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Fwd: [AISWorld] Challenges in Information Systems Governance, IT Professional Conference, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA; 22nd May 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Challenges in Information Systems Governance, IT Professional Conference, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA; 22nd May 2014 Datum: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:12:16 +1100 Von: San Murugesan <san(a)computer.org> An: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear All. /IEEE IT Professional <http://www.computer.org/itpro>/magazine is organising a one-day conference, *IT Pro Conference on****Information System Governance Challenges*, at NIST facility in Gaithersburg, MD, on 22^nd May (http://www.computer.org/itproconf). Senior IT personnel from business, government and academia are expected to participate in the conference. Conference solicits proposals for presentations.***Summary of proposed presentations are due by 1 April,**and registration (free) is OPEN now.*For details see Conference Web page at http://www.computer.org/itproconf. Best Regards San ................................................... Professor San Murugesan Editor-in-Chief, IEEE /IT Professional/ <http://www.computer.org/itpro> Editor, /Computer/ <http://www.computer.org/computer> and Cloud Cover column Director, BRITE Professional Services Adjunct Professor, University of Western Sydney Australia Email: san(a)computer.org <mailto:san@computer.org> Web: http://tinyurl.com/sanbio Twitter: @santweets <http://twitter.com/santweets> Linked-In: http://tinyurl.com/sanlinks Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing: http://tinyurl.com/encloud /IT Professional/LinkedIn Group: http://tinyurl.com/itprogroup /IT Professional/Conference 2014: http://tinyurl.com/itproconf

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Fwd: [AISWorld] New Issue Announcement: Information Systems Research
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] New Issue Announcement: Information Systems Research Datum: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:32:39 -0400 Von: Ritu Agarwal <ragarwal(a)rhsmith.umd.edu> An: AISWorld List <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Kopie (CC): Faye Baker <fbaker(a)rhsmith.umd.edu>, Kathleen Luckey <Kathleen.Luckey(a)INFORMS.ORG>, ChoChee <ChoChee.Cheung(a)INFORMS.ORG> Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of the March 2014 Issue of /Information Systems Research/ (Vol. 25, No. 1) containing 1 research commentary, and 9 research articles. The Table of Contents follows. Research Commentary: IT-Enabled Business Models: A Conceptual Framework and a Coevolution Perspective for Future Research, Arun Rai and Xinlin Tang http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0495 Evaluation of Competing Candidate Solutions in Electronic Networks of Practice, Thomas Meservy, Matthew Jensen, and Kelly Fadel http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0502 How to Attract and Retain Readers in Enterprise Blogging? Param Vir Singh, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Tridas Mukhopadhyay http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0509 Measuring Information Technology Spillovers, Prasanna Tambe and Lorin M. Hitt http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0498 IT-Enabled Coordination for Ambidextrous Interorganizational Relationships, Ghiyoung Im and Arun Rai http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0496 Online Product Reviews: Implications for Retailers and Competing Manufacturers, Young Kwark, Jianqing Chen, and Srinivasan Raghunathan http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0511 A Framework and Guidelines for Context-Specific Theorizing in Information Systems Research, Weiyin Hong, Frank Chan, James Thong, Lewis Chasalow, and Gurpreet Dhillon http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0501 Joint Product Improvement by Client and Customer Support Center: The Role of Gain-Share Contracts in Coordination, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Alok Gupta, and Sameer Hasija http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0504 Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities, Edward Anderson, Geoffrey Parker, and Burcu Tan http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0505 Economics of Free Under Perpetual Licensing: Implications for the Software Industry, Marius Niculescu and D. J. Wu http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0508 About the Authors http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0514 -- Ritu Agarwal Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems Robert H. Smith School of Business 4327 Van Munching Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-1815 301.405.3121 TEL 301.405.8655 FAX http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: IEEE International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2014)
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: IEEE International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2014) Datum: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:53:53 +0000 Von: Naghmeh Ramezani Ivaki <naghmeh(a)dei.uc.pt> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: IEEE International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2014) =========================================================================== http://dss2014.dei.uc.pt One day between June 27 and July 2, 2014, at Hilton Anchorage, Alaska, USA, within IEEE SERVICES 2014 Description DSS 2014 will focus on dependability and security of software and services. This is a challenging theme, especially when considering that information systems are more and more based on complex, heterogeneous, dynamic software and services, which are characterized by demanding quality attributes. Interoperability in presence of dependability and security guarantees, as well as techniques and tools to assess the impact of accidental and malicious threats, are among the crucial aspects to be addressed. List of topics Topics of interest of DSS 2014 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, design, implementation, and management of dependable and secure software and services - Dependable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Implementation and deployment of dependable cloud-based services - Dependable and secure big data services - Specification and design methodologies, e.g., model-based, component-based, refinement-based approaches - Metrics for quantifying services dependability and security - Dependability and security benchmarking - Verification and validation for dependability and security evaluation of services - Formal verification, testing, analytical and experimental evaluation of services - Off-line versus on-line dependability and security services assessment - Case studies illustrating challenges and solutions in designing dependable and secure software and services - Design and use of supporting tools for creating dependable and secure services Important dates =============== (Workshop chairs will grant individual extensions under special circumstances provided that the hard deadline for the camera-ready version is respected.) * Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 * Notification: April 24, 2014 * Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2014 Paper Submission All papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the Proceedings of the IEEE 10th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2014), which will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited for extension and inclusion in a special issue of a related journal. We invite high-quality English-language submissions of four types: a) Research papers (8 pages) b) Experience reports (8 pages) c) Short papers (2 pages) d) Tool demos (2 pages) Submissions should follow the IEEE CS proceedings style as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. All papers must be submitted via the confhub submission system. First time users need to register with the system. Please refer to the DSS 2014 website (http://dss2014.dei.uc.pt) for details on the submission procedure. Workshop Chairs --------------- Nuno Laranjeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publicity Chair --------------- Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal Program committee (under construction) ----------------- - António Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anatoliy Gorbenko, National Aerospace University 'KhAI', Ukraine - Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy - Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University, Finland - Eliane Martins, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil - Ilir Gashi, City University, United Kingdom - István Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Juan-Carlos Ruiz, Technical University of Valencia, Spain - Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy - Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden - Zibin Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong-Kong

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Fwd: [WI] CFP: Active Media Technology (AMT'14)
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP: Active Media Technology (AMT'14) Datum: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:24:20 +0900 Von: cbc-inform(a)wi-lab.com An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de [Apologies for cross-postings] ################################################################## The 2014 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'14) August 11-14, 2014, Warsaw, Poland UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS (PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 30) (PAGE LIMIT EXTENDED TO 12) ################################################################## Homepage: http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/amt/homepage ################################################################## AMT'14 is a part of the 2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC'14). The series of Active Media Technology conferences was started in Hong Kong, in 2001. Since then AMT has been held in China (multiple times), Japan (multiple times), as well as Australia and Canada. In 2014, AMT will visit Europe for the first time. Important Dates: ################################################################## # Online submission of full papers: March 30, 2014 # Workshop & special session paper submission: March 30, 2014 # Notification of paper acceptance: May 4, 2014 # Camera-ready of accepted papers: May 18, 2014 ################################################################## WIC'14 Keynote Speakers: - Stefan Decker (National University of Ireland) - Karl Friston (University College London) - Sadaaki Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba) - Yi Pan (Georgia State University) - Henryk Skarzynski (World Hearning Center in Kajetany) - John F. Sowa (VivoMind Research, LLC) - Andrzej Szalas (Linkoping University & the University of Warsaw) - Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua University; Turing Award Winner) Plenary Panels (to be extended): - Web at 25 (in cooperation with http://www.iospress.nl/webat25/) - Human Brain Project Panel (https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/) AMT'14 Co-Organizers/Co-Sponsors: - Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) - IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) - The University of Warsaw - Polish Mathematical Society (PTM) - Warsaw University of Technology - Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) Committee on Informatics - Polish Artificial Intelligence Society AMT'14 Program Co-Chairs: - James F. Peters, Canada - Gerald Schaefer, UK - Son Thanh Vuong, Canada/Vietnam Online Submissions & Publications: ################################################################## # Papers need to have up to 12 pages in LNCS format: # http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 # Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a # volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI. ################################################################## CONFERENCE TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: 1. Foundations of Active Media * Machine-centric & Human-centric Auto-Perception * Machine-centric & Human-centric Context-awareness * Cognitive Foundations of Active Media * Computational Intelligence for Active Media * Human Factors in Active Media Technology * Semantic Computing in Active Media * Self-adaptive Active Media Systems 2. Ubiquitous Intelligence & Ubiquitous Services * Pervasive & Transparent Computing * Ambient & Grid Intelligence * Wisdom Web of Things * Internet of Smart Services * Ubiquitous Learning Systems * Security in Ubiquitous Environment 3. Big Data Management for Active Media * Cloud & Grid Computing * Data Flow in Internet of Things * Information Design & Integration * Active Media Information Retrieval * Knowledge & Data Intensive Systems * Unstructured & Disperse Data Sources 4. Data Mining for Active Media * Mathematical Foundations * Graph & Linked Data Mining * Web Log & Event Log Mining * Expression & Emotion Analysis * Multimedia Mining & Processing * Real-time Sensor Processing * Visual Analysis of Complex Data 5. Social Networks & Social Media * Knowledge Community Formation * Link Topologies & Site Hierarchies * Theories of Small-World Web * Virtual & Web Communities * Web-based Cooperative Work 6. Interactive Systems & Intelligent Interfaces * Active Computer Systems * Interactive Knowledge Media * Cyber-Individuals in Cyber-World * Perceptive Animated Interfaces * Conversational Informatics * Human Modeling & Personalized Services * Information Narrative & Visualization 7. Active Media Engineering * Meta-synthetic Engineering * Meme Media Architectures * Smart Homes & Smart Cities * Multimedia Embedded Systems * Human-Centric Robotics * Intelligent Devices & Sensor Networks * Wearable Computing * Smart Digital Media * Adaptive Hardware & Middleware * Situational Software Engineering * Network & Cloud Network Robotics * Wireless Communication Technologies 8. Active Media Applications * Interactive Gaming Media * Edutainment, E-learning & M-learning * Virtual Reality & Social Applications * Media Art & Creativity Support * E-Commerce & Mobile Analytics * Active Media for Decision Support Tutorial Proposals: ################################################################## # Electronic submission of proposals: April 13, 2014 # Notification of proposal acceptance: April 20, 2014 ################################################################## *** Post-Conference Journal Publications *** - Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (IOS Press) - Brain Informatics (Springer) - Information Technology & Decision Making (World Scientific) - Computational Intelligence (Wiley) - Health Information Science and Systems (Springer) - Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier) - Computational Cognitive Science (Springer) - Semantic Computing (World Scientific) - Fundamenta Informaticae (IOS Press) *** About WIC'14 *** The 2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC'14) includes four international conferences related to intelligent informatics: - IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2014 (WI'14) - IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2014 (IAT'14) - Active Media Technology 2014 (AMT'14) - Brain Informatics & Heath 2014 (BIH'14) They are co-located in order to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions and practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Information Technology. *** About the Venue *** The conference will be held in August - the best Summer period to visit Warsaw and Poland. Lectures will take place in Central Campus of the University of Warsaw, in the Old Library building converted to a modern conference center. The campus is located in downtown Warsaw, close to the Old Town and Vistula River. *** Contact Information *** Dominik Slezak <slezak(a)mimuw.edu.pl> WIC'14 Congress Program Chair -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for papers: IEEE International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2014)
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for papers: IEEE International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2014) Datum: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:17 +0000 Von: Nuno Laranjeiro <cnl(a)dei.uc.pt> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear All, Please consider submitting your work to the following event. Best regards, Nuno Laranjeiro ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: IEEE International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2014) =========================================================================== http://dss2014.dei.uc.pt One day between June 27 and July 2, 2014, at Hilton Anchorage, Alaska, USA, within IEEE SERVICES 2014 Description DSS 2014 will focus on dependability and security of software and services. This is a challenging theme, especially when considering that information systems are more and more based on complex, heterogeneous, dynamic software and services, which are characterized by demanding quality attributes. Interoperability in presence of dependability and security guarantees, as well as techniques and tools to assess the impact of accidental and malicious threats, are among the crucial aspects to be addressed. List of topics Topics of interest of DSS 2014 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, design, implementation, and management of dependable and secure software and services - Dependable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Implementation and deployment of dependable cloud-based services - Dependable and secure big data services - Specification and design methodologies, e.g., model-based, component-based, refinement-based approaches - Metrics for quantifying services dependability and security - Dependability and security benchmarking - Verification and validation for dependability and security evaluation of services - Formal verification, testing, analytical and experimental evaluation of services - Off-line versus on-line dependability and security services assessment - Case studies illustrating challenges and solutions in designing dependable and secure software and services - Design and use of supporting tools for creating dependable and secure services Important dates =============== (Workshop chairs will grant individual extensions under special circumstances provided that the hard deadline for the camera-ready version is respected.) * Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 * Notification: April 24, 2014 * Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2014 Paper Submission All papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the Proceedings of the IEEE 10th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2014), which will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited for extension and inclusion in a special issue of a related journal. We invite high-quality English-language submissions of four types: a) Research papers (8 pages) b) Experience reports (8 pages) c) Short papers (2 pages) d) Tool demos (2 pages) Submissions should follow the IEEE CS proceedings style as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. All papers must be submitted via the confhub submission system. First time users need to register with the system. Please refer to the DSS 2014 website (http://dss2014.dei.uc.pt) for details on the submission procedure. Workshop Chairs --------------- Nuno Laranjeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publicity Chair --------------- Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal Program committee (under construction) ----------------- - António Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anatoliy Gorbenko, National Aerospace University 'KhAI', Ukraine - Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy - Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University, Finland - Ilir Gashi, City University, United Kingdom - István Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy - Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call For Papers:: ICIEIS2014-Poland
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call For Papers:: ICIEIS2014-Poland Datum: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:02:35 +0400 Von: The Third International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science (ICIEIS2014) <ie2014(a)sdiwc.net> Antwort an: ie2014(a)sdiwc.net An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org The Third International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science (ICIEIS2014) Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland September 22-24, 2014. http://goo.gl/6cQuYG ======================================================================== The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland from September 22-24, 2014 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics - Information Ethics - Information Content Security - Data Compression - E-Technology - E-Government - E-Learning - Cloud Computing - Grid Computing - Green Computing - Access Controls - Data Mining - Social Search - Computer Forensics - Computer Security - Peer-to-Peer Social Networks - Information and Data Management - Network Security - Social Networks - Real-Time Systems - Internet Modeling - Assurance of Service - Image Processing - Web Services Security - Multimedia Computing - Software Engineering - Biometrics Technologies - Wireless Communications - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Mobile Social Networks - Anti-cyber-terrorism - XML-Based Languages - Soft Computing Techniques - Computational Intelligence - Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity - Sensor Networks and Social Sensing - Embedded Systems and Software - Confidentiality Protection - Critical Infrastructure Management - Critical Computing and Storage - Cryptography and Data Protection - 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 - Information Propagation on Social Networks - Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks - Computer Crime Prevention and Detection 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 : Aug. 22, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Sept. 06, 2014 Camera Ready submission: Sept. 12, 2014 Registration : Sept. 12, 2014 Conference dates : Sept. 22-24, 2014 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: WWW2014/BIG2014 Registration deadline reminder: March 24th, 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: WWW2014/BIG2014 Registration deadline reminder: March 24th, 2014 Datum: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:59:14 +0800 (HKT) Von: newsletter(a)iw3c2.org An: newsletter(a)iw3c2.org The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, April 7-11, 2014 Seoul, Korea Co-located Event News *** WWW2014/BIG2014 Registration deadline reminder: March 24th, 2014 *** BIG'2014 - BigData Innovators Gathering - will take place on April 7-8th in Seoul, Korea (co-located with WWW'2014). This two-day gathering will enlighten you with practical insights and long-term vision from industry leaders and academic researchers. It will feature keynotes and invited talks from visionaries in the field, as well as a Big Data panel and contributed talks on successes and best practices on Big Data. More information can be found on the BIG 2014 website at http://big2014.org We invite you to join us at BIG 2014 on Mon-Tue, April 7-8th. Attendance is FREE for those with the full or 5-day WWW pass. Register on the WWW website: http://www2014.kr/registration/ . Regular registration deadline is March 24th, 2014. Be sure to sign up for an option with BIG 2014 (full registration, 5-day with BIG, or BIG by itself). BIG 2014 features three prominent keynote speakers: http://big2014.org/?q=node/10 * Chris Volinsky: AVP of AT&T and Co-winner of the Netflix Prize, will speak on "Shaping Cities of the Future Using Mobile Data" * Amr Awadallah, CTO and Co-founder of Cloudera, will speak on "Evolution from Apache Hadoop to the Enterprise Data Hub: A new foundation for the Modern Information Architecture" * Sang Kyun Cha, Professor at Seoul National University, will speak on "In-Memory Real-Time Big Data Processing: What It Takes to Innovate and Change Industry" We also have three inspiring invited speakers: RakeshAgrawal (Microsoft Technical Fellow), Thorsten Joachims (Professor at Cornell University) and Ben Hamner (Director of Engineering at Kaggle). The BIG 2014 dinner on Monday night (4/7) is sponsored by AT&T and will be attended by many of our speakers and Big Data scientists. Please remember to sign up with a registration option that includes the BIG 2014 dinner. The final BIG 2014 program can be found at http://big2014.org/?q=node/14 Also visit http://www2014.wwwconference.org/ for more information about WWW2014. For inquiries, please email to "www2014 at www2014 dot kr" **************** Also visit please visit http://www2014.wwwconference.org/ for more information about WWW2014. For inquiries, please email to "www2014 at www2014 dot kr" ************************************************************ Upcoming newsletters, subscribing, etc. The WWW2014 Newsletter will be sent periodically, roughly once every month leading up to the conference. To unsubscribe, either via http://www.iw3c2.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter) directly or send an email to "contact at iw3c2 dot org" ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ newsletter mailing list Visit WWW2014 Website http://www2014.wwwconference.org/

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Fwd: [WI] Last Call for Papers: Workshop on ”IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Improvement
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Last Call for Papers: Workshop on ”IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Improvement Datum: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:16:41 +0000 Von: Markus Helfert <markus.helfert(a)computing.dcu.ie> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de */Last Call for Papers/* */The 3rd international SIG Prag workshop on ”IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Improvement” /**/ADWI-2014 www.vits.org/adwi2014/ <http://www.vits.org/adwi2014/>/**//* ---------- */Extended time for submission: April 1 /*---------- *//* */June 2, 2014, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany/* * * *Background – pragmatic perspectives* There have been many calls in the information systems (IS) community for a stronger pragmatic focus. This can be seen in a growing interest for research approaches and methods in IS that emphasise contribution to practice and collaboration between the practice and academia. Action research, which aims for knowledge development through collaboration and intervention in real settings, is achieving more and more academic credibility (Baskerville & Myers, 2004; Davison et al, 2004). This can also be said about design research that aims for the generation of new and useful artefacts (Hevner et al, 2004; Gregor & Jones, 2007). Research through evaluation has had a long and venerable place in IS research (Ward et, 1996; Serafeimidis & Smithson, 2003). Several approaches and frameworks that combine or integrate elements from the above-mentioned approaches have also emerged, e.g. practice research (Goldkuhl, 2011), collaborative practice research (Mathiassen, 2002), practical science (Gregor, 2008), engaged scholarship (Mathiassen & Nielsen, 2008), action design research (Sein et al, 2011) and technical action research (Wieringa & Morali, 2012). Underlying these different approaches is a quest for practical relevance of the conducted research (Benbasat & Zmud, 1999; Van de Ven, 2007; Wieringa, 2010). It is not enough to only “mirror” the world through descriptions and explanations but a pragmatic orientation recognizes intervention and design as a way of knowing and a means for building knowledge about social and institutional phenomena (Aakhus, 2007). There is a need for knowledge of other epistemic kinds that contributes more clearly to the improvement of IS practices. A pragmatic orientation can also be seen in the increasing interest in the conceptualisation of practices, activities, agency and actions. Practice theorizing has gained an increased attention in IS studies (Orlikowski, 2008; Leonardi, 2011). There has been an interest for agency and action oriented theories in IS for quite some time; e.g. activity theory (Nardi, 1996), structuration theory (Orlikowski, 1992), social action theorizing (Hirschheim et al, 1996), human agency theorizing (Boudreau & Robey, 2005) and language action perspective (Winograd & Flores, 1986). From this follows also an interest for social and pragmatic views of the IT artefact (Aakhus & Jackson, 2005). This includes views of the IT artefact as contextually embedded and carriers of those social contexts (Orlikowski & Iacono, 2001) and such artefacts being tools for action and communication (Ågerfalk, 2003; Markus & Silver, 2008). Design research practice and the contributions to practice through appropriation of knowledge and methods and the contributions to academia through knowledge artefacts has been discussed (Donnellan, Sjöström, Helfert, 2012). This enhanced practice and action orientation follows a growing awareness within IS scholars towards pragmatism as a research foundation (e.g. Goles & Hirschheim, 2000; Ågerfalk, 2010; Goldkuhl, 2012). It is not the case that IS scholars suddenly become pragmatists in their research orientation. It is rather the case that there is move from an implicit pragmatism to an explicit one (Goldkuhl, 2012). For a long time IS scholars have addressed practical problems with an interest for improvement. That interest has led to the extensive development of methods, models and constructive frameworks for not only the design of IT artefacts, but also related to several other IS/IT phenomena likee.g. innovation management, business process management, project management, IT service management just to mention a few. These methods actually reveal an on-going search for knowledge of other epistemic kinds for advancing understanding of information technology, information systems, and practice. *Workshop site and purpose * After the success of the two ADWI workshops in 2012 and 2013, it is now time for a third workshop on /IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Improvement/ (ADWI-2014). ADWI-2012 (www.vits.org/adwi/) was run in Barcelona in June 2012 and ADWI-2013 (www.vits.org/adwi2013/) was run in Tilburg in June 2013. ADWI-2014 will take place on June 2. ADWI-2014 will take place in Friedrichshafen (Germany) at the Zeppelin University located at the Lake Constance in the three nation triangle consisting of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. ADWI-2014 intends to bring scholars and practitioners together for a knowledge exchange and development on research foundations and practical contributions concerning the design and improvement of IT artefacts and workpractices. The ADWI workshop is intended to be a developmental arena with thoughtful and constructive feedback from reviews and comments on site. ADWI should be a place where you can present ideas in papers and get fruitful feedback for further development of the papers. A developmental arena means also taking responsibility for pushing contributions further to high-quality journal publications. From the last two workshops (ADWI-2012 and ADWI-2013) several papers have been pushed further into special issues in the open access journal Systems, Signs & Actions. At least one special issue will be arranged in Systems, Signs & Actions inviting promising papers from ADWI-2014. The theme will be decided on later. We will possibly also work with some other outlet for another special issue. This depends on the outcome of the workshop. *Topics* The workshop can include papers from diverse fields of IS. We do not try to enumerate such fields below; we only present four broad topic areas (as four main pragmatic orientations). We invite papers to ADWI-2014 in the following areas: ·The design, selection, adaptation and use of /research methods/ and /approaches/ that emphasise improvement of, collaboration with and intervention in IS practices (e.g. approaches like action research, design research, evaluation research, practice research, engaged scholarship). ·The generation and use of /practice, activity, agency, action oriented theories/ (or other types of knowledge) about IS phenomena. ·Different kinds of /knowledge/(e.g. practical theories, frameworks, models, methods) /that contribute to the improvement of IS practices/. This includes examples of such knowledgefrom improvement, which can be taken from diverse IS fields. ·Application of knowledge that can assist to innovate and improve practices in enterprises (case studies, solutions, organizational experiences). An information system is always an embedded part of some practice. It is never an isolated entity without relations to social practices. The notion “IS practice”, which is used in the topics above, stands for diverse IS related practices like e.g. strategizing, development, procurement, deployment, use, evaluation and service management of IS/IT. *Dates and submission details * /Submissions/: April 1, 2014 (Extended) /Notification/: May 1, 2014 /Final manuscripts/: May 27, 2014 /Workshop/: June 2, 2014, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany The workshop website is www.vits.org/adwi2014/ <http://www.vits.org/adwi2014/>. The workshop will follow an ordinary scientific procedure with submission of papers and selection of papers through peer-review (pursued by an international program committee). Papers are expected to be between 5-16 pages. We welcome full research papers as well as shorter papers (work-in-progress or position papers). For submissions we use the EasyChair system. Submit your paper at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adwi2014 <https://mail.liu.se/owa/redir.aspx?C=N7IIHxbAqEeb0X8GV1l26EReXr4uC9EIW1K-bJ…>. A format template can be found at the workshop website (www.vits.org/adwi2014/ <http://www.vits.org/adwi2014/>). Workshop proceedings will be electronically published and distributed. There will be a small workshop fee covering catering. *Program co-chairs* Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland (Brian.Donnellan(a)nuim.ie) Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University, Sweden (goran.goldkuhl(a)liu.se <mailto:goran.goldkuhl@liu.se>) Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland (Markus.Helfert(a)computing.dcu.ie) *Organising co-chairs* Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland (Markus.Helfert(a)computing.dcu.ie) Katharina Große, Zeppelin University, Germany (Katharina.Grosse(a)zu.de) ** ** *Organisers* AIS Special interest group on Pragmatist IS research (SIG Prag) Zeppelin University, The Open Government Institute, Germany Business Informatics Group, Dublin City University, Ireland *Programme Committee* Mark Aakhus, USA Pär Ågerfalk, Sweden Stephan Aier, Switzerland Michel Avital, Denmark Joao Carvalho, Portugal Rodney Clarke, Australia Gabriel Costello, Ireland Stefan Cronholm, Sweden Aldo de Moor, the Netherlands Owen Eriksson, Sweden Ulrich Frank, Germany Matt Germonprez, USA Rob Gleasure, Ireland Ola Henfridsson, UK Jonny Holmström, Sweden Dirk Hovorka, Australia Philip Huysmans, Belgium John Krogstie, Norway Jenny Lagsten, Sweden Susanne Leist, Germany Matt Levy, USA Mikael Lind, Sweden Rikard Lindgren, Sweden Oliver Müller, Lichtenstein Angela Nobre, Portugal Andreas Opdahl, Norway John Stouby Persson, Denmark Joan Rodon, Spain Kurt Sandkuhl, Germany Mareike Schoop, Germany Gerhard Schwabe, Switzerland Mark S. Silver, USA Jonas Sjöström, Sweden Rajiv Vashist, Australia Roel Wieringa, the Netherlands Fahri Yetim, Finland *References* Aakhus M (2007) Communication as Design. /Communication Monographs/, Vol 74 (1), pp 112–117 Aakhus M, Jackson S (2005) Technology, Interaction and Design. In K. Fitch & B. Sanders (Eds.), /Handbook of Language and Social Interaction/ (pp. 411–433). Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ Ågerfalk P J (2003) /Information Systems Actability: Understanding Information Technology as a Tool for Business Action and Communication/, Ph D diss, Department of Computer and Information Science, LinköpingUniversity Ågerfalk P J (2010) Getting Pragmatic, /European Journal of Information Systems/, Vol 19 (3), pp 251–256 Baskerville R, Myers M (2004) Special issue on action research in information systems: making IS research relevant to practice – foreword, /MIS Quarterly/, Vol 28 (3), p 329-335 Benbasat I, Zmud R W (1999) Empirical research in information system research: The practice of relevance, /MIS Quarterly/, Vol 23 (1), p 3-16 Boudreau M-C, Robey D (2005) Enacting Integrated Information Technology: A Human Agency Perspective, /Organization Science/, Vol 16 (1), p 3–18 Davison R M, Martinsons M G, Kock N (2004) Principles of canonical action research, /Information Systems Journal/, Vol 14, p 65–86 Donnellan B, Sjöström, J, Helfert M (2012) Applying Product Semantics to Design Research, /IFIP Working Group 8.2 Conference : Shaping the Future of ICT Research: Methods and Approaches/, University of South Florida, Tampa Goles T, Hirschheim R (2000) The paradigm is dead, the paradigm is dead … long live the paradigm: the legacy of Burell and Morgan, /Omega/, Vol 28, p 249-268 Goldkuhl G (2011) The research practice of practice research: theorizing and situational inquiry, /Systems, Signs & Actions/, Vol 5 (1), p 7-29 Goldkuhl G (2012) Pragmatism vs. interpretivism in qualitative information systems research, /European Journal of Information Systems/, Vol 21 (2), p 135-146 Gregor S (2008) Building theory in a practical science, in Hart D, Gregor S (Eds, 2008) /Information Systems Foundations: The role of design science/, ANU E Press, Canberra Gregor S, Jones D (2007) The Anatomy of a Design Theory, /Journal of AIS/, Vol 8 (5), p 312-335 Hevner A R, March S T, Park J, Ram S (2004) Design science in information systems research, /MIS Quarterly/, Vol 28 (1), p 75-115 Hirschheim R, Klein H, Lyytinen K (1996) Exploring the intellectual structures of information systems development: a social action theoretic analysis, /Accounting, Management & Information Technology/, Vol 6 (1/2), pp. 1-64 Leonardi P (2011) When flexible routines meet flexible technologies: affordance, constraint, and the imbrication of human and material agencies, /MIS Quarterly/, Vol 35 (1), pp. 147-167 Markus L, Silver M (2008) A foundation for the study of IT effects: A new look at DeSanctis and Poole’s concepts of structural features and spirit, /Journal of the AIS/, Vol. 9 (10/11), pp 609-632 Mathiassen L (2002) Collaborative practice research, /Information Technology & People/, Vol 15 (4), p 321-345 Mathiassen L, Nielsen P A (2008) Engaged Scholarship in IS Research. The Scandinavian Case, /Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems/, Vol 20 (2), p 3–20 Nardi B A (Ed, 1996) /Context and consciousness. Activity theory and human-computer interaction/, MIT Press, Cambridge Orlikowski W J (1992) The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations, /Organization Science/, Vol 3 (3), p 398-429 Orlikowski W J (2008) Sociomaterial Practices: Exploring Technology at Work, /Organization Studies/, Vol 28 (9), p 1435–1448 Orlikowski W J, Iacono C S (2001) Desperately seeking the “IT” in IT research – a call to theorizing the IT artifact, /Information Systems Research/, Vol 12 (2), pp 121-134 Sein M, Henfridsson O, Purao S, Rossi M, Lindgren R (2011) Action design research, /MIS Quarterly/, Vol 35 (1), p 37-56 Serafeimidis V, Smithson S (2003) Information systems evaluation as an organizational institution – experience from a case study, /Information Systems Journal/, Vol 13, pp 251–274 Van de Ven A (2007) /Engaged scholarship: A guide for organizational and social research/, Oxford University Press, Oxford Ward J, Taylor P, Bond P (1996) Evaluation and realisation of IS/IT benefits: an empirical study of current practice, /European Journal of Information Systems/, Vol 4, pp 214-225 Wieringa R (2010) Relevance and problem choice in design science, in Winter R, Zhao J L, Aier S (Eds. 2010) /Proceedings DESRIST 2010/, LNCS 6105, Springer, Berlin Wieringa R, Morali A (2012) Technical action research as a validation method in information systems design science, /Proceedings DESRIST 2012/, LNCS 7286, Springer, Berlin Winograd T, Flores F (1986) /Understanding computers and cognition: A new foundation for design/, Ablex, Norwood -- ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Markus Helfert School of Computing Dublin City University Glasnevin Dublin 9, Ireland Director Business Informatics Research Group http://www.computing.dcu.ie/big/ Research Affiliate at: The Open Government Institute (TOGI) Zeppelin Universität, Germany Phone: +49 - 7541 6009 1476 http://www.zu.de IVI Research Fellow http://www.ivi.ie/ Lecturer and Researcher in Information Systems Phone: +353-1-700-8727 Phone: +49 -7541 6009 1476 Fax: +353-1-700-5442 Office: L2.26 Email:markus.helfert@computing.dcu.ie http://www.computing.dcu.ie ---------------------------------------------------- Email Disclaimer "This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. 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Fwd: SASO 2014 - Call for demos and posters
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SASO 2014 - Call for demos and posters Datum: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:08:06 +0000 Von: Tony Savarimuthu <tony.savarimuthu(a)otago.ac.nz> (Apologies for cross postings). ===================================================================== SASO 2014 - CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems London, UK; 8-12 September 2014 http://www.saso-conference.org ===================================================================== ***************** 1. CALL FOR DEMOS ***************** — IMPORTANT DATES: — Deadline for demo submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 25, 2014 Demo session date: September, 2014 — CALL FOR DEMOS: — The demonstration track at SASO 2014 aims at providing an opportunity to participants from academia and industry to present their latest applications and systems to fellow researchers and practitioners in the field. Submissions will be evaluated based on their overall self-* characteristics, originality and maturity. The committee will particularly consider system robustness, resilience and scaling abilities in addition to the self-* functions of the contributions. Interactivity of the demos will be considered a further asset. Demonstrations may target: * virtual systems, such as software applications; * physical systems, such as robots or sensor networks; * cyber-physical systems, combining the above; where physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid demos using both simulations and real platforms. We particularly solicit authors to highlight the utility and general applicability of their contributions, whether for the short, medium or long term. This call is open to the full range of conference topics, however we encourage authors to also consider socio-inspired and normative systems as focus issue. These comprise self-adaptive and self-organizing algorithms, platforms and coordination mechanisms which are influenced by the design or modeling of social and normative systems. For a detailed list of relevant topics, please refer to the SASO 2014 website or SASO 2014 CFP. — SUBMISSION: — Demo submissions must include: * a short paper (2 pages, conference format) describing the system and its self-* capabilities; if accepted, papers will be published in the official proceedings; * a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work; and (optionally) allowing viewers to interact with the real system or with an emulator. Electronic submission: http://www.saso-conference.org <http://www.saso-conference.org> At the conference, software applications will be presented on computers. For cyber-physical systems, if possible, authors are invited to bring their equipment (smart devices, sensors, actuators, robots, et cetera). Software simulations or video recordings can be accepted as an alternative. Additionally, authors must bring a poster summarizing their system and demo. — EVALUATION AND AWARDS: — Submitted demos will undergo a selection process based to equal parts on the quality of the short paper (novelty and impact, technical soundness and presentation) and the online demo system (design, degree of innovation, technical solution, applicability, clarity of the contribution and potential of reuse). At least one author of accepted demos is required to register to the conference and to do an on-site presentation and demonstration of the contributions to the evaluation committee, as well as the other conference attendees. The evaluation committee, consisting of the Demo Program Committee members attending the conference, will award a prize for the best demo in each system category, with cyber-physical systems classifying for both. — ORGANIZATION: — Please contact the chairs for any questions regarding the Demo session. The list of committee members comprising an international group of judges from academia and industry will be made available as soon as possible. — CHAIRS: — * Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, LU; Email: jean.botev(a)uni.lu <mailto:jean.botev@uni.lu> * Maite Lopez-Sanchez, University of Barcelona, ES; Email: maite_lopez(a)ub.edu <mailto:maite_lopez@ub.edu> — PROGRAM COMMITTEE: — * Tina Balke, University of Surrey, UK * Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, University of Geneva, CH * Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, DE * Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), ES * Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, LU * Ingo Scholtes ETH Zurich, CH * Jaime Simão Sichman, University of São Paulo, BR ******************* 2. CALL FOR POSTERS ******************* Important Dates (All deadlines are at 11:59 PM GMT) Deadline for submission: June 9, 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 30, 2014 Camera ready poster abstract due: July 18, 2014 Early registration deadline: August 22, 2014 Call for Posters ================ Overview The seventh SASO conference continues its tradition of offering poster sessions, a great opportunity for interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on SASO topics. Poster sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can emerge. Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and should contain original cutting-edge ideas, as well as speculative/provocative ones. Proposals of new research directions and innovative interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged: Self-* systems theories, frameworks, models, and paradigms, including the ones inspired by the biological, social, and physical worlds. Self-* systems engineering: goals and requirements, hardware and software design, deployment, management and control, validation. Properties of self-* systems: self-organisation and emergent behaviour, self- adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self- configuration, etc. Evaluation of self-* systems: methods for performance, robustness, and dependability assessment and analysis. Social self-* systems: emergent human behaviour, crowdsourcing, collective awareness, gamification and serious games. Applications and experiences with self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, power systems, large networks, large data centers, and cloud computing. Submission Process ================= For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract of their poster. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and it shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at the conference site. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2014 conference management system. Poster authors should use the poster track for their submissions. Accepted Posters ================ If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters will be advertised in the final program, and authors' two-page extended abstracts will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. Poster Content ============== Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved poster session, taking into consideration that all posters should include the following information: - The purpose and goals of the work. - Any background and motivation needed to understand the work. - Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work. - A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them. - The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters. - Where to find additional information This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work how to contact the authors, including email addresses citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. Poster Layout Guidelines ======================== The format of posters and the nature of poster sessions require authors to capture the viewers' attention effectively, and present core concepts so as to clearly position the context of their research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. The recommended size for the poster is A0 and all poster authors are required to print and bring their posters at the conference. Attendance ========== At least one of the poster authors is required to register at the conference and will be required to give a brief presentation of the poster in the interactive poster session, as well as staying with the poster to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled poster sessions. Contact details =============== For additional information, clarification, or questions, please contact the Poster Chairs. Iva Bojić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (iva.bojic(a)fer.hr <mailto:iva.bojic@fer.hr>) Regis Riveret, Imperial College, UK (r.riveret(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:r.riveret@imperial.ac.uk>)

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Fwd: [WI] [SenticNet] Deadline Extension: ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Mar '14

16 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] [SenticNet] Deadline Extension: ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Datum: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:59:02 -0500 (EST) Von: feeds <feeds(a)sentic.net> An: feeds(a)sentic.net Apologies for cross-posting, The submission deadline of the ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis (http://sentic.net/challenge) has been extended to 31st March. The Challenge will be held in Crete, Greece, on 25th May 2014 at the European Semantic Web Conference. The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia. RATIONALE Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language, however, is an extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases, concept- level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords and word co- occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features associated with natural language concepts. Unlike purely syntactical techniques, concept- based approaches are able to detect also sentiments that are expressed in a subtle manner, e.g., through the analysis of concepts that do not explicitly convey any emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other concepts that do so. The Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded from the competition). TASKS The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be processed according to the input format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence. Elementary Task: Polarity Detection The main goal of the Challenge is polarity detection. The proposed systems will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format asinhttp://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity detection is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can assume that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are encouraged to use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic computing tools. Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example, while for the Elementary Task an overall polarity (positive or negative) is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set of aspects (such as ‘speaker’, ‘touchscreen’, ‘camera’, etc.) and a polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction and aspect polarity detection. Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed to work at word/syntax level but rather work with concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts, following the same format as in http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word expression like ‘buy christmas present’ from sentences such as “Today I bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents’. The number of extracted concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books, DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer which domain each sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. EVALUATION Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the Conference. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer dataset. The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters, please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system, reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the following aspects: 1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics; 2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task; 3. Computational time; 4. Innovative nature of the approach. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue. For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two awards for each task: - Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3 above; - Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above. There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that the same system runs for both the awards. An amount of €700 has already been secured for the first task, for what the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently working on securing further funding. HOW TO PARTICIPATE The following information has to be provided via EasyChair: - Abstract: no more than 200 words. - Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and not exceeding 5 pages in length. - Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the application should be provided as well. Please share comments and questions with the challenge mailing list. The organizers will assist you for any potential issues that could be raised. TIMEFRAME - March 31, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission - April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance - May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days CHALLENGE CHAIRS - Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) - Diego Reforgiato, CNR STLAB Laboratory (Italy) _______________________________ SenticNet - http://sentic.net Helping machines to learn, leverage, love Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet Subscribe: mailto:feeds@sentic.net?subject=SUB Unsubscribe: mailto:feeds@sentic.net?subject=UNSUB -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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