Update: Due to numerous requests the SOCOMS full-paper submission deadlines have been extended to November 22, 2010.

Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep understanding of behavior, patterns, and potential outcomes. The pervasive use of computer and Internet technologies provides an unprecedented environment of various social activities. Social computing facilitates behavioral modeling in model building, analysis, pattern mining, and prediction. Numerous interdisciplinary and interdependent systems are created and used to represent the various social and physical systems for investigating the interactions between individuals, groups, or nation-states. This requires an interdisciplinary effort leveraging the state-of-the-art research to create a better understanding of the problems from different perspectives in order to document lessons learned and develop novel theories, experiments, and methodologies in terms of social, physical, psychological, and governmental mechanisms.
This special issue is interdisciplinary and provides a platform for researchers, and practitioners from sociology, behavioral science, computer science, psychology, cultural study, information systems, operations research to share and develop novel concepts, models, principles, simulations, and methodologies, aiming to bridge the gaps between paradigms, encourage interdisciplinary collaborations, advance and deepen our understanding of social and behavioral computing and evaluation in helping critical decision and policy making.

Areas of Interests
Articles are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications.
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to,
Social role identification and prediction
Influence process and recognition
Detection of hidden relationships
Public opinion representation
Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Search, data, and inference
Group formation and evolution
Analytic approaches
Cultural patterns and representation
Simulation methodology
Social conventions and social contexts
Tools and case studies
Causal and non-linear relationships
Metrics and evaluation
Modeling, projection, and forecasting
Social behaviors (norms, self-organizing, cooperation)
Social network analysis and mining
Viral marketing and information diffusion
Group interaction and collaboration
Data collection and benchmarks
Group representation and profiling
Social dynamics and infectious disease modeling
Cultural modeling and dynamics
Model and analysis complexity

Important Dates
Submission System (EES) opens: October 15, 2010
Full-Paper Submission deadline: November 22, 2010 (12 Midnight – Pacific Standard Time)
Preliminary notification of acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera-ready manuscript due: May 15, 2011

Submission Guidelines
Articles will be submitted online through the EES system (http://ees.elsevier.com/jocs/). Please select “Special Issue: SOCOMS” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Detailed submission and format guidelines are available on JOCS website at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/721195/authorin
structions. Articles should not exceed 15 pages.

Contact Information
Website: http://ualr.edu/nxagarwal/SOCOMS/
Email: nxagarwal@ualr.edu (Please mention “SOCOMS” in the subject line)

Introduction
Currently, more than 80% of the information exchanged on the Web carry personal data and are primarily of multimedia nature (video, audio, images, etc.). Two main reasons are behind this phenomenon: 1) each of the major players on the Internet (individual users, companies, local and/or regional authorities, etc.) is both data producer and data consumer at the same time, and 2) the use of various tools of Web 2.0 (blogs, social networks, etc.) allows to ease sharing, accessing, and publishing information on the Web. While such tools provide users many easy-to-use functionalities, several issues, however, remain unaddressed. For instance, how to automate the processes of annotation and description of some photos using the annotations/descriptions provided by the user friends on his/her blog/wiki/social network? How to provide the user with more effective and expressive means to multimedia information retrieval? How to protect a multimedia data repository (e.g., photo album) while several related information about the same content is already published (by some user friends) on the same or other blog/wiki/social network? The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current approaches and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to the use of Web 2.0 in providing automatic annotation and easing retrieval and access control of multimedia data. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the art and future directions in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions from various research groups.

Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* Semantic Web and Web 2.0
* Social Networks
* Multimedia Semantics
* Contextual Multimedia Metadata
* Annotation Enriching
* Query Rewriting
* Metadata Modeling and Contextual Ontologies for Multimedia Applications
* Management of Multimedia Metadata (Relational and XML Databases, Semantic Stores, etc.)
* Multimedia Authoring
* Multimedia-based Access Control and Authorization
* Multimedia Retrieval
* Personalizing Multimedia Content
* Cross-media Clustering
* Mobile Applications
* Multimedia Web Applications and Related Metadata Support
* Novel and Challenging Multimedia Applications

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: November 20, 2010 (extended deadline)
Notification of First Round of Review: January 30, 2011
Submission of the Revised Manuscript: March 15, 2011
Notification of Final Acceptance: April 30, 2011
Camera-ready Submission: May 30, 2011

Submission
Authors are invited to submit contributions at the journal Online Submission System (http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap) not exceeding 8000 words (approx. 20 pages single-spaced) including diagrams and references with at least 10-point Times Roman like font. All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by at least three external expert reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special
issue topics above. Since a “blind” paper evaluation method will be used, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in any part of this file.

Guest Editors
Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France, richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr)
Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, oria@homer.njit.edu)

Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with
contributed research papers.

Technical Program
Topics of interest, grouped in technical tracks, include, but are not limited to:
Visual Indexing
* Visual indexing (image, video, graphics)
* Visual content extraction
* Identification and tracking of semantic regions
* Identification of semantic events
Audio and Multi-modal Indexing
* Audio indexing (audio, speech, music)
* Audio content extraction
* Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
* Metadata generation, coding and transformation
Multimedia Information Retrieval
* Multimedia retrieval (image, audio, video, …)
* Matching and similarity search
* Content-based search
* Multimedia data mining
* Multimedia recommendation
* Large scale multimedia database management
Multimedia Browsing and Presentation
* Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content
* Personalization and content adaptation
* User interaction and relevance feedback
* Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools

Selected papers will appear, after extension and peer-review, in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications. In addition to this regular call, CBMI 2011 features also a Call for Special Sessions and a
Call for Demos; check them at http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/

Paper submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of not more than six (6) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the Easychair site. Style
files (Latex and Word) will be provided for the convenience of the authors.

Important dates
* Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
* Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011

We invite submissions for participation in GEOINFORMATIK 2011. The three-day conference offers an opportunity to researchers in the field of GI Science to share ideas, discuss state-of-the-art applications, and explore emerging research directions. Whether you are a researcher in academia or a GI-expert in industry, you are welcome to participate in shaping the future of GI Science at GEOINFORMATIK 2011.
Main topics for the conference include but are not limited to:
1. Global Change: Modelling spatio-temporal processes 2. GI in Environment, Climate and Energy GI 3. Mobile Technologies, Location Based Services 4. Geosensor Networks 5. From Geodata Infrastructures to Spatial Information Infrastructures 6. Volunteered Geographic Information, Neogeography 7. Human Computer Interaction
Anybody with an interest in Geoinformatics in general or in the questions raised above is invited to submit a paper to the conference. Submissions can be made under two categories:
Research Submission (maximum 6 pages) of original and unpublished academic research. Papers must be written in English and according to the formatting guidelines. Submissions will be reviewed in a single blind review process based on relevance to the conference, originality, significance of results, research goals, clarity of conclusions, and organization and grammar.
Successful submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and will be published in the conference proceedings (with ISBN).
Shortpapers about innovative applications (max. 1-3 pages): Submissions can either be in English or German and will be reviewed based on application aspects, innovation and relevance to market. Please note that product presentations will NOT be allowed under this category. Successful submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and will be published in the conference proceedings (with ISBN).

Important dates:
January 21, 2011: Full paper submission
March 14, 2011: Notification of full paper acceptance
March 20, 2011: Camera-ready full paper copies due

Workshop Description:
Today the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies, brings in tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing between users. Along with the interaction between users and computers, social media are rapidly becoming an important part of our digital experience, ranging from digital textual information to diverse multimedia forms. These aspects and characteristics constitute of the core of second generation of Web.
A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast pool of data to extract, represent and exploit meaningful knowledge and to leverage structures and dynamics of emerging social networks residing in the social media. Social networks and social media mining combines data mining with social computing as a promising direction and offers unique opportunities for developing novel algorithms and tools ranging from text and content mining to link mining.
The 2nd International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web in conjunction with DASFAA 2011 will bring together the academia, researchers and industrial practitioners from computer science, information systems, statistics, sociology, behavior science and organization science discipline, and provide a forum for recent advances in the field of social networks and  social media, from the perspectives of data management and mining. We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of this field. The topics  of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

* Computational models for social media
* Search in Social Networks and Social Media
* Blog Search and Retrieval, Social Aspects of Blogosphere
* Sentiment Analysis; Polarity/Opinion Identification and Extraction
* Techniques for Social Network Analysis and for the Analysis of Social-Media Phenomena
* Link Analysis and Network Structure Discovery, Community Detection and Evolution
* Group interaction, Collaboration, and Recommendation
* Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
* Human Interface and Interaction techniques for Social Media, Social Media tools; Navigation and Visualization
* Influence, Trust, and Privacy
* Social Behavior Modeling, Social Intelligence, Social Cognition
* Trend Identification and Tracking; Time Series Forecasting; Measuring Predictability of Phenomena based on Social Media
* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
* Query processing and optimization
* Influence, trust, and privacy
* Search in social networks and social media
* Interoperability among social applications and social media
* Techniques for social-network and social-media analysis/mining
* Adversarial blogging and counter measures
* Link analysis and network structure discovery
* Community detection and evolution
* Blog search and retrieval
* Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation
* Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection)
* Social aspects of Blogosphere
* Human interface and interaction techniques for social media

Submission Instruction:
Authors are invited to submit electronically original, English-language research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All accepted papers will be published in a combined volume  of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series published by Springer in the form of conference post-proceedings. At the workshop site, informal on-site proceedings will be handed out as well. All submitted papers should be Springer LNCS camera-ready format. The style files are available  from Springer LNCS site:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
All submissions files should be in PDF formats. We employ the single blind review system  (in which the authors don’t know the reviewers, but the reviewers know the authors). The number of pages should not exceed 12 pages. Any papers more than 10 pages will be rejected.

Submission Website:
Please submit all manuscripts (research/industrial/demo papers) in PDF formats to the submission site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SNSMW2011/

Important Dates :
Paper submission December 15, 2010, 5PM (Pacific Time)
Notification          January 15, 2011, 5PM (Pacific Time)
Camera Ready     January 22, 2011, 5PM (Pacific Time)

Workshop organizers:
Workshop Co-Chairs:

Guandong Xu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Hong Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Botang Wang, Northeastern University, China
Program Committee (in alphabetical order of last name):
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
Hong Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University
Irene Ggarrigos, University of Alicante, Spain
Yanan Hao, Victoria University, Australia
Yoshinori Hijikata, Osaka University, Japan
Hideyuki Kawashima, Tsukuba University, Japan
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Wenxin Liang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Wenyu Qu£¬Dalian Maritime Univeristy£¬China
Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan
Xiaohui Tao Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kenji Tateishi, NEC Corporation, Japan
Athina Vakali, Aristotle University, Greece
Botao Wang, Northeastern University, China
Daling WANG, Northeastern University
Yitong WANG, Fudan University£¬ China
Zongda Wu, Wenzhou University, China
Guandong Xu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Zhenglu Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jianwei Zhang, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Yu Zong, West Anhui University, China

Starting from Jan 1., 2011. for 12 months (extension may be possible).

The work is part of a collaborative project, supported by the Network and Images Technological Research Cluster (pôle de compétitivité Images & Reseaux), and local industrial partners, in the field of professionnal on-line social networks (such as LinkedIn etc…). The goal of the work is to design, implement and evaluate novel techniques (models, algorithms, criteria) for recommending people and content, and identifying communities from user profiles. A particularity of the task is that it should jointly exploit several existing on-line social networks (supplying the data is under the responsibility of another project partner).
The task will very probably have opportunities to relate to ongoing work in our group, pertaining to privacy-preserving technologies (k-anonymity). The overall work direction envisaged is unsupervised  classification/clustering, e.g. through mixture models and Bayesian estimation, or conceptual
clustering, but alternative or additional solutions may be chosen, depending on specific competences of the applicant. Expected fields of competence : databases, statistical learning, recommender systems, information retrieval.

Please sent CV with list of publications (and 2 most representative publications as pdf attached files) to :
Marc GELGON
Tel : + 33 2 40 68 32 02
marc.gelgon {a} univ-nantes.fr
Guillaume RASCHIA
Tel : +33 2 40 68 32 57
guillaume.raschia {a} univ-nantes.fr

The ICE 2011 takes place in Aachen, Germany, 20 – 22 June 2011. This is the 17th in a series of Annual Conferences, which regularly attracts over 200 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice.

This year the ICE conference will focus on “Innovating Products and Services for Collaborative Networks”. The programme will combine strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies, workshops, exhibition and social activities. The programme will showcase results from projects funded at national and regional level as well as those funded by European Commission Research Programmes.
We are now inviting extended abstracts (min. 1,200 – max. 1,500 words) for technical papers, visionary papers, business and government case studies. Proposals to arrange 90 minute workshop sessions are also welcome. Related themes and suggestions for papers and sessions are outlined in the Call for Papers www.ice-conference.org
All abstracts must be submitted online by 01 February for double blind peer review by the International Programme Committee.


Important Deadlines
Submission deadline for Extended Abstracts:      01 February 2011
Notification of acceptance decision:                    01 March 2011
Submission of final paper:                                  01 April 2011


Core Thematic Priorities for ICE conference 2011
Papers should focus on a research topic on which a case study, initial or final results can be published. General project descriptions are not appropriate. All papers must highlight the level of innovation and actual or expected impact.
Excerpt of the conference topics:

• Concurrent Engineering: methods and processes
• Co-creation, Co-Innovation and Open Innovation
• Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation
• Factory of the Future, Virtual Factories and digital manufacturing
• Networked virtual organizations: production management, logistics and supply chains
• Service Engineering, value creation and customer integration
• Future of Internet and networked environments
• Smart objects and smart systems integration
• Simulation and games for Concurrent Engineering, collaboration & learning
• Living Labs and user centric engineering

More topics and information are available at www.ice-conference.org
We kindly ask you to forward this Call for Papers to your colleagues in research, government or industries relevant for the conference topics.
We look forward to receiving your extended abstracts and workshop submissions by 01 February.


ICE 2011 Organising Committee
Email: submit@ice-conference.org
Website: www.ice-conference.org   
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The Urban Data Management Society has organised international symposia at various locations throughout Europe since 1971, and UDMS 2011 will mark its 40th anniversary. For this anniversary the Board of UDMS has decided to hold the conference in Delft, The Netherlands, a city and a country we have called home for many years. For this symposium the Board has decided to call attention to the 40 years of UDMS, certain that this is an experience not to be found elsewhere and a valuable basis on which to form planning for the future. Consequently the general theme chosen of UDMS 2011 is UDMS at 40 years: making contributions to the future As in the UDMS tradition we will provide a forum in which representatives from local authorities, universities, research centers and professionals can join together to discuss new approaches, to consider new technologies, and to share practical experiences in the field of urban and regional data management. UDMS 2011 will include dynamic Discussion Working Sessions in which academics, representatives from local authorities  and professionals will discuss relevant topics and problems for which solutions are required. The results of the discussion will be presented by a rapporteur in a final session. These sessions will facilitate the effective creation of collaboration  and synergies between participants in addition to the conventional Sientific and Technical Sessions. Representatives from local authorities in Europe will be invited to participate to the conference and take part to the Discussion Working Sessions.