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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP: Context-Aware Recommender Systems @ACM RecSys
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP: Context-Aware Recommender Systems @ACM RecSys Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:15:44 +0000 From: Hussein, Tim <tim.hussein(a)uni-due.de> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Apologies for cross-posting. ======================================================================= 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 3RD WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS (CARS-2011) (In conjunction with the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems) October 23, 2011 - Chicago, USA http://www.cars-workshop.org ======================================================================= Update: The workshop organizers are planning to organize a special issue on this topic in an ISI-rated journal. This workshop builds upon the success of the previous two Workshops on Context-Aware Recommender Systems held in New York in October 2009, and Barcelona September 2010, which brought together an international group of researchers to explore the importance and use of contextual information in recommender systems as well as to discuss new research directions. The importance of contextual information has been recognized by researchers and practitioners in many disciplines, including e-commerce personalization, information retrieval, ubiquitous and mobile computing, data mining, marketing, and management. While a substantial amount of research has already been performed in the area of recommender systems, the vast majority of existing approaches focuses on recommending the most relevant items to users and does not take into account any additional contextual information, such as time, location, weather, or the company of other people. Therefore, this workshop aims to bring together researchers with wide-ranging backgrounds to identify important research questions, to exchange ideas from different research disciplines, and, more generally, to facilitate discussion and innovation in the area of context-aware recommender systems (CARS). In particular, topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to): -- Context modeling techniques for recommender systems; -- Context-aware user modeling for recommender systems; -- Data sets for context-dependent recommendations; -- Algorithms for detecting the relevance of contextual data; -- Algorithms for incorporating contextual information into recommendation process; -- Algorithms for building explicit dependencies between contextual features and ratings; -- Interacting with context-aware recommender systems; -- Novel applications for context-aware recommender systems; -- Mobile context-aware recommender systems; -- Context-aware group recommendations; -- Large-scale context-aware recommender systems; -- Evaluation of context-aware recommender systems. In case the main topic of the paper is a challenging dataset for context-aware recommender systems, the author(s) should describe the data model and the main features of this dataset, and make the dataset available for the research community. PAPER SUBMISSION The length of submissions is 5 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates for papers in ACM SIG format are provided at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All submissions must be in English and the files should be in PDF format. Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically; each paper will be evaluated by the workshop program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity. All papers must be submitted through the CARS-2011 page on the EasyChair conference management site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cars2011). ACCEPTED PAPERS The accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website and on CEUR Workshop proceedings (to confirm). Authors will present their work in front of the workshop audience. The workshop will NOT request the copyright transfer from the authors; therefore, after receiving feedback at the workshop, the authors will be able to submit the improved versions of their papers to conferences and journals (the workshop organizers are currently exploring the possibilities to organize a special issue on this topic in the UMUAI journal). IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: July 25, 2011 Notification of acceptance: August 19, 2011 Final versions due: September 12, 2011 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Gediminas Adomavicius, University of Minnesota, USA Linas Baltrunas, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA PUBLICITY and LIAISON CHAIR Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Xavier Amatriain, Telefonica Research, Spain Sarabjot Anand, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Hideki Asoh, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, Japan Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Pablo Castells, Universidad Autononoma de Madrid, Spain Ernesto William De Luca, TU Berlin, Germany Zeno Gantner, University of Hildesheim, Germany Michele Gorgoglione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica Research, Spain Antonio Krueger, DFKI GmbH, Germany Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Kenta Oku, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Kurt Partridge, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Alan Said, TU Berlin, Germany Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: Second CFP - Coordination Models, Languages and Applications - CM track at ACM SAC 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Second CFP - Coordination Models, Languages and Applications - CM track at ACM SAC 2012 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:40:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez <fernandez(a)iiia.csic.es> To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at CC: Gabriella Castelli <gabriella.castelli(a)unimore.it>, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez <fernandez(a)iiia.csic.es> (Sorry for multiple copies) CfP: ACM SAC Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 27th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2012) March 25 - 29, 2012, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy http://sac2012.apice.unibo.