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CfP: ComplexRec 2018 (2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios)
by Toine Bogers 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

======================================================== THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2018) http://complexrec2018.aau.dk Co-located with RecSys 2018, Vancouver, Canada October 7, 2018 ======================================================== --------------- Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: July 16, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: August 13, 2018 * Camera-ready deadline: August 27, 2018 * ComplexRec 2018 Workshop: October 7, 2018 ------------------------ Description & Objectives ------------------------ Over the past decade, recommendation algorithms for ratings prediction and item ranking have steadily matured. However, these state-of-the-art algorithms are typically applied in relatively straightforward scenarios. In reality, recommendation is often a more complex problem: it is usually just a single step in the user's more complex background need. These background needs can often place a variety of constraints on which recommendations are interesting to the user and when they are appropriate. However, relatively little research has been done on these complex recommendation scenarios. The ComplexRec 2018 workshop aims to address this by providing an interactive venue for discussing approaches to recommendation in complex scenarios that have no simple one-size-fits-all solution. It is the follow-up to the successful first ComplexRec workshop at RecSys 2017. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ We invite original contributions about recommendation in complex scenarios. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Task-based recommendation -- Approaches that take the user's background tasks and needs into account when generating recommendations * Feature-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting, capturing and integrating rich information about user preferences for specific product features * Constraint-based recommendation -- Approaches that successfully combine state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms with complex knowledge-based or constraint-based optimization * Query-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting and incorporating rich information about the user's recommendation need (e.g., need for accessibility, engagement, socio-cultural values, familiarity, etc.) in addition to the standard user preference information * Interactive recommendation -- Techniques for successfully capturing, weighting, and integrating continuous user feedback into recommender systems, both in situations of sparse and rich user interaction * Context-aware recommendation -- Methods for the extraction and integration of complex contextual signals for recommendation * Complex data sources -- Approaches to dealing with complex data sources and how to infer user preferences from these sources * Evaluation & validation -- Approaches to the evaluation and validation of recommendation in complex scenarios ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage authors to submit short papers and position papers of 2-4 pages in length dedicated to any aspect of recommendation in complex scenarios. Accepted submissions will then be invited for short 10-minute presentations with equal time for discussion. Evaluation criteria for acceptance will include novelty, diversity, significance for theory/practice, quality of presentation, and the potential for sparking interesting discussion at the workshop. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complexrec2018) Submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings (CEUR-WS). ---------- Organizers ---------- * Toine Bogers (toine(a)hum.aau.dk) Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Marijn Koolen (marijn.koolen(a)di.huc.knaw.nl) KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands * Bamshad Mobasher (mobasher(a)cs.depaul.edu) DePaul University, USA * Casper Petersen (cap(a)sampension.dk) Sampension, Denmark * Alan Said (alansaid(a)acm.org) University of Skövde, Sweden For further questions, please contact a member of the organizing committee. --- Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University Copenhagen A.C. Meyers Vænge 15 | 2450 Copenhagen SV | Denmark Phone: +45 31 44 42 84 | Room 3.007 URL: http://www.toinebogers.com | Skype: toine.bogers

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10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018): Fifth Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

**** FIFTH CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Tutorial Proposals, 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… *** Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July, 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 & ìlast mileî 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 Universitaí 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) PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers 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 papers by the deadline indicated below, 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…) All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts. 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. The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2018 will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Service with ISBN and ISSN, and submitted to IEEE Xplore and indexing services such as Ei Compendex. Distinguished papers will be recommended for fast-track publication in the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing or invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals. CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS IEEE CloudCom 2018 is soliciting proposals for full-day / half-day tutorials to be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018. For more information on the tutorials and for the complete Call for Tutorial Proposals, please see the conference website. CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS & SHORT PAPERS (Late-breaking Results) Authors are invited to submit their research work as a poster, demo or short paper (late-breaking results) to the CloudCom 2018 conference. For the complete Call for Call for Posters, Demos & Short Papers (Late-breaking Results) please see the conference website. CALL FOR PH.D. CONSORTIUM A Ph.D. consortium will be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018 in Nicosia, Cyprus. For the complete Call for Ph.D. consortium, please see the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES · Tutorial Proposals Due: 30 June 2018 · Regular Papers Due: 15 July 2018 (*** extended ***) · Ph.D. Consortium Papers Due: 31 August 2018 · Short Papers, Posters and Demos Due: 31 August 2018 · Notification of Paper 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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A Call for Research: Technology, Inequality, and Information Policy
by Todd Wolfson 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Apologies for crossposting *-----* *A Call for Research: Technology, Inequality, and Information Policy* The MIC Center is supporting new research that explores the connections between inequality and technology with a specific focus on journalism, policy, work, and social movements. Our society is caught in a growing paradox. On one hand we are in a moment of rapid technological advancement that creates greater communication and information sharing, economic prosperity for all, and more democratic possibilities. On the other hand, we see a declining fourth estate, platforms that spread disinformation with little accountability, more economic insecurity and precarity, and a debased political process. Recognizing these potentials and perils, MIC is supporting a wave of research focused both on understanding this conjuncture from structural and historical perspectives, while also offering viable strategies for social change. Our goal is threefold: 1. Inspire research focused on these thorny questions, 2. Build a network of scholars, organizers, and policy makers collaborating on addressing core social problems, and 3. Help to build a coordinated field focused on the intersections of technology and inequality that advances theoretically informed praxis. As part of our launch, MIC welcomes 2-3 page proposals for research that helps to clarify key problems at the intersection of media, technology, and social justice. In this first RFP, we will be making small grants of between $1,500-5,000. We accept research that involves a variety of methodologies, such as in-depthcase studies, content analyses, institutional/organizational analyses, political economy, discourse analyses, close analyses of technical or infrastructural conditions, survey research (involving quantitative and qualitative approaches), action research, and ethnographic approaches. The proposals should be for a 2-4 month turnaround time, though in some cases, longer projects might be considered. Geography is open, and we especially welcome projects focused on Philadelphia and New Jersey. · *Future of Journalism and Information Policy* o Government supported models for journalism o Nonprofit models for journalism and other experiments o History of media policy failures and successes o Mapping local media ecosystems o Platforms and the future of information o Political economy of journalism and platform companies o Unions and the future of journalism o Community driven journalism o Mis/disinformation o Journalism and storytelling in poor communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color · *Gig platform companies, workers, and strategies for survival* o Regional specific approaches to workers in the gig economy o Strategies for organizing in the gig economy o Worker misclassification in gig economy o Role of unions or worker centers in protecting gig workers o Workers and informational asymmetry o Algorithmic management and gig workers o Gamification, worker rating systems, and other strategies of worker control o Political economy of gig companies o History of neoliberalism and the rise of just in time workforce · *Social Movements * o Technology and rise of networked social movements o Resurgence of social movement-driven political parties and electoral politics o Digital media and current wave of resistance o Technology and the problems and possibilities of scalability o Capitalism, class, and contemporary social movements o Social movements’ reliance on Facebook, Google, and Twitter for communication strategy o Social movements and broader political alignments *Eligibility*: Individuals or institutions may apply. We also accept proposals that have cross-cutting themes and we encourage collaborations across organizations. We welcome partnerships between academics and those with more practitioner/organizer profiles. Non-traditional approaches to the final deliverables and their dissemination are also welcome. *The proposal should include*: - Brief description of the research - Method for collecting data - Proposed budget - Timeline - Deliverables - The name and contact information of someone who can be reached between July 31 and August 31 for follow up questions prior to the final announcement of the award recipients August 31, 2018 *MIC Center:* The newly formed MIC Center is a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School and Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information. MIC explores the intersections between media, democracy, technology, policy, and social justice. MIC produces engaged research and analysis while collaborating with community leaders to help support activist initiatives and policy interventions. More on MIC here. Awards will take into consideration the relevance of the work proposed and the quality of work to be anticipated. Please send proposals to Briar Smith (briar.smith(a)asc.upenn.edu) *by 5pm EST on July 31, 2018. *

