From jlorince at indiana.edu Thu May 1 00:32:59 2014 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 00:32:59 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] =?utf-8?b?V2ViU2NpICcxNCDigIsgZGF0YSBjaGFsbGVuZ2XigIsg?= =?utf-8?q?deadline_extensions_+_accepted_papers/posters?= Message-ID: *** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS, PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY *** The WebSci Data Visualization Challenge deadline has been EXTENDED until ? May 12? . $1000 in prizes! For details, see: http://websci14.org/#call-for-data-visualization-challenge . The list of accepted papers and posters, and the full conference schedule are now online: http://websci14.org/#accepted-papers http://websci14.org/#accepted-posters http://websci14.org/#schedule ACM Web Science 2014 will be held 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University, Bloomington. Further information available at http://www.websci14.org/. 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URL: From cristiand at cs.stanford.edu Mon May 12 12:04:50 2014 From: cristiand at cs.stanford.edu (Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:04:50 +0200 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Participation + Travel Grants - Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Social Science Message-ID: Call for Participation: WORKSHOP on LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY and COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE At the 2014 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) June 26, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/LACSS_2014.html NEW! Application for travel support, due May 14 (see below) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Amber Boydstun (Political Science, University of California, Davis) Ed Chi (Google) Justin Grimmer (Political Science, Stanford University) Lillian Lee (Computer Science, Cornell University) Philip Resnik (Linguistics, University of Maryland) Sali Tagliamonte (Linguistics, University of Toronto) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION A major growth area in applied natural language processing has been the field of computational social science, in which automated techniques are applied to massive datasets to answer scientific questions about society. Although much work in computational social science focuses on structured data or network data, linguistic data is also central. While some existing natural language processing techniques have found use in this growing community, new techniques for discovering and analyzing social meanings and structures in text are in high demand. Tackling these challenges should be an interdisciplinary pursuit, building on expertise not just in language technologies but also in substantive social science fields (e.g., political science, economics, sociology, etc.). In particular, engagement between NLP researchers and social scientists will introduce new problem formulations and new theoretical frameworks that will broaden and deepen applications of language technology to social science. The goal of this workshop is to increase the visibility of this application area for ACL researchers and to help build connections between language technologists and social scientists. The workshop is organized around invited talks from researchers who have successfully brought language technologies to computational social science research questions. Following each invited talk session, there will be an open discussion period. TRAVEL GRANTS Thanks to generous grants from the National Science Foundation and from Google, we can offer limited support for registration, travel, and accommodations. Priority will be given to non-CS participants, to members of underrepresented groups, and to graduate students. A short application for support can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mLMlnMmt_QUbGD4piRxTdpEnk8JpcZTniIr1_P9iIew/viewform Applications will be accepted until May 14, 2014. Early registration prices for ACL are available until May 17. Note that we will reimburse no more than the early registration rates, so please register promptly. http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/Registration.htm From mcunha at ipca.pt Tue May 13 18:39:37 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:39:37 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Chapter Proposals: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine Message-ID: <201405132239.s4DMdqhd002959@mail.asis.org> - This mail is a HTML mail. Not all elements could be shown in plain text mode. - Call for Chapter Proposals: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine http://bit.ly/1hMjfbr Editors Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha - Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Isabel Miranda - Municipality of Guimar?es, Portugal Call for Chapters Proposals (abstract) Submission Deadline: May 18, 2014 Full Chapters Due: September 30, 2014 Use this link to Propose a chapter for this book http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1355 Introduction Health and social care, e-Health, Telemedicine, are at the center of the research policies, on the research agenda of the world governments and are facing major developments. This publication intends to put together, in a comprehensive way, the problems of ageing, health, health care, social care, mobility, ageing well, quality of life of people with special needs, user needs analysis, and the recent approaches provided by ICT, such as e-Health and Telemedicine, new technologies, new applications, emerging trends, the ethical and legal implications (eg. clinical records) and case studies. It is an ambitious project of addressing the social, technological, organizational, ethical and legal aspects of the topic. Objective The mission of the Encyclopedia of e-Health