From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Mar 3 04:14:41 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:14:41 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <24LBPIR5-KKVE-C6FG-P2XX-DRLMUTGA4AL5@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Third Call for Papers *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 31 August - 1 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk1dGggRXVyb3BlYW4gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiB0aGUgRW5naW5lZXJpbmcgb2YgQ29tcHV0ZXIgQmFzZWQgU3lzdGVtcyAoRUNCUyAyMDE3KTogVGhpcmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTQ0CUxpc3RzCTE4NgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fecbs2017%2F In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human-computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development. The proceedings will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students. Scope Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics: ? Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development ? Architectures ? Advanced Modularity ? Cloud-based Applications ? Co-Design ? Component-Based System Design ? Cyber-Physical Systems ? Parallel & Distributed Systems ? Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages ? FPGA Systems Design ? ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments) ? Education and Training ? Embedded Real-Time Software Systems ? Integration Engineering ? Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution ? Model-Based System Development ? Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems ? Networked Control Systems ? Reengineering & Reuse ? Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security ? Software Engineering ? System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics ? Verification and Validation Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as: Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway- Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications. Submission of Papers The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages and poster presentation only). All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ? Submission of Papers: 1 May, 2017 ? Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017 ? Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017 ? Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017 ? Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017 Organization General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chair ? Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic Program Co-Chair ? Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Steering Committee ? Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair ? Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair ? Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair ? Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk1dGggRXVyb3BlYW4gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiB0aGUgRW5naW5lZXJpbmcgb2YgQ29tcHV0ZXIgQmFzZWQgU3lzdGVtcyAoRUNCUyAyMDE3KTogVGhpcmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTQ0CUxpc3RzCTE4NgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fecbs2017%2Forganizers.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Mar 3 09:10:07 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 15:10:07 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge - TextExt Message-ID: <4954ce79-0e69-8715-08ed-d35d6a160581@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> *DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge - TextExt* Website: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/textext *_Disclaimer: The call is under constant development, please refer to the news section. We also acknowledge the initial engineering effort and will be lenient on technical requirements for the first submissions and will focus evaluation on the extracted triples and allow late submissions, if they are coordinated with us_*. Background DBpedia and Wikidata currently focus primarily on representing factual knowledge as contained in Wikipedia infoboxes. A vast amount of information, however, is contained in the unstructured Wikipedia article texts. With the DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge, we aim to spur knowledge extraction from Wikipedia article texts in order to dramatically broaden and deepen the amount of structured DBpedia/Wikipedia data and provide a platform for benchmarking various extraction tools. Mission Wikipedia has become the ubiquitous source of knowledge for the world enabling humans to lookup definitions, quickly become familiar with new topics, read up background infos for news event and many more - even settling coffee house arguments via a quick mobile research. The mission of DBpedia in general is to harvest Wikipedia?s knowledge, refine and structure it and then disseminate it on the web - in a free and open manner - for IT users and businesses. News and next events Twitter: Follow @dbpedia , Hashtag: #dbpedianlp * LDK conference joined the challenge (Deadline March 19th and April 24th) * SEMANTiCS joined the challenge (Deadline June 11th and July 17th) * Feb 20th, 2017: Full example added to this website * March 1st, 2017: Docker image (beta) https://github.com/NLP2RDF/DBpediaOpenDBpediaTextExtractionChallenge Coming soon: * beginning of March: full example within the docker image * beginning of March: DBpedia full article text and tables (currently only abstracts) http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2016-10/core-i18n/ Methodology The DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge differs significantly from other challenges in the language technology and other areas in that it is not a one time call, but a continuous growing and expanding challenge with the focus to *sustainably* advance the state of the art and transcend boundaries in a *systematic* way. The DBpedia Association and the people behind this challenge are committed to provide the necessary infrastructure and drive the challenge for an indefinite time as well as potentially extend the challenge beyond Wikipedia. We provide the extracted and cleaned full text for all Wikipedia articles from 9 different languages in regular intervals for download and as Docker in the machine readable NIF-RDF format (Example for Barrack Obama in English ). Challenge participants are asked to wrap their NLP and extraction engines in Docker images and submit them to us. We will run participants? tools in regular intervals in order to extract: 1. Facts, relations, events, terminology, ontologies as RDF triples (Triple track) 2. Useful NLP annotations such as pos-tags, dependencies, co-reference (Annotation track) We allow submissions 2 months prior to selected conferences (currently _http://ldk2017.org/_ and _http://2017.semantics.cc/_ ). Participants that fulfil the technical requirements and provide a sufficient description will be able to present at the conference and be included in the yearly proceedings. *Each conference, the challenge committee will select a winner among challenge participants, which will receive 1000?. * Results Every December, we will publish a summary article and proceedings of participants? submissions at _http://ceur-ws.org/_ . The first proceedings are planned to be published in Dec 2017. We will try to briefly summarize any intermediate progress online in this section. Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Computer Center of Leipzig University to give us access to their 6TB RAM server Sirius to run all extraction tools. The project was created with the support of the H2020 EU project HOBBIT (GA-688227) and ALIGNED (GA-644055) as well as the BMWi project Smart Data Web (GA-01MD15010B). Challenge Committee * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW, DBpedia Association, KILT Competence Center, InfAI, Leipzig * S?ren Auer, Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn * Ricardo Usbeck, AKSW, Simba Competence Center, Leipzig University * Dimitris Kontokostas, AKSW, DBpedia Association, KILT Competence Center, InfAI, Leipzig * Sandro Coelho, AKSW, DBpedia Association, KILT Competence Center, InfAI, Leipzig Contact Email: _dbpedia-textext-challenge at infai.org_ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 4 03:59:02 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 10:59:02 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Last Call for Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals Message-ID: <0RDJFFL-MM7G-RGM0-MAEE-1BUD4N2WMXDO@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Last Call for Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk4dGggSUVFRSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW5mb3JtYXRpb24sIEludGVsbGlnZW5jZSwgU3lzdGVtcyBhbmQgQXBwbGljYXRpb25zIChJSVNBIDIwMTcpOiBMYXN0IENhbGwgZm9yIEludml0ZWQgU2Vzc2lvbnMsIFR1dG9yaWFscyAmIFdvcmtzaG9wcyBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNDYJTGlzdHMJMTg0CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions To submit a proposal for a Special Session, Tutorial or Workshop, please refer to the instructions on the web site. Topics of Interest Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence ? Advances in databases ? Information systems ? Information and data management ? Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction ? Recommender systems ? Digital rights management ? Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions ? Biological and artificial neural networks ? Biological and artificial immune systems ? Cognitive science ? Neuroscience ? Computational biology ? DNA computing ? Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms ? Bayesian networks ? Expert systems & intelligent agents ? Swarm intelligence ? Fuzzy logic systems ? Kernel methods - support vector machines ? Ensemble classifiers ? Emerging machine learning paradigms ? Decision making techniques ? Knowledge-based systems ? Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence ? Robotics and automation ? Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks ? Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing ? Signal mining ? Signal visualization ? Human-machine interaction ? Multimodal systems ? Multimedia systems ? Autonomous Computing ? Distributed computing ? Quantum computing ? Mobile computing ? Green computing ? Trusted computing ? Proactive computing ? Cloud computing ? Ubiquitous computing ? Networking ? Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks ? Design and implementation ? Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics ? Adaptive and personalized learning ? Student modeling ? Intelligent tutoring systems ? E-learning and mobile learning ? Social media and learning ? Educational games ? Computer-supported collaborative learning ? Big data in education and learning analytics ? Affective computing in learning systems ? Smart learning environments ? Virtual and augmented reality in education ? Risk management in education ? Learning management systems ? Content management systems ? Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security ? Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis ? Privacy and authentication ? Malicious software analysis ? Information, computer and network security ? Infrastructure security ? Forensics ? Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities ? Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities ? Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization ? Monitoring and control of energy resources ? Smart grid ? Fault detection ? Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling ? Middleware for urban computing ? Intelligent transportation systems ? Public displays for modern cities ? Impact of urban computing in modern cities ? Case studies and best practices ? Big city data ? Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare ? E-health, mobile health and smart health ? Infrastucture for smart health ? Advanced devices and robotics for smart health ? Ambient intelligence in assisted living ? Health information systems ? Healthcare management ? Case studies Track VII: Applications ? E-government and m-government ? E-commerce and m-commerce ? E-entertainment and m-entertainment ? E-legal and m-legal services ? Personalized systems and services ? Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards ? Empirical evaluations ? Simulation and evaluation via simulation ? Case studies ? Applications in culture and heritage ? Applications in tourism ? Applications in natural resource management ? Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates ? Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Proposals: March 13, 2017 ? Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance: March 20, 2017 Organization Program Chairs ? N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA ? G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece ? N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk4dGggSUVFRSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW5mb3JtYXRpb24sIEludGVsbGlnZW5jZSwgU3lzdGVtcyBhbmQgQXBwbGljYXRpb25zIChJSVNBIDIwMTcpOiBMYXN0IENhbGwgZm9yIEludml0ZWQgU2Vzc2lvbnMsIFR1dG9yaWFscyAmIFdvcmtzaG9wcyBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNDYJTGlzdHMJMTg0CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr/committees/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liz at lizmarley.co.uk Sun Mar 5 13:02:48 2017 From: liz at lizmarley.co.uk (Liz Marley) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 18:02:48 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] Reminder: ISKO UK AGM and afternoon meeting "Making KO Work " on 14th March 2017 in London In-Reply-To: <43c62cf9-4b39-61db-13a3-515436b838a5@lizmarley.co.uk> References: <43c62cf9-4b39-61db-13a3-515436b838a5@lizmarley.co.uk> Message-ID: <2fdbf3ae-71f8-69b1-3537-1e3c869a9d39@lizmarley.co.uk> Dear Colleagues A reminder of ISKO-UK's first afternoon meeting of 2017, following on from our AGM. *Making KO Work: integrating taxonomies into technology* We meet at the British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS, starting at 14:30 on *Tuesday March 14th 2017*. Beforehand is the ISKO UK AGM, starting at 13:30, and after the main meeting all are invited to stay on for networking, wine and nibbles, kindly sponsored by Mekon . Findability, navigability and interoperability ? all can be boosted via taxonomies that are well integrated into technology supporting the functionality that the business and the end users require. A sophisticated taxonomy may provide for faceted structures, synonym control, relationships between terms and/or concepts, links to definitions and other business-oriented attributes. But all too often the downstream software proves incapable of storing the structure properly or exploiting the taxonomy capabilities in a user-friendly search interface. ?Making KO Work? explores the opportunities and the pitfalls. The options for a variety of scenarios and technologies will be described by speakers with practical experience of taxonomy integration. Marc Stephenson of Metataxis asks whether and how to implement taxonomies in SharePoint, taking a warts-and-all view of the opportunities and the challenges. Joe Pairman of Mekon then shares ideas on the use of templates so that authors can tag their content easily, with benefits for personalized content delivery, analytics and quality control, as well as entirely new applications. Drawing on his experiences of implementing a new information and records management system for Aberdeen Harbour, Chris Jones will talk about the challenges of getting KO techniques to work with IT systems, especially for search. Alan Flett of Smartlogic then considers the merits of an applied taxonomy framework to handle the storage and manipulation of taxonomies before they are output into applications. As usual the afternoon will be FREE for ISKO members and full-time students, and just ?40 for non-members. For more details please go to http://www.iskouk.org/content/making-ko-work-integrating-taxonomies-technology and book your place. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested. Non-members are welcome also as observers at the AGM. 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Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: ? Agent Theory and Application ? Automated Reasoning ? Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems ? Collective Intelligence ? Collective Processing ? Computational Biology ? Computer Vision ? Computational Intelligence ? Computational Security ? Consensus Computing ? Cooperative Systems and Control ? Cybernetics for Informatics ? Data Integration ? Data Mining for Social Networks ? Distributed Intelligence ? Evolutionary computing ? Fuzzy Systems ? Geographic Information Systems ? Grey Theory ? Group Decision Making ? Hybrid Systems ? Information Retrieval and Integration ? Information Hiding ? Intelligent Architectures ? Intelligent Applications ? Intelligent Buildings ? Intelligent Control ? Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring ? Intelligent Image Processing ? Intelligent Networks ? Intelligent Transportation Systems ? Knowledge Integration ? Knowledge Representation ? Knowledge-Based Systems ? Logic in Intelligence ? Machine Learning ? Mobile Intelligence ? Multicriteria Decision Making ? Natural Language Processing ? Optimization and Swarm Intelligence ? Pattern Recognition ? Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning ? Rough Sets ? Semantic Web ? Smart Living Technology ? Smart Sensor Networks ? Soft Computing ? Social Networks ? Ubiquitous Computing ? Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: ? Title & acronym of the special session ? Brief profiles of special session organizers ? General description of the special session scope ? List of topics ? Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski at pwr.edu.pl Important Dates ? Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) ? Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 22, 2017 ? Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs ? Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Pierre L?vy, University of Ottawa, Canada ? Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs ? Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania ? Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland ? Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair ? Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs ? Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair ? George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair ? Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee ? Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee ? Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland ? Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan ? 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Mar 9 04:41:36 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:41:36 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017): Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals *** 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning mLearn 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 30 October - 1 November, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkxNnRoIFdvcmxkIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gTW9iaWxlIGFuZCBDb250ZXh0dWFsIExlYXJuaW5nIChtTGVhcm4gMjAxNyk6IFNlY29uZCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFdvcmtzaG9wIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk1MAlMaXN0cwkxODIJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world's largest international conference on mLearning and emerging ambient technologies. Conference Themes The overarching conference theme is 'mLearning and Design for Social Change and Innovation'. Higher education institutions are called upon to provide for the competencies and skills that foster design for social change and innovation. In addition, knowledge and skills alliances are encouraged by funding bodies to cultivate, share and disseminate competencies that foster social entrepreneurship and innovation. However, little is known on how mlearning can facilitate this process, how it can contribute towards social change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The topics of interest can go beyond the conference theme, and can include any of the following: ? The development, deployment and implementation of mlearning in the context of social entrepreneurship, innovation and social change ? mLearning as a tool that fosters social change and social entrepreneurship ? Innovations in mlearning theory and pedagogy ? From pilot projects to mainstream implementation: strategies for the deployment of mLearning ? Mobile technology to support open and distance learning ? Mobile technology for teaching and learning support ? Assessment techniques and practices in mLearning ? Design and development of learning material for mLearning ? Learning objects and metadata for mLearning ? Informal and lifelong learning with the aid of mobile technologies ? Challenges for mLearning in developing countries ? Building and implementing mLearning strategies in educational institutions, companies and public sector organisations ? mLearning management systems (mLMSs) ? Computer tablets ? Creating interactive and collaborative mLearning environments ? Future trends in mLearning technology, including the impact of emerging technologies ? Emerging hardware and software for mLearning including wearable technologies ? Location-aware technologies ? Contextual and situated learning ? Augmented reality ? Serious gaming and simulations ? Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous learning Submission Information The conference solicits regular papers (no more than 8 pages), short papers (no more than 4 pages), as well as posters (no more than 2 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or poster. All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ? Submission of Workshop Proposals: 31 March 2017 ? Notification for Workshop Proposals: 7 April 2017 ? Submission Deadline for Conference Papers: 1 June 2017 ? Submission Deadline for Workshop Papers: 21 July 2017 ? Accept/Reject Notification for Conference Papers: 15 July 2017 ? Accept/Reject Notification for Workshop Papers: 25 August 2017 ? Camera-Ready Submission of all Papers: 1 September 2017 Information on registration categories and registration fees for the mLearn 2017 is available online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkxNnRoIFdvcmxkIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gTW9iaWxlIGFuZCBDb250ZXh0dWFsIExlYXJuaW5nIChtTGVhcm4gMjAxNyk6IFNlY29uZCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFdvcmtzaG9wIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk1MAlMaXN0cwkxODIJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F. Organization General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Fernando Loizides, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom ? 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Mar 10 07:51:46 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:51:46 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Fourth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Papers *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk4dGggSUVFRSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW5mb3JtYXRpb24sIEludGVsbGlnZW5jZSwgU3lzdGVtcyBhbmQgQXBwbGljYXRpb25zIChJSVNBIDIwMTcpOiBGb3VydGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTUyCUxpc3RzCTE4MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions to Authors Papers must be submitted in IEEE Conference Style format, which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk4dGggSUVFRSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW5mb3JtYXRpb24sIEludGVsbGlnZW5jZSwgU3lzdGVtcyBhbmQgQXBwbGljYXRpb25zIChJSVNBIDIwMTcpOiBGb3VydGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTUyCUxpc3RzCTE4MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences_events%2Fconferences%2Fpublishing%2Ftemplates.html . Papers must be limited to 6 pages in length. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of IISA related (but not limited) to the following tracks and topics: Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence ? Advances in databases ? Information systems ? Information and data management ? Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction ? Recommender systems ? Digital rights management ? Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions ? Biological and artificial neural networks ? Biological and artificial immune systems ? Cognitive science ? Neuroscience ? Computational biology ? DNA computing ? Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms ? Bayesian networks ? Expert systems & intelligent agents ? Swarm intelligence ? Fuzzy logic systems ? Kernel methods - support vector machines ? Ensemble classifiers ? Emerging machine learning paradigms ? Decision making techniques ? Knowledge-based systems ? Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence ? Robotics and automation ? Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks ? Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing ? Signal mining ? Signal visualization ? Human-machine interaction ? Multimodal systems ? Multimedia systems ? Autonomous Computing ? Distributed computing ? Quantum computing ? Mobile computing ? Green computing ? Trusted computing ? Proactive computing ? Cloud computing ? Ubiquitous computing ? Networking ? Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks ? Design and implementation ? Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics ? Adaptive and personalized learning ? Student modeling ? Intelligent tutoring systems ? E-learning and mobile learning ? Social media and learning ? Educational games ? Computer-supported collaborative learning ? Big data in education and learning analytics ? Affective computing in learning systems ? Smart learning environments ? Virtual and augmented reality in education ? Risk management in education ? Learning management systems ? Content management systems ? Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security ? Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis ? Privacy and authentication ? Malicious software analysis ? Information, computer and network security ? Infrastructure security ? Forensics ? Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities ? Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities ? Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization ? Monitoring and control of energy resources ? Smart grid ? Fault detection ? Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling ? Middleware for urban computing ? Intelligent transportation systems ? Public displays for modern cities ? Impact of urban computing in modern cities ? Case studies and best practices ? Big city data ? Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare ? E-health, mobile health and smart health ? Infrastucture for smart health ? Advanced devices and robotics for smart health ? Ambient intelligence in assisted living ? Health information systems ? Healthcare management ? Case studies Track VII: Applications ? E-government and m-government ? E-commerce and m-commerce ? E-entertainment and m-entertainment ? E-legal and m-legal services ? Personalized systems and services ? Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards ? Empirical evaluations ? Simulation and evaluation via simulation ? Case studies ? Applications in culture and heritage ? Applications in tourism ? Applications in natural resource management ? Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates ? Submission of Papers: April 24, 2017 ? Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2017 ? Camera-ready Submission: June 12, 2017 ? Registration and Payment for Authors: June 12, 2017 ? Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 Organization Program Chairs ? N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA ? G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece ? N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk4dGggSUVFRSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW5mb3JtYXRpb24sIEludGVsbGlnZW5jZSwgU3lzdGVtcyBhbmQgQXBwbGljYXRpb25zIChJSVNBIDIwMTcpOiBGb3VydGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTUyCUxpc3RzCTE4MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr/committees/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.eden at valpo.edu Fri Mar 10 16:24:22 2017 From: brad.eden at valpo.edu (Brad Eden) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:24:22 -0600 Subject: [Eurchap] CFP: Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) special journal issue on the digital library interface Message-ID: Please excuse duplication. Please forward to interested colleagues and other listservs. *Digital Library Perspectives* (*DLP*) is looking for articles for a special issue on the digital library interface, and its intersections with partners both internal and external. Examples could include the wider organizational information technology (IT) environment such as intellectual property and governance, security and privacy, collection storage, and preservation, as well as issues and challenges that concern digital content creators and providers. Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged. *DLP* is a peer-reviewed journal. Inquiries can be sent directly to the editor's email listed below (please do not reply to the list). Please send a title and short proposal, along with contact information, to the editor no later than March 31, 2017. Accepted proposals will be due by November 1, 2017, and can be submitted directly to the Emerald ScholarOne system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.co m/dlp. If you have any questions, please contact the editor directly. Thanks. Brad Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. Editor, *Digital Library Perspectives* Dean of Library Services Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 brad.eden at valpo.edu 219-464-5099 ___________________________________________________ *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)* Journal history Previously published as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives* *Aims & Scope* *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) *is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics: - ? Digitization - ? Data as information - ? Archives and manuscripts - ? Digital preservation and digital archiving - ? Digital cultural memory initiatives - ? Usability studies - ? K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 11 05:29:30 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:29:30 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fifth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Fifth Call for Papers *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk5dGggSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIENvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwgQ29sbGVjdGl2ZSBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKElDQ0NJIDIwMTcpOiBGaWZ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNTYJTGlzdHMJMTgyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F *** Deadline Extension: April 15th, 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk5dGggSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIENvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwgQ29sbGVjdGl2ZSBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKElDQ0NJIDIwMTcpOiBGaWZ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNTYJTGlzdHMJMTgyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Diccci2017 . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: ? Agent Theory and Application ? Automated Reasoning ? Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems ? Collective Intelligence ? Collective Processing ? Computational Biology ? Computer Vision ? Computational Intelligence ? Computational Security ? Consensus Computing ? Cooperative Systems and Control ? Cybernetics for Informatics ? Data Integration ? Data Mining for Social Networks ? Distributed Intelligence ? Evolutionary computing ? Fuzzy Systems ? Geographic Information Systems ? Grey Theory ? Group Decision Making ? Hybrid Systems ? Information Retrieval and Integration ? Information Hiding ? Intelligent Architectures ? Intelligent Applications ? Intelligent Buildings ? Intelligent Control ? Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring ? Intelligent Image Processing ? Intelligent Networks ? Intelligent Transportation Systems ? Knowledge Integration ? Knowledge Representation ? Knowledge-Based Systems ? Logic in Intelligence ? Machine Learning ? Mobile Intelligence ? Multicriteria Decision Making ? Natural Language Processing ? Optimization and Swarm Intelligence ? Pattern Recognition ? Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning ? Rough Sets ? Semantic Web ? Smart Living Technology ? Smart Sensor Networks ? Soft Computing ? Social Networks ? Ubiquitous Computing ? Web Intelligence and Interaction Important Dates ? Submission of Papers: April 15, 2017 (extended) ? Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2017 ? Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 ? Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 ? Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs ? Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Pierre L?vy, University of Ottawa, Canada ? Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs ? Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania ? Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland ? Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair ? Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs ? Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair ? George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair ? Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee ? Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee ? 