From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri Apr 6 02:50:28 2012 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 08:50:28 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] CFP: 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'12), Addis Ababa-Ethiopia Message-ID: <9cEkN5BBvLvsKKhalhoQG0c2GDujjzv45kiEMaGr9TDJ@u-bourgogne.fr> ------ Sorry for cross-postings -------- The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2012) In-Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/12/ October 28-31, 2012 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 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 - Green computing - Emergent Intelligence - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Data & Knowledge Management - Web and Standards - Human-Computer Interaction - Networks and Protocols - Open Source - Miscellaneous 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 05th, 2012 - Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September 3rd, 2012 - Rebuttal Deadline: September 7th, 2012 - Final Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2012 - Camera Ready: September 20th, 2012 - Conference Dates: October 28-31, 2012 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. General Chair -------------- Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Program Chair -------------- Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France 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 Publicity and Publication Chair ------------------------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Local Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Solomon Atnafu (Chair), Addis Ababa University Sebsibe H/Mariam, Addis Ababa University Mulugeta Libsie, Addis Ababa University Salehu Anteneh, Addis Ababa University Dida Midekso, Addis Ababa University Rahel Bekele, Addis Ababa University Dejene Ejigu, Addis Ababa University Fekade Getahun, Addis Ababa University International Program Committee -------------------------------- (See website of the conference) From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Apr 16 04:57:38 2012 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:57:38 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Call for Springer Book Chapters: Security and Privacy preserving in Social Networks (extended chapter description proposal deadline) Message-ID: ------ Sorry for cross-postings -------- ########################################################################################################################## Book on Security and Privacy preserving in Social Networks To be published by Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Social Networks) http://dbconf.u-bourgogne.fr/Springer/ Description and Objectives --------------------------- Online social networks provide users, within their platforms, powerful ways to interact with other users through different forms and modalities. Consequently, each user can search and check the profiles of her social network members (for various reasons), exchange messages with some of them, publish some photos, and post comments on shared photos, etc. Although such tools are attracting continuously more and more users, several security and privacy problems related to their usage are emerging. For instance, how to provide users with an easy way to protect their shared data? How to protect a data repository (e.g., photo album) while several related information about the same content is already published (by some user friends) on the same or other blog/wiki/social network? How to define publication strategies? etc. The general aim of this book is to assess the current approaches and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to the security and privacy protection of social networks. It provides an overview of the state of the art, latest techniques, studies, and approaches as well as future directions in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions from various research groups. The primary target audience for the book includes researchers, scholars, postgraduate students and developers who are interested in social network security and protection. Topics ------- Below is a non exhaustive list of topics to be addressed by the chapters: - Social network description and representation - Trust and privacy management - Risks and threats of social networking - Trace analysis on social networks - User profiling and related risks - Ethical conflicts in social networks as well as the moral implications - Relationship management and discovery - Anonymity preserving - Social terrorism - Social network-based access control - Abnormal activities on social networks Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are kindly invited first to send (before April 25, 2012) a brief email to the editors in which they provide a description of the chapter to be submitted. Full chapters (not exceeding 50 pages) must be uploaded before June 15th 2012 at: http://dbconf.u-bourgogne.fr/Springer/ All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Important Dates ---------------- - Deadline for brief chapter description proposal: April 25th, 2012 (extended) - Deadline for chapter submission: June 15th, 2012 - Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision of chapters: August 15th, 2012 - Deadline for submission of final chapters: September 15th, 2012 - Publication of the book: End of 2012 Editors -------------- Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France (richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr) B?chara Al Bouna, Qatar university, Qatar (bechara.albouna at gmail.com) International Editorial Board Members ------------------------------- (see the web site for the full list) From rhill at asis.org Thu Apr 19 08:15:48 2012 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:15:48 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Call for Nominations for ASIS&T Board Message-ID: <3811-220124419121548754@LEN-dick-2011> The ASIS&T Nominations Committee is identifying potential candidates to be nominated for the positions of President-Elect and two Directors-at-Large, to take office for 3-year terms beginning in October 2012 at the Annual Meeting. If you would like to recommend someone to be nominated for President-Elect or Director-at-Large or would like to be considered yourself, please send a statement outlining the person's prior contributions to ASIS&T to Linda C. Smith, Chair of the Nominations Committee (lcsmith at illinois.edu) by April 27. Linda C. Smith lcsmith at illinois _____ Richard B. Hill ASIS&T Executive Director Richard 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 nyu.yuning at gmail.com Fri Apr 20 13:25:44 2012 From: nyu.yuning at gmail.com (Ning) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:25:44 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] call for ASIS&T SIG-MED workshop proposal Message-ID: Hello all, ASIS&T 2013 Conference Workshop proposals are due April 30th. If you are interested in submitting a proposal or would like to collaborate on a proposal, please let Ning Yu (ning.yu at uky.edu) and Peggy Gross(mgross21 at jhmi.edu) know how we can help. We have a sample proposal example if you would like to see one. Thank you, Ning -- Ning Yu Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science College of Communications & Information Studies University of Kentucky http://ningyu.wikidot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: