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10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018): Last Mile for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

**** LAST MILE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Short Papers, Posters, Demos, PhD Consortium) The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018) Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 10-13 December, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: 6 September, 2018 (extended) *** CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. CloudCom 2018 will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus between 10-13 December, 2018. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest of CloudCom 2018 are grouped into four tracks: · Architecture, Storage and Virtualization · Cloud Services and Applications · Security, Privacy and Trust · Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud The (non-exhaustive) list of topics for each track is as follows: Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Chairs: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria · Intercloud architecture models · Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices · Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues · Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) · Networking technologies · Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs · Storage & file systems · Scalability & performance · Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance · Operational, economic & business models · Green data centers · Computational resources, storage & network virtualization · Resource monitoring · Virtual desktops · Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery · Modeling & performance evaluation · Disaster recovery · Energy efficiency Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Chairs: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy, Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy · XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) · Cloud services models & frameworks · Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud · Cloud service management · Cloud workflow management · Cloud services reference models & standardization · Cloud-powered services design · Cloud elasticity · Machine learning and systems interactions · Data management applications & services · Service for computing-intensive applications · Mining and analytics · Data-provisioning services · Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools · Cloud-based services & protocols · Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications · Application development and debugging tools · Business models & economics of cloud services Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Chairs: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway, Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy · Accountability & audit · Authentication & authorization · Cloud integrity · Blockchain Cloud services · Cryptography in the Cloud · Hypervisor security · Identity management & security as a service · Prevention of data loss or leakage · Secure, interoperable identity management · Trust & credential management · Trust models for cloud services · Usable security risk management in cloud computing environments · Privacy policy framework for clouds · Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds · Information sharing and data protection in the cloud · Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds · Privacy protection in cloud platforms · Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Chairs: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden · Cloudlet-enabled applications · Distributed Cloud Infrastructure · Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing · Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications · Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers · Interoperability and mobility · Software infrastructure for cloudlets · Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing · Fog Computing · IoT cloud architectures & models · Cloud-based context-aware IoT · Economics and pricing · Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) GENERAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are invited to submit their research work to the CloudCom 2018 conference. Submitted work must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their work by 31 August, 2018 using the EasyChair submission system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS & DEMOS (Late-breaking Results) All short paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 4 pages. The short papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by EI and ISSN. Participants submitting posters or demos are required to submit a short paper describing the poster/demo content, the research supporting it, and the relevance and importance to the Cloud Computing Association. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. During the conference, posters and demos will be displayed or presented in specified sessions. The recommended display poster size is A1 (594mm by 841mm, portrait). Demo submissions may include an additional 1-page appendix describing the specific contents of the demo that conference attendees would see. Any special technical requirements for the demo should also be described in this appendix. The contents of this appendix will be used to evaluate whether the demo is a good fit for CloudCom 2018, but will not be included in the proceedings. CALL FOR PH.D. CONSORTIUM A Ph.D. consortium will be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018. The Ph.D. consortium aims to provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students in the early stage of their dissertation and Master students planning to advance their study in a doctoral program to present their research results and receive feedback from experienced scholars and industry experts. Accepted Ph.D. consortium papers will be published in the Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2018 and archived in IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES · Short Papers, Posters, Demos, Ph.D. Consortium Due: 6 September, 2018 · Notification of Acceptance: 14 September, 2018 · Camera Ready: 08 October, 2018 · Author Registration: 15 October, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus PROGRAM CHAIRS · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS · Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain · Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil · Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria · Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy · Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway · Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden · Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy · Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS · Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy · Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece PH.D. COMSORTIUM CHAIR · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS & DEMO CHAIR · Ioannis Konstantinou, NTUA, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CFP: International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2019)
by Elvira Popescu 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2019) March 18-20, 2019, Denton, Texas, United States http://iasle.net/icsle-2019/ * Workshop/Panel proposal submission: September 22, 2018 * Main conference paper submission: October 1, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2019) will be held in March 18-20, 2019 at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States. It aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss issues related to the optimization of learning environments to enhance learning. The focus is on the interplay of pedagogy, technology and their fusion towards the advancement of smart learning environments. ~ Conference Outcomes: * Proceedings in Springers Lecture Notes in Educational Technology series. * Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for Springers Smart Learning Environments journal (Open access journal with no author processing charge). ~ Important dates: Workshop/Panel proposal submission: September 22, 2018 Main conference paper submission: October 1, 2018 Acceptance/Rejection notification: November 29, 2018 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2018 Author registration: December 15, 2018 ~ Submissions: * Full and Short Experience Reports * Full and Short Research Studies * Work-in-progress Papers * Reflection papers * Posters * Workshop proposals * Panel proposals ~ The scope: The scope of the ICSLE 2018 is focused on issues related to smart learning environments. Topics of interest considered to be within the scope of the conference include but are not limited to: * Architectures for smart learning environments * Best practices in smart learning environments implementation * Conceptual frameworks for smart learning environments * Cultural issues in smart learning environments * Designing smart learning environments using sensing technologies * Evaluation approaches for effectiveness and efficiency of smart learning environments * Fusion of pedagogy and technology in smart learning environments * Historical perspectives of smart learning environments * Innovative uses of emerging didactical and pedagogical approaches * Innovative uses of emerging and existing technologies * Methodologies for development of smart learning environments * Mobility in smart learning environments * Pedagogical tools for supporting smart learning environments * Policy issues related to smart learning environments * Reform of learning environments * Strategies for learning assessment in smart learning environments * Technologies and tools to support smart learning environments * Usability criteria and standards for smart learning environments * Creating smart learning environments with AR and VR technologies * Smart learning environments for supporting STEM and STEAM education ~ Conference Chairs: Dong Qi, President, Beijing Normal University, China Neal Smatresk, President, University of North Texas, USA ~ Honorary Chairs: Larry Johnson, EdFutures.org, USA Diana Laurillard, Institute of Education, United Kingdom Demetrios G. Sampson, Curtin University, Australia ~ General Chairs: Kinshuk, The University of North Texas, USA Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia ~ Program Chairs: Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania ~ Local Chairs: Ronghuai Huang, Beijing Normal University, China J. Michael Spector, The University of North Texas, USA ~ Workshop/Panel Chairs: Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada Ting-Wen Chang, Beijing Normal University, China ~ Publicity Chairs: Guang Chen, Beijing Normal University, China Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Isabelle Guillot, Athabasca University, Canada ~ Technical Operations Chairs: Rébecca Guillot, Athabasca University, Canada Richard Tortorella, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Marc Denojean-Mairet, ByteForce Media, Canada Junfeng Yang, Hangzhou Normal University, China ~ Further details: http://iasle.net/icsle-2019/

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cheaper than usual, Twitter-compliant, historical data, sale until 11:55 PM EST tonight
by Shulman, Stu 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

We had a poor month selling, so there is a 12-hour sale (30% off) on historical Twitter data access: sifter.texifter.com The good news is that we have (I think) passed muster for another year (our 8th) of Twitter compliance and we will be offering access for academic research for another year. This means no more looking at deleted Tweets, among other things, but also a growing array of tools and collaboration opportunities as we build deeper ties to Twitter and also (it seems maybe) Facebook, as well as academics, librarians, department chairs, and research personnel at institutions around the world. https://discovertext.com/2018/08/28/discovertext-resources/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Cell: 413-992-8513 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman

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Queer / LGBT Twitter research?
by Alexander Cho 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hi All, I'm trying to gather everything I can re: research on queer/LGBT folks' use of Twitter specifically. Can you send along any references you have? Thanks, Alex -- Alexander Cho, Ph.D. University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Informatics <http://www.informatics.uci.edu/>, UC Irvine http://alexandercho.net/

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New Research in Active Shooters
by Rick Duque 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

New research on Active Shooters. This is a game changer! Circulate this link below to anyone who kisses their children and significant others goodbye in the morning hoping they will return safe and sound later that day: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011128718793615 Richard B Duque, PhDSUNY Polytechnic Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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Reminder: Call for Papers - Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA 2019)
by Miss CHEUNG Oi Lun 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Dear all, Call for Paper Submissions for the Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA) will be closed tomorrow, 1st September 2018. We encourage you to submit a paper, a poster or an abstract to ISCMA 2019 and participate in the symposium. Please refer to the call for papers below for more details. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jae Cheung (Ms.) Senior Research Assistant School of Creative Media City University of Hong Kong ** Call for Papers - Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA 2019) We are now calling for papers for Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA), which will take place between 4th - 7th January 2019 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. "Art Machines" will bring together Academics, Artists and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art in a four-day symposium whose core theme will be the topic of Machine Learning and Art. This agenda-setting Symposium will provide an opportunity for in depth reflection upon and assessment of the impact of artificial intelligence on the making of computational art and media, as well as to reflect more broadly on the conditions of existence, range, and futures of computationally based art and media. In addition to the academic keynotes, panels and discussion forums, the conference will include the presentation of artistic projects, a major concurrent exhibition on Asian Digital Art, and a student-led Workshop. Open Call Topics 1. Machine Learning and Art (core theme) 2. Sound Art 3. Immersive Media 4. Digital Cinema 5. Digital Animation 6. Gaming 7. Computational Humanities 8. Creative Coding 9. Urban Media 10. Digital Fabrication 11. Physical Computing 12. Digital Preservation 13. Curatorial Practice 14. Brain Computer Interface 15. Other Topics Pertaining to Computational Media Art Open Call Formats 1. Research Papers (double-blind review) 2. Scholarly Abstracts 3. Artistic Project Abstracts 4. Pre-Constituted Scholarly or Artistic Project Panels 5. Posters The submission deadline has been extended to 1st September 2018. All accepted research papers, scholarly/artistic project abstracts, panel abstracts, abstracts of the accepted posters will be published in full in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication in the ACM TOMM Special Issue on Big Data, Machine Learning and AI Technologies for Art and Design. To learn more about the Symposium, please visit our website: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/iscma. For details on the submission requirements, please click https://www.cityu.edu.hk/iscma/submission-types. For enquiries, please contact us at (852) 34428049 or via email smpapers(a)cityu.edu.hk. You are also welcome to follow us on these channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Art-Machines-International-Symposium-on-Computatio… Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iscma2019 Symposium Organising Committee School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong -- Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited.

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CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy
by Mark Carrigan 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

*Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy* *November 29th and 30th 2018* *Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge* *Organised by Jana Bacevic, Mark Carrigan and Filip Vostal * The conference seeks to conceptualise change in contemporary knowledge production in a way that transcends the dichotomy between theoretical frameworks that emphasise the role of humans (e.g. pragmatism, cultural sociology, critical realism, Bourdieusian sociology) and those that seek to dissolve the human and/or focus on non-human actors (actor-network theory, poststructuralism, STS, new materialism, transhumanism). Bringing together scholars in social sciences and humanities whose work engages with relationships between the human, post-human, metrics, and agency in the ‘neoliberal’ university, the conference addresses the methodological implications of how we theorise human agency, the agency of technical systems, and the relationships between them, in order to foster and support critical scholarship and engagement the current (and future) socio-political environment requires. It is by now widely accepted that the transformation of the structures of governance and funding of higher education and research – including pressures to produce more and faster, and the associated proliferation of instruments of measurement such as citation (‘H’) indexes and rankings – pose serious challenges to the future of the academia. The critique of these trends has mostly taken the form of calls to ‘slow down’, or assertion of the intrinsic value/unquantifiable character of scholarship, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. While these narratives highlight important aspects of academics’ experience of neoliberal restructuring, they often end up reproducing the inter- and intra-disciplinary division between theoretical and interpretative frameworks that foreground human agency (focusing on student movements, working experiences of academics, or decision-making) and those that foreground the performativity of non-human agents (focusing on the role of metrics, indexes, analytics or institutions). This intellectual fragmentation constrains attempts to study these processes in genuinely interdisciplinary ways. On the rare occasions when meaningful exchange does happen, conceptual, ideological, and institutional fault lines hinder sustained dialogue, often leading to the reassertion of old certainties in lieu of engagement with complex relational, institutional, socio-technical, and political/policy realities of transformation. The conference aims to provide an intellectual and institutional framework that challenges this dichotomy, and seeks to develop ways of thinking that are mutually reinforcing, rather than exclusive. It focuses on the issue of the (post)human as the ontological underpinning to the descriptive and explanatory work needed, as well as the normative horizon for resistance. It links with preceding events in Accelerated Academy, an international interdisciplinary network assembled to develop new approaches to the analysis of higher education around critical interrogation of the concept of ‘acceleration’. The first event (Prague, December 2015) focused on metricisation and power in the academy; the second, smaller symposium (Warwick, September 2016), was dedicated to theories and experiences of anxiety and work in relation to acceleration; the third (Leiden, December 2016) to the politics and sociology of evaluation in universities; the fourth (Prague, May 2018) explored academic timescapes and the challenges posed by their complexity; the fifth (Cambridge, June 2018) reflected on the role of agency in the transformation of the academy. This conference engages with and responds to the growing interest in scholarship on trans- and post-humanism, and its impact on understanding change in the context of knowledge production. It also has wider theoretical significance, as the intellectual dichotomy of the human and non-human is confronted in any attempt to understand socio-technical changes unfolding in digital(ised) capitalism. In this sense, we aim to address broader questions of social ontology and explanatory methodology posed by the imbrication of the social and the technical, and, not less importantly, the questions this raises for conceptualising agency and resistance in the ‘accelerated’ academy. *We invite contributions for 30 minute talks which speak to any of these themes. If you would like to submit a proposal then please contact mac228(a)cam.ac.uk <mac228(a)cam.ac.uk> with a 500 word abstract and short biographical note by September 30th. There will be no charge to attend the conference. *

