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[Fwd: [isworld] 2nd CFP: Int. Workshop on Adaptivity and Personalization in Ubiquitous Learning Systems (APULS 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] 2nd CFP: Int. Workshop on Adaptivity and Personalization in Ubiquitous Learning Systems (APULS 2008) Datum: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:18:09 +0800 Von: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> **************************************************************************** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Adaptivity and Personalization in Ubiquitous Learning Systems (APULS 2008) http://kinshuk.athabascau.ca/apuls2008/index.php in conjunction with USAB 2008 November 18-21, 2008 Graz, Austria --- Submission Deadline: 22 August 2008 --- **************************************************************************** MOTIVATION ========== Ubiquitous learning environments overcome the restrictions of classroom or workplace restricted learning and extend e-learning by bringing the concepts of anytime and anywhere to reality, aiming at providing people with educational content in their daily living environments. Using devices such as mobile phones or personal digital assistants (PDA) allows new opportunities for learners by being intensely connected. Therefore, educational content and information can be accessed whenever learners need it, in different areas of life, regardless of space and time. While ubiquitous technologies in education is a growing research area, aspects of adaptivity and personalization become more and more important. Incorporating adaptivity and personalization issues in ubiquitous learning systems allows these systems to provide learners with an environment that is not only accessible anytime and anywhere, but also accommodate to the individual preferences and needs of learners. Being aware of and considering the current context of the learners as well as that they have, for example, different prior knowledge, interests, learning styles, learning goals, and so on, leads to a more effective, convenient, and successful learning experience in the ubiquitous learning environments. This workshop deals with innovative research in the area of adaptivity and personalization in ubiquitous learning systems, providing a forum to present and discuss how ubiquitous learning environments can be enhanced with adaptivity and personalization aspects. The overall goal of the workshop is to bring people from different fields together, exchange research ideas and results, and encourage discussion about how to provide learners with valuable and useful learning opportunities in adaptive/personalized ubiquitous learning systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to): Adaptive collaboration support Adaptive curriculum sequencing Adaptive presentation and navigation support Agent technology Architectures and frameworks of adaptive/personalized ubiquitous systems Authoring tools for adaptive/personalized ubiquitous systems Data mining, log mining, and web mining for education intelligence Empirical studies of adaptive/personalized ubiquitous systems Games-based learning in ubiquitous environments Human-Computer Interaction Innovative devices for ubiquitous learning Integration and interoperability issues Instructional design and pedagogy Intelligent and adaptive assessment Language learning in ubiquitious environments Life-long learning support Problem solving methods and problem-based learning Semantic web and education Student modelling Ubiquitous technologies for indoor and outdoor learning Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies for ubiquitous learning IMPORTANT DATES =============== August 22, 2008 Submission deadline for workshop papers September 5, 2008 Notification of workshop papers September 19, 2008 Final version deadline for workshop papers November 18-21, 2008 Symposium on Usability & HCI for Education and Work (USAB 2008) November 18 or 19, 2008 International Workshop on Adaptivity and Personalization in Ubiquitous Learning Systems SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ======================== Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: Full papers (8 pages) Short papers (4 pages) The page length includes figures, tables, references, and so on. The format of workshop papers should follow the format of conference papers at USAB. Please use the guidelines at: http://usab-symposium.tugraz.at/page.php?n=130 Please submit your paper via email to Sabine Graf at sabine.graf(a)ieee.org and copy to Kinshuk kinshuk(a)ieee.org, using the subject line "APULS - Paper Submission". All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 international reviewers from the program committee. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. REGISTRATION ============ The workshop is held in conjunction with USAB. All participants of the workshop are required to register for the main conference, but there will be no additional workshop fee. Further information regarding the registration, accommodation, and the workshop/conference venue can be found at the website of USAB 2008 (http://usab-symposium.tugraz.at/page.php). WORKSHOP CHAIRS =============== Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Rahel Bekele, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Ingo Brunkhorst, L3S Research Center, Germany Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Daniel Krause, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Bob Heller, Athabasca University, Canada Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan Hong Lin, University of Houston, USA Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan Vincenzo Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Jirarat Sitthiworachart, Walailak University, Thailand The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [WI] WI2009 Doctoral Consortium - Aufruf zur Einreichung]
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] WI2009 Doctoral Consortium - Aufruf zur Einreichung Datum: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:10:46 +0200 Von: Torsten Eymann <Torsten.Eymann(a)uni-bayreuth.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, wkwi(a)seda.sowi.uni-bamberg.de <wkwi(a)seda.sowi.uni-bamberg.de> **** Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen **** Doctoral Consortium im Vorfeld der 9. Internationalen Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2009 - Kolloquium für Doktoranden der Wirtschaftsinformatik - 23. und 24. Februar 2009, Wien ----------------------------------------------- Wichtige Termine: Einreichung der Exposés (Kurzfassung) 31. Oktober 2008 Einladung der Doktoranden 1. Dezember 2008 Einreichung der Beiträge (Langfassung) 31. Januar 2009 Doctoral Consortium 23.-24. Februar 2009 ----------------------------------------------- Einreichung unter: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=widc2009 Webseite: http://www.bwl7.uni-bayreuth.de/de/doctoral_consortium/index.html http://www.wi2009.at/doctoral.html Das Doctoral Consortium 2009 findet mit freundlicher Unterstützung von A.T. KEARNEY statt. 1. ZIELSETZUNG Die Wirtschaftsinformatik sieht sich im deutschsprachigen Raum einer zunehmenden Themen- und Methodenvielfalt sowie kürzeren Innovationszyklen ausgesetzt. Um diese Herausforderungen bewältigen zu können, kommt dem Kennenlernen und der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses eine große Bedeutung zu. Daher wird bereits seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre jungen Wissenschaftlern im Vorfeld der Tagung "Wirtschaftsinformatik" ein Consortium als unterstützendes Forum angeboten. Mit dem diesjährigen Doctoral Consortium werden folgende Ziele verfolgt: * Vorstellung junger Wissenschaftler: Es stellen sich ambitionierte Nachwuchswissenschaftler vor, die mit einem Vortrag über ihr Dissertationsvorhaben ihre Arbeit präsentieren und ihre Fähigkeit zum wissenschaftlichen Diskurs einüben sollen. * Unterstützung junger Wissenschaftler: Der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs soll eine inhaltliche und methodische Unterstützung bei der Fortführung seiner Arbeiten durch erfahrene Wissenschaftler erhalten. * Community Building: Die Veranstaltung dient dem Kennenlernen zwischen Professoren und Doktoranden. Dies soll den Diskurs und den Zusammenhalt in der Disziplin erhöhen und jungen Wissenschaftlern den Zugang zur "Scientific Community" erleichtern. Insofern richtet sich das Doctoral Consortium an alle Nachwuchswissenschaftler der Wirtschaftsinformatik, die eine fundierte Dissertation anstreben und den wissenschaftlichen Austausch intensivieren möchten. 2. BEWERBERKREIS UND BEWERBUNGSVORAUSSETZUNGEN Das Doctoral Consortium ist ein Forum für Doktoranden der Wirtschaftsinformatik oder einer (Nachbar-) Disziplin mit Wirtschaftsinformatik als Schwerpunkt. Vorausgesetzt wird ein abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium, aber noch keine abgeschlossene Promotion. 3. GRUNDLAGE FÜR EINE EINLADUNG Basis für eine Einladung zum Doktorandenkolloquium ist ein dreiseitiges Exposé, das folgende Punkte umfasst: * Titel des Fachvortrags, * Name und Anschrift des Autors, * Name und Anschrift des Hochschullehrers, der die Dissertationbetreut, * Ausgangssituation und Problemstellung, * Zielsetzung der Arbeit, * inhaltliche und methodische Vorgehensweise sowie * geplanter Abgabetermin. Die eingereichten Beiträge werden von den teilnehmenden Professoren im Hinblick auf die Bedeutung und Begründung der Forschungsfrage, der wissenschaftlichen und fachlichen Güte der Ausarbeitung, der Qualität des Exposés, dem potenziellen Beitrag des Bewerbers für das Konsortium und dem potenziellen Nutzen des Kolloquiums für den Bewerber bewertet. Bei positiver Bewertung erfolgt eine Einladung zur Teilnahme am Konsortium. 4. VERANSTALTER UND MENTOREN * Prof. Dr. Torsten Eymann, Universität Bayreuth, Nachwuchsobmann der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission für Wirtschaftsinformatik im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. Zugesagt als Mentoren haben bisher * Prof. Dr. Michael Breitner, Leibniz Universität Hannover * Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Buhl, Universität Augsburg * Prof. Dr. Dimitris Karagiannis, Universität Wien * Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München * Prof. Dr. Günter Müller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg * Prof. Dr. Gerold Riempp, European Business School Oestrich-Winkel * Prof. Dr. Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg * Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder, Universität zu Köln * Prof. Dr. Alfred Taudes, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien 5. TAGUNGSORT Die Veranstaltung wird in den Räumlichkeiten von A.T. Kearney, Trattnerhof 1, A-1010 Wien, durchgeführt. 6. POSTER SESSION AUF DER WI 2009 In diesem Jahr wird wieder allen Teilnehmern des Doctoral Consortiums die Möglichkeit eingeräumt, ihre Arbeit als Poster zu präsentieren. Die Teilnahme an der Tagung WI 2009 und der Postersession erfordert eine separate Anmeldung. Details finden Sie unter http://www.wi2009.at. Die Einladung zum Doctoral Consortium beinhaltet keine Erstattung der Teilnahmegebühr für die WI 2009. 7. TERMINE Einreichung der Exposés (Kurzfassung) 31. Oktober 2008 Einladung der Doktoranden 1. Dezember 2008 Einreichung der Beiträge (Langfassung) 31. Januar 2009 Doctoral Consortium 23.-24. Februar 2009 8. EINREICHUNGEN DER EXPOSÉS UND INFORMATIONEN Bitte reichen Sie die Beiträge als Upload auf der Webseite http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=widc2009 ein und folgen Sie den dort gegebenen Instruktionen. Falls Sie noch keinen Account bei EasyChair haben, müssen Sie einen neuen anlegen. 9. FORMATIERUNG UND EINREICHUNG DER LANGFASSUNGEN Für die Langfassung des Beitrages orientieren Sie sich bitte an den Vorgaben der WI-Konferenz, was Formatierung und Seitenzahl angeht. Auf den dortigen Webseiten http://www.wi2009.at finden Sie auch eine Formatvorlage für Word. Für den Vortrag sollten Sie 20-30 Minuten einplanen, insgesamt haben wir eine Stunde pro Doktoranden eingeplant, was aber auch eine extensive Diskussion einschließen soll. Rückfragen können an Prof. Dr. Torsten Eymann, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik , Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Tel. 0921-55 7660, Fax. 0921-55 7662, eymann(a)uni-bayreuth.de gerichtet werden. Mit besten Gruessen, Ihr Torsten Eymann Nachwuchsobmann WKWI --- Universität Bayreuth Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik (BWL VII) 95440 Bayreuth Tel. +49 (921) 55-7661, Fax -7662 -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: SOFSEM 2009 - Last Call for Paper]
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SOFSEM 2009 - Last Call for Paper Datum: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:37:42 +0200 Von: SOFSEM09 <sofsem09(a)ksi.ms.mff.cuni.cz> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at := SOFSEM 2009: 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science LAST CALL FOR PAPERS January 24-30, 2009 Hotel Arnika, Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic http://www.sofsem.cz [This information is being posted to multiple lists - we apologise if you get it several times. Please, pass the information to whom it may benefit. Thank You for understanding and cooperation. The organizers.] IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Submission: August 17, 2008 * Paper Submission: August 24, 2008 * Notification: October 6, 2008 * Camera-Ready Papers: October 20, 2008 * Conference: January 24-30, 2009 An extended pdf version of this call can be found at http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/sofsem09/printouts/Sofsem09CFP.pdf SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is the annual, international conference devoted to the theory and practice of computer science. Its aim is to foster cooperation among professionals from academia and industry working in all modern areas of computer science. SOFSEM 2009 Program Committee Chair: Mogens Nielsen, Aarhus, Denmark. INVITED SPEAKERS The invited speakers for SOFSEM will include: * Christian Attiogbe (University of Nantes, France) * Christel Baier (University of Bonn, Germany) * Josh Berdine (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) * Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) * Nicole Immorlica (Northwestern University, USA) * Radovan Janecek (BTO, HP Software) * Marcin Jurdzinski (University of Warwick, UK) * Giuseppe Longo (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) * David Parkes (Harvard University, USA) CONFERENCE TRACKS