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Managing Complex Computational Challenges
by ijwa dline.info 20 May '23

20 May '23

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering CALL FOR PAPERS Managing Complex Computational Challenges A huge body of methods for making large-scale simulations and analyses are produced, which are more computationally efficient, enabling a wide range of research to be less time- and memory-intensive. The proposed methods and systems can synthesize domains that integrate many concepts from deep learning, machine learning, AI and other computational techniques. Keeping the scientific value while designing computational approaches that leverage increased computational power is essential. Developing one system identifies a few significant features or facets. However, generating a large model uses innumerable parameters and infinite indicators to bring broad models that analyse multidimensional patterns and function as generic with permissible customisation. The future computational system can build newer interfaces with computers on one side, people, technologies, and domains on the other, and produce modalities. Robust techniques with insights create solution spaces with fewer computational complexities. Advanced big data analytics offer solutions to research questions in many different disciplines. Computational techniques coupled with intelligence are more successful for complex processes in many domains, and the refining activities lead to domain precision. In recent years efficient machine learning models have been recorded that solve many complex issues in other fields. Many approaches in research currently warrant intensive computational methods and have become more inevitable to solve research questions. Research can generate unique and highly objective scalable solutions to the complexity and understanding of how the different propositions can help product possible systems to solve the tasks with domain knowledge. Complexity reduction leads to robustness, structured results, higher accuracy, and resolved issues and is mainly achieved by applying computational methods. The proposed special issue will address many agendas codified in the above description and, more specifically, but not limited to the below themes. Neural models Spatio-temporal data modelling DL approaches to analyse patterns Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory network Data Transfer Framework Data security Data correlational dependencies Knowledge-driven machine learning Information and Systems Intelligence Computational Modelling Intelligent agent-supported processing Intelligent control systems Domain-specific smart models and architectures Complex data and sparse modelling Semantics-induced segmentation and clustering Edge Intelligence The important dates Submission of Papers: May 31, 2023 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2023 Revised version: August 15, 2023 Issue Publication: (will be notified later) Special Issue Editors Pit Pichappan, PhD, Senior Scientist Digital Information Research Labs Chennai. India Ezendu Ariwa, PhD, Professor Warwick University UK Fouzi Harrag, PhD Associate Professor Computer Science Ferhat Abbas University Setif, Algeria For further queries, please contact- pichappan(a)dirf.org For Author guidelines, please visit before submission- https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/journal-of-computational-methods-… Submission of papers https://www.socio.org.uk/SIMCCC/openconf/openconf.php

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Call for Participation -- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023, June 26-29, Nashville, Tennessee
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 18 May '23

18 May '23

=================================================================================================================================================================== IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp =================================================================================================================================================================== We invite the research community and industry participants to attend the IEEE Smartcomp 2023 between June 26-June 29. SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the conference and will be held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by Vanderbilt University Institute for Software Integrated Systems. This year, the conference program covers four days of stimulating content and presentations including the main conference, four thematic workshops, four keynote talks, two panels, a WiP session, an N2Women event, a PhD forum, as well as tutorials. The full schedule and information of the conference is available at https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ Keynotes: Archan Misra Vice Provost (Research) and Professor of Computer Science at Singapore Management University (SMU) Reducing the complexity, latency and energy of Inference Execution for edge-based Deep Neural Network Models Liam Pedersen Chief Scientist at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Innovation Lab Smart mobility services on the edge Baskar Ganapathysubramanian Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Professor in Engineering and Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University Enabling climate smart agriculture through smart computing Philip V. Orlik Vice President and Director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Smart Technologies for Smarter Buildings TUTORIALS >From quantum computing to quantum networks Claudio Cicconetti IIT-CNR Algorithms for Optimizing Public Transit Systems Samitha Samaranayake, Cornell Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Vanderbilt PANELS Reports from the Field: Deploying Smart Computing Technology to Meet Diverse Community Needs There is a growing demand for smart computing technologies to meet a range of community needs. This includes sensing systems, Internet of Things devices, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence applications, and more, to inform decision-making and enhance autonomy. A range of smart computing investments, both publicly and privately funded, are underway across the globe. These initiatives seek to address community challenges related to energy and resource usage, transportation and mobility, climate change, health and wellbeing, digital literacy, and more. While demand for these technologies continues to grow, there are significant technical and societal challenges on the pathway from laboratory to real-world deployment. As a result, experiences vary widely from one application/community to another. This panel brings together academic researchers, agency officials, and municipal leaders from both the U.S. and the E.U. to share field experiences deploying smart computing to meet diverse community needs. The panel represents an important step in codifying a set of best practices for translating these technologies from the laboratory to the public sphere. The panel will be moderated by Dr Jason Hallstrom (Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, USA) and Dr. Dirk Pesch (University of College Cork, Ireland) TECHNICAL SESSIONS Session 1: Smart Applications Session 2: Machine Learning for Sensing Session 3: Middleware for Smart Computing Session 4: Computer Vision for Smart Computing Session 5: Networked and Distributed Smart Computing Session 6: Machine Learning for Control WORKSHOPS 7th International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing (BITS 2023) 9th Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC) 8th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the environmental emergency (SmartAgr) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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new CFP on TikTok Creators and Digital Economies
by Zoetanya Sujon 18 May '23

