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Fwd: [WI] CFP: 7th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (Extended Deadlines)
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP: 7th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (Extended Deadlines) Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:28:50 -0600 Von: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ================================================================== SPeL 2014 7th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2014 In conjunction with ICWL 2014 13th International Conference on Web-based Learning http://icwl2014.tlu.ee 14-17 August 2014 Tallinn, Estonia ================================================================== MOTIVATION =========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL 2011, DULP & SPeL 2012 and SPeL 2013 workshops, held in conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference, WI/IAT 2009 conference, DEXA 2010 conference, ICWL 2011 conference, ICALT 2012 conference and ICSTCC 2013 conference respectively. The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities. Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. The challenge in this context is to provide intelligent and adaptive support for collaborative learning, taking into consideration the individual differences between learners. This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities, leading towards the creation of a truly social and adaptive learning environment. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about: * Social learning environments * Theory and modeling of social computing in education * Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning * Personal learning environments * Lifelong learning networks * Virtual spaces for learning communities * Social networks analysis and mining * Computer-supported collaborative learning * Personalized and adaptive learning * Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners * Intelligent learner and group modeling * Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners * Game-based social learning * Personalized mobile learning applications * Cloud-based social learning * Intelligent agent technology for social learning * Metadata, folksonomies and tagging * Semantic web and ontologies for personalized learning * Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects for personalization * Practice and experience sharing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================== The workshop papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and they should not exceed 10 pages. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2014. All accepted workshop papers will be published as a post-proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract submission: May 16, 2014 (extended) Full paper submission: May 23, 2014 (extended) Acceptance notification: June 15, 2014 Registration and camera-ready papers: July 1, 2014 Conference dates: August 14-17, 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2014) for more information and contact us at: popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro or sabineg(a)athabascau.ca for any inquiry. -- 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] CFP: FGICT 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: FGICT 2014 Datum: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:03:17 +0530 Von: diwt(a)dirf.org An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org First International Conference on Future Generation Information and Communication Technology (FGICT 2014) Misurata University, Libya September 08-10, 2014 (http://www.socio.org.uk/fgict) The increasing globalization and science and technology growth is fuelled by a number of Information Technology (IT) infrastructures and applications. The challenges as well as opportunities co-exist in the current IT dependent world. At the brink of the new millennium, emerging trends in the Information Systems, Internet and in the Data/Information world have profound impacts on how organisations design and deploy its IT solutions. The proposed conference is planned to address the issues, solutions and future of the systems and technology applications. The conference will be marked by the presence of invited keynotes, special talks, tutorials, exhibition and demonstrations. The papers are solicited which address the following research but not limited. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Selected papers after modification will be published in the following reviewed journals. Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Web Applications (dblp) Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (dblp) Important Dates Submission of papers: June 20, 2014 Notification: July 20, 2014 Camera Ready: August 20, 2014 Conference Dates: September 08-10, 2014 Program Committee General Chair Yousef Ab uzawayda, Misurata University, Libya Program Chairs Pei Ling Lai, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan Ricardo Rodríguez, Technological University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Program Co-chairs F.C. Abdullayeva, Institute of Information Technology ANAS, Azerbaijan Saba Sarasvady, Amrita University, India Organization Chair Abdulbaset Salem Albaour, Misurata University, Libya contact: service(a)dirf.org ------------------------ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] ISSRE 2014 - Call for Industry Track Presentations
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] ISSRE 2014 - Call for Industry Track Presentations Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:47:23 +0200 Von: Roberto Natella <roberto.natella(a)unina.it> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR INDUSTRY TRACK PRESENTATIONS The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2014) http://www.issre.net Naples, Italy November 3 - 6, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------- The objective of the Industry Track program is to establish an efficient dialogue between software practitioners and software engineering researchers concerning the challenges, findings (both positive and negative), encountered obstacles, and lessons learned on software reliability. Of particular interest is information on applying novel software development, verification and validation practices in diverse lifecycle styles, industry sectors, and software types. The Industry Track presentations will address the application of software engineering practices (which may include work on principles, techniques, tools, methods, processes) to a specific domain or to the development of a substantial software system. In particular, we are interested in techniques that increase system reliability by preventing, detecting or correcting bugs early during the development lifecycle. Also, we are interested in downstream bug metrics and prediction methods. We would like the Industry presentations to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to software quality and process improvement groups with concrete relation to industrial application. We seek submissions in the following topics of interest: * Development and V&V: Software failure modes analysis, software defect prediction, use of techniques such as requirements reviews, design reviews, static analysis, code reviews, unit testing, defect classification and root cause analysis, reliability of software produced using various development methods, such as waterfall, agile, pair programming, model driven architectures and formal methods. * Metrics: Defect density, key bug management, reliability improvement achieved with different development and test techniques, measured availability, user perception studies. * Testing: Test automation, log file analysis, automatic test case generation, code coverage, prioritization and targeting of tests, estimating remaining defects and when to stop testing, fault injection testing, model driven testing. * Security and Safety: Attack surface measurement, source code or binary static analysis for security, fuzz testing, predicting vulnerabilities, threat modelling methods and results, safety considerations and proofs of safe operation, dependability assessment techniques. * Release Management: Managing large releases, release readiness criteria, maintenance release strategies, bug and service request query attributes, customer feedback mechanisms, trade-offs between feature velocity and quality. Important Dates: * Abstract submission June 16th, 2014 * Acceptance notification July 21st, 2014 A two-page abstract of the talk (or the presentation slides, in case you have it ready) should be submitted by June 16, 2014. Submission instructions are available at the website: http://issre.net/cfp-industry After acceptance, the author(s) are required to submit a PDF presentation for publication in the conference proceedings. The slide set shall contain: * an industrial challenge or problem definition, and its importance in the industrial setting; * potential solutions that have been attempted by the author(s); * analysis, discussion and conclusions of the results, and implications of the findings. The abstracts will be reviewed by the Industry Track Program Committee and the selected authors will have a chance to present a talk (20 to 30 minutes) at the ISSRE 2014 conference. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] 4th International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI 2014): Last Mile
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 4th International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI 2014): Last Mile Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:31:22 +0300 Von: Announce Announcements <announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: telespazio.com, <WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> HTML Message **** LAST MILE *** (extended deadlines) * *4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODEL & DATA ENGINEERING (MEDI 2014) * *Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus * *24-26 September, 2014 * *http://medi2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ * The main objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration of research communities issued from modelling and system modelling on the one hand and data and data modelling on the other hand. MEDI 2014 provides an international infrastructure for the presentation of research results and experimentations on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications and case studies. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, aims also at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges and of other parts of the world as well. _Keynote Speakers _Mukesh Mohania, IBM India: Talk on the data side Dominique Mery, Loria, Nancy, France: Talk on the model side _Aim and Scope _ Specific areas of interest to MEDI'2014 include but are not limited to: Modelling and Models Engineering: - Design of General-purpose Modelling Languages and Related Standards - Model Driven Engineering, Modelling Languages, Meta-modelling, Model Transformation, Model Evolution: - Formal Modelling, Verification and Validation, Analysis, Testing - Ontology Based Modelling, Role of Ontologies in Modelling Activities - Model Manipulation and models as first objects - Heterogeneous modelling, model integration and interoperability - Applications and case studies Data Engineering: - Heterogeneous data, data Integration and Interoperability - Distributed, Parallel, Grid, Peer to Peer, Cloud Databases - Data Warehouses and OLAP, Data Mining - Database System Internals, Performance, Self-tuning Benchmarking and Testing - Database Security, Personalization, Recommendation - Web Databases, Ontology Based Databases, PDMS - Applications and case studies Modeling for Data Management: - New Models and Architectures for Databases and Data Warehouses - Modeling and Quality of Data - Modeling for Enhancing Sharing Data - Models for Explicit and Implicit Semantics based Data Optimization - Model Reification, Model Repositories - Modeling Non Functional Properties of Systems - Data as models and Models as Data - Service based data management and service oriented applications - Models for data Monitoring - Urbanization of Database Applications Applications and tooling: - Industry transfer, experiences - Data and Model manipulation and tooling - Modelling tools and experimentation _Conference Location _ Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca https://www.lordosbeach.com.cy/en/ _Submission Guidelines and Instructions _ Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF or Word format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 12 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 15 pages with the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages if the paper is accepted. Submissions which do not conform to the LNCS format and/or which do exceed 12 pages (or up to 15 pages with the extra page purchase commitment) will be rejected without reviews. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. Submissions require explicit consent from all listed authors. _Important Dates_ Abstract submission: April 28, 2014 (extended deadline) Full-paper submission: May 9, 2014 (extended deadline) Acceptance notification: June 16, 2014 Camera Ready: July 7, 2014 _Paper Publication _ All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Best papers will be invited for submission in a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (World Scientific) and Fundamenta Informaticae (IOS Press). _Keynotes Speakers_ Mukesh MOHANIA, IBM, INDIA : Data and Data models Dominique MERY, Loria, Nancy, France: Models and system modelling _Conference Organization _ *General Chairs * Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, Poitiers University, France George A. Papadopoulos, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus *Programme Committee Chair *Yamine Aït Ameur, ENSEEIHT/IRIT, Toulouse, France *Local Organizing Chair* Mr. Petros Stratis (EasyConferences, LTD), Finance Chair *Program Committee * http://medi2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/committes.html For further inquiries, contact the MEDI 2014 PC Chair: Yamine Aït Ameur (yamine(a)n7.fr) -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] IOV 2014 Final Call For Papers (One week to submission deadline)
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] IOV 2014 Final Call For Papers (One week to submission deadline) Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:46:18 +0800 Von: Robert Hsu <robertchh(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ================================================================== IOV 2014: The 2014 International Conference on Internet of Vehicles Call For Papers / Special Sessions / Workshops -- SCI / EI indexed proceedings -- http://www.bjiov.org/ September 1-3, 2014, Beijing, China ================================================================== IOV 2014 HIGHLIGHTS ******************** PUBLICATION ----------- 30% papers will be published by SCI/SCIE journals 70% papers will be published by Springer LNCS proceedings (EI, Scopus) CONFERENCE CITY ---------------- Beijing, capital of China, the best city to explore the real China - Culture, Traditions and Attractions IOV 2014 UPDATES ***************** Important dates: April 30, 2014 Full paper submission due June 1, 2014 Paper results notification June 5, 2014 Poster submission due June 20, 2014 Poster notification July 1, 2014 Camera-ready version due July 1, 2014 Author registration deadline IOV 2014 Call for Papers ************************ ================================================================== GOAL Transportation represents one seventh of the world's economy. There are many system and software technologies and hybrid intelligence being used to make transportation more clean, efficient, connected and safe. The next generation connected vehicles is an emerging field, which crosses multiple disciplines including automotive, intelligent transportation, information technology, communications, energy, etc. The goal of the 2014 International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV 2014) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Internet of Vehicles. IOV 2014 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Internet of Vehicles. ================================================================== TOPICS IOV 2014 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Vehicle Behavior Model and Environment Awareness. * Cooperative Driving, Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles. * Telematics, Wireless Communication Networks for IOV. • Services and applications of IoV • Complex systems and systems-of-systems for IoV • Theory, technology, methodology, tools and applications for IoV • Wireless Communications and Vehicular Networking • Mobile Internet, Mobility Internet and Internet of Things • Transportation and Connected Vehicles • Geographic, Spatial and Social Information Systems • Practices, Recommendations and Standards in Connected Vehicles • Policy, Economics and Social Implications • Cooperative Driving, Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles • Automotive Electronics and Automatic Control • Computational modeling and methodology for Intelligent Mobility • Cases/Studies * Network Architecture for IOV. * Automotive Electronics and Automatic Control for IOV. * Swarm Intelligent Computing in IOV. * Network and Information Services in IOV. * Social Economics for Vehicle Platforms. * IOV for Intelligent Transportation and Wisdom City. * Social Network for IOV. * Modeling and Simulation for IOV. * Cloud computing for IOV. * BigData for IOV. * Applications and Standards of IOV. ================================================================== SUBMISSION & PUBLICATIONS: Manuscript should be prepared in LNCS format. Page limit for camera ready will be 10 pages. Authors can find the LNCS formatting information at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Online Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iov2014 The IoV'14 organizing committees have arranged four special issues at SCI(E) indexed journals to publish top 30% papers of IoV, including * IEEE Systems Journal http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org * EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com * Journal of Computational Science http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computational-science/ * International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/ ================================================================== SPECIAL SESSIONS: Prospective proposals for organizing special session at IoV'14 are welcome. At least 3 papers should be arranged in a special session. Accepted papers of special session will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS). ================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES -- IOV 2014 April 30, 2014 Full paper submission due June 1, 2014 Paper results notification June 5, 2014 Poster submission due June 20, 2014 Poster notification July 1, 2014 Camera-ready version due July 1, 2014 Author registration deadline ================================================================== ORGANIZERS Honorary Chair --------------------- Fangchun Yang, BUPT, China General Co-Chairs ------------------------- Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Victor C.M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Program Committee Chairs ------------------------------------- Shangguang Wang, BUPT, China Zibin Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Program Vice-Chairs ------------------------------------- Akihiko Tozawa, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Benoît Parrein, Université de Nantes, France Chau Yuen, Singapore Univeresity of Technology and Design, Singapore Chu-Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan Cong WANG，City University of Hong Kong，Hong Kong Daqiang Zhang, Tongji University, China Feng Wang，University of Mississippi，USA Jiong Jin，Swinburne University of Technology，Australia Publicity Co-Chairs -------------------------- Shoji KASAHARA, NAIST, Japan Vicente Milanes, INRIA, France Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA Jun Li, University of Sydney, Australia Registration Chair ------------------------ Jinglin Li, BUPT, China VISA Chair ---------------- Qibo Sun, BUPT, China Publication Chair ----------------------- Zhihan liu, BUPT, China _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014 Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:08:29 +1000 Von: Chang Liu <changliu.aus(a)gmail.com> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ 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). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). 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. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium 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 Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · 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 · 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, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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Fwd: [computational.science] STM 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] STM 2014 Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:15:24 +0000 Von: Rolando TRUJILLO RASUA <rolando.trujillo(a)uni.lu> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> [Apologies for multiple copies] ======================================================================= 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management - STM 2014 Wroclaw, Poland - September 10-11, 2014 http://stm14.uni.lu/ in conjunction with ESORICS 2014 ======================================================================= STM (Security and Trust Management) is a working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2014 is the tenth workshop in this series and will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, in conjunction with the 19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2014). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and trust in ICTs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Access control - Anonymity - Applied cryptography - Authentication - Complex systems security - Data and application security - Data protection - Data/system integrity - Digital right management - Economics of security and privacy - E-services - Formal methods for security and trust - Identity management - Legal and ethical issues - Networked systems security - Operating systems security - Privacy - Security and trust metrics - Security and trust policies - Security and trust management architectures - Security and trust in cloud environments - Security and trust in grid computing - Security and trust in pervasive computing - Security and trust in social networks - Social implications of security and trust - Trust assessment and negotiation - Trust in mobile code - Trust models - Trust management policies - Trust and reputation systems - Trusted platforms - Trustworthy systems and user devices - Web services security ======================================================================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================================================================== Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the LNCS style. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stm2014. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of June 13, 2014 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Pre-proceedings will be made available at the workshop. As for previous STM events, it is planned to have post-proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ======================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ======================================================================== Paper submission due: June 13, 2014 Notification to authors: July 21, 2014 Camera ready due: August 5, 2014 ======================================================================== PROGRAM CHAIRS ======================================================================== Christian Damsgaard Jensen - Technical University of Denmark Sjouke Mauw - University of Luxembourg ======================================================================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ======================================================================== Gildas Avoine - IRISA Rennes and Université Catholique de Louvain Rafael Accorsi - University of Freiburg Cas Cremers - University of Oxford Jorge Cuéllar - Siemens AG, Corporate Technology Christian Damsgaard Jensen - Technical University of Denmark Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati - Università degli Studi di Milano Roberto Di Pietro - Roma Tre University of Rome Josep Domingo-Ferrer - Universitat Rovira i Virgili M. Carmen Fernández Gago - University of Malaga Simone Fischer-Hübner - Karlstad University Sara Foresti - Università degli Studi di Milano Sascha Hauke - Technische Universität Darmstadt Michael Huth - Imperial College London Bart Jacobs - Radboud University Nijmegen Martin Johns - SAP Research Günter Karjoth - IBM Research, Zurich Dogan Kesdogan - Universität Regensburg Marek Klonowski - Wroclaw University of Technology Giovanni Livraga - Università degli Studi di Milano Javier Lopez - University of Malaga Yang Liu - Nanyang Technological University Fabio Martinelli - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica Sjouke Mauw - University of Luxembourg Catherine Meadows - Naval Research Laboratory Pierangela Samarati - Università degli Studi di Milano Silvio Ranise - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Jan-Philipp Steghöfer - Augsburg University Rolando Trujillo-Rasua - University of Luxembourg Michaël Rusinowitch - INRIA Nancy-Grand Est Jie Zhang - Nanyang Technological University ======================================================================== CONFERENCE WEB PAGE ======================================================================== http://stm14.uni.lu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org Computational Science Mailing List hosting provided by: Sardina Systems -- The OpenStack Data Center Automation Company http://www.sardinasystems.com

