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: [Siguse-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 sfaletar at ffos.hr Thu May 29 03:23:34 2014 From: sfaletar at ffos.hr (Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 09:23:34 +0200 Subject: [Siguse-l] Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA), 16-20 June 2014, Zadar, Croatia Message-ID: <40f8c3d0bd237a5154019dd54d051bb0.squirrel@knjiga.ffos.hr> Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the biennial international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) which will take place 16 - 20 June 2014 in Zadar, Croatia. There are still few tickets available so check your dates and pack your sun block! This year's conference theme is divided into two parts. The first part addresses advances in qualitative assessment methods and practices and the second part covers assessment methods involving alternative metrics based on social media and a wider array of communicative activities, commonly referred to as ?altmetrics.? Professors Tefko Saracevic (Rutgers University, US) and Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic (University of Zadar, Croatia) will open the Conference. Over a period of five busy conference days participants will have a chance to listen to dozens of renowned international speakers, and in particular our invited speakers who will address the conference topics from many aspects: ?David Bawden (Centre for Information Science City University London, UK): 'The noblest pleasure'?: on gaining understanding from qualitative research ?Blaise Cronin (School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, US): Beethoven vs. Bieber: on the meaningfulness of (alt)metrics ?Elke Greifeneder (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark) Big data does not equal big picture ?Donald Case (University of Kentucky, US): Sixty years of measuring the use of information and its sources: from consultation to application ?Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Indiana University, US): The Metric Menagerie: Tweets, Likes, and Other Social Media Metrics in the Library ?Paul Wouters (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Netherlands): The metrics acumen: supporting individual researchers in assessment ?Marija Brajdi? Vukovi? (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Challenges of globalized evaluation practices in the context of semi-peripheral and localized knowledge production This year's Guest of honour is professor Garry Marchionini (University of North Carolina, US) who will present on "Libraries and literacies: from I to we". All information on LIDA conference, including accommodation and registration, is available at http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Looking forward to welcoming you in Zadar! Best, Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, LIDA 2014 OC -- izv. prof. dr. sc. Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic Odsjek za informacijske znanosti, Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek E-posta: sfaletar at ffos.hr Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, PhD Associate Professor Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek, Croatia E-mail: sfaletar at ffos.hr From rieh at umich.edu Wed May 28 23:21:59 2014 From: rieh at umich.edu (Soo Young Rieh) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 23:21:59 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] Deadline Extension: Search as Learning (SAL) IIiX 2014 Workshop Message-ID: Extended Paper Submission Deadline: June 13, 2014 Acceptance notification: June 29, 2014Workshop in Regensburg, Germany: August 30, 2014 Paper submissions to the Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2014)Search as Learning Workshop have been extended to June 13, 2014. Papers should be in the ACM conference style and submitted in pdf form via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4l2014 To learn more about the workshop, please visit the Workshop Website: http://www.diigubc.ca/IIIXSAL/ Search systems to date have been viewed more as tools for the retrieval of content to satisfy information needs, than as environments in which humans interact with information content in order to learn. However, as full-text, information rich search systems become the norm, there is growing recognition of the importance of studying and designing search systems to foster discovery and enhance learning experience during the search process outside formal educational settings. The research agenda of ?Search as Learning? will provide opportunities and challenges for researchers to reconsider the value of search systems in providing support for learning directly and to pay more attention to broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results. The IIiX Searching as Learning workshop aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, survey state-of-the-art approaches, and build community around this important emerging research area. We are particularly interested in engaging researchers across the information retrieval, information behaviour, human computer interaction and learning science fields. Areas of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: ? Understanding searching as a human learning process ? When and how learning occurs in the search process ? The relationship between the learning process and searchers? work task contexts ? Features and functionalities to foster learning ? Search interface design in support of learning ? The implications of searching for learning for different populations ? The role of affect and engagement on learning while searching ? Methods and measures to assess learning performance and experience ? Implicit indicators of learning (while searching) ? Interaction monitoring and optimization for learning outcomes We are soliciting submission of 3-4 page position papers from single or multiple authors to encourage sharing of ideas and a lively discussion. Position papers may include preliminary reports of research, proposals for new work, or follow a more traditional position paper format. All papers will be single blind peer reviewed by members of the program committee and assessed for their relevance to the workshop and their likelihood to generate discussion. Papers considered outside the scope of the workshop will not be accepted for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. A small number of papers will be selected for presentation. All papers will be circulated to workshop attendees. Organizers: ? Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada ? Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin, USA ? Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden ? Jiyin He, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ? Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ? Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan, USA Program Committee ? Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow ? Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia ? Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin ? Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden ? Jiyin He, University of Amsterdam ? Kal Jarvelin, University of Tampere ? Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ? Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina ? Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia ? Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia ? Andreas Nuernberger, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg ? Heather O'Brien, University of British Columbia ? Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University ? Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan, USA ? Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere ? Max Wilson, University of Nottingham ?? Please contact l?uanne.freund at ubc.ca or any of the organizers directly for further information about the workshop?. ? --------------------------------------------- Soo Young Rieh, Associate Professor School of Information, University of Michigan rieh at umich.edu Personal Website: http://rieh.people.si.umich.edu IBI Research Group Website: http://ibi.si.umich.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rong.tang at simmons.edu Fri May 30 19:23:00 2014 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:23:00 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] FINAL CALL - New Leaders award deadline - JUNE 2. In-Reply-To: <4B2D82C3EFE0FD45A7C3BEBD4ED993A76D9D31F9@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> References: <4B2D82C3EFE0FD45A7C3BEBD4ED993A76D9D31F9@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Message-ID: FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LaBarre, Kathryn Anne Date: Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:10 AM Subject: [Asis-l] FINAL CALL - New Leaders award deadline - JUNE 2. To: "asis-l at asis.org" Are you an current ASIST member in your first three years of membership? Would you like to help to provide input and perhaps even assist in revisioning or improving an ASIST Chapter, SIG and/or Committee? Please consider applying to be one of the New Leaders in the 2014 cohort. Eight awards are available for 2014. Awardees will be assigned a mentor, and will receive travel (up to $1000) and free conference registration for the 2014 and 2015 annual meetings. How do I apply? Find out full details of this award and the application process here (and below): https://www.asis.org/awards/asistnewleadersaward.html If you have any questions please contact the Chair of the New Leader Committee, Kathryn La Barre klabarre at illinois.edu ASIS&T New Leaders Award Guidelines *Objective* To recruit, engage, and retain new members and to identify potential for new leadership in the Association. *Eligibility* Only members in their *first three years of membership* are eligible to apply (student or regular). NEW Deadline The application is due no later than JUNE 2, *2014*. *Award amount* If selected, you will receive: Up to $1000 in travel expense reimbursement to defray the cost of attending the Annual Meetings. This must be split over two consecutive Annual Meetings, with the reimbursement cost of a single meeting not to exceed $700. Free conference registration for these two years (excluding seminars, workshops and other special events, although these can be reimbursed from the travel expenses provided). *Application* Details below: ASIS&T New Leaders Award Application Each applicant must submit a statement (no more than 500 words) detailing: a. Why you would like to attend the ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting b. What benefits you would derive c. Your previous involvement in ASIS&T (if any) d. Your plans for future involvement in ASIS&T Along with your application, applicants must select the regional or student chapter to which they feel most connected (if applicable), a SIG (or multiple) and/or ASIS&T committee (such as Membership) in which they would like to be involved. Applicants are asked to select no more than 3 in each category (across chapters, SIGS, and committees) and to present these on their application in rank order. The rank order indicates the Chapter, SIG, or Committee in which the applicant would most like to become involved. If the applicant is already heavily involved in one of these units, it is suggested that they choose a new unit with which they have less familiarity. The selection committee will check all potential awardees to ensure that the applicant is a current member of ASIS&T The application should be submitted online by* May 15, 2014*. A current CV/resume of the applicant should be uploaded with the application no later than May 15th, 2014. *Selection* The applications will be reviewed by the selection committee, comprised of members from Chapter Assembly, SIG Cabinet and the ASIS&T Board. At least four members will comprise this committee. The selection committee will make selections based on the potential of the applicant to contribute to the Society. In addition, an effort will be made to distribute applicants across multiple SIGs, Chapters, and Committees. No more than 8 awards will be made for 2014. Applicants will be notified by June 15, 2014. ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l -- Rong Tang, PhD. Visiting Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (February 2014-June 2014) Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Simmons College rong.tang at simmons.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: