FINAL Call for Papers:


Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language
Processing Workshop 2008
18 October 2008
London
Submission deadline: 5 September 2008
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/corpus-profiling/index.php


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PURPOSE
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We aim to bring together people from different research communities
interested in exploring how corpus characteristics affect the behaviour
of techniques in information retrieval and natural language processing,
and to set out a roadmap for a shared research agenda.

It is well known in NLP and IR that the effectiveness of a technique
depends on both the data on which it is deployed and its match with the
task at hand. In 1973, Spärck-Jones attributed differing degrees of
success at automatic classification to differences in dataset
characteristics. Since Croft and Harper (1979), IR performance has
repeatedly been related to collection size and other features, though no
upper bound has been found.

The importance of data and task dependencies has been highlighted in IR,
anaphora resolution, automatic summarization and recently, in word sense
disambiguation. Many web/enterprise web retrieval systems rely on URL
properties, link graph properties, click streams, and so on, with
performance dependent on the degree to which this evidence is present
and meaningful in a particular corpus.

Systematically exploring features that can be used effectively to
characterise corpora, has been missing from IR/NLP research. This
creates problems with replicability of experimental results and the
development of applications.

The time is right to pursue this dependence systematically to address
topics in tracking the effect of dataset profile on technique
performance. Over the past 15 years, the approaches of several subject
areas have converged with IR, as large corpora and test collections
assume central importance in research methodologies. These areas have
highlighted issues surrounding the role of data.


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WORKSHOP FORMAT
-----------------------------------

The workshop will be a day long, in conjunction with the Information
Interaction in Context (IIiX'2008, http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/). The
workshop will have three components:

(1)  invited talks in the morning, introducing the background from
different perspectives

(2) two afternoon sessions, presenting peer-reviewed papers

(3) a panel discussion (panel composed of presenters and the organizers).


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
-----------------------------------

We welcome original research or position papers. We particularly
encourage postgraduate students or postdoctoral researchers to submit
papers. Topics of interest include, but are NOT LIMITED to, the
following areas:

      * Suitable features to characterise text/language variety,
capturing known effects on technique performance with respect to a task;

      * Tasks that depend on aspects of corpus profiles, (e.g., the
positive correlation of QA performance with fact frequency in a corpus);

      * Limitations of context-independent frequency-based measures, and
exploration of measures that highlight complex dependencies;

      * Tools/techniques for characterising a feature or the extent to
which it is manifested in a corpus;

      * Evaluation methodologies for testing feature candidates relative
to task/technique;

      * Learnability of features (cf. meta-level learning for
classification algorithms).


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IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------------

5 September 2008: Paper submission due

20 September 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection

26 September 2008: Camera-ready due

18 October 2008: Workshop


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
-----------------------------------

Original technical papers, short papers and position papers are all
welcome. Please ensure that your submission does not exceed 5,000 words
in length. Use 10 point font size, double column for body text, and 12
point bold for headings. Please send your submission in PDF to all the
three organizers (A.Deroeck@...; d.song@...;
udo@...) with subject "Corpus Profiling workshop submission".

We will publish the accepted papers electronically through BCS's
Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), together with the extended
abstracts of invited talks, a summary of the panel discussion. We will
seek to pursue the research thread through further workshops at relevant
conferences. We plan to organize a post-workshop special issue on a
suitable IR or NLP related journal.

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------

Anne De Roeck (The Open University)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Nikolaos Nanas (CERETETH, Greece)
Michael Oakes (University of Sunderland)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde)
Dawei Song (KMi, The Open University)
Tomek Strzalkowski (SUNY Albany)
Alistair Willis (The Open University)

For further information please visit
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/corpus-profiling/index.php

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                            Second Call for Papers

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              Second International Workshop on Teaching and
                   Learning of Information Retrieval
                                (TLIR'08)


  		      London, October 18th, 2008

                     http://tlir08.soi.city.ac.uk
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                 Workshop in conjunction with IiiX2008
             (http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/workshopsp.php#)

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Justification, goals and summary of the workshop
===============================================

Information Retrieval (IR) is a research area that has generated a
great deal of
interest in recent years, largely due to the growth of the Internet. Many
different problems that have arisen during this time have been tackled by
the efforts of thousand of researchers around the world. New advances
are spread
following the usual scientific channels, i.e. journals and
conferences, keeping
researchers abreast of new developments in the field.