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Final CFP - eLEOT 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Final CFP - eLEOT 2014 Datum: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:15:45 +0000 Von: Giovanni Vincenti <gvincenti(a)ubalt.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR PAPERS - eLEOT 2014 - 1st International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training 18-20 September, 2014 - Bethesda, MD, United States http://eleot.org/ Conference topics The works that will be presented at eLEOT 2014 will focus on the following topics: - Accessibility and usability of web-based instruction in the classroom - Assessment - Best Practices - Collaborative learning and social networks - e-Learning workflow - Educational/learning repositories - Mobile learning - Security and privacy in education and e-learning systems - Serious games and game-based learning - Social and organizational perspectives - Standards and infrastructures - Student engagement - Teaching/Educational Models, Frameworks and Platforms - Virtual Learning Environments We are particularly receptive to case studies, experimental results and progress reports. Highlights - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library. - Keynote Speaker: John "Pathfinder" Lester, Chief Learning Officer, ReactionGrid - Plenary TechTalk: Stefano Santo Sabato, Chief Technology Officer, MediaSoft, Italy - Online track - Student Track with Best Paper Award (1000 Euro prize), sponsored by MediaSoft S.r.l. Important dates 28 April: Submission of papers, workshop proposals and panels 31 May: Acceptance Notification 16 June: Camera-ready deadline Accepted papers will be published in the eLEOT Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work through one of the following EAI endorsed publications: - Transactions on e-Learning - Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments - Transactions on Serious Games

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Sixth SoEA4EE Workshop (@ EDOC) : Service oriented EA for Enterprise Engineering (April 28th)
by Gustaf Neumann 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Sixth SoEA4EE Workshop (@ EDOC) : Service oriented EA for Enterprise Engineering (April 28th) Datum: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:11:25 +0200 Von: Selmin Nurcan <nurcan(a)univ-paris1.fr> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleagues, I will be grateful to you for advertising the Sixth Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE'2014), for submitting your work and inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. SoEA4EE'2014 is organised in conjunction with the 18th International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) on September 1st or 2d, 2014, Ulm, Germany. The goal of the SoEA4EE'2014 workshop is to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and the management of service-oriented enterprise architectures (SoEA) and the software systems supporting them. Especially four themes of research shall be pursued: 1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategies with the SoEA 2. Design of the SoEA 3. Mapping of SoEA to cloud-based enterprise resources 4. Management of SoEA 5. SoEA and influence of social and big data in Enterprise Engineering Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be made accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The Call for Papers (PDF format) can be downloaded soon from the SoEA4EE'2014 Web sites : http://www.soea4ee.org/ or http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/SoEA4EE_2014/ Best regards, Selmin Nurcan & Rainer Schmidt SoEA4EE'2014 organisers *********************************************************************************************** Call for Papers Sixth International Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE) in conjunction with EDOC 2014 September 1 or 2, 2014, Ulm, Germany http://www.soea4ee.org/ Organisers: Selmin Nurcan -- University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt -- Aalen University, Germany Papers submission deadline: *April 28th, 2014 * Detailed Call for Papers is below. *********************************************************************************************** -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- SoEA4EE 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS *http://www.soea4ee.org/* Sixth International Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE'14) in conjunction with EDOC 2014 September 1 or 2, 2014, Ulm, Germany http://www.edoc.org/ Papers submission deadline: April 28, 2014 Organisers: Selmin Nurcan -- University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt -- Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany ------ SCOPE ------ Several developments, such as the success of cloud-computing show that not the ownership of IT resources but their management is the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage . According to Ross et al. , smart companies define how they (will) do business (using an operating model) and design the processes and infrastructure critical to their current and future operations (using an enterprise architecture). Enterprise Engineering (EE) is the application of engineering principles to the design of Enterprise Architectures (EA). It allows deriving the EA from the enterprise goals and strategy and aligning it with the enterprise resources as shown in Figure 1, EA aims (i) to understand the interactions and all kind of articulations between business and information technology, (ii) to define how to align business components and IT components, as well as business strategy and IT strategy, and more particularly (iii) to develop and support a common understanding and sharing of those purposes of interest. Enterprise architecture is used to map the enterprise goal and strategy to the enterprise's resources (actors, assets, IT supports) and to take into account the evolution of this mapping. It also provides documentation on the assignment of enterprise resources to the enterprise goals and strategy. There are different paradigms for creating enterprise architecture. The most important is to encapsulate the functionalities of IT resources as services. By this means, it is possible to clearly describe the contributions of IT both in terms of functionality and quality and to define a service-oriented enterprise architecture (SoEA). SoEA easily integrates wide-spread technological approaches such as SOA or emerging ones as cloud computing because they also use service as structuring and governing paradigm. The enterprise goals and strategies are mapped to a SoEA. SoEA differentiates four layers of services. Thus, its scope is much broader than the scope of SOA and also includes services not accessible through software such as business and infrastructure services. Services of different layers may be interconnected in service (value) nets to provide higher level services. 1. Business services are services, which directly support business processes. Business processes can also be developed dynamically (on-the-fly) using business services which are available in a repository for a given business domain. An example is call-centre services provided by an external service provider. 2. Software services exist as two types: (i) human-oriented applications, which are provided as Software as a Service, (ii) application services which are part of so-called SOA that are a popular paradigm for creating enterprise software. 3. Platform Services provide support of the development of applications. They provide services for the execution of applications, middleware stacks, web servers etc. 4. Infrastructure services are more hardware-flavoured services, which are provided using computers. They may have a human addressee but contain many infrastructure services such as providing computing power, storage etc. They are an important topic in management and practice collections such as ITILV3 or standards such as ISO/IEC 20000 have gained a high popularity. ------ GOALS ------ The goal of the workshop is to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and the management of service-oriented enterprise architectures and the software systems supporting them. Especially five themes of research shall be pursued: 1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategies with the SoEA 2. Design of the SoEA 3. Mapping of SoEA to cloud-based enterprise resources 4. Management of SoEA 5. SoEA and influence of social and big data in Enterprise Engineering --------------------- TOPICS OF DISCUSSION --------------------- During the workshop we will discuss the following topics: 1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the SoEA - Which interdependencies exist between services and business strategy? - Which concepts and methods are necessary to align services with the business strategy? - Which new potentials to reengineer business processes are created by services? - How are non-functional requirements derived from enterprise goals and strategy? - How are services aligned with non-functional requirements? - How are services aligned with compliance requirements? 2. Design of SoEA - How are business, software, platform and infrastructure services defined? - How are business services assigned to business processes? - Which phases do the lifecycle of business, software, platform and infrastructure services contain? - How can the fulfilment of non-functional requirements be monitored? - Which benchmarks and key performance indicators should be applied to services? - Which approaches exist for the continual improvement of services? 3. Mapping of SoEA to cloud-based enterprise resources - Which resources are relevant for SoEA? - How are services mapped to cloud-based enterprise resources? - Which approaches exist to map services to resources? - Which information system architectures are adequate for services? - How can non-functional requirements be mapped to capacity planning of cloud-based resources? 4. Management of SoEA - Are the compliance and governance requirements enforced using SoEA? - How do meta-services differentiate for business, software, platform and infrastructure services? - How are appropriate meta-services designed? - How are service (value) nets -consisting of business, software, platform and infrastructure services- created? - Which meta-services are necessary for cloud-environments? 5. SoEA and influence of social and big data in Enterprise Engineering - How does SoEA have to change in order to comply with the new possibilities of Big Data (volume, variety, velocity, veracity)? - What are the information flows of Big Data integrated into Enterprise Architecture? - How does social production influence SoEA? - How can the creation of weak ties be supported in SoEA? - How to support collective decision processes in SoEA? - How does SoEA interrelate with cloud computing? - How are Enterprise Architectures designed using cloud-services? - How differ cloud-services from other kinds of services? - How are Enterprise Architectures designed using cloud-environments? ----------- SUBMISSION ----------- Full papers (8-10 pages in the IEEE-CS format) describing mature results are sought. In addition, short papers (4 pages in the IEEE-CS format) may be submitted to facilitate discussion of recent research results and ongoing projects. Industry experience reports provide new insights gained in case studies or when applying service-oriented EA for enterprise engineering are also welcome. The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All contributions will be peer reviewed based on the complete version, being full or short. All papers published in the EDOC 2014 workshop proceedings must be in the IEEE Computer Society format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). It is strongly recommended that all papers are already in this format when they are first submitted to workshops. This gives precise picture of the paper length and avoids rework if the paper is accepted. *Please submit your paper to Easychair *at *https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soea4ee2014* At least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole EDOC 2014 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. Analogously to previous years, there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2014. If a paper is not presented in the workshop, it will be removed from the workshop proceedings published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The SoEA4EE workshop has been a full day workshop in conjunction with EDOC'09 in New Zealand, with EDOC'10 in Brasil, EDOC'11 in Finland, EDOC 2012 in China, and EDOC'2013 in Canada. The programs of the previous editions can be found from the portal www.soea4ee.org The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2009 workshops is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5308790 The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2010 workshops is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5626915 The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2011 workshops is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6036125 The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2012 workshops is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6403619 The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2013 workshops is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6689801 ----------------- EXPECTED RESULTS ----------------- All papers will be published in the workshop wiki (www.soea4ee.org) before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. A workshop report will be created collaboratively using the workshop wiki. ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Submission due: April 28, 2014 Notification: May 27, 2014 Camera-ready paper due: June 14, 2014 ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------ João Paulo A. Almeida - Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Judith Barrios - Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela Khalid Benali - LORIA, Nancy, France Ilia Bider - Stockholm University and IbisSoft, Sweden Corine Cauvet - Université Aix-Marseille Paul Cézanne, France Ayon Chakraborty - Queensland University of Technology, Australia Anis Charfi - SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany Eric Dubois - Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Joao Falcao e Cunha, University of Porto, Portugal Sung-Kook Han - Won Kwang University, South Korea Ron Kenett - KPA Ltd., Israel Joseph Kramer - IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA Peter Kueng - Crédit Suisse, Switzerland Hui Ma - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Florian Matthes - Technical University Munich, Germany Selmin Nurcan - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Erik Proper - Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, The Netherlands Jolita Ralyté - University of Geneva, Switzerland Dominique Rieu -- LIG, Université de Grenoble, France Colette Rolland - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt - Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Selmin NURCAN Maître de Conférences HDR / Associate Professor ---------------------------------------------------------------- The University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne has been running for the last 16 years, a highly successful Masters programme (SIC - apprenticeship) that is open for the 5th year to Foreign students http://www.iksem.org http://mastersic.univ-paris1.fr/ http://www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-management-des-systemes-dinformatio… ---------------------------------------------------------------- The 15th edition on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS'2014) in conjunction with CAISE'2014 *BPMDS is a WORKING CONFERENCE in conjunction with CAISE*. June 16-20, 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece http://bpmds.org/ Previous Springer LNBIP proceedings: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-38483-7/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-31071-3/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-21758-6/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-13050-2/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-01861-9/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Surface mail* Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne Ecole de Management de la Sorbonne Centre Broca 21, rue Broca 75240 Paris cedex 05 FRANCE Tel : 33 - 1 53 55 27 13 (répondeur) Fax : 33 - 1 53 55 27 01 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne Centre de Recherche en Informatique 90, rue de Tolbiac 75634 Paris cedex 13 FRANCE http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/ Tel : 33 - 1 44 07 86 34 Fax : 33 - 1 44 07 89 54 mailto:nurcan@univ-paris1.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------- To handle yourself, use your head. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: WISM 2014@ER 2014 - Paper Submission Deadline 02 May 2014
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: WISM 2014@ER 2014 - Paper Submission Deadline 02 May 2014 Datum: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:01:04 +0200 Von: Flavius Frasincar <frasincar(a)ese.eur.nl> An: <siksleden(a)cs.uu.nl>, <um(a)di.unito.it>, <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, <ah(a)listserver.tue.nl>, <semanticweb(a)yahoogroups.com> ********************************************************************** * * * * * PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 02 May 2014 * * * * PROCEEDINGS: SPRINGER * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * Eleventh International Workshop on * * Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2014) * * * * (Held in conjunction with ER 2014) * * * * 27 October - 30 October 2014 * * Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * URL: http://people.few.eur.nl/frasincar/workshops/wism2014 * * * ********************************************************************** Important Dates --------------- Paper submission 02 May 2014 Author notification 02 June 2014 Camera-ready paper submission 02 July 2014 Workshop dates 27 October - 30 October 2014 Theme of the Workshop --------------------- Web Information Systems (WIS) use the Web paradigm (and technologies) to retrieve information from data sources and deliver it to the users. Due to their complex requirements the design of WIS is not a trivial task. Design methodologies provide guidelines for the creation of WIS so that the complexity of this process becomes manageable. Based on the separation-of-concerns principle some of these methodologies propose models to specify different aspects of WIS design like data integration, navigation structure, user interface, user interaction, presentation personalization, etc. Recent advances in networking technologies enabled WIS access via different devices (e.g., PDA, Smart phone, PC, BlackBerry, etc.). In addition to this device heterogeneity there is also a heterogeneous audience (e.g., different backgrounds, different goals, etc.) that wants to access the same system. In order to improve the user experience, these systems often need to personalize the content and its presentation based on the current user needs (e.g., user’s browsing platform or user preferences). Another aspect that can influence the behaviour of a WIS is the context of use (e.g., the geographical position, the temporal information, the weather conditions, etc.). Systems that are able to exploit this kind of information will further improve the application usefulness for their users. Integrating such information is possibly made available by specialized services and the need to seamlessly integrate these services into a WIS is therefore an important part