Wiki-research-l March 2012

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia
by James Salsman 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >... due to the lack of a formal policy, the RCom has never been > in a position to grant any kind of "definitive approval" to recruit > participants.... I appreciate that clarification, but it strictly contradicts this edit from 11 days ago: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Subject_recruitment&di… about which Dario said, "I appreciate the documentation on the review procedure" at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Subject_recruitment I think there are some very serious ethical issues here. Requiring Research Committee approval to contact editors or users was explicitly rejected by the Research Committee: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2010-09-… As far as I can tell, the Research Committee has not discussed the topic since. I wonder what the community thinks of this new requirement. Sincerely, James Salsman

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Call for Papers - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge
by Angelika Adam 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

(Apologies for cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page Submit your papers here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats, ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit extended abstracts. For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia and free knowledge. == Dates == * Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012 * Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012 * Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012 == Topics of interest == Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details will be available soon on the conference website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process === Wikipedia Analytics === * Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool * Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data" * Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles === Wikipedia Global === * Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias * Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies * Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons === Sharing Cultures and Practices === * Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based peer production * Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production * Wiki theory and wiki practices === Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia === * Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia * Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open collaborative settings * Using information visualization as information instrument to users and contributors === Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge === * Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access to free knowledge * Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination in Wikipedia * The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other collaborative forms of knowledge production == Submission Guidelines == Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, unless the authors explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order to promote open access to scholarly work, although decisions to opt out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to publish at least the extended abstract online. Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one on the spot if you don't already have one. -- Angelika Adam Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 219158260 http://wikimedia.de Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition! ****Unterstützen Sie Freies Wissen mit einer SMS. Senden Sie einfach WIKI an 81190. Mit 5 Euro sichern Sie so die Verfügbarkeit und Weiterentwicklung von Wikipedia.**** Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. 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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia
by James Salsman 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

En Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >... It is my understanding that Research Committee approval is > required before soliciting Wikipedia subjects for surveys.... Although Dario Taraborelli has claimed that such Committee approval is required, he has refused to say where such a policy statement exists: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:FAQ The only minutes I was able to find wherein the Research Committee discussed the possibility of reviewing and approving research, doing so was explicitly rejected, including by Dario, in favor of issuing guidelines instead: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2010-09-… A Wikipedia Research Policy was announced in April 2010, but never formally approved by the English Wikipedia community or the Foundation: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2010-April/000955.html At one point it included a proposal for a "Subject Recruitment Approvals Group" but that was removed in September 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AResearch&action=histo…

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Call for Submissions I-SEMANTICS 2012 (Deadline: April 13th)
by hellmann＠informatik.uni-leipzig.de 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

