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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Mile for DC Papers
by Announce Announcements 25 May '17

25 May '17

*** Last Mile for DC Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Deadline : June 2, 2017 (firm) *** The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: June 2, 2017 (firm) · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections, Melbourne, Nov 13-15
by Brady Robards 25 May '17

25 May '17

Hello AoIR! Please see the below call for abstracts for the third annual Digital Intimacies symposium, this year to be held in Melbourne, Australia, at RMIT. We hope you will consider joining us. https://digitalintimacies.tumblr.com/ Cheers, Brady -- *Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections - Call for Papers* November 13-15, 2017 RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Abstracts due: June 30 Convenors: Jenny Kennedy (RMIT), Brady Robards (Monash), and Tania Lewis (RMIT) Keynotes: Prof. Kath Albury (Swinburne) and more to be announced Digital media have come to occupy a central role in the mediation, recording, and remembering of intimate lives: from geolocative traces, romantic relationships on Facebook, private Snapchats, pictures of newborns on Instagram, and hook-ups on Tinder or Grindr, to shared survival stories of assault and sexual violence on Reddit. Going beyond the logic of connectivity and sharing that dominates much of the research into digital media, Light (2014) has drawn attention to the various ways in which digital media can also operate as sites of disconnection. As digital traces of lives mediated in digital spaces bleed and permeate, echoes of intimacies are regularly resurfaced: untagged photos, archived emails, unfriended people, deleted apps. These traces evidence episodes of disconnection as much as connection. - What can the study of digital media reveal about disconnections in our intimate lives? - In what ways do digital media shape both our connections and disconnections? - What questions are raised about what (or who) we delete and how we remember? - What is the role of automation in intimate connections and disconnections? Following the success of the first two Digital Intimacies symposia, held at UQ and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), convened by Amy Dobson, Nic Carah, and Brady Robards, this year we are bringing the event to Melbourne, to be hosted at RMIT by the School of Media and Communication. The single stream symposium will run for two days, November 13 + 14, 2017. This year, there will be an optional third day (November 15) of collaborative workshops. The idea here is to capture the energy from the symposium and provide space for collaborative work and further discussions. We are again calling for paper abstracts on the themes of digital media and intimate lives, with particular interest around the theme of connection and disconnection. Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to jenny.kennedy(a)rmit.edu.au by June 30, 2017. We will send notifications of acceptances out by mid-July. We are hoping to make this a low-cost event, especially for students, but there may be a small registration fee to cover costs. -- *Dr Brady Robards* Lecturer in Sociology School of Social Sciences, Monash University +61 3 9905 2465 <+61%203%209905%202465> bradyrobards.com

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ASIS&T '17> Doctoral Colloquium Call for Participation
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 24 May '17

24 May '17

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Doctoral Colloquium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology Crystal City, Virginia Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:30-12:30 We invite doctoral students to participate in the 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology in Virginia, Denmark. This half-day event is intended for those of you in the later stages of your dissertation research; this means that you are, for example, post-proposal, or have a completed research design, or have begun data collection. Pre-proposal students will also be considered. If you are accepted for the Doctoral Colloquium, your conference fee will be waived. The 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium are to provide you with a supportive and critical learning opportunity to discuss your work in progress (or completed work, if you have defended your dissertation before the conference), highlight theoretical and methodological problems/issues for further discussion and inquiry both with senior mentors and Colloquium participants. In your one-on-one session with your senior faculty mentor, you will have the opportunity to receive feedback and comments about your work. There will also be an opportunity for an open discussion session where you can ask the doctoral mentors questions about career, the job search, managing an academic career, and other topics of interest. Another goal of the Colloquium is to develop a supportive community within which you can begin to develop your professional network by interacting with peers and senior scholars in information science. The organizers will invite a group of prominent professors and experts to serve as mentors during the Doctoral Colloquium. To benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium, you should be a PhD student, and be in the post-proposal stage of your dissertation research or have a completed research design, or have begun data collection; this way, participants and mentors may be of help in shaping and framing the research and analysis activities. Pre-proposal students will also be considered. How to submit Submit your completed proposal to the conference review system at: https://www.conftool.com/asist2017/ All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Colloquium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The Doctoral Colloquium program committee will select the best submissions for participation. The student winners of the proposal and dissertation of the year awards will be invited to the Colloquium without a submission. We expect to accept a total of 15 participants. Submit a nomination letter from your advisor or chair and a five-page description (in English) of your PhD research proposal or dissertation project electronically via the conference submission system. Your description must address each of the following questions: 1. Problem statement: What is the problem that you are addressing? 2. Relevance: Why the problem is important? 3. Related work: How have others attempted to address this problem? 4. Research question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to address? 5. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions? 6. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more accurate/less failures/etc.? 7. Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that demonstrate that your approach is promising? 8. Implications: What are the theoretical, methodological and practical contributions of your work? Additionally, all submissions must be single-author. Please acknowledge your PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section. Your application statement will not be published. Students accepted to present at the Doctoral Colloquium must plan to attend the full Doctoral Colloquium on October 31, 2017 and the Student Awards session on November 1, 2017 in order to gain as much value as possible from the experience. Important dates Deadline for submission: July 14, 2017 Decisions made: August 25, 2017 If you have questions, please contact the Colloquium organizers Dr. Howard Rosenbaum Dr. Pnina Fichman hrosenba(a)indiana.edu fichman(a)indiana.edu School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University

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Research Seminar: Openness in education: content, collaboration, connectivity
by Scott Rodgers 24 May '17

24 May '17

Satellite Research Seminar 6pm, 24 May 2017 (followed by a wine reception) Birkbeck, University of London Room G01, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD Free and open to all Openness in education: content, collaboration, connectivity Leo Havemann Learning Technologist, Birkbeck Abstract The proliferation and politicisation of the concept of openness in educational contexts invites us to consider whether teaching and learning in higher education (HE) can ever truly be considered open or closed and therefore what, if anything, is to be gained by claiming educational practices are open. A key strand of the drive to open education is the movement for Open Educational Resources (OER), which proposes that the application of open, permissive licenses to teaching and learning resources is a means of widening access to knowledge and enhancing teaching quality. More recently, the literature on Open Education has seen a shift away from a resource-focused discussion, to an inclusive but wider notion of Open Educational Practices (OEP) (Andrade et al., 2011). OEP are often understood to involve working with open content and facilitating access to knowledge ‘in the open’, such as through the development of open resources by students as a form of assessment. However, the nature of openness when discussing OEP is more multifaceted and elusive than in the OER context, as the aspirations and implications of OEP resist simplistic and bounded explanations and are perhaps better understood as residing in forms of collaboration or connectivity (Cronin, 2017; Nascimbeni & Burgos, 2016). While many educators within HE choose to share their work and reveal their processes for the benefit of others, enthusiasm for OEP may be dampened by the perception that this creates additional labour and lacks professional recognition and reward. This seminar will consider the usefulness of the notion of OEP with regard to a case study of a Birkbeck module designed to support students to ‘Step Up to Postgraduate Study in Arts’. I will also consider the structural, technical and skills barriers that inhibit the wider adoption of openness in education, arguing that OEP is best understood as a commitment to opening up access to knowledge as a social and public good, which connects to deeper historical notions of the purposes of HE. References Andrade, A., Ehlers, U.-D., Caine, A., Carneiro, R., Conole, G., Kairamo, A.-K., Holmberg, C. (2011). Beyond OER: Shifting focus to open educational practices: OPAL Report 2011. Retrieved from http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-2… Cronin, C. (2017). Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. Retrieved from https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/handle/10379/6394 Nascimbeni, F., & Burgos, D. (2016). In Search for the Open Educator: Proposal of a Definition and a Framework to Increase Openness Adoption Among University Educators. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning,17(6). http://doi.org/10.19173/IRRODL.V17I6.2736

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DH@Madrid Summer School 3-5 July, also online!
by Elena González-Blanco 24 May '17

24 May '17

Dear colleagues,We are pleased to inform you that from July 3rd to 5th, 2017, LINHD UNED will host the 4th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Semantic Technologies and Linguistic Tools for Digital Humanities”.This year’s DH Summer School is also part of the activities led by the ERC POSTDATA project. The course is sponsored by the CLARIN-ERIC European infrastructure and brings together a varied group of leading international experts in Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing and language technologies.Our Summer School will be of special interest for humanists focused in digital research methods applied to the humanities. It can be followed online or delayed, and in face-to-face classroom mode.Discounts are available for students, unemployed people and members of Spanish DH associations.More information and registration: http://linhd.es/en/p/dh-summer-2017-lang-en/ Elena González-Blanco & Gimena del RíoLINHD --- Queridos amigos,Nos complace anunciaros que del 3 al 5 de julio de 2017 se llevará a cabo en la UNED el curso de verano de este año: “Tecnologías semánticas y herramientas lingüísticas para Humanidades Digitales”. Este curso, que cuenta con la colaboración de importantes expertos internacionales en Humanidades Digitales, tecnología semántica y procesamiento del lenguaje, constituye la cuarta edición de la DH@Madrid Summer School. Este año cuenta además con dos importantes patrocinadores, pues forma parte de las actividades del proyecto ERC POSTDATA, y además está patrocinado por la infraestructura europea CLARIN. Está dirigido a todos aquellos interesados en métodos digitales de investigación aplicados a las humanidades, y centrado principalmente en personas con formación humanística. El curso de este año se centra en la enseñanza de herramientas y tecnologías del lenguaje, en general, y más particularmente en tecnologías semánticas que puedan utilizarse en proyectos de investigación. Puede seguirse de forma presencial, semipresencial, o completamente online en directo o en diferido desde cualquier lugar del mundo.Los estudiantes, miembros de asociaciones hispánicas de HD y personas en paro cuentan además con descuentos especiales. Más información en: http://linhd.es/p/dh-summer-2017-es/ ¡Os esperamos!Elena González-Blanco y Gimena del RíoLINHD

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Correct link to new book - Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World
by Jacqueline Vickery 23 May '17

23 May '17

Whoops, I accidentally copied and pasted the wrong link to my new book, *Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World*. Here's the MIT Press link <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/worried-about-wrong-things> for easy access (also available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and several international online sellers as well). Sorry for the extra email, - jacqueline *Dr. Jacqueline Ryan **Vickery, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor Department of Media Arts <http://mediaarts.unt.edu/> College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences University of North Texas @JacVick | http://jrvickery.com/ <http://jrvickery.com/> *"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world." - **Grace Paley*

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Book Announcement - Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital Age
by Jacqueline Vickery 23 May '17

23 May '17

I'm excited to announce that my first book,* Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital Age, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>* is now available (The MIT Press, 2017). It is likely of interest to digital scholars, as well as to educators and youth-serving organizations. Many in the AoIR community have offered support and feedback along the way and I thank you all for that and further look forward to hopefully thanking some of you in person in Estonia. Best, - jacqueline **Overview It’s a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people’s online experiences besides porn, predators, and peers. We need to turn our attention to inequitable opportunities for participation in a digital culture. Technical and material obstacles prevent low-income and other marginalized young people from the positive, community-building, and creative experiences that are possible online. Vickery explains that cautionary tales about online risk have shaped the way we think about technology and youth. She analyzes the discourses of risk in popular culture, journalism, and policy, and finds that harm-driven expectations, based on a privileged perception of risk, enact control over technology. Opportunity-driven expectations, on the other hand, based on evidence and lived experience, produce discourses that acknowledge the practices and agency of young people rather than seeing them as passive victims who need to be protected. Vickery first addresses how the discourses of risk regulate and control technology, then turns to the online practices of youth at a low-income, minority-majority Texas high school. She considers the participation gap and the need for schools to teach digital literacies, privacy, and different online learning ecologies. Finally, she shows that opportunity-driven expectations can guide young people’s online experiences in ways that balance protection and agency. ** *Dr. Jacqueline Ryan **Vickery, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor Department of Media Arts <http://mediaarts.unt.edu/> College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences University of North Texas @JacVick | http://jrvickery.com/ <http://jrvickery.com/> *"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world." - * *Grace Paley*

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Digital Needs and the Commons under Informational Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs 23 May '17

23 May '17

Digital Needs and the Commons under Informational Capitalism A WIAS research seminar with talks by Sebastian Sevignani and Benjamin Birkinbine Tue, June 6, 18:00-20:00 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HW, London Boardroom Organised by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-needs-and-the-commons-under-informat… How can we define informational “needs?” What type of information is necessary for human development, survival, and social progress? What is in this context the role of the information commons and digital commons? In what ways does capitalism restrict the fulfillment of these needs? In this seminar, Dr. Sebastian Sevignani reflects on what needs are, how they develop, and offers proposals for what informational needs might be. Dr. Benjamin Birkinbine focuses specifically on the informational commons as one way to provide for such needs, while highlighting the contradictions that these movements face under capitalism. The overall goal for this discussion is to work toward a critical theory of needs under informational capitalism. Benjamin J Birkinbine is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of Nevada, Reno. Whilst based at WIAS as international research fellow, he works towards a critical theory of the digital commons. Sebastian Sevignani is Assistant Professor at the Department for General Sociology and Sociological Theory, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. As WIAS international research fellow he works on foundations of a theory of digital needs. For updates, subscribe to WIAS-newsletter: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

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CFP - Crowds at Risk: Exploitation, Creative Destruction, and the Unintended Effects of Crowdsourcing Workshop @ ECSCW 2017
by Karin Hansson 23 May '17

23 May '17

[Apologies for cross-postings] Call for Papers: Extended deadline June 2 Crowds at Risk: Exploitation, Creative Destruction, and the Unintended Effects of Crowdsourcing Workshop at the 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2017, August 28 – September 01) Location, Date: Sheffield (UK), August 29 2017 Organizers: Thomas Ludwig (University of Siegen), Karin Hansson (Stockholm University), Tanja Aitamurto (Stanford University), Christoph Kotthaus (University of Siegen), Elizabeth Anne Watkins (Columbia University), Ujwal Gadiraju (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Enric Senabre Hidalgo (Open University of Catalonia) Deadline for Submission: June, 2 2017 Webpage: http://crowdsatrisk.hci-workshop.org/ Abstract: Crowdsourcing comes with a number of positive promises for organizations: Cost reduction, a 24-hour workforce, and short-term knowledge gathering. On the other hand, this „creative destruction“ undermines labor rights and regulations. Unfair and opaque payment systems and socio-spatial inequalities among crowd workers are some of the pitfalls of crowdsourcing. ICT can lead to exploitation of the crowds and other negative (unintended) effects of crowdsourcing. This workshop examines crowds that are at risk (e.g. children), their characteristics and behaviors and the role of ICT within the crowd work. We welcome researchers from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to illuminate insights into crowds at risk and trying to shed light on questions about what the destructive forces at work are, how work is changing, and what unregulated areas of “work” are exploited. Topics: – Ethical issues and groups at risk within crowdsourcing – ICT tools and attempts to establish sustainable work cultures online – Empirical studies about crowds at risk – Crowdsourcing contexts vulnerable for exploitation – ICT-driven new forms of labor – Crowd-workers responsible for their own infrastructures – Cybersecurity – Laws and regulating of child work/consumption online – Cases of exploitation of children as crowd workers – The gamification of the lifeworld – Citizen-based crisis management groups at risk – Cases of crowdsourcing as self fulfilment or self-exploitation – Crowd work and ownership in Platform Cooperativism Schedule: May 19: Submission May 19 – June 02: Review Phase June 02: Notification The position paper should be 2-4 pages and follow the ECSCW exploratory papers template. Send submissions and inquiries to the following email address: crowdsatrisk(a)listerv.uni-siegen.de<mailto:crowdsatrisk@listerv.uni-siegen.de>. At least one author of the position paper must attend the workshop. All participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. With best regards, Karin Hansson (on behalf of all organizers). -- ____________________________________ Karin Hansson PhD Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se<mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> people.dsv.su.se/khansson<http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson> ____________________________________

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8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Last Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 23 May '17

23 May '17

*** Last Call for Papers *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Deadline: 29th May 2017 (final and firm) *** The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions to Authors Papers must be submitted in IEEE Conference Style format, which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers must be limited to 6 pages in length. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of IISA related (but not limited) to the following tracks and topics: Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence · Advances in databases · Information systems · Information and data management · Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction · Recommender systems · Digital rights management · Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions · Biological and artificial neural networks · Biological and artificial immune systems · Cognitive science · Neuroscience · Computational biology · DNA computing · Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms · Bayesian networks · Expert systems & intelligent agents · Swarm intelligence · Fuzzy logic systems · Kernel methods - support vector machines · Ensemble classifiers · Emerging machine learning paradigms · Decision making techniques · Knowledge-based systems · Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence · Robotics and automation · Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks · Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing · Signal mining · Signal visualization · Human-machine interaction · Multimodal systems · Multimedia systems · Autonomous Computing · Distributed computing · Quantum computing · Mobile computing · Green computing · Trusted computing · Proactive computing · Cloud computing · Ubiquitous computing · Networking · Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks · Design and implementation · Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics · Adaptive and personalized learning · Student modeling · Intelligent tutoring systems · E-learning and mobile learning · Social media and learning · Educational games · Computer-supported collaborative learning · Big data in education and learning analytics · Affective computing in learning systems · Smart learning environments · Virtual and augmented reality in education · Risk management in education · Learning management systems · Content management systems · Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security · Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis · Privacy and authentication · Malicious software analysis · Information, computer and network security · Infrastructure security · Forensics · Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities · Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities · Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization · Monitoring and control of energy resources · Smart grid · Fault detection · Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling · Middleware for urban computing · Intelligent transportation systems · Public displays for modern cities · Impact of urban computing in modern cities · Case studies and best practices · Big city data · Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare · E-health, mobile health and smart health · Infrastucture for smart health · Advanced devices and robotics for smart health · Ambient intelligence in assisted living · Health information systems · Healthcare management · Case studies Track VII: Applications · E-government and m-government · E-commerce and m-commerce · E-entertainment and m-entertainment · E-legal and m-legal services · Personalized systems and services · Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards · Empirical evaluations · Simulation and evaluation via simulation · Case studies · Applications in culture and heritage · Applications in tourism · Applications in natural resource management · Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates · Submission of Papers: May 29, 2017 (final) · Notification of Acceptance: June 05, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 12, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 12, 2017 · Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 Organization Program Chairs · N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA · G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece · M. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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