From rsandusky at gmail.com Mon May 1 12:32:50 2017 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 11:32:50 -0500 Subject: [Siguse-l] Register for the 2017 DataONE Users Group Meeting Message-ID: Dear DataONE Community Please mark your calendars for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting to be held July 24th ? 25th 2017 and co-located with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting will be a 2-day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions, and community-led discussions. There is no registration fee to attend and participate in the DUG meeting Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2017 Meeting Theme and Objectives The 2017 meeting theme, ?Data Discoverability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability?, will bring together stakeholders to explore current advancements in these areas. Community talks and posters that explore broad topics of discoverability, reproducibility and sustainability are invited. Some examples are provided below: Data Discoverability: ?Describing, Documenting, and Representing Data ?Connecting journal articles to datasets to repositories ?Distinguishing between publishing, data, preservation repositories Reproducibility: ?Best Practices, Guidelines, and Standards ?Procedures, Tools, and Workflows ?Projects, Prototypes, and Use Cases Sustainability: ?Collaborations, Partnerships, and Stakeholders ?Infrastructure, Resources, and Support ?Computation, Integration, and Certification DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. Abstract Submission for Posters and Talks Abstracts for talks and posters are solicited during the registration process. Talks will be approximately 10-20 minutes in duration, to be confirmed with development of the agenda. Submissions for talks will be accepted until June 2nd 2017. Oral presentations are not guaranteed and some submissions may be accepted as posters instead. Poster submissions will remain open until July. Important dates Oral Abstract Submission Deadline: June 2nd 2017 Author Notification: June 12th 2017 Thanks! Bob Sandusky University of Illinois at Chicago DataONE Users Group Steering Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yanglegd at gmail.com Wed May 3 15:02:27 2017 From: yanglegd at gmail.com (yanglegd at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 12:02:27 -0700 Subject: [Siguse-l] Le Yang has shared a document on Google Docs with you Message-ID: Le Yang has invited you to view the following document: Open in Docs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rieh at umich.edu Mon May 8 10:37:12 2017 From: rieh at umich.edu (Soo Young Rieh) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 10:37:12 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] ACM CHIIR 2018 Call for Papers and Proposals Message-ID: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced ?cheer?) which will take place during March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Conference Website: ?http://sigir.org/chiir2018/? *Conference Scope and Topics* Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. ACM CHIIR 2018 invites submissions on user-centered approaches to information access, retrieval, and use, including studies of interactive systems, novel interaction paradigms, new evaluation methods, and a range of related areas. Alongside with detailed studies on specific information retrieval systems and situations, we welcome longitudinal, real-life, and ethnographic research of contextually embedded search tasks. Due to the rapidly increasing use of online and social media-oriented information interaction in all areas of human life - including work, leisure, and education - there has never been a more important time to consider, both empirically and theoretically, the consequences that search options, search strategies, recommendation systems, visualization, social media groups and other aspects of information interaction can have on the development of both individuals and society as a whole. Submissions focusing on user-centered work in the area of information interaction and retrieval are welcome, for example: ? Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies ? Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery ? Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing ? Modeling and simulation of information interaction ? Search user interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains ? Information use, including measures of use as well as broader sense-making ? Field and case studies relevant to understanding prerequisites for information searching, design and access ? User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability ? Human interaction and experience with mobile searching and services ? User-Centered Design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems ? Context-aware and personalized search and design, contextual features and analysis for information interaction ? Information visualization and visual analytics, including search result presentation ? Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction *Contribution Types* *Full papers:* High quality, original research of relevance to CHIIR may be submitted as a full paper (10 pages). Submissions are expected to contain a rigorous evaluation of any proposed findings, using techniques such as laboratory studies, field experiments, in situ observational studies, crowdsourcing, simulations of search behavior, or log analysis. Authors should describe their methods and techniques in enough detail to allow for replication and reuse. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings, and presented as paper presentations at the conference. *Perspective papers:* A special category of full papers (10 pages), perspective papers should present novel ideas or insights concerning approaches, key challenges, or theoretical or methodological issues that have the potential to inspire substantive discussion and lead to significant advances in the field. These papers should not consist primarily of literature reviews or the presentation of stand-alone studies, but may take the form of: ? Reflections upon the body of research, considering how the field, the theories, the models, and the methods have developed; ? Discussion of the implications of research findings on users in the real world; ? Proposals for and discussions of theories or models of information-interaction; or ? Critical, provocative, and creative contributions to stir debate and discussion. *Short papers:* Short Papers (4 pages) should report on original, significant, high-quality research. A short paper is likely to present a more focused study, and tends to make a smaller scope of contribution to the research program than full papers. For example, reporting on work in progress, preliminary research analysis, or late-breaking results may be suitable for Short Papers. This might be a good venue for those researchers who are new to the CHIIR community to become familiar with the field. Accepted short papers will be published in the proceedings, and presented as posters at the conference. *Demonstrations:* Demonstrations (4 pages) should enable presenters to give participants first-hand experience of novel research prototypes, operational systems, or in-progress concepts in development. The submission should both describe and show the proposed solution, addressing questions such as: What problem does the prototype/system/concept seek to address? How does it do so? Who are the users? How will you demonstrate this work? How does the work compare with those that exist already? Finally, how, where and when will your technology have a technical or commercial impact? The authors will have an opportunity of submitting a short video to show how their demo works. Wireless network access, along with a table and poster mount backdrop, will be provided for all accepted demonstrations. A paper describing each accepted demonstration will be included in the conference proceedings. *Doctoral Consortium: *Doctoral Consortium proposals (3 pages) should include the abstract, motivation, research questions, (planned or ongoing) methodology, progress made, and future plans. The CHIIR Doctoral consortium, held in conjunction with the main conference, provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. The Doctoral Consortium focuses on 1) advising students regarding current critical issues in their research, and 2) making students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their research as viewed from different perspectives. Accepted proposals are eligible for publication in the proceedings. *Workshops: *Original Workshop Proposals (4 pages) should be highly interactive and could be either full-day or half-day. We welcome workshops that address important issues, discuss potential solutions, integrate various approaches, and offer innovative perspectives within the themes of the conference and have strong potential to contribute to the evolution of research and development of human computer interaction and information retrieval. *Tutorials:* Proposals for Tutorials (4 pages) should address topics relevant to the themes of the conference and could be either full-day or half-day. Each proposal is expected to cover the selected topic in depth by providing the audience with different perspectives, approaches, and recent developments and advances in the community. The accepted Workshops and Tutorials will be included in the conference proceedings. *Deadlines* *1 October 2017 *- Full papers and Perspectives papers due *22 October 2017 *- Short papers, Demos, Workshops and Tutorials proposals due *1 November 2017* ? Doctoral Consortium applications due *15 December 2017* - Notification of acceptance *Submission Guidelines* ? CHIIR submissions should be original, high quality research that has not been published previously and are not under review for another conference or journal. ? An international program committee will review all submissions. ? All reviews will be double-blind, so submissions must be fully anonymized when submitted. ? The page limits for each type of submission includes references. ? All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF. ? All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CHIIR series. ? 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The ISIC conferences have a reputation for being an arena for discussing challenging work concerning people's contextualised interactions with information of various kinds. To see the proceedings of previous ISIC conferences please visit: http://www.isic2018.com/paper-submission/conference-proceedings.html ISIC is multidisciplinary in scope: researchers from information science, information studies, library studies, communication studies, information management, education, management science, psychology, social psychology, sociology, STS, information systems, computer science, and other disciplines contribute to the research field. A common thread is the focus on contextualised information activities, expressed in different framings such as 'information behaviour', 'information practice', 'information seeking' 'information experience' and others. ISIC 2018 intends to reflect and engage with the interdisciplinary character of information activities research and seeks to attract papers from all of these areas. ISIC is a conference for research papers exploring information as a rich site of study, going beyond the sole focus on technological aspects and exploring a wide variety of contexts. This legacy is borne out in the publication of the conference proceedings since the first conference in the series over 20 years ago. The ISIC conference is particularly interested in analytical rather than descriptive investigations. For more information about the suggested themes of the papers please visit: http://www.isic2018.com/paper-submission/call-for-papers.html The language of the conference will be only English and translators will not be available. Important dates Papers and Posters *Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2018 *Poster submission deadline: 1 March 2018 Pre-Conference Workshop proposals * Workshop proposals should be sent by 15 January 2018 Pre-Conference Doctoral Workshop submissions *Doctoral workshop submission deadline: 1 April 2018 Registration *Early bird registration ends: 30 June 2018 *Late registration ends: 7 September 2018 To see more important dates please visit: http://www.isic2018.com/important-dates.html Associate Professor Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Chair, Permanent ISIC Committee Assistant Professor Remigiusz Sapa Chair, ISIC2018 Committee ****************************************************** Heidi Julien, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo 526 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: 716-645-1474 Fax: 716-645-3775 Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu ****************************************************** "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." 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URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri May 19 13:26:39 2017 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 19:26:39 +0200 Subject: [Siguse-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended submission date: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand 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 Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", 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 2016 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 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks 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 Deadline: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)