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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Announce Announcements 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ Submissions due: March 31, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 ACM UMAP 2023 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. The UMAP 2023 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 31st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers and industry practitioners from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic. This forum will provide Ph.D. students with an opportunity to • Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment • Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice; • Explore career pathways available after completing their Ph.D. degree • Network and build collaborations with other members of the community Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research, which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC Session as part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR A DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPER AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please refer to the conference web site for more detailed information regarding the preparation and submission of DC contributions: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: March 31, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 2, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) DC CHAIRS ● Antonija Mitrovic, Canterbury University, New Zealand ● Michel Desmarais, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada ● Willem Willemsen, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands ● Contact: umap2023-doctoral(a)um.org

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CHASE Studentships in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck
by Scott Rodgers 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Postgraduate studentships are available in Birkbeck’s Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/departments/culture/> for entry in 2023/24. We offer MPhil/PhD programmes in: * Cultural Policy and Management<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/phd/cultural-policy-and-management> * Digital Culture and Communication<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/phd/digital-culture-and-communication> * Film and Screen Media<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/phd/film-and-screen-media> * Journalism and Communication<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/phd/journalism-and-communication> This funding is awarded by the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE) Doctoral Training Programme<https://www.chase.ac.uk/>, of which Birkbeck is a member. Both Home and International students are eligible to apply. How to apply It is critical that you contact a potential supervisor in the first instance, as early as possible. Please consult the list of academic staff<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/departments/culture/our-staff> in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, and ideally make contact with potential supervisors no later than end of November 2022. Getting in touch with potential supervisors early on will allow adequate time for the further development your research proposal, prior to applying for entry into one of our MPhil/PhD programmes (the first step in the CHASE application process, with a deadline of 16 December 2022). Full details on Birkbeck’s CHASE funding application process are outlined at this website<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/student-services/financial-support/phd-funding/ahrc-c…>. The final application deadline is midday on 27 January 2023. About our research Research in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies encompasses journalism, film and television, artistic practice and arts management, and digital media, culture and design. Our work is critically engaged, challenging conventional assumptions about the functions and influence of media and culture, scrutinising institutions, organisations and work practices in the creative industries, and rethinking what media can mean and do. We place a special emphasis on practice-based research, in which ideas and issues are investigated through activities such as creative film-making, curatorial practice and digital design. The department is thoroughly interdisciplinary, and incorporates both historical research and contemporary explorations of our rapidly-changing media landscapes. Further information * Complete details on Birkbeck’s CHASE funding application process<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/student-services/financial-support/phd-funding/ahrc-c…>. * Further information on our research culture and postgraduate student community<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/departments/culture/research> in Film, Media and Cultural Studies. * Questions about doctoral research in Birkbeck’s Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies? Contact Dr Scott Rodgers<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005868/scott-rodgers>, Director of Postgraduate Research. * Questions about CHASE funding at Birkbeck? Submit an enquiry via email<mailto:SoAFA@bbk.ac.uk?subject=Enquiry%20about%20CHASE%20Funding%20at%20Birkbeck>.

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TT Assistant Professor in Data, Media, and Identity at American University (Washington, DC USA)
by Adrienne Massanari 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Hello AoIR, The communication division in the School of Communication at American University (Washington, DC USA) is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Data, Media, and Identity (https://apply.interfolio.com/116720) This position is open until filled. Please pass on to your networks, and let me know if you have questions, as I'm on the search committee. Thanks, Adrienne Description The Communication Studies program at American University’s School of Communication invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a starting date of August 1, 2023. Applicants should have a PhD or anticipate completing a PhD by August 2023 in Communication, Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, or a related field. The successful candidate will teach in the School’s doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate programs. Qualifications The search committee seeks candidates who are emerging or established leaders in Communication or related fields, who have promising records of publication (and/or funding) that are driven by the application of empirical methods that are primarily quantitative. Ideal candidates will bring expertise in quantitative, data analytical, mixed, and/or emerging methods. In scholarship, ideal candidates will be working at the intersections of data, media, and race and identity. The successful candidate will be deeply familiar with new sources and structures of data and be able to evaluate and critique the role of data as a medium of social power in an increasingly networked society. With this position, the Communication Studies program seeks to broaden its leadership, scholarship and teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and mentor students in the doctoral program; teaching duties will extend as well to undergraduate classes and to the master’s program in Media, Technology and Democracy. Women, underrepresented individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans of the armed forces are encouraged to apply. Application Instructions Salary and benefits are competitive. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled, subject to on-going budgetary approval. Please submit applications via Interfolio. Include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and summary descriptions of recently published, position-relevant work as well as a statement of past and/or anticipated contributions to diversity and inclusion through teaching, research, and service. Recommendation letters and evaluations of teaching will be requested at later stages of the search. Please contact Liz Kan, Faculty Affairs Coordinator at lizkan(a)american.edu with questions about the position or the process. American University is a private institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, please visit www.american.edu. Established in 1993, the School of Communication offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Communication Studies is one of the School’s four divisions. Others are Film and Media Arts, Journalism, and Public Communication. To learn more about School of Communication, please visit www.american.edu/soc/and about the Communication Studies division at www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies. --- Adrienne Massanari, PhD she/her/hers Associate Professor & PhD Director School of Communication Faculty Affiliate: Antiracist Research and Policy Center & AU Game Center American University @hegemonyrules www.adriennemassanari.com

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Microsoft Research: PhD Internships / Sociotechnical Perspectives
by danah boyd 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Hi y'all! Microsoft Research has a bunch of internship programs each summer, but one is especially targeted for advanced PhD students who want to work with social scientists (namely me, Mary Gray, Nancy Baym, and Tarleton Gillespie). You can find the full deets here: https://socialmediacollective.org/smc-internships/ but I'm attaching a teaser below. Please forward this to students you think might find it of interest! ---- Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. Interns will join a group of social scientists using empirical and critical methods to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape technologies and their consequences. Our work draws on and spans several disciplines such as anthropology, communication, gender and sexuality studies, history, information studies, law, media studies, organizational and management sciences, science & technology studies, and sociology. Applications are due December 2, 2022. In 2023 we will return to in person internships! Interns will be expected to be physically present and contribute to the daily life of our lab (based in Cambridge, MA). We are also excited to once again welcome applicants from outside North America.   We are especially interested in candidates bringing sociotechnical approaches to the study of such topics as: - race, caste, and Indigeneity; gender and sexual identities; socioeconomic status and class; and the intersectional dimensions of identity as they are entangled with sociotechnical systems; - how institutions, organizations, networks, and infrastructures (across sectors and domains) configure and are configured by sociotechnical systems; - notions of cooperation, mutual aid, and community engagement and their relationships to governance and responsible technologies; - political economies and emerging organizational forms in digital labor, community, government, non-profit, creator economy, and private-sector contexts; - the politics and public responsibilities of algorithms, platforms, AI, machine learning, metrics, and other manifestations of computational cultures. The questions our researchers are currently focused on include: - How are people’s expectations of work changing and how does that intersect with the rise of the creator and gig economies? (Nancy Baym) - What makes data legitimate in contexts as varied as government, civil society, and industry? (danah boyd) - How do platforms and other algorithmic intermediaries, through their design and policies, govern public discourse? (Tarleton Gillespie) - What are the cultural, political, and ethical implications of digital systems as new forms and sites of semi-automated, globally-distributed digital sites of identities, work, and human rights? (Mary L. Gray) To understand more about the responsibilities, qualifications, application process, timeline, and other deets, head on over to our blog post: https://socialmediacollective.org/smc-internships/