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Aug. 31, 2011: Paper submissions Oct. 12, 2011: Author notification Nov. 2, 2011: Camera-Ready Copy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS& SCOPE Building on the success of the thirteen previous editions (1998-2011), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2012. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of, possibly heterogeneous, components (processes, objects, agents) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a software system with desired characteristics and functionalities which possibly takes advantage of parallel and distributed systems. The coordination paradigm is closely related to other contemporary software engineering approaches such as multi-agent systems, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems and related middleware platforms. Furthermore, the concept of coordination exists in many other Computer Science areas such as workflow systems, cooperative information systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and Internet technologies. After more than a decade of research, the coordination paradigm is gaining increased momentum in state-of-the-art engineering paradigms such as multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures: in the first case, coordination abstractions are perceived as essential to design and support the working activities of agent societies; in the latter case, service coordination, orchestration, and choreography are going to be essential aspects of the next generations of systems based on Web services. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques - Applications - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing coordinated systems - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. workflow management, CSCW) - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Middleware platforms - Self-organising and nature-inspired coordination approaches - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Formal aspects (semantics, type systems, reasoning, verification) - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, etc), and Pervasive Computing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2012 proceedings and in the Digital Library. A Special Issue on an International Journal (with IF) based on selected papers is planned just after the conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). It will be possible to have up to 2 extra pages in the proceeding at a charge of $80 per page (total 8 pages maximum). Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK CO-CHAIR Mirko Viroli, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, Italy Gabriella Castelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, IIIA-CSIC, Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, Netherlands Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Rocco De Nicola, University of Firenze, Italy Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, Scotland Keith Harrison-Broninski, Role Modellers Ltd, UK Manuel Mazzara, Newcastle University, UK Henry Muccini, University of l'Aquila, Italy Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, University of Florence, Italy Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Davide Rossi, University of Bologna, Italy Norman Salazar, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Meritxell Vinyals, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP for The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, Irvine, CA, USA
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CFP for The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, Irvine, CA, USA Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:24:05 -0400 From: Zeyu Gao <jerry.gao(a)sjsu.edu> Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> > > ********** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message > ********* > > > IEEESOSE 2011: CALL FOR PAPERS > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering > > December 12-14, 2011, Irvine, CA, USA > > http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/sose2011/index.htm > > > > Collocated with SOCA, KSEM, RTSOAA and KASTLES > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > Important Dates: Submission: July 20, 2011 > Notification: Aug. 20, 2011 > Camera Ready Copy: Sept. 23, 2011 > Symposium: Dec. 12 -14, 2011 > > > > Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society; > > Co-sponsors: > - Arizona State University > - San Jose State University > - Tokyo Institute of Technology > > - Oxford Brookes University > > - University of Leeds > > > Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS > > Starting from 2005, SOSE is one of the pioneering symposia > devoted to the research in engineering service-oriented systems. > It has addressed issues in various aspects of engineering SOA-based systems > from > architecture and computing paradigm to the development and quality > validation problems > and solutions. Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) exploits services as the > fundamental > elements for developing computer-based systems. It has been applied to > various areas > and promotes fundamental changes to system architecture. > SOC [Service Oriented Engineering] > changes the way software systems are being analyzed, architected, designed, > implemented, > tested, evaluated, delivered, consumed, maintained, and evolved, SOSE > symposia focuses on > the SOC from the perspectives of software engineering and system > engineering. > Recently, cloud computing > further expands the scope of SOC to include new subjects such as Platform > as a Service (PaaS), > Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and > Testing as a Service (TaaS). > > > > Continuing the tradition of the last five SOSE Symposia, the 6th SOSE > provides a forum > for researchers and practitioners to exchange latest observations, > insights, research > achievements and visions in the engineering of service systems. > Particularly, SOSE 2011 > invites original submissions in all the areas of the system engineering, > software engineering > methods, techniques, tools, applications, and experiments for software > services. > > > A. Regular Research Papers. The topics include, but are not limited to, the > following: > > Track I: Service-Oriented System Engineering > - Business process integration and management > > - Governance for large-scaled service-oriented systems > - Modernization, migration, and servicetization of legacy systems > - Modeling and simulation of service-oriented systems > - Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems > - Social and collaborative engineering of services systems > - Service interoperability, composibility, quality, reliability, mobility, > scalability, elasticity, and security > > Track II. Service-Oriented Computing > > - Software Engineering > - Model-driven development of service-oriented systems > - Multi-tenant architecture, configurable architecture > - Requirement and design modeling of services and systems > - Specifications of services and systems > - Semantic services and semantic enabled service engineering > - Architecture including event-driven architecture, code generation, > - Dynamic service delivery, deployment and evolution > > - Lifecycle models, reusability, and > - Metrics and measurement of services, QoS, and QoE > > - Runtime verification, validation, monitoring, testing on-the-fly and > policy enforcement > > Track III. Service-Oriented Computing > > - Emergent Paradigms and Technologies > > - Service oriented architecture, analysis, modeling, design, validation, > QoS, > and evaluation for Software as a Service (SaaS) > > - Service oriented architecture, analysis, modeling, design, validation, > QoS, > and evaluation for Platform as a service (PaaS) > > - Service governances, policies, standards, technologies in cloud computing > > - Issues, solutions, techniques, tools and standards for Testing as a > Service (TaaS) > > > > B. Applications and Industry Experiences > Papers report case studies, > empirical research and practical experiences in service engineering are > invited. > The topics include but not limited to the following. > > - Enterprise architecture and solution frameworks > - Platforms and tools for system and software engineering > - Application composition based on services > - Case studies, experiments and evaluation of services and application > systems > > > C. Review of the State-Of-The-Art of the Research on Service Engineering > and > Emergent Subjects > In addition to regular research papers sessions, this year > the symposium will invite tutorial papers which review the current advance > in service engineering and related emergent subjects. > > These papers should summarize the recent research advance in service > engineering > from different perspectives, identify the open issues and future needs and > challenges > in the field. In addition, SOSE 2011 also welcome timely problem discussion > papers > that focus on new issues, needs and challenges in emergent subjects. > > The topics include, but not limited to, the following: > - Modeling, simulation and static analysis of service-oriented systems, > - Testing, verification, validation and quality assurance in the > development of > service oriented systems > > - Governance and policies in service oriented software development > > - Engineering techniques and tools to support the publishing, discovery and > > composition of services > > - Architectural and detail designs of services and code generation of > service software > > - Techniques and tool support the deployment and execution of services > > - Measurements and metrics of QoS in SOA-based application systems > > > > Paper Submission > Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers > as well as industrial practice papers and position papers. > Simultaneous submissions to other publication venues are not permitted. > > Online Submission Site: > http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sose2011<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sose2011Format> > > > > Format > <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sose2011Format> > > : > > Please submit papers in PDF format through the SOSE web site. Manuscript > should be > prepared following the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings. > > Author Guidelines ( > http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html). > > Page Limit: The page limits for three different types of papers are as > follows. > > Paper Type > Page Limit > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Research paper: 12 pages > > - Industrial practice/Case study: 6 pages > - Survey-based tutorial papers: > > 12 pages > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the symposium > proceedings, > which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and included in > the > IEEE Digital Library. > > At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to > present the work. > > > - Journal Special Issue: We plan to publish a special journal issue for the > extended > and revised versions of selected best papers presented at the SOSE 2011 > Symposium. > > > - Best Paper Award: One paper will be given the SOSE 2011 Best-Paper-Award > at the conference > for the best quality of the paper and presentation. > > - > Organizers: > > > > General Chair: > > Jorge L. Sanz, IBM, USA, > Jie Xu, University of Leeds, UK > > > > Program Co-Chairs: > > Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, CA, USA (email: gaojerryg(a)yahoo.com) > Xiaodong Lu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (email: > luxdlzu(a)gmail.com)<luxdlzu(a)gmail.com)Hong> > > Hong > <luxdlzu(a)gmail.com)Hong> > > Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK (email: hzhu(a)brookes.ac.uk)<hzhu(a)brookes.ac.uk)Publication> > > > > Publication > <hzhu(a)brookes.ac.uk)Publication> > > chair > : > Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK (email: > m.younas(a)brookes.ac.uk)<m.younas(a)brookes.ac.uk)Publicity> > > > > Publicity > <m.younas(a)brookes.ac.uk)Publicity> > > Co-Chairs: > > Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan, (email: chh(a)chu.edu.tw > ) > > China: Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China, baixy(a)tsinghua.edu.cn > Europe: Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK, L.Liu(a)derby.ac.uk > USA: Ignacio Terrizzano, IBM, USA email: eigterriz(a)us.ibm.com > > > Program Committee (Please see SOSE 2011 Website > > ) > > Steering Committee: > - Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA (Chair) > > - M.?Malek,?Humboldt University, Germany > > - K. J. Lin, University of California at Irvine, USA > > - I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA > > - Ray Paul, Department of Defense, USA > > - J. Chung, IBM, USA > > > > Web site: http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/ sose2011/ >

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Doctorial Consortium on Design Science in Enterprise Information Systems research
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Doctorial Consortium on Design Science in Enterprise Information Systems research Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:35:39 +0200 From: Charles Møller <charles(a)production.aau.dk> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues, I would like to attract your attention to the a couple of vacancies for the CONFENIS 2011 Doctoral Consortium October, 14-16. See http://www.confenis2011.aau.dk/Doctoral+Consortium/ for details. It is with great pleasure that the organizing committee of CONFENIS 2011 and Aalborg University invites International doctoral students to participate in a Doctoral Consortium taking place in the weekend leading up to the conference. Design Science Research and Design Thinking will be the themes of this year's doctoral consortium. Both schools of thoughts have gained much interest within the area of Information Systems research recently, and at this year's doctorial consortium the aim is to explore if Design Science Research could be a new approach to EIS research that may integrate the engineering approach and conceptual design thinking. *Selecting participants* All PhD students interested in learning more about Design Science Research are welcome to apply for admission to the Doctoral Consortium. Participation is however limited to 15 students. In case more than 15 candidates have applied for admission at the deadline (June 1th 2011) then participants will be selected based on the quality of the essay/position paper, the potential contribution the student is likely to make to the Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student's research. Participants in the course should currently be enrolled as a PhD-student at a university and conduct research within the area of Enterprise Information Systems. It is not a prerequisite that students use or intend to use design science research as part of their PhD project. The language for the Consortium is English, and all submitted materials must be in English. Students must have sufficient proficiency in English to participate in the presentations, discussions, and other activities. *Payment* The doctoral consortium is free for Ph.D. students from Denmark. Ph.D. students from other countries pay EUR 50. The Doctoral Consortium is approved as a 3 ECTS PhD course. Participating in the whole course and handing in the course assignment is a prerequisite for receiving the course diploma. The written assignment has two parts. The first part is the essay/position paper handed in prior to the start of the course. After the course the assignment can be completed in one of two ways: a) The student can go together with other students to transform their essays into a workshop at the CONFENIS 2011 conference (following the guidelines on the web). The process will be facilitated by one of the faculties form the Doctoral Consortium. b) The student can update their own essay based on the new knowledge acquired at the course and hand it in a second time. Essays handed in after the course will be evaluated (past/not past) by one of the faculties. Submission format and instructions. Previous to the start of the students are expected to submit an essay/position paper reflecting on his or hers position on future directions in research on Enterprise Information Systems and the role Design Science Research could play in the future envisioned. Proposals must have a cover page with the following information: . Title of the essay/position paper . Contact information for the candidate, including name, university, email address, mailing address, phone number, and fax number. *Contend of the course* The course invites students to discuss and reflect on the potential and constraints using design science as a research paradigm within the area of Enterprise Information Systems. The doctoral consortium will have three main parts: 1) Foundation for design science research 2) Critique of the design science approach 3) A new paradigm for DSR in EIS The teaching style of the course is a mixture of lectures, small workshops, written assignments and presentations by the students. The first day will be used to present and discuss a number of influential papers on design science. The second day a few cases and examples will be presented and critiques, and finally the essays developed by the student will be discussed in smaller groups. *Learning Objectives* This course should enable the participants to understand, execute and evaluate design science research. *Faculty* Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Lene Pries-Heje, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Charles Møller, Aalborg University, Denmark *Program* Friday, 14. October: 19.00 Doctoral consortium informal get together Saturday, 15. October: 09.00-22.00 Doctoral consortium Sunday, 16. October: 09.00-15.00 Doctoral consortium *Important dates* 15-08-2011 Deadline for submitting essay/position paper (Note: new deadline) 15.08-2011 Noification to participants (Note: new deadline) 01-09-2011 Reading materials will be distributed to participants 01-10-2011 Deadline for late submission of essay/position paper 14-10-2011 Doctoral Consortium 16-10-2011 CONFENIS 2011 opening 01-12-2011 Deadline for final submission of written assignment /Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards/ /Charles/ --- Professor Charles Møller, PhD Center for Industrial Production, Aalborg University Fibigerstræde 16, DK-9220 Aalborg Ø, DENMARK Phone: +45-61677786, Mail: charles(a)production.aau.dk <mailto:charles@production.aau.dk> --- The IFIP WG 8.9 working conference CONFENIS 2011 Aalborg, Denmark, 16-18 Oktober, http://confenis2011.aau.dk <http://confenis2011.aau.dk/>

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Fwd: [WI] New deadline July 22: MSM 2011 (Modeling Social Media), co-located with IEEE SocialCom
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] New deadline July 22: MSM 2011 (Modeling Social Media), co-located with IEEE SocialCom Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:58:46 +0200 From: Martin Atzmueller <atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de> To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Dear colleagues, we have extended the deadline to July 22, 2011 due to multiple requests. The call for papers and the submission details are below, or take a look at: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2011/ Best regards, Martin Atzmueller ********************************************************************* ** MSM 2011: Modeling Social Media, co-located with IEEE SocialCom ** ********************************************************************* Objectives Continuing the success of MSM 2010, we would like to address the user interface aspects of modeling social media. Much, if not all, interaction is done through some sort of user interface, however how to model social media through the user interface has still not been standardized. For example, people interact with their Facebook friends through the Facebook interface or perhaps another SNS interface like Seesmic. How do we model this user interface, and can this model be replicated to other social media and other form factors like new pad-based devices like the Apple iPad and to more recent high graphics-oriented smartphones like the Apple iPhone 4? The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on modeling social media, focusing on the user interface modeling. The workshop aims to attract and discuss various aspects of user interface modeling in social media using a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc). We want to bring together social networking researchers and user interface designers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems through the user interface, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, and 3) issues of integrating and validating user interfaces in social media systems. Topics of Interest Topics may include, but are not limited to: * New modeling techniques and approaches for user interfaces in social media * Application design for user interfaces of social media (phone, pad-based, PC, web) * modeling social media users and their motivations and goals * Modeling user behaviour in social media * User-centered design for social media * Models of user cooperation and collaboration in social media * Trust and user-acceptance of social media * Integrating user interface design with social media * Testing user interface models and social media applications * Usability in social media interfaces (is usability not much of a concern since connectivity is more important?) We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics. Workshop Organizers * Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China * Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany * Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology, Austria Program Committee * Ed Chi, Google, USA * Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria * Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain * Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France * Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA * Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy * Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA * Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany * Else Nygren, Uppsala University, USA * Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel * Pranam Kolari, Yahoo Research, USA Submission and Proceedings We intend to publish proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and include them on the conference CD. We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 papers) in the IEEE conference paper style. Please submit at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm20111 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Atzmueller Tel.: +49-(0)561-804-6298 University of Kassel Fax.: +49-(0)561-804-6259 