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Fecha final de llamada: 28 febrero 2017 o*Comunicar 54 (2018-1): Ciencia y saber compartidos. Acceso abierto, tecnolog?as y educaci?n* . *Editores Tem?ticos:* Dra. Mar?a-Soledad Ram?rez-Montoya, Tecnol?gico de Monterrey (ITESM) (M?xico), Dr. Rory McGreal, Universidad de Athabasca (Canad?) y Dr. Francisco-Jos? Garc?a-Pe?alvo, Universidad Salamanca (Espa?a). Fecha final de llamada: 30 mayo 2017 o*Comunicar 55 (2018-2): La esfera medi?tica. Controversias en la vida p?blica* . *Editores Tem?ticos:*Dra. Vanesa Saiz Echezarreta, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Espa?a), Dr. H?ctor Fouce, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Espa?a) y Dra. Jocelyne Arquembourg, Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle ? Paris 3 (Francia). Fecha final de llamada: 30 septiembre 2017 o*Comunicar 56 (2018-3): Ciberacoso: La amenaza sin rostro* . *Editores Tem?ticos:*Dra. Pilar Arnaiz, Universidad de Murcia (Espa?a), Dra. Elaine Prod?cimo, Universidad Estatal de Campinas (Brasil) y Dra. Fuensanta Cerezo. 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Al mismo tiempo, le remitimos nuestros ?ltimos art?culos publicados: *Preprint **Comunicar 51 (2017-2): E-innovaci?n en la educaci?n superior **. **Editores Tem?ticos:*Dr. Ram?n L?pez-Mart?n, Universidad de Valencia (Espa?a), Dr. Paulo Dias, Universidade Aberta de Lisboa (Portugal) y Dr. Alejandro Tiana Ferrer, Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia de Madrid (Espa?a) http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=preimpreso o*La investigaci?n formativa en ambientes ubicuos y virtuales en Educaci?n Superior * o*Uso de Twitter en Educaci?n Superior en Espa?a y Estados Unidos * o*Laboratorios sociales en universidades: Innovaci?n e impacto en Medialab UGR * o*La educaci?n superior a distancia y el e-Learning en las prisiones en Portugal * o*Uso de cuestionarios online con feedback autom?tico para la e-innovaci?n en el alumnado universitario * o*El uso de las redes sociales y la cultura popular para una mejor comprensi?n intercultural * o*El rol del cine en versi?n original en el espacio digital europeo * o*La percepci?n de los periodistas espa?oles acerca de sus roles profesionales * o*Stop-motion para la alfabetizaci?n digital en Educaci?n Primaria * o*Ecosistemas de formaci?n y competencia medi?tica: Valoraci?n internacional sobre su implementaci?n en la educaci?n superior * *Comunicar *quiere compartir con todos sus lectores la *Escuela de Autores, *un portal que pretende ofrecer *recursos para la publicaci?n de manuscritos* en revistas cient?ficas de una forma planificada y estrat?gica, as? como servir de espacio de *reflexi?n sobre la gesti?n de la informaci?n cient?fica* en publicaciones de primer nivel https://comunicarautores.wordpress.com/ . 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Day Articles On ?Diversity? as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique David James Hudson Towards an Archival Critique: Opening Possibilities for Addressing Neoliberalism in the Archival Field Marika Cifor, Jamie A. Lee Mind the Gap: Towards the Integration of Critical Gerontology in Public Library Praxis Nicole K. Dalmer Classification Along the Color Line: Excavating Racism in the Stacks Melissa Adler Contextualising Information Behavior: A Methodological Approach Nicole Marie Gaston Questioning the Past and Possible Futures: Digital Historiography and Critical Librarianship Heidi L.M. Jacobs, Cal Murgu Critical Pedagogy In Libraries: A Unified Approach Melissa M. Gustafson Open Educational Resources and Rhetorical Paradox in the Neoliberal Univers(ity) Nora Almeida Perspectives Four Theses for Critical Library and Information Studies: A Manifesto Jonathan Cope Becoming-Infrastructure: Datafication, Deactivation and the Social Credit System Ramon Salim Diab Minting the Obverse: Library and Information Studies as a One-Sided Coin Tim Gorichanaz Engaging an Author in a Critical Reading of Subject Headings Amelia Bowen Koford Importance of the Intersection of Library and Information Sciences with Systems Theory Hannah Lee Literature Review A Case for Critical Data Studies in Library and Information Studies Tami Oliphant Book Reviews Review of The Undersea Network Lisa Levesque -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Mon Mar 13 04:17:04 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:17:04 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Open Calls Message-ID: <1513d7cd-d9d3-1d0d-34e1-ad448e4c27ef@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Research & Innovation Track): *Abstract Submission Deadline: May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): *Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Workshops & Tutorials): *Proposals for Workshops with Call for Papers: March 31, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops without Call for Papers: June 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Camera-Ready Proceedings: September 4, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *SEMANTiCS 2017 Workshop & Tutorial Days: September 11 and 14, 2017 Important Dates (Industry & Use Case Presentations): *Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 *Notification of Acceptance: July 4, 2017 *Presentation Ready: August 15, 2017 As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Data Science (special track, see below) *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *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 *Semantics in 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 Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *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 From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Mar 15 05:09:43 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:09:43 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [ciresearchers] CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8ba4471f-aa0f-fab8-948a-daff9bbb7de3@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ciresearchers] CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:21:07 -0400 From: David Nemer Reply-To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, David Nemer To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, aoir Apologies for cross-posting! I participated in this Symposium next year, and I highly recomment it. --- *Call for Proposals* HCI Across Borders Symposium in Denver (CO, USA) at CHI 2017 6th-7th May, 2017 *_About the Workshop _* The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community at CHI is increasingly embracing research being performed on topics and in regions that have been understudied in the past. To promote these efforts, the Development Consortium Workshop titled *HCI Across Borders* was held at CHI 2016 in San Jose. With support from SIGCHI and in collaboration with Facebook and Google, it was attended by 70+ researchers from 20 countries across the globe, with some of these countries being represented at CHI for the first time. The goal of this Consortium was to build community and invite collaborations /across borders/ on themes of interest to the participants ? those actively involved in international HCI projects, with most of them conducting research in understudied areas and with underrepresented individuals and communities across the world. This year marks another milestone as this event has grown to be a CHI Symposium. Our goal is to build on the efforts from the Development Consortium at CHI 2016 and to grow the community working in the area of HCI Across Borders (HCIxB), by providing an opportunity for interested researchers to come together as a community, improve the visibility of their work, and to bring greater awareness to the challenges that plague international research, particularly research that takes place in resource-constrained settings, to the larger HCI community. *_Participation_* We solicit participation from HCI researchers and practitioners across the globe who work with underserved, underrepresented, and/or under-resourced communities. We particularly invite participants who are keen to explore collaborations across borders. ?Borders?, in this context, include geographic boundaries, but also boundaries of other kinds, such as disciplines, methodologies, ideologies, and more. Research areas of focus can be diverse, including but not limited to learning, global health, crisis informatics, civic engagement, mobile banking, etc. While this is no exhaustive list, examples of topics/themes of submission might include: * Leveraging participatory design and co-design approaches * Factoring cultural sensitivities in the design of new technologies and/or HCI methods * Designing to accommodate power differentials in communities * Devising innovative techniques for engaging new technology users * Designing for sustainability * Studying the intersection of HCI and the UN?s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) * And more! These are examples of projects that our Symposium might include, as the Consortium did last year : * Emotional Wellbeing: Technology for Mental Health in Developing Countries * HCI, Forced Migration & Refugees: Collaborations across Borders and Fields * ICT Intervention for Agricultural Development: Exploring Prospects for Pakistani Farmers * Cuba Intercambio: Cultural and Information Exchange for Cuba * Online Learning Across Diverse Low-Resource Indian Contexts * Cognitive Modeling for Illiteracy Eradication * Mobile Technology-Based Supports for Prenatal Care Among the Ng?be in Panama *_Submissions _* Please submit a proposal (3-5 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts format) *starting now *and before *April 15th, 2017*. We would appreciate early submissions. You will receive a decision within 15 days of submitting so you can plan your registration and travels accordingly. All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and a program committee. They will be selected in accordance with their potential to contribute to the Symposium and to foster discussion. Accepted submissions will be available on our website before the conference. Authors of accepted submissions will also be invited to present posters of their proposals at CHI (although not mandatory). Please submit your PDFs at https://hcixb17.hotcrp.com/. Please note that we will accept contributions until the number of available attendees is reached, which may be before the ultimate deadline. *_Bursaries _* We are working on obtaining funding to pay travel expenses (or at least a portion thereof) for attendees in need. Please note that CHI guidelines require at least one author of each accepted submission to attend and be registered for the Symposium. *_Organizers_* Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech (USA) Susan Dray, Dray & Associates (USA) Christian Sturm, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Nithya Sambasivan, Google (USA) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, University of Colima (Mexico) Leonel Morales, Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala) Negin Dahya, University of Washington (USA) Nova Ahmed, North South University (Bangladesh) *_Contact _* For updates, please check: http://hcixb.org Email us your questions at: admin at hcixb.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From virginia at bib.uc3m.es Wed Mar 15 12:05:29 2017 From: virginia at bib.uc3m.es (VIRGINIA ORTIZ-REPISO JIMENEZ) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:05:29 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] European chapters in iConference 2017 (Wuhan) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, ASIS&T Chapters and SIGs are collaborating on an ASIS&T presentation at the iSchool conference in Wuhan, China (March 22-25th). The Asian Pacific, European, European Student and Taipei Chapters, along with SIG III will all discuss their programs and how their activities closely support the iSchool concept. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Mar 16 07:21:53 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:21:53 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Last Call for Special Sessions Message-ID: <2WJBRV6-XH44-BH4Y-JNGX-BGWSZ85YC1X@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Last Call for Special Sessions *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwk5dGggSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIENvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwgQ29sbGVjdGl2ZSBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKElDQ0NJIDIwMTcpOiBMYXN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJNTgJTGlzdHMJMTc4CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F *** Firm Deadline: 29th March 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: ? Agent Theory and Application ? Automated Reasoning ? Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems ? Collective Intelligence ? Collective Processing ? Computational Biology ? Computer Vision ? Computational Intelligence ? Computational Security ? Consensus Computing ? Cooperative Systems and Control ? Cybernetics for Informatics ? Data Integration ? Data Mining for Social Networks ? Distributed Intelligence ? Evolutionary computing ? Fuzzy Systems ? Geographic Information Systems ? Grey Theory ? Group Decision Making ? Hybrid Systems ? Information Retrieval and Integration ? Information Hiding ? Intelligent Architectures ? Intelligent Applications ? Intelligent Buildings ? Intelligent Control ? Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring ? Intelligent Image Processing ? Intelligent Networks ? Intelligent Transportation Systems ? Knowledge Integration ? Knowledge Representation ? Knowledge-Based Systems ? Logic in Intelligence ? Machine Learning ? Mobile Intelligence ? Multicriteria Decision Making ? Natural Language Processing ? Optimization and Swarm Intelligence ? Pattern Recognition ? Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning ? Rough Sets ? Semantic Web ? Smart Living Technology ? Smart Sensor Networks ? Soft Computing ? Social Networks ? Ubiquitous Computing ? Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session proposals with the following information: ? Title & acronym of the special session ? Brief profiles of special session organizers ? General description of the special session scope ? List of topics ? Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions and the conference including the Special Sessions webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski at pwr.edu.pl Important Dates ? Special Session proposals: March 29, 2017 (*** firm ***) ? Special Session Acceptance: March 31, 2017 ? Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs ? Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Pierre L?vy, University of Ottawa, Canada ? Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs ? Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania ? Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland ? Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair ? Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs ? Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair ? George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair ? Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee ? Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee ? Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland ? Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland ? Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan ? Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam ? 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URL: From guillaume.cabanac at univ-tlse3.fr Fri Mar 17 14:03:36 2017 From: guillaume.cabanac at univ-tlse3.fr (Guillaume Cabanac) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:03:36 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] [BIRNDL@SIGIR] CFP: 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries References: Message-ID: <651D6B1A-EDEC-4E33-B9AB-22BB2585A91A@univ-tlse3.fr> == Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL), to be held as part of 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) in Tokyo, Japan on 11th August 2017. > We are happy to announce that the past BIR and NLPIR4DL organizers are proposing this workshop at SIGIR together. In conjunction with the BIRNDL workshop, we will hold the 3rd CL-SciSumm Shared Task in Scientific Document Summarization. > Reports from the shared task systems will be featured as part of a session at the workshop. === Important Dates === - Submissions deadline: May 23, 2017 - Notification: June 23, 2017 - Camera Ready Contributions: TBD - Workshop: August 11, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan === Aim of the Workshop === The BIRNDL workshop is the first step to foster a reflection on interdisciplinarity, and the benefits that the disciplines bibliometrics, IR and NLP can derive from it in a digital libraries context. The workshop is intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, text mining and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. Researchers are in need of assistive technologies to track developments in an area, identify the approaches used to solve a research problem over time and summarize research trends. Digital libraries require semantic search, question-answering and automated recommendation and reviewing systems to manage and retrieve answers from scholarly databases. Full document text analysis can help to design semantic search, translation and summarization systems; citation and social network analyses can help digital libraries to visualize scientific trends, bibliometrics and relationships and influences of works and authors. All these approaches can be supplemented with the metadata supplied by digital libraries, inclusive of usage data, such as download counts. We invite papers and presentations that incorporate insights from IR, bibliometrics and NLP to develop new techniques to address the open problems in Big Science, such as evidence-based searching, measurement of research quality, relevance and impact, the emergence and decline of research problems, identification of scholarly relationships and influences and applied problems such as language translation, question-answering and summarization. Finding relevant scholarly literature is key point of the workshop and sets the agenda for tools and approaches to be discussed and evaluated at BIRNDL. At the workshop, we would also like to address the need for established, standardized baselines, evaluation metrics and test collections. See the proceedings of the first BIRNDL workshop at JCDL 2016 > and a recent report in SIGIR Forum >. This workshop will be relevant to scholars in computer and information science, specialized in IR, bibliometrics and NLP. The Shared Task is expected to be of interest to a broad community including those working in CL and NLP, especially in the sub-disciplines of text summarization, discourse structure in scholarly discourse, paraphrase, textual entailment and text simplification. The workshop will also be of importance for all stakeholders in the publication pipeline: implementers, publishers and policymakers. Formal citation metrics are increasingly a factor in decision-making by universities and funding bodies worldwide, making the need for research in applying these metrics more pressing. Today's publishers continue to provide new ways to support their consumers in disseminating and retrieving the right published works to their audience. Even when only considering the scholarly sites within Computer Science, we find that the field is well-represented - ACM Portal, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, PSU's CiteSeerX, MSR's Academic Search, Elsevier?s Mendeley, Tsinghua's ArnetMiner, Trier's DBLP, Hiroshima's PRESRI; with this workshop we hope to bring a number of these contributors together. === Workshop Topics === We invite stimulating as well as unpublished submissions on topics including - but not limited to - full-text analysis, multimedia and multilingual analysis and alignment as well as the application of citation-based NLP or information retrieval and information seeking techniques in digital libraries. Specific examples of fields of interests include (but are not limited to): - Infrastructure for scientific mining and IR - Semantic and Network-based indexing, navigation, searching and browsing in structured data - Discourse structure identification and argument mining from scientific papers - Summarisation and question-answering for scholarly DLs - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - Measurement and evaluation of quality and impact - Metadata and controlled vocabularies for resource description and discovery; - Automatic metadata discovery, such as language identification - Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques; Data cleaning and data quality For the paper sessions, we especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (max. 6 pages for short and 12 pages for full papers, Springer LNCS: >; exclusive of unlimited pages for references) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings and from the program. EasyChair: > Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Please retweet this cfp > === PC Chairs === - Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany - Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore The main organizers will be supported by our previous co-organizers: - Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France - Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK - Min-Yen Kan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Dietmar Wolfram, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA === Program Committee === The following committee members have stated their support to review submissions to the workshop. Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Iana Atanassova, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Joeran Beel, University of Konstanz, Germany Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille University, France Marc Bertin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK Cornelia Caragea, University of North Texas, USA Zeljko Carevic, GESIS, Germany Jason S Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan John Conroy, IDA Center for Computing Sciences Ed A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C. Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA Bela Gipp, University of Konstanz, Germany Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University, USA Pawan Goyal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Wolfgang Gl?nzel, KU Leuven, Belgium Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France Rahul Jha, Microsoft, USA Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Dain Kaplan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Roman Kern, Graz University of Technology, Austria Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK John Lawrence, University of Dundee, UK Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia Kathy McKeown, Columbia University, USA Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University, USA / Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium Peter Mutschke, GESIS, Germany Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Arzucan Ozgur, Bogazici University, Turkey Cecile Paris, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ameni Sahraoui, GESIS, Germany Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany Rajiv Ratn Shah, Singapore Management University, Singapore Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore, Singapore Pradeep Teregowda, IBM, Watson Discovery Services, USA Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK Bart Thijs, KU Leuven, Belgium Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Andre Vellino, University of Toronto Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Stephen Wan, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Yifang Yin, National University of Singapore, Singapore ? 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Mar 19 03:47:50 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:47:50 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Fourth Call for Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogRm91cnRoIENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNjUJTGlzdHMJMTc4CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2Fconsortium.html The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogRm91cnRoIENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNjUJTGlzdHMJMTc4CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fcomputer%2Flncs%3FSGWID%3D0-164-2-793332-0%29 and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogRm91cnRoIENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNjUJTGlzdHMJMTc4CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FADBISDC2017. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission: May 19, 2017 ? Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 ? Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 ? Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair ? 