Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)

4th International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)
http://wic.litislab.fr

to be held at the 2012 World Wide Web International Conferences (WWW'12)
Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012

*Important Dates:*

Paper submission deadline: January 27th, 2012
Acceptance notification : February 27th, 2012
Camera ready paper : March 23rd, 2012
Workshop : April 16th, 2012

*INVITED SPEAKER*

We are honored to have a invited talk from Ashwin Ram (PARC & Georgia Tech).
Title: Health & Wellness 2.0 with social networks for healthcare

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities 
and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design, knowledge management, and so forth. 

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:
 Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
 Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
 Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
 Web-based applications and platforms for VC
 Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
 Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
 Self-* models and techniques for VC
 Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
 Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
 Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
 Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
 VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
 Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
 Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
 Surveys on WI and VC
 Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
 Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling


*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Discussion papers and demonstration papers (for presentation during the workshop) are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references. The paper must be formatted in pdf according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2012

The WI&C workshop are traditionnaly followed by post-proceedings
published in a renowned international journal (for the 2 last ones, it
was the International Journal on Web Intelligence & Agent
Systems). Discussions are in progress to decide which journal will
publish a special issue with the post-proceedings of WI&C 2012.

* WORKSHOP CHAIRS *

 • Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
 • Pierre Maret, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France
 • Laurent Vercouter, LITIS Laboratory, INSA de Rouen, France

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE *

Altmann Jorn, Seoul National University, South Korea
Amblard Frédéric, University of Toulouse I, France
Badica Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
Calmet Jacques, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Camacho Fernández David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Corcho Oscar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Currie Ken, CAPDM Ltd., Edinburgh, UK
De Coi Juri Luca, University of Saint Etienne, France
Delaforge Nicolas, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Dey Anind, Carnegie Mellon Institute, USA
El Morr Christo, York University, Canada
Favre Cécile, ERIC, University of Lyon 2, France
Gilani Wasif, SAP Research, United Kingdom
Halpin Harry, W3C, Scotland
Heckmann Dominikus, Saarland University, Germany
Kawash Jalal, University of Calgary, Canada
Kristoffersen Steinar, Ostfold University College, Norway
Letia Ioan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lingras Pawan, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Lopez Guillaume, University of Tokyo, Japan
Molli Pascal, University of Nantes, France
Occello Michel, University Pierre Mendes France, France
Ramanath Maya, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Ribière Myriam, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Rios Sebastián, University of Chile, Chile
Sasikumar M, C-DAC, India
Soulier Eddie, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Stahl Christoph, DFKI Saarbrucken, Germany
Stan Johann, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Story Henry, W3C
Tarkkanen Kimmo, University of Turku, Finland
Teigland Robin, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Tellioglu Hilda, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
van Beijnum Bert-Jan, University of Twente, Netherlands
Werthner Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ying Ding, Indiana University Bloomington, USA


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*Laurent Vercouter* Professor in Computer Science
LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen, Rouen, France
Ph: (+33) 232 959 986

Special Issue on Agent Communication

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Agent Communication
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Agent communication research seeks to address challenges in the
development of applications involving multiple autonomous and
heterogeneous agents. Agent communication differs from communication
as studied in traditional distributed systems in its emphasis of
high-level abstractions that enable flexible interaction yet support
verifying compliance. Broad applications include business
interactions, contracts and compliance, virtual enterprises,
negotiation, argumentation and decision support, and so on.

We invite quality submissions that develop new insights, high-level
abstractions, patterns, languages, formal theories, reasoning, and
methodologies for communication in multiagent systems.

Broad topics include

Protocols
Dialogs and argumentation
Virtual organizations, institutions
Commitments, norms, and other social concepts
Trust and deception
Correctness properties and their verification
Tying communication with agent design and execution strategies
Architecture, middleware, patterns, and programming language support
Standardization of communication primitives
Application-specific modeling and insights

Key Dates
*July 25, 2010 - Submissions*
October 15, 2010 - Decisions
December 15, 2010 - Final versions
Publication - Early 2011

Submission
On-Line Submission (will be available before July 25, 2010):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select Special Issue:
Agent Communication as the manuscript type).

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers.
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on at
http://tist.acm.org/

Guest Editors

Amit K. Chopra (also Contact editor)
University of Trento, Italy
chopra@disi.unitn.it

Alexander Artikis
National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece
a.artikis@iit.demokritos.gr

Jamal Bentahar
Concordia University, Canada
bentahar@ciise.concordia.ca

Frank Dignum
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
dignum@cs.uu.nl 

ACT4SOC 2010 - Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing

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WORKSHOPS IMPORTANT DATES
    Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
    Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
    Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010
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************************************************************************************************************
ACT4SOC 2010
4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm 
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:
Marten van Sinderen
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Brahmananda Sapkota
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Supported by IICREST and seekda!

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

    * Service Foundation and Design Issues
          o Principles of SOC/SOA, Service Science
          o Service Modelling Approaches
          o Formal Specification and Analysis
          o Reasoning Approaches
          o Model-driven Development, Platform-independence
          o Service Interoperability (Semantic, Pragmatic), Matching and (Dynamic) Composition
          o Ontology-centered Design
          o Requirements-functionality (Business-IT) Alignment
          o Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mash-ups
          o Rest vs WS
          o Repeated Aggregation of Services into Composite Applications and Business Processes

    * Service Technology and Infrastructure Issues
          o Architectural Patterns
          o Service Registry Management
          o Requirements Management, Service Evolution
          o Quality-of-Service Management
          o Cross-domain Service Delivery
          o Specific Technology Platform Solutions
          o Language-specific Solutions
          o Tool Support
          o Applicability and Performance Experiences
          o Service Level Agreements

    * Service Usage Issues and Applications of SOC/SOA
          o Service Registration, Update, de-Registration
          o Service Discovery, Matching, Selection, Replacement
          o Service Invocation, Interaction, Monitoring
          o Service Choreography, Mediation, Orchestration
          o Traceability of Technology Changes in Requirements and Vice versa
          o Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications
          o Health and Homecare Applications
          o Supply Chain Management Applications
          o e-Commerce Applications


************************************************************************************************************
ACES 2010
1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems 
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm 
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:
Frances Brazier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands 

Martijn Warnier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1 - Software Engineering Methods for Building Autonomic Systems
2 - QoS Management in Autonomic and Dynamic Environments
3 - Emergent Behavior, Emergent Configurations
4 - Service Agreements and Negotiation
5 - Legal Implications of Self-management/autonomy in Networked Systems


************************************************************************************************************
DMIA 2010
1st International Workshop on
Data Management and Information Analytics
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/DMIA.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:

Markus Helfert
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Ireland

Brian Donnellan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ireland

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Managing Large Data Manufacturing Systems
    * Organizational Concepts and Best Practice
    * Architectural Concepts
    * Data and Information Quality
    * Data Modeling
    * Methods for Data Management
    * Modeling and Analyzing Relationship Data
    * Modeling Large Data Manufacturing Systems
    * Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing
    * Data Visualization
    * Data Privacy and Integrity
    * Management of Uncertain Data
    * Accessibility of Data
    * Mobile Data Management
    * Management of Sensor Data
    * Data Integration
    * Integration and Analyzing Semi-structured and Unstructured Data
    * Text Analytics
    * Business Cases and Cost/Benefit Analysis of Data Management Approaches


************************************************************************************************************
RTABIS 2010
1st International Workshop on
Recent Trends in Aspect based Information Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTABIS.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:

Philippe Lahire
Laboratoire I3S, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
France

Jean-Yves Tigli
I3S Laboratory, Polytech'Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
France

Valérie Monfort
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / ISIG, Kairouan University
France / Tunisia

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Software Engineering

    * Requirements Engineering
    * Analysis and Design Modeling
    * Domain Engineering
    * Software Architectures
    * Evaluation and Metrics
    * Modular Reasoning
    * Testing and Verification
    * Interference and Composition
    * Traceability
    * Software Development Methods
    * Process and Methodology Definition
    * Patterns

- Programming Languages

    * Language Design
    * Compilation and Interpretation
    * Verification and Static Program Analysis
    * Formal Languages and Calculi
    * Execution Environments and Dynamic Weaving
    * Dynamic and Scripting Languages
    * Domain-specific Aspect Languages

- Related Paradigms

    * Model-driven Development
    * Generative Programming
    * Software Product Lines
    * Meta-programming
    * Contracts and Components
    * View-based Development

- Tool Support

    * Aspect Mining
    * Evolution and Reverse Engineering
    * Crosscutting Program Views
    * Refactoring

- Applications

    * Distributed/Concurrent Systems
    * Middleware, Services, and Networking
    * Pervasive Computing
    * Runtime Verification
    * Performance Improvement SOA and Aspects
    * Multi Agent Systems and Aspects
    * E-learning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Aspect

- Industrial Feedback

    * Project Management with AOP
    * Success Story or Failure
    * Other Applications Experiences


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RTSE4CAA 2010
1st International Workshop on Recent Trends
in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:
Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.

Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France

Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France

Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Modelling of Context and of Context Aware Applications
    * Model Driven Engineering of Context Aware Applications
    * Ontologies for Context-aware Applications
    * Dynamic Adaptation in Context Aware Applications
    * Discovery, Composition and Adaptation of Services in Context-aware Applications
    * Intelligent Context Aware Applications
    * Programming Paradigm and Software Architectures for Context Aware Applications
    * Benchmarking and Performance of Context Aware Applications
    * Specification, Verification and Test of Context Aware Applications
    * Context Aware Business Processes
    * Database and Knowledge Management in Context-aware Applications
    * Trust, Privacy and Security Issues in Context Aware Applications
    * Human-computer Interaction in Context-aware Applications


************************************************************************************************************
S2C 2010
1st International Workshop on
Software and Simulation Components
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/S2C.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:

Alexander Verbraeck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Mamadou Seck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands


Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1 - Theory Formation for Hierarchical and Component-based Modeling
2 - Component-based and Hierarchical Modeling in the Software Engineering Field
3 - Component-based and Hierarchical Modeling in the Simulation Field
4 - Use of Libraries of Components to Enhance (Distributed) Systems Development
5 - Best Practices for Component Development, Reuse, and Hierarchical Systems Development


Kind regards,
Monica Saramago
ICSOFT Workshops Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: icsoft.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org
Website: http://www.icsoft.org

ICSOFT 2010 (Int'l Conference on Software and Data Technologies)

Following up previous information on ICSOFT 2010 (Int'l Conference on Software and Data Technologies) we would like to draw your attention to the following specialized events that will be held in conjunction with the conference.
Please see below their information.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKSHOPS  IMPORTANT DATES
    Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
    Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
    Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

************************************************************************************************************
ACT4SOC 2010
4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm 
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:
Marten van Sinderen
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Brahmananda Sapkota
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Supported by IICREST and seekda

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

    * Service foundation and design issues
          o principles of SOC/SOA, service science
          o service modelling approaches
          o formal specification and analysis
          o reasoning approaches
          o model-driven development, platform-independence
          o service interoperability (semantic, pragmatic), matching and (dynamic) composition
          o ontology-centered design
          o requirements-functionality (business-IT) alignment
          o Web 2.0, social networking, mash-ups
          o REST vs WS
          o repeated aggregation of services into composite applications and business processes

    * Service technology and infrastructure issues
          o architectural patterns
          o service registry management
          o requirements management, service evolution
          o quality-of-service management
          o cross-domain service delivery
          o specific technology platform solutions
          o language-specific solutions
          o tool support
          o applicability and performance experiences
          o service level agreements

    * Service usage issues and applications of SOC/SOA
          o service registration, update, de-registration
          o service discovery, matching, selection, replacement
          o service invocation, interaction, monitoring
          o service choreography, mediation, orchestration
          o traceability of technology changes in requirements and vice versa
          o mobile and ubiquitous applications
          o health and homecare applications
          o supply chain management applications
          o e-commerce applications


************************************************************************************************************
ACES 2010
1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems 
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm 
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:
Frances Brazier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands 

Martijn Warnier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1 - Software engineering methods for building autonomic systems
2 - QoS management in autonomic and dynamic environments
3 - Emergent behavior, emergent configurations
4 - Service agreements and negotiation
5 - Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems


************************************************************************************************************
DMIA 2010
1st International Workshop on
Data Management and Information Analytics
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/DMIA.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:

Markus Helfert
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Ireland

Brian Donnellan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ireland

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Managing large Data Manufacturing systems
    * Organizational Concepts and best practice
    * Architectural Concepts
    * Data and Information Quality
    * Data Modeling
    * Methods for Data Management
    * Modeling and Analyzing Relationship Data
    * Modeling large Data Manufacturing systems
    * Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing
    * Data Visualization
    * Data privacy and integrity
    * Management of uncertain data
    * Accessibility of data
    * Mobile data management
    * Management of Sensor Data
    * Data integration
    * Integration and analyzing semi-structured and unstructured data
    * Text Analytics
    * Business Cases and Cost/Benefit Analysis of Data Management Approaches


************************************************************************************************************
RTABIS 2010
1st International Workshop on
Recent Trends in Aspect based Information Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTABIS.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:

Philippe Lahire
Laboratoire I3S, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
France

Jean-Yves Tigli
I3S Laboratory, Polytech'Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
France

Valérie Monfort
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / ISIG, Kairouan University
France / Tunisia

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Software engineering

    * Requirements engineering
    * Analysis and design modeling
    * Domain engineering
    * Software architectures
    * Evaluation and metrics
    * Modular Reasoning
    * Testing and verification
    * Interference and composition
    * Traceability
    * Software development methods
    * Process and methodology definition
    * Patterns

- Programming languages

    * Language design
    * Compilation and interpretation
    * Verification and static program analysis
    * Formal languages and calculi
    * Execution environments & dynamic weaving
    * Dynamic and scripting languages
    * Domain-specific aspect languages

- Related paradigms

    * Model-driven development
    * Generative programming
    * Software product lines
    * Meta-programming
    * Contracts and components
    * View-based development

- Tool support

    * Aspect mining
    * Evolution and reverse engineering
    * Crosscutting program views
    * Refactoring

- Applications

    * Distributed/concurrent systems
    * Middleware, services, and networking
    * Pervasive computing
    * Runtime verification
    * Performance improvement SOA and aspects
    * Multi Agent Systems and aspects
    * E-learning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and aspect

- Industrial feed back

    * Project management with AOP
    * Success story or failure
    * Other applications experiences


************************************************************************************************************
RTSE4CAA 2010
1st International Workshop on Recent Trends
in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:
Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.

Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France

Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France

Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Modelling of context and of context aware applications
    * Model driven engineering of context aware applications
    * Ontologies for context-aware applications
    * Dynamic adaptation in context aware applications
    * Discovery, composition and adaptation of services in context-aware applications
    * Intelligent context aware applications
    * Programming paradigm and software architectures for context aware applications
    * Benchmarking and performance of context aware applications
    * Specification, verification and test of context aware applications
    * Context aware business processes
    * Database and Knowledge management in context-aware applications
    * Trust, privacy and security issues in context aware applications
    * Human-computer interaction in context-aware applications


************************************************************************************************************
S2C 2010
1st International Workshop on
Software and Simulation Components
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/S2C.htm
************************************************************************************************************

Co-chairs:

Alexander Verbraeck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Mamadou Seck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands


Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1 - Theory formation for hierarchical and component-based modeling
2 - Component-based and hierarchical modeling in the software engineering field
3 - Component-based and hierarchical modeling in the simulation field
4 - Use of libraries of components to enhance (distributed) systems development
5 - Best practices for component development, reuse, and hierarchical systems development


Kind regards,
Monica Saramago
ICSOFT Workshops Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: icsoft.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org
Website: http://www.icsoft.org