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CfP EXTENDED: Int. Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Digital Humanities co-located with i-Know 2017
by Christoph Trattner 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

** Due to several requests the deadline has been extended ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline) International Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Digital Humanities to be held in Graz, Austria co-located with i-Know 2017 (http://i-know.tugraz.at/) Website: https://snandig.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates (Extended Deadlines): ===================================== ** July 7th, 2017 - Paper submission deadline ** July 31th, 2017 - Notification to authors ** August 21st, 2017 - Camera-Ready Version ** October 11th/12th, 2017 - 10:30-17:00 - Workshop Workshop Organizers: ==================== Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Objectives & Topics: ==================== We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of social networks analysis and digital humanities. Online social networks and social media sites enable numerous users to collaboratively create online information by producing new content and by establishing new links between people, information, and services. At the same time, these user leave digital traces on the Web, which provide unparalleled research opportunities for studying questions in sociology, psychology, behavioral science, or political and economic science. While the study of human digital traces has attracted attention from different communities, understanding human social behavior via non-invasive methods remains a challenging task and an open problem. Tackling this challenge requires new methods, instruments and techniques as well as an interdisciplinary effort from researchers across disciplines such as computer science, humanities, social sciences and others. This workshop seeks original submissions on either methods or practices at the crossroads of these various disciplines. We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Studies of online communities ** Communities of practice, online participation ** Graph partitioning and community discovery ** Link prediction ** Location-aware social networks and mobility ** Expertise and trust in online social networks ** Crowdsourcing and social media ** Information diffusion in social networks ** Social influence ** Opinion formation in social networks ** Social bots and their role in shaping of public opinion ** Studies of human culture based on online social networks and encyclopedia, computational methods to assess human culture along different dimensions (such as language, food, music, literature etc.) ** Using social media to study psychological and social phenomena, and corresponding methods to assess such phenomena via web-based investigations ** Biases in social media, such as population biases, channel bias, self-selection bias, etc and computational methods for assessment and correction ** The study of limitations of tools used in digital humanities, extension of traditional source criticism into the development of systematic "tool criticism" ** Social and individual inequalities on the web, e.g. gender or race disparities, computational methods and instruments to assess and track inequalities ** Studies of political processes and dynamics on the web, such as elections, political unrest, grassroots movements ** Predictions with social media, e.g. stock markets, spread of language, culture, memes or diseases ** Longitudinal studies of social phenomena and social change on the web ** Computational methods to assess and improve social and/or individual well-being via the web ** Studies investigating the role and causal impact of algorithms in facilitating social interactions on the web Submissions: ============ Submissions: We solicit research papers (max. 8 pages) in the ACM conference paper style. Acceptance of the papers will be either as full (regular) or short/demo papers with the corresponding presentation slots. Papers accepted as full will be published in the ACM Digital Library and papers accepted as short/demo will be published in special online workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iknow2017. Please select "Social Network Analysis" as a track in EasyChair. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Location: ========= The workshop will take place at the Messe Congress Graz, Austria and will be held in conjunction with i-Know 2017. Further information of this location can be found on the i-Know website: http://i-know.tugraz.at/. Contact: ======== Christian Guetl - c.guetl(at)tugraz.at Denis Helic - dhelic(at)tugraz.at Elisabeth Lex - elisabeth.lex(at)tugraz.at Christoph Trattner - christoph.trattner(at)modul.ac.at -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Assistant Professor MODUL University Vienna Department of New Media Technology E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)modul.ac.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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June 28: Critical Theory in the Digital Context: Search Engine Labour and Creative Production
by Christian Fuchs 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Critical Theory in the Digital Context: Search Engine Labour and Creative Production Wed, June 28, 2017, 18:00 WIAS Seminar University of Westminster 309 Regent St, Room UG.04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-theory-in-the-digital-context-searc… How are major search algorithms produced? How is their global relevance sustained and promoted? What is the role of creativity in digital games production? How do creative producers cope with contradictions in their precarious workplaces? Focusing on search engines and the digital games industry, Ergin Bulut and Paško Bilić will in two talks explore various angles of critical theory. Concepts such as technological rationality, alienation, bio-political production and exploitation will be evoked to understand the specifics of labour processes in digital contexts. Paško Bilić is Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia. Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koc University, Istanbul.

