LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

Second call for contributions:

LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

8-12 April, Leuven, Belgium
http://lakconference.org

Papers and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals due *** November 8, 2012 ***

Doctoral Consortium, Poster and Workshop Participation Submissions due January 31, 2013

The International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, now in its third year, is a venue for reporting and advancing research at the nexus of two emerging societal phenomena. First we are witnessing the rapid expansion of the use of technologies in supporting learning, not only in established institutional contexts and platforms, but also in the emerging landscape of free, open, social learning online. Second, the unprecedented availability of data that learners generate in the process of accessing learning materials, interacting with educators and peers, and creating new content in these technological settings, coupled with advances in analytics and data mining, knowledge modeling and representation and open data offer great potential for research into how learning takes place in socio-technical settings and the development of new forms of analytics that can inform learners and educators. Learning Analytics research brings these technical, pedagogical, and social domains into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders.

THEME: Dialectics in Learning Analytics
The first two conferences have established the range of issues and approaches of concern in leveraging the availability of data about learning with powerful computational, representational and visualization techniques. This third conference will be designed to consolidate the field by bringing these many voices into dialogue in a "middle space" under the overarching theme of "Dialectics in Learning Analytics", which has these facets:

The Middle Space: The conference will explore the middle space within which Learning and Analytics intersect, and seeks proposals for papers and events that explicitly connect analytic tools to theoretical and practical aspects of understanding and managing learning.

Productive Multivocality: Learning analytics is multidisciplinary, drawing on theories and methods from diverse research traditions. Our community includes educators, learning scientists, computer scientists, administrators, and policy makers, among others. The middle space serves as a topical "boundary object", enabling productive discourse between these many voices.

The Old and the New: We are facing a centuries old problem: to improve learning, but we are trying to solve it using a new set of tools, not available before. We address these problems in the city of Leuven: centuries old, lively new.

TOPICS The following keywords will be used to classify submissions, and convey the breadth of topics covered. Authors are strongly encouraged to read the advice at http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/for-authors/ concerning how papers should focus on some aspect of the intersection of learning and analytics.

* Analytic Approaches, Methods, and Tools for sensemaking in learning analytics, including: algorithms, architectures, behavior modeling, case studies, clustering, computational linguistics, concept mapping, crowdsourcing, data integration, data mining, data sharing, design-based research, research about design, discourse analysis, educational research methods, ethnography, ethnomethodology, evaluation methods, frameworks, grounded theory, information visualization, interfaces for learning analytics, knowledge representation, machine learning, natural language processing, predictive analytics, recommendation engines, semantic web, sequential analysis, social network analysis, social network visualisation, statistical analysis, surveys, text mining, visual learning analytics

* Theories and Theoretical Concepts for understanding learning, including: activity theory, actor-network theory, affordances, communities of practice, conceptual models of learning enabled by analytics, connectivism, constructivism, distributed cognition, networked individualism, reflective learning, situated learning, social capital, social learning, sociocultural theory, structuration theory, symbolic interactionism

* Measures of Learning, Change and Success, including: accreditation, affect, emotions, and flow, analytic patterns, attendance and retention (as predictors of learning), attention, attitudes, collaboration and cooperation, community structure, comprehension/understanding, conceptual change, degree of competence, educational performance, expectations, learner behavior modeling, learning dispositions, metacognition, misconceptions, motivation, off-task behavior, organizational dynamics, participation, satisfaction, social dynamics

* Learning Activities, Applications, and Interventions: adaptation, analytic tools for learners, argumentation, assessment, awareness, big data applications and opportunities, classroom orchestration, collaborative learning, course management systems, decision-support systems for learning, informing policy, instructor support, intelligent tutoring systems, interventions based on analytics, knowledge work, language learning, learning communities, learning environments enhanced with analytics, learning how to learn, lifelong learning, management of learning interventions or settings, mentoring, open data and data access for learners, pedagogical adjustment/intervention, personalization, predicting failure, professional development, quantified self, reflection, scaffolding and scripting, self-management of learning, student monitoring, teacher analytics, teaching learning analytics

