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#12Streams 10 – Shernon Osepa - Community Networks
by Joly MacFie 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

The theme of CIGF 2018 was “Promoting secure, resilient and effective data management in the age of social media.“ Shernon Osepa took advantage of the resilience aspect to eloquently expound on ISOC's current push on access. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12days10/> Today, *Friday January 4 2019*, at *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC), in the tenth installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live/>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/tag/12-streams/>*‘ annual highlights we feature *Shernon Osepa <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/osepa/>*, Manager, Regional Affairs at the Internet Society’s *Latin America & the Caribbean Bureau <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/latin-america-caribbean/>*, speaking about *Community Networks <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/> *at the *14th Caribbean Internet Governance Forum <http://www.ctu.int/events/14th-caribbean-internet-governance-forum-suriname/>* (CIGF 2018) in Paramaribo, Suriname on May 23 2018. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12days10/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12days10/>* *FULL CIGF2018 LIVESTREAM* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cigf2018 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cigf2018>* *PAPER – Community Networks in Latin America* *https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2018/community-networks-in-latin-america/ <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2018/community-networks-in-la…>* *TWITTER: #12streams http://bit.ly/2SgU9Gu <http://bit.ly/2SgU9Gu>* *#CIGF2018 http://bit.ly/cigf2018 <http://bit.ly/cigf2018> | #14CIGF http://bit.ly/14cigf <http://bit.ly/14cigf>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10786/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Applications – online MA in Strategic Communications at National University (La Jolla, CA)
by Federica Fornaciari 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

The Department of Arts & Humanities at National University welcomes applications to its online M.A. program in Strategic Communications. The next cohort starts in March 2019. *About the Program:* Throughout the Master of Arts in Strategic Communications, you will learn to operate in an increasingly complex and interdependent global environment and acquire the theoretical and practical foundations for developing strategic communications programs and campaigns. Each course provides an essential stepping-stone on the way to planning, executing, and evaluating effective strategic communications efforts. The degree is very versatile in order to provide you with the means that you may apply to your chosen career paths. As a result, you can develop and strengthen several skills including the following: persuasion, audience analysis, campaign planning and development, understanding of uses/features of traditional and new media, research methods, crisis evaluation and management, ethics/ethical norms for media industry, decision-making, problem-solving, project planning and management – as well as interpersonal, intercultural and organizational skills for the workplace. Finally, in the capstone course, you will put together a professional portfolio to display and present material developed throughout your coursework – this is a fundamental tool for students who are getting ready to apply for jobs or promotions. *Faculty* Our interdisciplinary faculty includes communication professionals, as well as established and emerging researchers who specialize in a variety of fields such as social and digital media, public relations, marketing, crisis communication, and more. *Class format & requirements* Our classes are intensive 4-weeks long classes, fully online. We offer weekly online seminars - these are also recorded so students always have the option to watch them asynchronously. The program include 10 core courses. *Career Options* The Master of Arts in Strategic Communications equips you with the tools necessary to launch professional communication careers in a variety of private, public sector, and non-profit organizations. The program provides you with a great combination of theoretical and practical skills that enable you to be competitive in the marketplace. *For more info about the program: *contact Federica Fornaciari, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Academic Program Director ffornaciari(a)nu.edu *or visit the program website:* https://www.nu.edu/OurPrograms/CollegeOfLettersAndSciences/ArtsAndHumanitie… *For info about graduate admission/ to apply* *:https://www.nu.edu/admissions/graduate/ <https://www.nu.edu/admissions/graduate/>* *About National University* National University is a San Diego-based nonprofit founded in 1971 by retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Chigos. As the largest private nonprofit university in San Diego, our mission is to provide accessible, achievable higher education to adult learners. A pioneer in the digital space, we’ve offered online classes for more than 20 years. For more info about National University: https://www.nu.edu/ouruniversity/theuniversity/ Thanks, *Federica Fornaciari**, Ph.D., Assistant** Professor* *Academic Program Director, MA Strategic Communications * National University College of Letters and Sciences Department of Arts and Humanities 11255 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, California 92037-1011 Email: ffornaciari(a)nu.edu

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Second Call for Theory, Opinion and Reflection Papers
by Announce Announcements 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

*** SECOND CALL FOR THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. Theory, Opinion and Reflection (TOR) are position papers that critically look at ongoing and emerging research topics, reflections on persistent or fleeting trends in the field and blue sky future ideas for UMAP research. They offer an opportunity for discussing thought-provoking work relevant to the UMAP community, albeit they are not yet ready to be published as a full length research papers at a refereed conference. They should be of sufficient quality and relevance to the UMAP community and demonstrate the ability to spur discussion and debate on the future course of the UMAP research. The presentations will be in the form of a 10 minute pitch in a plenary conference session, just before a break. The presenters will present the topic and raise relevant questions to stimulate discussion during the breaks. Submissions should have a maximum length of 4 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for UMAP 2019 TOR at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential to stimulate discussion on important research questions, potential contribution to UMAP research and practice, potential impact in particular use cases, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (4 pages for TOR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of TOR papers: March 16th, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 · Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Theory, Opinion and Reflection papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS CHAIRS · Jan-Geert Houben, Delft University, The Netherlands (g.j.p.m.houben AT tudelft.nl) · Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA (mobasher AT cs.depaul.edu)

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Vacancy for an Associate Professor/Professor in Media & Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham's China campus
by Andrew White 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

The University of Nottingham's China campus has the following vacancy in the School of International Communications *Associate Professor/Professor in Media & Communication Studies* Closing date: 20 February 2019 https://hrms.nottingham.edu.cn/psp/PRDHCM/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_… Please note that the successful candidate will be expected to take on the role of Head of School for a fixed period of time amounting to no more than 3 years. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Andrew White, the current Head of the School of International Communications, email: andrew.white(a)nottingham.edu.cn > The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), a pioneer in > Sino-foreign tertiary education, is rapidly expanding. It is looking for > ambitious, talented academics with a passion for teaching as well as > research flair to join its team. UNNC is part of the University of > Nottingham’s Global University, and offers unique teaching and research > opportunities in a highly dynamic economy. > > UNNC is currently ranked in the world top 300 for the discipline of > Communication as measured by the Shanghai ARWU: > http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/communicati… > > > The recruitment of a high profile media and communication scholar to take > a leadership role within the School of International Communications will > contribute to the maintenance and/or improvement of The University of > Nottingham Ningbo China’s ranking. > > Our BA (Hons) in International Communications is a provincial level > accredited degree which includes a dedicated programme of study for a > European or East Asian language. Its sister programme, BA (Hons) in > International Communications with Chinese, has proved successful in > attracting high quality international students to our school. > > We currently run an MA programme in International Communications and also > have one of the most successful PhD programmes in the university. We have > been graduating students for more than ten years and our alumni have > continued their education in some of the world’s leading universities, > including Oxford and Cambridge, as well as working for companies like the > Bank of China, L’Oreal, Ogilvy & Mather and the British Chamber of Commerce > in Shanghai. > > The post-holder will be expected to teach across the full range of our > programmes, and conduct research, knowledge exchange and the securing of > external funding in the school’s main research areas. More details of the > school and its teaching and research activities can be found here: > > https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/internationalcommunications/index.aspx > > > Salary will be within the range of £51,630 – £61,618 for the Associate > Professor post and £61,618 – £84,527 for the Professorship. In addition, an > attractive package including accommodation allowance, travel allowance and > medical insurance will be provided for international appointments. > > The post will initially be offered on a fixed term contract with the > University of Nottingham Ningbo China for a period of 5 years starting June > 2019 or as soon as thereafter. This contract may be extended on an > indefinite basis by mutual agreement. > > Please indicate clearly on your application whether you wish to be > considered for the Associate Professor post or the Professorship. > > Informal enquires may be addressed to Professor Andrew White, Head of > School of International Communications, email: > andrew.white(a)nottingham.edu.cn. Please note that applications sent > directly to this address will not be accepted. > Applications must be submitted on-line: > https://hrms.nottingham.edu.cn/psp/PRDHCM/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_… > > *Interviews will take place in Ningbo, China, in mid-April 2019, though > this is subject to change. Your referees will be contacted prior to the > interview. * > > > Andrew White > > Professor of Creative Industries & Digital Media > > Head of the School of International Communications > > Director of the AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China > > the School of International Communications > > The University of Nottingham Ningbo China > > http://ningbo.academia.edu/AndrewWhite >

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CFP: Schemas, Graphs, Ontologies: Baking Semantics into Data-Driven Media Technologies
by Andrew Iliadis 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

