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Fwd: [AISWorld] Final Reminder: Deadline Approaching for the Special Issue on Smart Mobile Media Services
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Final Reminder: Deadline Approaching for the Special Issue on Smart Mobile Media Services Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:27:00 +0100 From: Phil O'Reilly <oreillyphil75(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *Special Issue On Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS) International Journal of E-Business Research* *Submission Due Date: August 31st, 2011 Introduction* Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS) strategies are being increasingly adopted by major global organisations such as KFC, Starbucks, Microsoft, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, and Procter & Gamble. The impetus for these SMMS centred strategies is largely being driven by increasing consumer interest and demand for new services and applications for their Smart Mobile Media Devices (SMMD). The deployment of Smart Mobile Media Devices (SMMD) by companies such as Apple, Nokia, HTC, and recently Google, is growing exponentially. Over 1.2 billion SMMD were sold globally in 2009. Gartner predicts that this dramatic growth will increase SMMD sales revenue to US$191 billion by 2012. *Objective of the Special Issue* Smart Mobile Media Devices (SMMD) integrate many of the functions that previously required numerous technological artefacts. SMMD provide a broad range of services to their users including phone, SMS, MMS, GPS navigation, cameras, digital format music players/recorders, access to local and web based radio stations, email, Internet access, together with pre-loaded and web based gaming applications. Through commercial services such as Apple?s App store and Blackberry?s App World, there is also an ever increasing range of downloadable free/fee based applications and entertainment available, including applications which support referencing, decision support, content and information feeds. Such technologies are also becoming increasingly important in leveraging wireless e-commerce and supply chain management. Furthermore, with such devices incorporating network technologies such as Bluetooth and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), they facilitate the connection of heterogeneous systems. Thus, context aware applications, where context information is used for the consumers benefit, are becoming increasingly popular. These context aware Smart Mobile Media Service (SMMS) create enormous potential for personalised location based services and marketing. Mobile Internet is predicted to reach 22% of European mobile consumers by the end of 2010 and the provision of Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS) is expected to grow significantly over the next few years. In order to better understand and improve how consumers use Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS), the field is in need of new or refined concepts and theories, as the increased mobility of consumers violates many of the assumptions traditionally associated with IS use. Research focusing on consumers at different stages of mobile data services adoption is in its nascent stage and a greater understanding of consumer adoption motivations for SMMS is needed. Mobile (m-) commerce has the potential to transform industry structures and competitive dynamics. Organisations need to plan ahead and start integrating mobile applications and services into their overall business strategy. Research needs to be conducted to understand how commercial organisations can engineer business processes to create sustainable, revenue generating business models, while providing products and services at affordable prices, as demanded by increasingly mobile consumers. Furthermore, the demand for trusted and secure m-payments for consumers using Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS) has also reinforced the need for organisations and global banking institutions to deliver a model of m-payment widely acceptable to consumers. > From an infrastructural perspective, existing 3G mobile networks cannot support increasingly sophisticated voice and data services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), video streaming, music and movie downloads, mobile TV and mobile (m-) commerce. Initial results from the deployment of Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE+) 4G networks in Stockholm, indicate that LTE+ should significantly improve quality, efficiency, security, and privacy, while substantially lowering the cost of delivering Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS). LTE+ is an all-IP multimedia service designed to bring the desktop experience directly to mobile devices by handling sophisticated data and multimedia services in an integrated mobile and fixed communications network. LTE+ will enable device manufacturers, software developers, and wireless carriers to explore new mobile-Internet based multimedia devices and deliver enhanced Smart Mobile Media Services. However, further research is required to develop suitable infrastructures and standards for Smart Mobile Media Services. *Recommended Topics* Scholars are invited from a broad range of disciplines to submit to this special issue. Papers may encompass theoretical analysis, modeling, simulation, and empirical studies on Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS). Special topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Adoption and diffusion of SMMS * Applications of SMMS in voluntary, regional, and community settings * Business models for SMMS * Business process implications for implementing SMMS * Dynamic data mining architectures to support profiling for SMMS * Infrastructures and standards for SMMS * Innovative and integrative applications for SMMS * Legal, ethical and trust issues associated with SMMS * Secure biometric authentication and verification for SMMS * User developed SMMS *Submission* Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this fast track special theme issue on Smart Mobile Media Services on or before August 31st, 2011. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. *Important Dates* Submissions due: August 31st, 2011 Reviews to authors: September 30, 2011 Revised manuscripts due: October 30, 2011 *All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:* Aidan Duane Philip O?Reilly Guest Editors International Journal of E-Business Research E-mail: aduane(a)wit.ie <mailto:aduane@wit.ie> or Philip.OReilly(a)ucc.ie <mailto:philip.oreilly@ucc.ie%20> http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1088&detailst… <http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1088&detailst…>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Knowledge Society Research Latest Developments
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Knowledge Society Research Latest Developments Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:05:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Miltiadis D. Lytras <lytras(a)ceid.upatras.gr> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Latest Special issues developed by WSKS, http://www.wsks.org community Be Part of It For WSKS 2011, 10 more ISI TOP special issues Computers in Human Behavior, Elsevier Ltd. Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 1285-1466 (July 2011) Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society Edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras and John M. Carroll http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%2359… IEEE Transactions on Man Systems and Cybernetics, Part A: Vol 41, Issue 4 (July 2011), Special Issue on Human Semantic Web Edited by Miltiadis Lytras, Ernesto Damiani, Ambjorn Naeve http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5876616 JUCS: Journal of Universal Computer Science Volume 17, Issue 9, 2011 Special Issue on Software Technologies in Knowledge Society Edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras and Patricia Ordonez De Pablos http://www.jucs.org/jucs_17_9 Information Systems Management Journal Taylor and Francis Volume 27, Issue 3, 2010 Special Issue: Information Systems Research for a Sustainable Knowledge Society Edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g924333520 World Wide Web Springer Verlag Special Issue: Human-Centered Web Science Edited by Ernesto Damiani, Miltiadis Lytras and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux http://www.springerlink.com/content/1386-145x/13/1-2/ Hello my AISWORD friends:) I missed you for a while:) Best Miltiadis:) http://www.miltoslytras.net http://www.wsks.org _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 10 ISI Top Special Issues linked to 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society: Last cfp]
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 10 ISI Top Special Issues linked to 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society: Last cfp] Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:03:06 +0300 (EEST) From: Miltiadis D. Lytras <lytras(a)ceid.upatras.gr> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011) - Last Call for Papers http://www.wsks.org 8 TOP ISI THOMSON SPECIAL ISSUES LINED TO WSKS ALL THE ACCEPTED PAPERS EXTENDED VERSIONS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN SPONSORING INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS Submissions open: 31st August 2011 C A LL F O R P A P E R S (LAST CALL) 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011) http://wsks.org Mykonos, Greece 21-23 September 2011 The 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011) is an international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a better world for all. This annual Summit brings together key stakeholders of the Knowledge Society development worldwide, from Academia, Industry, Government, Policy Makers, and active citizens to look at the impact and prospects of the Information Technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of living, working, learning, innovating and collaborating in today’s hyper-complex world. The Summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research new scientific ideas relevant to international research agendas as the EU (FP7), OECD or UNESCO. Ten general pillars provide the constitutional elements of the Summit. We need a better world. We contribute with our sound voices to the agenda, policies and actions. We invite you to join your voice with ours and all together to shape a new deal for our world. Education, Sustainable Development, Health, Opportunities for well being, Culture, Collaboration, Peace, Democracy, Technology for all. Open Minds for a Better World. Eleven general scientific pillars provide the constitutional elements of the Summit: 1. Information Technologies – Knowledge Management Systems – E-business& Business, Organizational and Inter-organizational Information Systems for the Knowledge Society. 2. Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning for the Knowledge Society. 3. Social& Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society – Emerging Technologies for the Society and the Humanity. 4. Culture& Cultural Heritage – Technology for Culture Management – Management of Tourism and Entertainment – Tourism Networks in the Knowledge Society. 5. Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society. 6. Innovation, Sustainable Development and Strategic Management for the Knowledge Society. 7. Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology. 8. Intellectual and Human Capital Development in the Knowledge Society. 9. Advanced Applications for Environmental Protection and Green Economy Management. 10. Future Prospects for the Knowledge Society: from Foresight Studies to Projects and Public Policies. 11. Technologies and Business Models for the Creative Industries. The WSKS 2011 official proceedings will be published by Springer. Submission procedure All submissions must follow the Springer Lecture Notes template for Microsoft Word (.doc files only). Papers must be 6-page length as maximum. Paper must be submitted by the following system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsks2011 Special Issues Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to different special issues in highly renowned scientific journals. For more information see http://wsks.org, where several special issues calls in ISI journals are linked to this conference. Some of the supporting journals are: · Journal of Universal Computer Science – JUCS (special issue on service oriented architectures, cloud computing applications, services and interoperability). · Interactive Learning Environments – ILE (special issue on LMS – Evolving from Silos to Structures). · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering – IJSEKE (focussed Topic Issue on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering for the Knowledge Society). · International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems – IJCIS (special issue on Knowledge Society: Computational intelligence applications and tools). · Computer Applications in Engineering Education – CAE (special issue on aLearning Teaching Innovations in Engineering Higher Education). · Computer in Human Behavior – CHB. · International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems – IJSWIS. · Teoría de la Educación. Educación y Cultura en la Sociedad de la Información – TESI. · International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management – IJABIM. · International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals – IJHCITP. · International Journal of Knowledge Society Research – IJKSR. Important dates · Submission of papers for Springer Proceedings: 31st August 2011 – Last call · Notification to authors: 5th September 2011 · Camera ready papers: 15th September2011 · Conference Days: 21-23 September 2011 Conference Chairs Miltiadis D. Lytras Research Professor, The American College of Greece- Deree College Francisco J. García-Peñalvo, University of Salamanca, Spain Patricia Ordoñez, University of Oviedo, Spain Professor Przemysław Kazienko, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Lazar Rusu, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden Magdy Iskander, Director of the Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications. University of Hawaii Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CfP 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS'2011), Mannheim, Germany, 5-7 December 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS'2011), Mannheim, Germany, 5-7 December 2011 Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:49:19 +0200 From: Rainer Unland <rainer.unland(a)icb.uni-due.de> Organization: University Duisburg-Essen To: undisclosed-recipients:; 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS'2011) Mannheim, Germany, 5-7 December 2011 http://siwn.org.uk/cods11/ *Important Dates* Submissionof manuscripts 12 September 2011 Notification ofacceptance/rejection 30September2011 Camera-Ready Version(CRV) 31 October 2011 Conference and Workshops 5-7 December2011 One of the most distinguishing requirements upon Information and Communication Technologies is today's ever-changing, highly open dynamic environments in which large-scale ICT systems are situated to operate. Challenges for ICT systems engineering immediately arise including, e.g., systems scalability, systems ultra-dependability, systems convergence against uncertainty and emergence, and so forth. In recent years, emergence, adaptation, self-organization, self-management, etc. have received extensive interests in both academics and industries of software, computing and communications. CODS'11 conference aims to provide an international forum for the researchers and practitioners in the related subject areas to exchange research results, experiences, as well as the visions of the future and the scientific and practical problems that challenge the current technology development. *Technical Scopes* Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings. *Track 01Autonomic Networking and the Internet* - intelligent networks control/management - context-aware networks - future internet - internet traffic models and self-monitoring - next generation networks architectures and protocols - self-managed, self-configured networks, systems and services -self-optimization of network performance - self-organization and emergent behavior in P2P networks -self-organizationand self-configuration of networks - self-organized ad hoc sensor networks - self-protection, self-diagnosis, and self-healing of networking - SLA/contract based network management for next generation networks - user level programming of network services *Track 02Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications* - 4G mobile communications and beyond -ad hocwireless networks - cognitive radio - future wireless communications - wireless broadband services - wireless mesh networks - wireless sensor networks - WiMax *Track 03Distributed/Collaborative Systems* - collaborative computing - distributed computing - distributed data storage - distributed enterprise computing - distributed multimedia systems - distributed resource management - distributed workflow management - high-performance computing - middleware technology - parallel and distributed processing - utility computing *Track 04Service-Oriented Computing and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs)* - cloud computing - distributed problem solving environments - distributed knowledge-based systems - e-science, e-commerce, e-healthcare - grid computing - grid resource management - knowledge/semantic grids - open grid service architectures - virtual organization systems - virtualized computing - service discovery, composition and choreography - service interaction/discovery protocols - service programming - service virtualization - service-oriented architectures in converging networked environments - service-oriented architectures in networking and communications - service-oriented computing - service-oriented software and systems engineering *Track 05Self-organizedDistributedSystems* - complex distributed systems - emergence in distributed systems - open complex systems - peer-to-peer systems *Track 06Web Systems* - semantic webs - sensor webs - social networks - web architectures - web based distributed systems - web programming - web services *Track 07Multi-Agent Systems* -autonomousagents - collective/social intelligence - distributed knowledge based systems - distributed problem solving environments - distributedintelligence - knowledge grids - multi-agent systems - multi-robotic systems - swarm intelligence *Track 08Distributed Embedded Systems* - distributed manufacturing/production - networked/wireless automation - networked/distributed embedded systems - networked/wireless robotics, swarm robotics - supply chain collaboration