* Issues addressed may include: adoption strategies and barriers, cultural issues, ethical considerations (e.g., privacy and ownership), human factors, identity, legal aspects, privacy, social change

* Media studied may include: blogging, chats, haptic media & tangible computing, microblogging (twitter), mobile platforms, online discussion forums, shared workspaces, social networking media, video, whiteboards, wikis, and face-to-face interaction supported by technology

* Settings of Learning include: blended online/face-to-face, distance education, distributed work, face-to-face settings, corporate/workplace, government, graduate education, harmonizing individual and organizational learning, higher education, informal learning, military, mobile and ubiquitous, online communities, open university, primary school, secondary school, socio-technical networks, university/postsecondary, virtual organizations

SUBMISSION TYPES

Primary Participation

Full and Short Papers, Design Briefings, and the abstracts for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials will be published in the main proceedings. Submissions in these categories are due November 8, 2012. (This has been extended from November 1 to avoid conflict with another conference submission date, but there will be no further extensions.)

-- Full Papers
Use a full paper to share substantial conceptual, technical and empirical contributions, following the advice to authors given above. Submit up to 10 pages in the conference paper format.

-- Short Papers, Design Briefings, and Formal Demonstrations Use a short paper to share preliminary conceptual, technical and empirical contributions, or substantial contributions that can be reported briefly. Short papers can also share a design concept or tool that addresses a challenge of interest to interface designers, system architects and programmers. A formal demonstration of interactive software or tools may also be proposed: such submissions should include at least one link to a current demo movie. Submit up to 5 pages in the conference paper format.

-- Panels
Panels provide the chance for delegates to hear a range of speakers address a topical issue, e.g. diverse approaches to a problem, or a debate a hot topic. Submit up to 4 pages in the conference paper format suitable for publication in the proceedings, including an introduction to the nature and importance of the issue to be addressed and panelists' position statements. Submit 2 additional pages (not to be published in the proceedings) with the names and qualifications of confirmed panelists and discussants and a summary of how your panel format will ensure that there is interaction between panelists rather than consisting of a collection of disconnected talks.

-- Workshops
Workshops (8-9 April, 2013) provide the opportunity to explore learning theory, analytics, methods and tools in depth. Workshops should be designed to take advantage of the interactivity afforded by this format, and should not consist merely of a day of talks. They may include for example, experience sharing and brainstorming, interactive demonstrations, data analysis by multiple analysts, problem solving sessions, and a few short and/or enlightening presentations. The length of the workshop sessions can range from a half to a full day (consisting of two to four 1.5 hour blocks between breaks). See http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/for-authors/workshop-and-tutorials/ for further information.

-- Tutorials
Tutorials (also 8-9 April, 2013) are being solicited for specific topics of interest. The time could range from a 1.5 hour session to a full day (consisting of two to four 1.5 hour blocks between breaks). See http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/for-authors/workshop-and-tutorials/ for further information on topics solicited and submission.

Secondary Participation


Submissions for the following forms of participation are due January 31, 2013.

-- Doctoral Consortium
A one-day consortium will be organized for doctoral students who are about to defend or have recently defended their proposals. Participating students will have the opportunity to present their proposed research to reputable faculty in learning analytics and obtain valuable advice. Other professional development and social networking activities will be included. Details for submission requirements will be forthcoming in a future call.

-- Informal Demonstrations
A space (table top surface) and designated times for informal demonstrations of relevant software will be provided at the conference. Submit one page that includes a 1-line title, name of presenter, and an abstract limited to 100 words suitable for printing in the conference guide. Demonstrators should be prepared to interact with several conference participants at a time in an interactive and not excessively scripted manner.

-- Posters
Posters are suitable for describing late-breaking results or for engaging conference participants in discussion of preliminary ideas or findings. Submit a 1-line title, the name(s) of the presenter(s), and an abstract limited to 100 words suitable for printing in the conference guide. This should be followed with up to two pages describing the concept or results to be presented, the expected interactions with conference participants, and the poster format that will support these interactions. (If available, a high-resolution image of the poster provided as the second page can fulfill this requirement, and is preferred. Easily visible graphics and large brief texts are encouraged rather than small text.)

