From pnielsen at ifi.uio.no Sat Apr 21 04:00:10 2018 From: pnielsen at ifi.uio.no (Petter Nielsen) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:00:10 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] International PhD course on Theories of Information Systems jointly by the University of Oslo and the University of Agder, Norway:: CANGE OF DATES Message-ID: <29c6272bbc384ebab3ac5c70d5e1feb7@mail-ex02.exprod.uio.no> =>> Sorry for the multiple post - this is just a change of dates for the first week of the course! The University of Oslo (UiO) and the University of Agder (UiA) jointly offers a 2 week intensive course on Theories of Information Systems. The course is open for national and international PhD-candidates. The course has its foundation in contemporary theories of Information Systems research, and focuses on the relationship between key theoretical approaches and research methodology, ontology, and epistemology; the appropriateness and usability of these approaches; the relationship and impact of Information System theories in relation to the topics of the candidates; comparing, appraising and critiquing theoretical/conceptual frameworks and the relationship between information technology (IT) and organization; and the various traditions of information systems research. **Application deadline, schedule and venues: Registration deadline: 15.06.2018 Week 1 10.09.2018 - 14.09.2018 Department of Informatics at UiO, Oslo, Norway https://goo.gl/maps/dw3BiBED8962 Week 2 22.10.2018 - 26.10.2018 Department of Information Systems at UiA, Kristiansand, Norway https://goo.gl/maps/z26Go4zMiFQ2 **Registration: Students not registered at UiA and UiO must register as guest student either at UiO or UiA. For more information, please contact one of the administrative responsible. Participants must arrange their own travel and accommodation. The course is approved as a 10 ECTS at UiO and UiA. There are no tuition fees. **Contact information: Academic responsible UiO: Sundeep Sahay (sundeeps at ifi.uio.no) Academic responsible UiA: Devinder Thapa (devinder.thapa at uia.no) Administrative responsible UiO: Mozhdeh Harat (mharat at ifi.uio.no) Administrative responsible UiA: Cecilie Rygh Mawdsley (cecilie.mawdsley at uia.no) Br. - Petter -- Associate Professor Information Systems Group University of Oslo Department of Informatics Ole-Johan Dahls Hus Gaustadalle?n 23B N-0373 Norway +47 41506058 pnielsen at ifi.uio.no http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/pnielsen/index.html http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petter_Nielsen From silarri at unizar.es Sat Apr 21 05:21:38 2018 From: silarri at unizar.es (Sergio Ilarri) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:21:38 +0200 Subject: [AISWorld] CFP SMAP 2018 - Deadline Extension Message-ID: <71980200-af04-7374-b9c7-7d84e5e9d624@unizar.es> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2018): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMAP 2018: Call for Papers * PRESENTATION: The 13th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2018) will take place in Zaragoza (Spain), on 6th and 7th September 2018. SMAP 2018 will be organized with the support of the Aragon Engineering Research Institute (I3A) - University of Zaragoza. The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) workshop is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization initiative, which was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation and personalization. However, as Social Media applications have substantially transformed the way organizations, communities, and individuals interact, we have the scopes of SMAP extended towards this new trend, seeking to bring together researchers from the social web as well as from the semantic web communities. After twelve successful workshops starting from Athens (2006), and then London (2007), Prague (2008), San Sebastian (2009), Limassol (2010), Vigo (2011), Luxembourg (2012), Bayonne (2013), Corfu (2014), Trento (2015), Thessaloniki (2016), and Bratislava (2017), the SMAP workshop series has been consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field. * AIM AND TOPICS: SMAP 2018 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -Content creation, annotation and modeling for semantic and social web -Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization -Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents -User modeling and dynamic profiling -Ontologies and reasoning -Multimedia standards -Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications -Recommender systems for mobile users -Web adaptation methods and techniques -Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems -Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) -Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities -User-generated content mechanisms -Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications -Privacy preserving data mining and social networks -Content customization and adaptation -Semantic context modeling and extraction -Context-aware multimedia applications -Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries -Multilingual content navigation -Intelligent personalized interfaces -Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) -Social web economics and business -Social network aggregation -Social data analytics -Social data mining -Adaptive/Personalized conversational media * IMPORTANT DATES: -Paper submission deadline: May 7, 2018 -Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2018 -Camera-ready submission deadline: July 4, 2018 -Registration for authors: July 10, 2018 -Early registration: July 12, 2018 -Late registration: September 1, 2018 -Workshop: 6-7th September, 2018 Please, avoid registration procedures during the summer. The University of Zaragoza is expected to be closed from August 1 to August 14, 2018, and with more limited support for administrative services since mid-July until the end of August. * SPECIAL SESSION ON NAVIGATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF BIG LINKED DATA: In addition, a Special Session on Navigation and Understanding of Big Linked Data will be held within the context of SMAP 2018. If you are submitting a paper to this special session, please indicate so through EasyChair or notify the organizers. Overview of the special session: Today, we are assisting at a staggering growth in the production and consumption of Linked Open Data (LOD) and in the generation of increasingly large datasets. In this scenario, it is crucial to provide special tools for researchers, domain experts, but also businessmen and citizens to understand and interact with LOD resources. In this special session, emphasis is drawn on the way data linked datasets might be selected by looking among the diverse open data portals, explored in order to understand their contents and queried to extract meaningful information for the user. Special emphasis is put on facilitating personalized knowledge extraction and in creating effective data visualizations. Topics for the special session: -Using Linked Data for personalized services -Dynamic profiling of Linked Data sources -Adaptive and personalized Linked Data exploration -Semantic annotation and information visualization -Personalization and adaptation issues for Big, Open and Linked Data -Linked Data widgets and dashboards -Linked Data and social media applications -Data journalism, analytics and visualizations based on Linked Data -Personalized search and exploration on the Web of Data -User modelling in Linked Data consumption -Statistical analysis, statistical learning and data mining for Big Linked Data -Open government, transparency, advantages for citizens -Big and open Linked Data to create smart cities -Environmental and agricultural data -Health data and intelligent systems -Active and healthy ageing data analytics Session Organizers Laura Po, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece * SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2018 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEE Xplore. SMAP 2018 is supported by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (technical co-sponsorship). For your convenience, you may use the LaTeX (http://smap2018.unizar.es/docs/windows_latex_template.zip) or MSWord (http://smap2018.unizar.es/docs/usletter_2014.doc) templates. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smap2018) in PDF format. * LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Sergio Ilarri (President) Fernando Bobillo Raquel Trillo Contact: smap2018 at unizar.es * GENERAL CHAIRS: Sergio Ilarri Fernando Bobillo Raquel Trillo Martin Lopez-Nores * PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Adel Alti, University of Setif, Algeria Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece Antonio Farina, University of Corunna, Spain Athanasios Loukopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Chrisa Tsinaraki, European Union - Joint Research Center (EU - JRC) Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece Dimitris Dranidis, CITY College, The University of Sheffield International Faculty, Greece Evaggelos Spyrou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Florence Sedes, Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Ioanna Lykourentzou, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Ioannis Karydis, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece Jan Paralic, Technical University in Kosice, Slovakia Jaroslav Zendulka, Technical University in Brno, Czech Republic Jose Pazos-Arias, University of Vigo, Spain Kristina Machova, Technical University in Kosice, Slovakia Laura Po, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Luisa Carpente, University of Corunna, Spain Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo, Spain Michal Kompan, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Michalis Stefanidakis, Ionian University, Greece Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Panagiotis Vlamos, Ionian University, Greece Panos Alexopoulos, Textkernel B. V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands Petr Saloun, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic Petros Kefalas, CITY College, The University of Sheffield International Faculty, Greece Philippe Roose, LIUPPA, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece Przemyslaw Kazienko, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Ramon Hermoso, University of Zaragoza, Spain Raquel Trillo-Lado, University of Zaragoza, Spain Sebastien Laborie, LIUPPA, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Theodoros Kotsilieris, TEI Peloponesse, Greece Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tomas Horvath, Eotvos Lorand University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg From silarri at unizar.es Sat Apr 21 05:32:11 2018 From: silarri at unizar.es (Sergio Ilarri) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:32:11 +0200 Subject: [AISWorld] Fifth Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2018) - Deadline Extension Message-ID: <5772b8c7-3dcc-c007-e98b-5989c4c65de4@unizar.es> Fifth Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2018) 25-27 June 2018 - Zaragoza, Spain http://ceri2018.unizar.es The Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval stems from the realization that a relevant research and business activity in the field has taken shape in Spain in the last few years, as is attested by the significant presence of Spanish researchers in the main scientific fora, and a raising corporate activity in the field. The Fifth Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2018) will be held at the Aragon Institute of Engineering Research of the University of Zaragoza, Spain, from 25th to 27th of June 2018: http://ceri2018.unizar.es. The conference aims to be a meeting forum for researchers, practitioners, and teaching professionals with an interest for the Information Retrieval field, where an overview of the activity in the Information Retrieval community can be obtained, seeking to provide a get-together for discussion and progress of future initiatives towards the promotion of IR, especially in Spain. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES In CERI 2018, submissions are divided into two categories: long and short papers. Besides, it is also possible to submit extended abstracts. * Long papers, submitted in PDF and written in English, must not exceed 8 pages following the ACM SIG Proceedings Format and they will be presented at the scientific sessions of the conference. * Short papers (posters) must not exceed 4 pages in the same format and will be exhibited and presented in a special poster session * Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or summarizing already published relevant results. These contributions must not exceed 4 pages (2 pages is the recommended length for this type of contributions) in the same format and will be exhibited and presented in a special session. CERI especially encourages PhD students and researchers in the early stage of their careers to submit their works. Also, contributions from industry will be considered. Papers should be prepared according to the ACM ?sigconf? proceedings template available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (see sample-sigconf.tex if using the Latex template, or ACM_SigConf.docx if using the Word template). All papers must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ceri2018). At least one author of each accepted work must register to the conference, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present her/his paper. Besides, all papers must be submitted in anonymized form. Thus, author names and organization, references, acknowledgements, and any other information that might allow to identify the authors should be removed from the initial submissions. Papers already published, accepted or under review in any other conference or journal will not be accepted. We also expect that authors will not submit their works to any other event during the reviewing period of CERI 2018. Regarding plagiarism considerations, ACM Plagiarism Policy will be applied. All scientists interested in IR related fields are welcome to participate. We encourage national and international researchers from both academia and industry to submit original papers, written either in Spanish or English, related to any aspect of IR including, but not limited to the following: -IR models -Performance, scalability, architectures and efficiency -Data structures on IR -Web IR -IR Quality Evaluation -User aspects: interaction, user studies and interfaces -Filtering and recommendation systems -Structured retrieval (XML, etc.) -Semantic search -Digital libraries -IR in social networks -Opinion mining -Vandalism detection (in the Web or Wikipedia) and opinion spam -Detection of pedophilia, stalking and bullying -Multimedia retrieval -Text mining (e.g., classification and clustering of documents) -Natural Language Processing in IR -Passage Retrieval and Question Answering -Multilingual and cross-language IR -IR in specific domains (biomedical, patents, law, etc.) -Geographical IR -Collaborative IR All accepted works will be published in the proceedings of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 7th May 2018 Paper Notification: 21st May 2018 Camera ready: 30th May 2018 Early registration: 1st June 2018 Conference: 25th -27th June 2018 COMMITTEES Program Commitee Chair: Jes?s Tramullas, Universidad de Zaragoza Organizing Committee Chairs: Raquel Trillo-Lado, Universidad de Zaragoza Javier Nogueras-Iso, Universidad de Zaragoza Program Committee: Miguel A. Alonso, University of A Coru?a Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coru?a Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Rafael Berlanga, Universitat Jaume I Manuel de Buenaga, Universidad Europea de Madrid Davide Buscaldi, Universit? Paris XIII Fidel Cacheda, Universidad de A Coru?a Luis M. de Campos, University of Granada Iv?n Cantador, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Pablo Castells, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Marcelo Errecalde, Universidad Nacional de San Luis Antonio Fari?a, University of A Coru?a El?as Fern?ndez-Combarro, University of Oviedo Juan M. Fern?ndez-Luna, University of Granada Pablo Gamallo, University of Santiago de Compostela Jes?s Gallardo, Universidad de Zaragoza Ana Garcia-Serrano, ETSI Informatica - UNED Piedad Garrido, Universidad Zaragoza Ram?n Hermoso, Universidad Zaragoza Juan F. Huete, University of Granada Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza Javier Lacasta, Universidad de Zaragoza Susana Ladra, University of A Coru?a Pablo de La Fuente, Universidad de Valladolid Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer, Universidad Zaragoza David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela Juan-Antonio Mart?nez-Comeche, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Miguel A. Martinez-Prieto, University of Valladolid Javier Nogueras Iso, Universidad de Zaragoza Jose Angel Olivas, UCLM Jose R. Parama, Universidade da Coru?a Javier Parapar, University of A Coru?a David Pinto, DSIC, UPV, FCC, BUAP Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia Ismael Sanz, Universitat Jaume I Jesus Tramullas, Universidad de Zaragoza Raquel Trillo-Lado, Universidad de Zaragoza Jes?s Vegas, Universidad de Valladolid Jes?s Vilares, University of A Coru?a Manuel Vilares Ferro, University of Vigo ?ngel Zazo, University of Salamanca Local Organizers: Jes?s Gallardo, Universidad de Zaragoza Piedad Garrido, Universidad Zaragoza Ram?n Hermoso, Universidad Zaragoza Sergio Ilarri, Universidad Zaragoza Javier Lacasta, Universidad Zaragoza Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer, Universidad Zaragoza David Abi?n, Universidad Zaragoza ?ngel Ca?al, Universidad Zaragoza Contact: Please, feel free to send questions and comments to the co-chairs as well as general questions about CERI 2018 to ceri2018 at unizar.es. From malee at csu.edu.au Sat Apr 21 10:33:12 2018 From: malee at csu.edu.au (Lee, Mark) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:33:12 -0400 Subject: [AISWorld] [SUSPICIOUS] Call for Program Committee Members/Reviewers: IEEE TALE 2018 Conference on Educational Technology and STEM Education Message-ID: <37EEA1F8-6BEF-4C5F-B5FA-91A00585BFA3@csu.edu.au> Applications are sought from suitably qualified and experienced individuals to join the Program Committee as paper and/or proposal reviewers for IEEE TALE (http://tale2018.org), the IEEE Education Society's flagship conference in the Asia-Pacific region. This prominent international conference caters to researchers and practitioners with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education?with a particular emphasis on engineering and computing disciplines?as well as those interested in the innovative use of digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment in any discipline. TALE 2018, which will be held in Wollongong, Australia from 4 to 7 December 2018, will include two Streams (more details about which are available at http://tale2018.org/call): (a) an Academic Stream for prospective academic/researcher presenters wishing to author peer-reviewed papers for the proceedings; and (b) a Practitioner Stream for prospective K-12, VET/L&D and Engineering & Technology Industry presenters those who only wish to submit an abstract for consideration (not published in the proceedings). The minimum requirement to join the Program Committee for Academic Stream is a Master's degree plus research experience; for the Practitioner Stream, a minimum of 3 years' practical (e.g., teaching, training, design, development) experience is required. An award will be presented to one or more Program Committee member(s) who the Program Chairs, in consultation with the Conference General Chairs and the wider Conference Organising Committee, deem to have made the most outstanding contribution in executing their reviewing duties. (Note: The Program Chairs? decision is final.) Individuals interested in serving on the TALE Program Committee should in the first instance complete the application form at the following URL: https://goo.gl/forms/v69shQ8j2RJUFs543 (Estimated completion time: 10-12 minutes) The closing date for applications is 31 May 2018. Successful applicants will be notified by email in June 2018 (or earlier). Questions may be directed to the Program Chairs at programchairs at tale2018.org, but please note that applications cannot be accepted via email.