and coordination *Track 09PervasiveSystems* - ambient intelligence - distributed power generation - networked/wireless embedded systems - pervasive computing/communications, pervasive services - smart pervasive systems - system-on-chip, MEMS, NEMS - ubiquitous computing *Track10 Trustworthiness of Distributed Systems* - cloud security - GSI (grid security infrastructure) - internet security - network security - reliability and dependability of distributed systems - security and privacy in distributed systems - security in mobile/ubiquitous computing - security in Service-Oriented Architecture/Computing - web service security *Track11Industrial ApplicationSystems* -distributed automationsystems - distributed manufacturing - holonic manufacturing - industrial informatics - industrial networks and communications - Internet of Things in industrial applications - RFID and sensor networks in industrial plants - service-oriented architectures (SOAs) of industrial automation - supply-chain management *Track12Healthcare Systems* - healthcare systems architectures - service-oriented architectures (SOAs) of health care systems - pervasive healthcare - healthcare supply-chain management *Important Dates, Submission, Proceedings and Journal Publications <http://siwn.org.uk/cods11/submission.htm>* *General Chairs* Professor Dr Heinz Jürgen Müller Faculty of Business Informatics and Mathematics Mannheim University D-68131 Mannheim, Germany E-mail <mailto:mueller@wim.uni-mannheim.de> Professor Dr Huaglory Tianfield Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow, G4 0BA, United Kingdom E-mail <mailto:h.tianfield@gcu.ac.uk> *Program Chair* Professor Dr Rainer Unland Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany E-mail <mailto:Rainer.Unland@icb.uni-due.de> -- "Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!" "Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen." ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Deadline Extended: KM&EL SI on "Creating, Supporting, Managing, and Sustaining Virtual Learning Communities"
by Gustaf Neumann 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Deadline Extended: KM&EL SI on "Creating, Supporting, Managing, and Sustaining Virtual Learning Communities" Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:37:01 +0800 From: maggie wang <maggiemhwang(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *Submission deadline extended to August 31, 2011* Â */Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL)/**//* Â *Special Issue on*** Â *Creating, Supporting, Managing, and Sustaining Virtual Learning Communities*** /Â / /Guest Editor/ /Â / /Xun Ge, Ph.D./ /Â / Associate Professor Instructional Psychology and Technology Department of Educational Psychology The University of Oklahoma U. S. A. Â Email: xge(a)ou.edu <mailto:xge@ou.edu> Â We are living in an information-rich digital age full of wondrous power, capabilities, and possibilities of emerging technologies. Web 2.0 technologies, characterized by participatory information sharing and collaboration and users generating content and creating knowledge in virtual communities, have opened our eyes to a new /open world/(Bonk, 2009). Examples of web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, virtual worlds, and digital object repositories. These emerging technologies have provided us numerous possibilities for learning and instruction and for creating engaging and optimal learning opportunities and alternative and innovative instructional experiences for K-12 education, higher education, corporate, government, and military training. The world has entered into what Bonk (2009) describes as â??We-All-Learnâ?? trends, which encourage open participation and compel educators to reflect on learning and instruction from a new perspective. Learners are no longer passive information recipients, whose role is to memorize or consume information, but rather active participants, whose role is to direct their own learning, construct and create knowledge, and contribute to a virtual community; whereas teachers are guides, coaches, and mentors to facilitate learning. Â However, the potentials of the emerging web 2.0 technologies have not been fully recognized and tapped. Often we find online instruction simply duplication of face-to-face lectures, in which technology is simply an appendage to education instead of playing a more central and transforming role. Many instructors have not changed their mindset to accommodate the participatory culture and the new paradigm of learning and instruction; and little has been done beyond posting syllabi, assignments, and grading to a learning management system or a web site that is supposed to be used for collaborative learning. It is argued that new technologies not only make us more productive, but also help us become more reflective and creative.Â Most importantly, technologies have afforded us with tools to accomplish goals we would have not been able to without them. As early as in the 80s, Pea (1985) argued that technology should not only be used to amplify our thinking but also to reorganize our mental functioning. Therefore, we are prompted to fully take advantage of web 2.0 affordances to develop innovative learning environments and build virtual learning communities that will motivate and engage learners meaningfully and interactively in their learning experiences and focus on developing the 21st century skills that emphasize innovation, creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving. Â Yet, using emerging technologies to build a virtual learning community (VLC) is a multifaceted innovation. It not only involves the use of new technologies, but also new method of learning and new ways of thinking of learning and instruction. It presents multiple levels of challenges to both learners and instructors. Subsequently, there are many issues awaiting to be examined, studied, and addressed, including learnersâ?? perceptions, motivation and identity when participating in a VLC, strategies and methods of designing, building, managing, and evaluating a VLC to develop students critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity, and teachersâ?? beliefs about participatory culture of a virtual learning environment. Â This special issue of the KM&EL international journal is dedicated to the building of VLCs using emerging technologies. In this special issue, a VLC is defined as both informal, such as one that supports ongoing professional development, and formal, such as one as found in a formal course setting that lasts a semester. In this call, we invite manuscripts that report empirical studies (both quantitative and qualitative studies) of investigating issues and challenges related to the building of a VLC, the use or design of tools scaffold the growth of a VLC, and methods and efforts to create, build, manage, sustain and evaluate a VLC. In addition, this special issue welcomes manuscripts discussing conceptual frameworks or theoretical constructs related to VLC building. Â Recommended topics of interest include, but not limited to: Â _Impact of a Virtual Learning Community___ _Â _ * Learners/members' perceptions and their impact on their participation in a VLC * Learners/members' motivation in a VLC * Learners' identity development in a VLC * Teacher or a facilitator's role in a VLC * Role of a VLC on critical thinking and problem solving skill development * Impact of peer interactions on metacognition and self-regulation in a VLC * VLC and reflective learners _Â _ _Designing and Evaluating a Virtual Learning Community___ _Â _ * Tools and strategies to build, manage, and sustain a VLC * Tools and strategies to promote identity development in a VLC * Tools and strategies to facilitate peer interactions, collaboration and other VLC activities * Tools and strategies to facilitate reflection and self-regulation in a VLC * Tools and strategies to support complex problem solving in a VLC * Tools and methods to evaluate the effectiveness of a VLC _Â _ _Conceptual Frameworks or Theoretical Constructs about a Virtual Learning Community___ _Â _ * Community of learners and practice * Community of inquiry * Types of communities and their characteristics (e.g., task-based, knowledge-based, and practice-based, etc.) * Various constructs and factors influencing the success of a VLC Â *_References_* Bonk, C.J. (2009). /The world is open: How Web technology is revolutionizing education/. Jossey-Base. Pea, R.D. (1985). Beyond amplification: Using the computer to reorganize mental functioning. /Educational Psychologist, 20(4)/, 167-182. Â *_Important Dates_*_*Â *_ Â Submission due:20th August, 201131st August, 2011 Notification of decision: 20th October, 2011 Finalization: 20th November 2011 Publication schedule: December 2011 *Â * *_Submission Instructions_*__ Â Manuscripts should be sent by email to the Guest Editor, Dr. Xun Ge (xge(a)ou.edu <mailto:xge@ou.edu>). Â Papers must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A standard double-blind review process will be used for selecting papers to be published in this special issue. Authors should follow the instructions outlined in the KM&EL Journal Website (see URLhttp://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/about/submi…) Â For more information about the KM&ELJournal, please visit the web site: http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication Â Â Â Â

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers for IEEE MEEM Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications
by Gustaf Neumann 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers for IEEE MEEM Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:37:05 +0800 From: Maiga Chang <maiga.igibook(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Maiga Chang <Maiga.IGIBook(a)gmail.com> To: <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ------- Call for Papers for IEEE MEEM Special Issue ----------- Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications The IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM) announces a forthcoming Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (CCTA) to be published in March 2012. In recent years, cloud computing has been more and more popular. Cloud computing is based on an on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources and is rapidly provisioned and released. This special issue is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (CCTA) for education and to focus on the technological support of any pedagogical approach. We invite the submissions of high quality papers describing future potentials or on-going work. SCOPE We solicit papers on various disciplines of cloud computing, but are not limited to: ?P Cloud Computing in Education ?P Cloud-based Services and Education ?P Scalable Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures ?P Cloud Industry Management for Education ?P Development and Sharing of Open Educational Resources ?P Cloud Systems and Applications for Education ?P Virtual Machine Technology for Education ?P Software as a Service (SaaS) ?P Platform as a Service (PaaS) ?P Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ?P Middleware Frameworks ?P Mobile Cloud for Education ?P Web Services for Education INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPTS A manuscript should be prepared according to the IEEE Transactions on Education Guidelines. The preferred length of the manuscript is +5 pages for a full PAPER, +3 pages for a short PAPER and +1 page for a LETTER with the format determined by the MEEM Style File. A. Did you format your paper using the IEEE Transactions on Education Guidelines ( http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/meem/public/MEEM_camera_ready.doc) B. Login IEEE MEEM system and choose "Special Issue - Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (CCTA)" to submit your papers from ( http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/meem/index.php/meem/about/submissions) PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Manuscript Due: November 15, 2011 Notification Due: January 15, 2012 Revised Manuscript Due: February 15, 2012 Final Decision Notification: February 30, 2012 Expected Publication Date: March 31, 2012 GUEST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Chi-Hua Chen National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Email: chihua0826(a)gmail.com GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITORS Prof. Chi-Chun Lo National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Email: cclo(a)faculty.nctu.edu.tw Prof. Hsu-Yang Kung National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Email: kung(a)mail.npust.edu.tw Prof. Chih-Cheng Hung National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Email: educch(a)ccu.edu.tw Prof. Ping Wang Kun Shan University, Taiwan Email: pingwang(a)mail.ksu.edu.tw Prof. Maiga Chang Athabasca University, Canada Email: maigac(a)athabascau.ca

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Fwd: Call for Participation KI 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Participation KI 2011 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:23:26 +0200 (CEST) From: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi-ev.de To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at [Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please distribute this call to interested parties.] =================================================== Call for Participation KI 2011 -- 34th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence October 4 - 7, 2011, Technical University, Berlin, Germany http://ki2011.de =================================================== Important Date: August, 21th 2011: Early Registration Deadline. [Fair prices include discounts, day tickets and group rates.] Full KI 2011 registrants have free admission to all invited technical talks of co-located events =================================================== KI 2011 is the 34th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical program of KI 2011 consists of paper presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials as well as some special events. KI 2011 will take place in Berlin, Germany, October 4-7, 2011, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. This year, it will be co-located with - INFORMATIK 2011, the 41st Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, and - MATES 2011, the 9th German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies. All talks at KI 2011 will be presented in English. Topic The applications of Artificial Intelligence are abundant and widespread. In fact, Artificial Intelligence has become such a mainstay in today's world that it is taken for granted by the majority of people who benefit from its efficiency. Therefore, the focus of the conference is on advances "Towards a Smart World - Evolving Technologies in AI" The conference has invited original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history and its applications. Program October, 4th 2011 Workshops, Doctoral Mentoring and Showcases "German Open" (Robotic Soccer) and "General Game Playing" October, 5th-7th Main conference program with invited talks and technical sessions The program details and all up-to-date information is accessible via: http://ki2011.de Conference Venue This year's annual German conference on AI will take place at and near the campus of Technical University Berlin. TU Berlin has earned internationally acclaim for its excellence in research and education. It is attended by 30000 students, 3600 of these have enrolled in the school of electrical engineering and computer sciences. Together with Berlin's Humboldt-Universität and Freie Universität, several research institutes and many industry liaisons, the Technical University establishes Berlin as an important center of AI research, neural computation and cognitive robotics in Germany. Berlin is a city of vivid contrasts, cultural diversity and tumultuous change. Berlin's many faces include a modern cosmopolitan capital, alternative lifestyles, a bustling arts scene, famous historical sites and fascinating contemporary architecture. Politics, culture and science are the driving forces of the city, turning Berlin to one of the most exciting metropoles of the world. The conference will take place directly after the German Unity Day celebrations on the 3rd of October, which will lend the city even more of an interesting air. Co-location KI 2011 is co-located with INFORMATIK 2011, the annual meeting of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.). The topic of this year’s INFORMATIK 2011 conference is “Computer Science creates Communities” and it’s not only about virtual communities, but also real ones like the scientific community: How can we improve the networking within the computer science community and the connections to politics, industry, and society. How do we use new social media within the scientific communities? On the other hand the conference is also about research regarding the new technologies helping communities: From online social networks to software support for huge events or traffic guidance systems. The INFORMATIK 2011 conference features a keynote day – Tag der Informatik – with invited talks by Manfred Broy (TU München) Danny Dolev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Constanze Kurz (HU Berlin) Martin Schallbruch (Bundesministerium des Innern) Max Senges (Google) Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) and more than 50 workshops, e.g., Automotive Software Engineering, Digital Social Networks, Enterprise Services Computing and Communities. There will be also a program for undergraduate and graduate students on open source software communities and a security contest. Additionally, a third conference is co-located, the 9th German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES). MATES 2011 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference focuses particularly on enabling technologies for truly open distributed systems -- covering a wide spectrum of approaches from self-organization to agreement computing. Out of more than 50 submissions, 12 full and 6 short papers were selected, resulting in an interesting scientific program during October 6th and 7th. MATES also will offer two invited talks on self-organization by Hartmut Schmeck (AIFB-KIT) and on organization by Olivier Boissier (EMSE, France). More information on MATES 2011 can be found on http://www.ia.urjc.es/mates2011/. Doctoral Consortium and Invited Panel As the goal of the KI conference is to bring together researchers for an interesting exchange of ideas, it will attract PhD students, as well. These are especially addressed by the Doctoral Consortium (DC), which complements the program of talks, workshops and tutorials of the KI conference. The aim of the DC is to support PhD students in all stages of their research in the field of AI. The DC wants to offer a platform for PhD students for