From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Dec 15 04:45:12 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP : ACM MEDES'15 - Sao Paulo, Brazil In-Reply-To: <1801670561.8817907.1418636257828.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <1815744627.8820767.1418636712701.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ September 25-29, 2015 Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil 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 2015 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: June 26th, 2015 - Camera Ready: July 03rd, 2015 - Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 15 11:32:24 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:32:24 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <388-2201412115163224165@LEN-dick-2011> 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting November 6-10, 2015 - Hyatt Regency - St. Louis, MO USA Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community http://www.asis.org/asist2015/am15cfp.html This year?s conference theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers ? including academics and practitioner researchers ? to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on libraries/museums/galleries, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. Submissions are encouraged that present theoretical or applied research with results that demonstrate one or more of the following themes: Impact on Individuals Impact on Society Impact on Organizations Impact on Systems & Technology Impact on Information Contexts Important Dates Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials Submissions: April 30, 2015 Notifications: June 11, 2015 Final copies: July 15, 2015 Posters, Demos & Videos: Submissions: July 1, 2015 Notifications: July 30, 2015 Final copies: August 20, 2015 Conference Chair: Lisa Given Paper Co-Chairs: Brian Detlor, Hazel Hall Panel Co-Chairs: Heather O'Brien, Alison Brettle Poster Co-Chairs: Lynn Westbrook, Michael Khoo Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From ferro at dei.unipd.it Mon Dec 22 12:08:30 2014 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:08:30 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CLEF 2015: Call for Lab Participation Message-ID: <9D4FD1EE-7837-4EB1-AB13-6F366E3BEE86@dei.unipd.it> CLEF 2015 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Interaction 8 - 11 September 2015, Toulouse - France http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/ Call for Labs Participation (Download flyer at http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/docs/LAB-flyer.pdf) LAB REGISTRATION Participants must register for tasks via the following website: http://clef2015-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ *************************************************************************************** The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, formerly known as Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure. CLEF 2015 is the sixth CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns, which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. CLEF 2015 consists of an independent conference and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems. Each lab focuses on a particular sub-problem or variant of the retrieval task as described below. Researchers and practitioners from all segments of the information access and related communities are invited to participate, choosing to take part in any or all evaluation labs. Eight labs are offered at CLEF 2015: CLEF eHealth ImageCLEF LifeCLEF Living Labs for IR (LL4IR) News Recommendation Evaluation Lab (NEWSREEL) Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse (PAN) Question answering (QA) Social Book Search (SBS) Lab details: CLEFeHealth CLEFeHealth explores scenarios which aim to ease patients and nurses understanding and accessing of eHealth information. The goals of the lab are to develop processing methods and resources in a multilingual setting to enrich difficult-to-understand eHealth texts, and provide valuable documentation. The lab contains two tasks: Task 1 - Information Extraction from Clinical Data (a) Clinical speech recognition (b) Named entity recognition from clinical narratives in European languages NEW for 2015: non-English languages, clinical spoken language Task 2 - User-centered Health Information Retrieval (a) Monolingual IR (English) (b) Multilingual IR (Chinese, Czech, French, German, Portuguese, Romanian) NEW for 2015: queries, evaluation criteria, CLIR languages Lab coordination: Lorraine Goeuriot (Universit? Joseph Fourier, FR - lorraine.goeuriot at imag.fr), Liadh Kelly (Trinity College Dublin, IRL - liadh.kelly at scss.tcd.ie) Lab website: https://sites.google.com/site/clefehealth2015/ ImageCLEF In 2015, ImageCLEF will organize four main tasks with a global objective of benchmarking automatic annotation and indexing of images. The tasks tackle different aspects of the annotation problem and are aimed at supporting and promoting cutting-edge research addressing the key challenges in the field: Task 1 - Image Annotation: A task aimed at the development of systems for automatic multi-concept image annotation, localization and subsequent sentence description generation. Task 2 - Medical Classification: Addresses the problem of labeling and separation of compound figures from biomedical literature. Task 3 - Medical Clustering: Addresses the problem of clustering body parts x-rays. Task 4 - Liver CT Annotation: A study towards automated structured reporting, the task is computer aided automatic annotation of liver CT volumes by filling in a pre-prepared form. Lab coordination: Mauricio Villegas (Universitat Polit?cnica de Valencia, SP - mauvilsa at upv.es) Henning M?ller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Sierre, CH - henning.mueller at hevs.ch) Lab website: http://www.imageclef.org/2015 LifeCLEF The LifeCLEF lab continues image-based plant identification task which was has originally run within ImageCLEF since 2011. However, the LifeCLEF tasks radically enlarges the evaluated challenge towards multimodal data by (i) considering birds and fish in addition to plants, (ii) considering audio and video content in addition to images, (iii) scaling-up the evaluation data to hundreds of thousands of life media records and thousands of living species. LiefCLEF tasks at CLEF 2015: Task 1 - BirdCLEF: an audio record-based bird identification task, based on the Xeno-Canto social network. 500 bird species from Brasil from hundreds recordists around 15k recording. Task 2 - PlantCLEF: an image-based plant identification task based on the Tela Botanica social network. 500 plant species from France from hundreds of photographers, around 50k images. Task 3 - FishCLEF: a fish video surveillance task based on the Fish4Knowledge network. 30 fish species from the Taiwan?s coral reef from underwater cameras, 2000 videos, and 2 million images. Lab coordination: Alexis Joly (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis - ZENITH team, Montpellier, FR - alexis.joly at inria.fr) Henning M?ller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Sierre, CH - henning.mueller at hevs.ch) Lab website: http://www.imageclef.org/lifeclef/2015 Living Labs for IR (LL4IR) The main goal LL4IR is to provide a benchmarking platform for researchers to evaluate their ranking systems in a live setting with real users in their natural task environments. The lab acts as a proxy between commercial organizations (live environments) and lab participants (experimental systems), facilitates data exchange, and makes comparison between the participating systems. CLEF 2015 sees the first edition of the lab, which features three tasks, each corresponding to a single use-case: Task 1 ? Local Domain Search using a University Search Engine. Task 2 ? Product Search on a Medium-sized Online Retailer. Task 3 ? Web Search using a Commercial Search Engine. Lab coordination: Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger, N - krisztian.balog at uis.no) Liadh Kelly (Dublin City University, IRL - liadh.kelly at scss.tcd.ie) Anne Schuth (University of Amsterdam, NL - anne.schuth at uva.nl). Lab website: http://living-labs.net/clef-lab/ News Recommendation Evaluation Lab (NEWSREEL) CLEF 2015 is the second iteration of this lab. NEWSREEL provides two tasks designed to address the challenge of real-time news recommendation. Participants can: a) develop news recommendation algorithms and b) have them tested by millions of users over the period of a few weeks in a living lab. The following tasks are offered: Task 1 ? Benchmark News Recommendations in a Living Lab: benchmarking news recommendation algorithms in a living lab environment: participants will be given the opportunity to develop news recommendation algorithms and have them tested by potentially millions of users over the period of one year. Task 2 ? Benchmarking News Recommendations in a Simulated Environment: simulates a real-time recommendation task using a novel recommender systems reference framework. Participants in the task have to predict users? clicks on recommended news articles in simulated real time. Lab coordination: Frank Hopfgartner (University of Glasgow, UK - frank.hopfgartner at gmail.com) Torben Brodt (plista GmbH, Berlin, DE - tb at plista.com) Lab website: http://www.clef-newsreel.org/ Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse (PAN) This is the 12th edition of the PAN lab on evaluation of uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse. PAN offers three tasks at CLEF 2015 with new evaluation resources consisting of large-scale corpora, performance measures, and web services that allow for meaningful evaluations. The main goal is to provide for sustainable and reproducible evaluations, to get a clear view of the capabilities of state-of-the-art-algorithms. The tasks are: Task 1 - Plagiarism Detection: Given a document, is it an original? Task 2 - Author Identification: Given a document, who wrote it? Task 3 - Author Profiling: Given a document, what?re its author?s traits (age / gender / personality)? Lab coordination: pan at webis.de Martin Potthast, Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar, DE), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, SP), Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, GR). Lab website: http://pan.webis.de Question answering (QA) In the current general scenario for the CLEF QA Track, the starting point is always a Natural Language question. However, answering some questions may need to query Linked Data (especially if aggregations or logical inferences are required); whereas some questions may need textual inferences and querying free-text. Answering some queries may need both. The tasks are: Task 1 ? QALD: Question Answering over Linked Data; Task 2 ? Entrance Exams: Questions from reading tests; Task 3 ? BioASQ: Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing; Task 4 ? BioASQ: Biomedical Question answering. Lab coordination: Anselmo Pe?as (Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia, SP - anselmo at lsi.uned.es) Georgios Paliouras (NCSR Demokritos, GR - paliourg at iit.demokritos.gr) Christina Unger (CITEC Universitat Bielefeld, DE - cunger at cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de) Lab website: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/ Social Book Search (SBS) The Social Book Search Lab was previously part of the INEX evaluation benchmark (since 2007). Real-world information needs are generally complex, yet almost all research focuses instead on either relatively simple search based on queries or recommendation based on profiles. The goal of the Social Book Search Lab is to investigate techniques to support users in complex book search tasks that involve more than just a query and results list. The SBS tasks for CLEF 2015 are: Task 1 - Suggestion Track: a system-oriented task to suggest books based on rich search requests combining several topical and contextual relevance signals, as well as user profiles and real-world relevance judgments. Task 2 - Interactive Track: a user-oriented interactive task investigating systems that support users in each of multiple stages of a complex search tasks. Lab coordination: Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Hugo Huurdeman (University of Amsterdam, NL - kamps at uva.nl, marijn.koolen at uva.nl, h.c.huurdeman at uva.nl) Toine Bogers, Mette Skov (Aalborg University, Copenhagen, DK - toine at hum.aau.dk, skov at hum.aau.dk) Mark Hall (Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK - hallmark at edgehill.ac.uk) Lab website: http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/ LAB REGISTRATION Participants must register for tasks via the following website: http://clef2015-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ DATA The training and test data are provided by the organizers, which allow participating systems to be evaluated and compared in a systematic way. WORKSHOPS The Lab Workshop sessions will take place within the CLEF 2015 conference at the conference site in Toulouse. Lab coordinators will present a summary of their lab in an overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions in the CLEF 2015 conference, to allow non-participants to gain an overview of the motivation, objectives, outcomes and future challenges of each Lab. The separate Lab Workshop sessions provide a forum for participants to present their results (including failure analyses and system comparisons), description of retrieval techniques used, and other issues of interest to researchers in the field. Participating groups will be invited to present their results in a joint poster session. PUBLICATION All groups participating each evaluation Lab are asked to submit a paper for the CLEF 2015 Working Notes. These will be published in the online CEUR-WS Proceedings and on the conference website. Two different and separate types of overviews will be produced by Lab Organizers, one for the Online Working Notes, and one for Conference Proceedings (published by Springer in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science - LNCS series). TIMELINE The timeline for 2015 Labs is as follows: November 3, 2014: Labs Registration opens April 30, 2015: Labs Registration closes November 3, 2014 ? May 15, 2015: Evaluation Campaign May 15, 2015: End of the Evaluation Cycle May 31, 2015: Submission of Participant Papers May 31, 2015 ? June 30, 2015: Review process of Participants Papers June 30, 2015: Notification of Acceptance Participant Papers July 15, 2015: Camera Ready Copy of Participant Papers September 8-11 2015 CLEF 2015 Conference ORGANIZATION General Chairs: Josiane Mothe - IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France Jacques Savoy - University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Program Chairs: Jaap Kamps - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat - Universit? de Toulouse, France Lab chairs: Gareth Jones - Dublin City University, Ireland Eric SanJuan - Universit? d'Avignon, France Lab committee: Nicola Ferro - University of Padova, Italy Donna Harman - National Institute for Standard and Technology, USA Maarten de Rijke - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Carol Peters - ISTI, National Council of Research (CNR), Italy Jacques Savoy - University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland William Webber - William Webber Consulting, Australia Local organization committee: The IRIT Information Retrieval and Mining (SIG) team