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Research Assistant Job - Closing soon; 1st Feb 2023
by Martin Sykora 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

This Research Assistant position in Social Media Analysis Methods at the Centre for Information Management (Loughborough University) is closing very soon - 1 Feb 2023. The position is full-time, fixed-term for 8 months (£26,396 to £31,411 per annum) - see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWS047/research-assistant-social-media-analysis-… It might be a great fit for applicants interested in social media research, data science, and ethical information management, with a background in (computational) social science or related fields within information science. If this is of interest, you can find out more details about the role and how to apply (closing date for applications is 1st Feb) at https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?… Kind regards, Martin ----------------------------- Dr. Martin Sykora, PhD, FHEA Associate Professor in Information Management Centre for Information Management (CIM) Loughborough Business School (LB) BE.1.32 (Sir Richard Morris Building) Loughborough University, LE11 3TU @martinsykora<https://twitter.com/martinsykora> (on Twitter) @msykora<https://mastodon.social/@msykora> (on mastodon.social) Profile Page: https://socialmedia.lboro.ac.uk/sykora/ Latest Publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=lF2XTEEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to interdisciplinary and translational research, continuum computing infrastructures, data science, sustainability, and education. eScience 2023 invites authors of workshop proposals to consider a diverse group of organizers, paper reviewers, and keynote speakers in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, and geographic areas. eScience 2023 accepts two types of workshop proposals: (1) workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and (2) workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings The proceedings of workshops with peer-reviewed papers will be included in the eScience 2023 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, if the following criteria are followed: • The solicitation for papers must be open. • All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. • The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for the expected number of submissions. • The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. • For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2023 to present the paper in person. Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a Program Committee and a paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym. • Workshop description, including its focus and goals (max. 500 words). • Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committee (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, geographic areas, etc.). • Expected number of submissions/accepted papers. • Prior history of this workshop, if any. Workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2023 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals for workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks only should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym • Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) • Names and affiliations of the organizers • Expected number of talks and their length • Tentative list of speakers and talk titles • Prior history of this workshop, if any KEY DATES • Workshop Submissions due: Friday, February 10, 2023 (AoE) • Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday, February 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Friday, July 21, 2023 • Final list of talks / agenda for no-proceedings workshops: Friday, July 21, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop Chairs (contact: workshops(a)escience-conference.org) • Iraklis Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece • Fred Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Second Call for Submissions
by Announce Announcements 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

*** Second Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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[CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS] IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, DEADLINE: March 15, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS https://coe.northeastern.edu/Groups/wowmom2023/call_for_demos.html Submission Due Date: March 15, 2023 Notification Date: April 7, 2023 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW Welcome to the 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 is soliciting original and previously unpublished research works addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT) context. Appropriate resource management, applications design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications requested by end-users. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a more smooth and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. You are invited to submit a poster and/or demo related to the following topics of interest: SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST * 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services * AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks * Communication technologies and services for MTC * Connected vehicles: networking issues and services * Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services * Energy efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks * Internet/Web of Things * Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services * Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks * Mobile big data networking and services * Mobile social networks * Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Network traffic characterization and measurements * Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Seamless inter-networking and self-organization * Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks * System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences * Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Virtual mobile infrastructure * Wearable Computing * Wireless multimedia systems, services, and applications We particularly encourage the following types of submissions: * Demos of the research related to accepted IEEE WoWMoM papers * Demos and posters from student authors related to their research topics within the IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest * Demos from experts from industry and academia showing the state-of-the-art within IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest * Posters showing results of a work-in-progress paper SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference management system, at: Poster submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30201 Demo submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30200 Please note: All posters/demos will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All poster/demo submissions will be handled electronically. Posters/demos that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. All posters/demos should be submitted electronically in PDF and be no longer than 3 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Papers exceeding 3 pages will not be accepted. All accepted abstracts will appear in the proceedings. The demos and posters should include the prefix "DEMO:" and "POSTER:" in the title of the submitted paper, respectively. Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Poster title must start with "Poster:" and Demo title must start with "Demo:" At least one author of each accepted poster/demo is required to register to the conference and present. Only registered and presented posters/demos will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted posters/demos will be included in the IEEE WoWMoM 2023 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Demos must show how the user can interact with the device/concept. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Due Date: March 15, 2023 * Notification Date: April 7, 2023 * Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 * Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2023 POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA ) Uichin Lee (KAIST, South Korea) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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JOB: Wikimedia Foundation Lead Public Policy Specialist (North America)
by Joly MacFie 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/4815845 Lead Public Policy Specialist (North America) at Wikimedia Foundation Remote The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/26/meet-the-wikimedia-foundation-global-…>. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates primarily in the United States and Canada, and to promote a legal framework that supports free knowledge. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s public policy network and relationships, deepen the team’s collaboration with affiliates and volunteers in the Wikimedia Movement, be in charge of direct outreach to lawmakers and agencies, engage in public policy processes, and monitor current developments in the US to help the Public Policy Team promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online. <snip> -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

*** Third Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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Postdoctoral research positions at Dublin City University
by Tijana Milosevic 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Dear all, With apologies for cross-posting: There are three postdoctoral positions (2-year fixed term) at Dublin City University's Anti-Bullying Centre (ABC) that might be of interest to some people on the list. 1. Postdoctoral researcher in detection of online grooming, job description here <https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/inline-files/RF1805%20Post%20Doc%20R…> . 2. Postdoctoral researcher in detection of cyberbullying, see here <https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/inline-files/RF1806%20Post-%20Doctor…> . 3. Postdoctoral researcher in detection of self-harming material, see here <https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/inline-files/Post-Doctoral%20Researc…> . The posts are funded by a recent grant from the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund, IE <https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-do/innovation-research-development/dis…> and they involve an interdisciplinary collaboration with DCU School of Computing and ADAPT SFI <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> research centre. ABC is looking for postdoctoral researchers to conduct research into optimizing the detection of cyberbullying, grooming, and self-harm and suicidal content for the development of Cilter technology. Cilter is a parental control software modification at the kernel level that would allow for cyberbullying, self-harm, suicide-related and grooming content detection on all apps on the child’s phone (from WhatsApp to various social media apps). The project CILTER: Protecting and empowering children online is funded by the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) Ireland (Call 4) which is managed by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and administered by Enterprise Ireland. The DTIF consortium Cilter (SME) is a collaboration between the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre, SFI ADAPT and Amarach research. Kind regards, Tijana Milosevic Research fellow DCU Anti-Bullying Centre and ADAPT Science Foundation Ireland Dublin City University https://antibullyingcentre.ie/person/tijana-milosevic/ @TiMilosevic @tiki@mstdn.social <https://antibullyingcentre.ie/>

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Call for Industry Track Papers: IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Deadline: February 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp Call for Industry Track Papers Important Dates Abstract & Paper submission : February 23 Acceptance notification: March 2 Camera-ready submission: May 10 ================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ Call for Industry Track Papers In addition to the main research track, the conference invites innovative applications and advances in the industrial use of the smart computing technology. The industry track will provide a forum to discuss novel ideas and emerging results, presenting innovative applications and tools, and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions, with an industry focus. The conference industry track draws upon many industrial applications such as transportation, energy, environmental protection, resource management, healthcare, security, banking, entertainment, and social media. An important criterion for papers to be submitted to the Industry Track is clear industrial association, either in the form of extensive evaluation of research results in industrial use cases or active participation of industry representatives as co-authors. Accepted papers will be published as part of a separate section of the main conference proceedings that highlights the Industry relevance of the submission. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Smart Cyber-Physical Environments and Energy / Water / Agriculture / Transportation / Healthcare / Banking Infrastructure / ... Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments Smart and Connected Communities across Cities Smart Computing Technologies Future Smart Computing Paradigms Smart Human-centric Environments, Health, Entertainment, and Social Activities Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Computing Potential contributors are encouraged to look at the other calls associated with the main conference. This includes various workshops, phd forum, work in progress, demonstrations and posters. Submission Titles in the industry track should be in the format below: Industry: Title of Paper The submissions in IEEE conference format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) may be either full-paper (up to 8 pages) or short papers (up to 4 pages) which may be work-in-progress. The page limit includes references and submissions which do not follow the page limits will be automatically rejected. Having the industry relevance condition in mind, contributions related to ongoing or finished, but previously unpublished research papers are welcome. Submissions from a broad spectrum of research fields with common interest in smart computing are expected. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EDAS. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Program Committee -- the review process is not blind and authors can choose to include the author list in the submission. Submission link (select industry track): https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30194 SMARTCOMP 2023 Industry Track Chair Mina Sartipi (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) Contact For any Information about the industry track, please contact the Industry Track Chair: mina-sartipi (at) utc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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SCIENCE · PEACE · SECURITY ’23 - Call for Contributions (15th of March 2023)
by Laura Guntrum 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

*SCIENCE · PEACE · SECURITY ’23 - Technology and the Transformation of Political Violence* 3^rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Technical Peace Research - https://sps.peasec.de/ <https://sps.peasec.de/> Wednesday 20.- Friday 22. September 2023, Darmstadt, Germany =============== *CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *===============** The interdisciplinary conference examines the impact, control and design of technologies which influence peace and security. Existing approaches towards arms control need to adapt to the changing security landscape, while new civilian and military technologies are changing forms of violence and warfare. Particularly striking areas are *cyber warfare* and the rapid development of *unmanned weapons systems*. Issues of *nuclear disarmament*, *missile technology* or *space weaponry*, as well as *chemical and biological weapons*, are gaining renewed urgency. In addition to the development of new *weapons systems*, information technology also plays a significant role in the oppression and *digital surveillance *of civilians during conflicts. Aiming to network under authoritarian actors, civil society is increasingly using social media as a resource to organize *cyber protests* and to fight for human rights. Apart from acute use in conflict-related contexts, many cases illustrate that technology is increasingly being used by different actors for *conflict transformation* and to promote peace, aiming to reduce (political) violence in the long term. Furthermore, the geopolitics of *infrastructure*, e.g., (*renewable) energy and climate change *is an urgent topic. Infrastructures are relevant in conflicts, can be manifestations of global injustice, strategic objects in armed conflicts as well as part of a peaceful conflict transformation. Thus, the conference seeks contributions which reflect on the geopolitics of infrastructure and their role In general, all of these issues raise the question of the regulation and proliferation of security-relevant technologies as well as their design. These aspects influence who has access to certain technologies, who can benefit or faces risk by their use. The interdisciplinary conference *Science *·*Peace *·*Security '23* aims to facilitate fruitful discussions on current and future challenges in the field of technical peace and conflict research. We seek contributions from the natural and technical science, the social and legal sciences, and ethics and humanities. =============== *SUBMISSIONS *===============** We are looking for contributions on the intersection of science, technology, peace and security, e.g., on * Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons and Disarmament * Cyber and Information Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Unmanned Weapon Systems * Geopolitics of Infrastructure, e.g. (Renewable) Energy and Climate Change * (Urban) Protest and Violence We are looking for *different types of contributions*: * Idea pitches (5 minutes), e.g. of early stage research ideas, with subsequent discussion * Talks (10-20 minutes) * Posters to be presented with a 2-minute pitch and during a 90minutes interactive poster session * Ideas for panel discussions or workshops of 30-90minutes *Submissions*are possible in our submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sps23 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sps23>) until the *15^th of March 2023*. * All authors of accepted contributions will be allowed to submit a paper for the conference proceedings, which are planned to be published electronically in open access (without costs) with TUprints <https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/>. =============== *CONFERENCE SERIES* =============== The Science · Peace · Security conference series, maintained by *FONAS* (Research Network on Science, Disarmament and International Security), was launched in Darmstadt in 2019 <https://sps.peasec.de/sps19/>and subsequently held in Aachen in 2021 <https://sps.peasec.de/sps21/>. In 2023, it will be hosted in Darmstadt again; followed by Jülich in 2025. In 2023 is co-organized as part of the research project *TraCe* (BMBF-funded research center "Transformations of Political Violence"), following the tradition of *IANUS* (natural science and technical peace research) at Technical University of Darmstadt. Contact: sps23(a)peasec.de

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3 short-term PhD fellowships at "Media of Cooperation", Siegen (GER) in the field of digital media, STS, data studies, platform &infrastructure studies, autonomous media, sensor media, HCI, CSCW
by Gerlitz, Carolin, Prof. Dr. 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