presenting and discussing their results, ideas and planed work in a constructive atmosphere. Moreover, each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher who will act as a mentor and is going to provide detailed feedback and advice to help with their intended research. This often gives valuable external input and provides the opportunity to get in touch with different researchers to grow the personal academic network. As a special feature of this year's DC there will be special discussion session. The topic of this session is to point out what good scientific practice in AI research really is, and what types of philosophy of science can be found in AI research. This session especially wants to reach out to doctorate students and wants to encourage a lively discussion. The invited panel for the doctoral consortium consists of Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg Franz Baader, TU Dresden Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen Ingo Timm, University of Trier Invited Speakers Luc Steels "Powerful semantics can make language processing more robust" Human language is an inferential coding system which means that not all information to interpret an utterance is explicitly communicated, it must be inferred. Moreover the meaning of human language passes by intermediary of rich conceptualizations of the world which are culture and language dependent. These two features make natural language processing very difficult and introduce a glass ceiling for statistical language processing. This talk describes a computational framework for embodied cognitive semantics that is grounded in the sensori-motor intelligence of (humanoid) robots. We have used this in language game experiments that examine how open-ended robust language processing is possible by exploiting as much as possible meaning. Concrete examples are given of cognitive functions needed in conceptualization, the representation of spatial and temporal categories, the configuration of new conceptualization strategies by recruiting cognitive functions, and the mapping of conceptualization to language. Luc Steels is professor of Computer Science (at the moment parttime) at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), founder and director (from 1983) of the VUB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-founder and chairman (from 1990 until 1995) of the VUB Computer Science Department (Faculty of Sciences). Luc Steel's scientific research interests cover the whole field of artificial intelligence, including natural language, vision, robot behavior, learning, cognitive architecture, and knowledge representation. At the moment his focus is on dialogs for humanoid robots and fundamental research into the origins of language and meaning. Current work focuses on developing the foundations of semiotic dynamics and on fluid construction grammars. Jörg Hoffmann "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Planning (But Were Afraid to Ask)" Domain-independent planning is one of the long-standing sub-areas of AI, aiming at approaching human problem-solving flexibility. The area has long had an affinity towards playful illustrative examples, imprinting it on the mind of many a student as an area concerned with the rearrangement of blocks, and with the order in which to put on socks and shoes (not to mention the disposal of bombs in toilets). Working on the assumption that this "student" is you - the audience in earlier stages of their careers - the talk aims to answer three questions that you surely desired to ask back then already: What is it good for? Does it work? Is it interesting to do research in? Answering the latter two questions in the affirmative (of course!), the talk outlines some of the major developments of the last decade, revolutionizing the ability of planning to scale up, and our understanding of the enabling technology. Answering the first question, the talk points out that modern planning proves to be quite useful for solving practical problems - including, perhaps, yours. Jörg Hoffmann is a Directeur de Recherche at INRIA, Nancy, France. Before joining INRIA, he worked at the University of Freiburg (Germany), Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (Saarbrücken, Germany), the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and SAP Research (Karlsruhe, Germany). He is the recipient of several awards including the 2002 award for the best European dissertation in AI, and 3 best paper awards at international journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and a member of the Executive Council of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Jörg Hoffmann's scientific interests concern the modeling, solution, and analysis of combinatorial search problems. His central area of research is AI Planning, but he has also worked on problems relating to SAT, Model Checking, and the Semantic Web. Most recently, he has developed a tool called "TorchLight", which one may imagine as a kind of fortune-teller for search performance in planning, and which Jörg Hoffmann hopes will eventually be able to replace himself in that role. Sven Koenig "Making Good Decisions: Case Studies in Planning and Coordination" Intelligent systems (such as robots or decision-support systems) have to exhibit goal-directed behavior in real-time, even if they have only incomplete knowledge of their environment, imperfect abilities to manipulate it, limited or noisy perception or insufficient reasoning speed. Several research disciplines study how one can make good decisions, including artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science, operations research and economics. One can use ideas from these disciplines to build intelligent systems. I will present some examples from my research with a large number of collaborators and students to illustrate that one can often build even better systems when combining ideas from two or more of these disciplines. The focus of this talk will be on replanning and auction-based coordination. Planning systems often need to replan quickly as their knowledge changes. Replanning from scratch is often very time-consuming but incremental heuristic search methods can be used to speed it up. I will give an overview of recent advances on incremental heuristic search. Similarly, teams of agents often need to coordinate. Auctions in economics deal with competitive agents that often have long decision cycles, while auction-based coordination systems deal with cooperative agents that often have to operate in real-time. I will give an overview of recent advances on market mechanisms for the allocation of resources in cooperative domains. I will use examples from robotics as running examples throughout the talk. Sven Koenig is a professor in computer science at the University of Southern California. He received a diploma in Computer Science (Specialization: Compiler Construction) from University of Hamburg in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University for his dissertation on Goal-Directed Acting with Incomplete In- formation. He also holds M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University and is the recipient of an ACM Recognition of Service Award, an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Partnership Award, a Charles Lee Powell Foundation Award, a Raytheon Faculty Fellowship Award, a Mellon Mentoring Award, an SAIC Advisement Award, a Fulbright Fellowship and the Tong Leong Lim Pre-Doctoral Prize from the University of California at Berkeley. Most of his research centers around techniques for decision making (planning and learning) that enable single situated agents and teams of agents to act intelligently in their environments. Sven Koenig is interested in intelligent systems that have to operate in large, nondeterministic, non-stationary or only partially known domains. Most of my research centers around techniques for decision making (planning and learning) that enable single situated agents (such as robots or decision-support systems) and teams of agents to act intelligently in their environments and exhibit goal-directed behavior in real-time, even if they have only incomplete knowledge of their environment, imperfect abilities to manipulate it, limited or noisy perception or insufficient reasoning speed. Applications of his research include planetary exploration, supplychain management, medicine, crisis management (such as oil-spill containment), robotics and real-time games (entertainment, serious games, training and simulation). Michael Thielscher "General Game Playing in AI Research and Education" Introduced through the first AAAI Competition in 2005 as a new AI Challenge, General Game Playing has quickly evolved into an established research topic in Artificial Intelligence. More recently it is also gaining popularity as a useful addition to AI curricula at universities around the world. The first part of this talk will survey the research landscape of General Game Playing. The second part will demonstrate General Game Playing to be both a valuable tool for teaching Logic, Logic Programming, Planning, Search and Decision Making, and a great motivator for students to design and implement their own AI systems. Michael Thielscher is an ARC Future Fellow and a Professor at The University of New South Wales. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Sydney. He received his postgraduate diploma in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994, both with distinction, from Darmstadt University. He then joined Dresden University, where he was an associate professor before he moved to his present position. His Habilitation thesis was honored with the Award for Research Excellence by the alumni of Darmstadt University in 1998, and in 2009 he won a Future Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council. Michael Thielscher's current research is mainly in Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Agents and Robots, General Game Playing, and Constraint Logic Programming. He is author of over 100 refereed papers and four books, and he has co-authored the award-winning system FLUXPLAYER, which in 2006 was crowned the World Champion at the AAAI General Game Playing Competition. Accepted Papers We are happy to announce new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field and is placed in the context of existing work. KI 2011 also reports on new research or other issues of interest to the KI community: novel ideas; important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in AI (LNAI) series. All papers have been reviewed based on the standard criteria of clarity, relevance, significance originality, and soundness. The review process was very selective. Out of 81 Technical Papers submitted this year (2 of which were withdrawn, and one was an only-abstract submission), the Program Committee accepted 32 (23 unconditionally, 5 of them conditionally and 4 subject to be shortened) for an acceptance ratio of 39.5%. Each accepted paper will have an oral presentation at the conference. Full technical papers were allowed up to 12 pages in the proceedings, while short papers were allowed up to 5 pages. All accepted papers will be presented at the conference. Workshop and Tutorials The workshops and the tutorial take place on Tuesday, Oct 4th. Also on Oct 4th, the showcases German Open (robotic soccer), and General Game Playing will be on exhibit. 5th Workshop Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact Chair: Dirk Reichardt In recent years computer science research has shown increasing efforts in the field of software agents which incorporate emotion. Several approaches have been made concerning emotion recognition, emotion modeling, generation of emotional user interfaces and dialogue systems as well as anthropomorphic communication agents. Motivations for emotional computing are manifold. From a scientific point of view, emotions play an essential role in decision making, as well as in perception and learning. Furthermore, emotions influence rational thinking and therefore should be part of rational agents as proposed by artificial intelligence research. Another focus is on human computer interfaces which include believable animations of interface agents. The workshop focuses on the role of affect and emotion in computer systems including emotion recognition, emotion generation and emotion modeling with special attention to AI specific problems and applications. Both shallow and deep models of emotion are in the focus of interest. The goal is to provide a forum for the presentation of research as well as of existing and future applications and for lively discussions among researchers and industry. The presented papers should discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based upon emotional aspects of computing. http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/~reichard/itemotion/ -- 6th Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI'11) Chairs: Björn Gottfried and Hamid Aghajan Monitoring what happens in the environment, what people do and how they interact with their surroundings is of interest in several areas, such as in ambient intelligence, health care applications, or mobile services. This workshop focuses on methods analyzing and interpreting the behavior of individuals, or of small groups of people. This is for the purpose of intention recognition, triggering of smart home environment services, life routine logging, or generally for the investigation of how humans deal with specific problems in their everyday life. While technological advances in sensing and processing have ushered in an unprecedented opportunity for realizing behavior monitoring applications, much effort remains needed for the development of methods to integrate and exploit the available data for addressing specific applications. In addition to the general BMI topic, part of this year's workshop features a thematic focus section on "User Behavior Modeling". Techniques and approaches to modeling user behaviors will be presented and discussed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a paper on the general BMI topic or contribute a more specific paper on "User Behavior Modeling". http://www.tzi.de/~bjoerng/BMI-KI-11 -- 3rd Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief - Evolving Knowledge in Theory and Applications Chairs: Gabriele Kern-Isberner and Christoph Beierle In recent years, intelligent agents in the contexts of open environments and multi agent systems have become a leading paradigm in AI. Acting successfully in such environments that are uncertain, only partially accessible, and dynamic, requires sophisticated knowledge representation and reasoning techniques for the modeling of the epistemic state of the agent. In particular, in evolving environments, the agent must continuously react to new observations and to any unforeseen changes that occur. Its epistemic state must undergo corresponding changes to provide the agent with a suitable world view at any time. Thus, modern knowledge representation methods have to deal with the evolution of knowledge and belief, due to uncertain or incomplete information, or to changes in the environment. The 3rd Workshop on "Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief" organized by the GI-Fachgrupppe "Wissensrepräsentation und Schließen", follows two previous workshops at KI-2007 in Osnabrück and at KI-2009 in Paderborn. The focus of the workshop is on any topics of knowledge representation and reasoning that address the epistemic modeling of agents in open environments, and in particular on processes concerning evolving knowledge and belief both in theory and in applications. http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/dkb2011.html -- 26th Workshop on Planning& Scheduling, Configuration& Design (PuK 2011) Chairs: Jürgen Sauer, Stefan Edelkamp and Bernd Schattenberg The PuK workshop is the regular meeting of the special interest group on planning, scheduling, design and configuration within the AI section of the GI. As in previous years the PuK workshop brings together researchers and practitioners of the areas of planning, scheduling, design and configuration. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, evaluations and experiences especially in the use of AI techniques within these application and research areas. As done in earlier workshops, the organizers intend to focus on a specific area of interest: This time it is the area of sophisticated problem solving techniques, e.g. swarm-based search or other agent-based approaches used in planning, scheduling and configuration systems. This focus shall also help to attract the workshop to practitioners in the field, who are invited to present practical problems and to discuss their experiences, concepts, and ideas. It is also intended to stimulate a mutual exchange with the researchers on our common field's future directions. Thus, a second main goal of this part of the workshop is the support of research planning. http://www.puk-workshop.de/puk2011/index.html -- 1st International Workshop on Algorithmic Intelligence Chairs: Carsten Elfers, Rune Jensen, Hartmut Messerschmidt and Rasmus Pagh Algorithmic Intelligence is a collective and pragmatic term for the range of algorithmic methods that have been identified as key revenue drivers in companies. The topic contrasts the term Artificial Intelligence in two ways: Firstly, while Artificial Intelligence carries some meaning that there is intelligence, but nothing real, Algorithmic Intelligence is focused on methods that solve a given problem. Secondly, if a method exists to solve a complex looking problem or give a good approximation of the solution, then this method belongs to Algorithmic Intelligence even if it is too simple to be called Artificial Intelligence. Algorithmic Intelligence also includes tackling optimization problems where there is no learning as such, but methods come in as a way of dealing with computational hardness. Hannah Bast will give an invited talk on Semantic Search. http://www.tzi.de/~edelkamp/algorithmicintelligence -- Visibility in Information Spaces and in Geographic Environments Chairs: Andreas Henrich, Christoph Schlieder, and Ute Schmid The users of social media navigate in information spaces and at the same time, as embodied agents, they move in geographic environments. Both activities follow a similar type of information economy in which decisions by individuals or groups require a highly selective filtering to avoid information overload. In this context, visibility refers to the fact that in social processes some actors, topics or places are more salient than others. Formal notions of visibility include the centrality measures from social network analysis or the plethora of web page ranking methods. Recently, comparable approaches have been proposed to analyze activities in geographic environments: Place Rank, for instance, describes the social visibility of urban places based on the temporal sequence of tourist visit patterns. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from AI, Geographic Information Science, Cognitive Science, and other disciplines who are interested in understanding how the different forms of visibility in information spaces and geographic environments relate to one another and how the results from basic research can be used to improve spatial search engines, geo-recommender systems or location-based social networks. http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/KI11WSVisibility/KI11WSVisibility.html -- Workshop Context-Aware Intelligent Assistance (CAIA'2011) Chairs: Stefan Mandl, Bernd Ludwig and Florian Michahelles CAIA 2011 is the successor of last year’s workshop (CAIA 2010) where a consensus was researched about defining assistance as a concept relative to a main task or purpose of a system or user. This year workshop wants to gain a more in-depth understanding of this definition of assistance in context by studying interesting applications and investigating how far the definitions should be refined or revised. The organizers are especially interested in the interplay of context and assistance, as both are relative concepts. They invite researchers and practitioners in the fields of recommender systems, pervasive computing, mobile computing, urban sensing, social networking, context-aware systems, human computer interaction, or similar, working on Assistance Systems - either from an application centered or a theoretical point of view - to present their work at CAIA 2011. http://ursaminor.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/CAIA2011/welcome.html -- A full-day tutorial will be offered free of charge to registered conference participants. SLAM to the rescue: A hands-on tutorial on using state of-the-art SLAM algorithms in harsh environments. Instructors: Giorgio Grisetti, Andreas Nüchter and Alexander Kleiner Truly autonomous robot navigation requires an accurate map of the environment, which can for example be generated from lidar measurements or images. Whereas in office-like environments SLAM is considered to be almost solved, the ambiguities and the irregularities that might be present in harsh and unstructured domains make SLAM still an open challenge. While numerous online state estimation approaches have been presented in the past, graph-based SLAM methods are currently undergoing a renaissance due to recent insights to the structure of the SLAM problem resulting in very efficient implementations. This tutorial will concentrate on the essential theoretical and practical aspects of graph-based SLAM in harsh environments with emphasis on data sets generated in harsh environments, such as during RobCup Rescue and Disaster City events. http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~kitutorial/index.html -- General Game Playing Competition at KI 2011 1st German Open in General Game Playing (GO-GGP) Chairs: Peter Kissmann, Tim Federholzner The idea of the first German Open in General Game Playing is to further promote general game playing in the AI community. Similar to previous competitions at AAAI and IJCAI the organizers hope to get participants from all over the world. In order to participate, please send a mail by the end of August stating the player's name, the team members, the main contact person, whether you require remote access and whether you or one of your teammates will be present at the conference. Remote play should be possible. For the competition an instance of the Dresden GGP server will be used, so that the participants should have no problems getting their player to communicate with the server. Besides a track for standard GDL, for the first time in history there will be a track in GDL II for incomplete information games. http://www.tzi.de/~kissmann/ggp/go-ggp Program Committee KI 2011 has a very strong PC consisting of Althoff, Klaus-Dieter Asfour, Tamim Banerjee, Amit Behnke, Sven Bennewitz, Maren Bergmann, Ralph Cavazza, Marc Cernea, Daniel Clementini, Eliseo Curio, Cristobal Dautenhahn, Kerstin Dylla, Frank Endres, Dominik Eyben, Florian Frese, Udo Fürnkranz, Johannes Funke, Stefan Geib, Christopher Gottfried, Björn Gross, Horst-Michael Gutmann, Jens-Steffen Günther, Martin Hamker, Fred Helmert, Malte Henrich, Dominik Hertzberg, Joachim Herzog, Otthein Hoffmann, Jörg Kern-Isberner, Gabriele Kissmann, Peter Kleiner, Alexander Klügl, Franziska Kontchakov, Roman Kramer, Oliver Krestel, Ralf Kröger, Torsten Kruse, Rudolf Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe Kwolek, Bogdan Lakemeyer, Gerhard Lang, Tobias Langer, Hagen Lohweg, Volker Lowe, Benedikt Markert, Katja Mattmüller, Robert Mertsching, Bärbel Messerschmidt, Hartmut Michaelis, Bernd Möller, Ralf Niggemann, Oliver Piater, Justus Putze, Felix Renz, Jochen Rigoll, Gerhard Saffiotti, Alessandro Sauer, Jürgen Schattenberg, Bernd Schilling, Malte Schmid, Ute Schröder, Lutz Schürmann, Carsten Schumann, René Smaus, Jan-Georg Spinello, Luciano Staab, Steffen Stachniss, Cyrill Stiefelhagen, Rainer Timm, Ingo Triebel, Rudolph Walsh, Toby Wiemann, Thomas Wöll, Stefan Wollherr, Dirk Wolter, Diedrich Conference Organization General Chair: Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen) Local Chair: Joscha Bach (CILS, Berlin) Workshop Chair: Bernd Schattenberg (University of Ulm) Tutorial Chair: Sebastian Kupferschmid (University of Freiburg) Doctorial Consortium Chair: René Schumann (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland) Industry Liaisons: Roman Englert (T-LABs) Co-Location: Doris Fähndrich (TU Berlin)

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: WICT 2011 - Final Call for Papers - IEEE
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: WICT 2011 - Final Call for Papers - IEEE Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:06:58 +0530 From: Ajith Abraham <ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org> Reply-To: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu, corpora(a)lists.uib.no *** WICT 2011 – Final Call for Papers *** World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies ( WICT 2011) * Mumbai, India * December 11-14, 2011 Conference Theme: Innovating ICT for Social Revolutions WWW: http://www.mirlabs.org/wict11 == http://www.mirlabs.net/wict11 Plenary Speakers: ----------------- Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University, Australia Václav Sná?el, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Hide Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Gauri S. Mittal, University of Guelph, Canada Pedro.Albertos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Emilia I. Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Nikitas Sgouros, University of Piraeus, Greece Elpida Tzafestas, University of Athens, Greece Technically Sponsored by: -------------------------------------- IEEE SMCS Mumbai Chapter, India IEEE SMCS Tunisia Chapter IEEE SMCS Hungary Chapter IEEE SMCS Spanish Chapter IEEE SMCS Czechoslovakia Chapter Publication: IEEE ------------------------- Authors of accepted papers presented at WICT 2011 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration to be published in selected international journals: http://www.mirlabs.org/wict11/index.php-c=main&a=show&id=63.htm Journal Special Issues: ---------------------------------- Authors of accepted papers presented at WICT 2011 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in the following International Journals: - Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands - Neural Network World, Academy of Science, Czech Republic. - International Journal of Autonomic Computing, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland - Journal of Information Assurance and Security, USA - International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands - International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland - International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC), Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland - International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland - International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management (IJCISIM), USA - International Journal of Tomography& Statistics (www.ceser.in/ijts.html) Edited Volumes Authors of accepted papers presented at WICT 2011 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in the followed edited volumes focused on several themes: - Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Germany - Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer Verlag, Germany Objective: -------------- In the past century, our society has been through several periods of dramatic changes, driven by innovations such as transportation systems, telephone etc. Last few decades have experienced technologies that are evolving so rapidly, altering the constraints of space and time, and reshaping the way we communicate, learn and think. Rapid advances in information technologies and other digital systems are reshaping our ecosystem. Innovations in ICT allow us to transmit information quickly and widely, propelling the growth of new urban communities, linking distant places and diverse areas of endeavor in productive new ways, which a decade ago was unimaginable. Thus, the theme of this World Congress is "Innovating ICT For Social Revolutions". The four day World Congress is expected to provide an opportunity for the researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in the usage and applications of ICT in the real world. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE. Call for Papers: ---------------------- Please submit papers to one of the following tracks or the main track: http://www.mirlabs.net/wict11/index.php-c=main&a=show&id=1.htm Special Sessions organized so far: -------------------------------------------------- http://www.mirlabs.net/wict11/index.php-c=main&a=show&id=2.htm Author Guidelines: -------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wict2011 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. 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 WICT 2011 selected papers will be published in special issues of internationally referred journals. Important Dates: ------------------------ Paper Submission: September 20, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011 Camera-ready of accepted papers: October 31, 2011 Registration of authors of accepted papers: not later than October 31, 2011 Call for Workshops and Special Sessions ------------------------------------------------------------ WICT 2011 is seeking original high quality Special Sessions and Workshops on focused discussion addressing innovative research highlighting significant topics and emerging issues which are related to the conference theme and with the desired expertise. Interdisciplinary session themes are strongly sought after. Each special session resembles a mini-conference within the main WICT meeting and will run throughout the conference in parallel to other tracks (except the keynote presentations). WICT 2011 Organizing team: --------------------------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham , Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), EU Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinatti, USA Siby Abraham , University of Mumbai, India Program Chairs Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain Preeti Bajaj, GHR College of Engineering, India Local Organizing Chairs Dongardive Jyotshna, Univeristy of Mumbai, India R.Srivaramangai, University of Mumbai, India WICT Track Chairs Track 1: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Arpad Kelemen, University of Maryland, USA Track 3:Data Mining Andre de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Track 4:E-learning Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Track 5:E-business Venkatesh Mahadevan swinburn University, Australia Shailendra Singh Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, India Track 6:e-Government Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Track 7:Data Mining Andre de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Track 10:Ambient Intelligence Juan Manuel, University of Salamanca, Spain Javier Bajo, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Track 11:Body Sensor Networks Ashraf Darwish Helwan University, Egypt Track 12:Computational Finance and Economics Vijayalakshmi Pai, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Chenghui Cai, Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., USA Track 13:Cybercrime (Legal and Technical Issues) Mohamed Chawki, L’Association Internationale de Lutte Contre la Cybercriminalité, France Track 14:Computer Network Security Hannan Xiao, University of Hertfordshire, UK Track 15:Data Mining for Information Security Mrutyunjaya Panda, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, India Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Manas Ranjan Patra, Berhampur University, India Track 16:Academic Integrity, Plagiarism Detection and Software Misuse Naomie Salim, University Technologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia Alzahrani, Salha, Taif University, Saudi Arabia Track 17:Intrusion Detection and Forensics Anjali Sardana, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India Irfan Ahmed, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Track 18:Scheduling for large scale distributed system Florin Pop, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Track 19:The Role of Technology in Education and Health Ibrahiem El Emary, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, King Saudi Arabia Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Greece Track 20:Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms and their Applications Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India Millie Pant,Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India Track 21:Data Management Virginie Sans, University of Rennes 1 / IRISA, France Information Contact: ---------------------------- Professor (Dr.) A. Abraham Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) http://www.softcomputing.net ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org / abraham.ajith(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:08:36 -0500 From: Anitesh Barua <Anitesh.Barua(a)mccombs.utexas.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> (Apologies if you see this multiple times) THEME: Economics of Electronic Commerce GUEST EDITORS Ravi Bapna (University of Minnesota) Anitesh Barua (University of Texas at Austin) Andrew B. Whinston (University of Texas at Austin) Electronic commerce has evolved greatly since the early 1990s, and the Information Systems discipline has developed a rich body of knowledge in different facets of digital business using a variety of research tools and methodologies. Starting with early topics, such as channel choice and pricing, research in this domain has rapidly progressed to include a myriad exciting new developments involving fundamental shifts in the way products are designed, developed, sold and serviced. This special issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems will showcase the frontiers of economics-based research in electronic commerce, including electronic market design and the pricing of digital goods and services, monetizing social media and capital, data analytics and online customer knowledge, and innovations in electronic channels. Each of the papers to be published in the issue is expected to make a significant novel contribution to the field. Taken together, the papers will help stimulate new directions in this research domain. Given the focus of this issue, the submitted papers must consider economic factors and impacts related to electronic commerce, and deploy suitable analytical modeling, empirical or experimental methodologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -- Electronic market design and assessment -- Online auctions and other selling and pricing mechanisms -- Impact of social media on electronic commerce -- Economics of B2B markets -- Two-sided markets -- Recommendation systems, sponsored search and online marketing strategies -- Business intelligence, data analytics and online customer knowledge -- Net neutrality and electronic commerce -- Pricing digital media, piracy, and DRM -- Channel integration, cross-channel pricing and competition -- Trust and social capital in the digital economy -- Information cascades, influence and word-of-mouth propagation -- Socio-technical infrastructures with implications for electronic commerce Submitted papers will be reviewed in an expedited manner. An editorial review board for the special issues is currently being formed. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Only original research papers should be submitted to this special issue. Articles should not exceed 40 double-spaced pages in 12-point font with appropriate margins, inclusive of all materials (i.e., references, figures, tables and appendices). Author names and affiliations should not be included in the paper. The review process will be double-blinded. Interested authors are required to submit an extended abstract of no more than two pages. This will enable the editorial team to determine if a submission fits the focus of the special issue. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted by email to Anitesh Barua at anitesh.barua(a)mccombs.utexas.edu or Ravi Bapna at rbapna(a)umn.edu. REVIEW PROCESS AND TIMELINE The editorial team will return reviews and AE reports within 90 days from the date of submission or resubmission. The expected timeline for the special issue is as follows: October 1, 2011: Extended abstract submissions February 1, 2012: Full paper submissions May 1, 2012: First round of reviews provided to the authors September 1, 2012: Deadline for submitting revisions of papers January 2, 2013: Final decisions on acceptance of papers _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: SOSE 2011-CALL FOR PAPERS- (Deadline of 2nd Round Submission: 4 Sept. 2011)
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SOSE 2011-CALL FOR PAPERS- (Deadline of 2nd Round Submission: 4 Sept. 2011) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:35:46 +0800 From: cfp(a)grid.chu.edu.tw To: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at IEEESOSE 2011: Preliminary 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: Deadline of 2nd Round Submission: 4 Sept. 2011 Notification of 2nd Round: 16 Oct, 2011 Camera-ready Copy: 30 Oct. 2011 Author Registration for all accepted papers: 30 Oct. 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 Format: 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) Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK (email: hzhu(a)brookes.ac.uk) Publication chair : Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK (email: 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. 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