From rhill at asis.org Tue Mar 1 14:23:44 2011 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:23:44 -0500 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Still time to submit POSTERS for 2nd Researh Data Access and Preservation Summit Message-ID: <389-22011321192344198@LEN-dick-2011> [Apologies for multiple postings] The 2nd Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit Denver, CO | Hyatt Regency | March 31-April 1, 2011 http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/ Early Registration deadline is on or before 2/18/2011 In cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information The second Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit will take place on March 31-April 1, 2011 in Denver at the Hyatt Regency Denver. The RDAP summit will focus the state of institutional repositories in the academy and government agencies and efforts toward interoperability across these emerging systems. Clifford Lynch will keynote the meeting and the summit will include panels that focus on different approaches to building and operating IRs, efforts to support national (e.g., NSF?s data stewardship requirements) and scholarly (e.g., open and commercial publishers) linkages to IRs, and open discussions about the future of IRs and digital libraries. Submit Posters by Feb. 28: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-2011/ complete program at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/ Program outline: Keynote Clifford Lynch, CNI: Institutional Repositories Today and Tomorrow Panel 1 Institutional Repository Case Studies: Erin O'Meara, UNC: Organizer/Moderator Panel 2 NSF Data Management Plan Case Studies: Michael Giarlo, Penn State: Organizer/Moderator Panel 3 Data Publication Repositories: From Small to Large Data Joe Hourcle, NASA: Organizer/Moderator Panel 4. Data Archives in Federal Agencies: Bill Anderson, UT Austin, Oranizer/Moderator Panel 5. Policy-based Data Management Reagan Moore, UNC-RENCI: Organizer/Moderator Panel 6 Future of Digital Libraries: Gary Marchionini, UNC Organizer/Moderator Group activity and discussion: Main challenge in your institution; main challenge to field Posters Submit Posters to ASIST by February 28: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-2011/ Dick Hill _____ 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 yanz at ischool.utexas.edu Thu Mar 10 17:42:14 2011 From: yanz at ischool.utexas.edu (Yan Zhang) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:42:14 -0600 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Call for Papers: 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI) Message-ID: <4D7953C6.8090207@ischool.utexas.edu> 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2011) November 9-11, 2011 Miami, Florida, USA http://www.sighit.org/ihi2011 (mirror site: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/ihi2011/) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 23, 2011 11:59pm EST Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: August 30, 2011 11:59pm EST ABOUT THE CONFERENCE IHI 2011 is the main conference of the newly formed ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics (SIGHIT). IHI 2011 is ACM's premier community forum concerned with the application of computer science principles, information science principles, information technology, and communication technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness. The conference highlights the most novel technical contributions in computing-oriented health informatics and the related social and ethical implications. IHI 2011 will feature keynotes, a multi-track technical program including papers, demonstrations, and panels. New additions to the IHI 2011 program include tutorials and a doctoral consortium. IHI 2011 serves as a venue for the discussion of innovative technical contributions highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and technologies, even if available only in prototype form (e.g., a system is not deployed in production mode and/or evaluation may be performed by giving examples). We strongly encourage authors to submit their original contributions describing their algorithmic contributions, methodological contributions, and well-founded conjectures based on an application-oriented context. A paper does not have to be comprehensive and can focus on a single aspect of design, development, evaluation, or deployment. Contributions in the realm of social and behavioral issues might include empirical studies of health-related information use and needs, socio-technical studies on the implementation and use of health information technology, studies on health informatics in the context of community impact and implications, studies on public policies on leveraging health informatics infrastructure, among others. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The conference will accept both regular and short papers. Regular papers (6-10 pages in length) will describe more mature ideas, where a substantial amount of implementation, experimentation, or data collection and analysis will be described. Short papers (1-5 pages) can be less formal and will describe innovative ideas where a less degree of validation and implementation have occurred. All papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. The list of conference topics is available at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/ihi2011/Themes%20-%20web2011IHI.htm. The best papers of IHI 2011 will also be considered for journal publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). IHI 2011 has three tracks: analytics, systems, and human factors. " The analytics track focuses on data analysis. " The systems track focuses on building health informatics systems (e.g., architecture, framework, design, engineering, and application). " The human factors track focuses on understanding users or context, interface design, and user studies of health informatics applications. When submitting a paper, the authors must select a track that they regard as the most appropriate one for their paper. Before the review process starts, the PC co-chairs will check each paper and make adjustment if necessary to ensure the submission will be reviewed in the correct track. A subset of highly-ranked papers will have oral presentation slots. The other accepted papers, which are not selected for oral presentation, will be presented as posters. Submitted papers must not have appeared in, or be under consideration for, another conference, workshop, journal, or other target of publication. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR DEMOS IMPORTANT DATES Demo paper submission deadline: May 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: August 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF THE DEMO TRACK A submission proposal includes a demo paper and can optionally include a demo video, whose URL should be referred to in the textual demo description for reviewers to take into consideration when analyzing the submission. Note that the demo paper should differ from regular papers in several important aspects. (1) it should clearly describe the overall architecture of the system or technology demonstrated. (2) the paper should put great emphasis on the motivation of the work, on the applications of the presented system or technology, and on the novelty of the work. (3) the proposal should clearly describe the demo scenario. In particular, it should describe how the demo audience can interact with the demo system, to better understand the underlying technology. A list of IHI areas/topics can be found in the Call for Papers. For demos running over the web, a back-up scenario should be described, in case connectivity is limited at the demo venue. The notification for acceptance of demo papers is the same as that for regular papers. Accepted demo proposals will appear in the final proceedings and in ACM digital library. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM SUBMISSIONS IMPORTANT DATES Doctoral consortium submission deadline: May 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: August 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The doctorial consortium is expected to offer a supportive learning opportunity for doctoral students in two ways: (1) as a poster presentation during a poster session of the IHI conference and (2) as an article in the SIGHIT Record, the newsletter of SIGHIT (http://www.sighit.org/record/). Extended abstracts will not appear in the IHI conference proceedings. All extended abstract submissions for the doctoral consortium will be formally reviewed by the IHI Program Committee to ensure every accepted submission is appropriate for IHI. The conference organizers will work on ensuring that the doctoral consortium is well attended and have a vibrant discussion environment. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR NON-REFEREED EXTENDED ABSTRACTS IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstract submission deadline: August 8, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: August 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF THE NON-REFEREED EXTENDED ABSTRACT TRACK The non-refereed extended abstract track offers an opportunity for health informatics practitioners and researchers to present their work in progress in two ways: (1) as a poster presentation at the IHI conference and; (2) as an article in the SIGHIT Record, the newsletter of SIGHIT (http://www.sighit.org/record/). Extended abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. Although the non-refereed extended abstract submissions will not be formally reviewed, the IHI 2011 conference organizers will read all of the submissions to ensure every accepted submission is appropriate for IHI. The conference organizers will work on ensuring that poster sessions are well attended and have a vibrant discussion environment. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS IMPORTANT DATES Panel proposal submission deadline: May 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: August 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF PANEL PROPOSALS Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues on computing-oriented health informatics and appeal to IHI 2011 attendees with various health informatics-related expertise. The proposed panel should be provocative, insightful, and informative. A mix of industry, government, and academic panel members is encouraged. A panel typically includes approximately 4 panelists and a chair who serves as the moderator. The 90-minute panel should provide a balance between panelists' presentations/debate and audience interactions/discussions. Panelists must make a commitment to participate. If for any reason, one panelist cannot attend the panel, the panel chair must first obtain the approval of the conference general/PC chairs before making another arrangement. Panels will be featured prominently in the conference program. REVIEWING Panel proposals will be reviewed by the PC Co-Chairs and the Conference Leadership, based on the IHI attendees' likely interest in them, the expertise of the chairs and the panelists, and the planned interactivity. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposal submission deadline: May 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: August 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorials at IHI 2011 will be presented by domain experts to cover current topics directly relevant to the conference theme of computing-oriented health informatics (a list of IHI areas/topics can be found in the Call for Papers). Proposed tutorials should be comprehensive, informative, and appealing to IHI 2011 attendees. Each tutorial will be 120-minutes long. Tutorial instructors must make a commitment to prepare the tutorial materials (e.g., slides) that reflect the high quality standard of IHI. Tutorials will be free to all IHI 2011 attendees, and tutorial instructors will receive free registration but not any financial aid from the conference. All tutorials will be featured prominently in the conference program. REVIEWING Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the PC Co-Chairs and the Conference Leadership, based on the IHI attendees' likely interest in them, the breadth and depth of the topic(s), the planned materials to be used, and the expertise and credential of the instructor. ------------------------------ Yan Zhang, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information, University of Texas at Austin Phone: 512-471-9448; Fax: 512-471-3971; Office: UTA 5.434 URL: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~yanz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Mar 21 11:12:08 2011 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:12:08 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] CFP, ASIS&T 2011 Annual Meeting Message-ID: <389-22011312115128245@LEN-dick-2011> [Apologies for multiple postings] ASIST 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 9-13, 2011 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work Complete Call http://asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html The ASIST Annual Meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. ASIST 2011 will have the integrated program that is an ASIST strength by using six reviewing tracks, each with its own committee of respected reviewers to ensure that the conference meets your high expectations for standards and quality. These reviewers, experts in their fields, will assist with a rigorous peer-review process. 1) Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials: Deadline for submissions: May 31 2) Posters, Demos & Videos: Deadline for submissions: July 1 Submission URL http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM_2011/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit Dick Hill _____ 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 Mar 30 03:12:41 2011 From: Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:12:41 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ACM MEDES'11: Call For Papers Message-ID: <2xdSu7tnQDPnEOkgs7BOHWgvCKRr86G1po28JjA02RUN@u-bourgogne.fr> ***************** Apologies for cross-postings ***************** The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2011) In cooperation with 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, USA Ruoyi Zhou, Senior Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Mar 30 10:37:48 2011 From: Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:37:48 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ACM/IEEE SeceS'11: Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies - Lebanon (extended deadline: April 15th, 2011) Message-ID: ********************** sorry for cross postings ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 1st International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SeceS'11) Tehnically sponsored by ACM SIGAPP.fr In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP and IEEE Lebanon Computer Chapter Antonine University, Lebanon June 9-10, 2011 http://seces.upa.edu.lb Description ------------ Recently information technologies have invaded almost every aspect of our modern life. The effects of the World Wide Web and more recently Web 2.0, computers, and telecommunications on societies have emerged to cover new form of social cyberspace as reference to digital society or e-Society. In fact, the e-Society is the result of an emerging era of digitalizing different forms of multimedia information making time and space compression a constant evolving task. E-Society represents a revolutionary change in the way people interact with each others beyond countries boundaries. It provides individuals, such as end-users and organizations, the ability to easily share and publish corporate data, visions, and strategies. Nonetheless, with this emerging social interaction and the wide range of shared data, several privacy and confidentiality concerns arise. Mechanisms used to harvest social information represent a privacy threat for users in many situations and such concerns fall beyond security administrators duties and target end-users in their daily tasks. Approaches proposed in the literature to provide safe data publishing have several drawbacks related, on one hand, to the heterogeneous types of data addressed, and, on the other hand, to complexity in specifying privacy and security rules. Topics ------- The aim of the workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies is to pin down the latest techniques, studies, and approaches related to security and privacy preserving in the digital society in the following (but not limited) topics: * Access control * Content protection * Data protection * Database security * Data association detection * Data integrity * Information hiding * Inference detection * Inference elimination * Knowledge discovery and privacy * Multimedia mining threats * Multimedia security * Multimedia privacy * Multimedia hiding * Network security * Network intrusion detection * Quantifying threat * Social networks security * Social networks privacy preserving * Security and privacy policies * Security metrics * Secure cloud computing * Watermarking and steganography * Wireless and mobile security Accepted papers will be published by ACM and fully indexed by ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates --------------- Full Papers Submission (extended): April 15, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 10, 2011 Camera Ready Papers: May 15, 2011 Submissions ----------- Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the conference website. 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. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. Keynotes --------- Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Alban Gabillon, Universite de la Polynesie Francaise, France Lionel Brunie, INSA de Lyon, France Qutaibah Malluhi, University of Qatar, Qatar Workshop Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Bechara AL Bouna, Antonine University, Lebanon International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)