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CfP: International Workshop on WhatsApp, hate and disinfo/ March 30-31, 2023, abstracts due 30 Nov 2022
by sahana udupa 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Apologies for cross-posting! *Call for papers * *International Workshop* *Hate and Disinformation on WhatsApp: Global Perspectives* *30, 31 March 2023* Venue: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa Hosted by Sahana Udupa, University of Munich (LMU), Germany Herman Wasserman, Stellenbosch University, South Africa *Extended abstract deadline: 30 Nov 2022* *Full papers due: 28 Feb 2023* This workshop aims to examine the cross-platform messaging service WhatsApp and its relationship with disinformation and extreme speech in a global perspective. Our objective is to contribute to disinformation and extreme speech scholarship by exploring the unique cultures, affordances and challenges of WhatsApp. Based on insights from different regions and diverse contexts of use, we aim to map the differences, similarities and connections globally, and highlight regulatory and methodological challenges that encrypted information services such as WhatsApp have raised for academic research and policymaking. WhatsApp’s popularity has been linked to low Internet connectivity and high data costs in the global South contexts but its uptake in different regions of the world, including parts of the global South, awaits systematic research around how distinct user practices, infrastructural conditions and political deployments have developed around the messaging service, and how such features have uniquely inflected disinformation and extreme speech environments. The workshop will have five interrelated focal points: Culture, regulation, content, infrastructure and method. Questions we will be exploring include: *Cultures and contexts* - What contextual social and cultural conditions amplify the co-creation, consumption and spread of disinformation and extreme speech on Whatsapp? What kind of practices have emerged around WhatsApp, and how do they fold into extreme speech as habitual, deliberate and lived forms of discourse and meaning? - How do contemporary practices of extreme speech and disinformation on Whatsapp map onto longer social, political and cultural histories? - To what extent do political cultures shape the nature and tone of discourse on Whatsapp? - How do political campaigns and disinformation services engage and deploy WhatsApp? How do such strategies include the very instrumentalization of “fake news”, “hate speech” and “disinformation” as rhetorical and misleading devices for divisive politics? - How does state surveillance against political dissent unfold on and with WhatsApp? - What kind of subversive speech practices and anti-hate activism have developed in and through WhatsApp? *Regulation* - What is an appropriate normative framework within which Big Tech can be held accountable for the spread of extreme speech and disinformation on their encrypted and cross-platform messaging services? - What challenges does Whatsapp pose for policy-making across countries and regions with vastly different media rights environments? *Content* - What are examples of problematic content on Whatsapp? How do they connect with or draw from problematic content types circulating on other platforms? - How can problematic content on WhatsApp be countered, corrected or challenged? - What challenges do content in languages other than English as well as visuals, memes and multimedia materials pose for regulation and moderation? *Infrastructure* - What affordances offered by WhatsApp facilitate or help amplify problematic and harmful content? How do these affordances develop in situated contexts of use and as sociotechnical architectures shaped by global technology? - How should we understand the impact of low connectivity and high data rates on the popularity of Whatsapp? - What challenges to awareness raising campaigns are posed by WhatsApp’s significance in low-data environments? - What are the unique infrastructural possibilities of WhatsApp where data and connection are not an issue? - What capacities does Whatsapp offer to tackle disinformation? - How does WhatsApp as an infrastructure intersect with and constitute the disinformation ecosystem in very specific ways? - To what extent can solutions for disinformation on Whatsapp be relevant for similar encrypted information services? *Method:* - What are the unique methodological challenges that encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp have posed to research? What are the ways to overcome emerging problems? - How do researchers negotiate ethical and practical issues of data protection, privacy, confidentiality and trust in studying WhatsApp? - What are the opportunities for researchers to combine ethnography, field experiments and computational methods in WhatsApp research? - How do WhatsApp networks challenge methodological nationalism? The types of problematic content we will be covering in the workshop include: Extreme speech (derogatory, exclusionary and dangerous), Dis-/misinformation (including health misinformation, political disinformation, conspiracy theories, rumors and scams) and foreign influence operations. We welcome a wide range of methods and approaches, including ethnographies, field experiments, online content analysis, political economy analysis, network analysis and NLP, and policy and regulation research. *Workshop Format: * The workshop will run over two days. To enable participants to learn from a diverse range of perspectives, approaches and methods, all sessions will be in plenary format. We invite researchers to send extended abstracts (1200 words) to whatsappworkshop(a)ethnologie.lmu.de before 30 November 2022. Selected participants will be notified by 15 December 2022. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical framework, methodology, empirical findings, and a brief note on how your research links to the overall theme of the workshop. Please also include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a short bio (up to 100 words, stating affiliation). Full papers (6000 words) of selected submissions are due on 28 February 2023. Attendance to this closed workshop is fully funded. Organizers will cover the costs of travel and accommodation. Submissions will contribute to a planned co-edited volume, and should therefore not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. *** Sahana Udupa | Professor of Media Anthropology | University of Munich (LMU) Out now: https://shorensteincenter.org/ethical-scaling-content-moderation-extreme-sp… https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/digital_technology_and_extr…