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CFP: Global Digital Media Cultures and "Extreme Speech"
by Matti Pohjonen 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

CFP WORKSHOP Global Digital Media Cultures and "Extreme Speech" 23-24 February 2018 Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich Abstracts due: 31 August 2017 Convenors: Sahana Udupa (LMU Munich) Matti Pohjonen (Africa’s Voices Foundation) Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have once again highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication. The celebratory discourse of digital technologies' potential for openness and democracy is now eclipsed by the "dark side" of new media as a platform for promoting hate speech, fake news, terrorism, misogyny and intergroup conflict. Researchers are confronted with a new lexicon of communicative tactics: ecosystems of fake news; disinformation campaigns; coordinated troll attacks; and targeted hacks aimed at influencing elections. Calls to monitor, legislate and remove hateful and violent online speech have also reinvigorated older legal, political and philosophical debates on the boundaries of accepted civility and legitimate forms of political communication. The negative forms of online speech, it is widely argued, threaten the taken-for-granted freedoms commonly associated with digital media cultures across the world and bringing about what some critics have called a “post-truth” society. Despite this heightened sense of urgency, these concerns are, however, by no means new or limited to the Western world. A cursory glance of many examples from the “global South” reveals a long-standing anxiety about the dangers of unbridled speech in situations where it can provoke ethnic and religious conflict, mass violence and social unrest. In Ethiopia, for example, following a series of violent protests and killings, the government has declared a state of emergency and made political commenting on Facebook illegal under the pretext of preserving peace. In India, social media is replete with acrimonious abusive exchange in political debates. Legal stipulations to prevent hate speech on grounds of religious harmony and national security are routinely invoked to regulate online media in India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. In Myanmar, social media has been used widely by Buddhist groups to ignite violence against its Muslim minority. In all the cases, digital media have also evolved into vibrant forums for political participation and counter-speech. The aim of the Global Digital Media Cultures and Extreme Speech workshop is to examine these paradoxes of contemporary digital communication from a critical-comparative perspective rooted in ethnography. By defining online vitriol as “extreme speech”, we depart from the dominant legal definitions of "hate speech" and narrowly constructed terrorism talk. As a form of digital culture, “extreme speech” pushes the boundaries of legitimate speech along the twin axes of truth-falsity and civility-incivility, raising critical questions about some of the taken-for-granted assumptions of communication and political participation. “Extreme speech” serves to reinforce differences and hatred between groups on grounds of religion, race, political ideology and gender, often with the overt intent to intimidate and agitate target groups and individuals. Yet, its ambivalent nature in certain contexts could also provoke challenges to established hegemony. “Extreme speech” thus foregrounds an approach to digital cultures as forms of situated practice (i.e. what people do that is related to media within specific cultural contexts) in order to avoid predetermining the effects of online volatile speech as vilifying, polarizing or lethal (Pohjonen and Udupa 2017). To advance these aims, the workshop invites a selected number of scholars from across the world to discuss the latest empirical findings, methodologies and theoretical frameworks to understand "extreme speech" in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. We invite scholars engaged in ethnographic research on the topic using the perspectives of anthropology, critical discourse analysis, history or communication studies. Over two days of presentations and discussions, the participants will explore the different mediatized contexts of digital use and circulation and cultures of digital exchange and securitization, to examine what this dramatic rise of volatile speech means for democratic dialogue and participation across the world. Topics include but are not limited to: - Ethnographies of production and circulation of online extreme speech - Ethnographic analysis of ‘hate speech’ discourse as regulatory/state agenda - Cultural translation of hateful content - Audience ethnographies and the consumption of extreme speech - Ethnographically driven mixed method approaches to study online extreme speech (virtual ethnography, data-driven digital ethnography, offline-online multi-sited ethnography, network ethnography) - Trolling and online aggression - Extreme speech and gender - Extreme speech and ethnic conflict - Political cultures of disinformation and fake news - Forms of resistance to extreme speech - Extreme speech and its challenges to communication theory - Technologies and cultures of extreme speech monitoring Attendance to this closed workshop is fully funded. Organizers will cover the costs of travel, accommodation and food. Workshop papers will contribute to the proposed edited collections (a special journal issue and an edited volume). The workshop will be held at Frauenchiemsee, a picturesque island about an hour away from Munich. Please send your extended abstracts (1200 words) with the subject line “Abstract for the Global Workshop on Extreme Speech” to ONLINERPOL(a)ethnologie.lmu.de before 31 August 2017. We will send notifications of acceptance by 30 September 2017. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical framework, methodology and ethnographic material (and findings if applicable), as well as a brief elaboration on how the research links to the overall theme of the workshop. Please also include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a Bio note (up to 100 words, stating affiliation). The workshop is part of Project ONLINERPOL (www.fordigitaldignity.com) funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant and hosted at LMU Munich, Germany.

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Published! JVWR new Assembled 2017 issue has arrived
by Tzafnat Shpak 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> View this email in your browser <http://mailchi.mp/3c47913df567/y9xqtxkmg6?e=790f62627f> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> We are happy to announce the publication of a NEW ISSUE of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR): Volume 10, Number 1: *Assembled 2017* Issue editor: *Victoria McArthur*, University of Toronto, Canada The 2017 Assembled issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is a collection of four interdisciplinary research papers, representing the diversity that is 'virtual worlds'. They represent a field that truly is 'assembled' - emerging from and supported by passionate scholars from various intellectual backgrounds. Issue Editor Corner Editorial - about the issue <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Victoria McArthur* Peer Reviewed Research Papers Internet Research in Online Environments for Children: Readability of Privacy and Terms of Use Policies; The Uses of (Non)Personal Data by Online Environments and Third-Party Advertisers <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Olesya Venger* Using Google Trends Data to Gauge Interest in Virtual Worlds <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> *Anthony Crider, Jessica Torrez-Riley* Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality: Differences in Purchase Intentions Based on Types, Users, and Sex <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Angie marie cox, Indira Guzman, Sikha Bagui, Kenneth Cromer* Levelling Up: Minors' Play in a Closed-system MMOG <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Victoria McArthur, Stephanie Fisher* ------------------------------ More from JVWR This publication is also an invitation for you, readers, to first explore JVWR’s past issues at our website, and then contribute as authors or even as editors of future special issues. The* Assembled issue* is a place for various papers, on the topic of the journal - that are being collected during the year and published usually once a year. Each issue is managed by one managing Issue Editor with an option for 2-3 co-editors. The managing issue editor is the prime contact person and the leader behind the issue. We are looking for *issue editors* to manage the next* Assembled 2018* issue and a special issue about *Mindfulness and Flow*. Issue editors take full charge of one issue. If you are interested, we'd love hear from you. Please visit For Issue Editors <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> page to learn more about becoming a JVWR editor. Things you can do: - Future issues for 2017 are already in the making: Relationships <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> and EVE Online <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>. Stay tuned for publication. - You are invited to browse JVWR's previous issues <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> . - Subscribe <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> to our mailing list (on the top left of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research home page http://www.jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>) to receive our news and updates (no spam guaranteed.) - Connect with us on twitter <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> @TheJVWR and on our Facebook <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> page (TheJVWR). Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Editor In-Chief *The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research* http://jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Assembled 2017 Vol. 10, No. 1 <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Copyright © 2017 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, All rights reserved.*

