Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010)

1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation
in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010) 
30 or 31 May 2010 | Heraklion, Greece
http://ir.ii.uam.es/apresw2010/

In conjunction with the
7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) 
http://www.eswc2010.org/

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Important dates
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   * Paper submission:                           7 March 2010
   * Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: 5 April 2010
   * Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:     18 April, 2010
   * APRESW 2010 Workshop:                       30 or 31 May 2010

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Motivation
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During the last years, researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web
have progressively consolidated a number of very important achievements.
Formal languages have been standardized to define ontology-based knowledge
representations, logic formalisms and query models. Ontology engineering
methodologies and tools have been proposed to ease the designing and
populating of ontological knowledge bases. Reasoning engines have been
implemented to exploit inference capabilities of ontologies, and
semantic-based frameworks have been built to enrich the functionalities of
Web services. These achievements are the pillars to deal with the complex
challenge of bringing semantics to the Web.

The above gives a new ground to extend the focus of the Semantic Web by
engaging it in other communities, where semantics can play an important
role. The available semantic knowledge bases can be used to enrich and link
additional repositories, ontology engineering techniques can be utilized to
properly design and build ontologies in further real-world domains, and
inference and query mechanisms can enhance classic information management
and retrieval approaches.

Among these communities, this workshop aims to attract the attention of
students and professionals both from academia and industry who take benefit
of semantic-based techniques and technologies in within-application
Adaptation, Personalization and Recommendation approaches. In parallel to
the progress made in the Semantic Web research topics, there have been
appearing works in the above areas that use ontologies to model the user’s
preferences, tastes and interests, and exploit these personal features
together with meta-information about multimedia contents in order to provide
the user with adaptation and personalization capabilities for different
purposes such as information retrieval and item recommendation.

Moreover, with the advent of the Web 2.0 (also called the Social Web), the
potential study and development of those approaches have increased
exponentially. Social networks allow people to provide explicit
relationships with others, and find out implicit user similarities based on
their profiles. Social tagging services offer the opportunity to easily
create and exploit personal knowledge representations. Wiki-style sites
represent an environment where the community contributes and shares
information, and blogs are media in which users express subjective opinions.
In all of these scenarios, adaptation, personalization and recommendation
are core functionalities. However, the understanding and exploitation of the
semantics underlying user and item profiles are still open issues.

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Topics of interestco
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The workshop will focus on establishing user/usage models for adaptation,
personalization and recommendation approaches for the Social-semantic Web.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the exploitation of the
Web of Data, the identification of semantics underlying social annotations
of multimedia contents, and the application of semantic-based techniques and
technologies in research fields related to:

   * Personalized access to multimedia content
   * Content-based recommendation and collaborative filtering
   * Adaptive exploration of multimedia content
   * Adaptive user interfaces for multimedia content browsing and searching
   * Community extraction and exploitation
   * Social networks analysis for collaborative recommendation
   * User profile construction based on social tagging information
   * Context-aware multimedia content access and delivery
   * Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia content access and delivery

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Organizing Committee
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   * Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
   * David Vallet, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   * José C. Cortizo, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
   * Francisco M. Carrero, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

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Program Committee
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   * Sofia Angeletou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
   * Ching-man Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Labs, Japan
   * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   * Manuel Cebrián, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
   * Rosta Farzan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   * Miriam Fernández, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
   * Enrique Frías, Telefónica I+D, Spain
   * Ana García-Serrano, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia,
Spain
   * Andrés García-Silva, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
   * Tom Heath, Talis, UK
   * Frank Hopfgartner, University of Glasgow, UK
   * Ioannis Konstas, University of Edinburgh, UK
   * Estefanía Martín, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
   * Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
   * Daniel Olmedilla, Telefónica I+D, Spain
   * Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
   * Jérôme Picault, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
   * Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
   * Sergey A. Sosnovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
   * Martin Szomszor, City University London, UK
   * Marc Torrens, Strands, Spain
   * Paulo Villegas, Telefónica I+D, Spain

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Organizers
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   * Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, http://www.uam.es/
   * Yahoo! Research, http://research.yahoo.com/
   * Universidad Europea de Madrid, http://www.esp.uem.es/gsi/

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Sponsors
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   * Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España (CENIT-2007-1012),
https://i3media.barcelonamedia.org/
   * Consorcio MAVIR, http://www.mavir.net
   * Sistema Madri+d, http://www.madrimasd.org

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Contact information
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Dr. Iván Cantador
Departamento de Ingeniería Informática
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
E-mail: ivan.cantador@uam.es
Phone: +34 91 497 2358

RTSOABIS - International Workshop on Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems

The paper submission deadline for RTSOABIS (International Workshop on Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems "http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/rtsoabis/rtsoabis2010-cfp.htm") was extended to the 22nd of March. We hope this extension may be helpful and we look forward to receiving a paper submission from you in a couple of weeks.

RTSOABIS is one of the satellite workshops of the ICEIS-2010 Conference (www.iceis.org), to be held in Funchal, Madeira - Portugal next June. ICEIS 2010 will be organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGART), the ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems (ACM SIGMIS), the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers / Special Group on Software Interprise Modeling (IEICE SWIM).

The proceedings will be indexed by major international indexers, including INSPEC, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. We are also waiting the confirmation of indexation by EI.

All published papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library, which is available at http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/

For more details, please take a look at the workshop website available at: http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/rtsoabis/rtsoabis2010-cfp.htm


Dr. Wathiq Mansoor, Workshop Co-Chair
Professor of Computer Engineering
American University in Dubai
PO Box 28282, Dubai, UAE
Office: +97143183436

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)
***SIXTH and SEVENTH ISSUES***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31 2009 (sixth issue), June 30, 2010 (seventh
 issue)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp/PATS & 
IBBT, Ph.D.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board

Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium
Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain
Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium
Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway

 MISSION OF IJARAS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and the surrounding environments.

IJARAS has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction:

The awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as adaptive systems constantly re-optimizing in view of changes both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). It introduces a problem, which implies a research direction --- a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering are regarded as special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming apowerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in this area.

 RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
 

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;
* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;
* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;
* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;
* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security;
* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability;
* Resilience engineering;
* Autonomic business process execution;
* Adaptive service-oriented computing;
* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems;
* Recovery-oriented computing;
* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces;
* Adaptive fault-tolerance;
* Adaptive fault-masking;
* Adaptive data integrity;
* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;
* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;
* Personalization;
* Adaptive data mining;
* Adaptive fault models;
* Adaptive system models;
* Adaptive routing;
* Autonomic applications;
* Agents;
* Architecture-based adaptation;
* Self-* systems.

SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at  

http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo.deflorio@ua.ac.be
 

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Vincenzo De Florio
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems
E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Data Mining in Cloud Computing

Special Session on "Data Mining in Cloud Computing"
Brief Description
     The ‘Data Mining in Cloud Computing Session’ of the Fifth International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2010) invites the submission of original high-quality research papers. The goal of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Cloud computing, Data mining and Knowledge Technology together to addresses the problems and emerging opportunities about Cloud Computing in the era of Knowledge Technology. Submissions will be in Springer LNCS style. Accepted and registered papers will be included in the Springer LNAI proceedings available at the conference. Extensions of selected papers from the RSKT2010 proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of some international journals, such as Fundamental Informatics (EI, SCI indexed), International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI indexed), etc.
Scope and Topics
   Topics of interest include but not limited to:
   * Knowledge technology in cloud computing
   * Compute and storage cloud architectures and implementations
   * Data intensive scalable computing
   * Distributed data intensive computing
   * Service models
   * Programming models
   * Charging models
   * Virtual appliance management and composition
   * Models, frameworks and systems for cloud security
   * New applications on cloud
Important Dates
   Full paper submission due: March 20, 2010
   Paper acceptance/rejection notification: May 20, 2010
   Camera ready submission and registration: July 6, 2010
Instructions for Authors
   Articles should be submitted electronically. PDF format are acceptable and submissions should be according to the instruction for authors (see http://rskt2010.bjtu.edu.cn/paper.htm). Please specify that the paper is for the Knowledge Technology meet Cloud Computing session, and send an electronic copy of paper in PDF format in English to cqupt.yangyong@gmail.com. Same electronic copy must also be submitted online at EasyChair Login Page for RSKT 2010（https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?a=a03a9c904a6d;iid=19053）.
Special Session Cochairs
   Prof. Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China
   Prof. Dr. Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China
   Prof. Dr. Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
   Dr. Yong Yang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China

1st Int'l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking

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*                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and                 *
*                         CALL FOR POSTERS                      *
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* 1st Int'l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking  *
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*              In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM                  *
*        Technically co-sponsored by: IFIP TC6, Euro-NF         *
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*                University of Passau, Germany                  *
*                       April 13-15, 2010                       *
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*      Poster submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 17, 2010    *
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We are pleased to announce e-Energy 2010, the First
International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and
Networking and invite you to attend and to contribute to the
scientific program by submitting a poster proposal.

* GENERAL INFORMATION
e-Energy 2010 serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the
discussion and exchange of information on the research,
development, and applications on all energy-related topics which
address the fields of servers and communication infrastructures,
services in data centers, end-systems in home and office
environments, sensor networks, and future networks such as the
Future Internet.

* PROCEEDINGS AND PROGRAM
e-Energy 2010 will feature 29 papers presenting new and
visionary ideas how to make computing and networking more
energy-efficient. Keynote lectures will be given by Manfred
Immitzer (CIO, Nokia Siemens Networks) and Prof. Paul Kuehn
(University of Stuttgart, Germany). Please visit
http://www.e-energy.uni-passau.de/program/ to learn more about
the conference program.

******************** POSTER SUBMISSIONS *********************

POSTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE (extended): March 17, 2010, 11:59pm CET
POSTER NOTIFICATION DEADLINE (extended): March 19, 2010.

We solicitate poster submissions of areas of interest similar
to those listed in the technical call for papers. Posters do not
need to describe completed work, but they should give an overview
on research, best providing also preliminary results. We especially
encourage submissions of new visionary ideas. Final posters will be
displayed during all breaks facilitating discussions among the
conference participants and will be listed on the Web-site. We will
provide a table and a board on which to tack posters.

Information about areas of interest can be found at:
http://www.e-energy.uni-passau.de/call-for-papers.html

* FORMAT OF POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Poster proposals should be submitted as PDF files with no more than 3
pages (ACM style; same formatting instruction as applicable for
e-Energy paper submissions). The first two pages should contain an
extended abstract that explains the research content of the poster.
Additionally, the title, authors, institutional affiliations and
email addresses of the authors should be contained on the first page. The
third page should contain a draft of the poster content itself.

The final maximum poster dimensions are 30" by 40", with poster
contents mounted on rectangular poster board that will be provided along
with the needed mounting materials. The choice of using
multiple sheets of paper or a monolithic large piece of poster
paper is up to the authors.

Information about ACM stylesheets can be found at:
http://www.e-energy.uni-passau.de/call-for-papers.html

* POSTER SUMBISSION PROCESS
Please submit your poster proposal as a PDF e-mail attachment to

eenergy@fim.uni-passau.de

using the subject line "e-Energy Poster Submission". Any questions
concerning the posters should also be directed to this address.
Poster submissions will be reviewed and authors will be notified
about the acceptance.


We are looking forward to seeing you in Passau and receiving your
poster submissions!

General Co-Chairs:
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley (USA)
David Hutchison, Lancaster University (UK)

TPC Co-Chairs:
Hermann de Meer, Passau University (Germany)
Suresh Singh, Portland State University (USA)
Torsten Braun, Bern University (Switzerland)

Publicity Chair:
Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna (Austria)

Int. Conference on Wireless Communications, Network and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010)

Paper Submission Deadline Has Been Extended to April. 6, 2010. ============================================================== The 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Network and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010) http://www.wicom-meeting.org/2010 Chengdu, China     September 23-25, 2010 ==============================================================

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE, all the accepted papers will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.

The technical areas to be covered in this conference include: Wireless Communications Network Technologies Services and Application

Special track within WiCOM2010: Signal and Image Processing (SIP)

Full papers will be due by April 6, 2010.

For more information, please contact: wicom@scirp.org

WiCOM Organizing Committee

SoftNet 2010

===== Call for Submissions =======

SoftNet 2010, August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France

see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SoftNet10.html

SoftNet 2010 is a federated event focusing on advances topics concerning the networks, software engineering, testing, validation, and simulation. SoftNet 2010 continues the tradition of well-established conferences ICSEA and ICSNC, while complementing the topics with CENTRIC, VALID, and SIMUL.

Submission (full paper) new deadline: March 20, 2010.

Submissions must be electronically done using the 'Submit a Paper' link on the entry page of each conference.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html.

For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers for each conference.

Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in Special issues of different journals mentioned on the entry page of each conference.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed via all the IEEE indexing agreements.

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

-- ICSEA 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSEA10.html

-- ICSNC 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSNC10.html

-- CENTRIC 2010, The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CENTRIC10.html

-- MultiA-Pro 2010, The First International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MultiAPro.html

-- EuroCAT 2010, 4th Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Security, and Privacy 
http://www.cat10.uni.lu/index.html

-- VALID 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/VALID10.html

-- SIMUL 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SIMUL10.html


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