http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1313 <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 the main motto of their research work. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, in the description of some of them reference may be made to specific knowledge background. SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field. Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful to listen and discuss with people who are main references of the diverse branches of computing nowadays. REGIME: 7 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona Arquitecte Rovira, 2 43001 Tarragona http://www.palaucongrestgna.com COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (Santa Barbara) [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Shun-ichi Amari (Riken) [introductory] Information Geometry and Its Applications James Anderson (Chapel Hill) [intermediate] Scheduling and Synchronization in Real-Time Multicore Systems Pierre Baldi (Irvine) [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Yoshua Bengio (Montréal) [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning of Representations Stephen Brewster (Glasgow) [advanced] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Bruno Buchberger (Linz) [introductory] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method for Multivariate Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) [intermediate] Cloud Computing Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich) [intermediate] Cryptography for Privacy Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke) [intermediate] Trust Logic as an Enabler for Secure Federated Systems Larry S. Davis (College Park) [intermediate] Video Analysis of Human Activities Paul De Bra (Eindhoven) [intermediate] Adaptive Systems Marco Dorigo (Brussels) [introductory] An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics Paul Dourish (Irvine) [introductory] Ubiquitous Computing in a Social Context Max J. Egenhofer (Maine) [introductory/intermediate] Qualitative Spatial Relations: Formalizations and Inferences Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon) [advanced] Software Architecture: Past, Present and Future Mario Gerla (Los Angeles) [intermediate] Vehicle Cloud Computing Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnesota) [advanced] Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Data Analytics and Networking Ralph Grishman (New York) [intermediate] Information Extraction from Natural Language Francisco Herrera (Granada) [intermediate] Imbalanced Classification: Current Approaches and Open Problems Paul Hudak (Yale) [introductory] Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using Haskell Niraj K. Jha (Princeton) [intermediate] FinFET Circuit Design George Karypis (Minnesota) [introductory] Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern) [intermediate/advanced] Sparsity-based Advances in Image Processing Arie E. Kaufman (Stony Brook) [advanced] Advances in Visualization Carl Kesselman (Southern California) [intermediate] Biomedical Informatics and Big Data Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) [intermediate] An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montréal) [intermediate] Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Simulation: Theory and Practice Laks Lakshmanan (British Columbia) [intermediate/advanced] Information and Influence Spread in Social Networks Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) [introductory] DNS-based Monitoring of Malware Activities Maurizio Lenzerini (Roma La Sapienza) [intermediate] Ontology-based Data Integration Ming C. Lin (Chapel Hill) [introductory/intermediate] Physically-based Modeling and Simulation Jane W.S. Liu (Academia Sinica) [intermediate] Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response Satoru Miyano (Tokyo) [intermediate] How to Hack Cancer Systems with Computational Methods Aloysius K. Mok (Austin) [intermediate] From Real-time Systems to Cyber-physical Systems Hermann Ney (Aachen) [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Modelling for Natural Language Processing - with Applications to Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation Cathleen A. Norris (North Texas) &amp; Elliot Soloway (Ann Arbor) [introductory] Primary &amp; Secondary Educational Computing in the Age of Mobilism Jeff Offutt (George Mason) [intermediate] Cutting Edge Research in Engineering of Web Applications David Padua (Urbana) [intermediate] Parallel Programming with Abstractions Bijan Parsia (Manchester) [introductory] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and Technical Foundations Massoud Pedram (Southern California) [intermediate] Energy Efficient Architectures and Information Processing Systems Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei) [intermediate/advanced] Beyond 4G Prabhakar Raghavan (Google) [introductory/intermediate] Web Search and Advertising Sudhakar M. Reddy (Iowa) [introductory] Design for Test and Test of Digital VLSI Circuits Phillip Rogaway (Davis) [introductory/intermediate] Provably Secure Symmetric Encryption Gustavo Rossi (La Plata) [intermediate] Topics in Model Driven Web Engineering Kaushik Roy (Purdue) [introductory/intermediate] Low-energy Computing Robert Sargent (Syracuse) [introductory] Validating Models Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt) [intermediate] Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent and Networked Software Bart Selman (Cornell) [intermediate] Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and Logical Inference Methods Mubarak Shah (Central Florida) [intermediate/advanced] Visual Crowd Surveillance Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv) [introductory] Revealing Structure in Disease Regulation and Networks Satinder Singh (Ann Arbor) [introductory/advanced] Reinforcement Learning: On Machines Learning to Act from Experience Dawn Xiaodong Song (Berkeley) [introductory] Selected Topics in Computer Security Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton) [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web Julita Vassileva (Saskatchewan) [introductory/intermediate] Engaging Users in Social Computing Systems Philip Wadler (Edinburgh) [introductory] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life Yao Wang (Polytechnic New York) [introductory/advanced] Video Compression: Fundamentals and Recent Development Gio Wiederhold (Stanford) [introductory] Software Economics: How Do the Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the Global Market Place Limsoon Wong (National Singapore) [introductory/intermediate] The Use of Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis Michael Wooldridge (Oxford) [introductory] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Ronald R. Yager (Iona) [introductory/intermediate] Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing Philip S. Yu (Illinois Chicago) [advanced] Mining Big Data REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/Registration.php Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. FEES: They are the same (a flat rate) for all people by the corresponding deadline. They give the right to attend all courses. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013 Six registration deadlines: February 26, March 26, April 26, May 26, June 26, July 26, 2013 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu-dMnexiTLjhM&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2013 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Ajuntament de Tarragona Diputació de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili </pre> GRLMC 2013-05-19T20:09:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1312 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2013 (IAT'13) November 17–20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA Conference Website: http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/ Full Paper Submission Due: *** May 1, 2013 *** extended to *** May 20, 2013 *** Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ####################################################################### IAT 2013 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields that include: computer science, information technology, business, education, systems engineering and robotics. IAT 2013 will be jointly held with the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2013). WI-IAT’13 will have various workshops, WI-IAT technical sessions, tutorials and panels. WI-IAT’13 will have keynotes, a social reception together with the poster session and industry demo, and a banquet. Attendees only need to register once to attend all technical events at WI-IAT’13. Furthermore, WI-IAT 2013 will include workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology communities. The workshop programs will focus on new research challenges, initiatives and applications. IAT 2013 is an excellent opportunity for researchers who wish to examine design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi- agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2013 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent and multi-agent based computing. Extended versions of excellent papers will have future opportunities to be published in special issues at high quality IEEE, ACM journals. Dr. John E. Hopcroft from Cornell University, who won A. M. Turing Award in 1986, will give a keynote speech at WI-IAT’13. IAT 2013 topics and areas include, but not limited to: -Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) -Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Modeling -Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Engineering -Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents -Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation -Distributed Problem Solving -Coordination -Applications Important dates: Workshop proposal submission March 1, 2013 Electronic submission of full papers: May 1, 2013 extended to May 20, 2013 Tutorial proposal submission: June 1, 2013 Workshop paper submission: June 1, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2013 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 1, 2013 Workshops: Nov. 17, 2013 Conference: November 18-20, 2013 High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT 2013 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI, and also will be available on site. *** Contact Information *** Conference secretariat: Ms. Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University Email: tgdudley(at)cs.gsu.edu &lt;http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wenjun-zhou/15/80b/662&gt; </pre> Wenjun Zhou 2013-05-17T19:48:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1311 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2013 (WI'13) November 17-20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA Conference Website: http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/ Full Paper Submission Due: *** May 1, 2013 *** extended to *** May 20, 2013 *** Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ####################################################################### WI 2013 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, to increase the cross-fertilization of ideas and explore the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence engineering and Advanced Information Technology on the next generation of Web systems. Web Intelligence has been recognized as one of the most important as well as promising direction for scientific research and development in the era of Web and agent intelligence to bring in the next generation Web systems. Furthermore, WI 2013 will include workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology communities. The workshop programs will focus on new research challenges, initiatives and applications. WI 2013 is an excellent opportunity for researchers who wish to examine design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in web intelligence technology, and increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of web intelligence systems among different domains. Extended versions of excellent papers will have future opportunities to be published in special issues at high quality IEEE, ACM journals. Dr. John E. Hopcroft from Cornell University, who won A. M. Turing Award in 1986, will give a keynote speech at WI-IAT’13. WI 2013 topics and areas include, but not limited to: - Web Intelligence Foundations - World Wide Wisdom Web - Web Information Retrieval and Filtering - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Web Mining and Farming - Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Web Agents, Services and Support Systems - Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Intelligent e-Technology - Intelligent Cloud Web Systems for Big Data Mining - Intelligent Green Web Systems Important dates: Workshop proposal submission March 1, 2013 Electronic submission of full papers: May 1, 2013 extended to May 20, 2013 Tutorial proposal submission: June 1, 2013 Workshop paper submission: June 1, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2013 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 1, 2013 Workshops: Nov. 17, 2013 Conference: November 18-20, 2013 High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'2013 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI, and also will be available on site. *** Contact Information *** Conference secretariat: Ms. Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University Email: tgdudley(at)cs.gsu.edu &lt;http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wenjun-zhou/15/80b/662&gt; </pre> Wenjun Zhou 2013-05-17T19:47:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1310 <pre>*** Apologies for multiple postings *** =========================================================== ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab First call for Extended Abstracts/Short Papers: Student mentoring forum =========================================================== We invite submissions for students to the *Student Mentoring forum* to be held at the evaluation lab at the CLEF conference in Valencia, Spain, September 23-26 2013. This track is aimed at graduate students who would like to present and get feedback on work related to the ShARe/CLEF eHealth tracks or other related, ongoing research, such as: a) evaluation of mono- and multilingual methods, applications and resources for eHealth document analysis; b) development of statistical and user-feedback based evaluation protocols, settings, methods and measures for cross-language evaluation of methods, applications, and resources for eHealth document analysis. Work in progress and/or tentative research plans in these research areas are also welcomed. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two senior researchers in the program committee. We will do our best to accommodate all submissions from students with a paid registration. Each accepted paper will be assigned 5-15 minute presentation followed by mentors' feedback, questions &amp; answers session of students and senior academics. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop webpage. Submission format: Instructions to authors are found here: http://www.clef2013.org/index.php?page=Pages/instructions_for_authors.html * CLEF conference template for extended abstracts: max 2 pages, .doc format using the template for writing 'Extended Abstract' found in the link above. * Submissions are to be uploaded in EasyChair under the 'Mentoring Track'. For more information about CLEFeHealth 2013, see: http://www.nicta.com.au/business/health/events/clefehealth_2013/linkages3/?a=37083 Important dates: Submission deadline: 15 June Notification of acceptance: 1 July CLEF2013: 23-26 Sept. 2013 </pre> Sumithra Velupillai 2013-05-17T12:18:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1309 <pre>C A L L F O R P A P E R S 6th IRF Conference : October 7-9 2013, Limassol, Cyprus Organised by the Cyprus University of Technology and the MUMIA Cost Action Conference: http://cyprusconferences.org/irfc2013/ Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irfc2013 T H E I R F C O N F E R E N C E The 6th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2013 provides once again a multidisciplinary scientific forum for researchers in Information Retrieval and related areas. The conference aims at bringing young researchers into contact with the industry at an early stage, emphasizing the applicability of IR solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges. The 6th IRF Conference addresses 3 complementary research areas: * Information Retrieval * Machine Translation for search solutions * Interactive Information Access The Conference targets researchers who are interested in: * Learning about complementary technologies for the development of next generation search solutions * Applying their results to real business needs * Joining the international research network of the MUMIA Cost Action * Discussing results obtained by using the IRF or other public data resources All papers will undergo a review process with each paper being reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. All paper submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines. We welcome two different types of submissions (Science, Industry). - Science Papers For researchers and students in the fields of Information Retrieval, Machine Translation for Search Solutions and Interactive Information Access. Papers submitted must refer to novel, unpublished research. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages including references and figures. - Industry Papers For developers and implementers of novel technology in the fields of Information Retrieval, Machine Translation for Search Solutions and Interactive Information Access. For business and industry representatives using IR technologies to search and analyse large quantities of information. Papers of this type should not exceed 4 pages including references and figures. - Competitive Demonstrations - in cooperation with the Session Track at TREC Research groups and industry members are invited to demonstrate their information access tools. In previous years, the PatOlympics have proven an exciting interaction driver between users and creators of patent search systems. This year, the competitive demo opens to general purpose IR tools and interested participants are invited to submit a 2 page description of their system. Similarly to the Session Track, participants are required to index the same collection as the Session Track 2013 (ClueWeb12). An API will be provided for participants to send in their results during the event, and scores will be calculated on the fly. K E Y N O T E We are very happy to be able to welcome Ralf Steinberger of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission as a keynote speaker of IRFC2013. Dr. Steinberger will talk about Multilingual and cross-lingual news analysis in the Europe Media Monitor (EMM). O R G A N I S A T I O N General Chair: John Tait (JohnTait.net Ltd) Programme Chairs: Evangelos Kanoulas (Google) Mihai Lupu (Vienna University of Technology) Programme Committee: Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst Ivan Koichev, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Hidetsugu Nanba, Hiroshima City University Walid Magdy, Qatar Computing Research Institute David Lamas, Tallinn University Michail Salampasis, Vienna University of Technology Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead Henning Müller, HES-SO David Vallet, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology Ivan Chorbev, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology Dolf Trieschnigg, University of Twente Oren Somekh, Yahoo! Labs Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna Suzan Verberne, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Danco Davcev, UKIM Skopje Pavel Braslavski, Ural Federal University / Kontur Labs Andreas Nuernberger, University of Magdeburg Igor Mozetic, Jozef Stefan Institute Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway Galia Angelova, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex Arjen de Vries, CWI Edgar Meij, University of Amsterdam Katja Hofmann, ISLA, University of Amsterdam Manos Tsagkias, ISLA, University of Amsterdam Ronan Cummins, University of Greenwich Robert Villa, University of Sheffield Avi Arampatzis, Democritus University of Thrace Sebastien Ferre, Universite de Rennes 1 T O P I C S T O B E A D D R E S S E D We seek papers on novel, unpublished research in one or more topics mentioned below: * IR Models * IR Evaluation * User Modeling, Personalization and Interactive IR * Machine Learning, Categorization, and Clustering for IR * Cross-Language IR * Visualization of Search Results * Ontologies * Reasoning * Semantic Annotation * Information Extraction and Summarization * Named Entity Recognition * Machine Translation * Question Answering * Patent Analytics * Scientific Paper Search * Biomedical Information Search * Enterprise Search * Web Search * Human Factors in IR Multi-disciplinary papers combining topics from multiple areas are particularly welcome. I M P O R T A N T D A T E S Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2013 Acceptance decision and reviews to authors: July 7, 2013 Deadline for submission of final paper: July 22, 2013 Speaker registration: July 22, 2013 Early registration deadline: July 22, 2013 IRF Conference: Oct 7-9, 2013 For more information, please consult our website http://cyprusconferences.org/irfc2013/ or, contact the organising chairs via email: irfc-HJsdPYLFxjEIGk3rvHgz7SCwEArCW2h5&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org IRFC 2013 is organised by the Cyprus University of Technology and the MUMIA Cost Action. </pre> Mihai Lupu (TUW 2013-05-17T12:20:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1307 <pre>** Deadline is 31st May 2013 &lt; at &gt; 12noon ** Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. We invite proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems - for the tutorial day due to take place the day before Search Solutions 2013. Tutorials Proposals for both full day (7 hours) and half day (3.5 hours) proposals are invited. These will take place on Tuesday 26th November 2013. Proposal submission Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the panel chair (andym-t4sxTLMIvjk&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.orguk) by Friday 31st May 2013 &lt; at &gt; 12noon, using the following template: •Name of presenter(s): please list the names and affiliations of presenter(s). •Contact details: email and snail mail address, phone numbers etc. •Type of tutorial: half day or full day. •Tutorial Abstract: for publicity. •Target audience: please outline the practitioner audience to be addressed. •Learning outcomes: what would the practitioners gain from attending this tutorial? •Outline of tutorial: provide the overall structure and subjects to be presented. •Tutorial description: provide a detailed description of the tutorial and its content. •Tutorial logistics/materials: media and formats for tutorial. What will be provided to attendees (e.g. slides). •Bio of presenter(s): including track record of presenting tutorials, lecturing experience etc. (200/300 words) Selection Procedure All tutorial proposals will be peer reviewed by the panel and approved by the organising committee. The selection criteria will focus on the quality of the tutorial content and the appropriateness of it to the main theme of search solutions – namely practitioner issues. Honorarium and other issues Depending on the number of attendees, presenters will receive an Honorarium. All travel and accommodation expenses must be met by the presenters themselves. The organising committee of Search Solutions reserve the right to cancel tutorials unless a minimum of four participants have registered. Panel: Dr A. MacFarlane, City University London (Chair) Prof. J. Tait, johntait.net Ltd Dr M. Oakes, University of Sunderland </pre> Andrew MacFarlane 2013-05-15T07:20:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1306 <pre>You are invited to participate in the SICSA MMI Information Retrieval Workshop: a full day of information retrieval (IR) related activities for the SICSA community. The workshop will be held as a one-day event on May 31st 2013 at Glasgow Caledonian University. All those interested or involved in the broad area of IR and related areas (e.g. HCI, machine learning, NLP etc.) are welcome to attend this workshop and attendance if free for SICSA members. The workshop will allow attendees to meet researchers across SICSA involved IR, present an overview of their own work/interests and allow us to plan how we might work together or collaborate in the future. If you are not familiar with IR research in Scotland this workshop provides an opportunity to get an overview of an area in which Scotland has strong research. The agenda consists of some interactive sessions, an international keynote and some great speakers who will give a flavour of the excellent IR research that is being conducted in SICSA institutions. The speakers include: Prof Arjen de Vries&lt;http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Earjen/&gt; (CWI Amsterdam) Dr M-Dyaa Albakour&lt;http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Edyaa/&gt; (University of Glasgow) Dr Leif Azzopardi&lt;http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Eleif/&gt; (University of Glasgow) Dr Matt-Mouley Bouamrane&lt;http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/matt-mouleybouamrane/&gt; (University of Glasgow) Dr Tiphaine Dalmas&lt;http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Tiphaine_Dalmas.html&gt; (University of Edinburgh) Prof Ayşe Göker&lt;http://www.rgu.ac.uk/dmstaff/goker-ayse&gt; (Robert Gordon University) Dr Martin Halvey&lt;http://www.gcu.ac.uk/ebe/staff/martinhalvey/&gt; (Glasgow Caledonian University) Prof Joemon Jose&lt;http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/staff/joemonjose/&gt; (University of Glasgow) Dr Craig MacDonald&lt;http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Ecraigm/&gt; (University of Glasgow) Dr Miles Osborne&lt;http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/miles/&gt; (University of Edinburgh) Dr Dmitri Roussinov&lt;http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/cis/staff/index.php?uid=52176&gt; (Strathclyde University) We also plan to hold a madness session where students, postdocs and staff will have two minutes to present their research with rapid fire slides. There will also be a showcase session after lunch which will allow anybody to bring a recent poster or demo to showcase. These sessions present a great way to get feedback on your latest work. It is intended that this meeting will be a lively and informal gathering, and a great way for you to showcase your work to leading IR researchers. It is hoped that by bringing together IR researchers that the workshop will inspire future research and collaboration amongst members. More details and registration information is available on this page - http://sicsair.eventbrite.co.uk SICSA IR Workshop Organisers Martin Halvey and Leif Azzopardi Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Winner: Times Higher Education's Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society's Education Initiative of the Year 2009. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html Winner: Times Higher Education's Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html </pre> Halvey, Martin 2013-05-14T13:28:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1305 <pre>BCS / BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award An Award to Commemorate Karen Spärck Jones The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has created an award to commemorate the achievements of Karen Spärck Jones. Karen was a Professor Emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge and one of the most remarkable women in computer science. Her contributions to the fields of Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding and highly influential. Karen’s achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal, for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. In order to honour Karen’s achievements, the BCS/BCS-IRSG has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the award will be invited to present a keynote lecture at the BCS-IRSG’s annual conference – the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR). This forum provides an excellent venue to present and announce the award as the conference attracts many new and younger researchers. The recipient will also be presented with a prize consisting of a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR. BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award: Eligibility: Open to all IR/NLP researchers, who have no more than 10 years’ post doctoral or equivalent experience. Criteria: To have endeavoured to advance our understanding of IR and/or NLP through experimentation. Nominations: The following should be provided: - name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completing PhD; - name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation; - a short case for the award (composed of a short description of why the individual should receive the award); - a short description of what contributions the individual has made; - a list of the individual’s top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these; Please note that the nomination text should not exceed 2500 words. - Additionally, two supporting letters (i.e. reference letters) from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination must be sought, along with their contact details. Nominations should be emailed to the contact below, for forwarding to the Nominations Panel, and seek confirmation of receipt. It is advisable that you notify us as soon as possible of an intention to nominate an individual as this will help with planning. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, though this is less encouraged – as in the least, this will mean there is one less person supporting the nomination case. Nominations will be forwarded to the Nominations Panel that will receive the applications. Additionally, the Nominations Panel can also seek applications but will not be part of the Award Panel. Award Panel: The Award Panel Chair, appointed by the BCS IRSG Committee, will invite panel members from amongst representatives of the BCS main council, the BCS-IRSG Committee, sponsoring organisation(s), as well as at least two experts appointed by the BCS-IRSG committee and the Awards Coordinator of the BCS-IRSG. Prize: The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR to present the keynote lecture. Presentation: The recipient of the award is expected to give a keynote lecture at ECIR when he/she will also be presented with their trophy, and cash prize. Timeline (for the 2013 Award to be presented in 2014): 15 September, 2013 Deadline for nominations. 1 October, 2013 - Deadline for support letters. 15 December, 2013 - Notification of the prize winner. 24-27 March, 2014- Winner presents keynote at ECIR. Sponsors: Currently, the award is being sponsored by the BCS IRSG and Microsoft Research Cambridge. Contact: Ayse Göker, a.s.goker-cfkdeEF6wwhaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Further details and previous winners available on: irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward.php Robert Gordon University is The Sunday Times Best Modern University in the UK 2012 Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Robert Gordon University. Thank you. </pre> Ayse Goker (csdm 2013-05-14T09:45:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1304 <pre>Reader/Senior Lecturer in Computing Robert Gordon University -School of Computing http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGK158/reader-senior-lecturer-in-computing/ (Ref C38774) The School of Computing Science and Digital Media and IDEAS Research Institute invite applications for a Reader (Associate Professor) in Computing Science to support the future growth of the School. The IDEAS Digital Technologies theme is the centre of research in the School of Computing Science and Digital Media. The group has a strong research profile and good research links through the Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), NRP’s Computational Systems group and international collaborations. The post is designed to expand and strengthen our research in Intelligent Information Systems, in areas related, or complementary, to ‘big data’, secure and/or cloud-based systems. Big data in oil and gas is a major theme of our future research strategy. Candidates in other areas of applied computing, in particular those related to energy or smart cities, are also encouraged to apply. We are looking for innovative researchers of international standing with a strong track record of research funding and international quality publications, and the vision and leadership skills to play a central role in the development of research and partnerships. The successful candidates will have the ability to attract leading researchers and high quality students, and will contribute to relevant areas of teaching as appropriate. Relevant experience through industrial/commercial activities would be welcomed. The School and IDEAS will be a significant part of a new £100 million building, completing RGU’s move to its Garthdee riverside campus in summer 2013. The IDEAS research hub is home for the Graduate School and research projects, and is adjacent to the academic hub for the School. Interviews will be in person during the week commencing 10th June. Applicants are encouraged to contact the Head of School, Professor Ian Allison, (i.allison-cfkdeEF6wwhaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org , +44 (0)1224 262701) or the Research Institute Director, Professor Susan Craw (ideas-cfkdeEF6wwhaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, +44 (0)1224 262711). Further details about the School and the Research Institute may be found at www.rgu.ac.uk/computing and www.rgu.ac.uk/ideas/digitech. Closing Date: 19 May 2013 ----------- Ayse Goker Professor of Computational Systems / Northern Research Partnership Chair School of Computing / IDEAS Research Institute Information Retrieval &amp; Re-use Research Group Robert Gordon University is The Sunday Times Best Modern University in the UK 2012 Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Robert Gordon University. Thank you. </pre> Ayse Goker (csdm 2013-05-14T09:38:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1302 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2013 (WI'13) November 17-20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA Conference Website: http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/ Full Paper Submission Due: *** May 1, 2013 *** extended to *** May 20, 2013 *** Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ####################################################################### WI 2013 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, to increase the cross-fertilization of ideas and explore the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence engineering and Advanced Information Technology on the next generation of Web systems. Web Intelligence has been recognized as one of the most important as well as promising direction for scientific research and development in the era of Web and agent intelligence to bring in the next generation Web systems. Furthermore, WI 2013 will include workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology communities. The workshop programs will focus on new research challenges, initiatives and applications. WI 2013 is an excellent opportunity for researchers who wish to examine design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in web intelligence technology, and increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of web intelligence systems among different domains. Extended versions of excellent papers will have future opportunities to be published in special issues at high quality IEEE, ACM journals. Dr. John E. Hopcroft from Cornell University, who won A. M. Turing Award in 1986, will give a keynote speech at WI-IAT’13. WI 2013 topics and areas include, but not limited to: - Web Intelligence Foundations - World Wide Wisdom Web - Web Information Retrieval and Filtering - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Web Mining and Farming - Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Web Agents, Services and Support Systems - Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Intelligent e-Technology - Intelligent Cloud Web Systems for Big Data Mining - Intelligent Green Web Systems Important dates: Workshop proposal submission March 1, 2013 Electronic submission of full papers: May 1, 2013 extended to May 20, 2013 Tutorial proposal submission: June 1, 2013 Workshop paper submission: June 1, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2013 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 1, 2013 Workshops: Nov. 17, 2013 Conference: November 18-20, 2013 High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'2013 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI, and also will be available on site. *** Contact Information *** Conference secretariat: Ms. Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University Email: tgdudley(at)cs.gsu.edu &lt;http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wenjun-zhou/15/80b/662&gt; </pre> Wenjun Zhou 2013-05-11T18:51:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1301 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2013 (IAT'13) November 17–20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA Conference Website: http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/ Full Paper Submission Due: *** May 1, 2013 *** extended to *** May 20, 2013 *** Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ####################################################################### IAT 2013 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields that include: computer science, information technology, business, education, systems engineering and robotics. IAT 2013 will be jointly held with the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2013). WI-IAT’13 will have various workshops, WI-IAT technical sessions, tutorials and panels. WI-IAT’13 will have keynotes, a social reception together with the poster session and industry demo, and a banquet. Attendees only need to register once to attend all technical events at WI-IAT’13. Furthermore, WI-IAT 2013 will include workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology communities. The workshop programs will focus on new research challenges, initiatives and applications. IAT 2013 is an excellent opportunity for researchers who wish to examine design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi- agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2013 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent and multi-agent based computing. Extended versions of excellent papers will have future opportunities to be published in special issues at high quality IEEE, ACM journals. Dr. John E. Hopcroft from Cornell University, who won A. M. Turing Award in 1986, will give a keynote speech at WI-IAT’13. IAT 2013 topics and areas include, but not limited to: -Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) -Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Modeling -Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Engineering -Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents -Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation -Distributed Problem Solving -Coordination -Applications Important dates: Workshop proposal submission March 1, 2013 Electronic submission of full papers: May 1, 2013 extended to May 20, 2013 Tutorial proposal submission: June 1, 2013 Workshop paper submission: June 1, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2013 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 1, 2013 Workshops: Nov. 17, 2013 Conference: November 18-20, 2013 High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT 2013 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI, and also will be available on site. *** Contact Information *** Conference secretariat: Ms. Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University Email: tgdudley(at)cs.gsu.edu &lt;http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wenjun-zhou/15/80b/662&gt; </pre> Wenjun Zhou 2013-05-11T18:50:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1300 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] Based on numerous requests, the full paper submission deadline has been extended to May 13th. #################################################################### Brain and Health Informatics 2013 (BHI'13) CALL FOR PAPERS #################################################################### 2013 International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics 2013 (BHI'13) October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi, Japan Homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/ Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) Co-sponsored by Maebashi Institute of Technology Maebashi City and Gunma Prefecture Government Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science ################################################################## # Full Paper Submission Due: *** 13 May 2013 *** (Extended) # Accepted full papers will be published by Springer as # a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI. # Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be # considered for publication in special issues of journals ################################################################## Special BHI-AMT 2013 Joint Keynote: Yuichiro Anzai President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Keynote Speakers: Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA Marcel A. Just, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (pending) Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido University, Japan Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Brain and Health Informatics (BHI) aims to develop and disseminate understandings of novel intelligent computing formalisms, techniques, and technologies in the special application contexts of brain and health/well-being related studies and services. It is devoted to interdisciplinary studies on BHI, covering computational, logical, cognitive, neuro-physiological, biological, physical, ecological, and social perspectives of BHI. BHI’13 aims to provide a leading international, interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers and practitioners that explore the interplay between studies of human brain and health/well-being related issues and advents of computer science and information technologies. For instance, emerging advanced information technologies, such as Internet/Web of things (IOT/WOT), the wisdom Web of things (W2T), cloud computing, may be applied to brain studies. Informatics-enabled brain studies, e.g., based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), and eye-tracking, can significantly broaden the spectrum of theories and models of brain sciences, which will in turn offer new insights into the development of intelligent computing systems and informatics. BHI will feature high-quality, original research papers in all theoretical, technological, clinical, and interdisciplinary studies that make up the field of brain/health informatics. The systematic BHI methodology has resulted in the BHI big data, including various raw brain data, data-related information, extracted data features, found domain knowledge related to human intelligence, and so forth. A brain data centre needs to be constructed on the W2T and cloud computing platform for effectively utilizing the “data wealth” as services, which provides big opportunities for both fundamental and clinical researches with respect to cognitive science, neuroscience, and mental health. The most challenging problem is to curate BHI big data, which can be characterized by four parameters: volume, variety, velocity, and value, in order to support data sharing and reuse among different BHI experimental and computational studies for generating and testing hypotheses about human and computational intelligence. BHI’13 will be jointly held with the International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'13). +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO A. Brain Informatics (BI) A.1 Thinking and perception-centric investigations of HIPS: * Adaptation and self-organization * Brain dynamics and functional/resting/structural brain networks * Cognitive architectures; their relations to fMRI/EEG/MEG * Emotion, heuristic search, information granularity, and autonomy related issues in human reasoning and problem solving * HIPS meets complex systems * Human higher cognitive functions and their relationships * Human learning mechanisms (e.g., stability, personalized user/student models) * Human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, and tactile information processing * Human reasoning mechanisms (e.g., principles of human deductive/inductive reasoning, common-sense reasoning, decision making, and problem solving) * Investigating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS and the related neural structures and neurobiological process * Methodologies for systematic design of cognitive experiments * Modeling brain information processing mechanisms (e.g., neuro-mechanism, mathematical, cognitive and computational models of HIPS) * Neural Basis of Decision-Making * Neural Foundations of Intelligent Behavior A.2 Information technologies for the management and use of brain data: * Cyber-individuals meets brain informatics * Data brain modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data * Databasing the brain, curating big data and constructing brain data centers * Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals * Human brain data collection, pre-processing, management, and analysis * Information technologies for simulating brain data * Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging * Measuring scale threshold of BI big data * Modeling brain information-processing mechanisms * Modeling molecular imaging and multimodal neuroimaging * Multi-aspect analysis in fMRI/EEG/MEG activations * Multi-media brain data mining and reasoning * Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation * Simulating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS * Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging A.3 Applications * Brain/Cognition inspired artificial systems * Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) * Clinical diagnosis and pathology of human brain and mind-related diseases (e.g. mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer disease (AD), depression, epilepsy, parkinson and cerebral palsy) * Digit, data, and computational Brain * e-Science, e-Health and e-Medicine * Eye-tracking meets fMRI/EEG for human-computer interaction * Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neurolinguistics, neurosemantics, and neuroinstrumentation * New cognitive and computational models for intelligent systems Non-verbal communication B. Health Informatics (HI) B.1 Information technologies for healthcare delivery and management * Consumer health and wellness informatics applications * Health informatics education * Healthcare delivery in developing countries * Healthcare workflow management * Information technologies for alternative medicine * Information technologies for healthcare service delivery * Information technologies for hospital management * Information technologies for the management of patient safety and clinical outcomes * Medical compliance automation for patients and institutions * Organizational impacts of health information technologies * Public health informatics * Social networks, social media and e-learning for spreading health informatics awareness * Social studies of health information technologies * Technology informatics guiding educational reform * Telecare and Telemedicine * Virtual conferencing systems for healthcare B.2 Healthcare decision support * Biomedical modeling and simulation * Business intelligence and data warehousing for healthcare * Cognitive and decision support systems * Computational intelligence methodologies for healthcare * Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care * Computer support for surgical intervention * Computer-aided diagnosis * Disease diagnostic models * Disease prognostic models * Epidemiological modeling * Health risk evaluation and modeling * Healthcare knowledge abstraction, classification, and summarization * Healthcare knowledge computerization, execution, inference, management, and representation * Medical recommender systems * Operations research methods for healthcare * Optimization models for planning and recommending therapies * Personalized predictive modeling for clinical management (e.g., cancer, trauma, diabetes mellitus, sleep disorders, substance abuse) * Physiological modeling B.3 Data analytics, data mining, and machine learning * Analytics for clinical care * Biomarker discovery and biomedical model development * Biomedical data mining * Biomedical pattern recognition * Cleaning, pre-processing, and ensuring quality and integrity of medical data * Data analytics for healthcare quality assurance * Healthcare workflow mining * Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records * Medical insurance fraud detection * Medical signal analysis and processing * Natural language processing and text mining for biomedical literature, clinical notes, and health consumer texts * Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare * Statistics and quality of medical data * Survival analysis and health hazard evaluations * Visual analytics for healthcare +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There are 2 types of Paper Submissions and Publication, which you can choose one of them: Type I of Submissions and Publication: Full Paper Submissions: -------------------------------------------------------------- High-quality papers in all BHI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All accpted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. Type II of Submissions and Publication: Abstract Submissions: ------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program. Selected abstract submissions will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals after their abstracts are extended to a full-length paper and pass a peer review process. We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result paper sessions. Detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found from the BHI'13 Web page at http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/ +++++++ Awards +++++++ BHI 2013 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers (12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): *** 13 May 2013 *** (Extended) Notification of full paper acceptance: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 21, 2013 Electronic submission of abstracts *** 15 July 2013 *** Notification of abstract acceptance: July 30, 2013 Conference: October 29-31, 2013 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ BHI-AMT'13 Honorary General Chair: Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan BHI'13 Conference General Chairs: Tomoaki Shirao,Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan Takuji Kasamatsu, The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA BHI'13 Program Chairs: Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan BHI'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair: Lars Schwabe, University of Rostock, Germany BHI-AMT'13 Organizing Chairs: Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Tetsumi Harakawa, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan BHI-AMT'13 Panel Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA BHI-AMT'13 Journal Special Issue Chairs: Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan BHI-AMT'13 Publicity Chairs: Shinichi Motomura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada &amp; Univ. of Warsaw, Poland Jian Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China AMT'13 Conference General Chairs: Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China AMT'13 Program Chairs: Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China AMT'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair: Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell lab, France IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan Benjamin Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA WIC Technical Committee Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Pierre Morizet, Mahoudeaux Compiegne University of Technology, France Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada *** Contact Information *** Kazuyuki Imamura (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) &lt;imamurak-H/xELs6c2qmepCXd1Gw5PXgSJqDPrsil&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; </pre> WIC Office 2013-05-09T16:48:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1299 <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 participants of the summer school to share their research and interaction with senior researchers in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. The previous symposiums were held in Koblenz, Germany in 2011 &lt;http://essir.uni-koblenz.de/&gt; (with ESSIR 2011&lt;http://essir.uni-koblenz.de/&gt;), *Padova, Italy in 2009*&lt;http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it/%2522%20%255Cl%20%2522fdia&gt; *(with ESSIR 2009)* &lt;http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it/&gt;, London, England in 2008 &lt;http://irsg.bcs.org/FDIA/2008/fdia2008.php&gt;, and Glasgow, Scotland in 2007 &lt;http://irsg.bcs.org/FDIA/2007/fdia2007.php&gt; (with ESSIR 2007&lt;http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/&gt;) and have provided an entertaining and exciting forum for sharing new research ideas. Why future directions, because we want to encourage submissions that focus on the early research such as pilot studies, presenting challenges and future opportunities, conceptual and theoretical work, and the contributions from doctoral work. Why Information Access, because it captures the broader ideas of information retrieval, storage and management to include interaction and usage. *Symposium Aims* The IRSG FDIA Symposium is mainly turned to PhD students, researchers new to the field, and post doctoral researchers. The objectives are: • To provide an accessible forum for new researchers to discuss their research and projects. • To help foster formative and tentative research ideas. • To encourage discussion and successful progression. • To share outcomes of doctoral work. *Call for Papers * This symposium calls for research papers to be submitted on topics about Information Access. We especially encourage submissions on late breaking and formative research which presents initial work that survey and present future challenges and opportunities, present pilot studies, explore conceptual and/or theoretical models, or which present results, findings and future directions on experiments conducted using an existing approach in a new space or on a new collection. Submissions focusing on new directions and emerging work in Information Access/Retrieval which create discussion and provoke reaction are strongly encouraged. Submissions should provide the necessary background and motivation of the topic, so as to maximize the benefit to the author and fellow participants. A paper should aim to include the following: • Motivation for the research • Background and related work (with key references) • Particular issues highlighted for discussion and main research questions/challenges Late breaking and formative research papers may also wish to include: • Description of proposed or performed research • Outline of Conceptual/Theoretical Models • Research methodology and experiment Use of existing approaches papers should also include: • Outline of Conceptual/Theoretical Models • Description of performed research methodology and experiment • Experiment findings and future directions Areas of research include, but are not limited to: • Databases • Information Retrieval • Human Computer Interaction • Multimedia and Multimodal • Knowledge Management • Bio, Chemo, Med, Eco, etc. Informatics All papers will be peer reviewed by at least one senior researchers on the Programme Committee. Papers should be up to 6 pages. All submissions should be in eWics Format &lt;http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7939&gt; using the Word or Latex templates. Note submissions should be converted to PDF. All submissions should be from a solo author: the idea is to encourage and promote one's own research. *Call for Posters* We would also like to invite shorter submissions which provide a summary of your current research to present as a poster during the symposium. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss your research with your peers and senior IR researchers and practitioners during FDIA / ESSIR. All poster papers will be reviewed. Poster papers should be 1-2 pages in length in eWics Format &lt;http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7939&gt; using the Word or Latex templates. Submissions should be converted to PDF. The Proceedings will be printed online as part of the Ewics series. All submissions should be uploaded via the EasyChair site&lt;https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdia2013&gt; . *Important Dates* *13th of May:* Paper/Poster* Deadline* *18th of June:* Paper Notification *10th of July:* Camera Ready Papers Due *3rd of September:* FDIA as part of ESSIR 2013 *Tentative Programme (to be confirmed)* *FDIA &lt; at &gt; ESSIR 2013 *- 3rd of September *Welcome and Introduction* *Keynote Speaker: *an inspirational talk by an awesome researcher *Interactive Session:* a fast paced interactive session where you get to meet summer school participants and create new ideas *Paper Sessions*: short 10-15 minute presentations on exciting new future directions *Panel Session:* tbd *Poster Sessions: *an informal setting with drinks to talk about your research *Organization* *General Chairs* Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) Juan M. Fernádez-Luna, Universidad de Granada, Spain Juan F. Huete, Universidad de Granada, Spain *PC Chairs* Liadh Kelly, Dubin City University Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow *Programme Committee* Massimo Melucci, University of Padua Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland Andrew Macfarlane, City University London Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven Kal Jarvelin, School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Martin Halvey, Glasgow Caledonian University Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS / University Pierre et Marie Curie David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen Maristella Agosti, University of Padua Jun Wang, University College London Paul Thomas, CSIRO Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba Tamara Polajnar, University of Glasgow Juan M. Fernández-Luna, University of Granada Monica Landoni, USI Gareth Jones, Dublin City University Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano Stefan Rueger, Knowledge Media Institute Emine Yilmaz, Microsoft Research Cambridge --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * *ESSIR 2013: 9TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SEPTEMBER 2nd - 6th, 2013 Granada, SPAIN http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013 (essir2013 (AT) ugr.es) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a scientific event founded in 1990, which has given rise to a series of Summer Schools held on a regular basis to provide high quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. ESSIR is typically a week-long event consisting of guest lectures and seminars from invited lecturers who are recognized experts in the field. The 9th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2013) will be held in Granada, Spain, hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada. ESSIR 2013 is configured as a 5 day event, from the 2nd till the 6th of September, 2013, which offers high quality teaching on IR and related research topics, in a friendly atmosphere. Some of the topics covered in the school are the following: - IR Foundations and Formal Models, - IR Diversity, - Recommender Systems, - Semantic Search, - Indexing and MapReduce, - Data Mining and IR, - ... All this will have as background the incomparable setting of the beautiful and magical city of GRANADA, one of the top visitor destinations in Spain. A number of bursaries will be available for students. More information will be available at the School website in the coming weeks. --------------------------------------- Contact the ESSIR 2013 organisers at: essir2013 (AT) ugr.es </pre> Liadh Kelly 2013-05-07T11:47:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1298 <pre>*Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop* http://ll2013.dcu.ie *At CIKM 2013, **November 1 2013**, **San Francisco**, **USA* Poll: should we have a living labs IR challenge using a medium-sized online retailer? http://bit.ly/LL13poll ********************************************************************* *Call for Papers* Submission deadline: June 21 In the past few years, a new evaluation methodology known as /living labs /has been proposed as a way for researchers to be able to perform in-situ evaluation. The basic idea of living labs for information retrieval (IR) is that rather than individual research groups independently developing experimental search infrastructures and gathering their own groups of test searchers for IR evaluations, a central and shared experimental environment is developed to facilitate the sharing of resources. Living labs would offer huge benefits to the community, such as: availability of, potentially larger, cohorts of real users and their behaviours, e.g. querying behaviours, for experiment purposes; cross-comparability across research centres; and greater knowledge transfer between industry and academia, when industry partners are involved. The need for this methodology is further amplified by the increased reliance of IR approaches on proprietary data; living labs are a way to bridge the data divide between academia and industry. Progress towards realising actual living labs has nevertheless been limited. There are many challenges to be overcome before the benefits associated with living labs for IR can be realised, including challenges associated with living labs architecture and design, hosting, maintenance, security, privacy, participant recruiting, and scenarios and tasks for use development. This workshop aims to bring together for the first time people interested in progressing the living labs for IR evaluation methodology. An interactive forum for researchers to share ideas and initiate collaborations will be provided, with the explicit goal of determining means for progressing towards living labs for IR and formulating practical next steps for progression. Possible use cases in this space include, but are not limited to: · The e-commerce domain (i.e., product search and recommendation) · The personal search space (search of personal computer files, emails, web pages looked at, etc) · Medical information retrieval (e.g., patients searching for medical information on the Internet) · Searching Wikipedia (an open-source collection with fewer privacy concerns than, say, personal search) Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: · Privacy and security: o Hosting data on secure server o Gaining subjects trust o Coping with individuals need for privacy o Alternates when individuals will not share their data · Legal and ethical issues: o User consent o Ethics approval o Legalities regarding release of data o Trust between parties o Copyright issues o Commercial sensitivity of interaction data · Technical challenges: o Designing and implementing living labs architecture o Cost of implementation o Maintenance and adoption o Managing living labs infrastructure · Practical challenges: o Forming living labs for IR partners within the research community o Obtaining commercial partners o Alternates when commercial partners cannot be obtained o Sharing of the physical resources o Defining tasks and scenarios for evaluation purposes Poll - Should we have a living labs IR challenge using a medium-sized online retailer? As part of the Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation workshop, we are considering organising a challenge in the e-commerce domain with the involvement of a medium-sized online retailer. The goal of this challenge would be to (i) allow academics to work with real users and data (esp. those who otherwise would have no access to such data) and (ii) to provide a starting point for the discussions at the workshop. We will set up and run this challenge if there is sufficient interest in the community. So please let us know what you think on the poll at http://bit.ly/LL13poll. *Paper Submissions* The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages), position papers (2 pages), and posters (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas / challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates(for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style). Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair system&lt;http://www.easychair.org/...&gt;https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2013no later than midnightPacific Daylight Time on June 21, 2013.Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the CIKM 2013 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings. *Important Dates* *June 21, 2013**:*Deadline for paper submission (midnightPacific Daylight Time) ** *July 22, 2013**:*Notification to authors ** *August 11, 2013**:*Camera-ready paper due ** *November 1, 2013**:*Workshop *Further Information* Further information is available on the workshop website athttp://LL2013.dcu.ie/ &lt;http://ll2013.dcu.ie/&gt;or by emailing the workshop organisers. *Workshop Organisers* Krisztian Balog - University of Stavanger, Norway(krisztian.balog (at) uis.no) David Elsweiler - University of Regensburg, Germany(david (at) elsweiler.co.uk) Evangelos Kanoulas - Google, Switzerland(ekanoulas (at) gmail.com) Liadh Kelly - Dublin City University, Ireland(liadh.kelly (at) computing.dcu.ie) Mark Smucker - University of Waterloo, Canada(msmucker (at) uwaterloo.ca) </pre> Liadh Kelly 2013-05-03T12:40:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1297 <pre>Second Contextual Suggestion Track Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2013) November 19 - 22, Gaithersburg MD, USA Submissions Due: July 15, 2013 * Call for Participants The Contextual Suggestion track considers a complex information need, highly dependent on context, which nonetheless can be simply expressed. The 2012 and 2013 tracks focus on one situation: a user with a mobile device with limited interaction but some sort of user profile; who is in a strange town; and who is looking for something to do. There is no explicit query: the implicit query is “here I am, what should I do?”. As input to the task, participants will be given a set of profiles, a set of geographical contexts, and a set of example suggestions. Each profile corresponds to a single user, and indicates that user’s preference with respect to each example suggestion. Each context corresponds to a particular city, for example, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Each example suggestion includes a title, description, and an associated URL. One example suggestion might be to have a beer at the Dogfish Head Alehouse, and the profile might include a negative preference with respect to that suggestion. For each profile/context pairing, participants should return a ranked list of up to 50 ranked suggestions. Each suggestion should be appropriate to the profile (based on the user’s preferences) and the context (according to the location). The description of the suggestion may be tailored to reflect the preferences of that user. Profiles correspond to the stated preferences of real individuals, who will return to judge proposed suggestions. For the purposes of this experiment, you can assume users are of legal drinking age at the location specified by the context, has up to five hours available to follow a suggestion, and has access to appropriate transportation (e.g., a car). The 2013 track covers several aspects: - Filtering of suggestions based on context. - Ranking of suggestions based on profiles. - Personalization of suggestion descriptions. * We Need Your Help! Help us define the best methods of suggesting attractions: - Sign up now! - Start investigating the problem when contexts become available in early May and profiles become available in early June. - Submit suggestions by July 15. - Participate in the track workshop in November. * Further details See the Contextual Suggestion Track guidelines at https://sites.google.com/site/treccontext/trec-2013-guidelines Sign up for TREC'13 at http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2013.html Mailing list: Send a mail message to listproc (at) nist.gov such that the body consists of the line subscribe trec-context &lt;FirstName&gt; &lt;LastName&gt; </pre> Jaap Kamps 2013-05-02T19:57:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1294 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] Based on numerous requests, the full paper submission deadline has been extended to May 13th. #################################################################### Active Media Technology 2013 (AMT'13) CALL FOR PAPERS #################################################################### 2013 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'13) October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi, Japan Homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/ Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) Co-sponsored by Maebashi Institute of Technology Maebashi City and Gunma Prefecture Government Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science ################################################################## # Full Paper Submission Due: *** 13 May 2013 *** (Extended) # Accepted full papers will be published by Springer as # a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI. # Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be # considered for publication in special issues of journals ################################################################## Special AMT-BHI 2013 Joint Keynote: Yuichiro Anzai President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Keynote Speakers: Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido University, Japan Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA Marcel A. Just, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (pending) Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid scientific and technological developments in human-centred, seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and systems with applications ranging from business and communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area of intelligent information technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation and support of customized solutions. AMT'13 aims at providing a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, to increase the cross-fertilization of ideas and explore the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of intelligent information technology and computer science on the next generation of computing environments, systems and media. AMT will feature high-quality, original research papers in all theoretical, technical, practical, and interdisciplinary studies that make up the field of active media technology. The 1st International Conference on Active Media Technology (AM'01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th International Conferences on Active Media Technology (AMT04, AMT05, AMT06) were held respectively, in Chongqing China, Kagawa Japan, and Brisbane Australia, and the 5th, 6th, and 7th International Conferences on Active Media Technology (AMT'09, AMT'10, AMT'11) were jointly held with International Conferences on Brain Informatics (BI09, BI10, BI11), respectively, in Beijing China, Toronto Canada, and Lanzhou China. Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT12) was held under the 2012 World Intelligence Congress, jointly with other four international conferences (BI12, WI-IAT12 and ISMIS12) in 2012. Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05, AMT06, AMT09, AMT10, AMT11 and AMT12, Active Media Technology 2013 (AMT'13) will be held in Maebashi, Japan, October 29-31, 2013. Active Media Technology 2013 will be jointly held with the 2013 International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics (BHI'13). The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO * Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces * Adaptive Web Systems * Agent-Based Software Engineering * AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0 * Cognitive Foundations for AMT * Computational Intelligence for Active Media * Conversational Informatics * Data Mining * Digital City and Digital Interactivity * E-Commerce and Web Services * Edutainment and E-learning * Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media * Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems * Human-Centred Robotics * Human-Web Interaction * Human Factors in AMT * Human Modeling and Personalized Services * Information Design with Active Media * Information Retrieval * Information Foraging Agents * Interactive Gaming Media * Media Art with Computing * Machine Learning * Multi-Agent Systems * Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis * Network, Mobile and Wireless Security * Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning * Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their Interfaces * Semantic Computing for Active Media and AMT Based Systems * Semantic Web, Linked data, and Ontology * Sensing Web * Smart Digital Media * Social Networks and Social Media * Statistical Analysis and Pattern Recognition * Transparent Computing and Active Services * Trust on Web Information Systems * Ubiquitous Intelligent Devices and Systems * Wearable Computing * Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There are 2 types of Paper Submissions and Publication, which you can choose one of them: Type I of Submissions and Publication: Full Paper Submissions: -------------------------------------------------------------- High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. Type II of Submissions and Publication: Abstract Submissions: ------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program. Selected abstract submissions will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals after their abstracts are extended to a full-length paper and pass a peer review process. We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result paper sessions. Detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found from the AMT'13 Web page at http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/ +++++++ Awards +++++++ AMT 2013 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers (12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): *** 13 May 2013 *** (Extended) Notification of full paper acceptance: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 21, 2013 Electronic submission of abstracts *** 15 July 2013 *** Notification of abstract acceptance: July 30, 2013 Conference: October 29-31, 2013 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMT-BHI'13 Honorary General Chair: Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan AMT'13 Conference General Chairs: Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China AMT'13 Program Chairs: Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China AMT'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair: Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell lab, France AMT-BHI'13 Organizing Chairs: Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Tetsumi Harakawa, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan AMT-BHI'13 Panel Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA AMT-BHI'13 Journal Special Issue Chairs: Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan AMT-BHI'13 Publicity Chairs: Shinichi Motomura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada &amp; Univ. of Warsaw, Poland Jian Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China BHI'13 Conference General Chairs: Tomoaki Shirao,Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan Takuji Kasamatsu, The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA BHI'13 Program Chairs: Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan BHI'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair: Lars Schwabe, University of Rostock, Germany IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan Benjamin Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA WIC Technical Committee Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Pierre Morizet, Mahoudeaux Compiegne University of Technology, France Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada *** Contact Information *** Tetsuya Yoshida (Hokkaido University, Japan) &lt;yoshida-J6GJ3eJI5kaiCPyHyotu4c8NsWr+9BEh&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; </pre> WIC Office 2013-05-01T04:34:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1293 <pre>Sixth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13) CIKM 2013, October 28, San Francisco http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/ Submissions due: June 21 * Call for Papers There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, annotations hold the promise to significantly enhance information access, by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems. Currently, we have only started exploring the possibilities and only begin to understand how these valuable semantic cues can be put to fruitful use. To complicate matters, standard text search excels at shallow information needs expressed by short keyword queries, and here semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything. The main questions for the workshop are: How to make use of the currently emerging knowledge resources (such as DBpedia, Freebase) as underlying semantic model giving access to an unprecedented scope and detail of factual information? How to include annotations beyond the topical dimension (think of reading level, prerequisite level, content credibility, transaction trustworthiness, freshness, genre, sentiment, etc) that contain vital cues for matching the specific needs and profile of the searcher at hand? * Many Open Questions The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic annotations, its use cases, its sources (authoring to NLP tools), its users, and its use in DB, IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on a range of open questions: Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by document retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping searchers from exploring these powerful search request? What impact has the web of data with more and more information in preprocessed form? - Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated annotations? Do we annotate types/classes/categories ("person") or instances ("Albert Einstein")? How similar or different are linked data and annotated text? What are the limitations of the current annotations schemes, and how to overcome them? - Rich Context: Do we annotate text? Or also search requests and interactions, and their broader context? Besides personalization and geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to them. Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context in the mobile use case? - (Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can we reliably link textual annotations to known entity catalogs? Can expect a messy world to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or is all information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How can we fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches? These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change the way we understand information access today! * We Need Your Help! Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems: - Submit a short 2+1-page research or position paper explaining your key wishes or key points, - and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop. What's a 2+1 page paper? We like short and focused contributions highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment, project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear tables, graphs, and full citations (that's the "+1" page). So your submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text. The deadline is Friday June 21, 2013, further submission details are on http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/ We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful workshop day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join the discussion! Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai Stockholm </pre> Jaap Kamps 2013-04-29T07:46:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1292 <pre>[Apologies for cross-postings] ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2013 (WI'13) November 17-20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA Conference Website: http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/ Full Paper Submission Due: *** May 1, 2013 *** extended to ***May 20, 2013*** Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ####################################################################### WI 2013 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, to increase the cross-fertilization of ideas and explore the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence engineering and Advanced Information Technology on the next generation of Web systems. Web Intelligence has been recognized as one of the most important as well as promising direction for scientific research and development in the era of Web and agent intelligence to bring in the next generation Web systems. Furthermore, WI 2013 will include workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology communities. The workshop programs will focus on new research challenges, initiatives and applications WI 2013 is an excellent opportunity for researchers who wish to examine design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in web intelligence technology, and increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of web intelligence systems among different domains. Extended versions of excellent papers will have future opportunities to be published in special issues at high quality IEEE, ACM journals. Dr. John E. Hopcroft from Cornell University, who won A. M. Turing Award in 1986, will give a keynote speech at WI-IAT’13. WI 2013 topics and areas include, but not limited to: - Web Intelligence Foundations - World Wide Wisdom Web - Web Information Retrieval and Filtering - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Web Mining and Farming - Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Web Agents, Services and Support Systems - Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Intelligent e-Technology - Intelligent Cloud Web Systems for Big Data Mining - Intelligent Green Web Systems Important dates: Workshop proposal submission March 1, 2013 Electronic submission of full papers: May 1, 2013 extended to May 20, 2013 Tutorial proposal submission: June 1, 2013 Workshop paper submission: June 1, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: July 15, 2013 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 15, 2013 Workshops: November 17, 2013 Conference: November 18-20, 2013 High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'2013 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI, and also will be available on site. *** Contact Information *** Conference secretariat: Ms. Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University Email: tgdudley(at)cs.gsu.edu </pre> WIC Office 2013-04-26T07:06:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1291 <pre>############# EuroHCIR 2013 &lt; at &gt; SIGIR2013 || Call for Papers ############ 3rd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval - 1st August - at SIGIR2013 - Dublin, Ireland Key Points: --------------- - Paper Deadline: 10th June 2013 - Aim: stimulate European IR, HCI, &amp; HCIR overlap - Details are online: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mlw/euroHCIR2013/ Call for Papers: -------------------- In common with the wider HCIR community, this workshop will be focused on submissions based on, but not limited to, the following topics: • IR systems for extended sessions (e.g. holiday planning, entertainment, and casual browsing) • Modelling and evaluation of HCIR / IR sessions • Scale and efficiency considerations for HCIR systems • Simulation of extended IR sessions and tasks • Novel interaction techniques for IR • Relevance feedback / active learning approaches for IR • Exploratory search and information discovery • Applications of HCI techniques to information retrieval needs in specific domains Submission Types ------------------------- Industry Case Studies - The enterprise and web search experiences from professionals are a key part of understanding excellence in HCIR design. We are inviting case studies and position papers that go beyond a simple narrative to describe lessons learned for the community. **Industry case studies will be evaluated more in terms of their contributions to lessons learned than through research merit.** Research Papers - From the research community, we are interested in research contributions, late breaking results, or challenging, controversial, or insightful position papers that might shape the way the HCIR community thinks ahead. ** Academic contributions will be evaluated in terms of their contribution to the thinking and discussion for the workshop and the community.** Position Papers - Sometimes insight comes from a range of sources - position papers that are thoughtful and well reasoned are invited, especially if they kick up some discussion. Submitting: ------------------ Participants must submit anonymised 2-4 page ACM format PDFs to the EasyChair page, optionally indicating whether the submission is from industry or academia. More details will appear on http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mlw/euroHCIR2013/submission.php Important (Planned) Dates: ------------------------------------- • 10th June 2013 - Submissions Due • 1st July 2013 - Notifications • 1st August 2013 – Workshop Day Organisers: ---------------- Birger Larsen (Academia) Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark blar - at - iva.dk Tony Russell-Rose (Industry) UXLabs, UK tgr - at - uxlabs.co.uk Max L. Wilson (Academia) University of Nottingham, UK max.wilson - at - nottingham.ac.uk Kristian Norling (Industry) Norling &amp; Co, Sweden kristian - at - norling.co Preben Hansen (Academia) Stockholm University, Sweden preben - at - dsv.su.se </pre> Tony Russell-Rose 2013-04-25T14:11:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1290 <pre>ESSIR 2013 Latest News Granada, September 2-6, 2013 http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013 Dear friends, These are the latest news on ESSIR 2013: - We have prepared a very attractive and intense programme. This is the final list of topics and speakers (more information about lectures at http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013/lectures.php and programme at http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013/program.php). * IR Foundations and Formal Models I and II by Bruce Croft. * IR Evaluation I and II, by Maarten de Rijke. * IR and Social Media, by Arjen de Vries. * Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval: an informal overview, by Hugo Zaragoza. * A Research Challenge for Multi-media Information Retrieval Research by John Tait. * Multilingual Retrieval by Paul Clough. * Interactive IR by Norbert Fuhr. * Contextual search: Issues and Challenges by Gabriella Pasi. * Opinion Retrieval: Looking for the Opinion in the Wild by Georgios Paltoglou. * Designing the Search Experience by Tony Russell-Rose. * Diversity by Charles Clarke. * Recommender Systems by Xavier Amatriain. * Indexing and MapReduce by Enrique Alfonseca. - The School Registration is now open. Have a look at http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013/registration.php - If you are a student, you can apply for a scholarship. - FDIA 2013 submission period is still open. More information about ESSIR 2013 and FDIA in http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013 Hope to see you in Granada!!! The ESSIR 2013 Organization.-- </pre> Juan Manuel Fernández Luna 2013-04-25T09:51:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg/1289 <pre>Informer: Spring 2013 Issue Out Now! http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/ _____________________________________________________________________ Editorial By Udo Kruschwitz Welcome back! This spring 2013 edition of Informer will bring you a range of fairly different articles, perhaps just the right mix for this time of the year. More about the articles later, let us first have a glimpse at what has been going on in the IR community. [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/editorial-6/ _____________________________________________________________________ Information Wayfinding, Part 1: A Not-So-New Metaphor By Tyler Tate Browsing the Web. Surfing the Net. Navigating a Web site. Traversing a hierarchy. Going back. Scrolling up and down. Returning home. We’ve seen such metaphors throughout our history of using computers to interact with information. Haphazard though they may seem be, these metaphors highlight a universal reality of human psychology: we perceive the world - both physical and digital - in spatial terms. As George A. Miller [1] observed in 1968 [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/information-wayfinding-part-1-a-not-so-new-metaphor/ _____________________________________________________________________ Interaction Models for Faceted Search By Tony Russell-Rose Faceted search offers tremendous potential for transforming the search experience. It provides a flexible framework by which users can satisfy a wide variety of information needs, ranging from simple fact retrieval to complex exploratory search and discovery scenarios. But there is one design aspect of faceted search that is particuarly hard to get right: the interactive behaviour of the facets themselves, i.e. how they should respond and update when selected. Surprisingly, the design choices at this level of detail can make a remarkable difference to the overall user experience: the wrong ones can make an application feel disjointed and obstructive, and increase the likelihood of returning zero results. In this post, we’ll examine the key design options and provide some recommendations [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/interaction-models-for-faceted-search/ _____________________________________________________________________ Call for Book Reviews (Spring 2013) By Cathal Gurrin This issue we include another Call for Reviews in which we seek reviewers for a number of recently published books that may be of interest to the IR community. Books will be allocated for review on a first-come-first-served basis and you would have about one month to carry out the review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please let Cathal know (cgurrin-j9mISXBebvq70S6Re0YL1A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org) which book you are interested in reviewing and we will arrange for a copy (paper or online format) to be sent to you along with review guidelines. For examples of previous book reviews, see the most recent issues of Informer. The currently available books (courtesy of our good friends at Springer) are [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/call-for-book-reviews-spring-2013/ _____________________________________________________________________ Search: Emergent and Extrinsic Semantics By John Tait Semantics is a term often used in the search technology and information retrieval community these days. A distinction is drawn between semantic and traditional search, implying that somehow semantic search is a more advanced or sophisticated form [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/search-emergent-and-extrinsic-semantics/ _____________________________________________________________________ Hybrid Parallel Classifiers for Managing Big Data with Hierarchies By Nandita Tripathi “Big Data” is one of the latest buzzwords in the IT industry nowadays. Companies are building up huge stores of data running into terabytes and more. Data hierarchies are getting bigger and bigger and more complex. At the same time, search/categorization speeds are also expected to increase. Single classifiers are now unable to deal with this huge data in real time [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/hybrid-parallel-classifiers-for-managing-big-data-with-hierarchies/ _____________________________________________________________________ Information Retrieval Group, University of Duisburg-Essen By Norbert Fuhr The Information Retrieval group at the University of Duisburg-Essen is part of the Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science Department in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The department provides degree programmes in Applied Computer Science as well as in Applied Cognitive and Media Science, both at the bachelor and master level. Besides 11 computer science professors, there are also four professors of psychology, who are mainly teaching in the second program. This unique composition also leads to a user-oriented focus in the computer science programme [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/information-retrieval-group-university-of-duisburg-essen/ _____________________________________________________________________ Events Spring 2013 By Andy Macfarlane http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/events-spring-2013/ _____________________________________________________________________ Applied research at the Competence Center Information Retrieval and Machine Learning of DAI Laboratory, TU Berlin By Frank Hopfgartner The Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) Laboratory at Technische Universita¨t Berlin, headed by Prof. Dr. Sahin Albayrak, works on providing solutions for a new generation of systems and services to support our everyday life, coined as "smart services and smart systems". The institute currently employs over 100 researchers, post-docs, graduate students, and support staff. The main objective of the lab is to provide a bridge between Academia and Industry, which has led to strong ties with leading multinational companies, research institutes and various SMEs (Berlin is home to a large share of Europe’s ICT start-ups) [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/ccirml/ _____________________________________________________________________ Made in Germany - Information Retrieval Research in Regensburg By David Elsweiler These are heady times for the German IR community. Norbert Fuhr’s recent winning of the Salton Prize not only rewarded a fantastic and long-term individual contribution to the field, but has also served to shed light on the whole IR scene in Germany - a fact underlined by this "Made in Germany" series [...] http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/made-in-germany-%e2%80%93-information-retrieval-research-in-regensburg/ _____________________________________________________________________ ::: Opportunities for Authors ::: If you are an expert in information retrieval or any aspect of search who has strong writing skills, we invite you to contribute to Informer. Please send an article proposal to us at: irsg-odSCf/vAEbI&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org For more information about the BCS IRSG, please go to: ::: http://irsg.bcs.org/about.php _____________________________________________________________________ ::: About Informer ::: Informer is the quarterly newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). Its aim is to provide insights and inspiration to researchers and professionals working in all aspects of search and information retrieval. Our articles provide accessible and timely coverage of important topics, ranging from focused, practical advice, to concise overviews of broader topics, and to deeper, research-oriented articles and opinion pieces. The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an assopciated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems. _____________________________________________________________________ ::: Visit Informer at http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/ ::: If you have comments, questions, or suggestions for Informer, please contact us at irsg-odSCf/vAEbI&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org </pre> Tony Russell-Rose 2013-04-24T10:18:03 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.information-retrieval.bcs-irsg