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Re: [Air-L] [legram] Séminaire DEL 2016-2017 #3 - L'internet contestataire - 22/06/17 Paris
by Romain Badouard 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Bonjour, La séance du séminaire DEL du 22 juin sur "L'internet contestataire" est annulée et reportée à une date ultérieure. Nous vous tiendrons au courant de la date à laquelle la séance sera reportée. Désolé pour cette annulation tardive et pour les éventuels désagréments occasionnés. Bien cordialement, Romain Badouard Le 10 mai 2017 à 22:41, Simon GADRAS sgadras(a)hotmail.com [legram] < legram-noreply(a)yahoogroupes.fr> a écrit : > > > Bonjour, > > La troisième (et dernière!) séance du cycle 2016-2017 des séminaires du > réseau DEL aura lieu *jeudi 22 juin 2017 de 16h à 18h à Paris* (IMI, > salle Descartes). > > Cette séance sera l'occasion de discuter le texte de *Paola Sedda* (CIMEOS, > Université de Bourgogne) : « L’internet contestataire. Comme pratique > d’émancipation Des médias alternatifs à la mobilisation numérique ». *Les > Cahiers du numérique *n°4 vol. 11, 2015, 25-52 (www.cairn.info/revue-les- > cahiers-du-numerique-2015-4-page-25.htm). La séance s'ouvrira par la > discussion du texte par *Erica Guevara* (CEMTI, Université Paris VIII), > suivie des réactions de l'auteure, puis d'une discussion avec les > participant.es au séminaire. > > Les séminaires DEL sont organisés en partenariat par les laboratoires > AGORA (Université Cergy-Pontoise), CEDITEC (UPEC), COSTECH (UTC) et ELICO > (Université Lyon 2). Retrouvez tout le programme et les informations > pratiques pour venir sur http://www.reseaudel.fr/ > programme-des-seminaires-del-2016-2017/ > > Nous espérons vous y voir nombreux/ses. > > S.Gadras > > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Envoyé par : Simon GADRAS <sgadras(a)hotmail.com> > ------------------------------ > Répondre en mode Web > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/conversations/messages/13592;…> > • Répondre à expéditeur > <sgadras@hotmail.com?subject=Re%A0%3A%20S%E9minaire%20DEL%202016-2017%20%233%20-%20L%27internet%20contestataire%20-%2022%2F06%2F17%20Paris> > • Répondre à groupe > <legram@yahoogroupes.fr?subject=Re%A0%3A%20S%E9minaire%20DEL%202016-2017%20%233%20-%20L%27internet%20contestataire%20-%2022%2F06%2F17%20Paris> > • Nouvelle discussion > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X…> > • Toute la discussion > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/conversations/topics/13592;_y…> > (1) > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Vous recevez ce message parce que vous êtes abonné(e) à la liste du GRAM > (Groupe de recherche sur l'analyse du discours des médias). > Si vous souhaitez mettre fin à cet abonnement, envoyez un message (vide et > sans titre) à : legram-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroupes.fr > L'abonnement à la liste est volontaire, libre et gratuit : pour être > abonné, il suffit d'envoyer un message vide et sans titre à l'adresse : > legram-subscribe(a)yahoogroupes.fr > Pour vous connecter au groupe de discussion : http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/ > group/legram > Pour envoyer directement un message aux abonnés du e-groupe : > legram(a)yahoogroupes.fr > > Aller sur votre groupe > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJlM2kzb2RmBF9…> > > - Nouveaux membres > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJmYW0y…> > 4 > > [image: Yahoo! Groupes] > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJkOG9laG1oBF9TAzk3NDkwNDY2BGdycE…> > • Confidentialité > <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/fr/yahoo/groups/details.html> • > Désinscription > <legram-desabonnement(a)yahoogroupes.xn--fr?subject=dsinscription-mfc> • Conditions > d’utilisation <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/fr/yahoo/utos/terms/> > > . > > __,_._,___ > -- Romain Badouard Laboratoire AGORA Université de Cergy-Pontoise

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Summer Internships at University of Nottingham
by Ansgar Koene 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hi all, something that might be of interest to your students. Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute has 6 internships available at The University of Nottingham. 4 of the internships are funded for 15 weeks and the remaining 2 for upto 6 months. The internships are aimed at undergraduate students and current postgraduate students. Postgraduate students from The University of Nottingham are able to apply, on the understanding they suspend their stipend this is due to the nature of the funding source, for oversees students a Visa has to be in place already and to cover the duration of the internship to be eligible. For more details of each internship and how to apply, see the webpage at http://www.horizon.ac.uk/Internships-available Internships available : Horizon<http://www.horizon.ac.uk/Internships-available> www.horizon.ac.uk >From time to time, Horizon has internships available. These research internships will be advertised below, and also linked from our News page and our Twitter feed. Best wishes, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: UnBias, CaSMa & Horizon Policy Impact Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham Working group chair for IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7003.html https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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WEBCAST TODAY: House Hearing: Defining and Mapping Broadband Coverage in America
