From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Mon Apr 4 12:23:27 2016 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 18:23:27 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Experienced ASIS&T AM contributors sought to mentor first-timers Message-ID: <00ac01d18e8e$535d78f0$fa186ad0$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Dear members of the European Chapter, as you know, the deadlines for the submission of papers, posters and panels for the AM are approaching fast: Submission of papers due: 17 April 2016 Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 Submission of posters due: 24 June 2016 In order to increase the number of submissions from Europe we call for chapter members who are experienced ASIS&T Conference contributors and would like to act as mentors for colleagues. Mentors give advice and discuss in advance the contributions with the colleagues who plan to submit ***posters*** and ***panels***. We hope that by assigning mentors to colleagues we can lower the entry barriers and help adding the ?ASIS&T flavor? to submissions. Everybody who is interested in becoming or getting a mentor is welcomed to contact the Chapter?s next chair Virginia Ortiz-Repiso Jimenez (virginia at bib.uc3m.es) by April 15. Best Isabella & Virginia *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 1105) Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Wed Apr 13 07:20:38 2016 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:20:38 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] EUChap: Nominations for Chapter Awards? Message-ID: <003e01d19576$8337b240$89a716c0$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Dear members and officers of EUChap, although there is still quite a bit of time left for submitting the nominations for the various ASIST Chapter Awards I would like to invite you now to think about which activity/event/person might be ?worth? a submission. J Please let me know if you like to nominate someone or something. See the details below or follow the links. Chapter Award Nominations * Student Chapter of the Year - due July 1 * The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding student chapters for the participation in, and contributions to, the Association for Information Science and Technology and the advancement of information science. * Regional Chapter of the Year - due August 15 * The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding chapters for their contributions to ASIS&T and the advancement of information science. Other regional chapter awards (separate nominations required) - due August 15 * Chapter Member of the Year * The purpose of this award is to recognize the service of an individual to a particular Chapter. It is given for significant contributions to the membership of the Chapter through participation in and support of its meetings and publications; fund-raising; recruitment; or other significant activities. It is intended that this award recognize contributions at the local level. * Chapter Event of the Year * The purpose of the award is to recognize the best event held by a Chapter (or jointly by two or more Chapters) during the previous year (July-June). * Chapter Publication of the Year * The purpose of this award is to recognize the best publication produced by a Chapter (or jointly by two or more chapters) during the previous year (July-June). Any type of Chapter publication is eligible, including newsletters, meeting proceedings, websites, wikis or other publications. To be considered, a publication must be accessible to the jury members. Any electronic and/or self-published material should be sent to HQ in order to be considered. * Chapter Innovation * The purpose of the award is to recognize innovation by a Chapter during the previous year (July-June) that will have a positive impact on future operations, collaborations, or communications within the chapter, of other chapters, or of other units within ASIS&T. Best Isabella *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 1105) Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Apr 13 11:09:01 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:09:01 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [icie] Corrected: CFP: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <570E610D.5010601@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icie] Corrected: CFP: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:37:48 -0700 From: Rory Litwin To: SustainRT (sustainrt-l at lists.ala.org) , ProjectARCC , Library and Information Science Information and Discussion List , StanleyK at yahoogroups.com, icie at zkm.de, announce-iacap.org at iacap.org, SRRTAC-L , plg Greetings, In my earlier message I neglected to include the link to the website for this colloquium. It contains additional information, including a profile of our keynote speaker. http://litwinbooks.com/laac2017colloq.php *Call for Proposals* Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium May 13-14, 2017 New York University As stewards of a culture?s collective knowledge, libraries and archives are facing the realities of cataclysmic environmental change with a dawning awareness of its unique implications for their missions and activities. Some professionals in these fields are focusing new energies on the need for environmentally sustainable practices in their institutions. Some are prioritizing the role of libraries and archives in supporting climate change communication and influencing government policy and public awareness. Others foresee an inevitable unraveling of systems and ponder the role of libraries and archives in a world much different from the one we take for granted. Climate disruption, peak oil, toxic waste, deforestation, soil salinity and agricultural crisis, depletion of groundwater and other natural resources, loss of biodiversity, mass