18 May '23

Dear AoIR colleagues, Delighted to announce a new CFP for an online symposium. Please share with any interested researchers and apologies for cross-posting: TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium Date: Friday 6 October, 2023 Time: 8.00-14.00 (BST) / 16.00-22.00 (AWST) >From new dance challenges to instantly recognisable songs, TikTok is often attributed with producing new global trends. Merging short form video, popular and original music, hashtags, comments, and participatory features like stitching and duets, TikTok provides a platform for ordinary users to consume, create, play and participate in public conversations. Creators benefit from new kinds of visibility and affective economies, yet also complain of shadow bans, seemingly arbitrary limitations on views, and algorithmic personalisation and circulation of content. TikTok follows and disrupts the social media landscape and popular imagination. TikTok’s ‘For You’ feature amplifies the potential for ordinary users to create viral content and its powerful personalised algorithms extend creators’ reach to global audiences and across multiple platforms. TikTok influencers and ordinary creators generate niche communities important for identity expression, community building and visibility, introducing new iterations of symbolic, cultural and economic power (Abidin et al. 2020, Abidin 2020, 2019). TikTok native influencers generate millions of views and leverage virtual, gift, and live-streaming economies, expanding forms of cultural production across platforms (Poell et al 2022, Yesiloglu and Costello 2021). In addition, Bytedance and Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese counterpart, point to significant cultural, geo-political, and economic commonalities and differences in platform governance, as determined in and through national contexts and markets (Kaye et al al. 2022, Zhang 2021). More globally, Bytedance occupies a unique position in the data economy and is at the heart of serious privacy and surveillance concerns, marked by the rise of TikTok bans (Maheshwari and Holpuch 2023). TikTok and Douyin open up new creator practices with serious implications for creative industries, monetisation practices, digital economies alongside governance frameworks encompassing these spheres. All of these factors point to big questions about the relationship between TikTok creators and emerging features of digital economies. While TikTok’s niche creator practices share common features across other social media and digital platforms (Hardy 2022, Sujon 2021), TikTok’s specific approaches to monetisation and affective entrepreneurialism raises questions about what is distinct on TikTok for creator economies. This symposium brings together current work which opens up these dynamics, examining emerging forms of cultural production and also their economic consequences for creators, citizens, consumers, advertisers, and platforms. Submission guidelines We invite papers examining TikTok Creators and Digital Economies, related to but not limited to these themes: - Creator identities and cultures - Storytelling, music and creator discourses - Intimate, relational and affective labour - Virtual gifting and cultural production - Creator academy and creator fund - LGBTQ+ creators - Queerbaiting - Materialities of creation, consumption and circulation - Global, local, national creator contexts and economies - TikTok, ByteDance and Douyin platform ecosystems - Douyin and wanghong - Resilience and precarity - Influencers, celebrity, and virality - Creator business models - TikTok advertising and monetisation - Political and networked economies - Nichification, metrics and metrification - Branded content, paid partnerships and the creator marketplace - Livestreaming and e-commerce - Symbolic power and cultural economies - Attention economy, affective commerce and regimes of visibility - Algorithmic personalisation - TikTok audiences and markets - Platform governance, bans and censorship - Content ownership, copyright and royalties - Geo-politics of short-form video Research students, early career researchers and scholars in and/or or from the Global South and/or underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply. A selection of papers will also be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue tentatively entitled “TikTok Creators and Digital Economies” that will be published in a top-ranked peer-reviewed journal in the field of Media and Communication Studies. For consideration in this symposium, please submit abstracts (up to 250 words) on previously unpublished papers and a short bio (up to 100 words) to DCE(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk. Key dates - Abstracts and biographies submission: *3 July 2023* - Notifications of acceptance: *24 July 2023* - TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium: *6 October 2023* This event is a collaboration between the TikTok Cultures Research Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/> based at Curtin University and the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at…> at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. The event is organized by Zoetanya Sujon <https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1352-zoetanya-sujon/about>, Sevil Yesiloglu <https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1819-sevil-yesiloglu>, Irida Ntalla <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/people/irid…> , Jonathan Hardy <https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1762-jonathan-hardy>, Yue Qin, Yingwen Wang and Richard Meng. Please email DCE(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk with any questions about this event. *……………………………………………………* *Dr Zoetanya Sujon (she/her)* Programme Director and Reader Designate, Communications and Media Principal Investigator, The DAReS Project - Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX007510%2F1> *University of the Arts London* London College of Communication Elephant & Castle London SE1 6SB United Kingdom *E* z.sujon(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk *T *@jetsumgerl TikTok Cultures Research Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/about/> *Working pattern: Mon, Tues, Wed for Communication and Media Programme Matters. Thurs and Fri for AHRC project. Book a meeting with me on my calendar <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/ZoetanyaSujon@artslondon.onmicro…>.* *Latest publications*: Book: (2021) *The Social Media Age <https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-social-media-age/book259859#description>* *.* Sage (2nd edition coming in 2025) (2021) Chapter 17 Disruptive Play or Platform Colonialism? The Contradictory Dynamics of Google Expeditions and Educational Virtual Reality, in Steve Gennaro and Blair Miller (Eds), *Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children's Digital Culture <https://vernonpress.com/book/1239>**.* Vernon Press, pp. 277-296

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Announcing AoIR2024 • Sheffield • 16-19 October 2024
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 18 May '23

18 May '23

In 2024, we’re going to Sheffield! The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce that the AoIR2024 conference will be held in *Sheffield, UK*, on *16-19 October 2024*. It will be hosted by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, and will take place on the campus of the University of Sheffield. Sheffield is one of the major cities in the UK, yet 60% of it is green space. It’s a city that is safe, affordable, creative and welcoming, and we’re excited to be going back to the UK for the first time since 2012. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that this is a break from our preferred cycle of holding conferences alternating between North America, Europe, and the ‘Rest of World’. Owing to circumstances beyond our control, the intended 2024 venue turned out to be unfeasible. Given that, AoIR is very grateful to the Sheffield team for stepping up at short notice. In the coming weeks, AoIR will issue a call for conference venue hosts for our 2025 and 2026 conferences, with the firm aim of reestablishing this rotation of locations. More information about Sheffield and our hosts is available here <https://aoir.org/aoir2024/>. Tama Leaver AoIR President

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New Issue: JITP No. 22! General Issue: Looking Again
by Michael Rifino 17 May '23

17 May '23

Issue Twenty-Two: General Issue: Looking Again Issue Editors: Courtney Dalton, Cornell University Benjamin Miller, University of Pittsburgh Michael Rifino, The Graduate Center, CUNY The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is thrilled to announce Issue 22<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jitp-22>, our latest published issue on CUNY’s instance of Manifold<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/journals/jitp>! Read peer-reviewed and open-access articles that feature new conversations and deepen existing ones found in our archive, including topics on open-educational resources, surveillance, and extended reality. Issue 22 and our archives are available on Manifold, a free, open-access publication platform. You can also read more about it as a scholarly publishing platform<https://www.upress.umn.edu/about-us/about-manifold>. With all issues, you can collect articles to share and annotate with your students and colleagues. Please consider creating a reading account<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/signup> and learning more about reading on Manifold.<https://manifoldscholar.github.io/manifold-docusaurus/docs/using/reading_ma…> We hope you will join us! We are still accepting submissions for our Themed Issue: The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-call-for-submissions/section/48f029c…>. Due date: May 31st, 2023! Read Issue 22 today: https://t.co/PTHj31AoXW<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jitp-22>

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Welcome||Global Media and China ICA Reception, May 27, 9:00-9:00pm
by Xiao Han 17 May '23

17 May '23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is with great pleasure that the journal *Global Media and China* ( https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch) invites you to attend the GMaC Reception to be held on *Sat 27 May from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in City Hall Room in the Toronto Sheraton*. Please come and enjoy some decent drinks and dialogue. Global Media and China is a SAGE journal and is supported and founded by the Communication University of China. To ensure the best service will be provided, please register here: *https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-media-and-chinas-journal-reception-tickets-637046381877 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-media-and-chinas-journal-reception-tick…>* We look forward to meeting you in Toronto. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at GMAC2022(a)hotmail.com Thank you! Best, Dr Xiao Han, Associate Professor, Communication University of China Managing Editor, Global Media and China

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CFP: AI and Fandom
by Jacobs, Naomi 17 May '23

17 May '23

Dear all, On behalf of myself and fellow co-editor Suzanne Black, I would like to invite you to submit to the newly announced special issue of the open-access journal Transformative Works and Cultures, which will focus on AI and Fandom. We are looking for multi and inter-disciplinary submissions which explore how artificial intelligence and related technologies may be used by and have impact on fans, fan studies research and production of content enjoyed by fans. Suggested topics include: * The use of generative AI by fans to create new forms of transformative work * Fan responses to the development and use of AI including Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT (for example, concerns that fanfiction archives may be part of the data scraped for training models) * Explorations of copyright, ownership and authorship in the age of AI-generated material and transformative works * Studies that examine fandoms centring on speculative AI and androids, (e.g. Her, Isaac Asimov, WestWorld, Star Trek) * Methods for fan studies research that use AI and ML * The use of AI in audience research and content development by media producers and studios * Lessons that scholars of AI and its development can learn from fan studies and vice versa * Ethics of AI in a fan context, for example deepfakes and the spread of misinformation Deadline for submissions is January 1 2024, for an anticipated publication date of March 2025. For full details please see further information at the following link: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/131 If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best wishes, Naomi Jacobs Dr Naomi Jacobs Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) The LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg LA1 4WY Pronouns: She/her Because I work flexible hours, you may sometimes receive emails from me outside of your usual working times, and I may not always reply immediately. Regardless of when I sent this email, please do not feel you have to respond outside your own working hours.