-- Workshop Participation
LAK workshops will provide conference participants with opportunities to interact intensively on a topic of shared interest. Workshop calls for participation will be distributed shortly after the December 14th workshop acceptance notification date. January 31st will be the uniform date for priority submissions for participation in workshops, although we encourage workshops to accept later submissions on a space-available basis. Workshop organizers will specify submission requirements.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PUBLICATION
LAK 2011 and LAK 2012 were published in the ACM Digital Library International Conference Proceedings Series. LAK 2013 is organized in cooperation with SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and an application for similar publication arrangements is pending with ACM. Author guidelines are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (option 1).

RELEVANT DATES
November 8: Paper, Workshop, and Tutorial Proposals Due December 14: Notification for Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials January 31: Workshop Participation, Poster, and Informal Demonstration Submissions Due February 15: Workshop, Poster, and Demonstration Notification February 15: Final Papers Due March 1: Early Registration Deadline April 8-12: Conference

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS


Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) - http://www.kuleuven.be Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) - http://www.solaresearch.org

General Chairs

-- Erik Duval, University of Leuven, Belgium -- Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Program Chairs

-- Dan Suthers, University of Hawai'i, USA -- Katrien Verbert, University of Leuven, Belgium

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

-- Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
-- Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know, Greece
-- Alyssa Wise, Simon Fraser University, Canada


Doctoral Consortium Chairs

-- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
-- Katherine Maillet, Institut National des Telecommunications, France
-- Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark


Awareness, Interaction and Memory Chairs

-- Tony Hirst, Institut National des Télécommunications, France
-- Doug Clow, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark


Local Chair

-- Joris Klerkx, University of Leuven, Belgium


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Tel Amiel, Universidade Estadual do Campinas, Brasil Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Ryan Baker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Paulo Blikstein, Stanford University, USA Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Simon Buckingham, Open University, UK Cristian Cechinel, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Brasil Ming Ming Chiu, SUNY-Buffalo, USA Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, University of Sydney, Australia Grainne Conole, Open University, UK Shane Dawson, The University of British Columbia, Canada Maarten de Laat, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands Anna De Liddo, Open University, UK Michael Derntl, RWTH Aachen, Germany Stefan Dietze, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK Pierre Dillenbourg, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain Vania Dimitrova, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands Gregory Dyke, University of Lyon, France Rebecca Ferguson, The Open University, UK Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Janice Gobert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia, Canada Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Zoran Jeremic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Paul Kirschner, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands Nancy Law, Hong Kong University, China Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center, Austria Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland Lori Lockyer, University of Wollongong, Australia Phillip Long, University of Queensland, Australia Kristine Lund, University of Lyon, France Leah Macfadyen, University of British Columbia, Canada Taylor Martin, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alejandra Martinez-Mones, University of Valladolid, Spain Riccardo Mazza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Patrick McAndrew, The Open University, UK Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Bruce McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Agathe Merceron, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Germany Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Louis-Philippe Morency, University of South Carolina, USA Jad Najjar, Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien, Austria Jun Oshima, Shizuoka University, Japan Abelardo Pardo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Kai Pata, Tallinn University, Estonia Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia Cristobal Romero, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Stefan Scherer, University of South Carolina, USA Andreas Schmidt, Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Bruce Sherin, Northwestern University, USA Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain George Siemens, Athabasca University, Canada Marcus Specht, Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands John Stamper, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stefan Trausan-Matu, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Marcelo Worsley, Stanford University, USA Kalina Yacef, University of Sydney, Australia Michael Yudelson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS: Complex Networks 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Complex Networks 2012

International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications November 26-27, 2012 - Sorrento - Naples, Italy

Co-located with 8th SITIS 2012, Conference

Submission deadline: September 21, 2012

Web site : http://www.sitis-conf.org/en/workshop-on-complex-networks-and-their-applications-complex-networks-2012.php?Preview=ok

Scope of the Workshop Real-world entities often interconnect with each other through explicit or implicit relationships to form a complex network. Examples of complex networks are found in many fields of science such as biological systems, engineering systems, economic systems as well as social systems. In line with 's tradition of SITIS promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different science communities working on areas related to complex networks. The workshop targets two types of contributions from prospective authors: Contributions dealing of theoretical tools and methods to solve practical problems as well as applications solved by tools from network sciences. Both contributions should stimulate interaction between theoreticians and practitioners.

Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied papers on their research in complex networks. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Models of Complex Networks
• Structural Network Properties and Analysis
• Complex Networks and Epidemics
• Rumor Spreading
• Community Structure in Networks
• Formation of Complex Networks
• Generation of Complex Networks
• Community Detection in Complex Networks
• Motif Discovery in Complex Networks
• Visualization of Complex Networks
• Complex network mining
• Dynamics and evolution patterns of complex networks
• Community discovery in complex social networks
• Visual representation of complex networks
• Methodological problems in complex network studies
• Applications of complex network analysis

Important dates

Submission deadline: September 21, 2012 (midnight, Pacific Standard Time)
Authors notification: October 8, 2012
Camera-ready: October 26, 2012
Workshop date: November 27, 2012
General Chair: Hocine Cherifi , University of Burgundy , France

Submission guidelines

All submissions should be in IEEE conference style and PDF format. Papers may not exceed 8 pages. Two extra pages can be purchased. Paper submission will only be online via: Easy Chair.

The online system will be used to handle and process all papers and to prepare for the final proceedings. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least two reviewers. The organizers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections. More details about the submission process can be found on the conference website.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journals.

Registration

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Registration must be done on the SITIS website at the time when the author sends the camera-ready copy of the accepted paper to the workshop chair. Workshop registration fee is determined by SITIS. A single registration for the workshop or the conference allows attending both events.

Workshop Web Site: Complex Networks 2012

Save the Date! 9th UK Social Networks Conference

The UK Social Networks Association is pleased to announce the dates for the 9th UK Social Networks Conference to be held at the University of Greenwich, London, June 27-29th, 2013.

Calls for Papers and Workshops will follow.

5th International Workshop on SECurity and SOCial Networking

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SESOC 2013

 5th International Workshop on
SECurity and SOCial Networking

 March 18th 2013
 San Diego, USA
(as part of PerCom 2013)

 http://www.sesoc.org

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Online Social Networks arguably are the most accepted service on the Web, today. Facebook alone has a claimed base of over 950 millons of users worldwide, google+ reached the mark of 10 million users in only 16 days after going public, and mobile social networks, like foursquare and Instagram, consistently gain momentum.

So far, Online Social Networks (OSN) are self-contained, walled garden services, with a centralized omniscient provider that collects and shares PII selectively with customers and affiliates. The amount of information gathered about the users in the case of Web-based SNS has already been extensive -- but it even consists of detailed location traces and preference information, given by the frequency of "check-ins" at visited establishments and comments annotated to them, in this new paradigm. The problems of security and privacy in such a surveiled, pervasive communication environments hence are becoming more and more crucial.

Moreover, observing the current trends, new communication systems are becoming even more dynamic, open and heterogeneous, enriched with social information. Future pervasive communication systems aim at supporting social and collaborative communications: the evolving topologies are expected to resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any network operation. Social networking services may be leveraged for providing extended information on contacts and their relations based on the containing online identities and the information they share. The emerging pervasive communication systems, which, with high probability will more often than today face lack of connectivity to central services, however, cannot rely on any a-priori knowledge, on any pre-established trust relationship nor on sophisticated integrated security infrastructures. They therefore are calling for new and dedicated security and trust mechanisms: raising entirely new privacy concerns they require new reflections on security problems such as trust establishment, cooperation enforcement or key management. The information leveraged, spanning social relations and personal opinions, consists of highly sensitive data at the same time, a fact that leads to a high risk of misuse or abuse.

The aim of SESOC 2013 hence is to encompass research advances in all areas of security, trust and privacy in pervasive communication systems with a special focus on the social aspects of the services.

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Topics of Interest
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- all types of emerging privacy concerns
- new aspects of trust
- decentralized social networking services
- social engineering, and phishing in OSN
- availability and resilience
- community based secure communication
- data confidentiality, data integrity
- anonymity, pseudonymity
- new key management approaches
- secure bootstrapping
- security issues in forwarding, routing
- security aspects regarding cooperation
- new approaches to reputation
- new attack paradigms
- new requirements for software security
- malware in and through OSN


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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: October 30, 2012
Notification date: December 21, 2012
Camera ready submission: January 27, 2013
Workshop date: March 18, 2013


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Submission instructions
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Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The link for the templates and further guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript are available on the workshop website. All papers are managed electronically through EDAS. The submission web site will be posted soon.

Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous and double-blind review process handled by the Technical Program Committee.

***** Authors' names must not appear in the paper.*****

All accepted papers need to have a full registration to the PerCom 2013 Conference (There is no workshop only registration). Moreover, no-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers not being included in the IEEE Digital Library.

SESOC is happy to announce a *best paper award*. Papers of special merit will again, like in previous years, be considered for possible *fast* *track publication* in *Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal*.

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Committee
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Workshop General Co-Chairs:
Melek Önen EURECOM, France
Thorsten Strufe TU Darmstadt & CASED, Germany

Technical Program Committee:
Frederik Armknecht, Uni Mannheim, Germany
Erik-Oliver Blass, Northeastern University, USA
Jens-Matthias Bohli, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Sonja Buchegger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary
Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Ahmet Çamtepe, DAI-Labor / Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Emiliano de Cristofaro, PARC, USA
Alexander Eichhorn, Simula, Norway
Sébastien Gambs, Université de Rennes 1 - INRIA, France
Artur Hecker, Télécom ParisTech (ENST), France
Sotiris Ioannidis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU-Darmstadt, Germany
Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey
Mark Manulis, University of Surrey, UK
Christian Rohner, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Cardiff University, UK
Olivier Thonnard, Symantec, France
Michael Waidner, TU-Darmstadt & Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Dirk Westhoff, Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU), Germany


-- Thorsten Strufe TU Darmstadt http://www.p2p.tu-darmstadt.de/ CASED http://www.cased.de/

Call for Papers of the Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks

Call for Papers of the Special Session on Evolution of Social Networks - ESN 2012

Under the framework of the 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in São Carlos, Brazil

Objectives
In recent years, research in area of social network analysis grows rapidly, mainly thanks to the prevalence of the large-scale social network systems. These social network systems can be characterized by complex network structures and extensive content. Social network analysis can be applied to static or dynamic types of problems. The current research is mainly focused on analysis of topological properties and dynamic properties corresponding to evolution of networks and communities. Contextual information can help in analyzing these properties. Social network data comes mainly from many on-line services. The huge quantity of data can be consisting of millions of vertices and edges. Given the scale, complexity and dynamics, the traditional methods of social network analysis cannot be easily used. It becomes crucial for researchers to understand the dynamics of these networks. It is important to predict the next evolution and analyze trends in the network. Other current directions of research are detection of communities and analysis of community evolution in large social networks, content (topic) evolution, information diffusion in social networks, etc.

Specific topics of interest
To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):

• Community detection and evolution 
• Role detection and evolution in social networks 
• Content evolution and Information diffusion in social networks 
• Trend prediction in social networks 
• Anomaly detection in social network evolution 
• Mining dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks 
• Mining of user behavior patterns in social networks 
• Analysis of co-authorship and citation networks and evolution of research topics 
• Evolution in collaborative environments, wikis, e-learning systems, … 
• Case studies and applications from the area of social network dynamics and evolution 
• Social network data pre-processing 
• Evaluation techniques and benchmarks

Submission
Special Session paper submission will be done through CASoN 2012 submission system and been evaluated with the same standard as the regular conference paper. All accepted papers will be included in the CASoN 2012 conference proceedings. Papers must be submitted within the stipulated time and electronic submission in PDF is required. A full paper (6 pages, A4 size) for oral presentation should in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.

Details are available at the http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ and special session website http://www.mirlabs.net/cason12/ss2.html. Submit your paper at the https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cason12

Program Chair
Vaclav Snášel, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Hvaclav.snasel@vsb.cz Miloš Kudělka, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz

Session Coordinators
Miloš Kudělka, Hmilos.kudelka@vsb.cz Eliška Ochodková, Heliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing

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CPSCom 2012
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing

http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/
Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE CS, and IEEE TCSC
November 20-23, 2012,
Besancon, France

in conjunction with iThings 2012: The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. INTRODUCTION

The physical things and the human society have formed into the world we live in. However, the emergence of information technologies enables a new infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution, which have changed the world we are used to. Cyber-physical systems couple the cyber aspects of computing and communications with the physical aspects of dynamics that must abide by the laws of physics.

Social computing has become more widely known because of proliferation of online social networking in recent years. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing, future social networks will become cyber-physical, combining measured elements of the physical world. The convergence of computational and physical processes as well as human's social behaviors exhibits a variety of complicated characteristics, which leads to a lot of challenges.

The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPSCom 2012) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for the CPSCom, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. CPSCom 2015 is the 5th edition of the successful series, previously held as CPSCom 2011 (Dalian, China, October 2011), CPSCom 2010 (Hangzhou, China, December 2010), CyberSocialCom 2009 (Hangzhou, China, November 2009), and CPSC 2009 (Brisbane, Australia, July 2009).

2. SCOPE AND INTERESTS

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- Track 1: Cyber-physical systems and society
- Track 2: Social computing
- Track 3: Pervasive/ubiquitous computing
- Track 4: Sensor/actuator networks
- Track 5: Security, privacy, and trust
- Track 6: Applications and services

3. IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due: August 6, 2012 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2012

4. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit original papers that MUST NOT have been submitted to or published in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Full Papers (up to 8 pages) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) are solicited. Detailed submission instructions could be found on the conference website http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee for significance, originality, accuracy, and clarity.

5. PAPER PUBLICATIONS

Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of CPSCom 2012 by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several SCI-index international journals (check the website for details).

6. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Program Chairs Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, China Rong Zheng, University of Houston, US

Program Vice-Chairs Li Shang, University of Colorado, US Hao Ma, Microsoft Research, US Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Andrea Passarella, National Research Council of Italy, Italy Luisa Gargano, Universita di Salerno, Italy Kay Romer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany S. Felix Wu, University of California Davis, US Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy

Demo/Exhibition Chair Kyung-Joon Park, KJ Park, DGIST, Daegu, Korea

Panel Chair Vincent Gauthier, Telecom Institut Sud Paris, France

Publicity Chairs Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Jean-Fran ois Couchot, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Philippe Canalda, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France

Advisory Committee Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT, USA Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Workshop Chairs Didier El Baz, LAAS/CNRS, France Hakim Mabed, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Qixin Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China

Financial Chair Dominique Dhoutaut, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France

Program Committee See CPSCom 2012 website: http://cpscom.univ-fcomte.fr/

List of all workshops offered on the occasion of ASNA2012, Zurich, Switzerland

ASNA 2012 Workshops:

Social Network Analysis for Newbies (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, morning), Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich

Applications of Social Network Analysis (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, afternoon), Filip Agneessens, University of Groningen, Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich, Manuel Fischer, University of Geneva, Karin Ingold, University of Bern

The Analysis of Longitudinal Social Network Data (Tuesday, September 4, 2012, full day), Johan Koskinen, University of Manchester

ERGMs for Social Networks (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, morning),Skyler Cranmer, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill

visone - Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, morning), Ulrik Brandes, Natalie Indlekofer, and Uwe Nagel, University of Konstanz

Pajek XXL (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, afternoon), Andrej Mrvar, University of Ljubljana

Discourse Network Analysis (Wednesday, September 5, 2012, afternoon), Philip Leifeld, Eawag and University of Bern

Full descriptions: http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=94

Registration: http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=90