SMAP 2011 - Call for Participation

           PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
		6th International Workshop on 
           Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization
                         (SMAP 2011)

               December 1-2, 2011 --  Vigo, Spain 
                   http://www.smap2011.org/

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You are cordially invited to participate in SMAP 2011, the 6th edition of
the International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and
Personalization. 

The SMAP initiative was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to
discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for
semantic media adaptation and personalization. 
After five successful workshops –in Athens, London, Prague, San Sebastian
and Limassol–, the SMAP conference series has consolidated as a reference
event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field. 
The 6th SMAP workshop will be held in Vigo, Spain. 

The scope of SMAP 2011 covers different issues of semantic multimedia
technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user
profiling, including the following topics of interest: 

• Semantic content creation, annotation and modelling.
• Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents.  

CFP: IEEE WMUTE2012 and DIGITEL2012

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                            Call For Papers

   7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile&  Ubiquitous
                Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2012)
                       http://wmute2012.info

   4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent
                 Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2012)
                       http://digitel2012.info

              March 27-30, 2012 in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
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Sponsored by:
* IEEE Computer Society
* IEEE Technical COmmittee on Learning Technology
* Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research
  Foundation
* Kagawa University

Cooperated by:
* 国内協賛学会リスト（作成中）

The proceedings of both conferences will be published
by IEEE Computer Society.

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CFP: U-ED 2011 : Workshop on Usability in Education at IHM 2011

Good morning,
The organizers of the U-Ed 2011 workshop, "Usability and Educational Technology: Impact on Study
results", to be held at the French Conference in Human-Computer Interaction IHM2011 conference, would
like to advertise the workshop call for paper on your mailing list, as it may be of great interest for the members.
Would it be possible to forward the call for paper that follows, along with the PDF version attached to the
email, to the mailing list?
Best Wishes

Sylvie Girard and Roger N'Kambou
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U-ED 2011 workshop organizers
mailto: ued2011-organizers@...
webpage: http://perso.univ-lemans.fr/~sgira/ued2011/index.html

You work in education or HCI, and are interested in usability issues for educational technology? This
workshop is made for you !! 

4 reasons you have to participate:
	1. A sensational scientific comity bringing together accademics from the fields of HCI, AIED,
Interaction Design, and Affective Computing
	2.The guaranty of a high quality of  scientific papers
	3. Building a new community to explore all aspects of usability in Education with an exceptional
brainstorming  session on the day
	4. Workshop support of the creation of special issues in international journals: creation of a new issue
of the Journal of Usability Studies for 2012, and currently in contact with STICEF for a special issue in
French for 2012.
Interested but not ready for publication? 
	-> Fill the IdeaBox with your thoughts, problematics, issues in usability for Education and help
strenghen the discussion around those issues in the brainstorming session: send an email with your ideas
to sylvie_girard <at> univ-lemans.fr with the subject: UED-Idea Box.

2nd CFP: Call for Posters, Demos and Doctoral Symposium 6th Annual ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011

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Call for Posters, Demos and Doctoral Symposium
6th Annual ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011

ITS 2011
November 13-16, 2011
*Kobe International House, Kobe, Japan
http://its2011.jp/
Twitter:  <at> ITS_Japan2011
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ACM-ITS-2011/161135517267835
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*NEWS*
The conference venue has been changed to "Kobe International House".
Please visit the conference website for further information.

We are pleased to announce our welcome keynote speaker, Prof. Hiroshi Ishii.
Visit http://its2011.jp/keynote.php for further information. Closing keynote
speaker to be announced shortly.

The Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011 Conference (ITS) is a premiere
venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging
tabletop and interactive surface technologies. As a new community, we embrace
the growth of the discipline in a wide variety of areas, including innovations
in ITS hardware, software, design, and projects expanding our understanding of
design considerations of ITS technologies and of their applications.

Building on their success in previous years, ITS again features tutorials,
posters, demonstrations tracks and a doctoral symposium. For the first time,
ITS 2011 will also include workshops.

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20?=[acm-mm-publicity] ACM Multimedia 2011 -- Industrial Exhibit

                   Industrial Exhibit at ACM Multimedia 2011
             Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Nov.28-Dec.1, 2011
                        http://www.acmmm11.org

This is  the second  year that ACM  Multimedia includes  an INDUSTRIAL
EXHIBIT  track   that  will  showcase   demonstrations  of  innovative
multimedia related products, applications  and services. This track is
meant to provide an important venue for companies to demonstrate novel
applications,   as   well   as   a   major  point   of   contact   and
cross-fertilization  between research  and  industry. Please  consider
contributing  a  paper and  demonstration  to  the Industrial  Exhibit
track.

All accepted demonstrations will also include a 2-page paper that will
be published as part of the conference proceedings.

Submissions  should  include  a  brief technical  description  of  the
demonstration  as well as  the appropriate  use cases  from real-world
settings.  Different from  the demo  session where  prototypes  can be
presented,  we are  looking  forward to  showcasing mature  multimedia
applications, solutions  and services that  are available to  users as
beta  trials  or products.  Submissions  will  be  evaluated based  on
various criteria including  the quality and level of  details, as well
as the relevance to the conference and to the broader community.

*Important Dates:* 
Deadline for submission: August 15th, 2011 (11:59 PM PDT)
Notification of acceptance: August 26, 2011 (11:59 PM PDT) 
Final manuscript submission deadline: September 5, 2011 (11:59 PM PDT) 
Camera-ready: September 12, 2011 

2CFP: IP&M Special Issue on Personalization and Recommendation in Information Access

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Second Call for Papers
Information Processing&  Management Special Issue on
Personalization and Recommendation in Information Access
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* Submission deadline: September 30, 2011 *

Motivation
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The goal of enhancing IR models and methods towards user-aware and
context-aware models has raised increasing interest in the research
community, and is being identified as a key step in order to cope with
the continuous growth of information environments (repositories,
networks, users) worldwide. The notion of context refers to any dynamic
condition occurring at the time when an information retrieval task takes
place, and which may be relevant to fully define and understand a user
need. When the notion of context focuses on persistent user
characteristics and preferences, it is usually referred to as an issue
of personalization.

A significant body of research in the last two decades has paid
attention to the problem of personalizing information access and
delivery, commonly addressed under such names as information filtering,
collaborative filtering, recommender systems, or personalized IR, with
variations in approach and perspective. From different angles, the
problem has been a major research topic in fields such as IR, User
Modelling, and Machine Learning. In general, personalizing the retrieval

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CFP WSDM 2012 Doctoral Consortium

Call for WSDM 2012 Doctoral Consortium Submissions
http://www.wsdm2012.org/
February 8, 2012

The inaugural WSDM 2012 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral
students with a unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with
other researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research.

The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are:

- To provide a forum where doctoral students can present and discuss
their research with experienced Web, Search and Data Mining researchers
who are members of the Doctoral Consortium Committee.

- To provide students with an opportunity to establish and contribute to
a supportive community, including other doctoral students at a similar
stage of their dissertation research.

The Consortium will take place on Wednesday, February 8, the same day as
the Tutorials. The format will include student presentations with
plenary discussions, individual meetings with experienced researchers,
and discussions over lunch and breaks.

Prospective attendees should have written, or be close to completing, a
thesis proposal (or equivalent). It is desirable that the student not be
so close to completion that the event would have little impact on their
work. Before submitting, students should discuss this criterion with
their advisor.

Candidates for the Doctoral Consortium will be selected based on the
potential of their research for future impact on the field of Web Search
and Data Mining and the likely benefit to the student of participating
in the Consortium.  This selection will be based in part on a written
paper, singly authored by the student. For students who are selected to
participate in the Consortium, a two-page extended abstract will be
published in the WSDM Conference Proceedings.

Doctoral students who submit to the Consortium are permitted to have
previously published on their research, and are encouraged to submit
papers or posters to WSDM and associated workshops.

Submission Guidelines
=====================

The submitted paper (up to five pages) will be the basis for detailed
discussions at the Consortium. It should include:
- Motivation for the proposed research.
- Background and related work (including key references).
- Description of proposed research, including main research questions.
- Research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate).
- Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Consortium.

In addition, a one-page appendix to the paper describing benefits that
would be obtained by attending the Consortium.  It should include:
- A statement by the student saying why they want to attend the Consortium.
- A statement by their advisor saying how the student would benefit by
attending the Consortium. Advisors should also specifically state
whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis
proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend
their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate.

Format Requirements
===================

Submissions must be written in English and submitted in the ACM
Conference style (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style). The paper should
be no more than 5 pages in length including all figures and references,
but not including the one page appendix. The first page must contain the
title of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details,
an abstract of up to 250 words, ACM Computing Reviews categories, and up
to 3 keywords describing the topic areas.  Information about categories
and keywords can be found in ACM Web pages on the computing
classification system and in the LaTeX and Word templates.

Note: The full Doctoral Consortium submissions will not be published in
the WSDM Conference Proceedings.  However two-page extended abstracts
will be published for all accepted submissions.

Consortium submissions must be in PDF format and submitted using the
EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2012dc

Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Doctoral Consortium
Committee.

Questions can be addressed to: wsdm2012dc@...

Important Dates
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?	Sep 16, 2011 - Doctoral Consortium submissions due
?	Oct 26, 2011 - Notification of decisions
?	Dec 7, 2011 ? Camera ready deadline
?	Feb 8, 2012 - Doctoral Consortium at WSDM 2012 (Seattle)

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
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Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University (USA)
Susan T. Dumais, Microsoft Research (USA)

Brian D. Davison
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Lehigh University
http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/

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