ANN: S-Match Open Source, the first release

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S-Match Open Source Released
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ANNOUNCING S-Match Open Source, the first release.

About S-Match
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S-Match is a semantic matching framework.

S-Match takes any two tree like structures (such as database
schemas, classifications, lightweight ontologies) and returns
a set of correspondences between those tree nodes which
semantically correspond to one another.

S-Match contains implementations of the semantic matching,
minimal semantic matching and structure preserving semantic
matching algorithms.

S-Match applies as a solution in many fields, including:
* information integration,
* ontology evolution and alignment,
* peer-to-peer information sharing,
* digital libraries integration,
* web service composition,
* agent communication, and
* query answering on the web.

S-Match is extendable to host new algorithms.

Subscribe to S-Match low traffic mailing list or RSS news feed
to receive further announcements.

Resources
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Homepage:
http://semanticmatching.org

Documentation:
http://semanticmatching.org/documentation.html

Download:
http://semanticmatching.org/download.html

Bug Tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/s-match/

Mailing Lists:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/s-match-announce

Forums:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-match/forums/

RSS News Feed:
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=288592

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CFP: International Mobile Technologies in Enterprise and Social Computing Workshop MTESC2010

Dear Colleagues

The Mobility 2010 conference will take place in SINGAPORE from 18-21 October 2010.

We would like to invite you to submit a paper (4 pages or 6 pages) to the International Mobile Technologies in Enterprise and Social Computing Workshop MTESC2010.

Please visit the web site for details: http://sites.google.com/site/mtesc2010/

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Important Dates

* Papers Submission : 19 April 2010
* Notification of Acceptance of Paper: 07 June 2010
* Full papers Submission Deadline: 12 July 2010
* Author Early Registration Deadline: 12 July 2010

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Workshop topics are not limited to the followings:

Mobile cloud computing

Mobile enabled enterprise 2.0/3.0 systems

Mobile technologies for developing countries and NGOs

Mobile e-government

Mobile e-health

Mobile business intelligence and data mining

Mobile system design architectures framework and methodologies

Mobile enterprise and social computing context management

Mobile web services for enterprise and social computing systems

Software for mobile service

Mobile event-based systems for the enterprise

Security and privacy-aware aspects of mobile enterprise and social computing

Mobile enterprise and social computing applications development& tools

Methodologies for mobile enterprise and social computing evaluation

Usability issues in mobile enterprise and social computing systems

Visualisation of data on mobile platforms

Mobile enterprise and social computing strategies and case studies

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Please visit the web site for details: http://sites.google.com/site/mtesc2010/

regards
mtesc chair

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CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration Support (@ UMAP2010)

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CFP Summary:

Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration Support
Sunday, June 20, 2010, Big Island of Hawaii
http://acs2010.ascolla.org/

In conjunction with the 18th International Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

Paper submission deadline: 29th March 2010

The full CFP follows.

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Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on
Adaptive Collaboration Support

in conjunction with UMAP2010

http://acs2010.ascolla.org

The increasing availability of computing and communication
facilities in our environment, along with the resulting ease
with which tasks previously undertaken individually can now be
shared through such facilities, have given rise to new
paradigms of collaboration that permeate many facets of human
activity. Collaborative learning, co-operative knowledge
discovery and maintenance, group recommendation, social
software supporting professional, personal and even
recreational needs, are only a few examples of new forms of
collaboration enabled and fostered by recent technological
advances. As these progressively become established and widely
used, the question naturally arises: can we support the
related collaboration activities and how?

This workshop is the second in a series to examine the
question "How can adaptation be of benefit in modeling and
supporting collaboration processes?" The first workshop in the
series was held in conjunction with the AH2008 conference
(ACS2008, http://www.ah2008.org/index.php?section=38), and
several related workshops have been organized in recent years:
- the "Competitive Challenge on Adapting Activities Modeled
by CSCL Scripts" [1],
- the workshop on "Scripted vs. Free CS Collaboration:
alternatives and paths for adaptable and flexible CS
scripted collaboration" [2];
- the workshop on "Adaptive Systems for Collaborative
Learning" [3]

Thematic Area and Goals
-----------------------

One might think that the accumulated knowledge and experience
on user modeling and adaptation would more than suffice in
addressing the new challenges that arise when one attempts to
provide adaptive support for collaboration. But is this really
the case? Traditional adaptive systems (with their origins in
adaptive user interfaces in the 80s) and intelligent support
systems (such as intelligent tutoring systems) have been
almost exclusively concerned with adapting to the individual
user. The more recent strand of research on adaptive
hypermedia systems has sometimes addressed groups of people
(e.g., groups of learners), and there has even research
"dedicated" to groups of users, such as group recommender
systems. Most often, however, such research has looked at the
users' utilization of content, and ways of modifying such
content for the benefit of the whole, rather than modeling,
monitoring, and supporting the groups' activities themselves.
These and other shortcomings of past research render adaptive
support for collaboration a timely topic of discussion and
work.

The ACS-2010 workshop will center on the question "How can
adaptation be of benefit in modeling and supporting
collaboration processes?". Irrespectively of the application
domains in which collaboration is examined and the provision
of adaptive support is attempted, the main questions remain
the same:

- How can groups (of various sizes, levels of connectivity,
goals, etc.) and their activities (all the way from free-form
to fully-structured) be modeled?

- How can we monitor, analyze and interpret the
interconnected activities of individuals, as well the behavior
of groups as wholes, to establish the need of, and appropriate
ways for intervention?

- What types of intervention are possible, and what are
their potential effects? How can we best support group
formation, scaffolding, communication, organization, joint
artifact creation, etc.?

The workshop will strive to address the above questions from
the perspectives of theoretical issues, methodological
approaches, practical techniques, formal representations,
supporting design-time, run-time and analysis-time tools, etc.
The issue of adaptively managing and supporting collaborative
activity can be approached from different but complementary
perspectives and may be of interest for researchers of various
backgrounds (Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling, Intelligent
Tutoring Systems, Intelligent Agents, Group Recommender
Systems, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Computer-
Supported Collaborative Learning, Social Software, etc.)
Consequently, the focus of the workshop is broad and
contributions that approach the problems and questions from
different perspectives are explicitly encouraged.

The aims of this workshop are twofold: Firstly, to bring
together interested researchers and practitioners from the
different communities in a setting which facilitates the
dissemination of knowledge in the field, providing useful
insights on state-of-the-art research. Secondly, to identify
and outline issues that need to be addressed, along with
future directions. The second session of the workshop will
explicitly work towards a roadmap for adaptive collaboration
support in the form of a preliminary research agenda that
sketches open issues and promising approaches to tackle them.

Workshop format
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The workshop will follow a format that facilitates goal-
oriented group discussions (among the workshop participants)
in addition to the standard paper presentations. The workshop
will have two general sessions (to be held in succession), as
outlined below.

The first session will be organized around the general
research themes discussed earlier, i.e., submissions are to be
evaluated in regard to their relevance to / contribution
towards the themes, and the discussion during the workshop
will be structured around the themes. Participants of the
workshop are expected to share their experiences and discuss
the advantages and drawbacks of approaches and positions
presented. In case of a high number of relevant submissions
the organizers will consider the option of accepting some of
the contributions as poster presentations, a format that
worked very well in previous workshops and that allows to
dedicate more time to topic oriented discussions.

A second session will then be explicitly dedicated to the
identification and discussion of current issues and future
directions in this emerging field. Collection of questions at
the beginning of the workshop, group work, and interactive
creation of an on-line mind-map, will be employed to foster
and facilitate discussions. As already stated, the goal of
this second session will be to arrive at an outline of a
research agenda for the field.

Solicited Contributions
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The workshop will solicit short and long papers, describing
case studies, theoretical work, position statements, etc.
Contributions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme
committee, with an anticipated three reviews per submission.
The papers to be presented will be selected on the basis of
the quality of the work described therein, the quality of the
papers themselves, their relevance to the workshop's main
themes, and their potential to foster fruitful discussions
during the workshop. Depending on the number of submissions,
selected contributions may be invited for presentation as
posters, to be discussed in a free-form session that will kick
off the workshop's discussion session.

Submission Format
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Submissions should not exceed 6 pages for short papers and 12
pages for long papers, and should be formatted according to
the Springer LNCS guidelines. Please refer to the submission
section of the workshop's web site for more information on the
submission format, templates, etc.
(http://acs2010.ascolla.org/submission/)

Workshop papers will be published in full length in the
workshop proceedings and presented in talks at the workshop.
Authors of accepted workshop papers will be invited to submit
an extended and updated version of their work for inclusion in
a selected journal or edited volume.

Please, submit your paper by e-mail to acs2010 at ascolla.org
until March 29th 2010.

Portable Document Format (*.pdf) and Postscript (*.ps) files
are preferred.

Important Dates
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- 29th March 2010: Submission of papers
- 3rd May 2010: Notification of authors
- 24th May 2010: Delivery of camera-ready copy
- 20th June 2010: Workshop day (the workshop takes
place in the morning); the conference
lasts from the 20th to 24th of June.

Programme Committee
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1. Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands
2. Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
3. Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia,
Spain
4. Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
5. Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
6. Tom Gross, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
7. Davinia Hernandez-Leo, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
8 Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications,
Japan
9. Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil
10. Alexandros Paramythis, Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria
11. Kyparissia Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical&
Technological Education, Greece
12. Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland
13. Gerhard Weber, University of Education Freiburg, Germany
14. Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada

Organizers
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Dr. Alexandros Paramythis
Institute for Information Processing and Microprocessor
Technology (FIM)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenbergerstraße 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
+43 732 2468 8442
alpar at fim uni-linz ac at
http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/staff/paramythis/

Dr. Stavros N. Demetriadis
Department of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
PO BOX 114, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
+30 2310 997902
sdemetri at csd auth gr
http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/sdemetri/

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[1]
http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/wiki/index.php/CSCL_Workshop_Challenge_on_Adaptation

[2] http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/cscl2009/sfc-workshop.htm
[3] http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/iwascl2009/

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CFP: Social Networks Security and Privacy Workshop at Oakland 20th may

Social Networks Security and Privacy'10 Call for paper

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[http://snsp.socialnetconf.com]

The goal of this one day workshop, held in conjuction with Security and
Privacy 2010,
is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and
industry to focus
on understanding social network security and privacy issues, and
establishing new
collaborations in these areas.

Online social networks such as Facebook are among the most popular sites on
the Web
and continue to grow rapidly. They provide mechanisms to establish
identities, share
information, and create relationships. The resulting social graph provides a
basis for
communicating and distributing and locating content.

Even if social networks are now widely used , their security and privacy
remain challenging
because of the tension between sharing information and ensuring privacy.
This workshop is
intended to discuss the current security and privacy issues of social
network and explore new
ways to address them.

Scope
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The scope of SNSP 2010 includes, but is not limited to :

- User Privacy
- Anonymity and identity
- Account security
- Spam
- User authentication and verification
- Information flow security
- User and platform trust issues
- Malware and botnets
- Scams
- Reputation
- Social engineering
- Phishing

For papers that focus on web security including browser and mashup security,
we encourage authors
to submit their paper to our twin workshop W2SP (http://w2spconf.com/2010/).
Submitted papers
may be referred to the W2SP program committee for consideration.

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 (11:59pm US-Eastern)
Workshop acceptance notification date: April 11, 2010
Workshop date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Workshop url: http://snsp.socialnetconf.com

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CFP: Participatory Design Conference - PDC2010

The 11th Participatory Design Conference. PDC 2010.

November 29 - December 3, 2010.
Sydney, Australia.
www.pdc2010.org

May 3 is the final submission date for research papers and proposals for
workshops and tutorials.

All other submissions are due on August 3.

A full call for participation and all submission details are available
from the conference website www.pdc2010.org.

Research papers: (full paper – maximum 10 pages) Research papers should
report on completed research which furthers topics in Participatory
Design. Research papers will be published in the ACM International
Conference series. High academic standards will be expected. Each
submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.
Accepted papers should be revised according to the review reports and the
language should be checked by a native English speaker.

Interactive workshops: (2 page proposal) Half and full day sessions on
topics that include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and
that support an interactive format where active participation beyond
presentation is solicited. The proposal must justify the need for the
workshop and should contain a title, goals, technique, relevance to
Participatory Design and a schedule. Intended participants and how they
will be recruited should also be described.

Tutorials: (2 page proposal) Half and full day sessions for teaching
conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel approaches. The
proposal should contain a title, goals, technique, relevance to
Participatory Design and a schedule. Please describe any handouts that you
intend to make available in the proposal.

Follow us on twitter @PDCSydney. And join us to celebrate the first PDC to
be held in the southern hemisphere!

Toni Robertson
Conference Chair, PDC 2010

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CFP: SPeL 2010 (3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)

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* 3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing
* for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2010)
* http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/
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* in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Database and
* Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'10)
* http://www.dexa.org/
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* Bilbao, Spain
* University of Deusto
* 30 August - 3 September 2010
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Motivation
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The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2008/) and SPeL 2009
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2009/) workshops held in
conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference
(http://www.icta.ufl.edu/saint08/) and WI/IAT 2009 conference
(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/) respectively. The general topic of
the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported
learning communities. This year, the workshop focuses on social and
intelligent systems in education, with particular interest on aspects
related to data, information, and knowledge within such systems.

Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems
to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social
software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, and media-sharing services) is
increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel
learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet,
learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in
constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized
instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically
adapt to their individual needs.

Social learning is based on creating and sharing information and knowledge
within the learning community and personalized learning can only take
place if enough data about learners (e.g., their behavior, actions,
characteristics, and so on) have been gathered and correctly analyzed and
interpreted. For both social and personalized learning, the role of data,
information, and knowledge is essential. In this context, the workshop
addresses the challenges of social and personal computing in Web-supported
learning communities focusing on aspects related to acquiring and managing
data, information, and knowledge. Its aim is to provide a forum for
discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research
about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of
intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn together in a
personalized way through social interaction with other learners.

Topics of interest
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The workshop topics cover all aspects of intelligent systems in
e-learning, particularly related to issues about data, information, and
knowledge in social and personalized learning, including (but not limited
to):
- Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning
- Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
- Knowledge management in e-learning systems
- Educational data mining
- Student data privacy and security
- Interoperability issues
- Intelligent learner and group modeling
- Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
- Social information retrieval
- Semantic social networks
- Knowledge community formation and support
- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning
- Virtual spaces for learning communities
- Web supported ubiquitous learning
- Web services in e-learning
- Mobile e-learning applications
- Adaptive and personalized learning environments
- Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
- Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems
- Web-based cooperative learning
- Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
- Pervasive e-learning scenarios
- Lifelong learning networks
- Social software for collaborative learning
- Socially intelligent agents
- Community discovering in social learning systems
- Social structure exploitation in e-learning
- Socially-inspired e-learning systems

Paper submission and publication
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The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press (indexed by IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC, DBLP).

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 5 pages, IEEE-CS
format. Please follow the instructions on the DEXA 2010 website
(http://www.dexa.org/node/12), where you can find the Manuscript
Formatting Guidelines.

Important dates
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March 20, 2010 Workshop paper submission
April 20, 2010 Workshop paper notification
May 17, 2010 Camera ready paper
30 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2010 SPeL 2010 workshop (exact date is TBA)

Workshop Chairs
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Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada

Program Committee
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http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/committee.php

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CFP: Special Issue of JCSCW: Knowledge Management in Action

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ACTION

Special Issue of
Journal on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW)
http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/cfp.html

Guest Editors:
- Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan
- Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT

THEME: Organizations of different kinds, from structured companies up to
social networks or virtual communities, are becoming increasingly aware
of the need to collect, organize, mobilize, increase, in sum manage,
expertise and knowledge which characterize their ability to stay alive,
adapt and evolve in a turbulent context. Knowledge Management (KM) is a
keyword under which different organizational and technological
approaches to answer this need are referred to. From the beginning of
the KM discourse, the CSCW community has taken a critical stance both in
asking for applied research in the practices of real organizations and
relating technological and organizational innovations. The Special Issue
aims to collect papers reporting on ethnographically-based or
field-based experiences that are confronted with real situations and
highlight problems, requirements and technical solutions that are
derived from those experiences by taking into account the following
perspectives:

- organizational strategies to enact and promote KM within
organizations, and their relation with ICT technology
- various kinds of knowledge, application domains, organizational
structures, and their implication on KM
- methods and approaches for the design of KM solutions
- techniques and technologies for a sustainable KM (CSCW-based
approaches, web-based approaches, etc.)
- critical success factors for KM socio-technical solutions
- evaluation of KM applications in real situations
- lessons-learned in each phase of the KM application life-cycle, from
conception up to continuous adaptation
- critical comparison of technologies, field studies and strategies in KM
- any other perspective contributing to a better understanding of KM in
action

Papers presenting original research must comply with standards specified
at the IJCSCW site: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/ where it is
possible to upload them.

Papers written in English should be sent by 30 April 2010. All submitted
papers will be blind refereed by at least three reviewers.

Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, originality of the work
and reviewers' comments. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
rejection via e-mail by 30 June 2010. Camera-ready papers are due by 15
September.

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