[Apologies for cross-postings]
Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme - workshops - tutorials
12th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2019 -
July 8-12, 2019
CIIRC, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2019
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information.
CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as
computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces.
It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these
areas and their integration.
CICM 2018 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer
mathematics, in particular but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and
invites submissions of very different forms:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be
published in a volume of Springer LNAI (pending approval):
* regular papers (up to 15 pages) present novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize
existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages) present digital artifacts
* system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template) provides metadata
and a quick overview of a new tool or a new release of an existent tool
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for
presentation based on their relevance for the community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements,
position statements, etc.
* posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results
receive constructive feedback and mentoring.
4) Workshops allow smaller groups to self-organize focused discussions.
5) Tutorials allow presenting a particular system in depth.
* Important Dates *
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: March 01
- Full paper deadline: March 08
- Reviews sent to authors: April 06
- Rebuttals due: April 10
- Notification of acceptance: April 15
- Camera-ready copies due: May 01
- Conference: July 08-12
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early
travel plans while other authors submit spontaneously.
- First round submission deadline: April 01
- Second round submission deadline: May 15
Workshop and Tutorial proposals
- Submission deadline: February 01
All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2019
Dr. Ravindra Pogaku
Research Professor of Chemical Engineering
Center of Catalysis for Renewable Fuels
The University of South Carolina
541 Main Street Office, H013
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: 803-576-6069, Cell: 803-849-9623
Hi everybody,
the Analytics team will shutdown completely the Hadoop cluster for a couple
of hours on Monday Nov 12th at 14:00 CEST to upgrade the Cloudera
distribution to 5.15 (currently 5.10). No big updates but only a collection
of small/medium fixes that (hopefully) will improve the reliability of our
cluster. For more info, please check
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204759.
This means that tools like HDFS, Hive, Oozie, etc.. will not be available
during the maintenance window, so if this impacts your work please reach
out to us so we can chat about it and possibly re-schedule if needed (in
the task or #wikimedia-analytics on Freenode IRC).
Thanks a lot for the patience, we are trying to do our best to keep all our
systems as up to date as possible :)
Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)
Hello fellow researchers!
We are conducting a research about "mortality in wikis" and we are looking
for a good definition to determine when a wiki is considered "death",
"inactive" or "abandoned".
So far, I've only found this definition from Haiyi Zhu, Robert E. Kraut and
Aniket Kittur in their paper: "The impact of membership overlap on the
survival of online communities"
<https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2557213>.
We define a community to be dormant (the inverse of active) in a given
month if the community did not have any activity (including discussion
pages and community pages) in the given month and the preceding two months.
Any other references you could point me out? any better ideas?
Thank you in advance!
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Saludos,
Abel.
Cross-posting.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant
proposals
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
The open call for Project Grants is officially underway! As you prepare
your proposals this month, please keep in mind that the final deadline is
November 30th, and that this will be only the only open call for Project
Grants during this fiscal year, which ends on June 30th, 2019. To learn
more about this grant program and how to prepare an application, please
visit our landing page on Meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
In addition to the resources mentioned in the prior announcement, we have
scheduled some proposal clinics where applicants will be able to discuss
their proposals or ask questions with Wikimedia Foundation staff using
Google Meet or using IRC. Some of these will be themed toward specific
topics (such as proposals involving a GLAM-related project), and others
will be more general. For a list of scheduled proposal clinics, please
review the Project Grants landing page on Meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events>. Additional
clinics may be added throughout the month.
Thanks,
Chris
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
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He/His/Their
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:08 PM Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The open call for the Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program will
> begin on November 1, when we begin public review of new proposals. The
> final deadline is November 30th for all submissions. <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Importantly, this will
> be the only open call for Project Grants in the current fiscal year, which
> ends on June 30th 2019.
>
> We are also seeking additional volunteer candidates to expand the Project
> Grants Committee. More information is provided at the end of this email.
>
> Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups and
> organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether
> focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on
> your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon
series
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> We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and
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Hi all,
as part of a larger project, we are running a small think-aloud study to
better understand how editors use current interface features and tools to
identify "suspicious" edits (either suspected vandalism or red flags for
bias, that kind of thing).
Just posting for comment at this point before we submit our IRB
documentation. Also happy to hear about existing research we may have
missed!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Content_Review_Pract…
Andrea
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:: Andrea Forte
:: Associate Professor
:: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
:: http://www.andreaforte.net
Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the October 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201810 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on October 28 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
- Deliberation and Resolution on Wikipedia: A Case Study of Requests for Comments
- Indigenizing Wikipedia: Student Accountability to Native American Authors on the World’s Largest Encyclopedia
- Population preferences through Wikipedia edits
- Schema Inference on Wikidata
- Studying the Effect of Network Position on Efficiency: : A Case of Affiliation Network Featured Article Promotion
- Volunteer Retention, Burnout and Dropout in Online Voluntary Organizations: Stress, Conflict and Retirement of Wikipedians
- Welcome' Changes? Descriptive and Injunctive Norms in a Wikipedia Sub-Community
- Wikidata: A New Paradigm of Human-Bot Collaboration?
- World Influence of Infectious Diseases from Wikipedia Network Analysis
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Hi all. Does anybody know any studies about mental health of participants
in collective, horizontal collaboration environments?
Thank you,
Juliana
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www.domusaurea.org
I would like to share, for discussion, some knowledge representation ideas with respect to a URL-addressable predicate calculus.
In the following examples, we can use the prefix “mw” for “https://machine.wikipedia.org/” as per xmlns:mw="https://machine.wikipedia.org/" .
mw:P1
→ https://machine.wikipedia.org/P1
mw:P1(arg0, arg1, arg2)
→ https://machine.wikipedia.org/P1?A0=arg0&A1=arg1&A2=arg2
mw:P2
→ https://machine.wikipedia.org/P2
mw:P2<t0, t1, t2>
→ https://machine.wikipedia.org/P2?T0=t0&T1=t1&T2=t2
mw:P2<t0, t1, t2>(arg0, arg1, arg2)
→ https://machine.wikipedia.org/P2?T0=t0&T1=t1&T2=t2&A0=arg0&A1=arg1&A2=arg2
Some points:
1. There is a mapping between each predicate calculus expression and a URL.
2. Navigating to mapped-to URLs results in processing on servers, e.g. PHP scripts, which generates outputs.
3. The outputs vary per the content types requested via HTTP request headers.
4. The outputs may also vary per the languages requested via HTTP request headers.
5. Navigating to https://machine.wikipedia.org/P1 generates a definition for a predicate.
6. Navigating to https://machine.wikipedia.org/P2?T0=t0&T1=t1&T2=t2 generates a definition for a predicate after assigning values to the parameters T0, T1, T2. That is, a definition of a predicate is generated by a script, e.g. a PHP script, which may vary its output based on the values for T0, T1, T2.
7. The possible values for T0, T1, T2, A0, A1, A2 may be drawn from the same set. T0, T1, T2 need not be constrained to be types from a type system.
8. The values for T0, T1, T2, A0, A1, A2, that is t0, t1, t2, arg0, arg1, arg2, could also each resolve to URLs.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com/contents/
Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, October
17, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJrJLWuNvXo
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.or
g/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentation:
*"Welcome" Changes? Descriptive and Injunctive Norms in a Wikipedia
Sub-Community*
*By Jonathan T. Morgan, Wikimedia Foundation and Anna Filippova, GitHub*
Open online communities rely on social norms for behavior regulation, group
cohesion, and sustainability. Research on the role of social norms online
has mainly focused on one source of influence at a time, making it
difficult to separate different normative influences and understand their
interactions. In this study, we use the Focus Theory to examine
interactions between several sources of normative influence in a Wikipedia
sub-community: local descriptive norms, local injunctive norms, and norms
imported from similar sub- communities. We find that exposure to injunctive
norms has a stronger effect than descriptive norms, that the likelihood of
performing a behavior is higher when both injunctive and descriptive norms
are congruent, and that conflicting social norms may negatively impact
pro-normative behavior. We contextualize these findings through member
interviews, and discuss their implications for both future research on
normative influence in online groups and the design of systems that support
open collaboration.
*The pipeline of online participation inequalities: The case of Wikipedia
Editing*
*By Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University and Eszter Hargittai, University of
Zurich*
Participatory platforms like the Wikimedia projects have unique potential
to facilitate more equitable knowledge production. However, digital
inequalities such as the Wikipedia gender gap undermine this democratizing
potential. In this talk, I present new research in which Eszter Hargittai
and I conceptualize a "pipeline" of online participation and model distinct
levels of awareness and behaviors necessary to become a contributor to the
participatory web. We test the theory in the case of Wikipedia editing,
using new survey data from a diverse, national sample of adult internet
users in the U.S.
The results show that Wikipedia participation consistently reflects
inequalities of education and internet experiences and skills. We find that
the gender gap only emerges later in the pipeline whereas gaps along racial
and socioeconomic lines explain variations earlier in the pipeline. Our
findings underscore the multidimensionality of digital inequalities and
suggest new pathways toward closing knowledge gaps by highlighting the
importance of education and Internet skills.
We conclude that future research and interventions to overcome digital
participation gaps should not focus exclusively on gender or class
differences in content creation, but expand to address multiple aspects of
digital inequality across pipelines of participation. In particular, when
it comes to overcoming gender gaps in the case of Wikipedia, our results
suggest that continued emphasis on recruiting female editors should include
efforts to disseminate the knowledge that Wikipedia can be edited. Our
findings support broader efforts to overcome knowledge- and skill-based
barriers to entry among potential contributors to the open web.
--
Janna Layton
Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery St. Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104