For the SOFSEM 2009 the following 4 tracks have been chosen: * Foundations of Computer Science Chair: Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, France) Co-chair: Frank Valencia (Paris, France) * Theory and Practice of Software Services Chair: Petr Tuma, Prague, Czech Republic * Game Theoretic Aspects of ecommerce Chair: Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus, Denmark) * Techniques and Tools for Formal Verification Chair: Antonin Kucera (Brno, Czech Republic) Moreover, for students, there is the * Student Research Forum Chair: Maria Bielikova (Bratislava, Slovakia) Details on each track and the Forum can be found on the conference web site. PROCEEDINGS Following the tradition of SOFSEM, the proceedings from SOFSEM 2009, including invited and contributed papers, will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer-Verlag. Papers from the Student Research Forum will be published in local proceedings. The target paper size is 12 pages in LNCS format. Both proceedings will be distributed at the conference. LOCATION The venue of Sofsem 2009 will be OREA Hotel ARNIKA, Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. See www.sofsem.cz for further details. ******************************** FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE TOPICS: * algorithms and data structures including sequential, parallel, distributed, approximation, and number-theoretic algorithms * automata theory and languages * complexity theory, both computational and structural * foundations of security * concurrency theory * quantitative aspects of computing * discrete mathematics related to computer science * grammars and formal models * program semantics, logic, and verification PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University, Iceland) * Frank de Boer (Leiden University, The Netherlands) * Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) * Stefan Dantchev (Durham University, UK) * Pierpaolo Degano (University of Pisa, Italy) * Fedor Fomin (University of Bergen, Norway) * Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) * Juraj Hromkovic (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Thore Husfeldt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Lund University, Sweden) * Giuseppe F. Italiano (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) * Riko Jacob (Technische Universitat München, Germany) * Thomas Jensen (IRISA/CNRS, France) * Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, Finland) * Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen University, Germany) * Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada) * Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France) * Mike Mislove (Tulane University, USA) * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France and Ecole Polytechnique, France, co-chair) * Wojciech Penczek (IPI PAN and University of Podlasie, Poland) * Riccardo Pucella (Northeastern University, USA) * Branislav Rovan (Comenius University, Slovakia) * Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University , USA) * Jiri Srba (University of Aalborg, Denmark) * Frank Valencia (CNRS and École Polytechnique, France, co-chair) * Igor Walukiewicz (Université de Bordeaux, France) * Jirí Wiedermann (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) * Filip Zelezny (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) ******************************** THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOFTWARE SERVICES TOPICS: * software engineering of service oriented systems * formal methods for service oriented architectures * service ontologies, semantic service description * process modeling for service architectures * service orchestration and coordination * quality of service * service negotiation and SLA * service discovery and management * support for dynamic binding of services * platform specific services (web services, ESB, GRID, MANET, etc.) * middleware for service oriented architectures * security and trust issues in services * business models for service architectures * emerging service standards (W3C, OASIS, UN/CEFACT, etc.) * convergence of services and other technologies (components, semantic web, etc.) * experience reports PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Marco Aiello (University of Groningen, Netherlands) * Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete & FORTH, Greece) * Achim Baier (Itemis, Germany) * Walter Binder (University of Lugano, Switzerland) * Paul Brebner (NICTA & Australian National University, Australia) * Vadim Ermolayev (Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine) * Wilhelm Hasselbring (University of Oldenburg, Germany) * Matthias Holzl (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Germany) * Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA) * Borka Jerman Blazic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) * Paul Johanesson (Stockholm University & Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) * Zhiming Liu (UNU IIST, China) * George Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) * Andreas Rausch (Technical University Clausthal, Germany) * Dumitru Roman (University of Innsbruck, Austria) * Santosh Shrivastava (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) * Bernhard Steffen (University of Dortmund, Germany) * Jos Trienekens (University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands) * Petr Tuma (Charles University, Czech Republic, chair) * Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia) * Christian Zirpins (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) ******************************** GAME THEORETIC ASPECTS OF E-COMMERCE TOPICS: * automated and algorithmic mechanism design, * computational pricing, * auction theory geared towards e*commerce, such as auctions for digital goods, sponsored search auctions and combinatorial auctions * game theoretic aspects of trading agent systems * game theoretic aspects of networks and network formation * game theoretic aspects of cryptographic protocols PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Arne Andersson (Uppsala University and Trade Extensions, Sweden) * Felix Brandt (University of Munich, Germany) * Giorgos Christodoulou (MPII Saarbruecken, Germany) * Artur Czumaj (DIMAP, University of Warwick, UK) * Edith Elkind (University of Southampton, UK) * Rica Gonen (Yahoo! Research, USA) * Jason Hartline (Northwestern, USA) * Kamal Jain (Microsoft Research, USA) * Vangelis Markakis (CWI, The Netherlands) * Peter Bro Miltersen (University of Aarhus, Denmark, chair) * Martin Pal (Google, USA) * David Parkes (Harvard, USA) * Paolo Penna (Universita di Salerno, Italy) * Carmine Ventre (University of Liverpool, UK) ******************************** TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS FOR FORMAL VERIFICATION TOPICS: * formal models (process calculi, Petri nets, timed automata, message sequence charts, hybrid systems, domain theoretic models, probabilistic systems, etc.) * specification languages (temporal logics, semantic equivalences and preorders, etc.) * verification techniques (model checking, equivalence checking, abstract interpretation, race detection, static analysis, testing and run time analysis, theorem proving, true concurrency techniques, symbolic representation techniques, etc.) * software tools for automatic analysis, verification, and validation of computer systems (including case studies) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Patricia Bouyer (LSV, ENS de Cachan, France) * Javier Esparza (TU Munchen, Germany) * Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) * Keijo Heljanko (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) * Thomas Henzinger (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) * Gabriel Juhas (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic) * Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford University, UK) * Antonin Kucera (Masaryk University, Czech Republic, chair) * Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) * Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) * Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) * Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) * Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) * Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) * Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK)

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[Fwd: [WI] Deadline extended - Int. Workshop on Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Deadline extended - Int. Workshop on Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES 2008) Datum: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:57:21 +0800 Von: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: sabine.graf(a)ieee.org An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ****************************************************************************************** Final CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES 2008) http://kinshuk.athabascau.ca/ciawes2008/index.php in conjunction with International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) October 27-31, 2008 Taipei, Taiwan --- Extended Deadline: 25 August, 2008 --- ****************************************************************************************** MOTIVATION ========== Typically used web-based educational systems such as learning management systems provide a variety of features to support teachers and course developers to create and manage their online courses. However, at current stage, such environments provide very little, or in most cases, neither intelligent support nor adaptivity at all. The need for smart learning environments arise that offer personal services in the whole cycle of education, from counselling, to academic advising, to program planning, to collaborative learning, to tutoring, and to testing. Considering cognitive aspects such as learning styles and cognitive traits in web-based educational systems has become a promising area with high potential to support students in learning. By providing students with environments that incorporate their cognitive abilities and their individual preferences about how they like to learn, learning materials and courses can be adapted and more accurate intelligent support can be provided, aiming at making learning easier for learners. This workshop deals with innovative research in the area of intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, focussing on the incorporation of cognitive aspects. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research about how cognitive aspects can be considered in intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, including the detection of cognitive aspects, the development of systems that provide adaptive and intelligent support based on cognitive aspects as well as analyses about the effectiveness of considering cognitive aspects in technology enhanced learning. The overall goal of the workshop is to bring people from the same area together and encourage discussion about how to support learners and educators, increase learning opportunities, and improve the efficiency and quality of service by considering cognitive aspects. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Topics of interest for the workshop include cognitive aspects related to (but are not limited to): • Adaptive collaboration support • Adaptive curriculum sequencing • Adaptive presentation and navigation support • Adaptive testing • Agent technology • Architectures and frameworks of AIED systems • Authoring tools for developing AIED systems • Cognition and collaborative learning • Cognitive aspects in mobile learning • Data mining, log mining, and web mining for education intelligence • Educational robots and the consideration of cognition • Empirical studies of adaptive and intelligent systems • E-tutor, E-secretary, E-advisor, E-counsellor • Game-based leanring and cognition • Human-Computer Interaction • Integration and interoperability issues • Instructional design and pedagogy • Intelligent and adaptive assessment • Language learning and the consideration of cognition • Problem solving methods and problem-based learning • Semantic web and education • Student modelling • Web 2.0 and social computing for learning IMPORTANT DATES =============== August 25, 2008 Submission deadline for workshop papers (extended) September 10, 2008 Notification of workshop papers September 25, 2008 Final version deadline for workshop papers October 27-31, 2008 ICCE & CIAWES SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ======================== Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: • Full papers (8 pages) • Short papers (4 pages) The page length includes figures, tables, references, and so on. The format of workshop papers should follow the format of conference papers at ICCE. Please use the guidelines at: http://www.apsce.net/icce2008/cfp_author_guid.html Please submit your paper via email to Sabine Graf at sabine.graf(a)ieee.org and copy to Kinshuk kinshuk(a)ieee.org as doc- or rtf-file, using the subject line "CIAWES - Paper Submission". All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 reviewers from the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ICCE (with ISBN number). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of a journal. REGISTRATION ============ The workshop is held in conjunction with ICCE. All participants of the workshop are required to register for the main conference, but there will be no additional workshop fee. Further information regarding the registration, accommodation, and the workshop/conference venue can be found at the website of ICCE 2008. WORKSHOP CHAIRS =============== Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ingo Brunkhorst, L3S Research Center, Germany Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Liliane Esnault, EM Lyon, France Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Bob Heller, Athabasca University, Canada Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Hong Lin, University of Houston, USA Tzu Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan Konrad Morgan, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria Vincenzo Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Jirarat Sitthiworachart, Walailak University, Thailand J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA Christian Swertz, University of Vienna, Austria Manolis Wallace, University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [WI] Einladung zum Workshop "MDD, SOA und IT-Management 2008"]
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Einladung zum Workshop "MDD, SOA und IT-Management 2008" Datum: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:46:07 +0200 Von: Jan Stefan Addicks <jan.stefan.addicks(a)offis.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ======================================================================== Einladung zur Teilnahme am Workshop "MDD, SOA und IT-Management 2008" veranstaltet vom OFFIS und der GI-Fachgruppe "Software-Architektur" am 24. September 2008 im OFFIS, Oldenburg http://www.msi2008.de ======================================================================== Motivation ========== Das Bild des IT-Managements in Unternehmen hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark gewandelt: IT-Systeme müssen heute ein Geschäft unterstützen, das extrem kurzen Änderungs-zyklen unterworfen ist. Da der Löwenanteil aller Geschäftsprozesse in Unternehmen heute unter Verwendung von IT-Systemen abläuft, sehen sich IT-Verantwortliche vor die komplexe Aufgabe gestellt, existierende System-landschaften so umzugestalten, dass diese möglichst flexibel und effizient an neue Geschäftsgegebenheiten anpassbar sind. Der MSI-Workshop widmet sich drei Themen - der modellgetriebenen Entwicklung (MDD), service-orientierten Architekturen (SOA) und Unter- nehmensarchitekturen (EA) -, die versprechen, wesentliche Säulen für die Beherrschbarkeit des IT-Management zu sein. Anmeldung ========= Für die Teilnahme am Workshop wird eine Teilnahmegebühr von 50? erhoben. Bitte registrieren Sie sich bis zum 17. September 2008 unter: http://www.msi2008.de/ Programm ======== 10:00 - 10:15 Begrüßung Dr. Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS 10:15 - 11:00 Service Engineering from a Business Perspective Dr. Marc Lankhorst, Telematica Instituut, NL 11:00 - 11:30 Kaffeepause 11:30 - 12:00 Current and Future Tool Support for EA Management Christian M. Schweda, Technische Universität München 12:00 - 12:30 Kriterien zur Bewertung des Ausmaßes der Umsetzung von Serviceorientierung in der Aufbauorganisation Christian Fischer, Universität St. Gallen, CH 12:30 - 13:30 Mittagessen 13:30 - 14:15 Linked Corporate Data Pete Rivett, Adaptive, UK 14:15 - 14:45 Model-based Management of Web Service Compositions in Service-Oriented Architectures Christoph Rathfelder, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik 14:45 - 15:15 Reverse Engineering of Parametric Behavioural Service Performance Models from Black-Box Components Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner, Universität Karlsruhe 15:15 - 15:45 Kaffeepause 15:45 - 16:15 Towards using Configuration Management for Model- Driven Process Improvement Jens Weller, Technische Universität Dresden 16:15 - 17:00 Fertigsoftware versus Individual-software: Wie man Anwendungslandschaften serviceorientiert bebaut Johannes Willkomm, sd&m 17:00 - 18:00 Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "SOA und MDD kombiniert: Chancen und Risiken" Moderation: Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner, Universität Karlsruhe Organisation ============ Jan Stefan Addicks, OFFIS, Oldenburg Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Oldenburg Niels Streekmann, OFFIS, Oldenburg Programmkomitee =============== Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, Universität Oldenburg Ulrich Frank, Universität Duisburg-Essen Wilhelm Hasselbring, Universität Oldenburg Bernhard Humm, Hochschule Darmstadt Arne Koschel, Fachhochschule Hannover Richard Lenz, Universität Marburg Florian Matthes, TU München Jürgen Meister, BTC AG, Oldenburg Sven Overhage, Universität Augsburg Claus Pahl, Dublin City University Manfred Reichert, TU Twente, Niederlande Ralf Reussner, Universität Karlsruhe Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Oldenburg Markus Voß, sd&m, Offenbach Branimir Wetzstein, Universität Stuttgart Andreas Winter, Universität Koblenz Robert Winter, Universität St. Gallen, Schweiz Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Jan Stefan Addicks -- Dipl.-Inform. Jan Stefan Addicks Technologiecluster "Enterprise Application Integration" | Technology Cluster "Enterprise Application Integration" OFFIS FuE Bereich Energie | R&D Division Energy Escherweg 2 - 26121 Oldenburg - Germany Phone/Fax: +49 441 9722-216/102 E-Mail: Jan.Stefan.Addicks(a)offis.de URL: http://www.offis.de -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [isworld] FINAL CFP: ISF journal Special Issue on Governance, Risk and Compliance]
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] FINAL CFP: ISF journal Special Issue on Governance, Risk and Compliance Datum: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:22:31 -0400 Von: Marta K Indulska <m.indulska(a)business.uq.edu.au> Antwort an: Marta K Indulska <m.indulska(a)business.uq.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **DEADLINE EXTENDED - AUGUST 21st, 2008** Information Systems Frontiers Special Issue on Governance, Risk and Compliance � Applications in Information Systems http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/ Important Dates Submission Deadline: August 21st, 2008 Notification of First Round Reviews: September 15th, 2008 Revised Manuscripts Due: October 15th, 2008 Final Acceptance Notification: November 30th, 2008 Final Paper Version Due: December 23rd, 2008 Overview Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) are rapidly emerging challenges for enterprise systems designers. The significance of these topics has dramatically increased over the last few years as a result of numerous events that led to some of the largest scandals in corporate history. Compliance related software and services are expected to reach a market value of over $27billion this year. At the same time, facilitating compliant business process execution is increasingly complex due to the growing number of regulations, frequent and dynamic changes, as well as shared processes and services executing in highly decentralized environments. In the age of outsourcing, dynamic business networks, and global commerce, it is inevitable that organizations will need to develop methods, tools and techniques to design, engineer, and assess processes and services that meet regulatory standards and contractual obligations. We expect Governance, Risk and Compliance to play a significant part in several applications, from transaction systems to management reporting infrastructures. GRC is emerging as a critical and challenging area of research and innovation. It introduces, among others, the need for new or adapted modeling approaches for compliance requirements, the extension of process and service modeling and execution frameworks for compliance and risk management, and the detection of policy violations. The goal of the special issue is to provide an outlet for researchers from diverse backgrounds that contribute to this emerging area and make a consolidated contribution in the form of new and extended methods that address the challenges of governance, risk and compliance in information systems. Topics Potential topics include but are not limited to: -Compliance and Risk Modeling -Policy definition and enforcement -Compliant service and process design -Noncompliant process identification -Risk management -Visualization and simulation of risk in process models -Governance processes -Integration and effectuation of multiple regulatory standards -Compliance, risk and tolerance metrics -Organizational structures to support compliance -Separation of duties/Separation of rights -Decision tracing -Data provenance and lineage -Work tracking -Violation detection -Technologies for compliance assurance -Applications, case studies and use cases Paper submission Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word or PDF format no later than August 21st, 2008 to http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/ (please specify: �For Special issue on Governance, Risk and Compliance in IS� in the submission). Manuscripts should be within 34 pages long, double space, including references. More information for manuscript style can be found at Springer�s website (www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-170-70-35673075-0,00.html). Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Special Issue Editorial Board Dr Shazia Sadiq School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Brisbane, Australia shazia(a)itee.uq.edu.au Dr Marta Indulska UQ Business School The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Brisbane, Australia m.indulska(a)business.uq.edu.au Dr Michael zur Muehlen Howe School of Technology Management Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 Michael.zurMuehlen(a)stevens.edu A PDF version of the CFP is available at http://www.grcis.com and also on the ISF journal website http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/ISF_CFP_GRC…. Please contact m.indulska(a)business.uq.edu.au with any enquiries regarding the special issue. The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for Papers - The 2008 AIS SIG-ISAP Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop]
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers - The 2008 AIS SIG-ISAP Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop Datum: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:39:25 -0400 Von: Qing Hu <qhu(a)fau.edu> Antwort an: Qing Hu <qhu(a)fau.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Important Dates: Submission Deadline: September 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 10, 2008 Final Version Due: November 1, 2008 Workshop Date: December 13, 2008 Location: Pre-ICIS 2008, Paris, France SIG-ISAP Website: http://sigs.aisnet.org/SIGISAP/ The mission of the AIS SIG-ISAP is to provide a forum where international scholars and practitioners interested in IS/IT issues in the Asia Pacific region can come together for networking, sharing research and practice ideas and experiences, and promoting research collaborations. The annual pre-ICIS meeting of ISAP is one of the main venues the SIG-ISAP offers to its members. Anyone who has an interest in IS/IT issues in the Asia Pacific region is welcome to participate. We welcome completed research papers, case studies, and research-in-progress papers that examine IS/IT issues in the developing economies of the Asia-Pacific region from diverse theoretical perspectives and using a variety of research methodologies. Research topics include, but not limited to: � Economics of IT in developing economies � Cultural, social, and political issues in IS/IT � Information security and privacy � IT-Business strategy alignment and IT governance � Managing IT infrastructure in the global economy � Enterprise systems adoption, implementation, and assimilation � Information system design and development � Electronic commerce and mobile commerce � E-government and e-democracy � IT outsourcing in global economy � Emerging information technologies and IS research issues Paper Submission: All submitted papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Please submit original manuscripts and panel proposals as email attachments to workshop co-chairs Dr. Qing Hu (qhu(a)fau.edu) and Dr. Chang Liu (cliu(a)niu.edu). All submissions should use Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format only. Please do not include author names or other identifications in the manuscript, including document properties and tracked changes (blind the submission). Please use ISR style for your paper and references, and limit your completed research and case study papers to 15 pages and research-in-progress papers to 8 pages, single-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font. Conference Proceedings and Journal Special Issue All accepted papers will be included in the electronic proceedings of the workshop and be made available at the SIG ISAP web site. The best completed papers of this workshop will be reviewed and fast-tracked for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management. Advisory Committee of AIS SIG-ISAP: G.B. Davis (University of Minnesota) Richard Watson (University of Georgia) K. K. Wei (City University of Hong Kong) T.P. Liang (National Sun Yat-Sen University) Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University) General chair: Wayne Huang (Ohio University) Workshop Co-Chairs: Qing Hu (Florida Atlantic University) Chang Liu (Northern Illinois University) Organizing Chair: Jim Quan (Salisbury University) Panels (tentative plan, subject to the final confirmation) Panel 1: Theme: Asia Pacific Perspective of IS research Panel 2: Junior IS Faculty Forum - Prepare for P & T (Promotion & Tenure) Panel 3: Publish Research in Top Journals: Meeting with Journal Editors The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [WI] Call for Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks Datum: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:38:54 -0400 Von: Li Ding <dingl(a)cs.rpi.edu> An: www-rdf-interest(a)w3.org, seweb-list(a)cs.vu.nl, sw-announce(a)semanticplanet.com, ontoweb-list(a)lists.deri.org, seweb-list(a)www2-c703.uibk.ac.at, seweb-list(a)lists.deri.org, ebxml-dev(a)lists.ebxml.org, cg(a)cs.uah.edu, acl(a)opus.cs.columbia.edu, bull_i3(a)univ-tln.fr, ontoweb-language-sig(a)cs.man.ac.uk, semantic-web(a)w3.org, www-webont-wg(a)w3.org, www-rdf-logic(a)w3.org, public-sws-ig(a)w3.org, www-rdf-rules(a)w3.org, public-owl-dev(a)w3.org, semanticweb(a)egroups.com, jena-dev(a)yahoogroups.com, dl(a)dl.kr.org, ontolog-forum(a)ontolog.cim3.net, ontology(a)buffalo.edu, www-ws(a)w3.org, topicmapmail(a)infoloom.com, event(a)in.tu-clausthal.de, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu, diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr, aiia(a)dis.uniroma1.it, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, dai-list(a)ece.sc.edu, protege-discussion(a)smi.stanford.edu, kweb-all(a)lists.deri.org, rewerse-all(a)rewerse.net, sioc-dev(a)googlegroups.com, semantic_web(a)googlegroups.com Call for Participation Sixth Semantic Web Challenge Open Track and Billion Triples Track <http://challenge.semanticweb.org/> International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany We invite submissions to the sixth annual Semantic Web Challenge, the premiere event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. Computers will be better able to search, process, integrate and present the content of these resources in a meaningful, intelligent manner. As the core technological building blocks are now in place, the next challenge is to show off the benefits of semantic technologies by developing integrated, easy to use applications that can provide new levels of Web functionality for end users on the Web or within enterprise settings. Applications submitted should demonstrate clear practical value that goes above and beyond what is possible with conventional web technologies alone. Unlike in previous years, the Semantic Web Challenge of 2008 will consist of two tracks: the Open Track and the Billion Triples Track. The key difference between the two tracks is that the Billion Triples Track requires the participants to make use of the data set –a billion triples– provided by the organizers. The Open Track has no such restrictions. As before, the Challenge is open to everyone from academia and industry. The authors of the best applications will be awarded prizes and featured prominently at special sessions during the conference. Goals The overall goal of this event is to advance our understanding of how semantic technologies can be exploited to produce useful applications for the Web. Semantic Web applications should integrate, combine, and deduce information from various sources to assist users in performing specific tasks. The specific goal of the Billion Triples Track is to demonstrate the scalability of applications as well as to encourage the development of applications that can deal with Web data. We stress that the goal of this is not to be a benchmarking effort between triple stores, but rather to demonstrate applications that can scale to a Web scale using realistic Web-quality data. Minimal Requirements Submissions for the Semantic Web Challenge must meet the following minimum requirements: For the Open Track: * The meaning of data has to play a central role. o Meaning must be represented using formal descriptions. o Data must be manipulated/processed in interesting ways to derive useful information and o this semantic information processing has to play a central role in achieving things that alternative technologies cannot do as well, or at all; * The information sources used o should be under diverse ownership or control o should be heterogeneous (syntactically, structurally, and semantically), and o should contain substantial quantities of real world data (i.e. not toy examples). * The application has to be an end-user application, i.e. an application that provides a practical value to domain experts. Although we expect that most applications will use RDF, RDF Schema, or OWL this is not a requirement. What is more important is that whatever semantic technology is used, it plays a central role in achieving interesting new levels of functionality or performance. It is required that all applications assume an open world, i.e. that the information is never complete. Additional Desirable Features In addition to the above minimum requirements, we note other desirable features that will be used as criteria to evaluate submissions. * The application provides an attractive and functional Web interface (for human users) * Rigorous evaluations have taken place that demonstrate the benefits of semantic technologies, or validate the results obtained. * The application should be scalable (in terms of the amount of data used and in terms of distributed components working together) * Novelty, in applying semantic technology to a domain or task that have not been considered before * Functionality is different from or goes beyond pure information retrieval * The application has clear commercial potential and/or large existing user base * Contextual information is used for ratings or rankings * Multi-media documents are used in some way * There is a use of dynamic data (e.g. workflows), perhaps in combination with static information * The results should be as accurate as possible (e.g. use a ranking of results according to context) * There is support for multiple languages and accessibility on a range of devices For the Billion Triples Track * The primary goal is to for submissions to show how they add value to the very large triple store. This can involved anything from helping people figure out what is in the store via browsing, visualization, etc; could include inferencing that adds information not directly queriable in the original dataset; could involve showing how ontological information could be tied to part(s) or the whole of the dataset; etc. * The tool or application has to make use of at least a significant portion of the data provided by the organizers. * The tool or application is allowed to use other data that can be linked to the target dataset, but there is still an expectation that the primary focus will be on the data provided. * The tool or application does not have to be specifically an end-user application, as defined for the Open Track Challenge, but usability is a concern. The key goal is to demonstrate an interaction with the large data-set driven by a user or an application. However, given the scale of this challenge, solutions that can be justified as leading to such applications, or as crucial to the success of future applications, will be considered. It is desired that all applications assume an open world, i.e. that the information is never complete. However, applications that can show useful ways to “close the world” for sections of the very large dataset will be considered. Additional Desirable Features In addition to the above minimum requirements, we note other desirable features that will be used as criteria to evaluate submissions. * The application should do more than simply store/retrieve large numbers of triples * The application or tool(s) should be scalable (in terms of the amount of data used and in terms of distributed components working together) * The application or tool(s) should show the use of the very large, mixed quality data set * The application should either function in real-time or, if pre-computation is needed, have a real-time realization (but we will take a wide view of “real time” depending on the scale of what is done) How to participate Visit http://challenge.semanticweb.org/ in order to participate and register for the Semantic Web Challenge by submitting the required information as well as a link to the application on the online registration form. The form will be open until October 1, 2008, 12am CET. The requirements of this entry are: * Abstract: no more than 200 words. * Description: The description will show details of the system including why the system is innovative, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. Papers should not exceed eight pages and must be formatted according to the same guidelines as the papers in the Research Track (see http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/) * Web access: The application should be accessible via the web. If the application is not publicly accessible, passwords should be provided. We also ask to provide a (short) instruction on how to start and use the application. Descriptions will be published in the form of an online proceedings. Prizes A prize in money will be provided to the winners along with publicity for their work. The winners will also be asked to give a live demonstration of their application at the ISWC 2008 conference. The best applications will also have a chance to appear as full papers in the Journal of Web Semantics. In the event that one of the tracks receive less than a minimal number of submissions, the organizers reserve the right to merge the two tracks of the competition. Important Dates * October 1, 2008 Submissions due * October 26-30, 2008 ISWC 2008 Technical Program SWC Co-Chairs * Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) * Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) SWC Advisory Board Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant), Jürgen Angele (Ontoprise), Mike Dean (BBN Technologies), Stefan Decker (DERI, Galway), Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes), Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester), Atanas Kiryakov (OntoText), Michel Klein (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University), Rob Shearer (University of Manchester), Amit Sheth (Wright State University), York Sure (University of Karlsruhe), Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo), Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen) Contact Peter Mika Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Ocata 1 08001 Barcelona, Spain Tel: +34 935 421 165 Fax: +34 935 421 150 Email: pmika at yahoo-inc.com Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~pmika/ <http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Epmika/> -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [isworld] WeB 2008 Call for Papers]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] WeB 2008 Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:50:30 +0200 Von: Stoesser, Jochen <Stoesser(a)iism.uni-karlsruhe.de> Antwort an: Stoesser, Jochen <Stoesser(a)iism.uni-karlsruhe.de> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> The Seventh International Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2008) - Pre-ICIS Workshop Sponsored by AIS SIGeBIZ and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Theme: Designing e-Business Systems: Markets, Services and Networks Date: December 13, 2008, Paris, France Workshop Website: www.web-2008.org ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Information and Communication Technologies continue to rapidly transform how business is done. e-business technologies and applications are also enabling new business models and redefining relations and processes within and across organizations. The purpose of this workshop series is to provide an open forum for e-business researchers and practitioners to share research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions of e-business. The theme of this year's workshop is "Designing e-Business Systems: Markets, Services and Networks". The thematic emphases for the past workshops (2002 to 2007) were mobile commerce, Web services, dynamic and service-oriented e-business, Web-enabled business values, the real-world impact of e-Business research, and customer-centric information systems respectively. With this year's workshop being located in Europe, we feel that the increasing importance of the design science approach, which has a long tradition in the European IS research, should be reflected in the workshop theme. We thus hope to stimulate discussions on how to overcome the barriers to the full acceptance of this approach and how it should and can be advanced. Research submissions along these lines are strongly encouraged. KEYNOTES The workshop will include keynotes by * Eric van Heck (Professor for Information Management and Markets at Rotterdam School of Management) * Jim Spohrer (Director of Almaden Services Research at IBM) TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics welcome at the workshop include, but are not limited to: * E-Business Standards * Economic Modeling of Telecommunication Markets and Services * Economics of E-Commerce * Grid Economics * IS in eEnergy * Market and Service Engineering * Mobile Technologies * Multiagent System, Semantic Web, and Context-aware Computing * Multiagent-based Business Process and Supply-Chain Management * Organizational Implications of Electronic Markets * Prediction Markets * RFID and Supply Chain Management * Security Informatics * Social Computing Applications * Social Networks * Web Intelligence * Web Services and Architectures PUBLICATION The papers will be published in workshop proceedings (with an ISBN number). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit the extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Information Systems and e-Business Management and the Pacific Asia Journal of Information Systems. Submissions should be made online at http://submission.ecrc.nsysu.edu.tw/WeB2008/. Formatting instructions are posted on the workshop website. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission 01 September Notification of Acceptance 15 October Final Camera-ready Copy 01 November Workshop 13 December CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University Michael J. Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Christof Weinhardt, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Stefan Luckner, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) WEBSITE AND FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the WeB 2008 website at www.web-2008.org Or email the program co-chairs: web2008(a)iism.uni-karlsruhe.de The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] KI 2008 - Call for Participation]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] KI 2008 - Call for Participation Datum: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:45:29 +0200 Von: Stefan Zinsmeister <zinsmeis(a)dfki.uni-kl.de> Antwort an: Stefan Zinsmeister <zinsmeis(a)dfki.uni-kl.de> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** ==================================================================== KI 2008 -- 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence 23 - 26 September 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany http://ki2008.dfki.uni-kl.de ==================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KI 2008 is the 31st edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2008 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to * Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Reasoning and Ontologies, Deduction * Natural Language Processing, Statistical NLP, Semantics * Planning and Scheduling; Spatial and Temporal Reasoning * Reasoning under Uncertainty, Constraint Satisfaction * Robotics, Vision and Perception * Intelligent Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web * Evolutionary and Neural Computation * Machine Learning and Data-mining, * Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment; AI for Graphics, Agents * Game Theory and AI * AI for Human-Computer-Interaction * Software-Engineering and AI * Cognitive Modelling, AI and Psychology * History and Philosophical Foundations of AI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Andreas Dengel (DFKI and TU Kaiserslautern) Karsten Berns (TU Kaiserslautern) Thomas Breuel (DFKI and TU Kaiserslautern) Thomas Roth-Berghofer (DFKI) Frank Bomarius (Fraunhofer IESE and Univ. of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Details and updates will be available on the conference web site http://ki2008.dfki.uni-kl.de/ For questions about the program, please contact: ki2008(a)iupr.dfki.de For further inquiries regarding the conference, please contact ki2008(a)dfki.uni-kl.de or write to: Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel DFKI Kaiserslautern Trippstadterstr. 122 67608 Kaiserslautern The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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