From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sun Jun 1 06:54:47 2014 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:54:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [sigCR] CFP ACM MEDES 2014: Submission deadline approaching (8 June 2014) In-Reply-To: <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <2121393764.8237205.1401620087461.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2014 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Extended Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 5 July 2014 Camera Ready: 20 July 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Youngjin Yoo, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, President of KACST, Saudi Arabia Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Workshops ---------- - 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SECES) - Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (AIEM) Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. Main Conference Program Chairs ???????----------------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From announce at dublincore.net Tue Jun 10 07:47:21 2014 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:47:21 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] Final week to book for "Making metadata work", ISKO-UK/BCS/DCMI joint event Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, *Making metadata work* Monday 23rd June 2014 - BCS Office, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA. Please don't forget to book for this popular event before the deadline of 16 June. There are still places for the afternoon session, with an array of first class speakers. See more at < http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>. The morning workshop and tutorial are already full booked. We're sorry to disappoint anyone who's missing them, but we hope to repeat the Sharepoint tutorial on another date - possibly 15 Sept and/or 26 November. Do please let us know if you are interested. *Afternoon meeting on 23 June* (Plenary, 14.00 ? 18.00) Martin White: The importance of metadata for high quality Search Sean Bechhofer: Wf4Ever: metadata for ?Research Objects? Mark Sandler: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content for the 21st century Richard Ranft: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio collections Antoine Isaac: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case (in progress) Andrew MacFarlane: Analysing creative image search queries to determine important facets The speakers and presentations are described in more detail on our website at . As usual there will be more networking, wine and nibbles from 18.00. *Morning options* *a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint* (10.00 -12.00) While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever before, the range of options can make it hard to implement the most effective way. Management of controlled vocabularies is a particular challenge. This tutorial will enable you to pick the brains of an experienced consultant, Marc Stephenson of Metataxis. *b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage* (9.30 ? 12.30; now fully booked) Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs) and/or element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be described by Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche (Fujitsu, Ireland), Dan Brickley (Google), Gordon Dunsire and Stella Dextre Clarke, with emphasis on the opportunities as well as the barriers to widespread adoption. After that is a case study from Johan De Smedt and Agis Papantoniou, both of TenForce, that draws on more than one technique. The subsequent discussion will address the prospects for take-up, aiming to help participants with application or development of similar techniques and projects. *Registration fee and booking* Full day, including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop: ?120 (or ?70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students); Afternoon only: ?60 (or ?25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students). *Booking is open at* < http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction> *About ISKO UK* ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm). Its third conference was held in July 2013 on the general theme of ?Knowledge organization ? pushing the boundaries? http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/. *About BCS IRSG* Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting the communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as an interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to act as a link between computer science, library and information science and also cognate communities (like natural language processing). *About DCMI* The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open, international forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards with diverse applications. DCMI?s activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology).