From rhill at asis.org Wed Jun 8 15:26:28 2011 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:26:28 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Web Analytics Webinar -- June 17 Message-ID: <389-22011638192628387@asis> Title: Web Analytics Date: Friday, June 17, 2011 Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT Fee $25 for ASIS&T Members $59 non ASIS&T Members Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/518448734 Web analytics can be a valuable tool in achieving overall organizational goals, if you understand the key elements and processes. Web analytics is measuring, collecting, analyzing, and reporting of internet data for understanding and optimizing online usage. From commercial businesses to academic libraries, many organizations are realizing the importance of using web analytics to better understand their customers (such as their goals, preferences, and online behaviors) and from this understanding, making better consumer relationship management decisions. In this webinar, we address the essential elements of web analytics, including key performance indicators, standard metrics, and the building of a linkage between the two. We will introduce tools, such as Google Analytics, to provide inexpensive web analytics reporting. We also review a process to link Web analytics as an informational foundation to strategic organizational decisions. Real life examples are presented from the commercial business and academic library domains. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows? 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Macintosh?-based attendees Required: Mac OS? X 10.4.11 (Tiger?) or newer ----- This webinar, offered with the cooperation of Morgan&Claypool Publishers, is drawn from their "Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services," which is edited by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina. The series publishes 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. The scope largely follows the purview of premier information and computer science conferences, such as ASIST, ACM SIGIR, ACM/IEEE JCDL, and ACM CIKM. http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/icr/1/1 Hundreds of research libraries license the Synthesis Digital Library, but individual lectures are also available for purchase--either print or PDF. Understanding User-Web Interactions via Web Analytics, http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00191ED1V01Y200904ICR006. Bernard J. (Jim) Jansen, 102 pages Table of Contents: Understanding Web Analytics / The Foundations of Web Analytics: Theory and Methods / The History of Web Analytics / Data Collection for Web Analytics / Web Analytics Fundamentals / Web Analytics Strategy / Web Analytics as Competitive Intelligence / Supplementary Methods for Augmenting Web Analytics / Search Log Analytics / Conclusion / Key Terms / Blogs for Further Reading / References Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Jun 15 10:58:02 2011 From: Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:58:02 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Submission Deadline is Approaching (June 20, 2011): ACM MEDES'11, November 21-24, 2011, San Francisco, USA Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-postings. ** The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2011) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/11/ November 21-24, 2011 San Francisco, California, USA Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems 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. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing 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 resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, 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 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 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 Emergent 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. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Web Technologies - Service systems and Engineering - Emergent Intelligence - Data & Knowledge Management Systems - Multimedia Information Retrieval - Ontology Management - Social Networks - Game Theory - Networks and Protocols - Green computing - Security & Privacy - Standardization and Extensible Languages - Human-Computer Interaction - Business Intelligence - E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government - B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement - Digital Library - 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 Date: June 20th, 2011 - Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September, 5th 2011 - Rebuttal Date: September 15th, 2011 - Final Notification of Acceptance: September, 20th 2011 - Camera Ready: September 30th, 2011 - Conference Dates: November 21-24, 2011 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals. -International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC) -International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) -International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM) General Chair -------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA Program Chair -------------- Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France International Advisory Board Members ------------------------------------ Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Members -------------------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Keynote Speakers ---------------- Paul Hofmann, VP Office of the Chief Scientist at SAP Labs Ruoyi Zhou, Senior Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center Publicity Chair ---------------- Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Publication Chair ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Jun 20 04:07:21 2011 From: Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:07:21 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Extended Deadline: ACM MEDES 2011 || November 21-24, 2011 - San Francisco, California Message-ID: * Please accept our apologies for cross-posting * -=-=-=-=-= Submission deadline extended to July 10th, 2011 =-=-=-=-=- *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2011) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/11/ November 21-24, 2011 San Francisco, California, USA Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems 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. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing 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 resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, 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 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 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 Emergent 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. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Web Technologies - Service systems and Engineering - Emergent Intelligence - Data & Knowledge Management Systems - Multimedia Information Retrieval - Ontology Management - Social Networks - Game Theory - Networks and Protocols - Green computing - Security & Privacy - Standardization and Extensible Languages - Human-Computer Interaction - Business Intelligence - E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government - B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement - Digital Library - 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 Date: July 10th, 2011 - Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September, 5th 2011 - Rebuttal Date: September 15th, 2011 - Final Notification of Acceptance: September, 20th 2011 - Camera Ready: September 30th, 2011 - Conference Dates: November 21-24, 2011 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals. -International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC) -International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) -International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM) General Chair -------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA Program Chair -------------- Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France International Advisory Board Members ------------------------------------ Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Members -------------------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Keynote Speakers ---------------- Paul Hofmann, VP Office of the Chief Scientist at SAP Labs Ruoyi Zhou, Senior Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center Publicity Chair ---------------- Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Publication Chair ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Tue Jun 21 08:43:08 2011 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:43:08 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ACM/IEEE SITIS'11: Extended Submission Deadline, Dijon-France Message-ID: EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 12, 2011 Apologies for multiple diffusion CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== The 7th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS (IEEE-SITIS'11) November 28 - December 1, 2011 In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter University of Burgundy (Dijon, France) http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis ====================================================================== The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2011 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on two main tracks: - The focus of the first track "Internet-Based Computing and Systems" (IBCS) focuses on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance. - The second track titled "Signal & Image Technologies" (SIT) focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. Submission and publication -------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS 2011 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Important dates ---------------- * Paper Submission: September 12, 2011 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 3, 2011 * Camera ready: October 16, 2011 * Author registration: October 16, 2011 Local organizing committee (University of Burgundy, France) ------------------------------------------------------------ * Pierre Gouton (Chair, pgouton at u-bourgogne.fr) * Eric Leclercq (eric.leclercq at u-bourgogne.fr) * Celine Roudet (celine.roudet at u-bourgogne.fr) * Marinette Savonnet (marinette.savonnet at u-bourgogne.fr) * Claire Bourgeois (claire.bourgeois-republique at u-bourgogne.fr) * Jean Baptiste Thomas (Jean-Baptiste.Thomas at u-bourgogne.fr) * Elie Raad (webmaster, elie.raad at u-bourgogne.fr) More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS