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XAVIER ANGUERA MIRO | 2 Feb 2010 21:46
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CFParticipation (3 days for early bird special)=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20?=- MIR 2010 - International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval


                                (Apologies if you receive multiple copies)

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                               ACM SIGMM International Conference on
                                       Multimedia Information Retrieval
                                  (http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010)

                                                      ACM MIR-2010
                                                      Call for Participation

                                    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                                                  March 29-31, 2010

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Call for Participation

Early registration period finishes February 5th 2010

Multimedia information retrieval is a cross-cutting field. Extending
beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital
information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries,
bio-computing & medical science, the Internet and social networking sites,
streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and
P2P networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques
on how to browse, search and summarize multimedia collections and more
generally how to afford efficient multimedia content consumption.

The 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
(MIR) is the premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances
in the area of multimedia retrieval. MIR 2010 is on its second year as a
full ACM conference, following nine successful years as a workshop held in
conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference. The growth of MIR is a result
the growing importance of multimedia content in our lives.

You can find the preliminary program here:
http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010/program.html
 
Keynote and invited talks
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Academic Keynote (on Day 1)

Bio-Image Informatics: Advances and Challenges
B. S. Manjunath, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Industrial Leadership Invited Speaker Session (on Day 2)

Multimedia Processing for Advanced Content Services
Behzad Shahraray, Executive Director, Video and Multimedia Technologies Research, AT&T Labs

Semantic Understanding of Geotagged Pictures
Dhiraj Joshi, Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Group, Eastman Kodak Research Labs

Next Generation Map Making: Automation from Mobile Data Collection
Alwar Narayanan, Director of Research and Emerging Technologies, NAVTEQ Corporation.


Multimedia Semantics -- Opportunities and Challenges
Apostol (Paul) Natsev, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Banquet Speech (on Day 2)

Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy

Invited Speakers Session (on Day 3)

Implementing a Content-Based Public-Oriented Audio and Video News Retrieval System
Gregory Grefenstette, Chief Science Officer, Exalead

Recovering the Past through Computation - New Techniques for Cultural Heritage
Stephen M. Griffin, Program Director, National Science Foundation

Special Sessions
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Oral Session 1: Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval
Organizers: D. Ellis, Y. Kim, D. Turnbull

Oral Session 2: Statistical Modeling and Learning for Multimedia
Organizers: J. Li, G. Michailidis

Oral Session 3: Medical Multimedia Retrieval
Organizers: Yu Cao, Henning Muller

Poster Session 1: Processing Data Streams from Body Sensor Networks
Organizers: B. Prabhakaran, D. S. Turaga

Poster Session 2: Multimedia Retrieval in Networked Communities
Organizers: N. Ramzan, M. Larson, F. Dufaux, K. Cluver

Poster Session 3: MIRFLICKR Evaluation: The Challenge of Visual Concept Detection
Organizers: M. Huiskes, M. S. Lew

Panel Session
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The role of "hypes" in the multimedia search and retrieval research

Moderator:
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Panelists:
Nuria Oliver Ramirez, Telefonica, Spain
Apostol Natsev, IBM Research
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
 
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nicole novielli | 2 Feb 2010 12:27
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CFP - Workshop on User Models for Motivational Systems (in conjunction with UMAP 2010)


[apologies for multiple postings]

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

User Models for Motivational Systems:
the affective and the rational routes to persuasion

Sunday June 20, Big Island of Hawaii


In conjunction with UMAP 2010 
User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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KEY DATES
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- Paper submission: March 29, 2010
- Notification: May 3, 2010
- Final Copy Due: May 24, 2010
- Workshop date: June 20, 2010


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Recent years have witnessed the growth of three parallel strands of research, all directing towards a more complex cognitive model of rational and extra-rational features, involving emotions, persuasion, motivation and argumentation.

On one side, Persuasive Technology is emerging as a very strong research field, interested in the use of interactive systems to influence human thought and behavior. The international Persuasive conference is now well established at its 5th edition, and a series of other small events, like the Persuasive Technology Symposia (with AISB in 2008 and 2009), confirm the importance of the field in the research landscape.

Parallel to this, Affective Computing is interested in the use, understanding and modelling of emotions and affect in computer systems. From the early 90s, which also saw two UM workshops (at UM03 and UM05), Affective Computing is now an established discipline, with an international conference (ACII), a professional society (HUMAINE) and, recently, a new journal (IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing).

Finally, Argument and Computation is also emerged in the past decade as a research strand interested in computational models of theories of argumentation and persuasion coming from Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. Again, an increasing number of events dedicated to the topic, including two annual workshop series (Argumentation in MultiAgent Systems, now at its 7th edition, and Computational Models of Natural Argument, at its 10th edition) and a biennial international conference (COMMA), have recently been complemented by a new journal (Argument and Computation).

This workshop intends to sit at the intersection between these three areas of research, and focus on how adaptive and personalised systems can motivate people, for instance to improve health, or to use sustainable resources, or to achieve goals or specific skills, by using persuasion and argumentation techniques and/or techniques involving the affective and emotional sphere.


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop will focus on strategies, techniques and evaluation for motivational systems that tailor to cognitive and affective state of the individual. Suggested topics include:

- user models for persuasive motivational systems: 
   - Modeling receiver involvement, and position; 
   - Modeling personality and affective state for persuasion, 
   - Identifying relevant affective aspect in user modeling, 
   - Integrating affective and non-affective aspect in user models, 
   - Recognition and interpretation of the users’ communicative intentions and affective states and updating of the user model, 
   - Investigating the relationship between recognized affective states and their impact on users’ beliefs and motivation, 
   - Effect of cultural differences on persuasion;

- adaptive strategies for persuasion: 
   - Generating persuasive arguments; 
   - Ontologies for persuasion; 
   - Persuasive discourse processing: understanding what users say in terms of argumentation schemes; 
   - Computational models of argumentation tailored to a specific user; 
   - Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in models of persuasion and argumentation;

- motivation and affect: 
   - mutual interactions and synergies, 
   - peripheral routes of persuasion (humor, mood induction, enhancing source credibility)

- persuasive interfaces: 
   - ambient persuasion, 
   - use of embodied conversational agents, 
   - serious games

- applications and evaluations: 
   - intelligent tutoring systems, 
   - health promotion, 
   - e-democracy, 
   - advertising, 
   - entertainment, 
   - coaching, 
   - decision support.

- ethical issues and evaluation of the impact of affective factors in motivation


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SUBMISSIONS
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The workshop encourages submissions in three categories:
- Long papers, describing mature research (up to 12 pages)
- Short papers describing work in progress (up to 6 pages)
- Demonstration of implemented systems: submissions should be accompanied by written reports (up to 6 pages). Authors should contact the organisers to ensure suitable equipment is available.

Papers should be formatted according to the style guide of UMAP'10 (Springer LNCS) see here: 

Papers will be reviews by at least two members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshops notes, distributed at the event.

Paper submission will be handled by the Easychair conference system. Please submit your paper here: 


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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Nadja De Carolis
Dipartimento di Informatica
University of Bari
Bari, Italy
decarolis(AT)di.uniba.it

Floriana Grasso
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 3BF, UK
floriana(AT)csc.liv.ac.uk 

Judith Masthoff
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
j.masthoff(AT)abdn.ac.uk


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Department of Informatics
University of Bari
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ACM Multimedia 2010 Publicity | 2 Feb 2010 17:43
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20?=[ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010] General Announcement

ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 - General Announcement

October 25-29th 2010 - Firenze, Italy
http://www.acmmm10.org/

Dear Colleague,

We are now organizing ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010, the premiere science conference in the field, that will be held in Florence, Italy on 25-29 October 2010. ACM Multimedia is a great composite event with different programs:

  • The Main Conference Program includes plenary scientific and technical sessions with keynote speeches, oral, poster and video presentations, brave new ideas sessions and technical demonstrations of scientists and practitioners in Multimedia.
  • Opportunities for Deepenings are organized as discussion rooms and doctoral symposiums for students and junior researchers, plus tutorials and panels with worldwide recognized scientists and opinion leaders.
  • Competitions of Research Teams comprise the Multimedia Grand Challenge competition, on relevant and challenging questions about the industry’s two-five years horizon for multimedia, and the Open Source Software competition, to encourage the implementations of open source multimedia software.
  • The Interactive Art program provides the opportunity of interaction between artists and computer scientists and investigation on the application of multimedia technologies to art and cultural heritage.
  • The Industry Exhibit program offers to the industries the opportunity to display their innovative products and advertise their initiatives.
  • Workshops associated to ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 will provide in-focus forums of discussion on some of the most relevant and timely scientific topics in the field.

Florence is one of the most beautiful art capitals in the world. In 1982 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, thanks to its incredible collection of Renaissance art and architecture. History and culture sit in every corner, and visitors follow the steps of great artists like Botticelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci on the sides of the famous Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery and the unique Palazzo Vecchio and Ponte Vecchio.

Please visit ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 website at http://www.acmmm10.org/ , take note of the program deadlines and plan to participate to the program of ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 that best suits your activity and results.

We thank you for your attention and hope that you will contribute to this fantastic event.

Winston Hsu, Bernard Merialdo, Yong Rui
ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 Publicity Chairs

on behalf of the General Chairs
Alberto del Bimbo and Shih-Fu Chang 

ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 - General Announcement 

October 25-29th 2010 - Firenze, Italy 
http://www.acmmm10.org/ 

Dear Colleague, 

We are now organizing ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010, the premiere science conference in the field, that will be held
in Florence, Italy on 25-29 October 2010. ACM Multimedia is a great composite event with different
programs: 

The Main Conference Program includes plenary scientific and technical sessions with keynote speeches,
oral, poster and video presentations, brave new ideas sessions and technical demonstrations of
scientists and practitioners in Multimedia. 
Opportunities for Deepenings are organized as discussion rooms and doctoral symposiums for students and
junior researchers, plus tutorials and panels with worldwide recognized scientists and opinion
leaders. 
Competitions of Research Teams comprise the Multimedia Grand Challenge competition, on relevant and
challenging questions about the industry’s two-five years horizon for multimedia, and the Open Source
Software competition, to encourage the implementations of open source multimedia software. 
The Interactive Art program provides the opportunity of interaction between artists and computer
scientists and investigation on the application of multimedia technologies to art and cultural
heritage. 
The Industry Exhibit program offers to the industries the opportunity to display their innovative
products and advertise their initiatives. 
Workshops associated to ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 will provide in-focus forums of discussion on some of the most
relevant and timely scientific topics in the field. 
Florence is one of the most beautiful art capitals in the world. In 1982 it was declared a World Heritage Site
by UNESCO, thanks to its incredible collection of Renaissance art and architecture. History and culture
sit in every corner, and visitors follow the steps of great artists like Botticelli, Michelangelo and
Leonardo da Vinci on the sides of the famous Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery and the unique Palazzo Vecchio and
Ponte Vecchio. 

Please visit ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 website at http://www.acmmm10.org/ , take note of the program deadlines
and plan to participate to the program of ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 that best suits your activity and results. 

We thank you for your attention and hope that you will contribute to this fantastic event. 

Winston Hsu, Bernard Merialdo, Yong Rui 
ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 Publicity Chairs 

on behalf of the General Chairs 
Alberto del Bimbo and Shih-Fu Chang
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Georgios N. Yannakakis | 2 Feb 2010 14:52
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Assistant professorship in Game Technology

**** Apologies for multiple postings *****

The IT University of Copenhagen announces a vacancy for an Assistant 
Professor in Game Technology.
The candidate will be placed at the Center for Computer Games Research 
(http://game.itu.dk/).

Application deadline is March, 3, 2010.

The call appears at the ITU Vacancies list:
http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp

Further information about the position can be found
here:
http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/VIP/Stillingsopslag%202010/2009-223-0011%20Assistant%20Professor%20201001.pdf 

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Georgios N. Yannakakis
Associate Professor 
IT University of Copenhagen

Tel. +45 7218 5078
Fax. +45 7218 5001
Email: yannakakis@... 
Web: http://www.itu.dk/~yannakakis/    
Addr. Room 4B05, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, DK-2300 Copenhagen S 


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ocelma | 3 Feb 2010 06:00
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RecSys 2010 :: CfP

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++      ACM Recommender Systems 2010         ++
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++       http://recsys.acm.org/2010          ++
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++ September 26-30, 2010 :: Barcelona, Spain ++
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++ CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND DEMOS ++
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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier annual event on research and applications of
recommendation technologies, the Fourth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. The previous
conferences in Minneapolis (2007), Lausanne (2008) and New York (2009) have been distinguished by a
strong level of interaction between practitioners and researchers in the sharing of ideas, problems and
solutions, and the 2010 conference will continue in this tradition. The fully-refereed proceedings
will be published by the ACM and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited.

- IMPORTANT DATES
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  . Deadline for abstracts (mandatory for long/short papers): April 16, 11.59 pm (PST)
  . Deadline for papers (long/short): April 23, 11.59 pm (PST)
  . Paper Acceptance Notifications: June 23, 2010
  . Deadline for video reports: July 1, 2010
  . Camera-ready copy: July 21, 2010
  . Conference: September 26-30, 2010

- TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social
networking, platforms from web to mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from
collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 

  . Case studies of recommender system implementations
  . Computational advertising
  . Conversational recommender systems
  . Context-aware and multidimensional recommender systems
  . Evaluation of recommender systems
  . Group recommenders
  . Impact of recommenders in practice
  . Innovative recommender applications
  . Machine learning and recommender systems
  . Novel paradigms of recommender systems
  . Personalization
  . Recommendation algorithms
  . Recommendation in social networks
  . Recommender system interfaces
  . Scalability issues
  . Security, privacy, and robustness
  . Semantic web technologies for recommender systems
  . Theoretical aspects of recommender systems
  . User modeling and recommender systems
  . User studies

- PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION
----------------------------

All the details can be found in: http://recsys.acm.org/2010/call-for-papers/

- Program Chairs
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  . Paul Resnick, University of Michigan
  . Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt

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Florian Alt | 2 Feb 2010 08:16
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Deadline Extension: PERVASIVE 2010 Workshop: Pervasive Advertising and Shopping

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DEADLINE EXTENSION
 
Workshop on Pervasive Advertising and Shopping
in conjunction with Pervasive 2010, May 17 2010, Helsinki, Finland
 
Submission Deadline: February 8, 2010
 
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Due to several requests we extend the submission deadline to February 8, 2010.
 
Pervasive computing technologies such as a variety of ever-smaller mobile devices, public digital displays, and location sensing and tracking tools are rapidly adopted by the advertising and retail industries. Adoption is driven by the comprehensive business models facilitated by these technologies, a fact that leads us to believe that advertising and shopping could well be amongst the most important deployment domains for pervasive technologies. Furthermore, the two industries are intimately linked: advertising that is the communication of sponsored messages to inform, convince, and persuade to buy leads to shopping, that is the examination and purchasing of goods.
 
However, the opportunities, benefits and drawbacks of pervasive technologies in these domains only now are beginning to be understood. Moreover the current trend whereby power is shifting towards consumers, makes specific aspects of advertising and shopping such as brand experience, word of mouth, and audience measurement gain importance, and provides opportunities for pervasive technologies to generate some true benefit for consumers.
 
We believe that our research community has a responsibility to contribute towards the improved understanding of the implications of this change and whenever possible to play a leading role in shaping it in a positive and meaningful way. To this end, this workshop looks at the future of advertising and shopping from the perspective of pervasive computing. It aims to provide a foundational structure for the field and will attempt to sketch a roadmap for further research and deployment challenges in this domain.
 
 
We invite papers that address any relevant issues in the fields of pervasive advertising and shopping.
In addition to online proceedings, selected workshop papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
 
 
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION
 
We ask potential attendees to submit up to 10-page position papers describing how their research relates to the particular focus on the workshop. Position papers should also include description of ongoing research, results obtained, experience gathered, new ideas, future projects or questions on topics related to pervasive advertising and shopping. Each participant is also asked to provide a short paragraph (up to 200 words) on their vision of advertising and shopping in 25 years from now. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
 
More information can be found at
 
http://pervasiveadvertising.org/pervasiveadvertisingandshopping/
 
All submissions must be submitted via email to Florian Alt:
florian.alt-2ePcrahqm8iELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org
 
Papers should be no longer than 10 pages. All papers must be submitted in PDF in Springer LNCS format. At least one author for each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.
 
Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for expansion and inclusion in a special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC) journal on Pervasive Advertising and Shopping.
 
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES
 
* February 8, 2010: Deadline for electronic submission
 
* March 1, 2010: Author Notification
 
* March 31, 2010: Submission of camera-ready
 
* May 17, 2010: Workshop at Helsinki, Finland
 
 
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
 
Jörg Müller, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, hans-joerg.mueller-+tb+GG71Y8CELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org
 
Florian Alt, University of Duisburg-Essen, florian.alt-2ePcrahqm8iELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org
 
Daniel Michelis, Anhalt University of Applied Science, d.michelis-YEYAPFeItNvO9FSH6flF5w@public.gmane.org
 
George Roussos, University of London, g.roussos-vdkkCC4CxPk2EctHIo1CcQ@public.gmane.org 
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Elvira Popescu | 3 Feb 2010 11:58
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CfP: SPeL 2010 (3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)

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* 3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing
* for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2010)
* http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/
*
* in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Database and
* Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'10)
* http://www.dexa.org/
*
* Bilbao, Spain
* University of Deusto
* 30 August - 3 September 2010
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Motivation
==========

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2008/) and SPeL 2009
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2009/) workshops  held in
conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference
(http://www.icta.ufl.edu/saint08/) and WI/IAT 2009 conference
(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/) respectively. The general topic of
the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported
learning communities. This year, the workshop focuses on social and
intelligent systems in education, with particular interest on aspects
related to data, information, and knowledge within such systems.

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, podcasts, and 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.

Social learning is based on creating and sharing information and knowledge
within the learning community and personalized learning can only take
place if enough data about learners (e.g., their behavior, actions,
characteristics, and so on) have been gathered and correctly analyzed and
interpreted. For both social and personalized learning, the role of data,
information, and knowledge is essential. In this context, the workshop
addresses the challenges of social and personal computing in Web-supported
learning communities focusing on aspects related to acquiring and managing
data, information, and knowledge. 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 topics cover all aspects of intelligent systems in
e-learning, particularly related to issues about data, information, and
knowledge in social and personalized learning, including (but not limited
to):
	- Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning
	- Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
	- Knowledge management in e-learning systems
	- Educational data mining
	- Student data privacy and security
	- Interoperability issues
	- Intelligent learner and group modeling
	- Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
	- Social information retrieval
	- Semantic social networks
	- Knowledge community formation and support
	- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning
	- Virtual spaces for learning communities
	- Web supported ubiquitous learning
	- Web services in e-learning
	- Mobile e-learning applications
	- Adaptive and personalized learning environments
	- Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
	- Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems
	- Web-based cooperative learning
	- Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
	- Pervasive e-learning scenarios
	- Lifelong learning networks
	- Social software for collaborative learning
	- Socially intelligent agents
	- Community discovering in social learning systems
	- Social structure exploitation in e-learning
	- Socially-inspired e-learning systems

Paper submission and publication
=================================

The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press (indexed by IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC, DBLP).

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 5 pages, IEEE-CS
format. Please follow the instructions on the DEXA 2010 website
(http://www.dexa.org/node/12), where you can find the Manuscript
Formatting Guidelines.

Important dates
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March 20, 2010          Workshop paper submission
April 20, 2010          Workshop paper notification
May 17, 2010            Camera ready paper
30 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2010  SPeL 2010 workshop (exact date is TBA)

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

Program Committee
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http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/committee.php


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Elvira Popescu | 3 Feb 2010 11:58
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CfP: SPeL 2010 (3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)

***************************************************************************
* 3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing
* for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2010)
* http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/
*
* in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Database and
* Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'10)
* http://www.dexa.org/
*
* Bilbao, Spain
* University of Deusto
* 30 August - 3 September 2010
***************************************************************************

Motivation
==========

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2008/) and SPeL 2009
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2009/) workshops  held in
conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference
(http://www.icta.ufl.edu/saint08/) and WI/IAT 2009 conference
(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/) respectively. The general topic of
the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported
learning communities. This year, the workshop focuses on social and
intelligent systems in education, with particular interest on aspects
related to data, information, and knowledge within such systems.

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, podcasts, and 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.

Social learning is based on creating and sharing information and knowledge
within the learning community and personalized learning can only take
place if enough data about learners (e.g., their behavior, actions,
characteristics, and so on) have been gathered and correctly analyzed and
interpreted. For both social and personalized learning, the role of data,
information, and knowledge is essential. In this context, the workshop
addresses the challenges of social and personal computing in Web-supported
learning communities focusing on aspects related to acquiring and managing
data, information, and knowledge. 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 topics cover all aspects of intelligent systems in
e-learning, particularly related to issues about data, information, and
knowledge in social and personalized learning, including (but not limited
to):
	- Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning
	- Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
	- Knowledge management in e-learning systems
	- Educational data mining
	- Student data privacy and security
	- Interoperability issues
	- Intelligent learner and group modeling
	- Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
	- Social information retrieval
	- Semantic social networks
	- Knowledge community formation and support
	- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning
	- Virtual spaces for learning communities
	- Web supported ubiquitous learning
	- Web services in e-learning
	- Mobile e-learning applications
	- Adaptive and personalized learning environments
	- Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
	- Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems
	- Web-based cooperative learning
	- Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
	- Pervasive e-learning scenarios
	- Lifelong learning networks
	- Social software for collaborative learning
	- Socially intelligent agents
	- Community discovering in social learning systems
	- Social structure exploitation in e-learning
	- Socially-inspired e-learning systems

Paper submission and publication
=================================

The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press (indexed by IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC, DBLP).

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 5 pages, IEEE-CS
format. Please follow the instructions on the DEXA 2010 website
(http://www.dexa.org/node/12), where you can find the Manuscript
Formatting Guidelines.

Important dates
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March 20, 2010          Workshop paper submission
April 20, 2010          Workshop paper notification
May 17, 2010            Camera ready paper
30 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2010  SPeL 2010 workshop (exact date is TBA)

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

Program Committee
=================

http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/committee.php
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Aaron Quigley | 3 Feb 2010 14:44
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6 PhD scholarships at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia


**** Apologies for multiple postings *****

The Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HITLab AU)
is pleased to announce that applications are now open for 6 fully 
funded PhD scholarships within the lab starting in 2010. 

Application deadline is March 1st 2010.

The topics of these projects include:

- Interactive Surface User Interfaces
- Tangible User interfaces
- Hybrid AR Tracking
- Mixed Reality for Digital Museums 
- Digital Physical Gaming 

We are looking for exceptionally well-qualified, motivated candidates 
who want to be part of the first phase of our development into a 
leading international research laboratory in interface technology research.

Further information about these positions can be found here:
http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/Jan_2010_PhD_Scholarships

     Aaron.
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Associate Professor Aaron Quigley
Director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLab) Australia
School of Computing and Information Systems
University of Tasmania
Locked Bag 1359
Launceston Tas 7250
Australia
	
url: http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/Aaron_Quigley
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email: Aaron.Quigley@...	
phone: +61 3 6324 3977


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Bernard Merialdo | 3 Feb 2010 15:36
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ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITION IN MULTIMEDIA AT EURECOM

   ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITION IN MULTIMEDIA AT EURECOM

The Multimedia Communications Department of EURECOM invites applications 
for a faculty position at the Assistant/Associate Professor level. The 
new faculty is expected to participate in teaching in our Master program 
and to develop a new research activity in
                                       Ambient Multimedia.
We are especially interested in research directions which may extend our 
existing activities in audio and video analysis towards pioneering new 
approaches to interaction between people and their environment, in 
everyday life or professional situations, for better productivity, 
security, healthcare or entertainment.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. in computer science or electrical 
engineering and between 5 and 10 years of research experience after PhD. 
The ideal candidate will have an established research track record at 
the international level, and a proven record of successful collaboration 
with academic and industrial partners in national and European programs 
or equivalent. A strong commitment to excellence in research is 
mandatory. Exceptional candidates may be considered at the senior level.

Screening of applications will begin in January, 2010, and the search 
will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send, by 
email, a letter of motivation, a resume including a list of their 
publications, the names of 3 referees and a copy of their three most 
important publications, to:
            mm_position@...
with the subject: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN MULTIMEDIA

EURECOM (http://www.eurecom.fr/) is a graduate school in communication 
systems founded in 1992 by EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 
Lausanne, http://www.epfl.ch/) and Telecom Paris Tech 
(http://www.enst.fr/), together with several academic and industrial 
partners. EURECOM's activity includes research and graduate teaching in 
corporate, multimedia and mobile communications. EURECOM currently has a 
faculty of 20 professors, 200 Master students and 60 PhD students. 
EURECOM is involved in many European research projects and joint 
collaborations with industry. EURECOM is located in Sophia-Antipolis, a 
major European technology park for telecommunications research and 
development in the French Riviera.


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