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[WEBINAR] Introduction to Social Network Analysis - Sep 5, 4:00 PM CET
by Alessandro Zonin 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Hi all, glad to inform you that next September 5th will take place a Social Network Analysis webinar (in english language). The aim is to provide an overview of the Social Network Analysis methodology and introduce some entry-level tools for collecting, analyzing and displaying online social relationships through simulations and case studies. Enrollments and informations here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-introduction-to-social-network-analysi… -- Twitter @AlessandroZonin <https://twitter.com/AlessandroZonin> Blog: Social Network Analysis <https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/> Gumroad: Online courses <https://gumroad.com/alessandrozonin#>

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Re: [Air-L] Looking for Information on Hashtags, Elections and Youths
by Temitayo Olofinlua 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

Hello everyone, My name is Temitayo Olofinlua and I am a doctoral student at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. My work explores how young Nigerians used a particular hashtag during the 2015 Presidential elections in the country. I am looking at the uses to which the hashtags were put, the kinds of conversations that happened, as well as analysing how/if networks were built around the hashtag. While I plan to use Discovertext to harvest archival tweets, I am wondering if there are any materials on youths use of hashtags/Twitter across the continent/world--especially during elections--that I should be looking at. It will be great if you point me in the direction of past/recent research in the related field(s), particularly with a qualitative slant. Suggestions are welcome. Thank you and enjoy your day. Kind regards, Temitayo -- Writer. Editor. Researcher. Read my stories <https://temitayoolofinlua.contently.com/> I'm on Facebook <https://web.facebook.com/Temitayo?_rdr> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/Tayowrites1> “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” ― Lao Tzu <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2622245.Lao_Tzu>

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Call for Abstracts: CSCW Workshop on Power Struggles in the Digital Economy - Deadline Approaching
by Christoph Lutz 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

Dear everyone, A team of Internet researchers – Airi Lampinen, Gemma Newlands, Ann Light, Nicole Immorlica and myself – is organizing a workshop at this year’s CSCW conference on the topic of "Power Struggles in the Digital Economy". The workshop takes places on November 3, 2018, in Jersey City (USA) and we aim at discussing interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on the power dynamics of digitally mediated labor. More details, including the call for participation, are available on the workshop website: [1]https://cscw2018digitaleconomy.wordpress.com/ The deadline for 2-4 page position papers is on August 31 2018, 5pm PDT. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me or any of the organizers. Best, Christoph Dr. Christoph Lutz Assistant Professor [2]Nordic Centre for Internet & Society [3]Department of Communication and Culture [4]BI Norwegian Business School Office address: Nydalsveien 37, 0484 Oslo Mobile: +47 46410206; Twitter: [5]@lutzid References 1. https://cscw2018digitaleconomy.wordpress.com/ 2. http://www.bi.edu/ncis 3. https://www.bi.edu/research/find-departments-and-research-centres/departmen… 4. http://www.bi.edu/ 5. https://twitter.com/lutzid

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