WikiSym 2012 – Call for Participation
http://www.wikisym.org/2012/01/17/wikisym-2012-call-for-participation/
WIKISYM 2012 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
August 27-29, 2012 | Linz, Austria
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is
the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In
2012, WikiSym celebrates its 8th year of scholarly, technical and community
innovation in Linz, Austria. We are excited this year to be collocated
withArs Electronica, the premier digital art and science meeting that
attracts over 35,000 attendees per year.
Submissions are invited for the following categories:
April 7, 2012 Research Papers, Panels, Workshops and Experience Reports
April 27, 2012 Doctoral Symposium
May 30, 2012 Notification of Acceptance for Research Papers, Panels,
Workshops and Experience reports
June 8, 2012 Posters and Demos due
June 22, 2012 Posters and Demos announced
The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research
track,experience reports, workshops, posters, demos, a doctoral
consortium, invited keynotes and panel speakers. As always, the
participant-organized Open Space track will run throughout the conference.
Evening social events will follow, because wiki folks know the value of a
good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. Finally,
WikiSym co-occurs
with Ars Electronica, and we are arranging experiences where conference
attendees can enjoy this innovative and unusual event.
Topics appropriate for 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 other open resources, tools, and practices in
fields and application areas, for example:
Open source software development and use
Education and Open Educational Resources
E-government, open government, and public policy
Law/Intellectual Property (including Creative Commons)
Journalism (including participatory journalism)
Art and Entertainment (including collaborative and audience-involved art)
Science (including collaboratories)
Publishing (including open access and open review models)
Business (including open and collaborative management styles)
In addition to research and development topics, WikiSym also invites
innovative proposals for open, collaborative art and performance. These
proposals should be made directly to the conference chairs.
GENERAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
All accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym proceedings and
archived in the ACM Digital Library. Long and short research papers will be
rigorously peer reviewed and treated as archival publications. Submissions
to other tracks will also be reviewed and appear in the ACM DL, but they
are considered to be non-archival and may be used as the basis for later
publications. Authors of research papers should use the ACM/CHI SIG
Proceedings Format, and other contribution types will use the ACM/CHI
Extended Abstracts Format. Templates for both formats are available
athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
General submission instructions will be posted and the conference
submission site opened around March 1. Instructions for the various
contribution types are below.
Research Papers – Long (up to 10 pages) and Short (up to 4 pages)
Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of
substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design,
development and/or deployment of novel systems.
Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous
academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance,
conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation. They should be
written in English and must not exceed 10 pages (for full papers) or 4
pages (for short papers). At least one author of accepted papers is
required to attend the conference in order to present the paper.
Workshops (up to 6 pages, Extended Abstracts format)
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to
discuss and learn about topics that require in-depth, extended engagement
such as new systems, research methods, standards, and formats.
Workshop proposals should describe what you intend to do and how your
session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise
abstract, proposed time frame (half-day or full-day), what you plan to do
during the workshop, and one-paragraph biographies of all organizers.
Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the
community. Each accepted workshop will be provided with a meeting room for
either a half or full day. Organizers may also request technology and
materials (projector, flip pads, etc).
Panels (up to 6 pages, Extended Abstracts format)
Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together people with
interesting points of view to discuss compelling issues around open
collaboration. Panels involve participation from both the panelists and
audience members in a lively discussion. Proposals for panels should
describe the topics and goals and explain how the panel will be organized
and how the Wikisym community will benefit. It should include a concise
abstract and one-paragraph biographies of panelists and moderators. Panel
submissions will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the
community. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot.
Experience Reports (up to 16 pages, Extended Abstracts format)
Experience reports are an integral part of the conference program. These
are opportunities to discuss how ideas that sound good on paper (and at
conferences!) work in real life projects and deployments. Many attendees
want to learn from people on the front lines what it is like to do things
like start a company wiki, use open collaboration tools in a classroom, or
build a political campaign around open collaboration systems. Experience
reports are not research papers; their goal is to present experience and
reflections on a particular case, and they are reviewed for usefulness,
clarity and reflection. Strong experience reports discuss both benefits and
drawbacks of the approaches used and clearly call out lessons learned.
Reports may focus on a particular aspect of technology usage and practice,
or describe broad project experiences.
Posters (up to 4 pages, Extended Abstracts format)
Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking results,
significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated in
conversation. WikiSym’s lively poster sessions let conference attendees
exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work
in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic. Poster
proposals may describe original research, engineering, or experience
reports. Successful applicants will display their posters, up to 1x2m in
size, at a special session during the Symposium.
Demos (up to 4 pages, Extended Abstracts format)
No format is better suited for demonstrating the utility of new
collaboration technologies than showing and using them. Demonstrations give
presenters an opportunity to show running systems and gather feedback. Demo
submissions should provide a setup for the demo, a specific description of
what you plan to demo, what you hope to get out of demoing, and how the
audience will benefit. A short note of any special technical requirements
should be included. Demo submissions will be reviewed based on their
relevance to the community.
Doctoral Symposium
The WikiSym 2012 Doctoral Symposium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can
meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced
researchers and practitioners. The symposium will be held on Tuesday August
28 on the campus of Johannes Kepler University. More information about the
symposium’s leaders, goals, submission process and criteria, and funding
will be posted shortly.
Open Space
For short and informal opportunities to organize discussion,
brain-storming, and other collaborative activities, the Open Space track
will run throughout WikiSym. Open Space is an entirely
participant-organized track and requires no submission or review.
Note on Publications
Work submitted to Wikisym is published in the ACM digital library. This
means it is not open access. However, ACM has a very new service called
ACM Author-izer which allows authors to post official copies of their
papers on personal websites for people to access, even if those people do
not have access to the ACM digital library. We see this as a step to open
access and are pleased to support this service.
http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service
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Brian C. Keegan
Ph.D. Student - Media, Technology, & Society
School of Communication, Northwestern University
Science of Networks in Communities, Laboratory for Collaborative Technology
Dear all,
I write to you only to promote our recent publication on:
Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030091
I apologize if it's not convenient or usual to do so in this mailing list.
Bests,
Dr. Taha Yasseri.
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FYI: Wikimania call for participation is out. (see below) Deadline is
March 18th.
Among other topics, one of the tracks is "Research, Analysis, and
Education". We'd love to see program proposals to highlight the great
research and papers coming out pertaining to Wikipedia, wikis and
collaboration in general, etc.
Cheers,
Katie
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From: Tiffany Smith <tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
We're happy to announce that the Call for Participation for Wikimania
2012 is open! During this time of reflection, please take a few
minutes to consider what topics you've been thinking about most and
how you'd be willing to share what you know with the worldwide Wiki
community.
The two most important dates to keep in mind - outside of July 12-14 -
are as follows:
Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012
To submit a proposal, visit
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions.
If you'd like to forward this message to other mailing lists or for
broader distribution (please do!), please use the Call for
Participation included below my signature line.
Thanks so much for your consideration, and, on behalf of the Program
Committee, we look forward to reviewing your proposals and seeing you
in Washington.
Best,
Tiffany
Tiffany Smith
Program Committee Chair, Wikimania 2012
tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com
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Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012
To submit a proposal, visit:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Important Dates
Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012
Overview
Wikimania conferences provide unique opportunities for the wiki
community and its sister projects (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks,
Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikimedia)
to come together, share their common goals, and develop better ways to
work together on an international level. The Wikimania 2012 program
structure is designed to create multiple opportunities for conference
participants to actively engage with the subject matter, the
environment, and, most importantly, each other. Washington, D.C, can
play an important role in Wikimania 2012 as a locale that gathers
interest in government, culture, media, and academia around the
general goals of the Wikimania conference series.
In accordance with these goals and themes, the program will include
traditional conference offerings such as paper presentations,
tutorials, panels, and poster sessions; provide lounge space and
breaks throughout for participants to gather; and innovate with an
unconference day for attendees to design their own schedule and
participation around common interests. Submissions will be reviewed
and selected in advance by the program committee. Attendees are
welcome to present in the open space track of the conference,
regardless of whether their submitted presentations were accepted.