However we need to ensure that students who study the subject of IR
understand
the basis of this discipline, not just with the aim of conducting
research in
the future for example, but also as a way of learning how search
engines work
- tools that they use for their own benefit on a daily basis. IR is a very
useful subject to reinforce the knowledge acquired in other fields,
such as
programming, data structures, user interface design etc. Postgraduate
students
who may conduct research in this area also need to know the
fundamental aspects
of the subject, simply because they may be building new solutions for
them.

Therefore as important as research is to IR, one way to improve the
profile
of the subject is to create a common space where IR lecturers and
researchers
can share their experiences and opinions in the field of IR teaching
at any
of the educational levels (primary, secondary and tertiary). The aim
of the
workshop is to provide this common space.

The first edition of the workshop was held in January 10th, 2007,
under the
auspices of the BCS-IRSG at the BSC Headquarters in London. The
proceedings were
published by the BCS 'Electronic Workshops in Computing' (eWIC). We
have designed
this workshop to provide an event which will strengthen the community,
attracting
both young and experienced lecturers, who will be encouraged to
present their
experiences and ideas, obtaining a valuable feedback from an audience
with the
same interests.

We have a number of broad topics to which we invite position papers
on, and
will then take the issues to a couple of break out sessions. The
breakout sessions
will develop positions based on the core questions raised by the
position papers.
We intend to publish a white paper on our findings from these session,
and
feedback the issue to the academic community. The outcome therefore is
not a set
of papers which discuss pedagogical research in the area, but a set of
recommendations to those who teach IR on how to improve delivery and
quality on
their courses, from several perspectives – academic, professional body and
commercial.

The scope of this workshop will be all the experiences teaching IR.
Possible
topics are listed under the following categories, although not
restricted to:

Level 1
[A] Technical Level (Non-technical Mid-way to Technical continuum)
[B] Educational Goals
     [b1] Library and information Science
     [b2] Computer Science
     [b3] MIS
     [b3] Linguistics
Level 2
[1] Teaching and Learning methods:
     [1a] classroom;
     [1b] elearning (distance learning);
[2] Assessment and feedback
[3] Curricula.

We invite  position papers on IR teaching, theoretical or position
papers on any
of some of the areas mentioned above. For all the areas we identify we
will
provide a broad overview of them, and a list off issues which will be
discussed
further in breakout sessions.

Submission
==========


Papers will have an extension of 3 or 4 pages at most.
In http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7939, the authors may find
the Microsoft
Windows Template for writing the paper. This will be the only possible
format.

The papers will be electronically published by eWiC (BCS electronic
Worshops in
Computing – http://ewic.bcs.org/). Later, authors of best papers will
be invited
to submit extended versions as chapters of a book on teaching and
learning of IR
(as soon as we have the detail of the publishers and series, we shall
inform).

The papers will be submitted in PDF format to the following URL:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlir08

Depending on the number of papers accepted, the presentation of some
of them
will take place in a poster session.


Important Dates
===============

Deadline for paper submission: September, 15th, 2008.
Notification of Acceptance: September 29th, 2008.
Camera ready: October, 6th, 2008.
Workshop: October, 18th, 2008.


Workshop Organisers
===================

Andrew MacFarlane (andym@...),
Department of Information Science. City University. London - United
Kingdom.

Juan F. Huete (jhg@...),
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial.
Universidad de Granada - Spain.

Juan M. Fernández-Luna (jmfluna@...),
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial.
Universidad de Granada - Spain.

Efthimis N. Efthimiadis (efthimis@...),
The information School, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

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     *Call for Papers - ECIR 2009*

     31st European Conference on Information Retrieval - Toulouse –
     France, 6-9 April 2009
     In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR, ARIA
     http://ecir09.irit.fr

The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main
European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field
of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of
high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished
results.


   Call for papers

The European Conference on Information Retrieval provides an opportunity
for both new and established researchers to present research papers
reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within
information retrieval. Poster submissions addressing any of the areas
identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are
encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research
results.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
- IR Theory and Formal Models
- Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
- Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based
representation, XML, Metadata, Social tagging. Summarization. Natural
language processing for IR.
- Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
- Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User
models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory
- Web IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop, Enterprise and Blog
Search. Adversarial IR
- Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination. Mobile IR
- Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation
for IR
- Multimedia IR
- Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering,
Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
- Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical
acquisition
- Text Data Mining
- Text Categorization, Clustering
- Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical
structures)
- Blog and online-community search

Submissions must be written in English following the LNCS guidelines and
must not exceed 12 pages including references and figures. All papers
and posters will be refereed through blind peer review. Accepted papers
and poster abstracts will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at
the Conference.

Queries regarding full paper submission should be directed to the
programme Chair: Mohand Boughanem (bougha@...).


Call for posters

Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress or research that is
best communicated in an interactive or graphical format, for which there
is more time for discussion and questions than is sometimes available in
a full paper session. Poster presentations are also a good way to
present work applying information retrieval approaches and techniques to
new domains and problems. Please note, however, that posters describing
work at the proposal stage cannot be accepted. Poster submissions are
welcomed in any of the areas identified in the call for papers.

Submissions in this category should be formatted as per the instructions
for full papers (above), the maximum length of poster papers is 5 pages
including figures and references. Accepted posters papers will be
presented at a dedicated session.

Queries regarding poster submission should be directed to catherine
Berrut (atherine.berrut@...).


Call for Workshops and tutorials **

Proposals are solicited for one-day workshops and tutorials the first
day of the conference. The purpose of ECIR workshops is to provide a
platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more
focused way than the conference itself. As such, they also offer a good
opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain
feedback from an interested community. Tutorials inform the Information
Retrieval community on recent advancements in related fields, or on
novel application areas related to Information Retrieval.

Submissions describing proposed workshops and tutorials should be up to
1,000 words in PDF format. They should state the title and the goals of
the proposed workshop or tutorial, as well as the full contact details
of the organizers and presenters, including a one-paragraph biography
with past experience in organizing relevant events.

The submitted proposals should include a short summary and justification
of the proposed topic, explaining its relevance to Information Retrieval
and to the audience of ECIR. Furthermore, proposals should include a
description of the format of the proposed workshop or tutorial (e.g.,
the structure of tutorials, or the type of accepted contributions,
discussion groups, and panels for workshops). The proposals should
provide the expected number of participants, potential invited speakers,
a description of the process of selecting contributions and
participants, a tentative or confirmed program committee (if a program
committee is formed), as well as the planned outcomes of the proposed
workshop or tutorial (e.g., proceedings or special issue in a journal
for workshops, or course material for tutorials).

The submitted proposals will undergo peer review and decisions will be
made by an international program committee.
Queries regarding workshop and tutorials submissions should be directed
to Josiane Mothe (mothe@...)

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An award will be presented to the author of the Best Paper, Best Student
Paper, and Best Poster presented at the conference.


Programme committee chairs**


Mohand Boughanem (full papers)
Catherine Berrut (posters)
Josiane Mothe and Chantal Soulé-dupuy (workshops and tutorials)
*
Important dates*
Paper submission deadline: 5th Oct. 2008
Poster submission deadline: 19th Oct. 2008
Workshop and tutorial submission: 19th Oct. 2008
Acceptance notifications (papers and posters): 12th Dec. 2008
Workshop and Tutorial: 6th April 2009
Technical papers: 7, 8 and 9 April, 2009

Information Processing & Management

Special Issue on Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval

Call for Papers

Deadline: October 30th 2008

Despite the growing number and complexity of annotated corpora, and
despite the potential impact that these may have in information
retrieval (IR) tasks, annotations have not yet made a significant
impact in IR research or applications.

In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about semantic
annotations of document collections. There are many forms of
annotations and many techniques that identify or extract them.
Named-entity extraction, semantic classes, microformats, RDF, and user
tags are examples of such annotations. As natural language processing
(NLP) tagging techniques mature, more and more annotations can be
automatically extracted from free text. In particular, techniques have
been developed to ground named entities in terms of geo-codes, ISO
time codes, Gene Ontology ids, etc. Furthermore, the number of
collections which explicitly identify entities is growing fast with
Web 2.0 and Semantic Web initiatives.

The ESAIR'08 (http://www.yr-bcn.es/esair08) workshop brought together
researchers and practitioners trying to use annotations for search in
diverse fields (from databases to linguistics, multimedia retrieval,
retrieval, semantic web...). It was obvious that there was a wealth of
interesting research problems and applications, and increased interest
from the community, and it seemed important to continue this
multi-disciplinary discussion through a journal special issue and
future workshops (such as ESAIR'09, http://www.yr-bcn.es/esair09).

We invite original papers addressing novel information processing and
data management techniques involving semantic annotations and
information retrieval. Contributions related to algorithms,
applications, tools, and practical aspects are welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Semantic Web
- Semantic search
- Collaborative tagging and annotation
- Applications and tools
- Annotation and evaluation
- Classification and clustering
- Text mining
- Question answering
- User interfaces and visualization
- Time
- GIS
- Exploratory search
- Summarization


Submission Guidelines

The deadline for submissions is October 30th 2008. All contributions
should be submitted through the electronic submission system of
Information Processing & Management, following the journal guidelines
for authors found at:

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infoproman

Please upload your document to be considered for the Semantic
Annotations in Information Retrieval Special Issue at
http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/ and choose `Special Issue: SAIR' as the
Article Type. Include an abstract, three to five keywords, and the
corresponding author's e-mail address.

