia, Anacom, and Telefonica.

New Book on Services for Learning Networks

2009-10-22T12:00:00.000+02:00

Koper, Rob (Ed.)
Learning Network Services for Professional Development
2009, XII, 414 p. 130 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-00977-8

A "Learning Network" is a community of people who help each other to better understand and handle certain events and concepts in work or life. As a result - and sometimes also as an aim - participating in learning networks stimulates personal development, a better understanding of concepts and events, career development, and employability. "Learning Network Services" are Web services that are designed to facilitate the creation of distributed Learning Networks
and to support the participants with various functions for knowledge exchange, social interaction, assessment and competence development in an effective way.

The book presents state-of-the-art insights into the field of Learning Networks and Web-based services which can facilitate all kinds of processes within these networks. The main emphasis of the contributions is to explain what services a Learning Network requires and what the reader should do to design and run Learning Network Services, including guidelines on how to evaluate the effectiveness of these services.

This book is a rich source of information for practitioners and professional developers who want to stimulate learning by professionals through web-based social interaction. Managers of educational institutions and training companies will find many ideas about possible services to offer. At the same time, it is an excellent introduction for other researchers in the field, and for
students interested in the learning sciences or technology-enhanced learning.

Keywords:
Contextualized Learning, Knowledge Sharing, Learning Networks, Mobile Learning,
Online Communities, Recommender Systems, Social Software, TEN Competence,
Web Personalization

Read more detailed information
(including detailed table of contents and sample chapter):
http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-00977-8

ORDER INFORMATION:

Springer:
http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-00977-8
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Network-Services-Professional-Development/dp/3642009778

Open Position: Research Assistant (PhD student or Postdoc, full-time), Germany

2009-10-22T11:00:00.000+02:00

Effective January 2010, the DATABASE SYSTEMS Chair (Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust) at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science of Universität Tübingen (Germany), opens a position for a

RESEARCH ASSISTANT (PhD student or Postdoc level, full-time)

in an interdisciplinary research project.

DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES FOR THE EXPLORATION OF LARGE NETWORK DATA

In collaboration with colleagues in the cognitive and social sciences as well psychology we are working on new approaches to the analysis of, potentially huge, network data. We are particularly interested in network structures that result from communication and interaction on the Web 2.0 (social networks, discussion boards, collaborative tagging sites, wikis, etc.).

To enable non-computer scientists to creatively work with such huge data sets, this project will develop

- declarative database languages for the exploration and analysis of network data structures.

Your work will build on our group's prior research efforts: the database-supported evaluation of XQuery (pathfinder-xquery.org, monetdb-xuqery.org), LINQ (ferry-lang.org), and modern scripting languages (e.g., Ruby). Further relevant technology includes database distribution and
MapReduce (offline evaluation of non-local social network properties) or the import of external network data via, e.g., Google's OpenSocial API or RSS feeds.

REQUIREMENTS

We are looking forward to grow our team and welcome applications of highly motivated candidates with an excellent university degree (Master in Computer Science or a closely related field) who are willing to support our upcoming research efforts. We expect you to be open for collaboration with non-computer scientists. Last but not least, we hope that you like systems building as much as we do.

The position has no teaching obligations -- if you would like to get involved with teaching nevertheless, please let us know.

Good knowledge of German as well as English (research and publication) are a requirement.

JOB DETAILS AND APPLICATION

Successful candidates will sign a contract with the Universität Tübingen under the current regulations applicable to employees in Public Service (TVÖD). This is a three-year full-time position.

You will be working in Tübingen, the traditional university town in the Neckar valley (Stuttgart region). Our group offers an informal, open, and fun working environment.

Universität Tübingen aims at increasing the number of female employees and thus especially welcomes applications of female candidates.

Applications of disabled candidates will be given priority, depending on their suitability.

Please send your complete application in PDF format via e-mail to Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust (torsten.grust@uni-tuebingen.de).

The deadline for applications is November 30, 2009.

Inquiries with respect to this position may be directed to

Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust
+49 7071 / 29 75477
torsten.grust@uni-tuebingen.de
www-db.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Book on Student Satisfaction and Learning Outcomes in E-Learning: An Introduction to Empirical Research

2009-10-22T10:00:00.001+02:00

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2009

Student Satisfaction and Learning Outcomes in E-Learning: An Introduction to
Empirical Research
A book edited by Sean Eom, Southeast Missouri State University
and J.B. Arbaugh, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

To be published by IGI Global:
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=740

Introduction

Tremendous advances in information technology and the changing demographic profile of the student populations have allowed colleges and universities to offer Internet-based courses as a way to meet the ever-increasing demand for higher and continuing education. Consequently, colleges and universities worldwide are increasingly offering online courses and complete online degree programs.

In the early online learning systems developmental stage, the focus of attention was placed on the technological dimensions of e-learning systems. E-learning systems include learning management systems, course management systems, and virtual learning environments. Using these software systems, designing and implementing Web-based course delivery systems may not be a bottleneck of the effective e-learning systems. There are a wide range of free software and/or open source learning management systems (e.g., eFront), and course management systems (e.g., Dokeos, ILIAS, Moodle, etc.). Many well-known virtual learning environments are available to facilitate the creation of virtual class rooms (e.g., Blackboard, WebCT, FirstClass, Desire2Learn, CyberExtension, It's Learning, WebTrain, etc.).

Some universities have developed their own custom learning environments for creating and managing e-learning systems. Furthermore, they have spent heavily to constantly update their online instructional resources, computer labs, and library holdings. Now it is very much evident that the technology itself may not be an impediment anymore. The research focus of e-learning
systems has turned to the human dimension of the e-learning systems. The distance learning system can be viewed as having several human/non-human entities interacting together via computer-based instructional systems to achieve the goals of education, including perceived learning outcomes and student satisfaction. Unfortunately, most institutions have paid less attention to study the factors that influence online student satisfaction or learning outcomes. Over the past half decade, we have seen increasing empirical research in regard to the factors that contribute to the success of online course delivery systems.

Objectives

The primary objective of this book is to investigate the determinants of students? perceived e-learning outcomes and satisfaction. We present an integrated overall view of online learning systems from students? perception. This book introduces a research model that consists of three subsystems (human dimension, design dimension, non-human dimension, and outcomes of the online course delivery system). Users of the term "online course" generally consider such a course to be one that is delivered at least partially via the Internet. However, the term is not necessarily synonymous with ?Web-based course?. Courses have been taught on the Internet entirely without use of the Web. Courses taught entirely by e-mail, for example, can be richly interactive without using a single Web page. However, HTTP?s enormous capacity to meaningfully link documents, coupled with modern Web browsers? ability to provide easily-accessible, graphically rich interactive environments, have made the Web the preferred mode for delivery of instruction on the Internet. Online courses may be synchronous (interaction occurs according to an explicit schedule, as in a scheduled chat session) or asynchronous (the timing of interaction is largely left up to the participants, as in posts to a discussion forum) or a mix; the degree of synchronicity is not directly relevant to this study.

Many factors can affect the perceived satisfaction and learning outcome of the students who take Web-based courses. The distance learning system can be viewed as having several human entities interacting together via computer-based instructional systems to achieve the goals of the system. Several recent studies have contributed to reforming those variables and developing a new research model (i. e. Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Arbaugh, 2005; Eom, Wen, & Ashill, 2006; Piccoli, Ahmad, & Ives, 2001; Simmering, Posey, & Piccoli, 2009; Wan, Wang, & Haggerty, 2008). The literature survey focuses on those variables that might affect the outcome of Web-based course such as the perceived student satisfaction and learning outcome. User satisfaction is the overall measure of the student's perceived level of fulfillment in
the online course. There is much research seeking to identify the factors that contribute to the success of online course delivery systems. All of these studies seem to agree that these two independent variables measure the effectiveness of online education systems.

This book aims to identify the following key factors:
1. What are the measures of success in online course delivery systems?
2. What are the important factors that contribute to the success measures?
3. What are the relationships between the measure of success and the contributing factors?

Target Audience
This book is for practitioners, managers, researchers, and graduate students in virtually every field of study. Application areas of e-learning are not limited to a specific academic area. E-learning is a worldwide perpetual trend that is being applied to educate employees of non-academic organizations such as governments, profit or non-profit organizations. Needless to say, libraries in university, profit and non-profit organizations around the world will be potential customers.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: Manuscripts ranging from conceptual frameworks to case studies to qualitative works and empirical research are encouraged.

I. Introduction to Empirical Research in E-learning Systems

II. Empirical Research Methods in E-learning

Conceptual framework for E-learning Empirical Research
Survey of Empirical Research Methods in E-learning
Questionnaire Design in E-learning Research
Tutorials of Structural equation modeling using various software
Including LISREL, PLS graph, Smart PLS, AMOS, etc
Quantitative research method for E-learning Empirical Research
Categorical data analysis using chi-square test
Multivariate data analysis
Analysis of covariance
ANCOVA
General linear model multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA)
Conjoint analysis
Canonical correlation analysis
Discriminant analysis
Multiple regression analysis
Factor analysis (Confirmatory vs. Exploratory)

Structural equation model (SEM)
PLS (PLS graph and Smart PLS)
LISREL
AMOS
EQS
Evaluating SEM and measuring constructs

Qualitative research method for E-learning Empirical Research
Action research
Case study research
Grounded theory
Ethnography

A wide range of issues addressing all aspects of E-learning Empirical
Research

III. Review of the Constructs/Factors affecting E-learning Systems Outcomes

Human dimension
Students
Student Self-Motivation
Students? Learning Style

Instructors
Instructor Knowledge
Facilitation
Instructor feedback
Simplest cognitive feedback
Diagnostic feedback
Prescriptive feedback
Metacognitive feedback

Design dimension
Learning model
Objectivism
Constructivism
Collaborativism
Cognitive information processing
Socioculturalism
Learner control and self-regulated e learning
Problem based learning
Self-Directed Learning
Course Contents
Course structure
Course objectives/expectation
Topical coverage
Required workload in competing assignments
Expected class participation
Course infrastructure
Overall usability of course website
Organization of course material
Interaction
Instructor-to-student interaction
Student-to-student interaction

Information delivery technology
Tablet PC
IPod
Multimediaÿ
Intelligent agent
The Telephonic Visitÿ
Student Video Presentations
Student-Created Podcastsÿ
Collaborative Electronic Meeting Toolsÿ
Weblog Technology
Web 2.0 technology

IV. Future of E-learning and Empirical Research Directions

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 30, 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 31, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Important Dates
November 30, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 15, 2009: Notification of Acceptance
March 31, 2010: Full Chapter Submission
June 15, 2010: Review Results Returned
July 15, 2010:ÿ Final Chapter Submission
July 31, 2010: Final Acceptance Notifications

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or
by mail to:

Sean B. Eom
Department of Accounting and MIS
Harrison College of Business
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
573-651-2615 (Phone)
573-651-2992 (Fax)
sbeom@semo.edu (E-mail)

Send a copy of submissions to:

J.B. Arbaugh
Professor of Strategy and Project Management
College of Business
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
920-424-7189 (Phone)
arbaugh@uwosh.edu (E-mail)

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation

2009-10-22T09:00:00.000+02:00

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation
(IJANTTI)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 1, Issue 4, October-December 2009

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1942-535X EISSN: 1942-5368

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijantti

Editor-in-Chief: Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia

EDITORIAL PREFACE

Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia

This fourth issue of the first volume of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) marks the end of the first, highly successful year of the new journal. This issue contains four very different articles, dealing with the use of actor-network theory to analyze the reasons that more girls do not proceed to higher education in IT, an investigation of the development and implementation of IT strategy, the discussion of issues in intercultural communication, and the combination with social network analysis to conduct
an investigation of chronic disease self-management models.

To read the preface, please consult this issue of IJANNTI in your library.

PAPER ONE

"What's Your Problem?" ANT Reflections on a Research Project Studying
Girls Enrolment in Information Technology Subjects in Postcompulsory
Education

Leonie Rowan, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Australia
Chris Bigum, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Australia

Despite more than thirty years of gender reform in schools, the
percentages of girls enrolled in information technology subjects in the
post-compulsory years of education has remained persistently low: often
under 25%. This article investigates data collected during an Australian
Research Council Linkage Grant project (2005-2007) focused on identifying
the reasons for this under-representation and ways in which the situation
could be changed. This article looks beyond the official recommendations
of the project to explore how the research experience and the data combine
to raise important questions about the limits of research in this area.
The authors discuss the difference between the researchers' perception of
the problem under consideration and the participants' perception of the
same issue.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34996

PAPER TWO
The S'ANT Approach to Facilitate a Superior Chronic Disease
Self-Management Model

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Center for the Management of Medical Technology
(CMMT), Stuart School of Business, and Institute of Technology, Chicago,
USA

Rajeev K. Bali, Coventry University, UK
Steve Goldberg, INET International, Canada

Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases, and its prevalence
continues to rise exponentially. This article presents the case for the
application of a pervasive technology solution in the form of a
wireless-enabled mobile phone to facilitate superior diabetes management.
In so doing, the authors highlight the need for employing the S'ANT
approach (Wickramasinghe and Bali, 2009) - namely the incorporation of
actor-network theory and social network analysis - in order to support a
network centric healthcare solution.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34997

PAPER THREE

An Actor-Network Analysis of a Case of Development and Implementation of
IT Strategy

Tiko Iyamu, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Arthur Tatnall, Graduate School of Business, Victoria University,
Australia

Increasingly, many organizations are highly dependent on support from
information technology (IT). Even though Carr has controversially argued
that IT does not matter, there seems to be prima facie evidence that even
the most ambitious business vision still needs IT to enable it. As such,
there has been much focus and emphasis on technologies and less attention
on non-technical components in the development and implementation of IT
strategy. This study focuses on the connection between the technical and
nontechnical, including the relationships between actors in the
development and implementation of IT strategy. The authors describe how
actor-network theory (ANT) is employed to investigate the impact of
non-technical factors on the development and implementation of IT strategy
in an organization. ANT is used to provide a useful perspective on the
importance of relationships between both human and non-human actors.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34998

PAPER FOUR

Actor-Network Theory in Intercultural Communication: Translation through
the Prism of Innovation, Technology, Networks and Semiotics

Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska, University of Gdansk, Poland

This article discusses the place of the actor-network theory in
intercultural communication. To narrow the scope of the research, the
author concentrates on the role of participants in one type of
intercultural exchange, namely in translation. Thus, such issues as
translator(s), translation, languages, texts, and units are given a
detailed study. An attempt will be made to show how ANT is useful in this
area of cross-cultural communication.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34999

For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation
(IJANTTI) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in
the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:
<www.infosci-journals.com>.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJANTTI:

The mission of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and
Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) is to provide a forum for both general
discussion of actor-network theory (ANT), and examples of its use in
offering explanations for socio-technical phenomena, particularly those
related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It is over
twenty years now since Latour, Callon, and Law put together their ideas
and concepts in the first papers on ANT, but for some time ANT was
regarded by many as little more than a curiosity. In recent years however,
the ICT research community has begun to discover the power of using ANT as
an explanatory framework for many of the things in which it is interested.
Implementation and use of information and communication technologies
inevitably involves the interactions of both technology and people, and
this is the area in which ANT is particularly useful. The main goal of
this journal will be to facilitate international growth in the body of
research investigating the value of using actor-network theory as a means
of understanding socio-technical phenomena and technological innovation.

Coverage of IJANTTI:

This journal covers a range of topics related to actor-network theory
(ANT). These topics will include the development of actor-network theory
itself, as well as case studies of its use to assist in the explanation of
various socio-technical phenomena. It will also include topics relating to
technological innovation; both those using actor-network theory as an
explanatory framework and those using other approaches. Possible topics
include, but are not restricted to:

Analytical case studies of the use of ANT for investigating technological
applications in various other areas

Analytical case studies of the use of ANT to investigate the
implementation and use of information and communication technologies

Case studies, involving ANT or other analytical frameworks, of
technological innovation, and the implementation and use of information
and communication technologies

Comparison of the various different approaches to framing technological
innovation

Descriptions of ANT research methods, and the conduct of ANT research

Development, evaluations, criticisms, and triumphs of ANT

Innovation translation as an approach to explaining technological
innovation

Other approaches to the explanation of technological innovation, including
innovation diffusion, the technology acceptance model, and ecological
models of innovation

Other papers relating to examples of technological innovation

Proposals of analytical frameworks that build on, and go beyond ANT

Use of ANT in the investigation of historical examples of technological
innovation

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijantti.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Arthur Tatnall at Arthur.Tatnall@vu.edu.au

UMUAI Special Issue on Data Mining for Personalized Educational Systems

2009-10-22T08:00:00.001+02:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Data Mining for Personalized Educational Systems

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
The Journal of Personalization Research
(An international journal published by Springer Verlag)

Web site: http://www.uco.es/grupos/ayrna/umuai.html

SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:

Educational data mining (EDM) is an emerging discipline, concerned with developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that can be gathered in an educational context. The increase in instrumented educational software and in databases of student test scores has created large data
repositories reflecting how students learn. EDM focuses on computational approaches for using those data to address important educational questions.

One focus of EDM consists in improving personalized educational systems, which is the topic of this special issue.

EDM can enhance the effectiveness, personalization and/or adaptivity of such learning environments. In turn, student data coming from personalized systems are semantically richer than data from traditional web-based education system, and can lead to deeper diagnostic analysis.

Contributions to this special issue are particularly welcome in, but not limited to, the following topics related to Data Mining for Personalized Educational Systems:

- Analysis and visualization of student interactions.
- Applying recommender system in educational environments.
- Prediction of performance and marks.
- Applying sequence mining in educational data.
- User modeling using data mining.
- Applying text mining in educational data.
- Improving educational software.
- Detecting outliers, cheating, gaming, errors, misuse, gifted, etc.
- Detecting motivation, affective, behavior, learning styles, etc.
- Improving teacher support and feedback.
- Test item analysis.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI formatting guidelines and submission instructions available at: http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html

Each submission should note that it is intended for the Special Issue on Data Mining for Personalized Educational Systems. Potential authors are asked to submit a tentative title and short abstract (which can be altered for the actual submission) to assist in the formation
of a panel of appropriate reviewers.

UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (so long as what they write is important). Authors whose paper exceeds 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) are however requested to supply a short
justification upon submission that explains why a briefer discussion of their research results would not be advisable.

REVIEW PROCESS

Submissions will undergo the normal review process, and will be reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for the special issue. Barring unforeseen problems, authors can expect to be notified regarding the review results within three-four months of submission.

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible
- Submission of Title and Abstract: March 1, 2010 - Manuscript Submission: April 16, 2010

GUEST EDITORS

Dr. Cristóbal Romero, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Córdoba, Spain.
email: cromero@uco.es
http://www.uco.es/~in1romoc/

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email: sventura@uco.es
http://www.uco.es/~ma1vesos/

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SIGMOD 2010

2009-10-22T07:00:00.000+02:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions and industrial papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, and panels. We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of data management defined broadly, and particularly encourage work on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities.

--- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---

General areas of interests include but are not limited to the following:

* New programming models and languages to extend the DBMS ecosystem beyond traditional data and query models
* Scalable Data Management on Cloud Computing Infrastructures
* Data-centric approaches for effective management of large-scale data-centers
* Innovative models, architectures, and algorithms for distributed and parallel data analytics
* Energy-efficiency and power management issues in large-scale data processing environments
* Database Management System and Algorithm Designs for emerging harwdware architectures: Multi-core processors, larger on-chip caches, large inexpensive RAM, and flash memory
* Data management applications (e.g., Web mashups, social networks, scientific databases, sensor networks)
* Performance and scalability (e.g., indexing, hardware accelerators)
* Application of Machine-learning and Data-mining techniques for autonomic database systems
* Other aspects of modern information systems such as security, privacy, personalization, user interfaces, etc.

--- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the paper formatting instructions. As has become the tradition for SIGMOD, research papers will be judged for quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where
the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Thus, author names and affiliations must not appear in the paper, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity. Please see the Conference Website for further details: http://www.sigmod2010.org/index.shtml

--- IMPORTANT DATES (SIGMOD) ---

* October 29, 2009: Abstract submission (research papers only)
* November 5, 2009: Manuscript submission (research papers, industrial papers, demonstration proposals)
* December 3, 2009: Tutorial and Panel proposals submission
* February 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance
* March 15, 2010: Final camera-ready papers due

ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010)

2009-10-22T06:00:00.000+02:00

Call For Papers

The 16^th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010) will be held on July 25-28, 2010 in Crystal City, Washington, DC. The conference will include two refereed paper tracks:

the Research track, and
the Industry & Government track

Research Track - Call For Papers

We invite high-quality papers reporting original research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining. We especially encourage submissions that promote the advancement of KDD as a scientific and engineering discipline and submissions that bridge between different disciplines. Papers are rigorously evaluated based on potential impact, novelty, repeatability and presentation.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

data mining algorithms (supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised)
data mining foundations and theory
dimensionality reduction and feature selection
mining dynamic and evolving data
mining graph data
mining semi-structured data
mining spatial and temporal data
mining stream data
mixed-initiative data mining and active learning
outlier analysis and anomaly detection
parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
pattern mining and association analysis
robust and highly scalable data mining algorithms
similarity search in data mining
statistical methods in data mining
topic models and matrix methods in data mining
transfer learning and mining with auxiliary data sources
adversarial data mining algorithms
biological and medical data mining
data mining for computational advertising
data mining in social sciences and on social networks
mining environmental and scientific data
mining sensor data
mining user behavioral and feedback data
mining the Web and text data
multimedia data mining
data mining for other novel applications
data integration and indexing for data mining
data visualization for data mining
KDD methodology and process
platforms and systems for KDD
pre-processing and post-processing in data mining
security and privacy issues in data mining
user modeling in data mining

