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Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on E-Learning Security (ELS-2010)
by i-Society 2010 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. Thanks! The Second Workshop on E-Learning Security (ELS-2010) in conjunction with The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter June 28-30, 2010, London, UK (www.i-society.eu) Objectives The aim of the ELS-2010 Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in E-Learning Security and to discuss the latest advanced technologies in this area. This workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, and tools for building E-Learning Security. Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: • Security and Privacy in E-Learning • Security Issues on E-Learning Assessments • E-Learning Security Auditing • Biometrics in E-Learning • Secure E-Learning Development and Application • Digital Rights Management (DRM) for E-Learning • Emerging E-Learning Markets Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: March 15, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2010 Conference Dates: June 28-30, 2010 Paper Submission The style file and templates is available at Paper Submission. Please submit your full paper(s) in PDF format via email to els-2010(a)i-society.eu For further details, please visit http://www.i-society.eu/Workshops.html

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Privacy Buzz
by Aziz Douai 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hi everyone, I guess I am one of the lurkers on the listserv, but here goes my first contribution: Buzz. If you have used the new google social network service, how do you feel about the seeming violation of privacy? A few days ago, I decline my Gmail's insistence on adding trying the new feature/service. Now, the New York Times has a great article (Critics Say Google Invades Privacy with New Service: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13google.html) on how users' rights to privacy appear to have been violated. The article raises the interesting question of how totalitarian regimes may use the service to suppress political dissent. Google's rhetoric and carefully constructed image following its row with China is put to test. Anyway, I am curious as to how AIR members have found the feature with regard to both privacy and security. Cheers, Aziz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aziz Douai, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Communication Program Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies University of Ontario Institute of Technology 2000 Simcoe Street North Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 E-mail: aziz.douai(a)uoit.ca/ azizdouai(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." James Madison, 1822 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW: [MCJ] 2nd CFP: M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue
by Axel Bruns 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

G'day ! Last call for article submissions: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 15 February 2010 9:57 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] 2nd CFP: M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 15 Feb. 2010 > > M/C - Media and Culture > http://www.media-culture.org.au/ > is calling for contributors to the 'ambient' issue of > > M/C Journal > http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ > > M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a > crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and > peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ > provides open access to all past issues. > > To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit > http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. > > Call for Papers: 'ambient' > Edited by Luke Jaaniste > > Ambience is all around us. Wherever we are. Conditioned as we are as > being-in-the-world, we are always surrounded. A surrounding that affords > meaningful pathways and places of action and thought, that is intelligently > geared up with us. The fundamental surroundings might be the earth itself, > upon which multiple worlds, spaces, zones, nets, webs, districts, precincts > and the like occupy our lives, as we occupy them. > > Ambience can be contrasted with salience. What is salient is what is of > immediate interest and attention. Before us right now, taken up. Hopefully, > dear reader, these words you are reading have particular salience for you. > Right now. But when something is taken up in our field of attention and > action, there is so much that remains, always already there, in the > background, in the periphery, in the ether, in the air. So when Brian Eno > famously coined the term 'ambient music' in the 1970s - and triggered off a > whole raft of terms like ambient video, ambient art, ambient architecture, > ambient tv, ambient media, ambient marketing, ambient journalism, ambient > computing, ambient screens, ambient poetics and ambient literature - he was > doing something a little odd. Making ambience salient. In his music and in > his discourse about it. > > Ambience has been palpably in place, since the dawn of time, but as way of > talking about the world is helps gear us towards the all-around and how so > much of being human is conditioned and affected by our surrounds, in a age > when place and place-making has changed in dramatic ways, locally and > globally. In this issue, we ask: what ideas and interaction take place in > ambience? > > Please send a 100-word abstract to the editors at > ambient(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. Articles of 3,000 words in length > should be submitted online at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ and > should be prepared in accordance with the M/C Journal style guidelines, > available at > http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. > > Article deadline: 5 Mar. 2010 > Issue release date: 5 May 2010 > > M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 > as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of > media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal > for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for > comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind > peer-reviewed. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2010/11: > > 'ambient': article deadline 5 Mar. 2010, release date 5 May 2010 > 'deaf': article deadline 30 Apr. 2010, release date 30 June 2010 > 'waste': article deadline 25 June 2010, release date 25 Aug. 2010 > 'pig': article deadline 20 Aug. 2010, release date 20 Oct. 2010 > 'coalition': article deadline 15 Oct. 2010, release date 15 Dec. 2010 > 'doubt': article deadline 21 Jan. 2011, release date 23 Mar. 2011 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. > All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > end > > > Dr Axel Bruns > > -- > General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au > M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ > -- > M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://produsage.org/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Deadline Extended CFP: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme: Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to focus on the impact of international design teams on the design, evaluation, and development of products and systems. IWIPS invites several types of submissions, including papers, case studies, research-in-progress and tutorials. All submissions are due 15 March 2010. Accepted submissions (except tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques Submission Types Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on a modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10 pages in the proceedings format. Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4 to 8 pages in the proceedings format. Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on their theses or dissertations.) Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3 to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010. Important Dates Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs Submission deadline 15 March 2010 Notification to authors 1 April 2010 Camera ready copies of papers 15 April 2010 Tutorials Initial proposal 15 March 2010 Final submissions 15 April 2010 More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html

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Sunday/Monday Mobile Funnies
by gerrymck 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Colleagues/ A Sure Sign That The Paragigm Is Shifting When Mobile Technologies and Applications Make It Into The Comics ... >>> BTW: If You Are Aware Of Other Mobile Funnies/Comics Please Leave As A Comment(s) On The Blog Entry Associated With This Posting [In Any Language [Including HTML [:-)] >>> Thanks A Million !!! >>> /Gerry 1] "If You Choose To Read On A Kindle ...". [ http://tinyurl.com/ykteqm9] 4] Grimmy, Want To See My New I-Phone Apps ? [ http://tinyurl.com/y8ohdc6 ] 3] No Tweets Beyond This Point [http://tinyurl.com/ye2ts8g ] 4] Twitter: The Movie [ http://tinyurl.com/ylerxp4 ] 5]"Didn't You Get My Tweet?" [ http://bit.ly/XRbaQ ] 6] Not The Kindle ... [ http://tinyurl.com/ydeq87b ] EnJoY /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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Literature on Dating/Matrimonial Sites?
by Nadav and Tamar Gablinger 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

I usually just lurk in the back, but I would like to ask the list, just in case I have missed something important in beginning a literature review on the subejct - are there any landmark artilces/books on online dating and especially on "religiously oriented" ones (e.g. JDate, Muslima)? Thanks in advance, Tamar Gablinger

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Re: [Air-L] Privacy Buzz
by Justin Reedy 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Great question, Aziz -- I'm surprised it seemed to take this long for Google Buzz to come up on this list. I, for one, am surprised at how poorly Google seems to have handled this entire program. The automatic opt-in, the automatic harvesting of email contacts, the connections to others' accounts -- some of Buzz's features could be quite helpful in a world free of private correspondence and compartmentalized connections. But we don't live in a world like that, and Google seems to have failed to grasp that entirely in making Buzz. It is much like early iterations of Gmail -- I saw a blog post pointing out how Gmail didn't have a delete button when it first launched, because Google wondered why one would ever need to delete an email with as much storage space as they were offering. This represented a naive sort of ignorance on Google's part -- of course there are reasons beyond space constraints for deleting emails! Emails to an attorney, conversations with an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, planning a surprise for a partner or roommate who might stumble across your iGoogle page or Gmail inbox. (To say nothing of discussions of illicit or controversial behavior...) See also: Google Maps Street View. As for Buzz, a friend made a pretty good observation: "I don't have a problem with it, necessarily, but I sure would if I were having an affair." It is troubling to me that Google will roll something like this out in Beta before considering its implications for privacy and safety. They have backpedaled a bit, I believe (you can now opt-out more easily, from what I hear), but I wonder whether this comes too late for some people. Astute observers may have been able to gather data on people before everyone knew what was going on and changes were implemented by Google. Given Google's prominence and power, I wish they were a bit more cautious in implementing new programs that affect the online world for millions (billions?) of people. Maybe Google could have some kind of outside focus group or ombudsman program to help break through their naivete and consider users' concerns *before* a product is rolled out. -Justin ------------------------------------------------------- Justin Reedy Doctoral student Department of Communication University of Washington ------------------------------------------------------- ***** From: Aziz Douai <azizdouai(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:33:32 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Privacy Buzz Hi everyone, I guess I am one of the lurkers on the listserv, but here goes my first contribution: Buzz. If you have used the new google social network service, how do you feel about the seeming violation of privacy? A few days ago, I decline my Gmail's insistence on adding trying the new feature/service. Now, the New York Times has a great article (Critics Say Google Invades Privacy with New Service: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13google.html) on how users' rights to privacy appear to have been violated. The article raises the interesting question of how totalitarian regimes may use the service to suppress political dissent. Google's rhetoric and carefully constructed image following its row with China is put to test. Anyway, I am curious as to how AIR members have found the feature with regard to both privacy and security. Cheers, Aziz ------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aziz Douai, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Communication Program Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies University of Ontario Institute of Technology 2000 Simcoe Street North Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 E-mail: aziz.douai(a)uoit.ca/ <http://aziz%2Edouai@uoit.ca/> azizdouai(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." James Madison, 1822 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: ICITST-2010!
by g.akmayeva＠icitst.org 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Apologies for cross-postings! Kindly email this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) ************************************************************ The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: * Application of agents * Application security * Blended Internet security methods * Biometrics * Boundary issues of Internet security * Broadband access technologies * Challenges of content authoring * Data mining security * E-society * Globalisation of information society * Government, and corporate Internet security policy * Internet architecture * Infonomics * IPSec quality of services * Patentability * Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services * Secured database systems * Synchronising e-security * Software Architectures * Technology-enabled information * Trust, privacy, and data security * Wireless transactions * Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com * Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service * Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com * USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service * Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com * Database protection for Ubi-com * Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com * Multimedia Security in Ubi-com * Quality of Service Issues * Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com * Information visualization * Web services * Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce * New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids, Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems * Information Content Security * Software Architecture * System design and verification * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security * Distributed information systems IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission Date: May 31, 2010 Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: April 01, 2010 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: March 15, 2010 Proposal for Industrial Presentation: April 30, 2010 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2010 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: June 30, 2010 Camera Ready Extended Abstract Due: July 31, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: July 31, 2010 Early Registration Deadline: January 01 to July 31, 2010 Late Registration Deadline: July 31 to November 08, 2010 Conference Dates: November 08-11, 2010 The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair(a)icitst.org For more details, please visit www.icitst.org

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Call for Papers: ICITST-2010!
by g.akmayeva＠icitst.org 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Apologies for cross-postings! Kindly email this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) ************************************************************ The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: * Application of agents * Application security * Blended Internet security methods * Biometrics * Boundary issues of Internet security * Broadband access technologies * Challenges of content authoring * Data mining security * E-society * Globalisation of information society * Government, and corporate Internet security policy * Internet architecture * Infonomics * IPSec quality of services * Patentability * Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services * Secured database systems * Synchronising e-security * Software Architectures * Technology-enabled information * Trust, privacy, and data security * Wireless transactions * Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com * Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service * Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com * USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service * Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com * Database protection for Ubi-com * Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com * Multimedia Security in Ubi-com * Quality of Service Issues * Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com * Information visualization * Web services * Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce * New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids, Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems * Information Content Security * Software Architecture * System design and verification * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security * Distributed information systems IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission Date: May 31, 2010 Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: April 01, 2010 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: March 15, 2010 Proposal for Industrial Presentation: April 30, 2010 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2010 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: June 30, 2010 Camera Ready Extended Abstract Due: July 31, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: July 31, 2010 Early Registration Deadline: January 01 to July 31, 2010 Late Registration Deadline: July 31 to November 08, 2010 Conference Dates: November 08-11, 2010 The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair(a)icitst.org For more details, please visit www.icitst.org

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barbie the computer engineer
by Seda Guerses 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

acm just proudly presented: http://www.barbiemedia.com/admin/uploads/ComputerEngineerBarbie.pdf Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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