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He argued that the closure and containment that characterized the subject and the state - previously described by Michel Foucault as the product of modernity - was giving way to a much more complex set of sociotechnical configurations that blurred the boundaries and limits of control. Within the context of information studies, the concept of control has its own particular legacies. Posed as the cure to a natural chaos, the discipline?s pursuit of authority control, bibliographic control, and controlled vocabularies represent a field epistemologically invested in order. Since Deleuze's diagnosis, contemporary information systems and technologies have enabled unprecedented forms of control to permeate life at multiple levels, from the molecular to the global: From the manipulation of bioinformatic elements through gene sequencing to mass data collection policies, the relationship between information and control is increasingly entangled as they are threaded through our personal, professional, and public lives. Yet, as forms and mechanisms of control become more granular, the traditional modes of information control are challenged and the figure of the ?gatekeeper? recedes. New evidential paradigms signified by the diagnostic of ?post-truth,? new forms of consensus building via algorithmic logic, and a breakdown of the boundaries of information literacy all signify a challenge to traditional understandings of information control. This poses a challenge and opportunity for information scholars and researchers to engage with ideas and concepts around the society of control, across disciplines. By foregrounding the mechanisms, intended purposes, and unintended effects of the relationship between control and information, this special issue will provide a forum to explore and critically engage an as yet underdeveloped line of thinking. The scope of this issue might include research on: * Editorial control, citizen journalism and ?alt-facts? * Informational panopticons; data gathering, aggregation and re-use in the context of the international rise of the Right * Obfuscation, counterveillance and information activism * Analyses of information policy, including approaches to classifying and redacting * Political discourses about leaks, breaches and other forms of loss of control * Other overt and/or covert uses of records and information in the ?society of control? * Technologies and techniques of control within information systems o Taxonomies and controlled vocabularies o The ?politics of metadata? in relation to state control *Deadline for Submission: November 30, 2017* * * Types of Submissions JCLIS welcomes the following types of submissions: * Research Articles (no more than 7,000 words) * Perspective Essays (no more than 5,000 words) * Literature Reviews (no more than 7,000 words) * Interviews (no more than 5,000 words) * Book or Exhibition Reviews (no more than 1,200 words) Research articles and literature reviews are subject to peer review by two referees. Perspective essays are subject to peer review by one referee. Interviews and book or exhibition reviews are subject to review by the issue editor(s). Contacts: Guest Editors * Stacy E. Wood, University of California, Los Angeles: stacyewood at gmail.com * James Lowry, Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies: jlowry at liverpool.ac.uk Submission Guidelines for Authors The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies welcomes submissions from senior and junior faculty, students, activists, and practitioners working in areas of research and practice at the intersection of critical theory and library and information studies. Authors retain the copyright to material they publish in the JCLIS, but the Journal cannot re-publish material that has previously been published elsewhere. The journal also cannot accept manuscripts that have been simultaneously submitted to another outlet for possible publication. Citation Style JCLIS uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 16 ^th Edition as the official citation style for manuscripts published by the journal. All manuscripts should employ the Notes and Bibliography style (as footnotes with a bibliography), and should conform to the guidelines as described in the Manual. Submission Process Manuscripts are to be submitted through JCLIS? online submission system (http://libraryjuicepress.com/journals/index.php/jclis ) by *November 30th, 2017*. This online submission process requires that manuscripts be submitted in separate stages in order to ensure the anonymity of the review process and to enable appropriate formatting. * Abstracts (500 words or less) should be submitted in plain text and should not include information identifying the author(s) or their institutional affiliations. With the exception of book reviews, an abstract must accompany all manuscript submissions before they are reviewed for publication. * The main text of the manuscript must be submitted as a stand-alone file (in Microsoft Word or RTF)) without a title page, abstract, page numbers, or other headers or footers. The title, abstract, and author information should be submitted through the submission platform. * * ISSN: 2572-1364 Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. Analyse effectu?e par AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7998 / Base de donn?es virale: 4756/14113 - Date: 14/03/2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mid-April deadline and details at: _http://www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/study/taught-masters/funding-opportunities/_ With thanks Richard Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. Analyse effectu?e par AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.8007 / Base de donn?es virale: 4767/14168 - Date: 23/03/2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 25 04:15:03 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:15:03 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Sixth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Sixth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogU2l4dGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTY4CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2F *** Submission Deadline: 17 April 2017 (extended) *** The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. ? Data intensive sciences and databases ? Theoretical foundations of databases ? Management of large scale data systems ? Data models and query languages ? Database monitoring and (self-)tuning ? Data curation, annotation, and provenance ? Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools ? Indexing, query processing and optimization ? Data mining and knowledge discovery ? Big data storage, replication, and consistency ? Modeling, mining and querying user generated content ? Data quality and data cleansing ? Web, XML and semi-structured databases ? Sensor databases and mobile data management ? Text databases and information retrieval ? Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying ? Temporal and spatial databases ? Graph databases ? Databases on emerging hardware architectures ? Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems ? Information extraction and integration ? Streaming data analysis ? Scalable data analysis and analytics ? Data and information visualization; and user interfaces ? Information quality and usability ? Information system architectures and networking ? Business process modeling and optimization ? Data and information flow engineering and management ? Context-aware and adaptive information systems ? Data and information intensive services ? Requirements engineering for databases and information systems ? Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems ? Data, information, and information systems security ? Innovative platforms for data and information handling ? Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering ? Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogU2l4dGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTY4CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fcomputer%2Flncs%3FSGWID%3D0-164-2-793332-0%26changeHeader%29. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper with students as first authors will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ? Papers must be written in English. ? Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. ? Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. ? An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. ? Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. ? ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogU2l4dGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTY4CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dadbis2017 . ? Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document ? Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES ? Full and Short Papers: April 17, 2017 (extended) ? Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 ? Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair ? Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia ? Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair ? Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs ? Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ? 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