---- apologies for multiple posts ---- Call for Papers I-SEMANTICS 2012 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 5 - 7 September 2012 http://www.i-semantics.at including Call for Submissions 5th Linked Data Cup Latest News: ========================================================= Wolters Kluwer Germany main sponsor of I-SEMANTICS 2012 I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS Important Dates (Research & Application Papers & I-Challenge) + Abstract Submission Deadline : April 2, 2012 + Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012 + Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012 + Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012 Important Dates (I-Challenge) + Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012 + Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012 + Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012 Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track) + Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012 + Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012 ========================================================= Hashtag for I-SEMANTICS 2012: #isem2012 Scope ===== I-SEMANTICS 2012 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 8th International Conference within the I-SEMANTICS series. I-SEMANTICS 2012 brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate and Social Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2012 is proud to announce the new format ?I-CHALLENGE?, which brings to you the 5th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. As in the past years the I-SEMANTICS Conference will be complemented by I-KNOW (www.i-know.at), the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management, aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems. Topics ====== As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for this year?s conference include but are not limited to: The Web of Data + (Large scale) triplification of existing (structured) data + Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the Web of Data + Querying, searching and browsing over the Web of Data + Data integration and interlinking for the Web of Data + User interaction and innovative visualizations for the Web of Data + Languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and reasoning on the Web of Data + (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) Linked Data resources + Recommender systems making use of the Web of Data + Integrating microposts into the Web of Data + Linked Enterprise Data and (Open) Linked Government Data + Connecting the Web of Data with real world sensor data + Location-based services and mobile semantic applications Quality of Semantic Data on the Web + Provenance information for the Web of Data + Large scale ontology inspection and repair + Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation + Maintenance of Linked Data models + Trust, privacy and security in Semantic Web applications Corporate Semantic Web + Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules + Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems + Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments + Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations + Enterprise trust and reputation management Semantic Content Engineering + Collaborative ontology engineering + Ontology modularity, alignment and merging + Ontology design patterns and life cycle management + Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition + Quality criteria for collaboratively generated semantic content + Semantic annotation and tagging + Making sense of microposts + Semantic content management systems Semantic Multimedia + Semantic-driven multimedia applications + Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures + Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining + Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval + Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents + Human-computer interfaces for multimedia data access + Smart visualization and browsing of multimedia documents + User-generated semantic metadata for multimedia documents Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks + Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage + Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies + Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories + Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies + Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations (Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets + Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing + Business and governance models for data commerce + Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and utilization + Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data and/or large scale semantic systems + Case studies for sector-specific (Linked) Data strategies I-SEMANTICS Submission Information ================================== All accepted full papers and short papers of I-SEMANTICS 2012 will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP series. Please note: Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published within CEUR-WS. Optional publication of PhD papers in CEUR-WS is under discussion. Research/Application Papers --------------------------- Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word). The publication will be available under the following ISBN: 978-1-4503-1112-0 Research papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including references and an optional appendix. Full and short papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word). Important Dates (Research & Application Papers) ----------------------------------------------- + Abstract Submission Deadline (strict): April 2, 2012 + Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012 + Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012 + Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012 Posters, Demos & PhD Track -------------------------- The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters, demonstrations, and PhD track submissions. The Posters, Demonstrations & PhD Track complements the Research Paper Track and offers an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters, Demonstrations & PhD Track encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a 2-3 page description that allows us to judge the quality of the presentation. Submissions to this track must be in the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), i.e. please do NOT use the ACM template here. The objective of the PhD Track is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with experienced researchers (?mentors?) and fellow students. It addresses PhD students at an early stage of their doctoral studies, who want to receive feedback from internationally recognized researchers. Ideally, participants will have a well-defined problem statement and precise questions to discuss with their mentor. Applicants should be PhD students (from any country), conducting ongoing research in the areas of semantic technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web. PhD track submissions should consist of up to 1.500 words and contain the following: + Name, affiliation and contact details of the PhD student + Name(s) of the supervisor(s) + Summary of the research project, including: + Problem: research questions, motivation, state of the art and relevance for the fields of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Semantic Web + Approach: (planned) approach and methodology + Current status / timeline: current status of the work and any results that have already been reached plus outlook to future work + A list of key questions that the PhD student wants to discuss during the event Submissions will be reviewed by experienced researchers; each submission will receive detailed feedback. The program committee will select participants who will give a short presentation about their research project during the I-SEMANTICS PhD Track. Main focus of the event is on discussion, support and solving open questions.# Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track) --------------------------------------------------- + Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012 + Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012 I-CHALLENGE =========== For the first time in 2012 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE, consisting of the Best Research/Application Paper Award, the Best Poster Award, the Best PhD Paper Award and the Linked Data Cup. While the best paper will be selected by the program committee, the Best Poster will be voted by the conference audience via online voting. (Please expect more details for all the Best Paper Awards in the weeks to come.) Information on the Linked Data Cup can be found below: Linked Data Cup 2012 -------------------- The yearly organised Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge) awards prizes to the most promising innovation involving linked data. Four different technological topics are addressed: triplification, interlinking, cleansing, and application mash-ups. The Linked Data Cup invites scientists and practitioners to submit novel and innovative (5 star) linked data sets and applications built on linked data technology. Although more and more data is triplified and published as RDF and linked data, the question arises how to evaluate the usefulness of such approaches. The Linked Data Cup therefore requires all submissions to include a concrete use case and problem statement alongside a solution (triplified data set, interlinking/cleansing approach, linked data application) that showcases the usefulness of linked data. Submissions that can provide measurable benefits of employing linked data over traditional methods are preferred. Note that the call is not limited to any domain or target group. We accept submissions ranging from value-added business intelligence use cases to scientific networks to the longest tail of information domains. The only strict requirement is that the employment of linked data is very well motivated and also justified (i.e. we rank approaches higher that provide solutions, which could not have been realised without linked data, even if they lack technical or scientific brilliance). Evaluation Criteria ------------------- The submissions will be initially evaluated with a well-known five star ranking system. Furthermore, entries will be assessed according to the extent to which they 1. motivate the relevancy of their use case for their respective domain; 2. justify the adequacy of linked data technologies for their solution; 3. demonstrate that all alternatives to linked data would have resulted in an inferior solution; 4. provide an evaluation that can measure the benefits of linked data Topics ------ Ideas for topics include (but are not limited to): + Improving traditional approaches with help of linked data + Linked data use in science and education + Linked data supported multimedia applications + Linked data in the open source context + Web annotation + Generic applications + Internationalization of linked data + Visualization of linked data + Linked government data + Business models based on linked data + Recommender systems supported by linked data + Integrating microposts with linked data + Distributed social web based on linked data + Linked data sensor networks Submission and Reviewing ------------------------ Submissions to the Linked Data Cup will be reviewed by members of the Linked Data Cup Board and invited experts from the Linked Data community. Submissions should consist of 4 pages and must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting as accepted submissions will be published in the I-SEMANTICS 2012 proceedings in the digital library of the ACM ICP series. Please read the submission page for detailed information on how to submit. Important Dates (Linked Data Cup) --------------------------------- + Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012 + Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012 + Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012 I-SEMANTICS Committee ===================== Scientific Chair ---------------- + Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering) Program Chairs -------------- + H. Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon) + Valentina Presutti (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome) Track Chairs ------------ + I-CHALLENGE: + Sebastian Hellmann (University of Leipzig) + Jörg Waitelonis (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering) + PhD Track Chair: Katrin Weller (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) + Poster Chair: Steffen Lohmann (University of Stuttgart) Industry Chair -------------- + Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) Conference Chair ---------------- + Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web Company / University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria) Program Committee ----------------- Please go to: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/program-committee/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 16th, get WMF subsidy
by Sumana Harihareswara 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

This year I want the Wikimedia technical community to have a strong presence at Open Source Bridge <http://opensourcebridge.org/> in Portland, Oregon, USA, June 26-29. OSB is tech talks & hack sessions with hands-on technologists we want, for Foundation staff recruiting (the Portland tech scene has good people looking for jobs) and for volunteer recruiting and collaboration (tons of Mozilla people went there last year). Good talks, clueful people, great food. :-) If you submit a talk and it gets accepted, tell me, and Wikimedia Foundation will partially subsidize or fully pay for your flight and hotel. If you submit a talk and it doesn't get accepted but you still want to go, talk with me and I'll see what I can do. Call for talks: <http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/01/announcing-the-2012-call-for-propo…> Ideas: the parser rewrite, Wikimedia Labs, how we scale and optimize performance on a shoestring budget, our git/gerrit migration, securing PHP-based webapps, various approaches to making our data more structured/semantic, collaborative design, lessons from our communities, JS hacks, hetdeploy, offline/mobile, geodata... Please forward. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Analysis of spelling mistakes in WP vs. 'other' sites?
by Dan Bolser 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi, Many people in my professional circle berate the quality of Wikipedia (without any grounds, IMHO). It occurred to me recently that one simple example of the quality of Wikipeida is the fact that you can almost guarantee (IME) the correctness of the spelling in WP. Has anyone ever done a systematic analysis of the number of spelling errors compared to 'other' sites? It seems that when reading read-only corporate or academic websites, spelling mistakes are not infrequent. This would be a nice factoid to be able to throw out when the next person says "well, I read it in WP so...". (Of course I'm assuming spelling is a proxy for overall quality, which is clearly arguable, but it's a good sign ;-). Cheers, Dan.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: ACL 2012 3rd Workshop "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP"
by Jungi Kim 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

3rd Workshop of the People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP Jeju, Republic of Korea July 13, 2012 http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop In accordance with the extended camera-ready deadline for the ACL workshops, the 3rd workshop of "The Peoples' Web meets NLP" now has a new schedule adjusted as follows. April 8, 2012 Paper submission deadline (full and short) May 9, 2012 Notification of acceptance May 18, 2012 Camera-ready due July 13, 2012 Workshop 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. The new submission deadline for full and short papers is *April 8, 2012*. For details, please refer to the workshop website.

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Fwd: Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday
by aude 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

This is a reminder to please get your Wikimania program submissions in by Sunday. We have a track that focuses on research pertaining to wikis and collaboration and need help to make it the best possible. Cheers, Katie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:26 PM Subject: Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. Topics may include anything related to Wikipedia, MediaWiki & tech (e.g. mobile), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects, OpenStreetMap, third-party wikis (e.g. WikiHow), wikis in business, government, etc., civic & local wikis, GLAM-wiki and other cultural outreach initiatives, education outreach, research into wikis and collaboration, and more. These topics are just suggestions. You can view the call for participation and make submissions here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Cheers, Katie -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012 -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012

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***Extended deadline: March 26*** COMETS 2012 - 3rd International Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers
by Daniele Gianni 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 *************** (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# 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 ################################################################# June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12 ################################################################# # Papers Due: March 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline **** # 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 * 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline **** * Notification to authors: April 16, 2012 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012 * Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012 ++++++++++++++++++++ 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 +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * 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 * Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it COMETS 2012 - 3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers ************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 *************** (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# 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 ################################################################# June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12 ################################################################# # Papers Due: March 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline **** # 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 * 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline **** * Notification to authors: April 16, 2012 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012 * Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012 ++++++++++++++++++++ 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 +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * 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 * Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) Email: danielegmail-comets(a)yahoo.it