Guest Editors

Omar Alonso (A9.com) - oalonso@...
Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research) - hugoz@...

If you have any questions regarding the special issue, such as whether
your research would be appropriate for this issue, feel free to
contact the guest editors.

** Apologies for Cross Postings **

			 Call for Participation

				 FDIA 2008

The 2nd BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions of Information Access

in conjunction with Search Solutions 2008

22nd and 23rd  of September 2008

London, UK

http://irsg.bcs.org/fdia2008

The FDIA symposium series aims to promote and encourage researchers in
the early stages of their careers within the field of Information
Retrieval. The symposium provides a unique platform for young researchers
to get together and discuss their research in a friendly environment and
learn more about the field and their peers.

At the first symposium held last year, the aim was to provide a forum
where future directions of information access can be presented and
discussed in an open and friendly environment. The focus of the 2nd
Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access will be to continue
this theme by dedicating an entire day to the discussion and promotion of
such research in a fun, entertaining and exciting way.

Why future directions, because we want to encourage submission that focus
on the early research such as pilot studies, presenting challenges and
future opportunities, conceptual and theoretical work, and the
contributions from doctoral work.

Why Information Access, because it captures the broader ideas of
information retrieval, storage and management to include interaction and
usage.

For the detailed program and how to register please visit the FDIA
website:

http://irsg.bcs.org/fdia2008


Best regards,


Andy MacFarlane
City University

On behalf of the Symposium Co-Chairs


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!         Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB             !
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32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
Boston, MA, July 19-23 2009.

http://sigir2009.org/

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the field of information retrieval (IR).

Request for mentoring

http://sigir2009.org/mentoring

The ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
offers a mentoring program for papers being submitted to the ACM SIGIR
2009 conference. If you would like help with your submission, you may
ask for a mentor: a person who will help you with your submission to the
SIGIR audience through one-to-one advising, usually via e-mail. A mentor
can also familiarize you with the standards and deadlines of SIGIR
submissions. He or she will also help you understand how to align your
paper with the expectations of the typical SIGIR reviewer. Mentors are
volunteers familiar with successful submissions.

Mentors are primarily available for full papers. To request a mentor,
please send an email to Mounia Lalmas at mounia at acm.org. Requests can
be sent between November 1, 2008 and November 17, 2008. No requests will
be accepted after November 17, 2008. Please include:

- Your name and the names of your co-authors.
- The name of your department or school, and institution.
- A plain-text description of your work (a title and abstract is a
minimum requirement).
- Any specific questions or areas in which you would like help.
- At this stage, please do not include your draft paper.

Reasonable expectations for a mentor include giving advice as to the
most appropriate forum for your work, suggesting improvements to your
submission, suggesting how to deal with language problems, or referring
you to relevant research of which you might not have been aware.
Typically, a mentor might spend 3-7 hours on a submission. We carefully
match mentors to mentees, and wish to support you in developing your
work into a high-quality submission with a good chance of being accepted
and published.

Note the following:

- People requesting mentoring must have an almost complete submission
ready for the mentor to review by the date they request a mentor.
- If there is an experienced information retrieval researcher in your
department, a request for mentoring may be declined.
- Reviewers will not be informed of whether a paper has been mentored.
That is, the fact that a paper was mentored is not considered during the
paper selection process.
- A mentor will be assigned 2-3 days after the request has been made and
approved.

Mentors can be requested from November 1, 2008. The deadline for
mentoring requests is November 17, 2008.

Mounia Lalmas
SIGIR 2009 Mentoring Chair

[apologies for cross-posting]

3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
May 17 - 20, 2009, San Jose, California
http://www.icwsm.org/2009/

Call for papers - 2009


Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence

The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue
to rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviours and,
significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating
data. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will
meet once more in 2009 to discuss the latest research analyzing and
leveraging this resource. As with previous meetings, we will bring
together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from
many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and
collaboration in this space.

