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Fwd: Parution : Numéro spécial colloque #DEL2013 de l'International Journal of Electronic Governance]
by clément mabi 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Dear all, This special issue presents researches on online political participation over various countries. These were presented during the DEL symposium "Online political participation and its critics" in June 2013 in Paris. Simon Gadras and Fabienne Greffet are the editors of this special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Governance. More about this special issue on the DEL network website : http://www.reseaudel.fr/en/ijeg-del2013/ ***Sommaire/Issue contents*** “Towards a comprehensive approach of online political participation” Simon Gadras and Fabienne Greffet “Online participation: from ‘invited’ to ‘invented’ spaces” Norbert Kersting “Joining the online video conversation? Discourse and practices of European political institutions and politicians on YouTube” Patrícia Dias Da Silva “Political carnivalism and an emerging public space: examination of a new participatory culture on Twitter” Chang Sup Park “The #OCCUPY network on Twitter and the challenges to social movements theory and research” Davide Beraldo and Juan Galan-Paez “National and state-level politics on social media: Twitter, Australian political discussions, and the online commentariat” Tim Highfield “The cultural meanings of Israeli Tokbek (talk-back online commenting) and their relevance to the online democratic public sphere” Gonen Dori-Hacohen and Nimrod Shavit -- Clément MABI Doctorant Sciences de l'information et de la communication Université de Technologie de Compiègne Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN Centre Pierre Guillaumat BP 60319- Rue du Docteur Schweitzer 60203 Compiègne Cedex-France Tel: + 33 (0)6 83 41 36 61

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CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity
by Fichman, Pnina 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

[Apologies for cross-posting] CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity Track: Digital and Social Media Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm We live surrounded by socially constructed identities. Some examples are organizations, nations, websites, companies, products and even persons. These identities are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. Communication requires not only a representation in an individual’s mind but also the knowledge that there is a similar representation in the minds of others. Platforms built on top of the Internet have changed the way we can create such shared representations. They allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people – and maybe machines in the form of artificial intelligences – to negotiate identities. We can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. The collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational structures, in which already committed members of a community are deployed to create or improve ideas. And the traces of these new organizations are also varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. The output often takes the form of digital media. We are interested in papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these organization structures and the innovations they produce, papers that simulate this production through software, papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production, and design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes. We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviours, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions. We are interested in applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems. We are looking for papers about the mechanisms (in the sense of Bhaskar) that explain the emergence of collective identity. In sum, the content of the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular the social construction of identity and roles.. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. In this minitrack, we are aiming to attract an audience from five groups: first, those interested in collective intelligence and crowdsourcing and who find a home in information systems departments; second, those in information schools who study these topics; third, computer scientists who are interested in the analysis of network and crowd processes, fourth, those who use social networks to describe social structure and fifth, industry practitioners. Minitrack Organizers: Donald Steiny, The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy; steiny(a)steiny.com<mailto:steiny@steiny.com> Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology; jnickerson(a)stevens.edu<mailto:jnickerson@stevens.edu> About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: • A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. • Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. • A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. • A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). • Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. • Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. • A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. • Best Paper Awards<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm> in each track which recognize superior research performance. • HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: • June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. • Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. • Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 • Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) • Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. • Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference) ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org<mailto:Asis-l@asis.org> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l

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CFP HICSS 48 - minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
by Fichman, Pnina 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

[Apologies for cross-posting] CFP HICSS minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Track: Internet and the Digital Economy Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm This minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces) * Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies) * Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies) * Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, worker motivation, and human error diversity) * Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries) *Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations) *Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries) * Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks) * Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy) * Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries) * Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations Minitrack Organizers: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; edward.bernroider(a)wu.ac.at<mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at> Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; carmel(a)american.edu<mailto:carmel@american.edu> About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: * A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. * Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. * A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. * A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). * Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. * Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. * A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. * Best Paper Awards<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm> in each track which recognize superior research performance. * HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: * June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. * Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. * Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 * Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) * Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. * Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference)

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[Final CFP]: The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK
by icais 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

We would like to remind you that the submission deadline for the "International Conference on Adapative and Intelligent Systems" is approaching. [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * Final CALL FOR PAPERS * * * The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK http://icais.prossegger.com/ icais(a)bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:icais@bournemouth.ac.uk> Sponsored by - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - The International Neural Network Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * PLENARY TALKS * * * Prof. Ludmila I Kuncheva, Bangor University, UK (Talk: Feature Extraction for Change Detection) Prof. João Gama, University of Porto Porto, Portugal (Talk: Distributed Data Stream Mining) Prof. Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, DE (Talk: Music Lessons and Other Exercises) * * * AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE * * * The ICAIS'14 conference aims at bringing together international researchers, developers and practitioners from different horizons to discuss the latest advances in system learning and adaptation. ICAIS'14 will serve as a space to present the current state of the art but also future research avenues of this thematic. Topics of the conference cover three aspects: Algorithms & theories of adaptation and learning, Adaptation issues in Software & System Engineering, Real- world Applications. ICAIS'14 will feature contributed papers as well as world-renowned guest speakers (see webpage), interactive breakout sessions, and instructional workshops. * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * - Workshop & Special Session proposal: April 13, 2014 - Full paper submission: June 10, 2014 - Acceptance notification: July 01, 2014 - Final camera ready: July 11, 2014 * * * CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS * * * Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. * * * SPECIAL ISSUES / BOOK * * * A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be considered for possible inclusion in one of the following special issues or book: - Special Issue of Evolving Systems (Springer) on Clustering and Classification in Dynamic Environments. - Special Issue of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Neurocompting for Dynamically Changing Systems. - Book in the Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer). * * * MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) * * * - Track 1: Self-X Systems o Self-adaptation o Self-organization and behavior emergence o Self-managing o Self-healing o Self-monitoring o Multi-agent systems o Self-X software agents o Self-X robots o Self-organizing sensor networks o Evolving systems - Track 2: Incremental Learning o Online incremental learning o Self-growing neural networks o Adaptive and life-long learning o Plasticity and stability o Forgetting o Unlearning o Novelty detection o Perception and evolution o Drift handling o Adaptation in changing environments - Track 3: Online Processing o Adaptive rule-based systems o Adaptive identification systems o Adaptive decision systems o Adaptive preference learning o Time series prediction o Online and single-pass data mining o Online classification o Online clustering o Online regression o Online feature selection and reduction o Online information routing - Track 4: Dynamic and Evolving Models in Computational Intelligence o (Dynamic) Neural networks architectures o (Dynamic) Evolutionary computation o (Dynamic) Swarm intelligence o (Dynamic) Immune and bacterial systems o Uncertainty and fuzziness modeling for adaptation o Approximate reasoning and adaptation o Chaotic systems - Track 5: Software & System Engineering o Autonomic computing o Organic computing o Evolution o Adaptive software architecture o Software change o Software agents o Engineering of complex systems o Adaptive software engineering processes o Component-based development - Track 6: Applications - Adaptivity and Learning o Smart systems o Ambient / ubiquitous environments o Distributed intelligence o Robotics o Industrial applications o Internet applications o Business applications o Supply chain management o etc. * * * SUBMISSION * * * Papers must be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages and conforming to Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted through the submission system (http://icais.prossegger.com/) Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome. All submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author have to attend the conference to present the paper. * * * ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * * * General Chair: - Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Bournemouth University, UK International Advisory Committee: - Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University, New Zealand - Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK - Djamel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada - Plamen Angelov, University of Lancaster, UK - Witold Pedrycz, University of Edmonton, Canada - Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Organization Committee: - Hammadi Nait-Charif, Bournemouth University, UK - Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Bournemouth University, UK - Damien Fay, Bournemouth University, UK - Jane McAlpine, Bournemouth University, UK Publicity Chair: - Markus Prossegger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

