Isabela Gasparini | 22 May 2013 23:00
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CulTEL 2013 - International workshop on Culturally-aware Technology Enhanced Learning

Apologies for cross-posting.

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To: Isabela Gasparini 


Dear Isabela,

Below you will find the Call for Papers for the CulTEL 2013 workshop. Could you please advertise this call to as many people as possible?

Kind regards,
The CulTEL 2013 chairs

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CALL FOR PAPERS: "International workshop on Culturally-aware Technology Enhanced
Learning" CulTEL 2013 at ECTEL 2013, 17-21 September, Paphos, Cyprus.

For details, see: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/CulTEL/.

The workshop aims to provide a forum that explores culturally inclusive and boundary breaking TEL models, and their implications on traditional infrastructures (i.e. the underpinning technical and pedagogical frameworks). The workshop will enable this emerging research community to:
- share techniques and experiences;
- identify potential domains and application areas;
- design and reflect on evaluation studies; and
- identify future research directions.

By bringing together academics, educational practitioners and TEL industries, the workshop will address several challenges along three main themes:
1. Technological underpinning:
Which components in a TEL environment need to be modifiable for cultural factors and how? What are the innovative technology enablers for adding culture in TEL settings (e.g. semantic models, data mining, intelligent exploration, and virtual agents and interaction with them)? What are the affordances and limitations of these technologies? How can TEL adapt to the cultural experiences and diversity of the learners?

2. Adding value to learning:
What is the added value of including cultural aspects in TEL for learners and tutors? How to develop awareness in cultural diversity at different stages of a learner’s progression? How to measure pedagogical effectiveness and skills valorisation? How to make the experience in a virtual learning environment relate to real-life experiences?

3. Domains and applications:
What are the learning settings (e.g. formal, non-formal and informal) and learning approaches (self-regulated, experiential learning) which require more culturally-aware TEL? What potential domains require the development of cross-cultural competencies (e.g. business communications, mentoring, advising, professional consultation, and collaboration)? What user-generated content can be exploited to capture cultural diversity (e.g. stories, blogs, comments, micro posts, and videos)? What are the lessons learnt from experimental studies?

Submissions
The workshop welcomes demonstrations (2-4 pages), position papers (4-6 pages) and research papers (8-10 pages). All submissions will be peer-reviewed. All papers should be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cultel2013. Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Important dates
- Submissions due: 15 July 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2013
- Camera-ready version of accepted papers: 28 August 2013
- Workshop date: 17 September, 2013

Workshop chairs
- Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Aalborg University at Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nick Degens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Sonia Hetzner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
- Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Samuel Mascarenhas, INESC-ID, Portugal
- Asad Nazir, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Dissemination
The proceedings of the workshop will be available as open access via CEUR. Depending on the quality of the contributions, a special issue in a relevant journal will be explored (e.g. IJAIED or IEEE TLT).




-- 
Prof. Isabela Gasparini

Department of Computer Science (DCC)
University of Santa Catarina State (UDESC)
Joinville - SC - Brazil
Member of ACM, SIGCHI, Interaction Design Foundation and the SBC

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Frank Hopfgartner | 22 May 2013 22:00
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CfP: ACM SIGIR Workshop on Benchmarking Adaptive Retrieval and Recommender Systems (BARS'13)

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Please forward to interested parties.

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CFP - ACM SIGIR Workshop on Benchmarking Adaptive Retrieval and Recommender Systems (BARS’13)

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Twitter: <at> barsWS


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Important dates

Paper submission: June 14, 2013
Notification: June 28th, 2013
Camera ready: July 13th, 2013
Workshop: August 1st, 2013


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Motivation


In recent years, immense progress has been made in the development of recommendation, retrieval and personalisation techniques. The evaluation of these systems is still based on traditional information retrieval and statistics metrics, e.g. precision, recall and/or RMSE, often not  taking the use-case and situation of the system into consideration. However, the rapid evolution of recommender and adaptive IR systems in both their goals and their application domains foster the need for new evaluation methodologies and environments.

The workshop will be followed by a special issue of ACM TiST on Recommender System Benchmarking. Authors of high-quality papers from the workshop will be encouraged to submit extended versions of their work to the journal.


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Submission topics


We invite the submission of papers reporting relevant research in the area of benchmarking and evaluation of recommendation and adaptive IR systems. We welcome submissions presenting contributions in this scope, addressing the following topics:

- New metrics and methods for quality estimation of recommender and adaptive IR systems
- Novel frameworks for the user-centric evaluation of adaptive systems
- Validation of off-line methods with online studies
- Comparison of evaluation metrics and methods
- Comparison of recommender and IR approaches across multiple systems and domains
- Measuring technical constraints vs. accuracy
- New datasets for the evaluation of recommender and adaptive IR systems
- Benchmarking frameworks
- Multiple-objective benchmarking


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Submissions


We invite the submission of papers reporting original research, studies, advances, or experiences in this area. Two submission types are accepted: long papers of up to 8 pages, and short papers up to 4 pages, in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically.

Each paper will be evaluated by at least two reviewers from the Program Committee. The papers will be evaluated for their originality, contribution significance, soundness, clarity, and overall quality. The interest of contributions will be assessed in terms of technical and scientific findings, contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the problem, methodological advancements, or applicative value. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a blog post describing their research in a non-technical way to enable their work to reach a wider audience.


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Submission instructions


There are two categories of paper submissions: Long paper submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. Each accepted long paper will be presented in a plenary session of the workshop program. The maximum length is 8 pages. Short paper submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. The presentation may include a system demonstration. The maximum length is 4 pages.
All submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates, same as for SIGIR submissions. For your convenience, you can use the templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX that have been made available on the ACM  website:

The BARS Workshop does not use blind reviews, so please include authors’ names and affiliations on your submission. Submissions must be in PDF format. All papers must be submitted electronically before June 14 through the EasyChair submission page:


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Organizing Committee


Pablo Castells – UAM, Spain <at> pcastells
Frank Hopfgartner – TU Berlin, Germany <at> okapibm25
Mounia Lalmas – Yahoo! Labs, Spain <at> mounialalmas
Alan Said – CWI, Netherlands <at> alansaid


Program Committee       


M-Dyaa Albakour – University of Glasgow, UK
Leif Azzopardi – University of Glasgow, UK
Alejandro Bellogin – CWI, NL
Nicholas Belkin – Rutgers University, USA
Toine Bogers – RSLIS, DK
Pia Borlund – RSLIS, DK
Paolo Cremonesi – Politecnico di Milano, IT
Noriko Kando – National Institute of Informatics, JP
Alexandros Karatzoglou – Telefonica, ES
Bart Knijnenburg – UC Irvine, USA
Udo Kruschwitz – University of Essex, UK
Nikos Manouselis – Agroknow, GR
Martha Larson – TU Delft, NL
Neal Lathia – University of Cambridge, UK
Ian Ruthven – University of Strathclyde, UK
Domonkos Tikk – Gravity R&D, HU
Ryen White – Microsoft, USA
Michelle Zhou – IBM, USA

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Eelco Herder | 21 May 2013 12:04
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LinkedUp Veni Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education - deadline 27 June

LinkedUp Veni Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education

*Submission deadline 27 June*

http://linkedup-challenge.org/

The LinkedUp Project invites everyone, from researchers and students, to 
developers and businesses, to join the 'Veni' competition. This is the 
first of three consecutive competitions, and we’re calling for you to 
submit a prototype or demo that uses linked and/or open data for 
educational purposes.

The total prize fund for ‘Veni’ is 5.000 EUR. However, the attractive 
prizes are only one reason to participate in the competition. It is also 
a great opportunity to work with the large, documented repository of 
linked datasets that the LinkedUp team is putting together. Participants 
will also be able to showcase their ideas and solutions to a wide 
community of researchers and practitioners: All accepted demos and 
prototypes will be presented at OKCon (http://okcon.org/) in Geneva, on 
17 September 2013.

To help participants, the LinkedUp team is providing dedicated support, 
how-to's, examples and code recipes, and has a designated developer 
blog: http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/devtalk/

We have also curated a number of high profile use cases from 
organisations such as the Commonwealth of Learning and Elsevier to serve 
as inspiration.

Get started with the LinkedUp Dataset Catalogue now: 
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/

What are you waiting for? Join the Challenge today!
- Find out about the LinkedUp Challenge: http://linkedup-challenge.org/
- Subscribe to our mailinglist: 
https://www.l3s.de/mailman/listinfo/linkedup-public
- Follow  <at> linkedupproject: http://twitter.com/linkedupproject
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- Get more information about the LinkedUp Project: 
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Daniel Kudenko | 21 May 2013 13:50
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Postdoc position in data mining/analytics for games

We have a postdoctoral opening in computer science/artificial intelligence/machine learning at the University of York, UK for a postdoctoral researcher with data mining skills, an enthusiasm for games, the interpersonal skills to persuade games companies to collaborate and provide data and the creative skills to understand the potential of games to achieve social and scientific as well as economic goals.   The salary will be in the range £29,541 - £36,298 per annum on Grade 6 of the University’s salary scales. Closing date for applications: 12 June 2013. The post will commence around 1st October 2013 for 3 years.   For further information and to apply go to: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=165207   For more information about the NEMOG project go to www.nemog.org.   A brief description (from jobs.ac.uk) is included below:   Research Associate in Data Mining/Analytics for Computer/Mobile/Digital Games University of York -Department of Computer Science   York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis (YCCSA) / Artificial Intelligence Research Group   Ref: 2964   The digital games market is an enormous and fast-growing industry with extraordinary impact, where every action generates a piece of data. The New Economic Models and Opportunities for digital Games (NEMOG)project brings together a large number of University and games industry partners to investigate how we can harness games to achieve social, scientific and economic goals. Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate in data mining/analytics to extract useful knowledge from massive quantities of clickstream data resulting from online gameplay, provided by our large and growing group of games industry collaborators. Strong technical and interpersonal skills are required. The post is one of three postdoctoral posts associated with the £1.2 million EPSRC/ESRC-funded NEMO G consortium which includes partners from the CASS business school and Durham University, as well as a growing group of 21 games companies and games sector organisations. The post will be h! eld in t he leading Computer Science department at the University of York (ranked 6th by the Guardian and 8th in the Sunday Times among UK Computer Science and IT departments in 2013) and will be based in the interdisciplinary York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis (YCCSA), on the new £750 million Heslington East campus. The post is available for three years from 1st October 2013 and is full time.   Informal enquiries may be made in the first instance to Professor Peter Cowling (email:peter.cowling-3oYoeGyd3e21Qrn1Bg8BZw@public.gmane.org, tel.: +44 (0)1904 325355), or to Dr Daniel Kudenko (email:daniel.kudenko-3oYoeGyd3e21Qrn1Bg8BZw@public.gmane.org, tel.: +44 (0)1904 325679).   The salary will be in the range £29,541 - £36,298 per annum on Grade 6 of the University’s salary scales.   Closing date for applications: 12 June 2013.   For further particulars and details of how to apply, go to https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=165207 or contact HR Services on 01904 434835, quoting reference number 2964. The University of York is committed to diversity and has policies and developmental programmes in place to promote equality of opportunity.
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Call for Internet of Things/CPS Demo and Exhibition (Aug.20-23, Beijing)

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Dear colleague:

 

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this cfp.

 

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Call for Demos and Exhibitions

http://www.china-iot.net/Main_IoT_CPSCom_demo.htm

 

Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest

http://www.china-iot.net/Main_CCVC.htm

 

Deadline: June 10, 2013

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Please take notice to the following submissions.

Paper authors are welcome to submit their work to these as well.

 

1. Call for Demos and Exhibitions

 

The IoT/CPSCom demo and exhibition program provides researchers 

and engineers with opportunities to show their cutting-edge work 

presented in an interactive fashion. The live demonstrations and 

exhibitions may include implementations of techniques presented 

in the main conference, workshops, other conferences and venues, 

as well as systems and video. We encourage companies or other 

commercial entities or laboratories to participate in showcasing 

their products. Prospective applicants should submit a 2-page paper 

of the demonstration/exhibition in the IEEE CS format 

(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) via email

(cpscom2013demo-EMRzualFZlQ@public.gmane.org). Video demonstrations are also welcome. 

The main selection criteria will be the expected general interest 

of the demonstration to the cyber physical system and social computing 

community. The accepted demo/exhibition will be included in the IoT/CPSCom 

conference proceedings. As a condition for acceptance, at least one of 

the people must be registered for the main conference, and present 

the demo in the conference with a poster and optional video. We will 

print out the poster in the conference if the demonstrator sends it 

beforehand in electronic format. All demos will compete for the Best 

Demo Award. 

 

 

The conference will at minimum provide a space for your demo, a poster 

stand, a table and chairs, and a power connection (220V). If you need 

any special equipment you should provide that by yourself, including power 

converters, projectors, audio amplification, wireless LAN routers/access 

points, etc. Please specify your demo requirements on a separate page 

so that we can plan the demo area accordingly.

 

Demo/Exhibition Chairs: 

Dr. Pin Tao, Tsinghua University, China (taopin-jHAB1AVR1ZqPQbnJrJN+5g@public.gmane.org) 

Dr. Kongqiao Wang, Nokia Research Center, China (kongqiao.wang-xNZwKgViW5gAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org) 

 

Submission e-mail: cpscom2013demo-EMRzualFZlQ@public.gmane.org

 

Important Dates 

 - Submission deadline: June 10, 2013 

 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 

 - Camera-ready demo paper: July 10, 2013 

 

 

 

2. Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest

 

It is believed that the frontier of information science is increasingly 

characterized by not only catching up with the human intelligence (e.g. 

intelligent sensing, and making decision and control), but also learning 

much from the nature-inspired attributes (e.g., dynamics, self-adaptability, 

and energy saving). Among such research areas, a newly-emerged interdisciplinary, 

Cybermatics (i.e., cyber technology) as we call here, includes three main aspects: 

Internet of Things (IoT), cyber, physical and social computing, and green computing 

and communications. 

 

 

The Cybermatics Creative Video Contest is a call for works from academia and industry 

for digital videos that involve any video work, information design and digital animation 

work about the concept of cyber technology. The content within the video must be related 

to cyber technology, IoT and big data, and demonstrate how it can produce a great impact 

on the future of human life. 

 

We welcome video submissions from at home and abroad, and from any academic, business, 

education and government circles to take part in the "Cybermatics Creative Video Contest". 

Please submit your video that conforms to the following specifications to 

cpscom2013video-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org: 

 

- Video size: HD (1920×1280), or SD (1280×720). 

- Video format: AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4 

- Video time: Up to 5 minutes. 

- Deadline: June 10, 2013 

- Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2013 

 

Please also include the title of your video, the team members and affiliation, and an 

abstract of up to 150 words that explains your video, what makes it is applicable to cybermatics, 

and how it can help improve human life. 

 

For inspiration, see an example of a cybermatics video called "A Day Made of Glass" from Corning: 

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQ0NzA0MjMy.html

 

The contest will happen in two phases: 

1) The videos are evaluated according to creativity, relevance and impact, and choose the 

top 5 videos. 

2) The selected 5 videos will be exhibited in the conference, where each author will give 

a 30 second pitch as to why his/her video should be the winner. The conference attendees will 

then vote for the winner. 

 

Cybermatics Video Chairs: 

Ning Wang, Beihang University, China 

Jun Fei, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, China 

 

Submission e-mail: cpscom2013video-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

 

Important Dates 

 - Submission deadline: June 10, 2013 

 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 

 

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IEEE iThings 2013/CPSCom 2013/GreenCom 2013
August 20-22, 2013
Beijing, China

Call for Demos and Exhibitions
http://www.china-iot.net/Main_IoT_CPSCom_demo.htm

Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest
http://www.china-iot.net/Main_CCVC.htm

Deadline: June 10, 2013
==================================================

Please take notice to the following submissions.
Paper authors are welcome to submit their work to
these as well.

1. Call for Demos and Exhibitions

The IoT/CPSCom demo and exhibition program provides researchers 
and engineers with opportunities to show their cutting-edge work 
presented in an interactive fashion. The live demonstrations and 
exhibitions may include implementations of techniques presented 
in the main conference, workshops, other conferences and venues, 
as well as systems and video. We encourage companies or other 
commercial entities or laboratories to participate in showcasing 
their products. Prospective applicants should submit a 2-page paper 
of the demonstration/exhibition in the IEEE CS format 
(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) via email 
(cpscom2013demo@...). Video demonstrations are also welcome. 
The main selection criteria will be the expected general interest 
of the demonstration to the cyber physical system and social computing 
community. The accepted demo/exhibition will be included in the IoT/CPSCom 
conference proceedings. As a condition for acceptance, at least one of 
the people must be registered for the main conference, and present 
the demo in the conference with a poster and optional video. We will 
print out the poster in the conference if the demonstrator sends it 
beforehand in electronic format. All demos will compete for the Best 
Demo Award. 

 
The conference will at minimum provide a space for your demo, a poster 
stand, a table and chairs, and a power connection (220V). If you need 
any special equipment you should provide that by yourself, including power 
converters, projectors, audio amplification, wireless LAN routers/access 
points, etc. Please specify your demo requirements on a separate page 
so that we can plan the demo area accordingly.

Demo/Exhibition Chairs: 
Dr. Pin Tao, Tsinghua University, China (taopin@...) 
Dr. Kongqiao Wang, Nokia Research Center, China
(kongqiao.wang@...) 

Submission e-mail: cpscom2013demo@...

Important Dates 
 - Submission deadline: June 10, 2013 
 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 
 - Camera-ready demo paper: July 10, 2013 

2. Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest

It is believed that the frontier of information science is increasingly 
characterized by not only catching up with the human intelligence (e.g. 
intelligent sensing, and making decision and control), but also learning 
much from the nature-inspired attributes (e.g., dynamics, self-adaptability, 
and energy saving). Among such research areas, a newly-emerged interdisciplinary, 
Cybermatics (i.e., cyber technology) as we call here, includes three main aspects: 
Internet of Things (IoT), cyber, physical and social computing, and green computing 
and communications. 

 
The Cybermatics Creative Video Contest is a call for works from academia and industry 
for digital videos that involve any video work, information design and digital animation 
work about the concept of cyber technology. The content within the video must be related 
to cyber technology, IoT and big data, and demonstrate how it can produce a great impact 
on the future of human life. 

We welcome video submissions from at home and abroad, and from any academic, business, 
education and government circles to take part in the "Cybermatics Creative Video Contest". 
Please submit your video that conforms to the following specifications to 
cpscom2013video@...: 

- Video size: HD (1920×1280), or SD (1280×720). 
- Video format: AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4 
- Video time: Up to 5 minutes. 
- Deadline: June 10, 2013 
- Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2013 

Please also include the title of your video, the team members and affiliation, and an 
abstract of up to 150 words that explains your video, what makes it is applicable to cybermatics, 
and how it can help improve human life. 

For inspiration, see an example of a cybermatics video called "A Day Made of Glass" from Corning: 
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQ0NzA0MjMy.html 

The contest will happen in two phases: 
1) The videos are evaluated according to creativity, relevance and impact, and choose the 
top 5 videos. 
2) The selected 5 videos will be exhibited in the conference, where each author will give 
a 30 second pitch as to why his/her video should be the winner. The conference attendees will 
then vote for the winner. 

Cybermatics Video Chairs: 
Ning Wang, Beihang University, China 
Jun Fei, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, China 

Submission e-mail: cpscom2013video@...

Important Dates 
 - Submission deadline: June 10, 2013 
 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 

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Christoph Trattner | 21 May 2013 13:25
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Open PhD Position at Graz University of Technology (SocialComputing)


(Apologies for cross-posting)

Open PhD Position at the Institute for Knowledge Technologies at the Technical University of Graz 40 hours/week

Tasks:
The Institute of Knowledge Technologies seeks a motivated doctoral student for an interdisciplinary EU-funded
research project "Learning Layers." Within the framework of the project, new recommender concepts (e.g.,
supporting users in their learning environment) based on Social Semantic Web technologies will be developed
together with the project partners and a center of excellence Know-Center GmbH.

Qualifications:
  • completed university diploma / master's degree in computer science, software development and business management, telematics or technical mathematics (mandatory)
  • prior knowledge of Social Semantic Web, recommender systems, machine learning, information retrieval (preferred)
  • programming experience with XHTML, mySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Java (mandatory)
  • experience with HTML5, MATLAB, Python, R, PHP (preferred)
  • teamwork and self-reliance (mandatory)
  • fluent English (mandatory)
Interest in:
  • Social Semantic Systems, Data Mining, User Profiling, Adaptation, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning and HCI
Working environment:

Founded in 2006, the Institute for Knowledge Technologies is the youngest Institute at the School of Computer Science. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology and business administration. The IKT works closely with Know-Center, an Austrian
excellence center for knowledge-based systems and applications (www.know-center.at). At our location in
Graz, more than 50 highly-qualified employees and staff work in research and development under the
motto "From Data to Intelligence." As a part of the network of over 100 research facilities around the world,
we have numerous publications in the leading professional media every year.
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2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2013

Tarragona, Spain

July 22-26, 2013

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

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AIM:

SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well
recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research
career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers.

SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science by means of 63
six-hour courses dealing with hot topics at the frontiers of the field. By
actively participating, lecturers and attendees will share the idea of
scientific excellence as the main motto of their research work.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no pre-requisites in
terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there
will be several levels among the courses, in the description of some of them
reference may be made to specific knowledge background.

SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who
want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful to listen and discuss with
people who are main references of the diverse branches of computing
nowadays.

REGIME:

7 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will
be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well
as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona
Arquitecte Rovira, 2
43001 Tarragona
http://www.palaucongrestgna.com

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (Santa Barbara) [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in
Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Shun-ichi Amari (Riken) [introductory] Information Geometry and Its
Applications

James Anderson (Chapel Hill) [intermediate] Scheduling and Synchronization
in Real-Time Multicore Systems

Pierre Baldi (Irvine) [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and
Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal) [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning of
Representations

Stephen Brewster (Glasgow) [advanced] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction

Bruno Buchberger (Linz) [introductory] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method
for Multivariate Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications

Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) [intermediate] Cloud Computing

Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich) [intermediate] Cryptography for Privacy

Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke) [intermediate] Trust Logic as an Enabler for Secure
Federated Systems

Larry S. Davis (College Park) [intermediate] Video Analysis of Human
Activities

Paul De Bra (Eindhoven) [intermediate] Adaptive Systems

Marco Dorigo (Brussels) [introductory] An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence
and Swarm Robotics

Paul Dourish (Irvine) [introductory] Ubiquitous Computing in a Social
Context

Max J. Egenhofer (Maine) [introductory/intermediate] Qualitative Spatial
Relations: Formalizations and Inferences

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Parallel and Distributed
Simulation

David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon) [advanced] Software Architecture: Past,
Present and Future

Mario Gerla (Los Angeles) [intermediate] Vehicle Cloud Computing

Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnesota) [advanced] Sparsity and Low Rank for
Robust Data Analytics and Networking

Ralph Grishman (New York) [intermediate] Information Extraction from Natural
Language

Francisco Herrera (Granada) [intermediate] Imbalanced Classification:
Current Approaches and Open Problems

Paul Hudak (Yale) [introductory] Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using
Haskell

Niraj K. Jha (Princeton) [intermediate] FinFET Circuit Design

George Karypis (Minnesota) [introductory] Introduction to Parallel
Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern) [intermediate/advanced] Sparsity-based
Advances in Image Processing

Arie E. Kaufman (Stony Brook) [advanced] Advances in Visualization

Carl Kesselman (Southern California) [intermediate] Biomedical Informatics
and Big Data

Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) [intermediate] An Introduction to the Design
and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols

Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montréal) [intermediate] Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in
Simulation: Theory and Practice

Laks Lakshmanan (British Columbia) [intermediate/advanced] Information and
Influence Spread in Social Networks

Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) [introductory] DNS-based Monitoring of Malware
Activities

Maurizio Lenzerini (Roma La Sapienza) [intermediate] Ontology-based Data
Integration

Ming C. Lin (Chapel Hill) [introductory/intermediate] Physically-based
Modeling and Simulation

Jane W.S. Liu (Academia Sinica) [intermediate] Critical Information and
Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response

Satoru Miyano (Tokyo) [intermediate] How to Hack Cancer Systems with
Computational Methods

Aloysius K. Mok (Austin) [intermediate] From Real-time Systems to
Cyber-physical Systems

Hermann Ney (Aachen) [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Modelling for
Natural Language Processing - with Applications to Speech Recognition,
Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation

Cathleen A. Norris (North Texas) & Elliot Soloway (Ann Arbor) [introductory]
Primary & Secondary Educational Computing in the Age of Mobilism

Jeff Offutt (George Mason) [intermediate] Cutting Edge Research in
Engineering of Web Applications

David Padua (Urbana) [intermediate] Parallel Programming with Abstractions

Bijan Parsia (Manchester) [introductory] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and
Technical Foundations

Massoud Pedram (Southern California) [intermediate] Energy Efficient
Architectures and Information Processing Systems

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei) [intermediate/advanced] Beyond 4G

Prabhakar Raghavan (Google) [introductory/intermediate] Web Search and
Advertising

Sudhakar M. Reddy (Iowa) [introductory] Design for Test and Test of Digital
VLSI Circuits

Phillip Rogaway (Davis) [introductory/intermediate] Provably Secure
Symmetric Encryption

Gustavo Rossi (La Plata) [intermediate] Topics in Model Driven Web
Engineering

Kaushik Roy (Purdue) [introductory/intermediate] Low-energy Computing

Robert Sargent (Syracuse) [introductory] Validating Models

Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt) [intermediate] Patterns and Frameworks for
Concurrent and Networked Software

Bart Selman (Cornell) [intermediate] Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and
Logical Inference Methods

Mubarak Shah (Central Florida) [intermediate/advanced] Visual Crowd
Surveillance

Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv) [introductory] Revealing Structure in Disease
Regulation and Networks

Satinder Singh (Ann Arbor) [introductory/advanced] Reinforcement Learning:
On Machines Learning to Act from Experience

Dawn Xiaodong Song (Berkeley) [introductory] Selected Topics in Computer
Security

Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton) [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for the Social Web

Julita Vassileva (Saskatchewan) [introductory/intermediate] Engaging Users
in Social Computing Systems

Philip Wadler (Edinburgh) [introductory] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life

Yao Wang (Polytechnic New York) [introductory/advanced] Video Compression:
Fundamentals and Recent Development

Gio Wiederhold (Stanford) [introductory] Software Economics: How Do the
Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the Global Market Place

Limsoon Wong (National Singapore) [introductory/intermediate] The Use of
Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis

Michael Wooldridge (Oxford) [introductory] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems

Ronald R. Yager (Iona) [introductory/intermediate] Fuzzy Sets and Soft
Computing

Philip S. Yu (Illinois Chicago) [advanced] Mining Big Data

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/Registration.php 

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will
be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete.

FEES:

They are the same (a flat rate) for all people by the corresponding
deadline. They give the right to attend all courses.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013

Six registration deadlines: February 26, March 26, April 26, May 26, June
26, July 26, 2013

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Lilica Voicu:
florentinalilica.voicu@... 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2013
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Ajuntament de Tarragona
Diputació de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Ubicomp 2013 Workshop :: 3rd CFP :: SOFTec 2013 - Second Workshop on Computer Mediated Social Offline Interactions

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP]

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CfP: SOFTec 2013 -  Second Workshop on Computer Mediated Social Offline Interactions
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*** in conjunction with Ubicomp 2013 ***
*** September 8, Zurich, Swizterland ***
*** June 1 2013 - papers due ***
*** June 7 2013 - feedback to the authors ***
*** June 14 2013 - camera ready ***
*** more info at http://uc.inf.usi.ch/events/softec13 ***

======== SUMMARY AND THEME ========

In the age of online social networks, instant messaging, and email, social offline interactions seem
destined to become an anachronism: as our use of electronic media increases, the number of hours per day
that we interact directly with others “in the flesh” declines. Yet for all the power of synchronous
and asynchronous remote communication, virtual interactions are hardly an adequate substitute.
Recent studies show, e.g., that users of online social networking sites feel lonelier than non-users,
and that people who have regular social offline interactions on a weekly basis enjoy a significantly
reduction in mortality. Is there a way to have our cake and eat it, too? Can we design technology in such a way
that its use comes not at the expense of social offline interaction, but supports it? The goal of this
workshop is to examine how we can build technologies that promote offline interactions.

======== TOPICS OF INTEREST ========

In order to tackle the challenges associated with SOFTec, we will draw/build on the following themes,
depending on participant contributions.

- Informing the design of technology from theories and models that describe how people behave in
face-to-face interactions, e.g., Goffman’s theory on social interactions in public spaces. 
- Mobile devices, large displays, social networking services, bio- and sensor-based networks as
singular or mesh technologies for SOFTec.
- Novel applications for mobile devices, large displays, and social networking services that stimulate SOFTec.
- Interfaces and interaction concepts/metaphors for mobile phones and/or large displays that stimulate
SOFTec within stranger-crowds, couples, and groups.
- Games as an example of SOFTec technology for entertaining and serious engagement.
- Experience and service design for SOFTec.
- Tools for measuring and assessing the impact of SOFTec technology.

======== GOALS AND EXPECTED AUDIENCE ========

The goal of the SOFTec 2013 workshop is to develop a research agenda for the technology that nurtures social
offline interaction. 

Given the early stages of this research area, we would like to attract researchers from various areas in:

- ubiquitous computing,
- social networking,
- interaction, user interface (UI), and user experience (UI) design,
- ethnography

We also welcome researchers from outside these areas that have interest in computer mediated technology
for offline interaction.

======== SUBMISSION FORMAT ========

Workshop candidates are requested to send a position paper no longer than 4 pages in the Ubicomp workshop
format (http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2013/calls/templates.php) to the organizers about their
research and link to the workshop theme. In addition to describing their work candidates are asked to
write about challenges and opportunities they see for technology that nurtures and stimulates SOFTec,
in order to prepare the candidates for this year’s workshop theme.
Participants will be selected on the basis of the relevance of their work and interests and familiarity
with the SOFTec workshop topics. 

All submissions should be sent as PDF to nemanja.memarovic@... with "SOFTec
2013 Submission" as the email subject.
All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

======== TIMELINE AND DEADLINES ========

Workshop submission deadline: June 1 2013
Feedback to authors: June 7 2013
Camera ready version: June 14 2013
Workshop at Ubicomp 2013: September 8 2013

======== ORGANIZERS ========

Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Vasillis Kostakos, University of Oulu, Finland
Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Nemanja Memarovic, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland

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IEEE iThings 2013/CPSCom 2013/GreenCom 2013 Call for Demos and Exhibitions

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IEEE iThings 2013/CPSCom 2013/GreenCom 2013
August 20-22, 2013
Beijing, China
Call for Demos and Exhibitions
http://www.china-iot.net/Main_IoT_CPSCom_demo.htm
Call
for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest
http://www.china-iot.net/Main_CCVC.htm
Deadline
: June 10, 2013
==================================================
Please take notice to the following submissions.
Paper authors are welcome to submit their work to
these as well.
1. Call for Demos and Exhibitions
The IoT/CPSCom demo and exhibition program provides researchers
and engineers with opportunities to show their cutting-edge work
presented in an interactive fashion. The live demonstrations and
exhibitions may include implementations of techniques presented
in the main conference, workshops, other conferences and venues,
as well as systems and video. We encourage companies or other
commercial entities or laboratories to participate in showcasing
their products. Prospective applicants should submit a 2-page paper
of the demonstration/exhibition in the IEEE CS format
(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) via email
(cpscom2013demo <at> live.com). Video demonstrations are also welcome.
The main selection criteria will be the expected general interest
of the demonstration to the cyber physical system and social computing
community. The accepted demo/exhibition will be included in the IoT/CPSCom
conference proceedings. As a condition for acceptance, at least one of
the people must be registered for the main conference, and present
the demo in the conference with a poster and optional video. We will
print out the poster in the conference if the demonstrator sends it
beforehand in electronic format. All demos will compete for the Best
Demo Award.
 
The conference will at minimum provide a space for your demo, a poster
stand, a table and chairs, and a power connection (220V). If you need
any special equipment you should provide that by yourself, including power
converters, projectors, audio amplification, wireless LAN routers/access
points, etc. Please specify your demo requirements on a separate page
so that we can plan the demo area accordingly.
Demo/Exhibition Chairs:
Dr. Pin Tao, Tsinghua University, China (taopin <at> tsinghua.edu.cn)
Dr. Kongqiao Wang, Nokia Research Center, China (kongqiao.wang <at> nokia.com)
Submission e-mail: cpscom2013demo <at> live.com
Important
Dates
 - Submission deadline: June 10, 2013
 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013
 - Camera-ready demo paper: July 10, 2013
 
2. Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest
It is believed that the frontier of information science is increasingly
characterized by not only catching up with the human intelligence (e.g.
intelligent sensing, and making decision and control), but also learning
much from the nature-inspired attributes (e.g., dynamics, self-adaptability,
and energy saving). Among such research areas, a newly-emerged interdisciplinary,
Cybermatics (i.e., cyber technology) as we call here, includes three main aspects:
Internet of Things (IoT), cyber, physical and social computing, and green computing
and communications.
 
The Cybermatics Creative Video Contest is a call for works from academia and industry
for digital videos that involve any video work, information design and digital animation
work about the concept of cyber technology. The content within the video must be related
to cyber technology, IoT and big data, and demonstrate how it can produce a great impact
on the future of human life.
 
We welcome video submissions from at home and abroad, and from any academic, business,
education and government circles to take part in the "Cybermatics Creative Video Contest".
Please submit your video that conforms to the following specifications to
cpscom2013video <at> gmail.com:
- Video size: HD (1920?280), or SD (1280?20).
- Video format: AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4
- Video time: Up to 5 minutes.
- Deadline: June 10, 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2013
 
Please also include the title of your video, the team members and affiliation, and an
abstract of up to 150 words that explains your video, what makes it is applicable to cybermatics,
and how it can help improve human life.
 
For inspiration, see an example of a cybermatics video called "A Day Made of Glass" from Corning:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQ0NzA0MjMy.html
 
The contest will happen in two phases:
1) The videos are evaluated according to creativity, relevance and impact, and choose the
top 5 videos.
2) The selected 5 videos will be exhibited in the conference, where each author will give
a 30 second pitch as to why his/her video should be the winner. The conference attendees will
then vote for the winner.
 
Cybermatics Video Chairs:
Ning Wang, Beihang University, China
Jun Fei, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, China
Submission e-mail: cpscom2013video <at> gmail.com
Important
Dates
 - Submission deadline: June 10, 2013
 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013
 
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PATCH 2-13 - 6th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

6th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2013)

http://patch2013.wordpress.com

co-located with UMAP 2013, 21st conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Rome, Italy
June 14, 2013
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Follow us on twitter: <at> PATCH_workshop
Spread the news: #patch2013
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PATCH workshop series are the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage research and personalization – using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in CH in order to make the individual CH experience a link in a chain of a lifelong CH experience which builds on past experience, is linked to daily life and provides the foundation for future experiences. The workshop aims to be multi-disciplinary. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, and students of information and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains (museums, archives, libraries, and more), and personalization.

This full-day workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers & practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations.

Motivation
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Cultural heritage (CH) is a privileged area for personalization research because CH sites are rich in objects and information, far more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a single visit. Moreover, the convergence between CH and the Internet has made huge amounts of information about CH readily available in electronic format. Two important challenges to be addressed are thus:

- how to provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH visitor before, during and after a visit, by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web?
- can this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences, linked to broader lifelong learning?

Not only “traditional” CH sites, but also cities are excellent test-beds for personalization research: modern urban planning shows an avalanche of diverse initiatives focused on creative urban development. Consequently, it has become fashionable to regard the many forms of cultural expression, like art, festivals, exhibitions, media, design, digital expression and research as signposts for urban individuality and identity and departures for a new urban cultural industry.

Personalization  also has a role to play in supporting  collaboration that enables groups of people to take part in the preservation, enrichment and access to cultural heritage. This is because it can be an enabler for   people to be both information consumers and producers, and actively involve them in the management of cultural heritage information. Methodologies and technological utilities for online communities can help them to become actively engaged in the publishing process, contribute their knowledge, and partake in a dynamic creation and conceptualization of the cultural resources will be thus central to the workshop themes.


Organizers
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Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino
Lora Aroyo – VU University Amsterdam
Luciana Bordoni - ENEA/UTICT, Rome
Judy Kay - University of Sydney
Tsvi Kuflik - University of Haifa

For more information:
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Visit workshop website: http://patch2013.wordpress.com
Contact the organizers at: patch.umap.2013 <at> gmail.com

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CFP: SPeL 2013 - extended deadlines

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SPeL 2013
6th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning Communities
http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013

In conjunction with ICSTCC 2013
17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing
http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2013

Sinaia, Romania
11-13 October 2013

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MOTIVATION
===========

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL
2011 and DULP&SPeL 2012 editions
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013/previous.php). The general
topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for
web-supported learning communities, focusing on emergent technologies for
applied computing in education.

Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems
to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social
software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing
services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to
create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive
Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want
to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an
individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which
automatically adapt to their individual needs.

This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and
personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities. Its aim is
to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area,
including research about the planning, development, application, and
evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn
together in a personalized way through social interaction with other
learners.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
==================

The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration,
social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced
learning, particularly related to issues about:

    * Social learning environments
    * Theory and modeling of social computing in education
    * Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
    * Personal learning environments
    * Lifelong learning networks
    * Virtual spaces for learning communities
    * Social networks analysis and mining
    * Computer-supported collaborative learning
    * Personalized and adaptive learning
    * Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
    * Intelligent learner and group modeling
    * Learning analytics
    * Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
    * Game-based social learning
    * Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
    * Mobile e-learning applications
    * Cloud-based learning
    * Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
    * Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning
    * E-learning platforms and tools
    * Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
    * Practice and experience sharing

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
==================================

The workshop papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference
Submission Standards
(http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/support.php). They should
not exceed 6 pages in length (up to 2 more pages are acceptable, but they
will incur a charge of 50 EUR/page).

All papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair
system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2013.

All accepted workshop papers will be published in the main conference
proceedings, which will be indexed in IEEE Xplore and INSPEC. Authors of
accepted workshop papers will be required to register to the main
conference and present their paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
================

Abstract submission: June 7, 2013 (extended deadline!!)
Full paper submission: June 14, 2013 (extended deadline!!)
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2013
Registration and camera-ready papers: July 31, 2013
ICSTCC 2013 conference: October 11-13, 2013

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
================

Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada

Please refer to the workshop website
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013) for more information and send
us email at spel2013@... for any inquiry.

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