City University Doctoral Studentships: Centre for Interactive Systems Research

Colleages

Centre for Interactive Systems Research (CISR) is looking to recruit
research students as part of City Universities drive to increase research
student partcipation at the University. 

We consider the interactivity of systems but also the importance of
relevant, engaging, and high quality content in them. CISR specialises in
information retrieval algorithms for effective search and understanding
user information needs. We are able to offer supervision in a number of
different area in IR such as:

- Search algorithms: efficiency and effectiveness
- Web log analysis 
- Personalisation
- Collaborative search 
- User information needs, user studies  
- Human information behaviour
- Context learning algorithms for search
- Context-aware applications
- Ambient, mobile, and context-sensitive technologies
- Multimedia needs and retrieval: music, images, video etc
- Disabilities and search: cognitive and physical disability
- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems in IR 

We are a centre within the Deparment of Information Science, which is part
of the School of Informatics. We collaborate with the Centre for Human
Computer Interaction and Design (CHCID) and Department of Computing within
the school on supervising research studies.

WWW 2011- CfP: 1st International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD2011)

Apologies for cross-postings:

=============== First Call for Papers ===============
	
	Workshop on: USAGE ANALYSIS AND THE WEB OF DATA (USEWOD2011)
	& USEWOD DATA CHALLENGE

	Workshop at WWW 2011 – Hyderabad, India, 28 or 29 March 2011
	http://data.semanticweb.org/usewod/2011/

Important dates
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	* Release of Dataset for the USEWOD Challenge: 21 December 2011
	* Paper submission deadline: 8 February 2011
	* Workshop and Prize for USEWOD Challenge: 28 or 29 March 2011

Submission
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	* Long papers: up to 8 pages
	* Short papers: up to 4 pages
	* Data Challenge papers (see below): up to 4 pages
	all in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)

Overview
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This workshop will investigate the synergy between semantics and
semantic-web technology on the one hand and analysis and mining of
usage data on the other hand. The two fields are a promising
combination. First, semantics can be used to enhance the analysis of
usage data. Usage logs contain information that can help to better

ECIR Reviewer

CFP: 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2011)

Apologies for cross-posting

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CBMI 2011 - 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011
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Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999,
Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania
2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab
(VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.

CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in
the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval,
browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will
include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with
contributed research papers.

Call for Papers
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http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/call4papers.html

Technical Program
Topics of interest, grouped in technical tracks, include, but are not limited to:

Visual Indexing
Visual indexing (image, video, graphics)
Visual content extraction
Identification and tracking of semantic regions
Identification of semantic events
   Audio and Multi-modal Indexing

Audio indexing (audio, speech, music)
Audio content extraction
Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
Metadata generation, coding and transformation
   Multimedia Information Retrieval

Multimedia retrieval (image, audio, video, …)
Matching and similarity search
Content-based search
Multimedia data mining
Multimedia recommendation
Large scale multimedia database management
   Multimedia Browsing and Presentation

Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content
Personalization and content adaptation
User interaction and relevance feedback
Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools
All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop 
proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore.

Selected papers will appear, after extension and peer-review, in 
a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

Paper submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of not more than six (6) pages 
including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic 
submission through the Easychair site. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided 
for the convenience of the authors.

Important dates
Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011
A pdf version of this Call for Papers can be downloaded in the following link. 

http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/docs/CBMI2011_Call4Papers.pdf

Call for Workshops - CIKM 2011

20th Annual ACM CIKM 2011 Conference

Call for Workshops - http://www.cikm2011.org/callforworkshops

Proposals are solicited for one-day workshops to be held as part of the CIKM
conference in Glasgow, Scotland, UK (24th-28th October 2011,
http://www.cikm2011.org/). Topics should be in the general areas of
databases, information retrieval, and/or knowledge management. Indeed,
workshops bridging these areas, or presenting new perspectives in these
areas are particularly welcome. A full list of current topics of interest
can be found in the CIKM general call for papers - see
http://www.cikm2011.org/callforpapers

CIKM workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less
formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. The format
of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers, but it is expected
that workshops will contain ample time for general discussion and engagement
by all participants - not just those presenting papers. Workshops that
foster interaction, discussion, collaboration, and group problem-solving are
especially encouraged.

It is highly recommended to use the CIKM 2011 Workshop Proposal Template for
your submission. 

Important Dates for Workshop Proposals

* Proposals Due: March 28, 2011
* Notification of Workshop Proposal Acceptance: May 9, 2011
* Individual Workshop Papers Due: June 29, 2011
* Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2011
* Camera Ready: August 15, 2011 (hard deadline for publication)