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Call for participation: Empowering Learners for the Age of AI (fully online, free event)
by Vitomir Kovanovic 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Hi all, The past year has resulted in incredible breakthroughs in AI technology. How these advancements impact learning and education is an area of important consideration. For example, one area that has received extensive media coverage of Generative AI and its capability of creating images and videos from short text inputs. Similarly, AI now exists that can produce papers that challenge existing plagiarism detection software. For educators, advancements in creativity raise consequential questions about how education and teaching and learning are impacted. The Empowering Learners for the Age of AI conference is now in its third year: https://empoweringlearners.ai. This year, over 130 speakers and 6 keynotes from around the world will explore learning, teaching, AI, creation, and innovation in the education sector. Registration is free and the event is fully online, held in time zones flexible to all regions globally. Please contact conference organisers at contact.graileai.2022(a)gmail.com<mailto:contact.graileai.2022@gmail.com> for any questions. Thank you!

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CFP: All Things in Moderation - Cultures of Care
by Ness 13 Nov '22

13 Nov '22

From: Venessa Paech <venessa.paech(a)sydney.edu.au> > Date: 13 November 2022 at 10:51:54 pm AEDT > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: CFP: All Things in Moderation - Cultures of Care > > > Dear colleagues, > > It was wonderful catching up with many of you in Dublin. I draw your attention to a new conference and CFP. > > CALL FOR PAPERS - All Things in Moderation: Cultures of Care > > Submission Date: February 6, 2023 > Organisation: ACM | University of Sydney | University of Melbourne > Contact email: venessa.paech(a)sydney.edu.au > > Moderation is an ancient human practice taking on new forms and significance in the digital age. Human moderators of all types, across cultures, countries and contexts, work to maintain boundaries, implement regulation, create safe and healthy spaces for interaction within digital settings. They work alone, in groups and for organisations. They work within machine culture and with machine assistance, in circumstances that range from oppressive to empowering. They may be an avatar for organic community standards, or for external logics and priorities. The practice is diverse and complex, yet this is rarely reflected in the public discourses or research surrounding online moderation and its relational labors. > > All Things in Moderation (11-12 May, 2023) is the first global conference dedicated to online moderation which emphasises its richness, complexity and importance. It will gather moderation practitioners around the world alongside researchers, policy-makers, technologists, and anyone who cares about moderation as a critical cultural practice, for two days of knowledge sharing, learning and action-focused collaboration. > > The conference is an initiative of Australian Community Managers (ACM), the leading training and research organisation for online community managers and moderators in Australia (working across all industries), and a collaboration between the University of Sydney and Melbourne. It will be conducted online to ensure safety and accessibility by the widest possible range of contributors and attendees. > > Symposium and Call for Papers > The conference includes an academic symposium on moderation, with the goal of generating critical research and promoting greater understanding and visibility of this practice and profession. > > We invite papers that focus on the following and related themes: > > Moderation in spaces of care > How can we emphasise the care of humans within moderation systems and structures? > First Nations approaches to moderation > Trauma informed approaches to moderation > Impacts of automation and AI on structures of care in social media spaces > Emotional labour and caring for moderators > Legislating care within digital social spaces > We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers or panel proposals (with several papers) exploring any and all aspects of these topics. In particular, encourage submissions from non-dominant voices in academic or media on these issues, and from the global South. > > Final papers are due in April 2023 (date to be confirmed) for presentation at the May conference. > > Email Abstracts of 300 words with a short biography to venessa.paech(a)sydney.edu.au by February 6, 2023. We welcome questions or further discussion prior to submission to this email. > > VENESSA PAECH > She/Hers > PhD Student | Community in the Age of Machine Culture > Department of Media and Communication | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Lecturer, Online Community Management > Phone: + 61 0435 217 > I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders past and present of the Wadawurrung people, on whose lands I reside.

