CALL FOR PAPERS - WikiSym 2011 - 7th International Symposium on
Wikis and Open Collaboration
October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is
the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In
2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and
community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft
Research Campus in Silicon Valley.
Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
are available on the conference website:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/submitting:start
* Research Papers, Panels, Workshop: April 1
* Posters, Demos: May 13
* Notification of Acceptance: June 17
The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research track, as
well as workshops, a doctoral consortium, invited keynotes and panel
speakers. Evening social events will follow, because wiki folks know the
value of a good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. As
always, Open Space, a participant-organized track will also run throughout
the conference. Many of the most innovative technology companies in the
world have a presence in Mountain View, which makes it an ideal venue for
hatching new ideas and thoughtful debate about collaborative computing
among technologists, researchers, educators, and activists.
Topics appropriate for research submissions include all aspects of the
people, tools, contexts, and content that comprise open collaboration
systems. For example:
* Collaboration tools and processes
* Social and cultural aspects of collaboration
* Collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc.
* Communities and workgroups
* Knowledge and information production
* New media literacies
* Uses and impact of wikis and open resources in specific fields, such
as
- Education/Open Educational Resources
- Law/Intellectual Property
- Journalism
- Art
- Science
- Publishing
- Business
- Entertainment
In addition to research and development topics, WikiSym also invites
innovative proposals for wiki-style art and performance.
Felipe Ortega, Conference Chair
University Rey Juan Carlos
http://felipeortega.net/
Andrea Forte, Program Chair
Drexel University
http://www.andreaforte.net/
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP)
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IEEE WETICE 2011
2nd International Track on
Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
CALL FOR PAPERS
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June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11
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# Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.
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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by
integrating processes, tools and platforms.
Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously
becoming more complex and therefore their design requires
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to
improve the quality of collaborative environments.
A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:
* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S
To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.
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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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CoMetS'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.
Papers should contain original contributions not published or
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee
members.
Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE
approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each
accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2011 to have the
paper published in the proceedings.
Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests
and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted
in PDF format at the submission site
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011), which is
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please
contact the track chairs (comets2011(a)easychair.org) if you
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.
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Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline: March 5, 2011
* Decision to paper authors: April 4, 2011
* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011
* Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011
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Organizing Committee
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
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Program Committee
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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
China
and California State University, USA
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University,
Canada
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: daniele.gianni(a)esa.int
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP)
#################################################################
IEEE WETICE 2011
2nd International Track on
Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
CALL FOR PAPERS
#################################################################
June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11
#################################################################
# Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.
#################################################################
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by
integrating processes, tools and platforms.
Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously
becoming more complex and therefore their design requires
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to
improve the quality of collaborative environments.
A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:
* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S
To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
CoMetS'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.
Papers should contain original contributions not published or
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee
members.
Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE
approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each
accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2011 to have the
paper published in the proceedings.
Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests
and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted
in PDF format at the submission site
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011), which is
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please
contact the track chairs (comets2011(a)easychair.org) if you
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.
+++++++++++++++
Important Dates
+++++++++++++++
* Submission Deadline: March 5, 2011
* Decision to paper authors: April 4, 2011
* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011
* Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011
++++++++++++++++++++
Organizing Committee
++++++++++++++++++++
* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
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Program Committee
+++++++++++++++++
* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
China
and California State University, USA
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University,
Canada
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: daniele.gianni(a)esa.int
Hello everyone,
we at Max Planck Institue for Informatics are glad to make an improved version of YAGO available: YAGO2!
YAGO2 is a huge semantic knowledge base, derived from mostly from Wikipedia, but also from WordNet and GeoNames. Currently, YAGO2 has knowledge of more than 10 million entities (like persons, organizations, cities, etc.) and contains more than 80 million facts about these entities.
In YAGO2, we made an effort to treat time and location data as first-class citizen, extending the basic triple model by special fields for time and location for querying. Also, we took special care to consistently attach temporal and spatial data to all facts where it is semantically meaningful and where time and location can be derived from Wikipedia. Unlike many other automatically assembled knowledge bases, YAGO2 has a confirmed accuracy of 95%.
You can download the complete data set at our website:
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/yago-naga/yago/
Your feedback is of course very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Johannes
As you all may have seen there is tons of media coverage coming out
around Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (Jan 15, 2011). In the midst of
this the Pew Internet Research Center released a new report today:
"Wikipedia, past and present"
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx
-- phoebe
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* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
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1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011)
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org
at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)
http://www.eswc2011.org
May 29th or 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK.
“Utopia Documents and The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment”
SUBMISSION DEADLINE February 28
The MISSION of the SePublica workshop is to bring together researchers
and practitioners dealing with different aspects of Semantic
Technologies in the Publishing Industry. How is the Semantic Web
impacting the publishing industry? How is our experience of
publications changing because of Semantic Web technologies being
applied to the publishing industry?
The CHALLENGE of the Semantic Web is to allow the Web to move from a
dissemination platform to an interactive platform for networked
information. The Semantic Web promises to “fundamentally change our
experience of the Web”.
In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and
retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing
industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for
scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in
general; however, most of that information remains locked up in
discrete documents, which are poorly interconnected to one another and
to the Web.
The connectivity tissues provided by RDF technology and the Social Web
have barely made an impact on scientific communication nor on ebook
publishing, neither on the format of publications, nor on repositories
and digital libraries. The worst problem is in accessing and reusing
the computable data which the literature represents and describes.
• Consider research publications: Data sets and code are essential
elements of data intensive research, but these are absent when the
research is recorded and preserved in perpetuity by way of a scholarly
journal article.
• Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make public
sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but
news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data
sources.
QUESTIONS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
• What does a network of truly interconnected papers look like?
How could interoperability across documents be enabled?
• How could concept-centric social networks emerge?
• Are blogs and wikis new means for scholarly communication?
• What lessons can be learned from humanities and social science publishers
(i.e. going beyond scientific publishing towards scholarly publishing)?
• How could we move beyond the PDF?
How can we embed and link semantics in EPUB and other e-book formats?
• How are digital libraries related to semantic e-science?
What is the relationship between a paper and its digital library?
• How could we realize a paper with an API?
How could we have a paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
• How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data?
How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?
• How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded
in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
• What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a
document?
• How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in
scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
AUDIENCE
• researchers from diverse backgrounds such as argumentative
structures, scholarly communication, multi-modality in publications,
digital libraries, semantics in publications, and ontology
engineers.
• practitioners active in the publishing industry, repositories of
experimental information and document standards.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper/Demo Submission Deadline: February 28, 23:59 Hawaii Time
Acceptance Notification: April 1
Camera Ready Version: April 15
SePublica Workshop: May 29 or May 30 (to be announced)
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5
pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be
submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted
according to the LNCS format
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
We encourage the submission of semantic documents. LaTeX documents in
the LNCS format can, e.g., be annotated using SALT
(http://salt.semanticauthoring.org) or sTeX
(http://trac.kwarc.info/sTeX/). We also invite submissions in
XHTML+RDFa or in the format or YOUR semantic publishing tool.
However, to ensure a fair review procedure, authors must additionally
export them to PDF. For submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF
format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the page
limit will be rejected without review.
Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might
be invited to present their papers during a poster session.
Please submit your paper via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2011
The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a
double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent
reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop
(requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop) and
will be included in the workshop proceedings that are published online
at CEUR-WS.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• Robert Stevens, Manchester University, UK
• Benjamin Good, Genomic Institute, Novartis, USA
• Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany
• Oscar Corcho, Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK
• Jodi Schneider, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Sebastian Kruk, knowledgehives.com, Poland
• Henrik Eriksson, Linköping University, Sweden
• Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
• Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard Medical School, USA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Alexander García Castro, University of Bremen, Germany
• Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
• Anita de Waard, Elsevier, USA/Netherlands
• Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA
QUESTIONS? → sepublica(a)googlegroups.com
--
Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype
duke4701
Semantic Publication workshop, May 29 or May 30, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
Submission deadline February 28, http://SePublica.mywikipaper.org
Hi everyone,
I've only posted once before here, and didn't do much of an intro back
then, so let me do one now. I'm the Program Manager for General
Engineering at Wikimedia Foundation, which is the slice of the WMF
Engineering organization that does infrastructure-related software
development. One piece we're responsible for is the analytics
infrastructure.
We're in the process of planning our software development for
analytics for the coming months, so we've had a few conversations, and
Howie Fung and I spent some time planning and writing up our thoughts
on feature prioritization here:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Analytics/Feature_prioritizat…
This is a really rough cut, and something we haven't fully discussed
within the Foundation, so don't take this as something that is coming
down from on high. There are some things on the list that are well
underway, but many things are things we're just getting started on.
Barring any objections here, we'd like to use this mailing list as our
primary venue for discussing general prioritization of analytics
features. We know we need a place that we can tell WMF employees to
subscribe if they're interested in this stuff, and nothing we're
discussing should be confidential. Rather than starting a new mailing
list, we'd like to try using this list for a bit (in combination with
relevant talk pages on documents referenced here). If it turns out
we're generating enough traffic to warrant splitting off or if this
list isn't working out for whatever reason, we'll figure out some
alternate plan.
While we suspect that many of the details will be of specific interest
to Foundation employees (who are relying on much of this information
to perform their jobs effectively), we also know there is plenty of
general interest in this work. Please feel free to share your
thoughts.
Thanks!
Rob
Hi, Rob,
It is really good if WMF put such project as unconfidential. Actually, it
offer the possibility to combine such results for further academic usage.
Specifically, I am interesting on the % new vs repeat and Minutes/Visit
(medium), which I thought are impossible to generate...I am really newbie
on technical.
Zeyi
>Hi everyone,
>
>I've only posted once before here, and didn't do much of an intro back
>then, so let me do one now. I'm the Program Manager for General
>Engineering at Wikimedia Foundation, which is the slice of the WMF
>Engineering organization that does infrastructure-related software
>development. One piece we're responsible for is the analytics
>infrastructure.
>
> We're in the process of planning our software development for analytics
> for the coming months, so we've had a few conversations, and Howie Fung
> and I spent some time planning and writing up our thoughts on feature
> prioritization here:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Analytics/Feature_prioritizat…
>
>This is a really rough cut, and something we haven't fully discussed
>within the Foundation, so don't take this as something that is coming
>down from on high. There are some things on the list that are well
>underway, but many things are things we're just getting started on.
>
>Barring any objections here, we'd like to use this mailing list as our
>primary venue for discussing general prioritization of analytics
>features. We know we need a place that we can tell WMF employees to
>subscribe if they're interested in this stuff, and nothing we're
>discussing should be confidential. Rather than starting a new mailing
>list, we'd like to try using this list for a bit (in combination with
>relevant talk pages on documents referenced here). If it turns out
>we're generating enough traffic to warrant splitting off or if this
>list isn't working out for whatever reason, we'll figure out some
>alternate plan.
>
>While we suspect that many of the details will be of specific interest
>to Foundation employees (who are relying on much of this information
>to perform their jobs effectively), we also know there is plenty of
>general interest in this work. Please feel free to share your
>thoughts.
>
>Thanks!
>Rob
>
>
Hello all,
It seems community discussions like those for AfDs or admin elections
have received some attention in the literature recently.
Together with Dario Taraborelli and Moritz Stefaner we wanted to get a
better perspective on them and tried to visualize them. We just put
online today a visualization of the longest AfD discussions on the
English Wikipedia.
Check it out: http://notabilia.net
Cheers,
--
Giovanni L. Ciampaglia
PhD Student
University of Lugano, MACS Lab