http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2057 <pre>LinkedUp Veni Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education *Submission deadline 27 June* http://linkedup-challenge.org/ The LinkedUp Project invites everyone, from researchers and students, to developers and businesses, to join the 'Veni' competition. This is the first of three consecutive competitions, and we’re calling for you to submit a prototype or demo that uses linked and/or open data for educational purposes. The total prize fund for ‘Veni’ is 5.000 EUR. However, the attractive prizes are only one reason to participate in the competition. It is also a great opportunity to work with the large, documented repository of linked datasets that the LinkedUp team is putting together. Participants will also be able to showcase their ideas and solutions to a wide community of researchers and practitioners: All accepted demos and prototypes will be presented at OKCon (http://okcon.org/) in Geneva, on 17 September 2013. To help participants, the LinkedUp team is providing dedicated suppo</pre> Eelco Herder 2013-05-21T10:04:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2056 <pre>We have a postdoctoral opening in computer science/artificial intelligence/machine learning at the University of York, UK for a postdoctoral researcher with data mining skills, an enthusiasm for games, the interpersonal skills to persuade games companies to collaborate and provide data and the creative skills to understand the potential of games to achieve social and scientific as well as economic goals. The salary will be in the range £29,541 - £36,298 per annum on Grade 6 of the University's salary scales. Closing date for applications: 12 June 2013. The post will commence around 1st October 2013 for 3 years. For further information and to apply go to: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&amp;p_web_page_id=165207 For more information about the NEMOG project go towww.nemog.org &lt;http://www.nemog.org&gt;. A brief description (fromjobs.ac.uk &lt;http://jobs.ac.uk&gt;) is included below: Research Associate in Data Mining/Analytics for Computer/Mobile/Digital Games Univers</pre> Daniel Kudenko 2013-05-21T11:50:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2055 <pre>Dear colleague: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this cfp. ================================================== Call for Demos and Exhibitions http://www.china-iot.net/Main_IoT_CPSCom_demo.htm Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest http://www.china-iot.net/Main_CCVC.htm Deadline: June 10, 2013 ================================================== Please take notice to the following submissions. Paper authors are welcome to submit their work to these as well. 1. Call for Demos and Exhibitions The IoT/CPSCom demo and exhibition program provides researchers and engineers with opportunities to show their cutting-edge work presented in an interactive fashion. The live demonstrations and exhibitions may include implementations of techniques presented in the main conference, workshops, other conferences and venues, as well as systems and video. We encourage companies or other commercial entities or laboratories to participate in showcasing their pro</pre> cpscom2013 2013-05-22T03:05:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2054 <pre> (Apologies for cross-posting) Open PhD Position at the Institute for Knowledge Technologies at the Technical University of Graz 40 hours/week Tasks: The Institute of Knowledge Technologies seeks a motivated doctoral student for an interdisciplinary EU-funded research project "Learning Layers." Within the framework of the project, new recommender concepts (e.g., supporting users in their learning environment) based on Social Semantic Web technologies will be developed together with the project partners and a center of excellence Know-Center GmbH. Qualifications: * completed university diploma / master's degree in computer science, software development and business management, telematics or technical mathematics (mandatory) * prior knowledge of Social Semantic Web, recommender systems, machine learning, information retrieval (preferred) * programming experience with XHTML, mySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Java (mandatory) * experience with HTML5, MATLAB, Python, R, PHP (preferred) </pre> Christoph Trattner 2013-05-21T11:25:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2053 <pre>*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2013 Tarragona, Spain July 22-26, 2013 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ ********************************************************************* +++ next registration deadline: May 26 +++ ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers. SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science by means of 63 six-hour courses dealing with hot topics at the frontiers of the field. By actively participating, lecturers and attendees will share the idea of scientific excellence as th</pre> GRLMC 2013-05-20T17:38:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2052 <pre>[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ===================================================================== CfP: SOFTec 2013 - Second Workshop on Computer Mediated Social Offline Interactions ===================================================================== *** in conjunction with Ubicomp 2013 *** *** September 8, Zurich, Swizterland *** *** June 1 2013 - papers due *** *** June 7 2013 - feedback to the authors *** *** June 14 2013 - camera ready *** *** more info at http://uc.inf.usi.ch/events/softec13 *** ======== SUMMARY AND THEME ======== In the age of online social networks, instant messaging, and email, social offline interactions seem destined to become an anachronism: as our use of electronic media increases, the number of hours per day that we interact directly with others “in the flesh” declines. Yet for all the power of synchronous and asynchronous remote communication, virtual interactions are hardly an adequate substitute. Recent studies show, e.g., that users </pre> nemanja.memarovic-BHDiRLqP7qo< at >public.gmane.org 2013-05-20T06:46:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2051 <pre>================================================== IEEE iThings 2013/CPSCom 2013/GreenCom 2013 August 20-22, 2013 Beijing, China Call for Demos and Exhibitions http://www.china-iot.net/Main_IoT_CPSCom_demo.htm Call for Cybermatics Creative Video Contest http://www.china-iot.net/Main_CCVC.htm Deadline: June 10, 2013 ================================================== Please take notice to the following submissions. Paper authors are welcome to submit their work to these as well. 1. Call for Demos and Exhibitions The IoT/CPSCom demo and exhibition program provides researchers and engineers with opportunities to show their cutting-edge work presented in an interactive fashion. The live demonstrations and exhibitions may include implementations of techniques presented in the main conference, workshops, other conferences and venues, as well as systems and video. We encourage companies or other commercial entities or laboratories to participate in showcasing their products. Prospective a</pre> CPScomConf. 2013-05-20T05:56:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2050 <pre> [apologies for multiple postings] =================================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2013) http://patch2013.wordpress.com co-located with UMAP 2013, 21st conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Rome, Italy June 14, 2013 =================================================================================== Follow us on twitter: &lt; at &gt;PATCH_workshop Spread the news: #patch2013 =================================================================================== PATCH workshop series are the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage research and personalization -- using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in CH in order to make the individual CH experience a link in a chain of a lifelong CH experience which builds on past experience, is linked to </pre> Liliana Ardissono 2013-05-18T19:11:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2049 <pre>================================================================== SPeL 2013 6th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013 In conjunction with ICSTCC 2013 17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2013 Sinaia, Romania 11-13 October 2013 ================================================================== MOTIVATION =========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL 2011 and DULP&amp;SPeL 2012 editions (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013/previous.php). The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities, focusing on emergent technologies for applied computing in education. Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking s</pre> Elvira Popescu 2013-05-18T13:43:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2048 <pre>Dear Colleague, The 9th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE’13) will take place in Monte de Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal from July 15 to August 9, 2013. eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Please visit the website http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/enterface13 for the detailed information. *Important Dates:* May 26th, 2013 - Closing of the Call for Participation. June 10th, 2013 - Publication of the final list of team members. July 15th – August 9th, 2013 - eNTERFACE’13 Workshop. *The list of projects to apply ( http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/enterface13/pages/projects-teams):* p1 - A NOVEL TOOL TO IMPROVE VISION IN ADULTS WITH AMBLYOPIA. p2 - NETWORKED EYE-TRACKERS IN SHARED MULTIMODAL COLLABORATION. p3 - B</pre> Yves Rybarczyk 2013-05-17T21:39:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2047 <pre>For the [um] mailing list pls ! Many tx Liliana ! Stefano ________________________________________ Stefano A. Cerri, Professor of Informatics Formerly: Deputy Director of LIRMM Currently: Deputy Vice-President for International Relations of the University of Montpellier LIRMM: Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, Microelectronics of Montpellier University of Montpellier &amp; CNRS www.lirmm.fr ; cerri-BUuzT83VEWE&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org +33 467 41 85 00 (LIRMM) +33 678 79 13 54 (mobile) Program Committee of WWW 2013 Rio de Janeiro (World Wide Web Conference) Program Committee of ESWC 2013 Montpellier (European Semantic Web Conference) Program Committee of the 4th International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems Co-Président du CO de TICE 2014 (Téchnologie de l'Information et de la Communication pour l'Education) Début du message réexpédié : - User Modeling mailing list - Please, use the following address to post messages to the mailing list: um-2eFfYwgyqgY1GQ1Ptb7</pre> Stefano A. Cerri 2013-05-14T11:35:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2046 <pre> (our apologies for duplicate postings) ****************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION C B M I 2013 11th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing 17-19 June 2013, Veszprem, Hungary http://cbmi2013.mik.uni-pannon.hu/ ****************************************************************************** The 11th International Content Based Multimedia Indexing Workshop is to bring together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. Following the ten successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, and Annecy 2012), the University of Pannonia, Hungary organizes the 11th Context Based Multimedia Indexing Workshop on June 17-19 2013 in the historical town of Veszprém, Hungary, near the spectacular Lake Balaton.</pre> Bernard Merialdo 2013-05-14T07:54:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2045 <pre>Dear colleague: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this cfp. =========================================================================== 1. IEEE iThings2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China) /IEEE 国际物联网大会 The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things http://www.china-iot.net/ithings2013.htm 2. IEEE CPSCom2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China) /IEEE 国际信息物理社会 计算大会 The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing http://www.china-iot.net/cpscom2013.htm 3.IEEE GreenCom2013(Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China)/IEEE 国际绿色通信与绿色 计算大会 The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications http://www.china-iot.net/GreenCom2013.htm *Paper submission deadline: May,19,2013. *All accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom 2013 in IEEE Digital Library, and will be indexed by EI. /所有接收论文由IEEE出版，EI检索。 -----------20</pre> ithings2013 2013-05-14T02:25:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2044 <pre> CSCW 2014 Call for Participation – Papers Important Dates · May 31st, 2013, 5 p.m. PDT: Submissions due · July 6th: First-round notification (Revise &amp; Resubmit or Reject) · July 26th, 5 p.m. PDT: Revised submissions due · August 23rd: Final notifications (Accept or Reject) CSCW, the ACM’s conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. The 2014 CSCW conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland from February 15th – 18th, 2014. Paper submissions are due on May 31st, 2013. We invite submissions that detail existing practices, inform the design or deployment of systems, or introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorithms. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to, social computing and social media, crowdsourcing, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, CSCL and related educational technologi</pre> Gloria Mark 2013-05-13T14:40:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2043 <pre>ABIS 2013 - 20th International Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling Interacting with Adaptive Systems http://abis.l3s.uni-hannover.de/abis-2013-workshop Held at Mensch &amp; Computer 2013 8-11 September 2013 - Bremen, Germany Submission deadline: 23 June 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ABIS 2013 is an international workshop, organized by the German SIG on Adaptivity and User Modeling of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. For the last 19 years, the ABIS Workshop has been a highly interactive forum for discussing the state of the art in personalization and user modeling. Latest developments in industry and research are presented in plenary sessions, forums, and tutorials. Researchers, Ph.D. students and Web professionals obtain and exchange novel ideas, expertise and feedback on ongoing research before submitting their work to major conferences such as CHI, UMAP, WWW and SIGIR. This year's ABIS will be organized as part of Mensch &amp; Computer 2013, the leading ev</pre> Eelco Herder 2013-05-13T10:08:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2042 <pre> -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: WWW/Internet 2013: request to PC members for call dissemination Data: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:03:10 -0400 Mittente: WWW/Internet 2013 &lt;secretariat-H4aWS73dXuoVPkRiAscTjNi2O/JbrIOy&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; A: Liliana Ardissono &lt;liliana-2eFfYwgyqgY1GQ1Ptb7lUw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Dear Colleague, We would like to request that you disseminate the conference call, that you can find below in this email, through colleagues, other researchers, students and interested people, and also through mailing lists, conference calendars, institutional pages, etc. Thank you for any efforts put into this task. Best regards, Program Chair Bebo White, Stanford University, USA Conference Chair Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal ** Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. ** </pre> Liliana Ardissono 2013-05-13T11:22:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2041 <pre>*** Join us in France *** The Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications (LORIA) -- common to the University of Lorraine, CNRS and INRIA -- seeks a *PhD student in computer science* keywords: recommender systems, user modeling, human-computer interaction, cognitive sciences https://www.adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?langue=gb&amp;site=IAEM&amp;matricule_prop=5001 * Background* The KIWI group (acronym of "Knowledge, Information and Web Intelligence") of the LORIA Laboratory performs research in various aspects of recommender systems, social networks and intelligent user interfaces, including: - building and optimization of machine learning models (scalability, sparsity, trust, relevance), - user modeling through an analysis of usage, - adaptation to context and human factors (culture, diversity, personality, ...), - representation of data (leaders, preferences, multi-scale representation). Our group is part of the department "Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligene". *Pr</pre> Castagnos Sylvain 2013-05-10T09:21:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2039 <pre> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** 8th WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS ***** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ***** Beijing, China August 3, 2013 The eighth IJCAI workshop on ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems'' will focus on challenges arising due to comprehension difficulties in dialogue systems. These difficulties include speech recognition errors and speech disfluencies in spoken dialogue systems, syntax errors, out-of-grammar and out-of-vocabulary phenomena, rambling discourse, as well as non-cooperative dialogues. Topics addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Approaches for identifying different types of comprehension difficulties, ranging from mis-hearing to uncooperative interlocutors. In particular, how does a dialogue system determine how well it has understood an utterance? - Approaches for addressing these difficulties, e.g., c</pre> Ingrid Zukerman 2013-05-08T07:43:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2038 <pre>Dear colleague: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this cfp. =========================================================================== 1. IEEE iThings2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China) /IEEE 国际物联网大会 The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things http://www.china-iot.net/ithings2013.htm 2. IEEE CPSCom2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China) /IEEE 国际信息物理社会 计算大会 The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing http://www.china-iot.net/cpscom2013.htm *Paper submission deadline: May,19,2013. *All accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom 2013 in IEEE Digital Library, and will be indexed by EI. /所有接收论文由IEEE出版，EI检索。 -----------20+ Relative Topic Workshops /20个相关专题会----------- http://www.china-iot.net/Main_workshops.htm *Paper submission deadline: May,30,2013. *All accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the GreenCom-iTh</pre> ithings2013 2013-05-08T01:09:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2037 <pre>**Paper submission deadline is next Monday, 13th May** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * *FDIA 2013: 5th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access* In Conjunction with the EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL in INFORMATION RETRIEVAL CALL FOR PAPERS September 3, 2013, Granada, Spain http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013/FDIA-about.php Paper submissions via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdia2013&lt;https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fdia2011&gt; * **Paper Submission Deadline: 13th May 2013 * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * The 5th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) will be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013/) in Granada, Spain. The symposium aims to provide a forum for participan</pre> Liadh Kelly 2013-05-07T11:47:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling/2036 <pre>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (with apologies for cross-posting) (changed maximum paper length!) **** Please distribute **** ============================================================= PeTRE - Workshop on Pervasive Technologies in Retail Environments at UbiComp 2013 http://www.pervasive-retail.com Markus Löchtefeld, Petteri Nurmi,Florian Michahelles, Carsten Magerkurth, Patrik Floréen and Antonio Krüger Zürich, Switzerland Spetember 8th 2013 ============================================================= === TOPIC === The workshop on Pervasive Technologies in Retail Environments (PeTRE) is the continuation of MIRE 2011 (http://dfki.de/mire held at MobileHCI 2011) and provides an established forum for researchers from academy and industry exploring how pervasive technologies can be embedded into retail environments to create new shopping experiences and services. The goals of the workshop are to •discuss the integration of pervasive technologies into retailing; •construct a roadmap for future</pre> Markus Löchtefeld 2013-05-06T16:46:12 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.ai.user-modeling