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
(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.
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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/
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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
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.
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.
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
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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
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http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc / @wikimania2012
************* Deadline Extended to March 26, 2012 ***************
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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 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 ***************
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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 26, 2012 **** Extended Deadline ****
# 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 26, 2012 **** Extended deadline ****
* 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
* 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
Hi all, CSCW 2012 yielded an amazing collection of wiki research and
the call is out for 2013! -Andrea
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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.