Wilhelmshoeher Allee 73 mail: atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de 34121 Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/atzmueller/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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: [computational.science] SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:33:07 +1000 From: Jinjun Chen <jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com> Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== Introduction Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised where people interact socially via computing space. Such applications have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as privacy protection, touch-screen based HCI design, and modelling of social behaviour in computing space still remain challenging. SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Steering Committee V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Fwd: [computational.science] CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:41:26 +1000 From: Jinjun Chen <jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com> Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Fwd: [AISWorld] SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011 Datum: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:31:57 +1000 Von: Jinjun Chen <jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== Introduction Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised where people interact socially via computing space. Such applications have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as privacy protection, touch-screen based HCI design, and modelling of social behaviour in computing space still remain challenging. SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Steering Committee V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Fwd: [WI] PODS 2012: database principles + new multi-disciplinary topics
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] PODS 2012: database principles + new multi-disciplinary topics Datum: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:08:30 +0100 Von: Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> An: Markus Kroetzsch <markus.kroetzsch(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> For 2012, PODS (the 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Databases) will invite papers on five multi-disciplinary topic areas that might be of special interest to this list. Of course, foundational database research remains the core topic of the symposium. Submission is in November 2011. Below is the preliminary call for papers. Apologies for cross-posting. == PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS == 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS 2012) May 21-May 23 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA http://www.sigmod.org/2012/ The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of database systems. For the 31st edition, original research papers providing new insights in the specification, design, or implementation of data-management tools are called for. Topics of Interest Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following (as they pertain to databases): * languages for semi-structured data; search query languages; * distributed and parallel aspects of databases; * dynamic aspects of databases; * incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases; * schema and query extraction; data integration; data exchange; * provenance; workflows; metadata management; meta-querying; * data mining and machine learning techniques for databases; * constraints; privacy and security; Web services; * automatic verification of database-driven systems; * model theory, logics, algebras and computational complexity; * data modeling; data structures and algorithms for data management; * design, semantics, and optimization of query and database languages; * domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text). In addition, we especially welcome papers addressing *emerging database environments and applications*. An External Review Committee will assist the Core PC (listed further below) in reviewing papers in the following multi-disciplinary areas of particular interest to this edition of PODS. -- Querying and Mining of Unstructured Data: Anhai Doan (Kosmix& U. Wisconsin), Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Labs), Djoerd Hiemstra (Twente), Stefano Leonardi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Evimaria Terzi (Boston University) -- Web Services, Web Programming and Data-Centric Workflow: Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven), Anders Møller (Aarhus), Farouk Toumani (ISIMA), David Walker (Princeton), Karsten Wolf (Rostock) -- Learning of Data Models and Queries: Deepak Agarwal (Yahoo! Labs), James Cussens (York U.), Amol Deshpande (U. Maryland), Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, U. Bonn) -- Cloud Computing and Next-generation Distributed Query Processing: Shivnath Babu (Duke), Phillip Gibbons (Intel Labs), Monica Lam (Stanford), Boon Thau Loo (U. Penn), Volker Markl (TU Berlin) -- Semantic, Linked, Networked, and Crowdsourced Data: Panos Ipeirotis (NYU), David Karger (MIT), Carsten Lutz (Bremen), Boris Motik (Oxford) Important Dates: Abstract submission: 20 November 2011 Manuscript submission: 27 November 2011 Notification: 15 February 2012 Submission Guidelines Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, including bibliography, using reasonable page layout and font size of at least 9pt (note that the SIGMOD style file does not have to be followed). Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. Papers longer than twelve pages (excluding the appendix) or in font size smaller than 9pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The submission process will be through the website. Note that, unlike the SIGMOD conference, PODS does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should be eponymous (i.e., the names and affiliations of authors should be listed on the paper). The results must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference. Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the PC. Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the PC, written exclusively by a student or students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree. Organization: PODS General Chair: Maurizio Lenzereni (University of Rome La Sapienza) PODS Program Chair: Michael Benedikt (Oxford) Proceedings& Publicity Chair: Markus Krötzsch (Oxford) Core Program Committee: Mikhail Atallah (Purdue) Toon Calders (Eindhoven) Diego Calvanese (Free U. Bolzano) James Cheney (Edinburgh) Graham Cormode (AT&T Labs) Alin Deutsch (UC San Diego) Gianluigi Greco (Calabria) T.J. Green (UC Davis) Martin Grohe (HU Berlin) Marc Gyssens (Hasselt) T.S. Jayram (IBM Almaden& IBM India) Daniel Kifer (Penn State) Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz& IBM Almaden) Rasmus Pagh (Copenhagen) Luc Segoufin (INRIA Cachan) Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech) Sophie Tison (Lille) Victor Vianu (UC San Diego) David Woodruff (IBM Almaden) SIGMOD/PODS Webpage: http://www.sigmod.org/2012/ -- Dr. Markus Krötzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ -- 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: [computational.science] CFP - Coordination Models, Languages and Applications - CM track at ACM SAC 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CFP - Coordination Models, Languages and Applications - CM track at ACM SAC 2012 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:01:19 +0200 From: Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez <fernandez(a)iiia.csic.es> Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> CfP: ACM SAC Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 27th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2012) March 25 - 29, 2012, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy http://sac2012.apice.unibo.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Aug. 31, 2011: Paper submissions Oct. 12, 2011: Author notification Nov. 2, 2011: Camera-Ready Copy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS& SCOPE Building on the success of the thirteen previous editions (1998-2011), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2012. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of, possibly heterogeneous, components (processes, objects, agents) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a software system with desired characteristics and functionalities which possibly takes advantage of parallel and distributed systems. The coordination paradigm is closely related to other contemporary software engineering approaches such as multi-agent systems, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems and related middleware platforms. Furthermore, the concept of coordination exists in many other Computer Science areas such as workflow systems, cooperative information systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and Internet technologies. After more than a decade of research, the coordination paradigm is gaining increased momentum in state-of-the-art engineering paradigms such as multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures: in the first case, coordination abstractions are perceived as essential to design and support the working activities of agent societies; in the latter case, service coordination, orchestration, and choreography are going to be essential aspects of the next generations of systems based on Web services. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques - Applications - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing coordinated systems - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Languages for service description and composition - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. workflow management, CSCW) - Software architectures and software engineering techniques - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages - Middleware platforms - Self-organising and nature-inspired coordination approaches - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures - Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities - Formal aspects (semantics, type systems, reasoning, verification) - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, etc), and Pervasive Computing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2012 proceedings and in the Digital Library. A Special Issue on an International Journal (with IF) based on selected papers is planned just after the conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in the ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). It will be possible to have up to 2 extra pages in the proceeding at a charge of $80 per page (total 8 pages maximum). Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK CO-CHAIR Mirko Viroli, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, Italy Gabriella Castelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, IIIA-CSIC, Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, Netherlands Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Rocco De Nicola, University of Firenze, Italy Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, Scotland Keith Harrison-Broninski, Role Modellers Ltd, UK Manuel Mazzara, Newcastle University, UK Henry Muccini, University of l'Aquila, Italy Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, University of Florence, Italy Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Davide Rossi, University of Bologna, Italy Norman Salazar, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Meritxell Vinyals, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

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