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solicit input on a course about social media and public policy
by Christina Wu 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Dear colleagues, I am slated to teach the course for the second time about new media technology and public policy, this time with a heavier emphasis on policy areas related to the social media. As I am revamping the course to reflect recent policy developments, as well as to make it more hands-on (I am being reminded time and time again that students would like to "do" things that are challenging but also fun), I would love to seek your expert opinions about this topic, along with ideas about class activities. No suggestions will be redundant. Please feel free to share sub-topics, assignments, and if it is not too much to ask, even syllabuses. I intend to have a built-in online element to this course, given that it is about the digital media. Students will create and share things here during the semester, some of which could culminate into a final product (textual as well as audio-video). My hope is to use some more popular platforms such as Wordpress and Youtube, so that students can carry their work from this class forward into the "real world". If you have experiences to share in this department, I will be grateful. Thank you all in advance! I would be happy to compile a list of things from the on-list and off-list responses and share with everyone if there is such a demand. Best, JCW -- Jingsi Christina Wu, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

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IR15 Update and Doctoral Colloquium News
by Kendall, Lori 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Folks, The AoIR Executive Committee is continuing its discussions with groups offering potential venues for IR15. Rest assured that we still plan to bring you a fantastic conference! We anticipate announcing a new location within the next couple of weeks, but no later than the end of June. In light of that timetable, we are also changing the deadline for submissions to the IR15 Doctoral Colloquium. The new deadline is Friday, July 11. You can find the call for submissions here: http://aoir.org/ir15-doctoral-colloquium-call-for-submissions/. Stay tuned for further updates. We look forward to seeing you in October! Lori Kendall President, Association of Internet Researchers

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Digital Crossings in Europe, special issue on digital media and migration out now
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Dear list-members, [Apologies for x-posting] With this note I would like to kindly inform you all of the publication of a special issue on digital media and migration I guest-edited with Sandra Ponzanesi called “Digital Crossings in Europe” in the Intellect journal Crossings. Journal of Migration and Culture. Access the special issue via this link: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17785/ ‘On digital crossings in Europe’ explores the entanglements of digital media and migration beyond the national and mono-ethnic focus. We argue how borders, iden¬tity and affectivity have been destabilized and reconfigured through medium-specific technological affordances, opting for a comparative and postcolonial framework that focuses on diversity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aspirations. Internet applica¬tions make it possible to sustain new forms of diaspora and networks, which operate within and beyond Europe, making issues of ethnicity, nationality, race and class not obsolete but transformed. It is therefore important and timely to analyse how these reconfigurations take place and affect everyday life. Using a critical approach to digital tools that avoids utopian notions of connectivity and borderlessness, this article highlights the dyssymmetries and tensions produced by the ubiquitousness of digital connectivity. – Blurb from our introductory essay. Table of contents: On digital crossings in Europe - Sandra Ponzanesi And Koen Leurs Traces of dispersion: Online media and diasporic identities - Dana Diminescu And Benjamin Loveluck No apologies for cross-posting: European trans-media space and the digital circuitries of racism - Gavan Titley The migration industry of connectivity services: A critical discourse approach to the Spanish case in a European perspective - Cecilia Gordano Peile Forced migrants, emotive practice and digital heterotopia - Saskia Witteborn The politics of transnational affective capital: Digital connectivity among young Somalis stranded in Ethiopia - Koen Leurs Young African Norwegian women and diaspora: Negotiating identity and community through digital social networks - Henry Mainsah Privileged Mexican migrants in Europe: Distinctions and cosmopolitanism on social networking sites - Lorena Nessi And Olga Guedes Bailey Ethnicity in digital crossroads. Understanding processes of cultural thickening in a mediatized world - Cigdem Bozdag Modes of self-representation: Visualized identities of former Yugoslav migrant women in the Netherlands - Jasmijn Van Gorp Review Essay: Diasporas and new media: Connections, identities, politics and affect - Eugenia Siapera Book Review Media and the City – Myria Georgiou - Eunike Piwoni Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.koenleurs.net