The eigth annual Wikimania will be held between 12th and 14th July,
2012 in Washington D.C. For more information, please visit the main
site.
Presentation length
Due to the extensive amount of program submissions received in the
previous years, we request your presentation be a maximum of 25
minutes, including time for questions. You may request more time,
though shorter individual presentations are more likely to be
accepted.
This does not apply for keynote speakers, panels, or workshops. 70
minute presentations must be submitted either as panel presentations
to include at least three presenters or as workshops with a clear
lesson plan.
Tracks
Tracks are used by Wikimania to organize submissions and diversify
audiences so that presentations of competing interest do not have time
conflicts. Five tracks are proposed:
Wikis and the Public Sector
The Washington, DC, location for Wikimania 2012 provides a special
opportunity for those working in the social good, policy, government,
nonprofit, and disaster response arenas to share their experience with
collaboration on a local, national, or international level. Wikis and
complementary technologies are proving to be critical in times of
crisis and in ongoing work with citizen participation in government,
as well as in long-term goals for education, public policy, social
entrepreneurship, and development in the global south and throughout
the world. This track will explore the ways that Wikimedia projects
and related activities can be used to support citizens worldwide.
GLAM: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
This track aims to support current outreach to Galleries, Libraries,
Archives, and Museums and build enthusiasm for continued work in this
area. Presentations and panels will demonstrate effective outreach
techniques and results from ongoing activities as well as envision the
future path for these efforts. Topics of particular interest to this
track may include: wiki technology as a tool for cultural
preservation; use of wikis by museums and libraries for information
management for the public good; legal and copyright issues; use of
content in GLAM projects, education, journalism and research;
conflicts between different laws that apply to the same wiki system
simultaneously. This track may also incorporate “field trips” before,
after, or during the evenings of the conference to visit Washington,
D.C., organizations.
WikiCulture and Community
Why do people contribute to Wikimedia projects? How might the
community grow and expand while retaining its inherent cultural ethos?
This track will explore the sociology of wiki culture and community
and provide a forum for practitioners and researchers to share
insights and best practices for community management, engagement,
participation, and conflict resolution. The assessment of different
wiki cultures and demonstration of clashes and effects of those
interactions between wiki communities and chapters is relevant to this
track. A special focus will be a discussion of gaps between different
community groups, most notably related to gender and age; within this
context, submissions related to female and teenage participation,
representative roles within the community, and the use of wikis as a
tool for different gender and age group dialogues, are strongly
encouraged.
Research, Analysis, and Education
The scope of research and analysis on wikis has grown significantly in
recent years, and wikis are rapidly being introduced to educational
institutions in the course of teaching and more formally through the
Campus Ambassador Program. The scholarly atmosphere of the selected
venue creates a special opportunity for researchers working in this
area to present papers and panels to a well-informed audience.
Subjects associated with the research component of this track can
include a diverse range of topics including: technical development,
philosophy and the humanities, communications, community management
and collaboration, information science, and a broad range of other
areas. The practitioner side of this track can include: expert
participation and inviting expert contributions; Wikiversity and other
higher education wikis; wiki sources deployed and implemented in
academia and research practice; approaches to the improvement of
collaboration in research institutions and universities; and
contribution to content quality, among other areas.
Technology and Infrastructure
Technology and infrastructure play essential roles in the success of
Wikimedia projects and other uses of wiki technology. This track will
incorporate research and practice to showcase technology applications
and theories, demonstrate new uses of existing and evolving
technologies, and focus on applying technologies to meet user needs
and improve the overall user experience. Issues and areas particularly
of note in this track include: OTRS, MediaWiki development, semantic
wikis, wiki-based Augmented Reality (AR), the use of QR codes,
Wikipedia on mobile devices, Wikipedia offline, User Interface Design,
WikiLove, Liquid Thread and related technical focus points.
Lounge Space Presentations
All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the Lounge space of
the conference, whether or not they are accepted in this initial
process.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Tiffany Smith
Program Committee Chair, Wikimania 2012
tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com
Thank you very much for your consideration, and we look forward to
seeing you at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, DC.
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
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DIGITHUM: THE HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
http://digithum.uoc.edu
Issue 14 call for papers (English, Catalan and Spanish)
Download call for papers: http://www.onlinecreation.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/digithum-call-for…
Deadline for submission of originals: 1 March 2012
Publication date: May 2012
Subject: Academic research into Wikipedia: Beyond English Wikipedia and towards comparative perspectives
This year saw the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia. In 2011, following its creation 10 years ago, Wikipedia became one of the world’s 10 most visited
websites and one of the most active virtual communities. It currently has around 20 million articles – 3.7 million of which are in English: the most popular version. It has
some 365 million regular readers, around 90,000 regular editors – all voluntary – and hundreds of thousands of people who contribute anonymously.
Wikipedia is one of the numerous examples of mass online collaboration projects to follow in the footsteps of open-source software production and its modus operandi.
Some authors see this new type of collaboration as representing an innovative form of social production, given that it operates on the edges of the market and its rules,
functions successfully without many hierarchical organisational structures or command management systems and is developed thanks to the cooperation of thousands – or, in
some cases, millions – of geographically dispersed people working voluntarily and without expecting any direct remuneration. The term commons-based peer production
was proposed recently to conceptualise this practice (Benkler, 2006).
Since about 2005, there has been growing interest from the scientific community, and in particular from the field of social and human sciences, in researching this historically
unprecedented phenomenon. A recent review of the scientific bibliography on Wikipedia has identified over 2,100 scientific articles and 38 doctoral theses with Wikipedia and/or its sister projects as their object of analysis. However, this volume of scientific production has focused excessively on the English version of Wikipedia when
Wikipedia is now available in 279 different languages. Consequently, the current bibliography does not pay sufficient attention to the dynamics and peculiarities of versions of Wikipedia in other languages, which makes a comparative analysis showing the contrasts and similarities between the different communities difficult.
The aim of this Digithum issue is to bring together articles that explore all aspects of Wikipedia – and other related projects – which may prove relevant from a social and
human science research perspective. As well as the subjects that have been the focus of the scientific studies to date – motivation and type of participants, organisation and
governance, regulatory structure, publishing dynamics, content quality and reliability, teaching uses, the role of technology, etc., (Okoli 2009) – proposals for new problems
and objects of analysis will also be welcome. The theory and discipline may be linked to any field of social and humanistic research: political science, sociology,
anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), economics, etc.
Articles should have an empirical basis and use established qualitative or quantitative research methods in social and human sciences. Papers whose empirical focus is on
versions other than those in English will be especially welcome and, in particular, those that present comparative studies showing contrasts and similarities between different
size projects and/or projects in different languages, including Catalan. However, we will not be excluding papers about the English version.
Bibliography
Benkler, Y. 2006. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.Yale University Press: Yale.
Lovink, Geert and Nathanel Tracz (eds.). 2011. Critical Point of View. A Wikipedia Reader. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam.
Okoli, C., 2009. A Brief Review of Studies of Wikipedia in Peer-Reviewed Journals. In: 2009 Third International Conference on Digital Society. p 155–160.
Issue coordinators
Eduard Aibar, lecturer, Arts and Humanities department, and IN3 researcher, UOC
Mayo Fuster Morell, postdoctoral fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Publication guidelines
Articles must not exceed 5,000 words and must contain the following information:
+ Title
+ Abstract (200 words) containing the basic aspects and results of the paper.
+ Keywords (between 4 and 6)
+ Body of the article, divided into sections and subsections
+ Bibliography
To ensure a blind review of articles, the following documents should be submitted
separately:
+ Author’s details (name and surname, professional affiliation, professional postal address, e-mail)
+ Brief CV (100-200 words) and photograph
Articles may be submitted in Catalan, Spanish and English.
For more information, please visit the Author Guidelines section of the website
(http://www.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/about/submissions#authorGuidelines).
Submission process
You need to register as an author on the journal’s website in order to submit work (http://www.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/user/register). Once registered, enter
the username and password you receive during the registration process to begin the submission process. In Step 1, select the section available, and accept the prior
conditions for submission and copyright. In Step 2, enter the metadata (title, abstract, keywords). In Step 3, attach the original. You can leave Step 4 empty if there are no
more files, but you need to go on to Step 5 to complete the process.
Peer-review
Articles selected by the editors will first be assessed by at least two members of the Editorial Board or recognised experts in the subject appointed by the editors.
Indexing
Digithum is the open-access scientific e-journal produced by the UOC’s Arts and Humanities department. It is published every year in May.
The journal is listed in the sector’s leading scientific journal impact and assessment databases:
+ MIAR (ICDS: 4.079) Database identifying and assessing citation of humanities and social science journals
+ Carhus Plus + Scientific journal classification system developed by the Catalan government’s University and Research Aid Management Agency (AGAUR)
+ MLA – Modern Language Association International Bibliography A subject index for books and articles on modern languages, literatures,folklore and linguistics
+ ERCE Spanish humanities and social science journals assessment portal
+ Latíndex (Catalogue) Online regional information system for scientific journals from Latin American, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
+ Redalyc Network of scientific journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
+ E-Revistas Database of Spanish and Latin American scientific journals (CINDOC-CSIC)
+ DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals (Lund University Libraries)
+ Ulrich’s periodicals directory Reference source for the world’s periodical publications
+ Dialnet Portal to disseminate Ibero-American scientific production from the University of La Rioja
For more information on indexing, visit:
http://www.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/about/editorialPolicies#custom0
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IEEE WETICE 2012
3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
(Comets 2012)
in cooperation with
AFIS (INCOSE France Chapter)
MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12
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# Papers Due: March 16, 2012
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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
* collaborative DEVS 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'12 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.
This year, we will accept submissions in two forms:
(1) papers
(2) poster and industrial presentations
(1) 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 2012 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the
paper published in the proceedings.
(2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in
any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission
requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the
organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of
a poster which will be displayed at conference time.
With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be
allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case.
The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not
include commercial details.
Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for
expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.
Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the submission
site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2012),
which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system.
Please feel free to contact the track chairs (comets2012(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 16, 2012
* Notification to authors: April 16, 2012
* Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012
* Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012
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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
* Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Jean-Francois Santucci, University of Corsica, France
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it
[Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.]
2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd Workshop of the People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP
Jeju, Republic of Korea
July 12-13, 2012
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop
===Schedule===
March 18, 2012 Paper submission deadline (full and short)
April 16, 2012 Notification of acceptance
April 30, 2012 Camera-ready version due
July 12-13, 2012 ACL 2012 Workshops
===Introduction===
Recent recognition of Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (CSRs) has
substantially contributed to the research in natural language processing (NLP).
The 3rd workshop "The People's Web meets NLP" invites both long and short papers
on various CSRs-related topics. Preference will be given to submissions on CSRs'
application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest of this workshop
edition. We also welcome tutorial-like submissions on using the software for
CSRs to facilitate their wide adoption by the NLP community.
Specific topics include but are not limited to:
* Using collaboratively constructed resources and the information mined from
them for NLP tasks (cf. Section "References"), such as word sense
disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information retrieval, text
categorization, information extraction, question answering, etc.;
* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured lexical
semantic resources, annotated corpora and the corresponding tools;
* Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources related to
their use in NLP;
* Computational linguistics studies of collaboratively constructed resources,
such as wiki-based platforms or folksonomies;
* Structural and semantic interoperability of collaboratively constructed
resources with conventional semantic resources and between themselves;
* Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed resources;
* Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to create
novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, simplified versions
of resources, etc.;
* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed lexical semantic
resources and annotated corpora;
* Hands-on practical knowledge on utilization of CSR APIs and tools or designing
crowdsourcing procedures for high quality outcomes.
Though the workshop welcomes any CSRs-related topics, preference will be given
to submissions on CSRs' application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest
of this workshop edition. Thereby, we encourage the participation of researchers
with various backgrounds: from computational linguistics (e.g. parsing and
discourse analysis) to NLP applications and other areas that might benefit from
collaboratively constructed semantic resources. Given that we receive a
sufficient number of tutorial-like submissions, a dedicated presentation session
for those will be scheduled.
For details, please refer to the workshop website:
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop
===Organizers===
Iryna Gurevych Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt
Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR
Jungi Kim Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt
===Program Committee===
Andras Csomai Google Inc.
Andreas Hotho Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Anette Frank Heidelberg University
Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar
Christian Meyer Technische Universität Darmstadt
David Milne University of Waikato
Delphine Bernhard University of Strasbourg
Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
Donald Metzler Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania
Ernesto William De Luca Technische Universität Berlin
Florian Laws University of Stuttgart
Gerard de Melo UC Berkeley
German Rigau University of the Basque Country
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
Günter Neumann DFKI Saarbrücken
Ido Dagan Bar Ilan University
John McCrae University of Bielefeld
Jong-Hyeok Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology
Judith Eckle-Kohler Technische Universität Darmstadt
Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede Universität Potsdam
Massimo Poesio University of Essex
Omar Alonso Microsoft Bing
Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal
Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada
Shuming Shi Microsoft Research
Sören Auer Leipzig University
Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore
Tonio Wandmacher SYSTRAN, Paris, France
Zornitsa Kozareva Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
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IEEE WETICE 2012
3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
(Comets 2012)
in cooperation with
AFIS (INCOSE France Chapter)
MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12
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# Papers Due: March 16, 2012
# 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
* collaborative DEVS 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'12 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.
This year, we will accept submissions in two forms:
(1) papers
(2) poster and industrial presentations
(1) 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 2012 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the
paper published in the proceedings.
(2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in
any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission
requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the
organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of
a poster which will be displayed at conference time.
With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be
allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case.
The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not
include commercial details.
Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for
expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.
Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the submission
site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2012),
which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system.
Please feel free to contact the track chairs (comets2012(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 16, 2012
* Decision to paper authors: April 16, 2012
* Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012
* Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012
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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
* Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Jean-Francois Santucci, University of Corsica, France
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it
Has anyone done any research on a by country basis? I'm trying to fill out
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives a bit and I'm
looking for assistance. I know there has been some research but not sure
what and where, and what the breakdown was when analysis has been done.
Has anyone done comprehensive research on this subject in terms of
participation?
Thanks,
Laura Hale
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:33 AM
Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] Something new for the new year
To: xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello and happy new year to all fellow xml-crunchers out there. Anyone
who uses the bz2 file format of the page dumps, either for hadoop or for
some other reason might be interested in the following:
(For en wikipedia only for right now)
I've written a little program that will write a second copy of the
pages-articles bz2 file, as concatenated multiple bz2 streams with 100
pages per stream, with a separate index bz2 file which contains a list
of offsets/page ids/page titles where each offset is to the start of the
particular bz2 stream in the file.
The nice thing about multiple streams is that essentially these behave
like separate bz2 files, so you can just seek to that point in the file,
pass the data starting from that byte directly into the bz2 decompresser
of your choice, and work with it. No need to monkey around with
bit-aligned crap, nor with fudging together a bz2 header to fool the
library into thinking it's looking at a full file, nor with tossing away
the crc at the end.
The 100-pages-per stream makes the output somewhat bigger than the
regular pages-articles file but not excessively so.
I'm hoping this format will be useful to folks working with offline
readers, hadoop or other analysis tools. Let me know.
A first run of these, for the December en wp pages-articles file, is
available at
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/multistream/
and the second run (assuming this works, I just deployed the changes to
the python scripts) will be generated in the usual way as part of the
regular dumps and found with them at the normal location.
If the job runs ok I expect to enable it on the other projects soon
afterwards.
Ariel
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