and Telemedicine is to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to this new field of knowledge able to transform the way we live and deliver services, from the social, technological and organizational dimensions, in a very comprehensive way, and to disseminate current developments and practical solutions and applications. The overall objectives are: To discuss the importance of e-Health, Telemedicine, ICT-based healthcare and social care delivery, and the emerging technological developments and practical solutions. To introduce the state-of-the-art supporting technology. To introduce and discuss the challenges associated with e-Health developments, from the social, organizational and technological perspectives. To introduce recent technological developments and associated human, ethical and legal implications. Target Audience The encyclopedia intends to be a tool for researchers, academics, professionals of medicine, healthcare and social care, professionals of IT, providing some of the most advanced research, concepts, applications, developments, discussions and case studies on digital crime and digital threats from one side, and security, privacy, information assurance, law and regulation, and human aspects, on the other. Recommended Topics The Encyclopedia intends to collect the most recent contributions on the social and technological dimensions of the largely multidisciplinary field of e-Health and Telemedicine. It is intended to cover the following aspects: The technological dimension that enables and supports teleservices, telemedicine, teleoperation and telemonitoring. The technological dimension includes: Information systems and technologies Communication technologies Monitoring technologies Information and systems integration Electronic medical records Electronic devices The social and human dimensions, which explores motivations, benefits and emergent effects of e-Health project implementations, and which include, for example: Increased quality of life Increased life expectancy Trust and privacy issues Ethical aspects Legal aspects Training Organizational aspects and management of e-health services Business and entrepreneurial perspective focusing on the added value of specific applications Impact, implications and challenges (social and technological) of e-Health On individuals, families and communities On organizations and business On scientific knowledge and on research Ongoing developments, applications and case studies Emerging solutions Relevant R&D projects Integration between applications and solutions Current development trends Integration with other disciplines: Sociology Psychology Gerontology Distributed technologies and systems Knowledge management Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal (an extended abstract of around 300 to 500 words) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of a proposed chapter by May 18, 2014 .. Submissions should be made through the link at the bottom of this page. Please include all information about the author and co-authors, affiliations and email addresses when submitting your chapter proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 25, 2014 about the status of their proposals. Full articles (at around 3,000 to 5,000 words) are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2014 .. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com .. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015. Important Dates Proposal Submission Deadline: May 18, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2014 Full chapter submission: September 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: December 30, 2014 Revised version of accepted chapters: January 15, 2015 Submission of Final Chapters: February 15, 2015 Inquiries Isabel Maria Miranda, isabel.m.f.miranda at gmail.com Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, mcruzcunha at gmail.com Propose a chapter for this book http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1355 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perkintj at miamioh.edu Tue May 13 18:59:25 2014 From: perkintj at miamioh.edu (Perkins, Jody) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:59:25 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting ----- We invite submissions for DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, tools and techniques in the Digital Humanities, to be held in conjunction with the ACM Document Engineering 2014 conference. http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014 Digital Humanities is rapidly becoming a central part of humanities research, drawing upon tools and approaches from Computer Science, Information Organization, and Document Engineering to address the challenges of analyzing and annotating the growing number and range of corpora that support humanist scholarship. == Focus of workshop >From cuneiform tablets, ancient scrolls, and papyri, to contemporary letters, books, and manuscripts, corpora of interest to humanities scholars span the world?s cultures and historic range. More and more documents are being transliterated, digitized, and made available for study with digital tools. Scholarship ranges from translation to interpretation, from syntactic analysis to multi-corpus synthesis of patterns and ideas. Underlying much of humanities scholarship is the activity of annotation. Annotation of the "aboutness" of documents and entities ranges from linguistic markup, to structural and semantic relations, to subjective commentary; annotation of "activity" around documents and entities includes scholarly workflows, analytic processes, and patterns of influence among a community of scholars. Sharable annotations and collaborative environments support scholarly discourse, facilitating traditional practices and enabling new ones. The focus of this workshop is on the tools and environments that support annotation, broadly defined, including modeling, authoring, analysis, publication and sharing. We will explore shared challenges and differing approaches, seeking to identify emerging best practices, as well as those approaches that may have potential for wider application or influence. == Call We invite contributions related to the intersection of theory, design, and implementation, emphasizing a "big-picture" view of architectural, modeling and integration approaches in digital humanities. Submissions are encouraged that discuss data and tool reuse, and that explore what the most successful levels are for reusing the products of a digital humanities project (complete systems? APIs? plugins/modules? data models?). Submissions discussing an individual project should focus on these larger questions, rather than primarily reporting on the project's activities. This workshop is a forum in which to consider the connections and influences between DH annotation tools and environments, and the tools and models used in other domains, that may provide new approaches to the challenges we face. It is also a locus for the discussion of emerging standards and practices such as OAC (Open Annotation Collaboration) and Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LODLAM). See also: http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014/cfp == Submission procedures Papers should be submitted at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcase2014 . An abstract of up to 400 words must be submitted by June 1st, and the deadline for full papers (6 to 8 pages) is June 8, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Papers must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings format. Up to three papers of exceptional quality/impact will be invited to submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) for inclusion in the DocEng 2014 conference proceedings. == Key dates: June 1 Abstracts due (400 words max) June 8 Full workshop papers due June 30 Notification of acceptance to workshop. Up to 3 papers may be invited to submit extended abstracts Sept. 16 Workshop We look forward to seeing you in Ft. Collins! Workshop Organizers: Patrick Schmitz, Laurie Pearce, Quinn Dombrowski ----- Jody Perkins Digital Scholarship Librarian / Metadata Specialist Center for Digital Scholarship Miami University Libraries perkintj at miamioh.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Thu May 15 03:50:45 2014 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 09:50:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP ACM MEDES 2014 (extended deadline to 8 June 2014) In-Reply-To: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> * Due to several requests, The ACM MEDES Submission Deadline has been EXTENDED * * 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 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 ---------------- 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 Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA 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 ierick at gmail.com Fri May 16 07:37:16 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 07:37:16 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: iConference 2015 Message-ID: <5375F86C.3070005@gmail.com> Call for Participation iConference2015 http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ The iConference is an international gathering of scholars and researchers concerned with critical information issues in contemporary society. iConference 2015 takes place March 24-27 in Newport Beach, California. The following submissions are invited: *Submission Type* *Deadline* *Notification* Papers Friday, September 5, 2014, midnight PDT mid-November Posters Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT mid-November Workshops Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT Monday, October 27, 2014 Interactive Sessions Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT mid-November Doctoral Colloquium Friday, September 12, 2014, midnight PDT Friday, October 24, 2014 Social Media Expo Participation commitment letter due October 14, 2014; submissions due December 15, 2014. Thursday, January 15, 2015 Dissertation Award Wednesday, October 15, 2014, midnight PDT Thursday, January 15, 2015 iConference 2015 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. All information researchers and scholars are welcome. Sample topics of past iConferences include the following: ?social computing ?human-computer interaction ?digital youth ?digital curation and preservation ?information retrieval ?bibliometrics and scholarly communication ?social, cultural, health and community informatics ?knowledge infrastructures ?computer-supported cooperative work ?data, text and knowledge mining ?computational social science ?digital humanities ?network science ?information and communication technology for development ?data science ?information economics ?information work and workers ?user experience and design ?information systems ?information policy The Champion Sponsor of iConference 2015 is Microsoft Research. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ ________________________________________ Ingrid Erickson Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science School of Communication & Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 email: ingrid.erickson at rutgers.edu office: DeWitt 303 (185 College Ave.) phone: +1.848.932.7195 fax: +1.732.932.6916 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhuns at vt.edu Tue May 20 09:15:56 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:15:56 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research Message-ID: Apologies for crossposting, please distribute as appropriate: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author?s email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain