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Fwd: CELDA 2010 in Timisoara, Romania: submit until 26 July
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CELDA 2010 in Timisoara, Romania: submit until 26 July Datum: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:33:31 -0500 (CDT) Von: Ana Sofia <ana.sofia(a)celda-conf.org> An: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at * Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 26 July 2010 (for all contributions) *IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2010) * October 15 - 17, 2010 - Timisoara, Romania (http://www.celda-conf.org/) Endorsed by the Japanese Society of Information and Systems in Education ** Conference background and goals *The IADIS CELDA 2010 conference aims to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems. These developments have created both opportunities and areas of serious concerns. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified. However innovative contributions that do not easily fit into these areas will also be considered as long as they are directly related to the overall theme of the conference -- cognition and exploratory learning in the digital age. ** Format of the Conference *The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations for discussion-oriented papers. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM. Authors of the best published papers in the CELDA 2010 proceedings will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special issue of the Journal of Educational Technology & Society - ISSN: 1436-4522 (online) / 1176-3647 (print). ** Types of submissions *Full papers, Short papers, EU Project papers and Reflection papers. All submissions will go through a double-blind refereeing process with at least two international experts. ** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: *- Acquisition of expertise - Assessing progress of learning in complex domains - Assessment of exploratory learning approaches - Assessment of exploratory technologies - Cognition in education - Collaborative learning - Educational psychology - EU projects in education, research and in learning technologies - Exploratory technologies (such as simulations, VR, i-TV and so on) - Just-in-time and Learning-on-Demand - Learner Communities and Peer-Support - Learning Communities & Web Service Technologies - Pedagogical Issues Related with Learning Objects - Learning Paradigms in Academia - Learning Paradigms in Corporate Sector - Life-long Learning - Student-Centered Learning - Technology and mental models - Technology, learning and expertise - Virtual University ** Important Dates: *- Submission Deadline (1st call extension): 26 July 2010 - Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 6 September 2010 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call extension): Until 20 September 2010 - Late Registration (1st call extension): After 20 September 2010 - Conference: Timisoara, Romania, 15 to 17 October 2010 ** Conference Location *The conference will be held in Timisoara, Romania. ** Secretariat *IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELDA 2010 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat(a)celda-conf.org Web site: http://www.celda-conf.org/ ** Program Committee * Conference Co-Chairs Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Radu Vasiu, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania Program Co-Chairs Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus and CERTH, Greece J. Michael Spector, University of Georgia, USA Local Chair Diana Andone, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania Committee Members: please see http://www.celda-conf.org/committees.asp for updated list. ** Co-located Conference: *Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2010 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 14-16 October 2010 and WWW/Internet 2010 (http://www.internet-conf.org/) - 14-17 October 2010. * Registered participants in the CELDA conference may attend the Applied Computing and WWW/Internet conferences' sessions free of charge. powered by <http://b.ss38.on9mail.com//home/r.asp?SID=0&G=2> subscribe <http://b.ss38.on9mail.com/RWCode/subscribe.asp?SiteID=1351&SID=0&HitID=1277…> forward <http://b.ss38.on9mail.com/forward.asp?SiteID=1351&SID=0&EmailID=1033291&Hit…> unsubscribe <http://b.ss38.on9mail.com/RWCode/subscribe.asp?SiteID=1351&SID=0&Email=neum…> This mailing system may only be used for sending permission based email. 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Fwd: [computational.science] 2nd CfP AIJ Special Issue on AI, Wikipedia and Semi-Structured Resources
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 2nd CfP AIJ Special Issue on AI, Wikipedia and Semi-Structured Resources Datum: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:00:29 +0200 (CEST) Von: Roberto Navigli <navigli(a)di.uniroma1.it> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** Artificial Intelligence Journal Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia and Semi-Structured Resources" GUEST EDITORS: Eduard Hovy, Roberto Navigli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~ponzetto/aij/ CALL FOR PAPERS The availability of large amounts of wide-coverage semantic knowledge, and the ability to extract it using the powerful new statistical machine learning techniques developed and used in various branches of AI, is making possible significant advances in applications that require deep understanding capabilities such as question-answering engines and dialogue systems. Though well-known problems such as high cost and scalability discouraged the development of knowledge-rich approaches in the past, more recently the increasing availability of online collaborative resources has attracted the attention of much work in the AI community. Collaboratively constructed knowledge repositories have in fact been used as wide-coverage sources of semi-structured information and manual annotations. When coupled with free-form natural language information, these resources enable the development of large-scale structured resources using knowledge-lean applications. Wikipedia is a case in point, being the largest and most popular collaborative and multilingual resource of world and linguistic knowledge that contains unstructured and (semi-)structured information. This special issue aims to collect state-of-the-art contributions to the development and use of hybrid (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured) resources in AI. These include, but are not limited to, semi-structured encyclopedic resources such as Wikipedia (and related projects such as Wiktionary), user-generated answer repositories such as Wiki and Yahoo! Answers, and collaborative tagging efforts on social media platforms such as Flickr and Blogger. Hybrid knowledge resources such as Wikipedia enable the development of methods for extracting, bootstrapping and integrating fully structured, machine-readable knowledge from both unstructured and semi-structured origins. Such induced wide-coverage knowledge is expected to prove beneficial for a variety of AI tasks, as well as the Semantic Web. We are particularly interested in articles showing the benefits of using such resources and AI techniques synergistically. We thus welcome contributions dealing with applications of general AI methodologies for the construction and validation of large-scale machine-readable knowledge repositories and the impact of automatically-extracted knowledge for AI applications. We also encourage contributors to investigate the nature and impact of the structured and unstructured parts of the resource (e.g. information redundancy, overlaps, connections, etc.). TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Using Wikipedia and other semi-structured content in AI tasks. Examples include Word Sense Disambiguation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering, etc. * Automatic transformation of hybrid knowledge repositories into fully-structured resources * Extraction and formalization of information from hybrid resources into knowledge bases and databases * Automatic integration of semi-structured knowledge repositories with structured resources (e.g. Cyc, WordNet, SUMO) * Enriching encyclopedic and semi-structured entries with new types of structural information * Wikipedia and the Semantic Web * Automatic extraction and use of cross-lingual information, and other multilingual aspects of Wikipedias and Wiktionaries in AI * Knowledge acquisition from collaborative user contributions * AI methods for improving the quality of (semi-)structured user contributions SUBMISSION INFORMATION Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2010. Please follow the submission instructions available from the AIJ webpage under Submit Article at http://ees.elsevier.com/artint/ For additional information, please contact Simone Paolo Ponzetto (lastname(a)cl.uni-heidelberg.de). IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: October 31, 2010 * First-round reviews due: January 31, 2011 * Revised versions due: May 30, 2011 * Second-round reviews due: June 30, 2011 * Final versions due: July 31, 2011 * Special issue publication: Fall 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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Fwd: [wkwi] [wkwi] Final CfP ACIS 2010 Track "Information Technology inCreative Environments"
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] [wkwi] Final CfP ACIS 2010 Track "Information Technology inCreative Environments" Datum: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:54:02 +0200 (CEST) Von: Seidel Stefan <Stefan.Seidel(a)hochschule.li> Antwort an: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de An: undisclosed-recipients:; Apologies for cross-postings. ---- Bitte beachten Sie die Verbindung zu einem Special Issue in Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB). ---- CFP: ACIS 2010 Track “Information Technology in Creative Environments” http://conferenceit.com.au/acis2010/Conference%20Tracks_Creative.htm as part of the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2010) Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 December 2010, http://acis2010.org *Important Dates* Paper submission: 12 July 2010 Notification of acceptance: 17 September 2010 ACIS 2010 conference: 1-3 December 2010 *Track Description* Creativity is commonly associated with the generation of products, services, processes, or ideas that are both novel and appropriate. With the emergence of the creative industries as an entire sector that has developed around creative products, the use of information technology (IT) in creative environments becomes increasingly critical. Prominent application areas include the production of computer games, visual effects, music, or feature films. At the same time, other industries such as software development, pharmaceuticals, or research and development are increasingly recognizing the role of creativity. Usually, the underlying creative process is characterized by a complex interplay of human actors, IT, and other resources that generate creative products. It is collaboration-intensive, knowledge-intensive, and characterized by high levels of uncertainty. This playground opens numerous research opportunities for IS researchers, who are challenged to investigate the role of IT and its management in creative environments. In particular, there is a lack of foundational theory that explains how creativity impacts socio-technical systems and their management. The aim of this track is to further the discussion of the role and relevance of creativity in socio-technical systems that involve IT. It intends to provide thought leaders with a forum that accounts for the breadth of creativity research in IS and thus contributes to defining an important and emergent IS research domain. Potential topics range from the use of creativity support systems and knowledge management systems in creative environments to the application of existent theories on creativity at the individual, group, and organizational level to IS-related phenomena as well as the development of new theory. We invite rigorous and relevant studies employing a wide variety of methods. Empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual papers on theory development will be considered. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the international editorial board. *Relevant Topics* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Creativity support systems (CSS) - Group support systems (GSS) in creative processes - Creative work over distance: ICT-support for creative virtual teams - The role of Social Media, Social Software and Enterprise 2.0 techniques in creative processes - Knowledge management systems and creativity - Enterprise content management (ECM) and creativity - Creativity in the process of requirements engineering and systems development - IT-enabled creativity management - Theories on creativity relevant to the IS discipline - IS theories that can be applied to the phenomenon of creativity in socio-technical systems - Development of new foundational theory on creativity in socio-technical contexts - Case studies in the creative industries *Confirmed journal special issues* Authors of selected high quality papers from the track will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to the related special issue in Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB). *Associate Editors* Katherine Blashki, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Australia Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein James Howison, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, USA Roy Johnson, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa Sara Jones, City University London, England Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany John Lamp, Deakin University, Australia Dorothy Leidner, Baylor University, USA Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany Brenda Massetti, St. John’s University, USA Bjoern Niehaves, University of Muenster, Germany Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Wally Smith, The University of Melbourne, Australia Cathy Urquhart, University of Auckland, New Zealand Erik de Vries, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *Track Chairs* Didier Elzinga, Culture Amp, Australia Kai Riemer, University of Sydney, Australia Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein *Contact details* stefan.seidel(a)hochschule.li ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by *MailMarshal * ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [AISWorld] DIGIT 2010 at ICIS -- Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] DIGIT 2010 at ICIS -- Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:30:17 -0400 Von: Anand Jeyaraj <anand.jeyaraj(a)wright.edu> An: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org ** The Special Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology will again host a pre-ICIS workshop for people interested in information technology adoption and diffusion (DIGIT). DIGIT will be held on Sunday, December 12, 2010 in St. Louis, Missouri, as a pre-conference event of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The theme this year is *Reflections of the Past and Gateway to the Future of Adoption and Diffusion Research*. The workshop will include paper roundtables, panel discussions and tutorials. Faculty members and doctoral students are encouraged to attend and submit papers for roundtable discussion. Doctoral students submitting papers to the conference will be eligible for a workshop scholarship that covers the DIGIT registration fee**. The deadline for submission of papers is Friday, September 10, 2010. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made in early November. See the Call for Papers below for more details. In order to foster the workshop atmosphere that has developed in previous meetings, registration will again be limited to about 40 people. Refreshments will be provided to attendees. You can register for DIGIT during the regular ICIS registration process. For information on SIGADIT and past DIGIT workshops, please go to _http://www.sigadit.org <http://www.sigadit.org/> _or contact the 2010 workshop organizers: SIGADIT Chair Mark Srite University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee msrite(a)uwm.edu <mailto:msrite@uwm.edu> Workshop Chair Elizabeth White Baker Wake Forest University efrwhite(a)aol.com <mailto:bakerew@vmi.edu> Program Chair Marcus Rothenberger University of Nevada, Las Vegas marcus.rothenberger(a)unlv.edu <mailto:marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu> ** Up to 3 doctoral student authors will receive a full scholarship to cover their DIGIT 2010 workshop fee. Depending upon remaining funds, full or partial scholarships will be offered to all other doctoral students who submit papers for workshop consideration. There may also be funds available to assist doctoral students who did not submit a paper, but are interested in attending the DIGIT workshop. Please contact the Workshop Chair Elizabeth Baker (efrwhite(a)aol.com <mailto:efrwhite@aol.com>) for additional information. * * * * *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Reflections of the Past and Gateway to the Future of Adoption and Diffusion Research* Research on adoption and diffusion of IT innovation has spanned several decades. This year’s DIGIT workshop aims to reflect on what we have learned so far, identify outstanding or emergent questions in different spheres, and craft future directions and methods for research. To this end, we solicit papers on IT adoption and diffusion that serve these dual goals of showing where we have been in the past and where we may be headed in the future. Potential topics for such examination include: § Theory: What current theories explain and what they fail to explain § Measurement: What current techniques measure and what they fail to measure § Methods: What current analysis methods yield and what they fail to yield While papers adhering to the theme are preferred, research in other IT adoption and diffusion research domains will be considered. Potential topic areas include (but are not exclusive to): § Identifying technologies: enterprise systems, inter-organization systems, personal systems § Conceptualizing innovations: feature-centric vs. innovation-centric § Determining stages: initiation, adoption, use, assimilation, adaptation, infusion § Choosing environments: private vs. public sectors, voluntary vs. captive vs. mandatory settings § Selecting units of analysis: individual, group/team, organization, industry, society § Identifying antecedent categories: technology, individual, group/network, organization § Crafting empirical designs: cross-sectional, longitudinal, panel § Collecting data: case studies, experiments, surveys, simulations, mixed methods § Analyzing data: structural equations, latent growth models, event history, event sequence In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, working papers are encouraged as well as more complete papers. All submissions will be blind reviewed. Papers should not have been published previously in a proceedings or journal, nor be under review elsewhere, but may be submitted elsewhere after the DIGIT meeting. At least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted. *Instructions for Contributors * All papers should be double-spaced and submitted in Microsoft Word format. Working papers or research in process are limited to ten double-spaced pages. Research papers are limited to twenty double-spaced pages. Both types of submissions should include an abstract. Page counts exclude references. The title page (exclusive of the page counts) should include the paper title and the authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. The main body of the paper should have a title, but no author identification. All paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment to digit.workshop(a)gmail.com <mailto:digit.workshop@gmail.com>. Questions regarding paper submissions should be directed to the Program Chair, Marcus Rothenberger (marcus.rothenberger(a)unlv.edu <mailto:marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu>). ================================================= Anand Jeyaraj, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Systems Department of Information Systems & Operations Management Raj Soin College of Business 271 Rike Hall Wright State University 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway Dayton OH 45435 Voice: 937-775-2189 Fax: 937-775-3533 Web: http://www.wright.edu/~anand.jeyaraj

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Fwd: [WI] CFP (Extended Deadline): International Workshop on Enabling User Experience with future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP (Extended Deadline): International Workshop on Enabling User Experience with future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010) Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:19:04 -0600 Von: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Enabling User Experience with future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010) http://sgraf.athabascau.ca/UXFUL2010 held in conjunction with USAB 2010: HCI in Work& Learning, Life& Leisure 4& 5 November 2010 Klagenfurt, Austria http://usab-symposium.uni-klu.ac.at/ *** Extended Deadline: July 6, 2010 *** Motivation ********** Standard Information Systems for learning purposes have matured, technology is stable and masses of information can be made available to the learner. Most educational institutions are already using such learning systems either in a blended or purely online form for delivering parts of courses or fully online courses to their students. Besides such formal learning systems, we are surrounded by multimodal interfaces which enable the inclusion of all human senses, and mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive technology is available everywhere and at all time. Current research deals with using such new technologies for the purpose of learning, integrating them in current learning systems, and building learning environments where students are provided with more authentic learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. Furthermore, new technologies allow students to interact with the learning environment in more natural and intuitive ways, using multimodal and smart interfaces from various types of devices ranging from mobile phones to smart boards. The focus of this special workshop is on the provision of enhanced user experience (UX), including making information more useful, usable and enjoyable. This is a challenge for interdisciplinary research on the intersection of Psychology and Computer Science. This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners from Psychology and Computer Science, bridging classic Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI) with Usability Engineering (UE), aiming at bringing clear benefits for learners! Topics of Interest ****************** Topics include (but are not limited): ? Quasi-Intelligent Learning Objects (QILOS) ? Adaptive Learning Environments (ALEs) ? Multimodal Interfaces for e-Learning (MIeL) and Training (e-Training) ? Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Pervasive Learning and Training Technologies ? Smart Technologies and Interfaces ? Contextual Real-time Interaction in e-Learning ? Psychological Aspects of Multimodal Interfaces ? Cross Media Design and Development ? Accessible Interfaces to Learning and Training Content ? Learning, Teaching and Motivation with didactical innovative e-Learning Concepts Submission Procedure ******************** Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: ? Full papers (14-20 pages) ? Short papers (6-14 pages) ? Posters (4 pages) The page length includes figures, tables, references and so on. All papers has to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style. Please find more information about the formatting guidelines in Section 5.2 at: http://usab-symposium.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=46&Itemid=2. Since papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process, please remove your names, affiliations and any other identifying material before submitting your paper! Please submit your paper at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=usab2010 (and choose "Enabling User Experience with Future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010)" as track). Accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of the main Symposium, consequently will undergo careful peer review to ensure the highest possible quality. Quality instead of Quantity! Important Dates *************** July 6, 2010 Extended Deadline for Paper Submission July 23, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August 15, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline November 4& 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work& Learning, Life& Leisure Information about Registration, Accommodation and Venue ******************************************************* The UXFUL Workshop is held in conjunction with USAB2010, which takes place from 4-5 November 2010 in Klagenfurt, Austria. All participants of the workshop are required to register for USAB, but there will be no additional workshop fee. Further information regarding the registration, accommodations, and the workshop/conference venue can be found at the website of USAB2010 (http://usab-symposium.uni-klu.ac.at/). Program Committee (not completed yet) ***************** Reinhold Behringer, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Matjaz Debevc, University of Maribor, Slovenia Carlo Giovannella, ScuolaIaD Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Vlado Glavinic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Ray Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Taiwan, Taiwan Jiyou Jia, Peking University, China Charalambos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Jimmy Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Gerd Mietzel, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Carsten Roecker, RWTH Aachen, Germany Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus& CERTH, Greece Jean Underwood, Nottingham Trend University, UK Geoff Underwood, Nottingham University, UK Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen, Germany Workshop Organizers ******************* Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology& Medical University Graz, Austria Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] latest edition IJSKD and cfp
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] latest edition IJSKD and cfp Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:26:49 +0100 Von: Elayne Coakes <coakese(a)westminster.ac.uk> An: <E.Gieorgiadou(a)mdx.ac.uk>, <shelley(a)osel.netkonect.co.uk>, <r.zijlstra(a)gddeventer.com>, <lorne(a)objectivedesigners.com>, <niels(a)malataux.nl>, <m.w.bush(a)ieee.org>, <allan(a)allankelly.net>, <ievans(a)testing-solutions.com>, "Deborah Swallow" <deborah(a)deborahswallow.com>, <bob.marshall(a)fallingblossoms.com>, <m.leitch1(a)ntlworld.com>, <citasa(a)lists.ist.psu.edu>, <dick(a)xegetix.com>, <david(a)valuekinetics.com>, <ryanshriver(a)mac.com>, <kai(a)gilb.com>, <Rolf.Goetz(a)DeutschePost.de>, <cec-has(a)online.co>, <tom(a)gilb.com>, <srihari.boregowda(a)ecanarys.com>, <aspro(a)acm.org>, <Jenny.Stuart(a)construx.com>, <randal.wells(a)knowledgewells.com>, <jdurant(a)certellus.net>, "AISWORLD Information Systems World Network " <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, <sympa(a)vancouvercommunity.net>, <SOCIOTECH(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, <livarbe(a)gmail.com>, <lars(a)ljungberg-quality.com>, <bran.selic(a)gmail.com>, <lawrence.e.day(a)boeing.com>, "roger martin" <roger.martin(a)sustainableorganisations.co.uk>, "nirmal lotay" <nim.lotay(a)bt.com>, <wiederhold(a)cs.stanford.edu>, <CYBERSPACE-AND-SOCIETY(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, <LISTSERV(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> The contents of the latest issue of: *International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD)* Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2010 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1941-6253* *EISSN:* *1941-6261 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijskd Editor-in-Chief: Elayne Coakes, University of Westminster, UK * * *BOOK REVIEW* Handbook of research on Socio-Technical design and Social networking Systems Reviewed by Magda Hercheui http://www.igi-global.com/Files/Ancillary/IJSKD%20bookreview%202(2).pdf <http://www.igi-global.com/Files/Ancillary/IJSKD%20bookreview%202%282%29.pdf> *PAPER ONE* * * Exploring Meaning The Implications of a Hyphen for Socio-Technical Theory and Practice Elayne Coakes (University of Westminster, UK) Jim Coakes (University of Westminster, UK) In this paper, the authors explore the hyphenated spelling variant on papers taken from the Business Source Complete (BSC) repository. This paper finds that the hyphenated spelling variant is popular with more recent authors and that in total, socio-technical article publishing has recently recovered from the relative decline of the 1980s and 1990s. Within the socio-technical area, the topics of Work and Technology are receiving increased attention and studies of Behaviour, Change and major Stakeholder Groups are waning. The authors have critiqued the articles that indicated in their BSC Subject terms that their contents are related to Methodology but have found that few actually consider the socio-technical methodologies. Systems and socio-technical theory papers are critiqued, including papers by Enid Mumford and her work. Also discussed are lessons learned when using online repositories, such as the need to save search results to manage the surprising level of volatility of such academic databases. Finally, opportunities for future analysis are discussed, including trends; changes of emphasis within topics; researching into other academic search engines; and US based analysis. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43565 * * *PAPER TWO * * * Achieving Best Practice Manufacturing Involving Tacit Knowledge through the Cautious Use of Mixed-mode Modelling Miles Nicholls (RMIT University, Australia) Barbara Cargill (University of Melbourne, Australia) In the real world, 'optimal' solutions for many production process problems do not exist. In such circumstances, 'best practice' is the realistic outcome for which practitioners aim. The reasons for this stem from many causes, including that data associated with production processes are often corrupted and/or missing. These types of processes usually rely heavily on the subjective input of the process workers on the shop floor (tacit knowledge). This paper outlines how the use of mixed-mode modelling has been utilised to help solve these types of problems. The industry examples used in the paper incorporate the concept of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in the mixed-mode models that are developed as a means of capturing tacit knowledge and incorporating it into the solution process. Additionally, CoPs need to sit comfortably within the culture and values of the organisation and employee groups, and must be clearly owned and facilitated by the community of workers whose knowledge is to be shared. Finally, CoPs should be presented as opportunities to share, compare, and learn so that a 'craft' is not lost or diminished. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43566 * * *PAPER THREE * Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy -- the Case of Botswana A Discussion Article Bwalya Joseph (University of Botswana, Botswana) Botswana is keen to position itself as a knowledge-based economy as early as 2016 due to the realisation that to compete on a global scale, efficient knowledge value chains must be put in place, which includes indigenous knowledge management systems. This realisation is primarily caused by falling demand in the price of diamonds (due to the world's recession), which is the country's current economic mainstay. Today, Botswana is pushing for further economic liberalisation and diversification by employing and encouraging novel frontiers of knowledge with emphasis placed on research and efficient knowledge management as a vital resource for national development. In Botswana, the role of scientific and technical knowledge is being emphasized as the main driver of sustainable development, but not forgetting the potential contribution of indigenous and mythological knowledge to this aim. Several initiatives have been devised or implemented by both the government and the public sector to position Botswana as a knowledge-based economy. This paper surveys the fundamental concepts on which this paradigm shift is based and brings out the different initiatives that have been undertaken while emphasizing the role of research and efficient knowledge management paradigms in shaping Botswana as a knowledge-based economy. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43567 * * *PAPER FOUR* The Change Equation Peter Duschinsky (Imaginist Company, UK) In this article, the author investigates the nature of complexity and its role in project failure. Also, the paper proposes a model to assess complexity. It draws some conclusions about the implications for change management interventions. The author finds that projects fail when the complexity exceeds the capability of the organisation to cope. The overall aim of the article is to offer an approach to reducing this number of failed change projects. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43568 **************************************************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the *International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development** (IJSKD)* 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 IJSKD: The *International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development* will provide both a practical and comprehensive forum for exchanging research ideas and down-to-earth practices which bridge the social and technical gap within organizations and society at large. Coverage of IJSKD: The *International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development* will look for practical sociotechnical approaches that can assist practitioners, academics, researchers, and students. It will encourage interdisciplinary texts that discuss current practices as well as demonstrating how the advances of - and changes within - technology affect the growth of society (and vice versa). 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Fwd: [computational.science] ISDA 2010: International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Visual Information Processing (CIMVIP’2010
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] ISDA 2010: International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Visual Information Processing (CIMVIP’2010 Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:02:05 +0100 Von: YTN ALQASRAWI <Y.T.N.Al-qasrawi(a)Bradford.ac.uk> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> ***** Apologies for cross-postings ******** We would also appreciate if you could forward this invitation to other colleagues that might be interested in. ************************************************ * SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to JULY 17, 2010 * ************************************************ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Visual Information Processing (CIMVIP’2010) under the framework of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA’10. (November 29 – December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt) Conference web page: http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/ Workshop web page: http://pythia.inf.brad.ac.uk/CIMVIP_ISDA2010 Workshop Chairs:Yousef Alqasrawi, Daniel Neagu and Peter Cowling The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields with interest in applications of data mining, artificial intelligence and computer vision in processing video and image resources. The wide spread use of social networks allows people to upload and share their personal images and videos. Low cost storage and image/video capturing devices have led to the availability of huge amounts of multimedia data, such as pictures and video records, which come at the cost of increased pressure to process them. More research needs to be done in terms of processing, analyzing, mining, managing and searching multimedia visual data. We are looking for original and high-quality submissions that address the evolution and recent developments of various multimedia visual information processing methodologies, ranging from statistical, fuzzy sets, neural, evolutionary, to hybrid soft computing for analyzing, organizing and retrieving of images and videos from the databases. The topics for this workshop include all aspects of applying intelligent techniques to multimedia visual information processing including, but not limited to: • Machine learning • Fuzzy logic • Evolutionary computation • Data mining approaches • Graph-based approaches • Statistical methods • Hybrid intelligent methods • Intelligent agents • Rough sets in: • Intelligent content-based image and video retrieval • Object, image and video classification • Semantic image analysis • Object detection and localization • Semantic-driven context-aware visual information analysis • Semantic image segmentations • Local and global image labeling and annotation • Multiple cues visual information fusion • Intelligent similarity methods for image and video retrieval • Visual feature extraction and description • Visual information processing • Mining visual information from online social networks • Face analysis • Medical image processing --------------------------- Tentative Dates of Submission and Acceptance • Deadline for paper submission July 17, 2010 • Notification of acceptance September 1, 2010 • Camera-ready manuscript submission September 20, 2010 --------------------------- Instructions for Authors Papers must correspond to the requirements detailed in the (Paper Submission) on the conference flyer http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/flyer.pdf and All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ISDA'10 that will be also included in the IEEEXplore digital library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IJCIR, IJCISIM, JIAS, IJAC and IJGUC journals. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: ISDA2010 - WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR PERSONALIZATION IN WEB CONTENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: ISDA2010 - WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR PERSONALIZATION IN WEB CONTENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:08:37 +0200 Von: mario.cimino(a)ing.unipi.it <mario.cimino(a)ing.unipi.it> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> [Apologies for possible multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR PERSONALIZATION IN WEB CONTENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY (CIWP'10) Organizers: G. Castellano, M.G.C.A. Cimino, F. Marcelloni, M.A. Torsello (Workshop page: http://cig.iet.unipi.it/ciwp10/) at ISDA 2010 Conference, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2010, Cairo, EGYPT (Conference web page: http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technically sponsored by: Sponsor : - Machine Intelligence Research Labs Technical Sponsors: - Egypt IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter - IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (IEEE - SMC) - International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) (pending approval) - European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) (pending approval) - The World Federation on Soft Computing (WFSC) (pending approval) Technically Supported by: - IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Soft Computing - IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Granular Computing Proceedings published by IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP Today, the explosion of multimedia content and available services prompts the need for more effective Web systems, that allow users to retrieve the right information and/or service at the right time in the right way. Personalized retrieval is a promising research direction devoted to enhance information retrieval and service customization by exploiting explicit user requests combined with implicit user preferences. User preferences are complex, heterogeneous, changing, and even contradictory. Moreover, information retrieval process is characterized by vagueness of queries and approximation in the comparison between the query content and the information in the database. Computational Intelligence (CI) provides valid tools to cope with the complexity in the mechanisms underlying Web content and service delivery personalization. Indeed, CI encloses different computing paradigms that work synergistically to exploit the tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, approximate reasoning, and partial truth in order to provide flexible information processing capabilities and low-cost solutions. Due to these characteristics, CI techniques are suitable to deal with the imprecision and vagueness inherent a personalized information retrieval system. Recently, many researchers have addressed their interest towards the benefits of CI for personalization in Web information retrieval systems. This represents a promising direction to improve the effectiveness of such systems and to make them adaptive and more flexible. TOPICS We invite prospective authors to submit papers that propose the use of CI techniques to advance the technology in the field of Web personalization, with special focus on information retrieval and service delivery. Original contributions are solicited in the following topics (but are not limited to): * User behaviour modelling * Context-Aware Browsing * Automated techniques for user profiling * Web mining for personalization * Data models for Web usage, content and structure data * Collaborative and content based filtering * Clustering in personalization systems * Hybrid personalization systems * Adaptive user interfaces and personalization techniques * Personalized search * Context-aware Search * Service delivery personalization * Intelligent Context-Aware Services Delivery * Explanation and justification in personalization systems * Modelling decision making in personalization systems * Measuring personalization effectiveness INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Papers must correspond to the requirements detailed in the (Paper Submission) on the conference flyer: http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/flyer.pdf All papers should be submitted electronically via the Online Paper Submission System, which is located at http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/index.php/submission.html All papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must pay the registration fees. PAPER REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, included in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries and arranged for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed 6 pages (PDF) following the double column IEEE format. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the ISDA'10. Selected papers will be published in special issues of a selection of International Journals (to be announced). TENTATIVE DATES OF SUBMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE * July 17, 2010: deadline for paper submission. * September 1, 2010: notification of acceptance. * September 20, 2010: camera-ready manuscript submission. * September 20, 2010: registration deadline. CONTACT DETAILS Name of Chairs: Giovanna Castellano, Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino, Francesco Marcelloni, Maria Alessandra Torsello. Address: - Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, v. E. Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari (Italy). - Department of Information Engineering: Electronics, Informatics, Telecommunications, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, 56122 Pisa (Italy). Phone: +39 080 544 2456, +39 050 221 7678. Email: castellano(a)di.uniba.it, m.cimino(a)iet.unipi.it, f.marcelloni(a)iet.unipi.it, torsello(a)di.uniba.it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please reply with "REMOVE" in the subject line. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] International workshop on Intelligent Information Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples (IITBVIP2009-)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] International workshop on Intelligent Information Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples (IITBVIP2009-) Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:34:27 -0500 Von: Mariofanna Milanova <mgmilanova(a)ualr.edu> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Dear Colleagues , *****Apologies for cross-postings********. We would also appreciate if you could forward this invitation to other colleagues that might be interested in (IITBVIP2009) ======================================= Call for paper International workshop on Intelligent Information Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples (IITBVIP2009-) To be held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA’10 Under the framework of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA’10 November 29 – December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt Conference web page: http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/ ======================================================== Technically sponsored by: Sponsor : Machine Intelligence Research Labs Technical Sponsors: Egypt IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (IEEE - SMC) International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) (pending approval) European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) (pending approval) The World Federation on Soft Computing (WFSC) (pending approval) Technically Supported by: IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Soft Computing IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Granular Computing Proceedings published by IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore Disabled people should be able to play their part in our information society using new technologies under the same conditions as any other citizen. There are now tools that, to a greater or lesser extent, can alleviate the difficulties arising from visual impairment, and there are also design standards for Web pages that make Internet access possible for the visually impaired who, in turn, should commit to accessibility by using and helping to develop the new solutions. The two fundamental problems facing blind people are the difficulty of knowing where they are and getting about, and the impossibility of having direct access to information, whether in written or in electronic form. The introduction of computer technology into the work-place and education has had a great impact on opportunities available to visually disabled people in both education and employment. For example, Deaf-Blind people can be guided and can obtain various types of information by using a wearable computer equipped with the Finger-Braille device and an RFID tag reader. Moreover, Communication support technology and position identification technology are essential to support Deaf-Blind people. As communication interfaces, we proposed wearable Finger-Braille interfaces which are hands-free and can communicate with others in real-time. Learners with visual impairment need to acquire basic competencies in the communication and information society and enjoy the same learning opportunities in ICT as their sighted counterparts. Sighted children observe, imitate, and are constantly surrounded by technology. They press buttons, touch computers and “play” on them whenever they are allowed to. However, visually impaired children need help and support at this initial stage. They require existing resources to be adapted to their needs and presented to them by others. To give people with visual disabilities the chance to have access to multimedia games should be seen as an important issue for better inclusion and participation in society. Designing games that work for visually impaired children is quite a challenge since the main feedback channel in games is usually visual. Indeed even if audio is more and more used in mainstream games, it has only a complementary role in a huge majority of cases. It improves the experience of the player but it is usually not bringing necessary pieces of information that the player would not get visually. For instance most of these games can be played efficiently with sound switched off. This workshop will focus mainly on the problems and applications that deal with the intelligent Information Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples using intelligent computing and virtual reality technologies as an emerging research area. • Computer Vision Tools for Visually Impaired Children Learning • Virtual reality technologies for blind people and people with special needs • Intelligent Image Processing for blind and Visually Impaired Peoples • Computer Games and Visually Impaired People • Improving the Reality Perception of Visually Impaired through Pervasive Computing • Virtual Leading Blocks for the Deaf-Blind • Wearable Finger-Braille Interface for Navigation of Deaf-Blind in Ubiquitous • Access to Scientific Content by Visually Impaired People • Intelligent Game Accessibility for blind and Visually Impaired People • Intelligent navigating in speech for blind • Augmented Indoor Modeling for Navigation Support for the Blind • Web based information system for blind and visually impaired • Creation of a virtual acoustic space Haptic virtual reality for blind • RFID in robot-assisted indoor navigation for the visually impaired. • Interact with computer-generated graphical information for Blind people • Initial design and evaluation of an interface to hypermedia systems for blind users • Issue of Technical Assistance for Blind People • Assistive Technology for the Blind • Design of an Intelligence Auditory Interfaces • Designing an intelligent haptic computer interfaces for blind people • Interpretation and understanding of complex scientific data for blind peoples • Indoor navigation system for blind individuals with impaired vision • An Intelligent Mobility System for for visually impaired peoples Instructions for Authors: Submission of paper should be made through the submission link in ISDA2010 official website (http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/) Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services. It is mandatory at least an author registers for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference. Expanded versions of ISDA2010 selected papers will be published in special issues of internationally referred journals. Tentative Dates of Submission and Acceptance - Paper submission: July 17, 2010 - Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2010 - Camera-ready manuscript submission: September 20, 2010 - Registration deadline: September 20, 2010 Workshop Chairs ======================= Aboul Ella Hassanien Cairo University, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo, Egypt Aboitcairo(a)gmail.com Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland Email: kacprzyk(a)ibspan.waw.pl http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~kacprzyk

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Fwd: [computational.science] CfP: PaIR'10 - ( Deadline extension) 3rd Int'l CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CfP: PaIR'10 - ( Deadline extension) 3rd Int'l CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:21:36 -0500 Von: Harris, Christopher G <christopher-harris(a)uiowa.edu> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Please note the extension to July 3, 2010, Apia, Samoa time. Apologies for duplicate or cross-postings. ******************************************************************** Call for Papers PaIR'10 3rd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval http://pair.ir-facility.org/ October 26, 2010 Toronto, Canada (colocated with CIKM 2010) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2010 ( was: June 30, 2010) ******************************************************************** Goals ===== The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent Retrieval experts from industry to study the next generation of patent search tools. Patent Information Retrieval specialists in the 21st century face many challenges. They must search very large numbers of documents in multiple languages expressing complex technological concepts through sophisticated legal clauses. Despite a great deal of theoretical development in Information Retrieval techniques, advanced search tools for patent professionals, be they patent searchers in national patent offices, patent lawyers, or members of a corporate IP department, are still in their infancy. It is therefore necessary to foster the exchange of ideas between IR and IP professionals, in order to speed up the introduction of state-of-the-art research into day-to-day use. We encourage IP professionals to present their special information needs either through position papers or through examples of how a tool or set of tools fails to satisfy a search need. These kind of papers are particularly interested for both researchers in academia and the industry in order to focus their efforts on real issues that will have a significant impact for the_patent searcher. IR& KM researchers, from academia or industry, are invited to present relevant technical ideas, examples of which are described below in the Topics of Interest section. The Workshop also aims to promote the exchange of ideas on measuring the progress of system performance for retrieval tasks in the intellectual property domain. Topics of Interest ================== This workshop solicits two types of papers: "research/solutions" and "IP/needs" papers. Suggested topics for "research/solutions" papers include, but are not limited to: * Cross-lingual information retrieval * Patent classification * Ontology-based retrieval * Latent Semantic Analysis * Information retrieval evaluation * Evaluation frameworks * Test collections * Large-scale information retrieval experiments * Parallel and distributed information retrieval * Ranking strategies * Query validation and query quality analysis * Query expansion * Interactive retrieval * Session-based information retrieval * User modeling * Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors) * XML retrieval * NLP / Natural Language Processing " IP/needs" papers shall present research challenges. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Patent search workflow * Patent search strategies * Information need of the patent researcher * Shortcomings of current patent search tools * Case studies * Challenges in patent search * Patent life cycle * Quality of patent data Keynote Speakers ================ - Mary Carman, CEO of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office - Marti Hearst, US Patents and Trademark Office Important Dates =============== - Individual workshop papers due: June 30, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2010 - Camera ready version: August 15, 2010 - Workshop date: October 26, 2010 Submission Guidelines ===================== The Workshop Committee encourages the submission of high quality research and industrial papers, which are not yet published or under consideration elsewhere, with special emphasis on Patent Information Retrieval methods. Research papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates (both for MS word and Latex) available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates . There are two styles on the website. Both the Strict Adherence to SIGS and the Tighter Alternate style are allowed. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length. A website with camera-ready instructions is available. Full papers should be submitted in PDF format to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pair10 . Selected papers will be invited to provide an extended version to be edited in special issue of a journal. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work in course of a poster session. Note that these papers will be included in the proceedings. Organization ============ * General Chair - John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility,AT * Workshop Organizers - Christopher G. Harris, University of Iowa, USA - Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, AT * PR& Communications Chair - Katja Mayer, Information Retrieval Facility, AT Programme Committee =================== - Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT - Linda Andersson, Information Retrieval Facility, AT - Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK - John Barnard, Digital Chemistry, UK - Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT - Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US - Barrou Diallo, European Patent Office, DE - Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT - Karl Froeschl, University of Vienna, AT - Allan Hanbury, Information Retrieval Facility, AT - Patrice Lopez, Humboldt University, DE - Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, AT - R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US - Andreas Pesenhofer, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT - Florina Piroi, Information Retrieval Facility, AT - Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, AT - Giovanna Roda, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT - Michael Schwantner, FIZ Karlsruhe, DE - Jun Wang, University College London, UK - Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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