From rhill at asis.org Thu Aug 1 12:08:05 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:08:05 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] ASIS&T Makes Key Editorial Appointment Message-ID: <3816-220138411685695@LEN-dick-2011> ASIS&T Makes Key Editorial Appointment August 1, 2013. The Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) in cooperation with Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the appointment of Dr. Gerald Beno?t as Editor of the ASIS&T Monograph Series. In this role, Beno?t will acquire and develop print and digital monographs covering a range of practical and theoretical topics in information science and technology and allied disciplines. The ASIS&T Monograph Series is a leading series of books and ebooks for students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of information science and technology. The series has been published by ITI on behalf of ASIS&T since 1991. In making the announcement, ASIS&T president Andrew Dillon said, ?We are pleased to have someone with a strong international orientation accept this position. With his language skills and broad teaching experience across the technical and cultural aspects of the field as well as his business experience as a consultant on information systems, Gerry is well-positioned to advance the monograph series for ASIS&T.? Gerald ?Gerry? Beno?t is an associate professor at the Simmons College of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School of Library and Information Science, teaching undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses. He holds a PhD from UCLA, an MS from Columbia, and degrees in French and Russian from the University of California, and also completed studies in mathematics and graphic design. Before entering academics he worked as a programmer/analyst for the College of Chemistry at UCLA?s UC Davis School of Medicine and as art director and partner at Imada Wong Park + Beno?t. He is a frequent reviewer for JASIST, the iSchool conferences, and ACM SIGIR. Thomas H. Hogan, Sr., ITI president and CEO and a past president of ASIS&T, said, ?We are very pleased to have found in Gerald Beno?t an editor with the skills and vision needed to bring this small but highly regarded series to the next level. As the information age accelerates, we look forward to working with Gerry and ASIS&T to provide authoritative, in-depth coverage of topics that matter to readers in the field.? Examples of current print and ebook titles in the ASIS&T Monograph Series may be found at books.infotoday.com/asist and books.infotoday.com/ebooks. For further information contact John B. Bryans, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Information Today, Inc. by email to jbryans at infotoday.com or call 609/654-6266, ext. 134. 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 Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Aug 26 08:34:44 2013 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:34:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Siguse-l] IEEE SITIS'13: Call for papers In-Reply-To: <902865149.11653683.1377520278592.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <2013923665.11654211.1377520484870.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Apologies for multiple diffusion CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== The 9th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS?13) December 2 - 5, 2013 In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing Kyoto Terrsa, Japan http://www.sitis-conf.org/ ====================================================================== 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 2013 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks: - The first track titled "Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)" focuses on emerging and novel concepts, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for information management related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions, has 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, etc. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including: Data Semantics, Web-Centric Systems, Big Data, Information System Interoperability, Cloud, Cooperative information and Distributed Systems, and Information security - 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. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including:Image Processing and Analysis, Signal processing, Image/Video Coding and Authentication, and Applications - The third track titled "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Application (MIRA)" focuses on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of multimedia information accessible in distributed computing environment. The internet, social networking, multimedia databases and management of multimedia cultural collections have created the need for cross-fields models, paradigms and techniques for efficient modeling, management and consumption of multimedia contents. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including Multimedia Query and Retrieval; Mobile and Location-Based Media, Social media and Social networking, Multimedia Security, and Multimedia Arts, Entertainment and Digital Culture. Submission and publication -------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS 2013 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 08th, 2013 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 06th, 2013 * Camera ready: October 13th, 2013 * Author registration: October 20, 2013 Committees ----------- General Chairs: Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Ernesto Damiani, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy WeCa Track Chairs: Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France MIRA Track Chairs: Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan SIT Track Chairs: Andrea Kutics, International Christian University, Japan Albert Dipanda, University of Bourgogne, France More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: http://www.sitis-conf.org/ From bstjean at umd.edu Wed Aug 28 11:27:07 2013 From: bstjean at umd.edu (Beth L St Jean) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:27:07 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] 2013 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Call for Participants Message-ID: <6AFF12DFB5B9F14FA4256C759C75456968D0F2FF@OITMX1001.AD.UMD.EDU> 2013 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Call for Participants Theme: Information Behavior on the Move: Information Needs, Seeking, and Use in the Era of Mobile Technologies Date: November 2, 2013 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Keynote Speaker: Dr. Caroline Haythornthwaite, Director and Professor of the School of Library, Archival & Information Studies, University of British Columbia ABOUT THE 2013 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM: We live in a time when mobile technologies are becoming more ubiquitous within people?s everyday lives, facilitating new forms of information seeking, sharing, creation, and re-use of information and data. Personal computer ownership has been far surpassed by mobile phone ownership and nearly equaled by smartphone ownership. In many developing countries, mobile computing has leapfrogged over personal computing in order to provide online access where none existed. Such prevalent use of cellphone and mobile technologies to access information has a significant impact on the study of information needs, seeking and use. These dramatic changes in technology preferences and use can be seen as altering the very ecology for the study of information behavior, and indeed, blur the contexts of systems and users. It can be argued that even those interactions that do not involve mobile technologies are influenced by the increasing mobility of information use. The 13th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) will explore the ways in which information ?on the move? is transforming or changing the nature of people?s information behaviors and the ways in which people?s information behaviors are, in turn, shaping technologies, services, work and leisure. We will also consider the impact of this transformation on the general assumptions and premises informing the research domain of information behavior. In this Symposium, we will explore the above themes through a keynote speech, short presentations, and small and large-group discussions. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: 1:30-1:45 Welcome and introduction 1:45-2:30 Keynote presentation 2:30-2:45 Break 2:45-3:20 Small group discussions 3:20-4:10 First round of Ignite talks 4:10-4:20 Break 4:20-5:10 Second round of Ignite talks 5:10-5:45 Small group discussions 5:45-6:15 Chatman Award research presentations by 2013 winner(s) (5 minutes), and 2012 winners, Joung Hwa ?Joy? Koo, Yong Wan Cho, and Melissa Gross of Florida State University (20 minutes). Joy and her colleagues will present their research regarding the information seeking practices of North Korean refugees in South Korea, with a focus on the relationship between the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms of this population and their information needs and information-seeking behaviors. Their award-winning research project is entitled ?Is Ignorance Really Bliss?: Understanding the Role of Information-Seeking in Coping with Severe Traumatic Stress among Refugees.? This portion of the Symposium will conclude with a presentation of this year?s SIG USE awards (5 minutes). 6:15-6:30 Wrap-up: Large group discussion and evaluations CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: For the short presentations, we invite researchers, graduate students, and practitioners to submit a ONE page proposal (no more than 500 words) in which they outline the topic and themes they would like to address during their Ignite talk. Each presenter will have 5 minutes to deliver his/her Ignite talk - 15 seconds to address each of the 20 slides they will have prepared for their talk, and will have an additional 3 minutes to take any questions that SIG-USE attendees may have. For an example of an Ignite talk, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa1IPkBFbg Proposed themes for submissions include: * Theoretical perspectives/frameworks that constitute the social, cultural and technological underpinnings of information behavior ?on the move?; * The extent to which new information and communication technologies (e.g., social media, mobile technologies) are revolutionary vs. evolutionary within various information behavior contexts; * How environments in which information is literally ?on the move? are providing a technological platform that facilitates the kinds of informal, social information sharing practices desired by users; * How a better understanding of people?s changing information behaviors might be used to inform the future development of information and communication technologies, services, practices, management and education; * What innovative strategies of inquiry and methods of data collection might be used to systematically investigate and fully capture and map ?information behavior on the move??; * Any other themes that relate to the Symposium topic of ?information behavior on the move? Submission guidelines for Ignite talk proposals: - Include your name, title, and institutional affiliation at the top of your proposal - Proposal text must not exceed 1 page (max. 500 words) - Submit proposal in pdf format - Name your file according to the following convention: ?2013_SIGUSESymposium_Lastname.pdf? - E-mail your proposal to Beth St. Jean (bstjean at umd.edu) by midnight EST on September 13, 2013. Please use ?SIGUSE Ignite Talk Proposal? as the subject line of your e-mail. - When you e-mail your submission, please be sure to indicate in the text of your e-mail whether or not we may post your proposal to the public SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium is conducted. IMPORTANT DATES: September 13, 2013: Ignite talk proposals are due October 4, 2013: Notification of acceptance of Ignite talk proposals October 25, 2013: E-mail your slides for your Ignite talk for uploading REGISTRATION FEES (Early bird/Regular): * SIG-USE Members: $110/$125 * ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $120/$135 * Non-Members: $135/$150 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, and coffee breaks. Please forward any questions that you have to Mega Subramaniam (mmsubram at umd.edu) or Beth St. Jean (bstjean at umd.edu). WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Mega Subramaniam (Co-Chair), University of Maryland; Beth St. Jean (Co-Chair), University of Maryland; Isto Huvila, ?bo Akademi University, Finland; Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia, Canada; Pei Lei, Nanjing University, China; Michael Olsson, University of Technology Sydney; Maria Souden, University College Dublin, Ireland; Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, University at Albany, State University of New York. To register for the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: http://www.asis.org/asist2013/register.html (early bird registration deadline: September 20, 2013) For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/ Hope to see you there! Mega Subramaniam & Beth St. Jean 2013 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs Beth St. Jean, Assistant Professor College of Information Studies - "Maryland's iSchool" Room 4117K Hornbake Bldg., South Wing University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-6573 From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Aug 26 10:46:01 2013 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:46:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Siguse-l] CFP IEEE SITIS 2013: 9th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (December 2-5, 2013 - Kyoto, Japan) In-Reply-To: <2069597235.209384.1346688407830.JavaMail.root@zstore02.rp.u-bourgogne.fr> References: <2069597235.209384.1346688407830.JavaMail.root@zstore02.rp.u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <384058603.11691610.1377528361402.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Apologies for multiple diffusion CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== The 9th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS?13) December 2 - 5, 2013 In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing Kyoto Terrsa, Japan http://www.sitis-conf.org/ ====================================================================== 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 2013 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks: - The first track titled "Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)" focuses on emerging and novel concepts, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for information management related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions, has 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, etc. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including: Data Semantics, Web-Centric Systems, Big Data, Information System Interoperability, Cloud, Cooperative information and Distributed Systems, and Information security - 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. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including:Image Processing and Analysis, Signal processing, Image/Video Coding and Authentication, and Applications - The third track titled "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Application (MIRA)" focuses on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of multimedia information accessible in distributed computing environment. The internet, social networking, multimedia databases and management of multimedia cultural collections have created the need for cross-fields models, paradigms and techniques for efficient modeling, management and consumption of multimedia contents. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including Multimedia Query and Retrieval; Mobile and Location-Based Media, Social media and Social networking, Multimedia Security, and Multimedia Arts, Entertainment and Digital Culture. Submission and publication -------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS 2013 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 08th, 2013 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 06th, 2013 * Camera ready: October 13th, 2013 * Author registration: October 20, 2013 Committees ----------- General Chairs: Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Ernesto Damiani, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy WeCa Track Chairs: Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France MIRA Track Chairs: Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan SIT Track Chairs: Andrea Kutics, International Christian University, Japan Albert Dipanda, University of Bourgogne, France More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: http://www.sitis-conf.org/