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European Parliament panel on targeted advertising and disinformation on Monday 14 November
by Dr. Emma Briant 13 Nov '22

13 Nov '22

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I’m very excited to share with you that I’ve been invited to speak at the European Parliament tomorrow about the threat of targeted advertising for driving disinformation in elections. The event will include a film screening and panel discussing: How can political advertising change voting behaviour and steer the public debate? The panel includes: - Peter Kreysler, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. - Dr. Emma Briant, Fellow at Bard College and researcher of contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare who was involved in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal - Zoé Fourel, Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. - Fernando Hortal Foronda, Digital Policy Officer at the European Partnership for Democracy. It's unfortunately not being streamed, but the speakers and a debate follow the screening of the documentary “Election campaign undercover” by Gesine Enwaldt and Peter Kreysler, 2021 which I highly recommend you watching as Peter managed to gain explosive undercover access to former Cambridge Analytica and Brexit campaign firms still operating unethically today worldwide (it’s German but there is translation): “Election campaign undercover <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C5C58DfI4kI>” - it would be great to play for students in class... The main audience for the panel will be policy-makers, all relevant MEPs and the Council of the EU's representatives working on the file "Proposal for a regulation for the transparency and targeting of political advertisement". You can look at the draft proposal I’ll be commenting on here <https://emma-briant.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7f9f1379bf0f0311ebb…> . I will be pressing for a ban on targeted advertising, proper regulation of influence firms and making it clear how inadequate these proposals are as well as addressing some common myths the Big Tech lobbyists have sought to spread, and pressing for stronger restrictions. As it's not being streamed I will try and do a follow up post on Patreon <https://emma-briant.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7f9f1379bf0f0311ebb…> as soon as I can after the event giving a report and brief reflection of the arguments. If you want to share, I’ve tweeted details here <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1591334163235295232?s=20&t=FnxRGHpmA…> . Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin

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Call for Workshops Proposal -- SMARTCOMP 2023, DEADLINE EXTENSION: 29 NOVEMBER 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP 2023 -- Call for Workshops Proposal https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ June 26-30, 2023, Nashville, Tennessee ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** DEADLINE EXTENSION: 29 NOVEMBER 2022 ***** SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the premier conference on Smart Computing and will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by Vanderbilt University, hopefully as a fully in presence event. Smart Computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. SMARTCOMP 2023 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computing, sensing, and communications in heterogeneous application domains. The Workshops co-chairs of SMARTCOMP 2023 invite proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee during June 26-30, 2023. The purpose of the workshops is to stimulate discussions on state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and also controversial topics in the area of Smart Computing, and to create new opportunities for attendees' interactions in a less formal and more sharply focused context than at the conference itself. Therefore, workshops should be organized to promote lively interactions, and appropriate plans should be described in the written workshop proposals. Papers presented in the SMARTCOMP 2023 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. The organizers of the accepted workshops are required to publicize the workshop through disseminating the call for papers, soliciting submissions, organizing the review process, and deciding upon the final workshop program. At least one organizer should be physically present at the workshop in the case of SMARTCOMP will take place at least partially in presence and there will be no travel restrictions due to the pandemic situation. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each workshop proposal must include the following: * the title and acronym of the workshop; * the names, addresses, and short bios of up to 200 words for each organizer; workshops may have up to three organizers. It is strongly recommended that organizers belong to at least two different institutions. * A brief description (up to 2 page) including: o the technical issues that the workshop will address, o the reasons the workshop is of interest to the SMARTCOMP community, o a short discussion on other available workshops and conferences on similar topics and an outline of why the proposed workshop is unique; o a description of the communities groups the workshop aims to attract, o the names of potential Program Committee members; o the planned format of the workshop (e.g., keynotes, paper presentations, posters, demos) and duration (e.g., one-day, half-day), including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and involvement of the attendees - possibly in an online or hybrid format; o if applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees; o if the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected number of submissions and attendees; o a tentative Call for Papers (as complete as possible); o a description of the plans for publicity and workshop Website. Workshop proposals should be submitted, by NOVEMBER 29, 2022 (HARD DEADLINE), in PDF format by email to smartcomp2023-workshops(a)iit.cnr.it<mailto:smartcomp2023-workshops@iit.cnr.it> with the subject line "SMARTCOMP 2023 Workshop Proposal". SMARTCOMP 2023 WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan CONTACTS: smartcomp2023-workshops(a)iit.cnr.it<mailto:smartcomp2023-workshops@iit.cnr.it> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, Deadline: January 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing Artificial Intelligent Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems 5-7 June 2023 @ Albuquerque, New Mexico https://hpsr2023.ieee-hpsr.org/ https://twitter.com/ieeehpsr2023 *IEEE HPSR 2023 Organizing Committee is planning for an in-person conference and encourages the authors to participate physically; however, we understand that the pandemic situation is not over yet. Therefore, depending on the situation during the conference time, remote participation and online presentation may be allowed under special circumstances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are envisioned to be characterized by resiliency, security, robustness, adaptability, and autonomy, while being supported by modern communication devices, computing solutions, networks, and systems. New networking technologies and intelligent techniques are needed to efficiently and effectively cope with the intricacy in traffic demands, as well as the heterogeneity of the services and applications requested by the end-users. In parallel, the advent of the Digital Continuum, i.e., device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum, promises to offer low-latency and ubiquitous computation to heterogeneous mobile and Internet of Things devices. A rich array of network services is expected to emerge seeking to realize greater synergy across the various component subsystems of the NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems. The main focus of the HPSR 2023 - the 24th edition of HPSR conference - will be to assess how breakthrough changes occurring to NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are affecting areas related to switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems in general. We are soliciting original and thought-provoking works on big data, data analytics, cloud and edge services, and artificial intelligent techniques applied to networking and switching and routing. Works on autonomous networks, 5G/6G, Industry 4.0, social networks, network, cybersecurity, virtualization, and other advanced topics are also welcome. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research, experimental efforts, practical experiences, as well as visionary roadmaps, in all aspects of switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems are solicited. Research works on the following topics, but not limited to, are welcome for submission through the following symposia: Track A: NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems Symposium - Application of data analytics to switching and routing - Artificial intelligent routing and resource-allocation algorithms - Behavior-aware human-centric NextG networks and systems - Deep-learning technologies for NextG networks - Digital Continuum -- device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum - Dynamic bandwidth access and management for smart-factory/Industry 4.0 applications - Experimental measurements and testbed implementations - Game theory enabling resource allocation and routing - High performance, programmable networks for the Internet of Things - Integrated access and backhaul technologies - Integrated caching, computation, and communications - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing techniques - Quality of Experience resulting from intelligent routing - Quality of Service Optimization and resource allocation - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-enabled switching and routing - Switching architectures for NextG applications - Traffic monitoring and modeling applied to switching and routing - Traffic predictions in routing and resource assignment Track B: High-Performance High Functionality Architectures Symposium - Address lookup algorithms, packet classification, scheduling, and dropping - Applications of data science and analysis on high-performance networks - Applications of GPU on network functions - Efficient data structures for networking applications - Future technologies for IoT - High-speed packet processors - ICT enabling technologies for e-health systems - Multiprocessor networks - Nano-communication networks - Network management - Network traffic characterization and measurements -Optical switching and routing -Power-aware switching, bridging, and routing protocols -Routing and resource allocation for Tactile Internet -Switching, bridging, and routing protocols whether wide-area or data centers -Switching support to Extended reality (including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) -Traffic characterization and engineering -Standardization activities of emerging high performance switching and routing Track C: Autonomous Networks Symposium - Architectures of high-performance switches and routers, with a focus towards reconfigurable pipelines (P4, OpenFlow, etc.) - Blockchain technologies -Computation offloading -Decentralized applications (DApps) -Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) -Economics and pricing -Energy harvesting, storage, recycling, wireless power transfer -Green network monitoring and routing -Intelligent and connected vehicular networks -Medium access control, routing, and path selection -Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks -Mobile social networks and routing -Multi-access edge computing (MEC) -Network and switch slicing -Network performance for Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork (HART) -Physical-layer aspects of switching and routing -Software-defined networking -Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) Track D: Network Security Symposium -Adversarial machine learning -Applied cryptography for cyber, information, and network security -Attack prediction, detection, response, and prevention -Authentication protocols and key management -Blockchain security -Cloud, data center, and distributed systems security -Future Internet Architecture (FIA) security and privacy -Intrusion detection with artificial intelligent techniques -Malware detection and damage recovery -Network security and privacy protection -NextG networks and Internet security -Security in SDN and networking slicing -Security aspects of social networks -Security in smart grid communications -Security in virtualized network functions built or managed using software-defined networks -Security and privacy in the Age of Information -Trust management in networks through emerging technologies -Virtual Private WANs -Zero Trust Architecture Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: January 23, 2023 Acceptance Notifications: April 3, 2023 Author Registration Deadline: April 24, 2023 Final Version Submission Due: May 1, 2023 General Chair Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA General Co-chair Abdelhamid Mellouk, L'Université Paris-Est Créteil, France TPC Co-chairs Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Northeastern University, USA Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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