by Joly MacFie 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Under way. This is a follow up to the hearing in March <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9069>. At that hearing much emphasis was placed the lack of accurate coverage data. Hence this. [image: Energy + Commerce]Today, *Wednesday June 21 2017*, the *U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology <https://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/communications-and-technology>* is holding a hearing *Defining and Mapping Broadband Coverage in America <https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings-and-votes/hearings/defining-and-m…> *in Washington DC. Witnesses: *Doug Brake*, Senior Telecommunications Policy Analyst, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation; *Bryan Darr*, CEO, Mosaik; *Brent Legg*, Vice President of Government Affairs, Connected Nation; Ms. *Carol Mattey*, Principal, Mattey Consulting LLC; *Dr. Robert Wack*, President, Westminster City Council, Westminster, MD. The event is being webcast live on the *Energy & Commerce YouTube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1b8-AaBzok>*. *View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/_IgNzkRkDhw <https://youtu.be/z1b8-AaBzok> *Testimony & Legislation*: http://bit.ly/2tti7lN *Twitter*: https://twitter.com/hashtag/subcommtech Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9246#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9246#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9246 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Real-Time Intelligent Systems
by ijwa＠dline.info 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Second International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco October 18-20, 2017 & University of Macau, Macau December 08-10, 2017 http://www.socio.org.uk/rtis http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319607436 http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (Springer's Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing) The conference has- Doctoral Consortium DEMO Session Journal Track Mentorship Programme Ph.D. Dissertation Competition Proofreading translation program Real-Time Computing covers a broad spectrum of the intensively developing area of low-latency priority-driven system responsiveness under certain time constrains to essential and decisive human-computer interactions with constantly incoming data stream. Research on real-time intelligent systems is of a multi-disciplinary nature, exploiting concepts from the areas as diverse as signal processing technologies, computational intelligence, location systems, data processing, digital document processing and embedded system design. To accomplish its real-time performance, systematic analysis is carried out when the systems are working. Therefore, over the last few years real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed human life style. In the today's competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data in real time is a must to understand in detail how the systems are processing the data and to reason the outputs and anticipate the trends in intelligent computing, has become critical. To leverage the full potential of the opportunity build complex real time systems, intense research is required and this conference will serve as one such platform to manifest the ongoing research in the real time intelligence system. The conference welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound research papers from academia and industry that address variety of aspects and innovations related to real-time computing systems. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the following areas: Streaming data, streaming engines Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Analysis in advanced domains such as energy, sensors, etc Artificial Intelligence Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Data capture in real-time Intelligent Database Systems Data mining Intelligent Data Analysis OLAP for real-time decision support Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Event-driven analytics Visualizing real-time data and information Intelligent Soft Computing Privacy and security in Intelligence Architectures for Intelligence Internet of Things Intelligent Robotic Systems Smart Services and Platforms Intelligent Transportation Systems Mobile Smart Systems Trace-based intelligent real-time services (eye-tracking, image tracking) Real-time