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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM) 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '12

31 May '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM) 2012 Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:13:48 +0000 From: Anne Persson <anne.persson(a)his.se> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> PoEM 2012 - The 5th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- November 7th - 8th, 2012; Rostock, Germany PoEM 2012 is the 5th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling. Since 2008, the focus of PoEM has been on improving the understanding of the practice of EM by offering a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. The 2012 edition of PoEM addresses both, the practice of enterprise modeling and the practice of applying enterprise models for organizational purposes. This includes areas such as EM and information system development, enterprise architecture, business and IT alignment, EM and business process improvement, or competence modeling. Event Format PoEM is a highly interactive event stimulating discussion and open exchange of ideas and experiences. The conference will include keynotes from academia and from industry, interactive paper sessions, and room for discussion of ideas and opinions, aiming for further development of subjects shared between practice and academia. Important dates 22 June, paper submission deadline 12 August, notification of acceptance 26 August, camera-ready version due 7-8 November, PoEM conference More information: http://www.poem2012.net/ Hope to see you in Rostock! Best wishes, Anne Persson ------------- Anne Persson, Ph.D. Professor in Informatics Dean, Faculty Board for Informatics, Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Skövde P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde SWEDEN tel: +46 500 448342 email: anne.persson(a)his.se www.his.se/pera<http://www.his.se/pera> ------------------------ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP - Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Applications
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '12

31 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP - Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Applications Datum: Thu, 31 May 2012 08:45:07 -0700 Von: Daniel E. O'Leary <oleary(a)usc.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Applications for Business Intelligence Call for Papers: Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1174) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-1174%29> All papers should be submitted on-line at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isafm Papers for the Special Issue should be submitted by June 30, 2012, however, early submissions are encouraged. Papers submitted for this special issue can address any of a broad range of topics in knowledge discovery, data mining and business intelligence.Generally, papers will address applications and implementations in business and industrial settings.Literature reviews and surveys also are solicited. General information about submissions is available at http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=1055-615X Questions should be directed to the editor, Daniel E. O'Leary at oleary(a)usc.edu <mailto:oleary@usc.edu>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP - Special UMUAI issue on Personalization and Behaviour Change
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '12

31 May '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - Special UMUAI issue on Personalization and Behaviour Change Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 21:11:01 -0700 From: Alfred Kobsa (Editor, UMUAI) <editor(a)umuai.org> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org [Sent on behalf of the guest editors] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Personalization and Behaviour Change User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) *** Extended abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2012 *** Paper submission deadline (for accepted abstracts): April 15, 2013 UMUAI Web site: http://www.umuai.org/ Special Issue Web site: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UMUAI-PBC/ <http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana/UMUAI-PBC/> ****************************************************************************** SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital behaviour intervention is a growing area of research which investigates how interactive systems can encourage and support people to change their behaviour. Personalization plays an important role in this, as the most effective persuasive and motivational strategies are likely to depend on user characteristics such as the user's personality, affective state, existing attitudes, behaviours, knowledge, and goals. Example application areas include health care (e.g., encouraging people to eat more healthily and exercise more), education (e.g., motivating learners to study more), environment (e.g., encouraging people to use less energy and more public transport), and collaborative content development (e.g., incentivising people to annotate resources). Recently, three research areas separately and from different perspectives have started to focus on personalization and behavior change, by developing complex cognitive models of rational and extra-rational features, involving emotions, persuasion, motivation and argumentation. The first, stemming from a seminal work by B.J. Fogg (2006), is now widely known as Persuasive Technology. Persuasive Technology focuses on interactive technology that can motivate and influence the user. The second research field is Affective Computing. Originating from the seminal work by R. Picard (1997), Affective Computing is interested in the use, understanding and modelling of emotions and affect in computer systems. Finally, Argument and Computation (Simari, Reed, Rahwan & Grasso, 2011) has also emerged in the past decade as a research strand interested in computational models and theories of argumentation and persuasion coming from Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. This special issue focuses on how adaptive and personalised systems can motivate people, for instance to improve health, or to use sustainable resources, or to achieve goals or specific skills, by using persuasion and argumentation techniques and/or techniques involving the affective and emotional sphere. The topics of interest for the special issue include (but are not limited to): * User models for persuasive and motivational systems (e.g., modeling user engagement, personality and affective states, integrating affective and non-affective aspects) * Tailored argumentation in persuasive and motivational systems (e.g., persuasive discourse processing; rhetoric and affect; computational models of argumentation tailored to a specific user) * Theoretical frameworks of personalized persuasive and motivational systems (e.g., relationships between individual differences and persuasive strategies) * Evaluated applications of personalized behaviour change and motivational strategies(e.g., in intelligent tutoring, health promotion, sustainable transport, sustainable energy, collaborative content development) * Ethical issues of personalized digital behaviour interventions * User-centred design and evaluation methodologies of personalized digital behaviour interventions PAPER SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS Prospective authors must first submit an extended abstract (no more than 4 single-spaced pages, formatted with 12pt font and 1 inch margins) via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaipbc2013) to the special issue editors. All submitted abstracts will receive an initial screening by the special issue editors. Abstracts that do not pass this initial screening (i.e., the abstracts that are deemed not to have a reasonable chance of acceptance) will not be considered further. The authors of abstracts that pass the initial screening will be invited to submit the full version of the paper. Formatting guidelines and submission instructions for full papers can be found athttp://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html<http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html> <athttp://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html%3Chttp://www.umuai.org/paper_s…>. UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantial research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (as long as what they write is important). Authors whose paper exceeds 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) are however requested to supply a short justification upon submission that explains why a briefer discussion of their research results would not be advisable. Full papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaipbc2013). IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission of Title and Abstract: Dec 1st, 2012 - Notification of suitability of abstract: Dec 22nd, 2012 - Full Paper Submission: April 15th, 2013 - First round of review notifications: July 15th, 2013 - Revisions of papers due: October 15th, 2013 - Final notifications due: January 15th, 2014 - Final papers due: February 15th, 2014 - Publication of special issue: April 15th, 2014 GUEST EDITORS: Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen email: j.masthoff(AT)abdn.ac.uk <http://abdn.ac.uk> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc263 <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/%7Ecsc263> Jaap Ham, Eindhoven University of Technology email: j.r.c.ham(AT)tue.nl <http://tue.nl> http://hti.ieis.tue.nl/user/8 Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool email: floriana(AT)liverpool.ac.uk <http://liverpool.ac.uk> http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana <http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Efloriana> If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask the guest editors. Alfred Kobsa <http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Ekobsa>, Editor User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction <http://www.umuai.org/>: The Journal of Personalization Research

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP -BigDataMR2012 (International Workshop on BigData and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '12

31 May '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP -BigDataMR2012 (International Workshop on BigData and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 13:18:54 +1000 From: Sean Zhang <xuyun.zhangcs(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for papers: 2012 International Workshop on Big Data and MapReduce (BigDataMR2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012/. Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatamr2012. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the workshop website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs;and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing and database area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about big data and MapReduce in cloud environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and MapReduce. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving on cloud · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing · MapReduce on hybrid cloud · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Security, privacy, reliability, trust and privacy in MapReduce · Volume, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Resource scheduling and SLA for MapReduce · Big Data processing tools based on MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud General Chairs: Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Program Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Any enqueries, please direct to Xuyun Zhang at xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com <mailto:xyzhanggz@gmail.com> -- ************************************************* PhD Student Xuyun(Sean) Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com <mailto:xyzhanggz@gmail.com>, or Xuyun.Zhang(a)student.uts.edu.au <mailto:Xuyun.Zhang@student.uts.edu.au> URL: https://sites.google.com/site/seanzhangcs/ *************************************************

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Fwd: Final CFP Reminder: IEEE TALE 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '12

31 May '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Final CFP Reminder: IEEE TALE 2012 Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:00:00 -0400 From: conference-services(a)ieee.org Reply-To: do-not-reply(a)ieee.org To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at This is a final reminder that the deadline for submissions for IEEE TALE is May 30, 2012. Authors preparing papers are asked to complete their work and submit as soon as possible as peer review will begin in the next few days. Papers will be accepted by the submission system through June 3, 2012 leave a few more days to finish your work. The first conference will be held in late August in Hong Kong. The IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) is designed to complement the Society's other very popular Frontiers in Education (FIE, IEEE Regions 1-7) and EDUCON (IEEE Region 8) conferences. Now, regardless of your location in the world, a premier IEEE Education Society conference is at your doorstep. I encourage you to read this call-for-papers and consider submitting your research or practice paper about engineering and computer science education for peer review. I've also attached a PDF version of the call-for-papers for your use in dissemination to colleagues or other email lists. The General Chair of TALE 2012 is Henry Chan from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has assembled a great team to help him plan the conference and your stay in Hong Kong. On behalf of his entire committee, we extend our warmest welcome to you and we hope you can join us in Hong Kong in August! Russ Meier Milwaukee School of Engineering IEEE Education Society Vice President for Conferences Feel free to disseminate this call-for-papers and the attached PDF to your own email lists. --------------------- CALL-FOR-PAPERS ------------------------------ TALE 2012 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering 2012 20?23 August 2012, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Theme: ?Fostering Innovation and Excellence in Engineering Education? The IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) will be held each year in the Asia-Pacific region (IEEE Region 10) beginning in 2012. It is intended to complement existing conferences sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, most notably Frontiers in Education in North America (IEEE Regions 1?7) and EDUCON in Europe/Middle East/Africa (IEEE Region 8). The aim of TALE 2012 is to provide a forum for academicians and professionals from various educational fields and with cross-disciplinary interests to network, share knowledge and engage in dialogue around the theme of fostering innovation and excellence in engineering education. To this end, both research and practice-oriented papers are invited that encompass all aspects of education in the engineering fields (including computing, computer science, information technology and cognate disciplines). The conference will feature traditional paper presentations, workshops, as well as keynotes by renowned educational experts and authorities. CONFERENCE TOPICS Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Academic Staff/Faculty Development * Accreditation and Quality Assurance * Assessment and Evaluation * Online/E-Learning and Blended Learning * Capstone Projects * Computer-Based Learning and Courseware Technologies * Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning * Curriculum Design * Distance, Open and Flexible Education * Educational Games and Simulations * Educational Policy, Leadership and Administration * Entrepreneurship Programs * Ethical and Social Justice Issues (e.g., Access, Equity) * Gender and Diversity * Generic Skills (e.g., Communications, Teamwork) * Industry Linkages and Partnerships * Instructional Design * Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches * Introductory Engineering and Computing Courses * K?12 Initiatives and Partnerships * Laboratory Experiences (On-Campus and Remote) * Learning Analytics * Learning Management Systems * Marketing and Outreach for Engineering Programs * Mobile Learning * Open Educational Resources * Research Training (Undergraduate and Graduate) * Service Learning * Work-Based and Work-Integrated Education PAPER SUBMISSION, REVIEW AND PUBLICATION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of four (4) to six (6) A4 pages (including tables, figures and references) in standard IEEE double-column format. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference website, from which submission guidelines and a template for papers are available. A blind-review process will be used to evaluate all submitted papers. Each full registration for the conference will cover a maximum of two papers; each student registration will cover a single paper only. All accepted and registered papers that are presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings (CD-ROM/USB) and uploaded to the IEEE Xplore database, which is indexed by Scopus. The proceedings will also be submitted for possible indexing to EI Compendex, ISI Thompson Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and INSPEC. Awards will be presented to authors of the best papers presented at the conference. These authors, along with authors of other selected papers, may be invited to submit revised and expanded versions for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Education, and/or other refereed international journals. (The content of the expanded paper must be substantially different to that of the version submitted to the conference, and publication is subject to peer-review acceptance in accordance with the relevant journal's editorial policies and guidelines.) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline extended to: 15 May 2012 Notification of review outcomes: 7 June 2012 Final paper submission: 30 June 2012 Registration deadline: 30 June 2012 Conference dates: 20?23 August 2012 HONORARY ADVISORS Michael Lightner IEEE Director and Vice President, Educational Activities Lawrence Wong IEEE Region 10 Director Rob Reilly President, IEEE Education Society Manuel Castro President-Elect, IEEE Education Society Charles Fleddermann Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Education ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Henry Chan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Steering Committee Chair Russ Meier IEEE Education Society Vice President for Conferences Technical Program Chair Low Sew Ming Monash University Malaysia Technical Program Co-Chairs Rosanna Chan The Chinese University of Hong Kong Grace Ngai The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Publication Co-Chairs Mark J. W. Lee Charles Sturt University Hong-Va Leong The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Special Session Co-Chairs C. Y. Chung The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Norbert Cheung The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Wilson Chu The Open University of Hong Kong Workshop Co-Chairs Mazlina Esa Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Ray Cheung City University of Hong Kong Publicity Chair Ford Lumban Gaol Bina Nusantara University Secretariat and Registration Co-Chairs Edward Cheung The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Eric Ma IEEE Hong Kong Section Finance Co-Chairs Y. W. Liu IEEE Hong Kong Section  William Cheung The University of Hong Kong Liaison Chair Oliver Ban IEEE Education Society Local Arrangement Chair Kai-Pan Mark City University of Hong Kong Website Chair C. K. Chan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University SECRETARIAT CONTACT Email: enquiry(a)tale-conference.org Website: http://www.tale-conference.org/tale2012/ CO-ORGANIZERS AND CO-SPONSORS: IEEE Education Society IEEE Hong Kong Section CO-ORGANIZER AND HOST: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ============================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE Education Society<http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/> IEEE Region 10<http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/> To unsubscribe from conference eNotices, please log into<https://www.ieee.org/profile/commprefs/showcommPrefpage.html>. If you need assistance with your eNotice subscription, please visit https://supportcenter.ieee.org/ . ============================================================ IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA <http://www.ieee.org/>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Social Media and Data Analytics: CFP HICSS-46 (2013)
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '12