migration, sea level rise, and extreme weather events are all problems that indirectly threaten to overwhelm civilization?s knowledge infrastructures, and present information institutions with unprecedented challenges. This colloquium will serve as a space to explore these challenges and establish directions for future efforts and investigations. We invite proposals from academics, librarians, archivists, activists, and others. * Some suggested topics and questions: * How can information institutions operate more sustainably? * How can information institutions better serve the needs of policy discussions and public awareness in the area of climate change and other threats to the environment? * How can information institutions support skillsets and technologies that are relevant following systemic unraveling? * What will information work look like without the infrastructures we take for granted? * How does information literacy instruction intersect with ecoliteracy? * How can information professionals support radical environmental activism? * What are the implications of climate change for disaster preparedness? * What role do information workers have in addressing issues of environmental justice? * What are the implications of climate change for preservation practices? * Should we question the wisdom of preserving access to the technological cultural legacy that has led to the crisis? * Is there a new responsibility to document, as a mode of bearing witness, the historical event of society's confrontation with the systemic threat of climate change, peak oil, and other environmental problems? * Given the ideological foundations of libraries and archives in Enlightenment thought, and given that Enlightenment civilization may be leading to its own environmental endpoint, are these ideological foundations called into question? And with what consequences? Formats: Lightning talk (5 minutes) Paper (20 minutes) Proposals are due August 1, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 16, 2016. Submit your proposal here: http://goo.gl/forms/rz7uN1mBNM * Planning committee: * Casey Davis is Project Manager at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH and co-founder of ProjectARCC: Archivists Responding to Climate Change . * Madeleine Charney is Sustainability Studies Librarian at UMass Amherst and co-founder of theSustainability Round Table of the American Library Association . * Rory Litwin is a former librarian and the founder of Litwin Books, LLC (Colloquium sponsor) -- Rory Litwin Library Juice Academy Library Juice Press Litwin Books, LLC PO Box 188784, Sacramento CA 95818 Tel. 218-260-6115 http://libraryjuice.com/ http://rorylitwin.info/ Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. 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URL: From isto.huvila at abo.fi Tue Apr 19 05:55:22 2016 From: isto.huvila at abo.fi (Isto Huvila) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:55:22 +0300 Subject: [Eurchap] 1-2 PhD positions in library & information science @ Uppsala University Message-ID: Uppsala University hereby declares the following positions to be open for application One or two PhD student positions in Library and Information Science at the Department of Archival Science, Library and Information Science, Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies (ALM) with starting date September 1, 2016 at the earliest. Education at the doctoral level consists of 4 years doctoral studentship (doktorandanst?llning). Doctoral students are expected to pursue their studies full-time and actively take part in the department?s activities. Departmental duties (typically teaching and administration) at a level of at most 20% can be included in the positions. Doctoral education in Library and Information Science is regulated by the general study plan: abm.uu.se > Forskning > Utbildning p? forskarniv?. Qualifications required: Applicants must have a Master?s degree in Library and Information Science, Archival Science, Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies or a corresponding degree in a nearby field. For regulations, see Uppsala University?s guidelines for doctoral studies http://regler.uu.se/Rules_and_regulations_in_English/ . Application: Applications should include short CV, verified copy of the degree certificate for a relevant master?s degree (or equivalent) and a diploma supplement, research plan (see below), copies of written material (e.g. Master?s thesis) and other relevant documentation the applicant chooses to present as a support for his/her application. Research plan: The research plan shall not exceed six pages and is expected to contain a tentative heading, aim and problem statement, present the subject area and focus of the research, presentation of material, theoretical frameworks and methods to be applied, overview of earlier research (including possible on-going studies), and a preliminary timetable for the 4 years period. Selection: The selection will be based on candidate?s ability to profit by the education. A considerable emphasis will be placed on the submitted research plans. For further information please contact Head of the Department Ulrika Kjellman ulrika.kjellman at abm.uu.se , +46 18 471 3386; Director of Postgraduate studies Isto Huvila, isto.huvila at abm.uu.se , +46 18 471 34 20; or Faculty Director of Studies Anna Sofia Hedberg, anna_sofia.hedberg at uadm.uu.se +46 18 471 6982. Trade union representatives are Anders Grundstr?m, Saco-r?det, +46 18 471 5380, Carin S?derh?ll, TCO/ST, + 46 18 471 1997 och Stefan Djurstr?m, Seko, +46 18 471 3315. You are welcome to submit your application no later than May 20, 2016, UFV-PA 2016/1074. NOTE! There is a possibility to provide supplementary material to the applications until June 10, 2016 for the students who complete their undergraduate studies in the spring semester 2016 and need to complement their applications with their master?s thesis. Check the official version of the announcement http://uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=99705 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Wed Apr 20 04:27:13 2016 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:27:13 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIS&T New Leader Applications Message-ID: <000801d19ade$725a1ae0$570e50a0$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Are there new ASIS&T members, in their first 3 years, participating in your SIGs and Chapters and ready to take on more leadership responsibility within ASIS&T? ASIS&T is accepting applications for the 2016-2017 New Leaders Program! Please encourage them to apply. The New Leaders Award endeavors to recruit, engage and retain members and to identify members that have leadership potential and are interested in increasing their involvement in ASIS&T. Recipients will receive up to $1000 in travel expense reimbursement and free conference registration over two years. The last day to submit an application is May 15, 2016. Please note that only members in their first 3 years of membership are eligible to apply. More details about the application process and requirements can be found at the New Leaders Award webpage. If you have any questions, please contact Ixchel Faniel (co-Chair, ASIS&T Leadership Committee), fanieli at oclc.org or Emily Agunod (member, ASIS&T Leadership Committee and New Leader 2015-2016), e.agunod at gmail.com. Best Isabella -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Apr 22 09:27:34 2016 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:27:34 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] SEMANTiCS 2016, Leipzig, Sep 12-15, Extended Submission Deadline May 10, 2016 Message-ID: <571A26C6.1080809@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> **** DEADLINE EXTENSION**** 3rd ?Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference Transfer // Engineering // Community 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 12 -15, 2016 http://2016.semantics.cc Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: extended: May 3, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: extended: May 10, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: extended: June 7, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: extended: July 1, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submissions via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?16 proceedings are expected to be published by ACM ICP. The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. The success of last year?s conference in Vienna with more than 280 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe. SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: * Data Quality Management * Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics) * Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org * Corporate Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals * Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking * Smart Data & Semantics in IoT * Semantics for IT Safety & Security * Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing * Community, Social & Societal Aspects Verticals * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Education & eLearning * Media & Data Journalism * Publishing, Marketing & Advertising * Tourism & Recreation * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunication & Mobile Services * Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology * Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids * Food, Agriculture & Farming * Safety, Security & Privacy * Transport, Environment & Geospatial Research / Innovation Papers The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS is a single-blind review process (author names are visible to reviewers, reviewers stay anonymous). The submitted abstract and the topics are leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted papers. Please write an email to semantics2016researchtrack at easychair.org, if you have any questions. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. The layout templates can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, WordPerfect, Word) will also be needed. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: extended: May 3, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: extended: May 10, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: extended: June 7, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: extended: July 1, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Research and Innovation Chairs: * Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck * Amrapali Zaveri, Stanford University Contact email address: semantics2016researchtrack at easychair.org Research and Innovation Deputy Chairs: * Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology * Artem Revenko, Semantic Web Company Conference Chairs: * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. P?lten Senior Program Committee: * Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid * Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari * Brian Davis, National University of Ireland, Galway * Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam * Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany * Michel Dumontier, Stanford University * Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics * Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig * Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG ?sterreich * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim * Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. P?lten * Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology * Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam * Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Fujitsu * Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds * Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Sat Apr 23 17:06:35 2016 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:06:35 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIST AM Panel and Poster Mentoring Service for Chapter Members Message-ID: <009d01d19da4$06bf6920$143e3b60$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Dear members of the European Chapter, we are happy to announce that 5 experienced ASIS&T contributors from our chapter are willing to become mentors for submitters of poster and panel proposals. A warm Thank you goes to: - Diane Pennington (University of Strathclyde) - Barry Mahon - Julian Warner (Queen?s University Belfast) - Christine Urquhart (Aberystwyth University) - Michel Menou We especially encourage students and first-time-submitters to use this mentoring service ? although, of course, all other chapter members are also invited to ask for feedback and help adding the ?ASIS&T flavor? to submissions. Given the short time left until the deadline for panel proposals (3 May 2016) panel submitters should send their proposal as soon as possible to Virginia (virginia at bib.uc3m.es) who will do the matching with mentors. Poster proposals should be submitted for mentoring by 1 June 2016 in order to leave room for discussion until the deadline (24 June 2016). Please also send poster proposals to Virginia. Submitters can also request a particular mentor ? please let Virginia know. Best Isabella & Virginia *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 1105) Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Aylin.Ilhan at hhu.de Sun Apr 24 02:47:45 2016 From: Aylin.Ilhan at hhu.de (Aylin Ilhan) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 08:47:45 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] =?utf-8?q?And_the_winners_are=E2=80=A6_=28Movie_meets_S?= =?utf-8?q?cience_contest_2016=29?= Message-ID: Dear Friends, the ESC is happy to congratulate the winners of the Movie Meets Science contest 2016. Two amazing videos have compete in this contest: Tjasha Jug with her video about ?Book Metadata and Readers?. with 2940 views and 542 likes Yosef Solomon with his video about ?Serendipity in Legal Information Seeking Behavior? with 2383 views and 242 likes Also the jury composed of the ESC board judged the videos based on the following criteria: ? Introduction of the topic ? Structure of the video, recurrent theme ? Qualitative content ? Quality of the media used ? Intonation and speech speed If you have missed to watch a video, no worries! All videos are online at our website: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/page_id=956&contest=contest-top10 The ESC Board -- Aylin Ilhan, B.A., B.A. Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Bldg 24.53, Level 01, Room 86 Universit?tsstra?e 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf, Germany aylin.ilhan at hhu.de https://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/mitarbeiter/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter-hilfskraefte/aylin-ilhan/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Nils.Pharo at hioa.no Mon Apr 25 03:18:52 2016 From: Nils.Pharo at hioa.no (Nils Pharo) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:18:52 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] CFP: CHIIR 2017, Oslo March 7-11 Message-ID: The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR) will be held in Oslo, Norway from March 7-11, 2017. CHIIR is the pre-eminent forum for the presentation and discussion of research related to the user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval, including human involvement in search activities, information seeking and use in context, and the design of interactive systems. Many areas of interest for CHIIR have traditionally been covered under "Users and interactive IR" at the SIGIR Conference, and at the HCIR and IIiX conferences, which have merged to form the CHIIR conference. Conference Scope and Topics Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. We invite submissions on user-centered approaches to information retrieval, access, and use, including studies of interactive systems, novel interaction paradigms, new evaluation methods, and a range of related areas. We are particularly interested in papers in the following areas: * Information seeking, search and retrieval, including task-based and exploratory search * Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery * Online information-seeking behavior, including log analysis of search and browsing * Modeling and simulation of information interaction * Search user interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains * Information use, including measures of use and sensemaking * Field and case studies relevant to information retrieval and access * User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability * Context-aware and personalized search, contextual features and analysis for information interaction * Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction * Information visualization and visual analytics, search result presentation * User-centered work in other areas of information retrieval Contribution Types Full papers: We are looking for high quality original research of relevance to CHIIR as full paper submissions (10 pages). We expect submissions to contain a rigorous evaluation of any proposed findings, using techniques such as laboratory studies, field experiments, in situ observational studies, crowdsourcing, simulations of search behavior, and log analysis. Authors should describe their methods and techniques in enough detail to allow for replication and reuse. Short Papers: Short papers (4 pages) should also be original, high-quality submissions, like full papers, but based upon a smaller, concise contribution. These may present work in