intelligent alert systems Machine translation in real time Multilingual information access Multiagent Intelligent Systems Intelligent Information Systems Adaptive vision algorithms Real-time Intelligent Network solutions Real-time distributed coding Real-time modelling user’s information needs Real-time noise removal systems Real-time intelligent communication Real-time remote access systems Decision support systems in real time Real-time multiprocessor systems The Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems, Volume 2 RTIS 2017. (http://www.springer.com/series/11156 ) Honorary General Chair Idriss Mansouri, President Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco General Chair Abderrahim Sekkaki, University Hassan II, Morocco Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland Program Chairs Abderrahim Sekkaki, UH2C, Casablanca, Morocco Mohamed Lahby UH2C, Casablanca, Morocco Important Dates Paper Submission: July 15, 2017/July 31, 2017 (For Macau) Paper Notification: August 15, 2017/September 01, 2017 (For Macau) Camera ready: September 15, 2017/October 05, 2017 (For Macau) Registration: September 25, 2017/October 05, 2017 For (Macau) Conference Dates: October 18-20, 2017/December 08-10, 2017 (For Macau) Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/rtis/paper-submission/ Contact: rtis at socio.org.uk ---------------------------------

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postdoc position in Paris, Computer Science: Diversity indicators in recommender systems
by Christophe Prieur 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Dear all, Please find at the following addresses a 12 months postdoctoral position offer on diversity indicators in recommender systems, starting in Fall 2017, at LIP6 (Computer Science, University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris). The applicant should send a CV (including referee contacts) and a short statement discussing how his or her profile fits the job requirements to Lionel Tabourier (LIP6, UPMC/CNRS) and Christophe Prieur (Télécom Paris-Tech). We will consider applications until the position is filled. *** Summary: * Topic : Diversity indicators in recommender systems * Context : ANR Project Algodiv (interdisciplinary project, sociology / computer science) * Duration : 12 months * Location : LIP6, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) * Starting date : Fall 2017 * Contacts: - Christophe Prieur : christophe.prieur(a)telecom-paristech.fr <mailto:christophe.prieur@telecom-paristech.fr> - Lionel Tabourier : lionel.tabourier(a)lip6.fr <mailto:lionel.tabourier@lip6.fr> * Salary: EUR 2,100 per month (after taxes) http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cprieur/jobs/annonce_post-doc_Algodiv_en… <http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cprieur/jobs/annonce_post-doc_Algodiv_en…> http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cprieur/jobs/annonce_post-doc_Algodiv_fr… <http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cprieur/jobs/annonce_post-doc_Algodiv_fr…> — Christophe

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GigaNet Annual Symposium submission deadline is approaching
by Dmitry Epstein 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Hello everyone! Apologies for the cross-posting. The extended deadline for submitting abstracts to GigaNet annual symposium is June 23. This is a great group of people asking an ever growing number questions about internet governance, coming from a broad range of countries, disciplines, and methodological backgrounds. Feel free to reach out to me or the PC chair (see below) if you have any questions. Also, please distribute this information to your networks. Best, Dmitry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mueller, Milton L <milton(a)gatech.edu> Subject: [GIGANET-MEMBERS] Deadline approaching for 2017 Symposium! To: GIGANET-MEMBERS(a)listserv.syr.edu A reminder that we are still accepting paper proposals for this year's Symposium. See our Call for Papers here: http://giga-net.org/2017-annual-symposium Submit proposals here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2017 This year's symposium will be in Geneva, so Europeans should find it very accessible. Topics we are interested in include but are not limited to: Trade agreements and Internet governance The role of sovereignty in cyberspace The prospects of jurisdictional or technical fragmentation of the Internet Multistakeholder governance and the distribution of power in IG institutions Governance of the Internet of things (IoT) Transborder data flows and U.S.-European negotiations on the new privacy shield agreement Algorithmic regulation and intermediary platforms The post-transition ICANN; ICANN-related policy issues Cybersecurity, cyber conflict among great powers, and Internet governance New methods for measuring Internet governance-related phenomena Dr. Milton L Mueller Professor, School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Internet Governance Project http://internetgovernance.org/

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