of WIS development research. As the Web data is very diverse, WIS are seeking efficient and flexible approaches to provide integrated views over heterogeneous data sources. These data sources are usually autonomous (maintained by different organizations), overlapping, frequently changing, and distributed. All these characteristics make the data integration on the Web a very challenging research topic. The increased use of rich-clients applications (e.g., AJAX, OpenLaszlo, etc.) poses new demands to WIS design. The design of these applications needs to go beyond the server roundtrip paradigm by considering the new functionality added to clients, an intelligent data-push communication with the server, interactive-rich graphical interfaces, etc. Also, with the current emergence of social Web applications (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.) there is a need to properly model the highly dynamic aspects of these systems. In addition, WIS can tap into the data made available by these systems to provide for previously unforeseen functionalities. Making use of rich clients and allowing users to establish social networks are some of the features that need to be considered when developing Web 2.0 applications. Semantic Web (also known as Web 3.0) technologies (e.g., RDF(S), OWL, etc.) can help in the representation and processing of the different WIS design models aiming for an improved interoperability. One example of such a model is the user profile which is often described using a CC/PP vocabulary. Due to their focus on distribution over the Web, Semantic Web representation languages prove to be useful also for specifying the semantics of data and the semantics of interfaces in order to facilitate the integration of heterogeneous databases and Web services, respectively. The best practice recommendation of Linked Data allows Web applications to seamlessly publish, interconnect, and access information on the Semantic Web. The inference mechanisms of the Semantic Web (captured in the semantics of the representation language or in rule-based languages like RuleML and SWRL) can be used for deriving new information or building intelligent services on the Web. Over the last few years, Web services have offered new opportunities to deploy WIS. Web services are independent from specific platforms and computing paradigms, and have the capacity to form composed processes, referred to as composite Web services. Web services composition fulfils user requests that require the participation of several component Web services. Several composition languages are now available (e.g., BPEL, WSFL, etc.). Semantic descriptions of Web services are also proposed for automating composition (e.g., OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S, etc.). A research topic that is worth pursuing is the modeling of these composite Web services. Goal of the Workshop -------------------- The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS and discuss how specific issues of Web Information Systems (WIS) design can be addressed by means of modeling. Specifically, we will discuss how the influence of Semantic Web technology can help in a model-driven WIS development. Thus, the workshop should enable a fruitful exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of WIS modeling. Topics of Interest ------------------ The workshop topics include but are not limited to: * Methodologies for WIS Design * WIS Mining * WIS Evolution * WIS Adaptability * WIS Personalization * WIS Ubiquity * WIS Architectures * WIS Economics * Web Services-Oriented System Architecture * DSL for WIS Design * Integration of WIS * Temporal/Spatial Representations in WIS * Rich Client WIS * Social WIS * Semantic WIS * Ontologies in WIS * Linked Data in WIS * Web Services * Semantic Web Services * Business Rules in WIS * Data Models in WIS * Semistructured Data in WIS * Web Metadata in WIS * Query Languages in WIS * Big Data in WIS * Optimization Techniques for WIS * Human Computation Models for WIS * Information Retrieval Models for WIS * Security in WIS * Crowd Phenomena in WIS * Sentiment Analysis in WIS * Modeling E-commerce Applications Paper Submission ---------------- Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related to one (or more) of the workshop topics. The page limit for workshop papers is 10 pages. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Papers should be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wism2014 in PDF format. Publication ----------- Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series as the official ER workshop proceedings. Organizing Committee & Workshop Co-chairs ----------------------------------------- Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Philippe Thiran (University of Namur, Belgium) Program Committee ----------------- Syed Sibte Raza Abidi (Dalhousie University, Canada) Djamal Benslimane (University of Lyon 1, France) Maria Bielikova (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia) Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sven Casteleyn (Jaume I University, Spain) Richard Chbeir (Pau University, France) Jose Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil) Olga De Troyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Roberto De Virgilio (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Oscar Diaz (University of Basque Country, Spain) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark) Flavio Ferrarotti (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria) Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Martin Gaedke (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany) Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil) Hyoil Han (Marshall College, USA) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE) Viorel Milea (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain) Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Hajo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) Davide Rossi (University of Bologna, Italy) Philippe Thiran (Namur University, Belgium) Riccardo Torlone (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK) Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley, USA) Guandong Xu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Local Organizer --------------- Peter Barna (TOPIC, the Netherlands) Contact Address --------------- wism2014(a)ese.eur.nl Disclaimer ________________________________ De informatie verzonden in dit e-mail bericht is vertrouwelijk en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde van dit bericht. 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