3 Short-Term Scholarships for PhD-Candidates, deadline 12th of February 2023 in the field of digital media research, STS, data & platform studies, praxeology of media, data ethnography, sensory media, autonomous media, HCI and CSCW among others https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/3-short-term-scholarships-for-phd-ca… The University of Siegen is an interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan university with currently about 18,000 students and a range of subjects from the humanities, social sciences and economics to natural, engineering and life sciences. With over 2,000 employees, we are one of the largest employers in the region and offer a unique environment for teaching, research and further education. At the University of Siegen, as of 1st of April 2023 the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1187 „Media of Cooperation“ offers three Short-Term Scholarships for PhD-Candidates to promote the work of early-career researchers. The duration of the scholarships is 6 to 9 months. A longer-term collaboration with the goal of a doctorate within the CRC is envisaged. The basic amount of the scholarship is based on the maximum rate of the DFG (1.365,- EUR). In addition, an allowance for material expenses and, if applicable, a child allowance will be paid. CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation“<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en> The CRC is an interdisciplinary research network consisting of 15 projects and more than 60 scientists from the fields of media studies, science and technology studies, ethnology, sociology, linguistics and literature studies, computer science and medicine as well as history, education and engineering. It has been funded by the DFG since 2016. The CRC investigates the emergence and dissemination of digitally networked, data-intensive media and understands these as cooperatively accomplished conditions for cooperation. The research of the participating subprojects focuses on data practices that are explored in the situated interplay of media practices, infrastructures and public spheres. The short-term fellowship program of the CRC provides national and international doctoral students the opportunity to further develop their research project in the CRC, to get to know participating researchers and to exchange ideas with them. The research projects of the scholarship holders should be thematically related to the subprojects of the CRC, so that their work can be supported by the principal investigators and their teams. Scholarship holders are assigned to the Integrated Research Training Group (MGK) of the CRC and benefit from its structured training program. The CRC offers scholarship holders an international environment for interdisciplinary media research as well as an extensive program of events and training in ethnographic, digital, sensor-based and linguistic methods. Further information on the CRC’s research agenda and subprojects can be found at https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en.<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en> Your Profile Relevant, above-average degree in one of the disciplines participating in or related to the CRC, preferably in media and cultural studies, sociology or in the field of socio- or business informatics, human-computer interaction or information systems (equivalent to a Master’s degree, Magister, Diplom or Lehramt/Staatsexamen Sek. II) Individual research project in one of the above-mentioned disciplines within the subject area of the CRC. Ideally, you can assign the project to one of the subareas of the CRC – infrastructures, publics or praxeology Interest in methods of media research, the analysis of data practices and an affinity for working in an interdisciplinary research environment Willingness to participate in the international event program of the CRC and the MGK Very good written and spoken English language skills Your Tasks Expectations of successful candidates: Regular participation and involvement in the events and the training program of the MGK (colloquia, workshops, summer schools, methodology workshops, interdisciplinary groups) Presentation of preliminary results of the individual research project within the MGK colloquium Equal opportunities and diversity are promoted and actively practiced at the University of Siegen. Applications from women are highly welcome and will be given special consideration in accordance with the federal state equality law. We also welcome applications from people with different personal, social and cultural backgrounds, people with disabilities and those of equal status. For further information contact Johannes Schick (Tel.: +49(0)271 740-5181) E-Mail: johannes.schick(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:johannes.schick@uni-siegen.de> Please send your application documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, 5-page outline of a project idea) by 12th of February 2023 to Johannes Schick, Herrengarten 3, 57072 Siegen, Germany. Alternatively, you can also send your application in a single PDF file by e-mail (max. 5 MB) to johannes.schick(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:johannes.schick@uni-siegen.de>. Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating by unencrypted e-mail. Information about the University of Siegen can be found on our homepage: www.uni-siegen.de<http://www.uni-siegen.de>. ------- Mit den besten Grüßen Carolin Gerlitz Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz Professor Digital Media and Methods Speaker DFG CRC Media of Cooperation University of Siegen Room AH-A 129 Herrengarten 3 D-57072 Siegen carolin.gerlitz(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de> https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz…

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