CFP: Special Issue on Information Privacy and Trust in Social Media

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Special Issue on Information Privacy and Trust in Social Media
ICST Transactions on Security and Safety* (
http://icst.org/security-and-safety/)

The extensive display of personal information by users of social media has
made security and privacy concerns particularly salient. Many Web 2.0
technologies are highly collaborative where collective action with rich data
exchange is the norm. Social media brought the voluntary disclosure of
personal data to the mainstream, thus exposing users' published information
with potential abuse by online crooks, stalkers, bullies, and even by their
friends. The goal of this special issue is to report frontier research
addressing the need for a paradigm shift in understanding and addressing
users' privacy needs in social media. Particular emphases will be put on the
interplay between social and technological issues associated with security,
privacy, and trust in social media with a focus on online social networks.
The issue aims to offer an integrated view of the field by presenting
approaches originating from and drawing upon multiple disciplines.

We welcome research papers that examine technological, conceptual, design,
economic, behavioral, managerial, organizational, and societal aspects of
assuring trust, privacy, and security in social media. Submissions should
describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under
review by another conference or journal. Suggested topics include, but are
not limited to:
- Defining Privacy 2.0 in online social networks,
- Security and privacy challenges and protection mechanisms,
- User mental models and behavioral dynamics,
- User awareness and training,
- Risk identification and assessment.

*Instructions for Authors and Review Process:*
Submitted papers should not be under consideration elsewhere for
publication. The language of the journal is English. Each paper should be
formatted in double spacing with 1-inch margin, single column of no more
than 8,000 words in length. All texts (excluding title and section headings)
must be in 12-point in one of the standard fonts such as Times, Helvetica,
or Courier. References should be included in alphabetical order in the
Reference section of the paper at the end. Submission file formats are PDF
and Microsoft Word. The first page of the paper should include the title and
the abstract. Please do not disclose any author information in the
manuscript. A rigorous peer review process will be arranged. Each paper will
have at least two independent reviewers.

Manuscripts should be sent electronically to the guest editors (Email to:
icst2011.security@gmail.com ). Authors are encouraged to submit extended
abstracts to the guest editors prior to the submission deadline for early
feedback and indication of suitability.

*Important Dates:*
Papers submission deadline: Feb 18, 2011
Notification of decisions: March 15, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: April 11, 2011
Publication (tentative): May 2011

*Guest Editors:*
Dr. Heng Xu
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology,
PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Email: icst2011.security@gmail.com

Dr. Chuan-Hoo Tan
Assistant Professor of Information Systems,
College of Business,
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Email: icst2011.security@gmail.com

CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11)

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Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona:

Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large& Heterogeneous Data

http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/
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An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning
dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims
to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government
for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature:

* A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input,
entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government
Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include:
* Peter Mika (Yahoo!)
* Alon Halevy (Google)
* Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)
* (tbc)
* An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship
between social computing and ontology matching;
* Paper and poster presentations;
* Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others

Workshop Description

The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to
understand one another when their representations are not identical -
occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration,
e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured
data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are
necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is
undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem
in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this
kind of data is available over the Web.

In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous
environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large
and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may
not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough
integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a
complete solution is impossible.

Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology
matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often
developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of
large-scale data has not been well studied.

Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and
database administrators - while providing quality assurance and
provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make
matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of
information available online that could be integrated, but this
information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of
data-formats, and difficult to interpret.

This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is
becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data
efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and
government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those
developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on
matching and merging techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Integration of large and heterogeneous data
* Machine-learning over structured data
* Ontology evolution and dynamics
* Ontology matching and alignment
* Presentation of dynamically integrated data
* Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies
* Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data
* Quality assurance and data-cleansing
* Vocabulary management in Linked Data
* Schema and ontology versioning and provenance
* Background knowledge in matching
* Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change
* Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies
* Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation
* Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming)
* Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications
* Open problems
* Foundational issues
Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and
Linked Data are particularly encouraged.

Submission

LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6
pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are
considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most
attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more
position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in
a poster session.

All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be
published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be
available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will
be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and
authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit
extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of
submissions being appropriately high).

All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow
the IJCAI author instructions
http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions.

Important Dates
Abstract submission: March 14, 2011
Notification: April 25, 2011
Camera ready: May 16, 2011
Early registration: TBA
Late registration: TBA
Workshop: 16th July, 2011

Organising Committee:
Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh)
Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research)
Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh)

Program committee:
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam)
Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research)
Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento)
Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research)
Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh)
Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation)
Vinay Chaudri (SRI)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes)
Eraldo Fernandez (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR)
Pat Hayes (IHMC)
Ivan Herman (W3C)
Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)
Shuai Ma (Beihang University)
Ashok Malhorta (Oracle)
Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin)
Adam Pease (Articulate Software)
Valentina Presutti (CNR)
David Roberston (University of Edinburgh)
Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin)
Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina)
Jamie Taylor (Google)
Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research)

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CFP: Workshop on Video interaction - Making broadcasting a successful social media

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION II

CHI 2011 Workshop on Video interaction – Making broadcasting a successful social media
Vancouver, BC, May 7, 2011

http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

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A new type of social medium services, which e.g. makes it possible to capture live video and share it in real time to a web page, is becoming increasingly popular. Although the services are growing in numbers of users, it is still an immature application area and so is the research on this topic.

We invite you to a workshop to investigate the barriers and resources for making video interaction and sharing mobile a successful social media, through discussing topics, such as literacy, collaboration, hybridity, utility and privacy. We aim to connect researchers working with video related research to frame this interesting research field and to foster future collaboration. A concrete outcome of the workshop will be a proposal for a journal special issue on the topic of making mobile broadcasting a successful social media that the organizers will submit to appropriate venues.

TO PARTICIPATE:

Please submit a position paper (2-4 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts format) related to your experience with respect to the workshop theme in your research practice, to chi11_mobilebroadcasting@mobilelifecentre.org. You are welcome (but not required) to send in a free format appendix, movie, sketch, or application. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, and for at least one conference day.

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Deadline for submission: January 14, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2011
- Workshop at CHI 2011: May 7, 2011

ORGANISERS:

Oskar Juhlin, Mobile Life@Interactive Institute
Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Center
Frank Bentley, Motorola Mobility
Dave Kirk, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham
Måns Adler, Bambuser

Up-to-date information on the workshop will be available at: http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact organisers at
chi11_mobilebroadcasting@mobilelifecentre.org

CFP: Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices 2011

Take another look at standard, "packaged" technolologies:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (apologies for any cross posting)

As part of
The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011)
http://cts2011.cisedu.info

Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices
(DUCUD 2011)

This workshop is about the challenges, solutions and experiences pertaining to the design and use of standardized technologies, indeed, standardization as such, in order to support comprehensive collaboration. Thus, we are interested in how interaction is supported within different group sizes and heterogeneous groups of users, with "one-size-fits-all" type of technologies. Examples range from Wikis to SAP, mobile phones, iPADs, Sharepoint, etc.

Please find the call at:
http://cts2011.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-14--ducud

May 23 - 27, 2011
The Sheraton University City Hotel
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Extended submission deadlines:
Workshop papers ----------------------------------- January 21, 2011
Notification of Acceptance ------------------------ February 10, 2011
Registration& Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ------- March 1, 2011

Best regards and welcome from
Steinar Kristoffersen,
workshop chair

CFP: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Call for papers: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Santa Barbara, CA , 24 or 25 March 2011 (This is a one day workshop,
exact date will be announced soon), in conjunction with FG 2011

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 12 December 2010
* Notification to the authors: 13 January 2011
* Receipt of camera ready copy: 19 January 2011

Webpage:http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

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There is a strong interest in fields like computer vision, audio
processing, multimedia, HCI, and pervasive computing, in designing
computational models of human interaction in realistic social settings.
Such interest is boosted by the increasing capacity to acquire
behavioral data with cameras, microphones and other fixed and mobile
sensors. Unlike the traditional HCI view, which emphasizes communication
between a person and a computer, the emphasis of an emerging body of
research has been shifting towards communicative social behavior in
natural situations, with examples such as informal conversational
settings, general workplace environments, interviews, and meeting
scenarios.

The workshop will gather, discuss, and disseminate unpublished work on
computational models and systems for the analysis of social behavior.
Given the scope of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference, we
would like to focus on automatic techniques for visual analysis of human
communication and on the applications that are built on top of it. We
welcome contributions that present robust techniques for the analysis of
gestures and facial expressions in natural conversational environments
to model social behavior in everyday life and reason about them. We also
strongly encourage the participation of colleagues from behavioral
sciences: studies of nonverbal behavior and social interaction provide
highly valuable information, concepts, and frameworks to guide automatic
analysis, while efforts in automatic analysis of social behavior provide
new tools, data, and insights to behavioral scientists interested in
nonverbal behavior and social interaction.

We invite contributions that address the following (non-exhaustive) list
of topics:

Social behavior analysis
* Analysis and recognition of visual social cues and others:
o Visual nonverbal cues (body postures, hand gestures, head
gestures, actions ...)
o Multimodal affect recognition
o Nonverbal cues from other sensors
* Multimodal computational models for the analysis, estimation, and
prediction of social behavior aspects and dimensions (interest level,
dominance, rapport, deception...) and of individual properties affecting
it (e.g., personality traits, preferences...)
* Analysis of conversational dynamics
* Multimodal data corpora for social behavior analysis

Systems and devices for capturing social behavior
* Smart camera/microphone systems
* Novel sensor technologies
* Wearable devices
* Cell phones

Socially aware systems and applications
* Computers and robots in the human interaction loop
* Individual and group self-awareness
* Educational applications
* Workplace applications
* Healthcare applications
* Game applications
* Art& creative applications

Organizers:
Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California
Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento

More information can be found on the workshop web site:
http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>