*apologies for cross posting* *CFP: Schemas, Graphs, Ontologies: Baking Semantics into Data-Driven Media Technologies* *4S 2019 New Orleans: Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations* *Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting New Orleans September 4-7, 2019 * Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a restful break. We’re organizing a call for papers on semantic media technologies for the upcoming 4S conference. If you’re working on topics like the semantic web, knowledge graphs, applied ontologies, metadata, taxonomies, and categorization, we’d love to have you with us. The open call description is below, with a list of potential topics and submission link. 130. Schemas, Graphs, Ontologies: Baking Semantics into Data-Driven Media Technologies Amelia Acker, The University of Texas at Austin Andrew Iliadis, Temple University Since Google declared, in a 2012 blog post, that they would begin focusing on “things, not strings” there has been increasing talk in the media about the value of semantically enhancing data for reuse and sharing. As vast amounts of unstructured data grow thanks to the resources of media technology companies and governments, there is a push to structure those data to produce semantic interoperability and thus improve understanding. Various information infrastructures like metadata schemas, knowledge graphs, and applied ontologies are experiencing a resurgence as the limitations of statistical algorithms and relational databases become clearer and researchers argue for training data that must be made understandable and structured in such a way as to provide value. Yet, along with increasing our ability to make sense of heterogeneous data through semanticization, there are identifiable problems related to data interoperability that may negatively impact people, practices, and places. This panel will explore the idea of schemas, graphs, and ontologies through their use by media technology companies and scientific researchers by asking if these methods are appropriate for modeling all kinds of knowledge, how such modeling affects access and control, what risks of misrepresentation and error exit, and what potential there is of transforming or appropriating knowledge. This panel seeks empirically grounded papers or novel theoretical approaches to understanding how semantically constraining technologies are operationalized in practices across domains, including scientific, governmental, and business contexts. Papers that focus on single case studies, introduce new methods, or propose ethical and policy frameworks are encouraged. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): histories of semantic media, social and critical perspectives on semantic technologies, semantic web, open data, linked data, knowledge graphs, schemas, metadata, applied ontology, taxonomies, graph databases, DBpedia, Wikidata, Web Ontology Language, Schema.org, microformats, Resource Description Framework, Freebase, GoodRelations, PoolParty, Ontotext, Friend of a Friend, Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering, Dublin Core, Basic Formal Ontology, GoodRelations, Shapes Constraint Language, Google Knowledge Graph, Facebook Open Graph, Neo4j, Microsoft Satori, World Wide Web Consortium, virtual assistants, Siri Active Ontology, eBay Product Knowledge Graph, Alexa Meaning Representation Language, etc. Submissions (250 words, due by Feb 1st) can be submitted here (select “Papers for Open Panels” #130): https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s19/ -- Andrew Iliadis, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Media Studies and Production Lew Klein College of Media and Communication Temple University

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CFP Workshop: Charting the future of forced migration research in Information Science
by Violeta Trkulja 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Apologies for cross-posting. This is a call for contributions to the full-day workshop at the *2019 iConference* to be held in Washington, DC, on *Sunday, March 31st, 2019*. In this workshop, we seek to bring together researchers from the information fields broadly construed, along with researchers in related disciplines to showcase the range of areas, practices and methodologies available to research forced migration. The aim is to introduce our information science colleagues to research in related disciplines, as well as acculturate our colleagues from other disciplines into the rich research context and frameworks in information science. The workshop will feature a panel, lightning talks and various engagement sessions. A Special Issue featuring some of the Workshop contributions will also be produced following the event. The following two themes will frame the workshop contributions and discussions: *Information spaces of refugees* -Navigating the information environments in new and/or transitional countries -Operational knowledge about information practices in different contexts -Making space for refugees Evolving services provided by (public) libraries and other information professionals in the context of forced migration *Digitally-mediated environments of refugees* -Information-related skills and strategies that facilitate access to (and uses of) information -Role of social media and online spaces in creating/regaining a sense of place -Access, accessibility, usability issues in forced migration research -Credibility and assessment; multilingual interactions; user-generated content *Abstract Submission* The workshop welcomes submissions for presenting a lightning talk of 15 minutes in one of the main themes of the workshop: Information spaces of refugees and digitally-mediated environments for refugees. Each lightning talk session will be followed by an interactive engagement with the audience led by the speaker. When submitting an abstract for a talk, please state your plan for an interactive session that encourages audience commentary and engagement. Please plan for no more than 30 minutes. Your submission should include the following things: -abstract of your lightning talk with up to 300 words -short description of your audience engagement idea with no more than 200 words. Please send your submission to iconf2019-forcedmigrationws(a)lists.hu-berlin.de *Important Dates* -Abstract submission deadline: Jan 15th, 2019 -Notification of acceptance: Feb 15th, 2019 *Knowledge Dissemination – Special Issue of IJIDI* In addition to the Workshop, we will also produce a Special Issue in the International Journal for Information, Diversity and Inclusion (IJIDI) on the theme of the future of forced migration in information science. We welcome full research papers that make a novel contribution to this area of research (e.g., empirical, theory-based, methodological, comparative), and we seek a broad spectrum of submissions from workshop attendees as well as those who are not able to attend the workshop. The Special Issue will also have a special section for student work, works in progress, opinion pieces, and professional reports. Deadlines for the Special Issue of IJIDI: Extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words for full research papers and up to 500 words for contributions to the special section are due by April 30, 2019. Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 30, 2019. The final papers will be due by October 15, 2019. Publication scheduled for the April 2020 issue. Organizers Dr. Juliane Stiller, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (juliane.stiller(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de) Dr. Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information, University Toronto, Canada (nadia.caidi(a)utoronto.ca) Dr. Violeta Trkulja, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (violeta.trkulja(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de) Dr. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada (ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu) -- Dr. Violeta Trkulja Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin School of Library and Information Science Sitz: Dorotheenstrasse 26, 10117 Berlin Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Tel: +49 30 2093-70963 Fax: +49 30 2093-70951 Mail: violeta.trkulja(a)ibi.hu-berlin.de Web: www.ibi.hu-berlin.de

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Second Call for Demos and Late Breaking Results
by Announce Announcements 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

*** SECOND CALL FOR DEMOS AND LATE BREAKING RESULTS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2019 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 16th 2019. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or to any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 2 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2019. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template and will be presented to the conference as posters. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions (demos and late-breaking results) must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2019 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (2 pages for demos and 6 pages for LBR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 16th, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 · Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS · Styliani Kleanthous, University of Cyprus, Cyprus & RISE LIMITED, Cyprus (Contact: stellak AT ucy.ac.cy) · Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia · Ben Steichen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

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DiGRA 2019 Call for Papers
by Torill Mortensen 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

It is our great pleasure to announce the Digital Games Research Association's 2019 Conference call for papers. Papers are invited under the theme 'Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo Mix', where 'media mix' serves as a starting point for considering games' convergence, transformation, replication, and expansion from platform, technology, and context to another. For more information and updates, please see http://www.digra2019.org/. DiGRA 2019 Conference will be held at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan from August 6 to 10, 2019. Submission deadlines: Full Papers, Abstracts, Panels, and Doctoral Consortium: February 5, 2019 Workshops: April 8, 2019 Please share this call with any potentially interested parties. Best wishes, Program Chairs Hanna Wirman, Masakazu Furuichi and Torill Mortensen

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IEEE WoWMoM 2019: just a few days to submission deadline (6th January)
by Andrea Passarella 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WoWMoM 2019 Call for Papers 9-12 June 2019, Washington DC, USA http://cs.ucf.edu/wowmom2019/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** SUBMISSION DEADLINE (ext): JANUARY 6th, 2019 ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WoWMoM is a CORE "A" ranked conference http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS SCOPE AND OVERVIEW IEEE WoWMoM 2019 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia content. To provide users with high quality of experience, especially under moderate to high utilization, appropriate architectural networking paradigms are necessary. At the same time, Internet of Things environments, wearable computing and sensors, support a diverse range of domains and services, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding complex behaviours and systems. These are some of the challenges that are of interest to IEEE WoWMoM 2019. The IEEE WoWMoM 2019 conference takes a broader view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking in general. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Specific areas of interest: - Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks - Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Cognitive communications and networking - Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Internet/Web of Things - Localisation, tracking, and mobility management and services - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Mobile applications and services over 5G networks - Mobile big data networking and services - Mobile cloud computing - Mobile edge computing - Mobile health networking - Mobile network traffic characterization and measurements - Mobile social networks - Modelling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Network virtualisation and software-defined wireless networks - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Participatory, mobile and urban sensing - Resource management for QoS/QoE provisioning - RFID, NFC, and Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications - Satellite and space networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Security, trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Underwater wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Virtual mobile infrastructure - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications - Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. Please refer to the conference website for the detailed submissions instructions, including the type of papers that can be submitted. ACCEPTED PAPERS For accepted papers, attendance and presentation by one of the authors is mandatory. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2019 and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference for unjustified reasons. EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS Selected Papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission (ext): January 6th, 2019 Full manuscript due (ext): January 6th, 2019 Acceptance notification: March 15, 2019 Camera-Ready version due: Mid April, 2019 Conference Dates: 9-12 June, 2019 For any additional information feel free to contact the PC chairs at maria(a)csd.uoc.gr and jasleen(a)cs.unc.edu

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WEBSCI 2019 in Boston, MA: Call for workshops and tutorials, deadline: Jan 25
by Katherine Ognyanova 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Dear all, This is a reminder that we are approaching the deadline to submit workshops and tutorials for *WEBSCI 2019*. Please turn in your submissions by *January 25, 2019.* The workshops will be held in*Boston, MA*, *USA *on *June 30, 2019*. We welcome a variety of web science themes, from the social to the technical and especially blends of the two. You can find the full call here: http://bit.ly/WebSciCall. Feel free to e-mail us with questions. Regards, Katya Ognyanova & Stefan Dietze WEBSCI 2019: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS * 11th ACM Conference on Web Science, Boston - MA, USA 2019 * Call for proposals: http://bit.ly/WebSciCall * Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci19 * *Submission Deadline: January 25, 2019* * Notification of acceptance: February 5, 2019 * Workshop/Tutorial day: June 30 2019 The 2019 WebSci Conference in Boston, MA is soliciting proposals for workshops and tutorials addressing the way Web Science research can illuminate key contemporary issues and global challenges. Workshops should reflect the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. The tutorials could cover a wide variety of Web Science approaches and methods, including but not limited to techniques for data collection, processing, and analysis, as well as substantive interpretation, best practices, and ethics. Examples of potential WebSci workshop areas include: * Using Web Science for social good * Collective intelligence, collaborative production and crowdsourcing * Bias on the Web * Data ethics and algorithmic accountability * Digital inequalities: access, quality, and participation * Information privacy and cybersecurity * Learning and education on the Web * Misinformation and propaganda on the Web * Social connections and social influence on the Web * Internet politics and political participation * The evolution of social media services * Online health and wellness Organizers are responsible for advertising accepted workshops and tutorials, recruiting participants, and managing the review process if paper submissions are invited. Successful proposals should also put together a web page describing the event and distributing any preliminary materials. *** PROPOSAL FORMAT **** Proposals should be up to 3 pages long and should include the following information: * Workshop/tutorial title * Workshop/tutorial summary (1-2 paragraphs) * Workshop/tutorial description, including the motivation and goals of the proposal, as well as its relevance to the field of Web Science. * Workshop/tutorial schedule and activities, including the format, proposed activities (panels, sessions, interactive exercises, etc.), as well as invited speakers or panelists. * Workshop/tutorial organizer info, including names, affiliations, emails, and personal websites. Please indicate who would be the main contact person for the submission and if the workshop has been run in the past. * Target audience and audience size: the expected number and type of attendees, along with any information about required skills or tools with which participants need to be familiar.**** * **Special requirements or equipment, if any.** ** *ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA* *Workshop and tutorial proposals will be evaluated based on their academic rigor, timeliness, originality, potential to address important questions and attract large multidisciplinary audiences. Relevance to the field of Web Science is also a prerequisite for all submissions.* *PROCEEDINGS* *Workshop organisers are free to publish workshop proceedings. WebSci19 offers the possibility to include workshop papers as a companion collection of the ACM WebSci19 proceedings. In this case, it is crucial that workshop schedules are aligned with the schedule for the overall proceedings publication, i.e. camera-ready papers need to be ready by 1 May 2019. * *TUTORIAL CHAIRS * *Katya Ognyanova <http://kateto.net/>(Rutgers University) & Stefan Dietze <http://stefandietze.net>(GESIS, Germany)* -- Katherine Ognyanova, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Communication and Information 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Web:www.kateto.net, Twitter: @ognyanova

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