All submitted papers will be judged based on their technical merit, rigor, significance, originality, repeatability, relevance, and clarity. Papers submitted to KDD 2010 should be original work, not previously published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal. Substantially similar versions of the paper submitted to KDD 2010 should not be under review in another peer-reviewed conference or journal during the KDD 2010 reviewing period.

Repeatability guideline: Repeatability is a cornerstone of any scientific and engineering endeavor. To promote a solid foundation upon which future KDD work can be built, authors should make every effort to make code available as open source, and to employ public datasets, or make novel datasets available to the community. If this is not possible, please include a justification to that effect. Comparison to credible baseline systems and statistical significance of experimental results are expected for all papers with empirical evaluations.

Important Dates

abstract due on: Feb 2, 2010
paper due on: Feb 5, 2010
acceptance notification: April 30, 2010

Submission Site: TBA. For further information please contact the Program Chairs.

Industry & Government Track - Call For Papers

The Industrial/Government Applications Track of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-10) will highlight successful uses of KDD technology, including deployed applications incorporating KDD technologies and discoveries of valid, novel, understandable, and demonstrably useful patterns from large datasets in industry and government. It will also include papers that address challenges, lessons, concerns, and research issues arising out of attempts, both successful and unsuccessful, to deploy KDD technology for the solution of actual industry and government problems.

The KDD-10 Industrial/Government Applications (I/G) Track seeks to:

provide a forum for exchanging ideas between KDD practitioners, researchers, companies, and government organizations;
help industrial and government organizations highlight successful KDD applications;
raise interesting (research) challenges and other concerns more specific to industry and government -- customer privacy issues, analysis of data not generally available in academia, issues of scale that arise more heavily in a corporate setting, etc.

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

The I/G Applications Track will consist of competitively-selected contributed papers - presented in oral and/or poster form - as well as invited talks. We envision submissions in three sub-areas. Submitters should identify in which of these sub-areas their paper should be evaluated.

Deployed KDD case studies
Discoveries of knowledge with demonstrable value to industry or government
Emerging applications and technology, including challenges and issues arising from attempts to deploy KDD technology to solve specific industry or government problems

Deployed KDD case studies describe deployed projects with measurable benefits that include KDD technology. These papers must clearly describe the industry or Government problem that is solved, the overall architecture of the deployed system, the data sources used, the reasons for the choices of particular KDD technologies, how KDD technologies solved the problem, the particular KDD process embodied by the deployed application, the use and payoff of the application, the costs to develop the application, the maintenance plan, and the number and types of users.

Papers that describe discoveries of knowledge must clearly state what data sources and background knowledge were used, what data mining algorithms were tried, what overall KDD process was used, what the new discovered knowledge is, how the new knowledge was validated, and what the value to the industry or government is of such newly discovered knowledge.

Emerging application and technology papers discuss prototype applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques or methods, useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool evaluations, or integration of KDD with other technologies. Such papers must clearly explain the requirements arising from the particular industry or government setting for which the application is being developed and from the particular databases on which the application is based. These papers must also identify how the emerging solution is using KDD technologies to address these requirements, the deployment plan, and the evaluation methodology and metrics for the emerging application. Pragmatic issues and considerations include important practical and research considerations, approaches, and architectures that enable successful applications. This category may include comparative evaluations of different KDD technologies for particular application problems. Preferences will be given to papers whose insights may generalize to other domains or problems. Product advertisements will not be accepted.

A new feature of the I/G track this year is the inclusion of a video forum, in which the accepted authors can optionally include a video demonstration of their system. These videos will be posted online for effective dissemination of the result. Authors of the I/G track can optionally submit their videos at the time of paper submission as well. Accepted papers can revise and improve their submitted videos later.

Important Dates

abstract due on: Feb 2, 2010
paper due on: Feb 5, 2010
acceptance notification: April 30, 2010

Submission Site: TBA. For further information please contact the Industrial Track Chairs.

MDM 2010 - Abstract Deadline Extended to Nov 9, 2009!

2009-10-20T12:12:00.004+02:00

MDM 2010 - Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to Nov 9, 2009!

MDM 2010, May 23rd - 26th, 2010,Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Abstract Registration: Mon, November 9, 2009 (midnight Central)
Paper Submission: Mon, November 16, 2009 (midnight Central)
Acceptance notification: Mon, February 10, 2010
Camera-ready copy due: Wed, March 17, 2010

11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010)

In Cooperation with IEEE TCDE/TCI (pending), ACM SIGMOBILE/SIGMOD (pending)
Kansas City, USA, May 23rd to 26th

http://www.sce.umkc.edu/mdm2010

AIMS:

Rapid advances in computing and wireless communication technologies along with their integration into devices such as personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and portable computers provide a technical infrastructure that enables a broad range of mobile services and applications. These include seamless access to computing infrastructure and interaction, sharing and management of data among mobile users in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks. Continued miniaturization of computing devices along with improvements in their performance/price ratio enable new services and applications such as location-based services, mobile data management, ubiquitous computing applications, secured data sharing and processing in sensor networks, environmental monitoring and transportation, etc. Although substantial research has been conducted, several areas in mobile data management remain ripe with open research challenges. The aim of this conference is to focus on research contributions related to data management in mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive computing.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
* Context-aware computing and location-based services
* Data management in wireless networks
* Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
* Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
* Data mining for mobile applications
* Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
* Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile\environments
* Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
* Indexing and query processing for moving objects
* Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects
* Mobile metadata management and exchanges
* Mobile Web and Agents for mobile applications
* OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
* Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing
* Quality of service issues for data-intensive services
* Query processing and optimization for mobile users
* Resource advertising and discovery techniques
* Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
* Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
* Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
* User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
* Event identification and notification
* Pervasive biological data management
* Adaptive location-dependent query processing and optimization
* Human-centric activity management
* Data stream security for mobile sensor networks
* Web data processing and security on mobile devices

WORKSHOPS, DEMOS, PANELS, SEMINAR, PHD FORUM AND INDUSTRIAL FORUM:
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A number of events (workshop, demos, panels, seminars, PhD forum, and special industrial forum) will be organized to cater for all academic activities.

Workshops are for fast track publications of papers.
Demos will present state of the art prototypes.
Panels will review current research activites and explore new frontiers.
PhD forum to encourage student participation.
Industrial forum for companies to present their research and development works.

IMPORTANT DATES (HARD DEADLINES):
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Abstract Registration: Mon, October 19, 2009 (midnight Central)
Paper Submission: Mon, October 26, 2009 (midnight Central)
Acceptance notification: Wed, February 10, 2010
Camera-ready copy due: Wed, March 17, 2010

PAPER SUBMISSION:
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The conference invites original, unpublished work, not exceeding 10 pages in IEEE camera-ready format www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.
Submissions in PDF are to be uploaded to the conference web-based at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2010/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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General Chairs:
Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Sanjay Madria (Missouri Univ. of Sc. & Tech, USA)

PC Chairs:
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Vijay Kumar (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Industry Track Chairs:
Gary Gaddis (U. Of Missouri-Kansas City-St. Luks, USA)
Ali Hurson (Missouri Univ. of Sc. & Tech, USA)
Tamer Nadeem (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)

Seminar/Tutorial Chairs:
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA)

Demo Chairs:
Oleg Gusak (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Mohamed Sharaf (University of Toronto, Canada)

Publicity Chairs:
Debopam Acharya (Georgia Southern University, USA)
Rui Zhang (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Proceedings Chairs:
Yugyung Lee (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Dan Lin (Missouri Univ. of Sc. & Tech, USA)

Panel Chairs:
Bharat Bhargava (Purdue University, USA)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA)

Treasurer and Local Arrangements Chairs:
Mark Hieber (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Praveen Rao (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

Workshop Chairs:
Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Sunil Prabhakar (Purdue University, USA)

Ph.D Forum:
Cory Beard (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Sriram Chellappan (Missouri Univ. of Sc. & Tech, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (INCOMPLETE):
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Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
Walid G. Aref (Purdue University, USA)
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia) Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy) Erik Buchmann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Ying Cai (Iowa State University, USA) Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University, USA) Edward P.F. Chan (University of Waterloo, Canada) Meng Chang Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Alex Delis (University of Athens, USA) Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA) Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University , USA) Stephane Grumbach (LIAMA, China and INRIA Rocquencourt, France) Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside, USA) Ralf H. Guting (Fern University, Germany) Marios Hadjieleftheriou (AT&T Research Labs, USA) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Kien A. Hua (University of Central Florida, USA) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Vana Kalogeraki (University of California Riverside, USA) Yutaka Kidawara (National Institute of Infomation and Communications) Hiroyuki Kitagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) George Kollios (Boston University, USA) Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University, USA) Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Dik Lun Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Ken C. K. Lee (University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA) Feifei Li (Florida State University, USA) Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Hua Lu Aalborg (University, Denmark) Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Bonn, Germany) Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China) Bernhard Mitschang (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA) Suman Nath (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) Silvia Nittel (University of Maine, USA) Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Wen-Chih Peng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Dieter Pfoser (IMIS-R.C. Athena and NTUA, Greece) Philippe Pucheral (INRIA Rocquencourt, France) Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India) Lakshmish Ramaswamy (University of Georgia, USA) George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Suneeta Sane (VJTI, India) Sugata Sanyal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Kai-Uwe Sattler (Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany) Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota, USA) Mukesh Singhal (University of Kentucky, USA) Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Vasilis Vassalos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California - Irvine, USA) Stratis D. Viglas (University of Edinburgh, UK) Sean Wang (University of Vermont, USA) Ouri E. Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Vladimir Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Arkady Zaslavsky (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research, Asia) Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)

Vacancy Assistant/Associate Professor in Web Information Systems

2009-10-19T13:00:00.001+02:00

Vacancy Assistant/Associate Professor in Web Information Systems

Delft University of Technology is a multifaceted institution offering education and carrying out research in the technical sciences at an internationally recognized level. Education, research, and design are strongly oriented towards applicability. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety, and economic vitality. At TU Delft you will work in an environment where technical sciences and society converge. TU Delft comprises eight faculties, unique laboratories, research institutes and schools.

The faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) is known world wide for its high academic quality and social relevance of its research programs. The faculty's excellent facilities accentuate its international position in teaching and research. The faculty offers an interdisciplinary setting for its 500 employees, 350 PhD students and 1700 undergraduates.

The Department of Software Technology comprises the EEMCS Faculty research groups working on core Computer Science topics. The department is responsible for a large part of the curriculum of the BSc and MSc programmes in Computer Science, including the master program on information Architecture. The department's research mission is to perform excellent research at an internationally recognised level in the design, construction and analysis of complex concurrent and co-operative computer and information systems. Inspiration for the research topics is derived largely from technical ICT problems in industry and society. The department is building next to the existing groups on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Algorithms, a new group on Web Information Systems (WIS) that is involved in the education in Computer Science and Information Architecture and that concentrates in its research on large-scale information systems, specifically information systems that involve Web and Semantic Web technology.

For this new WIS group the Department of Software Technology has a vacancy for an

Assistant/Associate Professor in Web Information Systems

Job description:
The candidate's primary responsibilities include conducting research in the field of Web information systems, assisting in the supervision of PhD students in this field, acquiring external research funding, teaching and developing new curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Computer Science and Information Architecture, and performing department and university management tasks. Important topics of research include methods, techniques and tools for designing and developing Web information systems and handling distributed data. The applicant's specific areas of interest might include, but are not limited to, technical aspects of the (Semantic) Web, Web engineering, Linked Open Data, semi-structured data and XML, and
data distribution and interoperability.

Requirements
The successful candidate has obtained a PhD in the research field, has proven knowledge and experience in the field, preferably demonstrated through a strong publication record, and is an enthusiastic team player with the ambition to strengthen and expand the research of the new group. The candidate has teaching experience at the university level and the ability to obtain research funding through the acquisition of national or international research projects.

Conditions of employment:
This is a full-time, tenure-track position. The starting salary of the Assistant Professor, depending on education and experience, varies from scale 11 to 12 with a minimum of Euro 3195 and a maximum of Euro 4,970 gross per month. The salary of an Associate Professor position varies, depending on education and experience, from scale 13 to 14, from Euro 4428 up to Euro 5920 gross per month. TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, free high-speed Internet access from home, and the option of assembling a customized compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. TU Delft offers training to improve English competency.

Information and application:
For more information about this position and instructions how to apply, please visit www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl for the link to the official TU Delft vacancy text, or contact Prof. Dr. Ir. G.J. Houben, e-mail: g.j.houben@ewi.tudelft.nl.