progress, late-breaking results, reports on projects or applications, or demos. Accepted short papers will be published as part of the proceedings, but will also be presented as posters during the poster reception at the conference. Perspectives Papers: a special category of full papers (10 pages) that present novel ideas or insights concerning approaches, key challenges, or methodological issues that have the potential to inspire substantive discussion and lead to significant advances in the field. These papers should not consist primarily of literature reviews or the presentation of stand-alone studies, but may take the form of: * reflections upon the body of research, considering how the field, the theories, the models, and the methods have developed; * discussion of the implications of research findings on users in the real world; * proposals for and discussions of theories or models of information-interaction; or * critical, provocative, and creative contributions to stir debate and discussion. Workshops: We encourage prospective workshop organizers to submit proposals for highly interactive workshops (either full-day or half-day) that fall within the scope of the conference. We are particularly interested in workshops that bridge multiple approaches or present new perspectives on user-centred aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. Workshops will be held on the last day of the conference. Application instructions are available on the conference web page at http://sigir.org/chiir2017/ Tutorials: Proposals will be considered for full day or half day tutorials. Tutorials may cover material either at an introductory level (introducing new areas of research or practice to attendees) or in depth (advancing the understanding of attendees with basic familiarity of the area). Application instructions will be available on the conference web page at http://sigir.org/chiir2017/ Doctoral Consortium: We invite doctoral students to submit applications for a supervisory seminar, to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students. The consortium will take place on the first day of the conference. Application instructions are available on the conference web page at http://sigir.org/chiir2017/ Conditions * CHIIR submissions should be original, high quality research that has not been published previously and are not under review for another conference or journal. * An international program committee will review all submissions. * All reviews will be double-blind so submissions should be made anonymous when submitted. * Full papers and Perspectives papers will be up to 10 pages in length, while short papers will be up to 4 pages. * All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF. * All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CHIIR series. Important dates 1 Sept 2016 - Full papers and Perspectives papers due 15 Sept 2016 - Short papers, Workshop and Tutorial proposals and Doctoral consortium submissions due 20 Oct 2016 - Workshop notifications 13 Nov 2016 - All other notifications 7-11 March 2017 - CHIIR Conference From Aylin.Ilhan at hhu.de Sun Apr 24 12:40:09 2016 From: Aylin.Ilhan at hhu.de (Aylin Ilhan) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:40:09 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] ESC Newsletter (Contribution) Message-ID: <000F4117-5273-4C47-8B54-0C7109F09E2F@hhu.de> Since the last edition we had a new category ?Do you know??. You or students you know conducted researches or are conducting researches? Then you get the chance to present significant/salient results (in short: 1-2 sentences or one-two figure(s)/table(s) with explanation) in the next edition of the summer ESC newsletter. I would be glad if you want to instruct your results with the ESC Board and all readers. Moreover, the category ?I was at?? still exists :-). This category gives you the chance to share your experience from conferences around the world. If you are interested and want to contribute please send an email to: aylin.ilhan at hhu.de Best regards, Aylin Ilhan -- Aylin Ilhan, B.A., B.A. Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Bldg 24.53, Level 01, Room 86 Universit?tsstra?e 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf, Germany aylin.ilhan at hhu.de https://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/mitarbeiter/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter-hilfskraefte/aylin-ilhan/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Apr 25 07:19:21 2016 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Eurchap] CFP: ACM MEDES 2016 (Biarritz, France) Message-ID: <981716848.14746418.1461583161201.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Biarritz, France Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2016 - Camera Ready: August 25th, 2016 - Paper Registration: August 25th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From I.Peters at zbw.eu Fri Apr 29 08:06:16 2016 From: I.Peters at zbw.eu (Peters Isabella) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:06:16 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] Deadline approaching: Workshop/panel proposals for #asist2016 Message-ID: <047272D289C1D14C9D54551BFDF8DE386BEB486C@cirdan.zbw-nett.zbw-kiel.de> Dear EUChaplers, there is still some time to submit your panel and workshop proposals for #ASIST2016 via https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/. Deadline: May 3rd. Good luck! Isabella *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professorin f?r Web Science (CAU Kiel) ZBW Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft D?sternbrooker Weg 120 24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/de/forschung/web-science Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel (CAU Kiel) Institut f?r Informatik AG Web Science (R. 1105) Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: