CFP: IUI2010 Workshop: Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web, Hong Kong, 7th February 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

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2nd International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and
Semantic Web (VISSW 2010)
In conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User
Interfaces (IUI 2010)
Hong Kong, 7th February 2010
http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2010/

INTRODUCTION
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The continued growth and importance of the Social Web has resulted in
ever increasing volumes of data created, published and consumed by
users. This vast amount of data takes many forms, including text,
images, video and more recently streams of status information from
applications such as Twitter. Not only is this data accessible through
more traditional means, such as desktop and laptop computers, but also
via diverse platforms such as mobile phones and set-top boxes that bring
unique constraints in terms of computing resources and user interfaces.
Through the increasing availability of Web APIs, data that has
traditionally been coupled with a specific application may now be
exposed through novel interfaces developed by third parties, providing
functionality not previously anticipated by the data owner.

In tandem with the growth of the Social Web, the Web at large has
experienced a significant evolution into a Web not just of linked
documents, but also of Linked Data. This development, which exploits the
Semantic Web technology stack, allows relationships to be expressed
between items in distributed data sets, paving the way for integration
of raw data from multiple, heterogeneous sources. Coupled with the
increasing availability of APIs that expose structured (if not linked)
data from the Social Web, application developers have a wealth of data
available to them upon which they can build compelling visual interfaces.

The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the
Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research
challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and
navigation across vast, heterogeneous and interconnected data sources.
However, the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this
evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and
browsing, important as these are. As the Web becomes increasingly
populated with data, continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a
read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the
Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who
engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing
their own data on the Web.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from
diverse, complementary fields to discuss the latest research results and
challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent
interfaces to structured or Linked Data in the context of the Social or
Semantic Web. The workshop will serve as an opportunity for researchers
to gain feedback on their work, and to identify potential collaborations
with their peers. We believe that the potential for fostering links
between a variety of facets of the IUI community will help to ensure an
exciting workshop program.

Information about the previous workshop can be found at:
http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Interfaces
o Novel visualisation of structured, linked and aggregated
data, originating from multiple sources.
o Novel interfaces for high-volume transient data, e.g. feeds,
streams and sensors.
o 'Living' interfaces to constantly evolving data,
vocabularies, and emerging links between them.
o Task-centric interfaces for structured and/or Linked Data.
o Interface components for displaying/interacting with
aggregated, heterogeneous Linked Data, e.g. components for displaying
provenance information.
o Lightweight components and processes for casual users to
publish/share their own content on the Web.
o Ontology-based visualization of collections of data.
* Interaction Paradigms
o Novel interaction paradigms for textual, photos, music,
videos, etc. on alternative platforms (e.g. mobile devices, set-top
boxes, shared/public displays).
o Novel interaction paradigms with structured, linked and
aggregated data.
o Investigation of task-centric interaction paradigms beyond
search and browse.
o Ontology-based interaction with collections of data.
o Semantic models for interaction and their reuse on the web
* Empirical Studies and Evaluation
o Empirical studies that can guide the development of
interfaces for Linked Data.
o Use cases which present novel visualization requirements and
expose interesting interaction challenges on the Social and Semantic Web.
o Lessons learned from user-studies, pilot systems and live
deployments in the Social and Semantic Web.

SUBMISSIONS
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We welcome three types of submissions:

* Full papers which should be between 6 and 10 pages.
* Short papers and position papers which should be up to 5 pages.
* Demo papers which should be a 2 page description with a screenshot
of the working prototype or preferably a link to an online demo.

Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared according to the IUI
format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers.
Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair system at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=vissw2010 . Accepted papers
will be published in CEUR-WS.org proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submission deadline: 30th November, 2009 (11:59pm Hawaii time)
* Notification of acceptance: 18th December, 2009
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 12th January, 2010

REGISTRATION
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Please refer to the main conference website for registration details:
http://www.iuiconf.org/

ORGANISERS
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* Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK
* VinhTuan Thai, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Ian Dickinson, Epimorphics Ltd, UK
* Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Valentina Presutti, Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLab), ISTC,
Italy

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, US
* Karen Church, Telefonica Research, ES
* Duane Degler, Design for Context, US
* Bertrand Delacretaz, Day, CH
* Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, IT
* Alain Giboin, INRIA, FR
* Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway, IE
* Nathalie Henry, Microsoft Research, US
* David Karger, MIT, US
* Nicholas J. Kings, BT, UK
* Georgi Kobilarov, FU Berlin, DE
* Steffen Lohmann, University of Duisburg, DE
* Wolfgang Maass, University of St.Gallen, CH
* Knud Möller, DERI, NUI Galway, IE
* Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
* Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, IE
* Adam Perer, IBM Research, IL
* Massimo Romanelli, DFKI, DE
* Lloyd Rutledge, Open Universiteit, NL
* Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, DE
* Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, AT
* Bernhard Schandl, Uni Vienna, AT
* Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio, BR
* Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, IE
* Carlo Torniai, Simon Fraser University, CA
* Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, IT
* Earl Wagner, Northwestern University, US
* Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK

CONTACT INFORMATION
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the workshop
organizers at: vissw2010 [at] easychair [dot] org

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CFP: MobileHCI 2010 Workshop Proposals

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and
students.

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Workshops @ MobileHCI 2010 || Call for Workshop Proposals
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12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010),
A Mobile World for All
September 7-10, 2010, Lisboa, Portugal
http://www.mobilehci2010.org

Workshops and Tutorials will be held on September 7th, 2010.

MobileHCI 2010 is organised by the University of Lisboa, with the collaboration of the New University of Lisboa and the research centres LaSIGE and CITI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

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Important Dates:
- Workshop proposal submission (organisers): 22nd January, 2010
- Notification of workshop acceptance (organisers): 19th February, 2010
- Workshop paper submission (participants): 23rd April, 2010
- Workshop paper acceptance notification (participants): 28th May, 2010
- Workshop Date: 7th September, 2010
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Workshop Chairs:
- Jo Lumsden, Aston University, UK
- Carlos Duarte, LaSIGE & University of Lisboa, Portugal

Contact the workshop chairs at: workshops@mobilehci2010.org
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MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation, and application of techniques and approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services. MobileHCI is now on its 12th Edition.

Workshops at MobileHCI 2010 offer a chance for members of a community with common interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. If you are working in an emerging area in MobileHCI, consider organizing a workshop. They are an opportunity to move the field forward and build community. MobileHCI workshops might address (for example) basic research, applied research, HCI practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organizational issues, or HCI education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the MobileHCI community a new, organized way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in the design of your workshop. Additionally, this year, the best paper of each workshop will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI).

Two workshop formats will be available: half-day and full-day. Half-day workshops will be scheduled to use 3 working hours, with one break. Full-day workshops will be scheduled to use 6 working hours, with a mid-morning break, a lunch break, and a mid-afternoon break. Workshops at MobileHCI typically have 15 to 20 participants. Focused interaction among participants is important, so participants must have informed positions based on prior experience.

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Workshop Proposals

Workshop proposals must include: (1) a cover sheet; (2) a proposal; and (3), a call for participation. All three components should be submitted in one file. The combined file must be in PDF format.

Part 1. Cover Sheet
Each submission should have a cover sheet giving contact information for the primary workshop organiser. This person will serve as the main point of contact with the Workshop Chairs.

Part 2. Proposal
The proposal should not exceed 3 pages in the prescribed ACM MobileHCI2010 format (see http://mobilehci2010.di.fc.ul.pt/downloads.html). The proposal must describe the topic, a detailed plan for conducting the workshop (before, during, and after), and the organisers' backgrounds. This proposal will be reviewed by the Workshops review committee.

Part 3. Call for Participation
Prepare a 250-word Call for Participation suitable for publication on the MobileHCI2010 web site. It should describe the format and goals of the workshop, the participant selection criteria, requirements for papers (e.g., page length, topics to address, etc), where these papers should be submitted, and the fact that at least one author of accepted papers needs to register for the workshop and for the conference itself. Organisers are encouraged to develop an external web page with additional information about the workshop for potential participants.

Review criteria for workshop proposals include: the workshop's potential for generating stimulating discussions and useful results; the expected community interest level in the topic; the organisers' ability to demonstrate in the proposal a well-organized process and plan for the workshop; the review criteria adopted for accepting workshop papers (with a peer-review process being preferred); and the overall balance of topics in the workshops program. If multiple submissions are received on the same or similar topics, the organisers may be encouraged to merge them.

For detailed information about workshops at MobileHCI 2010 - including how to submit a workshop proposal, the responsibilities of workshop organisers, etc - visit http://mobilehci2010.di.fc.ul.pt/Submissions/wsOrganizers.html

The extended abstract of accepted workshop proposals will be available in the conference proceedings on digital format. They will also be placed in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide.

Accepted workshop papers (i.e., those of the workshop participants) will NOT be published in the conference proceedings nor in the ACM Digital Library..

If you have questions about Workshops at MobileHCI2010, contact the Workshop Chairs - Jo Lumsden and Carlos Duarte - at workshops@mobilehci2010.org

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MobileHCI 2010 is supported by Nokia, Anacom, and Telefonica

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CfP: Workshop Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation

First call for papers -

Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation
Workshop in conjunction with Pervasive 2010

Monday 17th May 2010

http://www.haptimap.org/events/organized-events/pervasive.html
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Location-based data and services for geographical and navigational
information (such as electronic maps and gps directions), are usually
presented using visual displays. With the increasing complexity of
information, and the variety of contexts of use, it becomes important
to consider how other non-visual sensory channels, such as audition
and touch, can be used to communicate necessary and timely information
to users. Activities such as running, rock-climbing and cycling, are
all examples of activities where navigational and geographical
information may be needed, but where the visual modality is
unsuitable. Additionally, there are a number of user groups such as
visually impaired people and the emergency services, who also require
non-visual access to geo-data. This workshop will provide a forum for
sharing research ideas and findings about new interaction and
perceptualization metaphors, novel application contexts, multimodal
and context-aware technologies for mobility -- thereby creating a
solid foundation for further exploration of pervasive extreme
navigation.

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Sensing and applying user context to navigation and wayfinding
- Multimodal techniques to augment visual map displays
- Multimodal navigation systems for extreme sports
- Multimodal navigation systems for runners
- Multimodal systems for rescue workers
- Navigation systems for "eyes-busy" activities
- Wearable technology and textiles for navigation
- Environmental awareness for Disabilities and Visual Impairment.
- User requirements capture/user involvement for non visual design

Submission details
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Submissions of either position papers or demo abstracts covering the
topics of the workshop should be submitted by 15 March 2010.

4 page position papers or 2 page demo abstracts should be submitted in
ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

At least one author from each accepted submission is expected to
register and attend the workshop.

Accepted authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
work for inclusion in a special edition of Personal and Ubiquitous
Computing to appear in 2010.

Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Charlotte Magnusson (charlotte.magnusson@certec.lth.se
) or David McGookin (mcgookdk@dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Organising Committee
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Charlotte Magnusson Lund University
David McGookin University of Glasgow
Margarita Anastassova CEA
Wilko Heuten OFFIS
Arantxa Renter Robotiker-Tecnalia
Susanne Boll University of Oldenburg

This workshop is organized within the HaptiMap project.
http://www.haptimap.org

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CFP: WORKSHOPS COOP'10: 9th International Conference on Design of Cooperative Systems

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Ninth International Conference on
Design of Cooperative Systems
(Workshops @ COOP'10)
18 May, 2010
Aix-en-Provence, France
http://www.coopsys.org/call_for_workshops
(apologies for cross-posting)
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******* Important dates ********
- 15 January, 2010: Deadline for workshop proposals
- 6 February, 2010: Notification about acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals
- 18 May, 2010: COOP'10 workshops
- 19-21 May, 2010: COOP'10 conference

****** Introduction ************
COOP'10 is the 9th edition of this International Conference, which is the second European conference in the field of CSCW after ECSCW. It will take place in Aix-en-Provence, France.
The conference aims at bringing together researchers who contribute to the analysis and design of cooperative systems and their integration in organizational community, public and other settings, and their implications for policy and decision-making.

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of research on designing cooperative systems with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops may focus on any aspect of theory or practice, established concerns or new ideas in the field of the design of cooperative systems. The goal of a workshop is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions. COOP conferences are clearly discussion oriented and the workshops shall share this characteristic.

Workshops run for a half or one full day and will take place the day before the conference opening. So workshops will be open to its participants and eventually to conference participants who will pay workshops registration fees, as on option.

Please look at the COOP'10 conference website (http://www.coopsys.org) to get more information about the COOP'10 conference and its audience. For a sample of workshop topics from last conferences, please look at the web sites of previous COOP workshop programs.

********* Submission **********
Workshop proposals should consist of an abstract and a detailed proposal. The abstract should be no more than 150 words. The body of the proposal should be no more than 3000 words, and should include:
- Title of the workshop
- Organizers
- Description of the theme(s) of the workshop,
- Workshop activities and goals,
- Type of interaction which is planned for the workshop
- Background of the organizer(s),
- Maximum number of participants,
- Related work
- Duration (half or full day)
- Reviewing process
- Please include in your proposal the kind of technical support being needed

Workshops description and Call for Papers will be put on the COOP'10 web site. We also encourage workshop organizers to create web-based resources for their workshops so that advertising, submission and organization can be handled online (a link will then be made from COOP'10 web site to the workshop web-site). We also give workshops' organizers support using of the COOP'10 conference submission tool.

******* Contact Information ********
Questions concerning workshop proposals:
Please contact COOP 2010 Workshop Chair directly via email: gunnar.stevens@uni-siegen.de

Download Pdf Version of the Call for Workshops: http://www.coopsys.org/call_for_workshops/coop2010_workshopcfp.pdf

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CFP: 18th Int'l Conf on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2010)

UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. Support for the conference is provided by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, the Chang Family Foundation, Springer Verlag, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

TOPICS

The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics:
- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products, tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing help, assuming routine tasks, adapting interfaces, ...
- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, special needs, affective states, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural characteristics, ...
- Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural heritage, healthcare, assistive technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV, ...
- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the semantic/social Web), desktop systems, groupware systems, mobile and wearable systems, smart environments, smart objects, virtual environments, ...
- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction and representation, adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP, ...
- Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative evaluation, user testing, validation, performance tests, ...
- Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying UMAP, integrating UMAP, valuing user experience, ...

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original reports of substantive new research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance.
- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation.
Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process. Only in extremely unusual circumstances can long papers be relegated to the short paper category.

INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density should be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will typically include at least one industry author.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010)
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee. Submissions (4 pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far. They should clearly indicate the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the student would especially like to receive advice.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made through the EasyChair conference system. They must describe original research work and may not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.

BEST PAPER AWARDS
The conference will elect the winners of the Springer Best Paper Award and of the two James Chen Best Student Paper Awards, each in the amount of U.S.$ 1,000. For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.

PUBLICATION
Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) after the conference.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair
David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Program Co-Chairs
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Industry Track Co-Chairs
Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California
Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Local Arrangements Chair
Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo

Publicity Chair
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany

VENUE
UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side of the "Big Island" of Hawaii. Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa Colony Villas.

STUDENT SUPPORT
This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to students in the past, and it is nearly certain that there will also be student funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.

-- Alfred Kobsa
Univ. of California, Irvine

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GRA: Civil Infrastructure Systems

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=46245

Funding Opportunity Number:	PD-08-1631
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Feb 15, 2010    Full Proposal Window: September 1, 2009 - October 1, 2009 September 1 - October 1, Annually Thereafter Full Proposal Window: January 15, 2010 - February 15, 2010 January 15 - February 15, Annually Thereafter
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Expected Number of Awards:	0
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$0
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):	47.041  --  Engineering Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"  

Additional Information on Eligibility:

Agency Name

National Science Foundation

Description

The CIS program supports research leading to the intelligent engineering of distributed infrastructure systems.?? Areas of interest include intra- and inter-dependencies in infrastructure design and operation for resilience and sustainability, infrastructure protection, and advanced information technologies for health monitoring, condition assessment, deterioration and asset management.?? Special emphasis is on risk analysis, life-cycle frameworks, cyber-enabled simulation, and technologies for design, construction and operation of resilient and sustainable infrastructure networks.

Link to Full Announcement

NSF Program Description 08-1631

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GRA: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=45811

Funding Opportunity Number:	PD-98-1321
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jan 18, 2010    Full Proposal Target Date(s): January 18 and August 18, Annually
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Expected Number of Awards:	0
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$0
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):	47.075  --  Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"  

Additional Information on Eligibility:

Agency Name

National Science Foundation

Description

The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature (see Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER).)Funded research must be grounded in theory and generalizable. Purely algorithmic management science proposals should be submitted to the Operations Research Program rather than to DRMS.For additional funding opportunities, we invite you to also look at the Cross-Directorate Activities program website.For program specific guidelines on the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in DRMS, please visit: Doctoral Preparation Checklist.

Link to Full Announcement

NSF Program Description 98-1321

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