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Re: [Air-L] ScraperWiki
by Sanjay Sharma 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hello Roya For collecting (and analysing) tweets, you could try the free Chorus software: http://www.chorusanalytics.co.uk/ It runs as standalone software in a Windows-based environment - no server required. And it can collect tweets from individual users (as well as search terms including hashtags etc). For an example of how Chorus has been applied to a project exploring racialized hashtags, see: http://www.darkmatter101.org/wiki/notracist_twitter best regards Sanjay Sharma Brunel University, UK http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology/staff-profiles/sanjay-sharma twitter: @sanjay_digital ------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Roya M. Moussapour > Sent: 03 June 2014 21:18 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] ScraperWiki > > Hi all - > > I'm doing a research project at Bowdoin College and trying to use ScraperWiki to gather tweets. ScraperWiki makes it very easy to gather tweets from all users on Twitter, but I'm looking to limit the data set to specific users. Is there a simple way to do this? If not - is there another program that will collect the data in a more streamlined way? > > Thanks, > > Roya Moussapour > _______________________________________________

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Extended Deadline: 1st International Workshop on Social Personalization (SP'2014) co-located with ACM HT'2014
by Christoph Trattner 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline extended -------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Social Personalization (SP'2014) http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/sp2014/ to be held on September 1st, 2014, Santiago, Chile co-located with ACM HT 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ** Submission Deadline: June 27, 2014 (23:59 Chile Time) - deadline extended ** Notification of Acceptance: July 11, 2014 - deadline extended ** Final Papers Due: July 23, 2014 - deadline extended ** Workshop date: September 1, 2014 Workshop Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Leandro Balby Marinho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil) Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile) Eliana Scheihing (Universidad Austral, Chile) Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria) For the Social Personalization workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the fields of User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendations where the social context plays a fundamental role. This topic is important because it involves leveraging new sources of information that are specific for social systems such as shared items and tags, user public profiles, social connections, and logs of user social activities in order to improve people's information access in a wide variety of tasks and across different devices. These social information sources offer social personalization systems a chance to compensate for the lack of information and structure that is used by traditional personalization technologies ranging from recommender systems to E-learning. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * novel approaches for social personalization in recommender systems * novel approaches on personalized social collaboration * novel approaches on social linking * novel methods for social search and navigation * novel methods for social predictive models * novel social methods for information visualization and display * applications of the aforementioned topics to diverse domains (education, smart cities, music, etc.) * any other methods that exploit new forms of social data for personalization The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research that goes hopefully beyond classic personalization techniques, trying to capitalise potentially useful information available in social data for paving the way to more efficient personalized information access technologies. Submissions: We solicit posters (1-2 pages) and research papers (4-6 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Program Committee: Nazareno Andrade, University of Campina Grande, Brazil Jussara Almeida, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, AU Anmol Bhasin, LinkedIn, USA Danny Bickson, GraphLab, USA Steven Bourke, UCD, Ireland Robin Burke, de Paul, USA Ed Chi, Google, USA Alvin Chin, Nokia, China Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK Lucas Drumond, University Hildesheim, Germany Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria Zeno Gantner, Nokia, Germany Ruth Garcia, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands Sharon Hsiao, Columbia University, USA Bart Knijnenburg, University of California Irvine, USA Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen, Germany Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Neal Lathia, Cambridge University, UK Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia Alan Said, TU-Delft, NL Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Eduardo Veas, Know-Center, Austria Katrien Verbert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tao Ye, Pandora, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA Submission category: innovative research ideas, preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. Link or demo in attachment are preferred. 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; Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2014. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2014 Contact:socialpersonalization.ws@gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395906184019635/ Twitter https://twitter.com/sp_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------

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Electronic petitioning in Europe - new book available
by Lindner, Ralf 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a recently published book analysing current modernization processes in petitioning in Europe, particularly electronic petitioning. The publication is based on a study conducted on behalf of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag. Please find an outline here: https://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/en/publications/books/riehm-etal-2013-146… The book is available for download here: https://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/en/pdf/publications/books/riehm-etal-2013… Or you can order a printed copy at books on demand: https://www.bod.de/buch/9783735790330.html My co-authors and I are looking forward to feedback and comments! Best wishes, Ralf ______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Ralf Lindner Competence Center Emerging Technologies Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovationresearch ISI Breslauer Strasse 48 | 76139 Karlsruhe | Germany T +49 721 6809-292 | Fax +49 721 6809-315 mailto:ralf.lindner@isi.fraunhofer.de<mailto:vorname.name@isi.fraunhofer.de> http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-en/t/mitarbeiter-seiten/rl.php ______________________________________________________________________

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