31 May '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Social Media and Data Analytics: CFP HICSS-46 (2013) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:56:47 -0400 From: Jennifer Xu <jiexu2(a)gmail.com> To: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org CC: dhaughton(a)bentley.edu, dyates(a)bentley.edu HICSS-46 (2013) CALL FOR PAPERS Minitrack: Social Media and Data Analytics Track: DIGITAL MEDIA: CONTENT AND COMMUNICATION Submission deadline: June 15, 2012 Conference Site: Grand Wailea Maui Dates: January 7 - 10, 2013 Additional details about the Minitrack may be found at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/socialmedia.pdf Social media is changing how we work and play. It is also changing the way we access and consume media, stay in touch with family and friends, as well as how we communicate with government and businesses. This mini-track focuses on research that brings together social media (or social networks) and data analytics. For example, research and practice that advances the state-of-the-art in the acquisition, management, and analysis of data originating primarily from social phenomena. We welcome both theoretical and practical papers whose approaches are within the scope of data analytics and closely related areas (e.g., data warehousing, data mining and business intelligence). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Social Media Data ? Cleaning, Curation and Provenance of Data in Social Networks ? Crowd or Cloud Computation on Social Media Data ? Data Modeling for Social Media ? Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks ? Social Search, Retrieval, and Ranking ? Performance and Scalability of Social Media Data Management ? Semantic Web and Linked Data: Meaning in Networked Connections ? Exploration and Analysis of Massive Social Networks ? Techniques for Meme Tracking At last year?s HICSS conference, large complex data and web-scale information problems emerged as common themes across many of the mini-tracks. In recognition of this, for HICSS 2013, we encourage authors to address these themes from their own research perspectives. Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus on big data issues ranging from the analytics of the data itself, whether from social media or other data sets, to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for stakeholders. The process is simple; authors send their papers to the most relevant mini-track and after the refereeing, the mini-track chairs will consult to schedule presentations and draw connections. Minitrack Leaders: David Yates (primary contact) Associate Professor Computer Information Systems Department Bentley University 175 Forest Street1.24.12 Waltham, MA 02452 Tel - (781) 891-2735 (phone) (781) 891-2911 (dept) Fax- (781) 891-2949 (fax) dyates(a)bentley.edu <mailto:dyates@bentley.edu>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: 1st International Workshop on Pedagogically-driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012)
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '12

30 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: 1st International Workshop on Pedagogically-driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012) Datum: Wed, 30 May 2012 15:36:05 +0200 Von: 'Dr. Ralf Klamma' <klamma(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Organisation: RWTH Aachen An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Pedagogically--driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012) Saarbrücken (Germany), 18 September 2012 http://www.cyntelix.com/pdsg2012.aspx Deadline for submissions: 16-07-12 In conjunction with the Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2012) http://ec-tel.eu/ Description Technology Enhanced Learning is a promising area where Serious Games can have an impact beyond pure entertainment. Despite this potential, two issues stand in the way of achieving learning effects: Few pedagogical theories are sufficiently formalized to allow implementation, therefore Serious Games seldom fully utilize the potential of pedagogy. Even if present, pedagogical principles are implicitly implemented in the game story, structure, and characters, so that it is very difficult to test different theories on the same game mechanics. This results in low reusability and high costs of pedagogically-driven serious games that hinder their widespread use. To address these issues, this workshop focuses on: Formalizations of pedagogical theories potentially capable to drive the elements in a game's world, such as narrative and characters' behaviour. Game frameworks based on storytelling, explicit game mechanics and intelligent agents that can provide a programmable environment to implement pedagogical formalizations Expected participants and domains addressed Participants to the workshop are researchers from the following areas: Serious games and Technology-Enhanced Learning research in general Agent technologies (especially in an interactive narrative context). Efforts in the Agent community such as Pogamut that connect agent platforms to games like Unreal Tournament can be the ground where these approaches can be implemented. Storytelling and Interactive narrative research; narrative engines such as Brutus, Minstrel and Mexica. Pedagogy theories/frameworks especially at a stage close to or already formalized. Topics Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Formalizations of pedagogical theories for the purposes of serious games Game frameworks that provide a programmable environment to implement pedagogical formalizations, based on any of the following: Storytelling explicit game mechanics intelligent agents Approaches to modeling the interdependencies between pedagogy, storytelling and game mechanics in serious games and the translation of these interdependencies into agent behaviour Empirical studies addressing the interdependencies between pedagogy, narrative and storytelling and game mechanics Architectures for serious games that allow reusability Existing programmable platforms, such as Pogamut, that connect agent platforms to games Approaches to "programmable" narrative and storytelling in serious games Approaches to "programmable" intelligent agents in serious games Submissions We encourage submissions of work that can be at all stages of development. Contributions are expected in the following form: Full papers: max. 10 pages Position/short papers: max. 4 pages Demo papers: max. 4 pages Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted demo papers. The following needs to be specified: the purpose of the system to be demonstrated and how this is relevant to the theme of the workshop the technology used the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes) Important Dates Submission deadline: Mon 16-07-12 Paper Submission Procedure Submissions will be handled by EasyChair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdsg2012 Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template. We encourage you to produce your submission using LaTeX as typesetting tool and the respective LaTeX template. Accepted authors will be invited to extend their contributions for a special issue in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning. Contact Contact chairs at: pdsg2012 __at__ easychair.org Twitter: @PDSG2012 Organizers Stefano Bocconi (Cyntelix and Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Yulia Bachvarova (Cyntelix, the Netherlands) -- PD Dr. Ralf Klamma, AOR mailto:klamma@informatik.rwth-aachen.de RWTH Aachen www : http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/staff/klamma Informatik 5 phone : +492418021513,+491735228052 fax: +492418022321 DBIS mail : Informatik 5, Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Media Architecture Biennale 2012 Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '12

30 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Media Architecture Biennale 2012 Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 30 May 2012 19:41:43 +0200 Von: Peter Dalsgaard <dalsgaard(a)cavi.dk> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org [our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] CALL FOR PAPERS MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2012 November 15-17, 2012 Aarhus, Denmark Building on the successful event in Vienna 2010, Media Architecture Biennale 2012 brings together artists, practitioners and researchers from academia and industry in the ongoing exploration of the meeting between architecture and digital media. The 2012 Biennale comprises an academic conference track, exhibitions, and industry sessions, as well as a full day of workshops. Our vision is to provide an excellent forum for debate and knowledge exchange; to offer a unique opportunity that brings together the best minds and organizations; and to highlight state-of-the-art and experimental research in media architecture. THEME: PARTICIPATION The design of media architecture invites encounters between people, the built environment, and digital media. It opens up rich opportunities for new forms of participation through dialogue and engagement. As an emerging field, diverse perspectives are coming together in media architecture, and the challenges are as abundant as the opportunities. At the conference, we explore “participation” as a core value of media architecture. In this context, participation may occur in the initial design stages of media architecture, e.g. as different practitioners, stakeholders and potential audiences take part in shaping future media architecture; it may occur when media architecture is realized and people experience and interact with it, e.g. when public spaces and urban environments and the practices they shape are influenced by elements of media architecture; it may also occur as new platforms give rise to new opportunities for shaping systems and surroundings. TOPICS We consider media architecture as an inclusive term that encompasses encounters and intersections between digital technologies and our physical surroundings. In this respect, we invite papers that present and discuss novel contributions to media architecture both on a practical and theoretical level and that further our understanding of the field through case studies, design approaches, and best practices. We expect contributions to critically explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: - Case Studies of Specific Projects - Future Trends and Prototypes - Media Facades and Urban Displays - Interaction Techniques and Interfaces - Social and Cultural Aspects of Media Architecture - Historical Perspectives on the Intersection between Media and the Built Environment - Design Processes and Methods - Participatory City Planning and Developing Urban Media Environments - Participatory Architecture - Spatial Locative Media - Development and Design of Content for Specific Contexts SUBMISSION DETAILS AND DEADLINE The conference invites research presentations from both academia and industry. We are currently seeking a publishing agreement with a major publisher for the academic proceedings. We invite both short and long papers. Submitted papers should be a maximum of four and ten pages in length, for short and long papers respectively, in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The papers should clearly explain the research question addressed, research methods and tasks, findings or results, and contributions of the work. Papers should also provide sufficient background and related work to situate and contextualize the authors’ work within the greater body of research. Submissions should consist of original work not previously published or concurrently under consideration for any other conference, workshop, journal, or other publication with an ISBN, ISSN or DOI number. Authors must provide a 30-word contribution statement for their paper upon submission. The contribution statement should explain the contribution made by the paper to the Media Architecture community. Papers will be peer-reviewed by multiple members of a program committee consisting of experts in a range of disciplines that shape media architecture. HOST Aarhus University, Denmark, in collaboration with Media Architecture Institute. IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPERS Papers submission deadline: July 20, 2012. Notification of acceptance: Sept 5 Camera-ready submission: Sept 25 Conference: Nov 15-17 2012 CONTACT INFORMATION Twitter: @MABiennale Facebook: Facebook.com/MABiennale Web: www.mediaarchitecture.org/biennale12 Email: conference(a)mediaarchitecture.org COME AND JOIN US! Peter Dalsgaard, Aarhus University& Ava Fatah gen Schieck, The Bartlett, UCL Program co-chairs _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: CFP: Czech Republic - 2nd DEIS2012 - July 16-18
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '12

30 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: Czech Republic - 2nd DEIS2012 - July 16-18 Datum: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:23 -0700 Von: The Second International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems (DEIS2012) <donotreply(a)sdiwc.us> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at The Second International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems (DEIS2012) VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic July 16-18, 2012 http://www.sdiwc.net/deis2012/ All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted for potential inclusion in the digital library of SDIWC ======================================================================== The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, From July 16-18, 2012 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: - Digital Management products - Digital Economy - Digital Innovation Management - IT Management - Business Technology Intelligence - E-Business - Consumer Electronics - Digital Libraries - Digital Data Mining - Digital Enterprises - E-Commerce Technology - E-Commerce in developing countries - Global E-Commerce - Infrastructure for E-Commerce - E-Logistics - E-Government - E-Procurement - E-Services - Marketing on the Web - Barriers to E-Business Adoption - Cryptography for enabling E-Commerce - e-Commerce Strategy & Implementation - Internet payment systems - Business-oriented E-Commerce - Consumer-oriented E-Commerce - Web advertising and Web Publishing - Mobile Commerce - E-Communities - E-Business Applications and Software - Supply Chain Management & E-Fulfilment - Anti-cyberterrorism - XML-Based Languages - Soft Computing Techniques - Computational Intelligence - Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity - Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications - Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications - Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems - Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - Distributed and Parallel Applications - User Interfaces,Visualization and Modeling - Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design - Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks - Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks - Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects - User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications - Sensor Networks and Social Sensing - Embedded Systems and Software - Information Propagation on Social Networks - Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks - Computer Crime Prevention and Detection - Confidentiality Protection - Critical Infrastructure Management - Critical Computing and Storage - Cryptography and Data Protection Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Important Dates ============== Submission Date : June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance : June 22, 2012 Camera Ready submission : July 5, 2012 Registration : July 5, 2012 Conference dates : July 16-18, 2012 If you want to unsubscribe to this mail message from SDIWC, just follow this link http://sdiwc.us/Filemailer2/sdiwc-mailer/unsubscribe.php?id=5948a7c8cadc406…

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Advancing Green IT, IEEE IT Professional, Jan 2013 -- CFP. Submission due by 1 July 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '12

30 May '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Advancing Green IT, IEEE IT Professional, Jan 2013 -- CFP. Submission due by 1 July 2012 Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:02:23 +1000 From: San Murugesan <san(a)computer.org> To: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org *IEEE IT Professional* *Call for Papers* *Advancing Green IT* *Publication: January 2013** Submission deadline: 1 July 2012 * We are called upon to make our IT systems and work practices greener (environmentally friendly) and to harness the power of IT to address the environmental problems facing us. Green IT is about responding to this call. It is an environmental imperative, and, as many would advocate, our social responsibility. Green IT is a topic of growing relevance and significance due to an increasing recognition of the harmful effects of climate change, new stringent environmental legislations, concerns about electronic waste disposal practices that damage our environment, and corporate image concerns that are pushing businesses and individuals to go green. We can make a difference by advancing green IT and embracing it in several areas of enterprise and personal activities. //The January/February 2013 issue of /IT Professional/ will focus on Advancing Green IT. The magazine solicits papers covering a range of topics, including: ·Environmental impacts of IT and ways to make IT environmentally sound ·Green computing and green data centers ·Green data storage systems ·Green clouds ·Green software ·Green networking and communication ·Environmentally-friendly IT life-cycle management and asset disposal ·Green supply-chain management ·Green business process reengineering and management ·Using IT to support various environmental initiatives in business, industry and society? smart buildings and homes, smart grids, sustainable IT services, and IT-enabled smart communities ·Assessment of the effectiveness of green IT initiatives ·Green IT metrics, maturity models, standards, and regulations ·Green IT auditing ·Green IT strategies and policies ·Roadmapping the future of sustainable IT services ·Aligning the IT strategy with corporate sustainability strategy ·Fostering a sustainable IT organization ·User?s and industry?s attitude toward green IT ·Governments? roles in fostering and enforcing green initiatives ·Innovative ways of creating green awareness using IT ·Benefits of, and barriers to, adopting greener IT practices ·Examples and case studiesFeature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words (with tables and figures each counting as 300 words) and have no more than 20 references. Illustrations are welcome. For author guidelines, including sample articles see: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acitpro Submit your article at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itpro-csby *1 July 2012*. For further information contact the guest editors: *San Murugesan*, BRITE Professional Services & Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia, san1(a)internode.net <mailto:san1@internode.net> *G.R. Gangadharan*, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India, geeyaar(a)gmail.com <mailto:geeyaar@gmail.com> *Robert R. Harmon*, Portland State University, USA, harmonr(a)pdx.edu <mailto:harmonr@pdx.edu> *Nina Godbole*, IBM India, ninagodbole(a)yahoo.com <mailto:ninagodbole@yahoo.com>

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