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UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Summer Dissertation Fellowships due 5/25!
by Stacy E. Wood 16 May '23

16 May '23

The UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry welcomes applications for our second annual Summer Dissertation Fellowship<https://www.c2i2.ucla.edu/summer-fellowship/>! We invite applications for our Summer Fellowship from scholars whose work focuses on the intersection of the Internet and Social Identity. Applicants should have an approved prospectus by the start of the fellowship. This program is designed to release students from any employment obligations that might act as a barrier to dissertation work and awardees should consider it as their primary summer activity. Fellows will have the opportunity to meet with mentors associated with C2i2 in support of their projects. We aim to facilitate close working relationships between the C2i2 broader network and awardees to expand student networks during a crucial time in their graduate school career. Awardees are expected to meet monthly with their peers and mentors in order to present works-in-progress, receive feedback and address needs that might arise over the summer. All meetings for Summer 2022 will be virtual. Although the fellowship is confined to the summer (July-September), fellows will have access to the C2i2 network and C2i2 affiliation for the entirety of the academic year. All fellows will receive a stipend of $8,000.00. All meetings will be virtual. To apply, please submit your CV, a copy of your prospectus and a short cover letter to swood(a)c2i2.ucla.edu by May 25. We will respond to all applicants by June 1, 2023. This fellowship is made possible with the support of the Minderoo Foundation. Stacy E. Wood MLIS, PhD Director of Research and Programs UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry stacyewood.com

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Free registration open for workshop on Datafication of Borders and Migration on May 25 (in-person in Toronto and online)
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 16 May '23

16 May '23

Dear colleagues, I hope this finds you well – please consider joining us online (or in person in Toronto for those attending ICA) for a one day workshop on Datafication of Borders and Migration on May 25. Free registration is open at https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/events/2023/05/datafication-borders… Co-convened by Anna Triandafyllidou, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Koen Leurs, Utrecht University, Kaarina Nikunen, Tampere University, Younes Ahouga, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Lucia Nalbandian, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Toronto. Digital technologies and datafied systems are increasingly used to surveil, control and manage migration, shifting the balance in the humanitarianism-securitization nexus. New automated systems from facial recognition to language detection have profoundly intensified and changed migration and border policies. Data driven technologies have rendered borders ubiquitous, multi-layered and mundane: the outside border control has become increasingly mobile, now travelling with and tracking migrated bodies after border crossings. Datafication is often framed as a phenomenon that concerns everyone: in a highly networked digital world, datafication cannot be escaped. However, datafication does not treat everyone in the same way. Critical data studies have highlighted that automated social sorting is often based on categorizations and assumptions that echo existing social biases and historical power structures, as well as pervasive and accumulative surveillance of the already marginalized. While at the same time, data driven technologies also provide systems that support new forms of resistance and activism for people who are seeking asylum or who are on the move. This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines to introduce their research on digital technologies and datafication in migration and to discuss its ambivalent and contradictory role for migrants compared to refugees, as well as the unsettling consequences of the use of datafication in bordering and policymaking. This workshop is organized in collaboration with CERC Migration TMU; Intimacy in Data Driven Culture (IDA) project, Tampere University; the Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum Research Project; and the Digital Migration Special Interest Group, Utrecht University. Warm wishes, Koen Associate professor Gender, Media and Migration Studies | Graduate Gender Programme | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands |

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Special Issue CfP: Disconnectivity in a Changing Media and Political Landscape
by Cigdem Bozdag 16 May '23

16 May '23

Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to a special issue that we are editing titled "Disconnectivity in a Changing Media and Political Landscape". This issue will be published in 2024 in Media and Communication, a Q1 international open access journal in Communication, indexed in SSCI and Scopus among others. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions to understand disconnective practices across social media platforms, the associated micro, meso, and macro conditions, as well as democratic implications. Disconnection is broadly defined here, including tie dissolution (e.g., unfriending), content filtration, disconnecting from a platform, among others. For more information about the issue and the timeline, please see the CfP attached. The deadline for abstract submission (max. 250 words) is 10 July 2023. You can submit it via email to qinfeng.zhu(a)rug.nl and c.bozdag(a)rug.nl. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions and circulate the CfP to others who might be interested in the special issue. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you! Kind regards, Dr. Qinfeng Zhu and Dr. Çigdem Bozdag Dr. Cigdem Bozdag Assistant Professor Research Centre Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow Faculty of Education, FB 12, University of Bremen

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