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CSCW 2013 CfP
by Andrea Forte 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hi all, CSCW 2012 yielded an amazing collection of wiki research and the call is out for 2013! -Andrea __________________________________________________ Call for Papers, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013 San Antonio, TX, Feb 23-37 http://cscw.acm.org CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review process described below. CSCW does not impose an arbitrary length limit on submissions, please refer to the call below for details about aligning paper contribution and length. IMPORTANT DATES * May 25, 2012: Title and Abstract requested (to improve reviewer match) * June 1, 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time: Submissions due * July 27: First-round notification (Revise & Resubmit or Reject) * August 27, 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time: Revised papers due * October 19: Final notifications * November 26, 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time: "Camera-ready" due SUBMISSIONS Title, abstract and paper submissions must be made via the Precision Conference System. A link to the submission site will be made available by early May. We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the design or deployment of systems. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to, social computing, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for entertainment. New results or new ways of thinking about, studying or supporting shared activities can be in these and related areas: - Social Computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, and software infrastructures addressing social networking, user-generated content, online gaming, crowdsourcing and collective intelligence, virtual worlds, collaborative information seeking, etc. - Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems. - System design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems. - Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, ethnographic studies of technologies, practices or use of communication, collaboration and social communication technologies. - Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use. - Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. For healthcare, transportation, gaming (for enjoyment or work), ICT4D, sustainability, collective intelligence or global collaboration, or other domains. - Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, and sensor-based environments. - Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and spatial boundaries. Papers should detail original research contributions. Papers must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field. They must provide sufficient details and support for their results and conclusions. They must cite relevant published research or experience, highlight novel aspects of the submission, and identify the most significant contributions. Evaluation is on the basis of originality, significance, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity. PAPER LENGTH (new for CSCW 2013) There is no arbitrary minimum or maximum length imposed on papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report research thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. Many research papers will be 10 pages long (the previous length limit for papers) but may be shorter if the contribution can be described and supported in fewer pages. While we will review papers longer than 10 pages, the contribution must warrant the extra length: the more you write, the more work for reviewers! Shorter, more focused papers (called Notes in years prior to 2013) are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. Papers whose length is incommensurate with their contribution will be rejected. Papers will be presented at the CSCW conference and will be included in the conference proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library. CSCW does not accept submissions that were published previously in formally reviewed publications or that are currently submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be in the HCI Archive Format. Send queries about Paper submissions to papers2013(a)cscw.acm.org. Papers are subject to blind reviewing. Your submission should have authors' names and affiliations removed and avoid obvious identifying features. Citations to your own relevant work should not be anonymous, but please cite it without identifying yourself as the author. For example, say "Prior work by [author]" instead of "In my prior work." Papers must include an abstract of no more than 150 words. Titles and Abstracts that are uploaded to PCS early will be used to find the best possible reviewer matches. Consider submitting a video that illustrates your work, either as a video figure judged as part of the submission (no more than two minutes long and 30MB in size) or as a longer stand-alone submission to the video track (Call for Videos). Videos are not required for submission of papers. CSCW 2013 Papers submissions must be uploaded online at the PCS submission system by 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time on June 1, 2012 to be considered. Confidentiality of submitted material will be maintained. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of Papers will be used in the Advance Program. Submissions should contain no information or material that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication, and should cite no publication that will be proprietary or confidential at that time. Final versions of accepted Papers must be formatted according to the detailed instructions. Copyright release forms must be signed for inclusion in the proceedings and ACM Digital Library. CSCW 2013 will continue the "Best of CSCW" awards program, in accordance with SIGCHI guidelines. Upon acceptance, some Papers will be nominated for additional review to identify "Honorable Mention" and "Best" awards. Approximately 5% of submissions may be nominated and 1% of total submissions awarded Best Paper. REVIEW PROCESS (new as of CSCW 2012) Papers will undergo two review cycles. After the first review a submission will receive either a "Revise&Resubmit" or "Reject" notification. Authors of papers that are not rejected have about 4 weeks to revise and resubmit them. The revision will be reviewed as the basis for the final decision. This is like a journal process, except that it is limited to one revision with a strict deadline. The primary contact author will be sent the first round reviews. Revise&Resubmits will require significant attention to prepare the resubmission for the second review. Authors of Revise&Resubmits will be asked to provide a description of how reviewer comments were addressed. Submissions that are rejected in the first round cannot be revised for CSCW 2013, but authors can begin reworking them for submission elsewhere. Authors need to allocate time for revisions after July 27, when the first round reviews are returned. Final acceptance decisions will be based on the second (revised) submission. The revision cycle enables authors to spend a month to fix the English, integrate missing papers in the literature, redo an analysis, adopt terminology familiar to this field, and perhaps even gather more data, problems that in the past could lead to rejection. It also provides the authors of papers that would have been accepted anyway the opportunity to make their submissions even stronger contributions to the CSCW research literature. The revision is submitted with a letter where the authors explain how the paper was revised, allowing more interaction between authors and reviewers. This review process is not an effort to change the “quality bar” for CSCW, either to raise or lower it! Instead, the intent is to give more authors a chance to clear the bar. This process may lead to more diverse kinds of papers qualifying. Reviewers have more time to consider the significance as well as the technical quality of submissions. Authors from related disciplines have an opportunity to adjust to the literature and terminology found in CSCW. This is not an invitation to submit extended abstracts or incomplete papers. As in the past, submit the paper that you would like to have published. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. Nearly half of submissions may be rejected on the first round, enabling the reviewers to focus on papers that have a good chance for acceptance. The strongest first round submissions will receive reviews that make it clear to the authors that few or no revisions are required for acceptance Acceptance is not guaranteed for papers making the second round; however, the CSCW 2012 experience showed that the majority of papers that made it to the second round were accepted. As a specific data point, nearly all submissions that received an average review score of 4 (out of 5) or higher were accepted. Additional author benefits: The rebuttal, which was focused on pointing out reviewing flaws, is replaced by a revision, which can be more appealing to read and actually improve your work. Authors of papers not making it through the first round benefit from a very quick turnaround. The CSCW 2012 program was the largest in the history of the conference, and reactions from the community were largely very positive. CSCW 2013 expects to build on this success.

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