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Fwd: [GIGANET-MEMBERS] CFP Global Internet Governance Academic Network 2018 Symposium
by Dmitry Epstein 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. I hope some of you will find this CFP of interest. It is also available online at: https://www.giga-net.org/call-for-papers-13th-annual-giganet-symposium-pari… Best, Dmitry CALL FOR PAPERS: 13TH ANNUAL GIGANET SYMPOSIUM November 15, 2018. Paris, France Extended abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2018 Full papers due: October 19 2018 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet18 GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium in Paris. The theme of this year's Symposium is: NOT THE 'NEW OIL' - DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE INTERNET By creating global compatibility and interoperability for nearly all forms of digital data, the Internet has created a new economy centered on the value and use of data. Metaphors of “data as the new oil,” however, can encourage policies of hoarding, bordering and nationalizing information. We encourage submissions of papers that take a fresher look at the global political economy and governance of data and its relationship to Internet governance. We encourage papers that address the international economics and policy of “big data,” the global impact of the European GDPR; industrial data sharing and the Internet of things; the economic and political impact of data uses by AI tools; the regulation of data sharing across borders, including data localization laws; platforms, data, manipulation and verification. While papers related to the symposium theme are encouraged, GigaNet is a home for all scholars of Internet governance; its annual symposium is intended to build and showcase the entire field. Authors from any Internet governance-related topic and methodological or theoretical approach are invited to submit their work. Topics that are welcome include, but are not limited to: * The role of sovereignty in cyberspace * Trade agreements and Internet governance * Cybersecurity and cyber conflict among great powers * Multistakeholder governance and the distribution of power in IG institutions * The transparency and inclusiveness of post-transition ICANN * Policy issues related to domain names and IP addresses * The role of Internet intermediaries in Internet governance TIME AND LOCATION The Symposium will take place on 15 November 2018 in Paris, France. It will be hosted by the LIP6 Laboratory, Tower 26, Room 25-26/105 Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, 4 Place Jussieu - 75005 Paris <https://maps.google.com/?q=4+Place+Jussieu+-+75005+Paris&entry=gmail&source…>. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers. We ask you to submit extended abstracts for review by the program committee. Extended abstract should consist of 800-1500 words. Each abstract must describe 1) The research question(s), 2) The data used, 3) The methodology and 4) The main findings of the paper. Theoretical papers need not specify the data used but must have a clear research question and statement of the specific theories used and literature in which the analysis is situated. Proposals should be submitted in English. Reviews of individual papers will be double blind. Therefore, do not include names or any other personally identifiable information on the uploaded file; be aware however that applicants will submit through the Easychair platform which will record their names and contact data and the PC chair will be able to see them. All documents must be uploaded by August 15 2018 to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet18 We expect to complete reviews and notifying authors of acceptances on September 3. Accepted papers will be required to submit their final paper submission by October 19 to be included in the program. GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, regional and international debates on Internet Governance. GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the conference. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on the website at http://www.giga-net.org.

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Fwd: Call for Postdoctoral Fellow - TRANSNATIONAL POSTSOCIALIST MEDIA NETWORKS
by Gabriella "Biella" Coleman 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Dr. Masha Salazkina and I are searching for a postdoctoral fellow working across postsocialist and global south media cultures. Please circulate to your students, colleagues, lists, etc. *Applications are due by September 1, and the position starts Jan 1, 2019.* http://www.concordia.ca/sgs/postdoctoral-fellows/funding/horizon/descriptio… -- *Call for applications // Postdoctoral Fellowship: * TRANSNATIONAL POSTSOCIALIST MEDIA NETWORKS Concordia University (Montréal, Canada) Supervisors: Dr. Joshua Neves and Dr. Masha Salazkina *>>applications due: September, 1 2018 * *>>start date: January 1, 2019* We invite applications for a postdoctoral fellow of film and media whose research focuses on the relationship - either in comparative or transnational terms - between the former Communist bloc and the Global South. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to enter into dialogue with the research projects already underway in the department of Cinema under the auspices of the Global Emergent Media Lab (Gem Lab) and the CURC in Transnational Media Arts and Cultures with the goal of interrogating the shifting theoretical questions about the Cold War, colonialism and their legacies and developing a shared conceptual model for describing and assessing these geopolitical flows either from a historical or contemporary perspective. *For details and to apply*: http://www.concordia.ca/sgs/postdoctoral-fellows/funding/horizon/descriptio… For more information please contact: Joshua Neves: joshua.neves(a)concordia.ca Masha Salazkina: masha.salazkina(a)concordia.ca

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Participations: Latest issue out now!
by Judith Rosenbaum-Andre 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies has just released its latest issue! This particular issue coves a wide array of issues and questions: on top of its usual selection of articles focusing on participatory audiences, this open-access journal features two themed sections and a debate and response article. In the first themed section, "Toxic fan practices", a collection of 13 articled, including an extended foreword by Matt Hills, consider trolling practices, the circulation of alt-right memes, the "puppygate" controversy, heternormativity in Harry Potter fandom, and the pleasure of spoiling. The second special themes includes four articles on documentary audiences, featuring works on truth claims in a post-truth era, activism in action, and a critical analysis of documentaries in VR environments. Furthermore, this issue contains articles on cinema-going as practice, *Cinéma Verité*, social media and participatory television production, and the Shanghai International Film Festival. Including works from a variety of scholars from all around the world, Participations has once again brought together diverse perspectives and approaches into the study of media reception. Check out the latest issue for free, right here: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2015/Issue%201/contents.htm -- Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Journalism University of Maine 414 Dunn Hall Orono, ME 04469 www.juditherosenbaum.com/ @JudithRBaum

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Readings and book for social media undergraduate course
by Teresa Gil Lopez 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Dear community, I'd be grateful to receive some good advice. I’ll be teaching an undergraduate course on social media and would like to hear some recommendations on books (manuals) and articles to build my syllabus. I’d also appreciate any suggestions of film segments, videos, or analytical tools to use in class assignments. Thank you, _______________________________ Teresa Gil-Lopez PhD Candidate, Communication University of California, Davis tgillopez(a)ucdavis.edu (530)746-1688

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Re: [Air-L] Readings and book for social media undergraduate course
by Steve Collins 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Hi Teresa I can recommend 'Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility' by Graham Meikle and 'Social Media: A Critical Introduction' by Christian Fuchs. best steve On 3 July 2018 at 08:43, Teresa Gil Lopez <tgillopez(a)ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Dear community, > > I'd be grateful to receive some good advice. > > > I’ll be teaching an undergraduate course on social media and would like to > hear some recommendations on books (manuals) and articles to build my > syllabus. > > I’d also appreciate any suggestions of film segments, videos, or > analytical tools to use in class assignments. > > > Thank you, > _______________________________ > Teresa Gil-Lopez > PhD Candidate, Communication > University of California, Davis > tgillopez(a)ucdavis.edu > (530)746-1688 > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/IlXbCXLW6DiXmx3AHkoSFE?domain=aoir.org> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/B56rCYW86EsL5zPYcMkGaR?domain=listserv.ao…> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZCO6CZY146s5z3yvCPz0Pf?domain=aoir.org> > -- *Dr Steve Collins* Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies Macquarie University P: (02) 9850 2165 W: http://bit.ly/122QivW L: Y3A 191D

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CfP: CIKM 2018 Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

--------------------------- Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media (RDSM) co-located with CIKM 2018 October 22, 2018 in Turin, Italy https://www.pheme.eu/rdsm2018/ **Submission Deadline: 15th July, 2018** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- The 2nd edition of the RDSM workshop will particularly focus on online information disorder and its interplay with public opinion formation. Information disorder has been categorised into three types: (1) misinformation, an honest mistake in information sharing, (2) disinformation, deliberate spreading of inaccurate information, and (3) malinformation, accurate information that is intended to harm others, such as leaks. The spread of this information can play an important role in shaping public opinion, as well as the formation of public opinion can feed back into the production and sharing of information disorder. The challenges posed by online information disorder and its ability to shape public opinion has evoked the occurrence of important political phenomena of worldwide impact in recent events. This is the case of recent political events such as Brexit and Trump’s election, where social media played a significant role in shaping public opinion and issues now known as “fake news” and “post-truth” had an impact that is yet to be understood. It is a fact that social media is an excellent resource of mining all kind of information varying from opinions to actual facts. However, it is also fact that not all pieces of information are reliable and thus their truth is highly questionable. One such category of information types are rumours where the veracity level is not known at the time of posting. Although rumours can be true many of them are classified as false and such false rumours are a powerful tool used to manipulate public opinion. It is therefore very important to detect and verify false rumours before they are spread and influence the public opinion. In this workshop the aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in social media mining and analysis to deal with the emerging issues of rumour veracity assessment and manipulation of public opinion. TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Detection and tracking of rumours. * Rumour veracity classification. * Fact-checking social media. * Detection and analysis of disinformation, hoaxes and fake news. * Stance detection in social media. * Qualitative user studies assessing the use of social media. * Bots detection in social media. * Measuring public opinion through social media. * Assessing the impact of social media in public opinion. * Political analyses of social media. * Real-time social media mining. * NLP for social media analysis. * Network analysis and diffusion of dis/misinformation. SUBMISSION ------------------- We solicit full research papers (5-10 pages), and short papers (2-4 pages) both in the ACM camera-ready templates: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Please use sample-sigconf.tex as the template but removing the authors during submission. Full papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length and short papers cannot exceed 4 pages in length, including all references and appendices. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rdsm2018 Proceedings will be archived on ceur-ws.org, in joint proceedings along with the other workshops at the conference. The workshop follows the same rules for the review process (see details here http://www.cikm2018.units.it/callforpaper.html) WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ------------------------ * Ahmet Aker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK * Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK * Maria Liakata, University of Warwick and Alan Turing Institute, UK * Rob Procter, University of Warwick and Alan Turing Institute, UK IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Submission deadline: 15th July, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) * Notification of Acceptance: 1st August, 2018 * Camera-Ready Versions Due: 27th August, 2018 * Workshop date: October 22, 2018 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- * Nikolaos Aletras, The University of Sheffield, UK * Jisun An, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Pablo Aragón, Eurecat, Spain * Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern University, USA * Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California, USA * Bahareh Heravi, University College Dublin, Ireland * Haewoon Kwak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Vasileios Lampos, University College London, UK * Piroska Lendvai, University of Göttingen, Germany * Michal Lukasik, Google, Switzerland * Matteo Magnini, Uppsala University, Sweden * Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Signal Media Ltd., UK * Petya Osenova, Sofia University and IICT-BAS, Bulgaria * Leysia Palen, University of Colorado Boulder, USA * Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute, Greece * Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research, USA * Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia * Peter Tolmie, Universität Siegen, Germany * Sumithra Velupillai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and King's College London, UK * Andreas Vlachos, The University of Sheffield, UK * Bo Wang, Alan Turing Institute, UK * Marcos Zampieri, University of Wolverhampton, UK

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Future Big Data
by ijwa＠dline.info 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Call for Papers Fourth International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2018) In Conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018) http://www.icdim.org/workshop.php Berlin, Germany September 24-26, 2018 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Management Council Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop Big Data concern large-volume, complex, growing data sets with multiple, autonomous sources. The developments in the Big Data research lead to almost the birth of a new domain. With the fast development of networking, data storage, and the data collection capacity, Big Data are now rapidly expanding in all science and engineering domains, including physical, biological and biomedical sciences. This workshop will address the features of the Big Data revolution, Big Data processing model, data driven models, big data standards, and so on. Topics to be addressed in the workshop, but not limited to: - Big Data models and architectures - Big data architecture and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Big Data mining, analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Big Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Big Data Visualization - Personalisation of data - Data contextualisation - Data Querying - Applications of open and linked data - Data-intensive computing, - Methodologies and cases studies - Data Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Bigdata Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT - Big data processing large-scale datasets on clusters - Smart and connected communities - Big Data and Urban Data Analytics - Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities - Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management - Big data for Internet of Things Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 15, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 08, 2018 Registration Due: September 10, 2018 Camera Ready Due:September 10, 2018 Workshop: September 25, 2018 Main conference: September 24-26, 2018 Organizers Rita Yi Man Li, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org

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