AREAS OF INTEREST
Disciplines which are relevant to our meeting include computer
science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia
and semantic web technologies. The following are key areas of interest:
[01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of
social media
[02] Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media
[03] Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
both within genres and between genres of data
[04] Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
[05] Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing
[06] Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and
visualization
[07] Multimedia: tools and techniques for distribution, sharing, and
analysis of social activity with/around multimedia.
[08] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking;
named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization
[09] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative
creation of structured knowledge
[10] Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis;
polarity/opinion identification and extraction
[11] Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise
and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
[12] Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age
identification
[13] Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting;
measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
[14] New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
[15] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2008
Paper Submission: January 21, 2009
Poster/Demo Submission: January 21, 2009
Paper Acceptance: February 27, 2009
Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 27, 2009
Camera Ready Copies: March 10, 2009
Tutorials: May 17, 2009
Conference: May 18-20, 2009

SUBMISSION
People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-09
website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description
(up to 2 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Papers
must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see
the AAAI author instructions page at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Authors must
register at the ICWSM-09 technical paper submission web site
(available by November 15, 2008). The software will assign a password,
which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract and
paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are
encouraged to register as soon as possible.

Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals
ICWSM-09 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is
under review for or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not
apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited
audience.

REGISTRATION
All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the
conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the
conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. In
addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present
the paper in person.

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in
the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer
copyright of their paper to AAAI.

DATA CHALLENGE
ICWSM-09 is planning to release a large blog dataset in conjunction
with the conference. This data will include the full content and
markup of the blog post as well as extracted text. The conference
invites researchers to explore the dataset and submit their findings
as technical papers. More information will appear soon on the
conference website.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Traditionally the conference invites world renowned experts to present
tutorials and give keynote talks. These will be announced soon.

General Chairs

     * William W. Cohen, Carnegie Mellon/Google
     * Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Assoc., McGraw-Hill

Program Chairs

     * Natalie Glance, Google
     * Matthew Hurst, Live Labs, Microsoft

Data Chairs

     * Ian Soboroff, NIST
     * Akshay Java, UMBC

Local Chair

     * Cameron Marlow, Facebook

Program Committee

     * Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
     * Navot Akiva, Pudding Media, Israel
     * Noor Ali-Hasan, Microsoft, USA
     * Chris Brooks, University of San Francisco, USA
     * Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA
     * Steve Cayzer, HP Labs, UK
     * Lili Cheng, Microsoft, USA
     * Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     * Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany
     * Brian Dennis, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
     * Chris Diehl, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, USA
     * Joan Morris DiMicco, IBM Research, USA
     * Nathan Eagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
     * Miriam Eckert, J.D. Power and Assoc., McGraw-Hill, USA
     * Raymond Elferink, RayCom B.V., The Netherlands
     * Andrew Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
     * Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
     * Kathy E Gill, University of Washington, USA
     * Scott Golder, Cornell University, USA
     * Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
     * Michelle Gumbrecht, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
     * John Henderson, MITRE, USA
     * Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
     * Steliana Ivanova, Umbria Inc., USA
     * Heng Ji, The City University of New York, USA
     * Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
     * Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
     * Jason Kessler, Indiana University, USA
     * Pranam Kolari, Yahoo!, USA
     * Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA
     * Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
     * Gueorgi Kossinets, Google, USA
     * Andrea La Pietra, University of California, Berkeley, USA
     * Thomas Lento, Facebook, USA
     * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA
     * Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
     * Naohiro Matsumura, Osaka University, Japan
     * Charles Mi, Opinmind, USA
     * Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
     * Gilad Mishne, Yahoo!, USA
     * Paola Monachesi, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
     * Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA
     * Kate Niederhoffer, Nielsen, USA
     * Scott Nowson, Appen, Australia
     * Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
     * Livia Polanyi, Powerset/Microsoft, USA
     * John Prager, IBM Research, USA
     * Stephan Raaijmakers, TNO ICT, The Netherlands
     * Drago Radev, University of Michigan, USA
     * Laura Ripamonti, Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano, Italy
     * Tamas Sarlos, Yahoo!, USA
     * Jonathan Schler, Peer39, Israel
     * David A. Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
     * James G. Shanahan, USA
     * Xiaolin Shi, University of Michigan, USA
     * Sanjay Sood, allvoices, USA
     * Ellen Spertus, Google, USA
     * Siddharth Suri, Yahoo!, USA
     * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
     * Jiang Yang, University of Michigan, USA
     * Cheng Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
     * Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA
     * Ding Zhou, Facebook, USA

For general information regarding ICWSM-09, please write to
icwsm09@....

Apologies for cross postings

Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009) In
conjunction with CHI 2009, Boston, USA

Call for Papers

Workshop Website: http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/locweb2009/
Position Paper Submission Deadline: October 23, 2008 Submission System:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=locweb2009

Overview

The goal of the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web
(LocWeb 2009) is to bring together researchers to discuss the ways in which
location as a first-class concept in Web services and Web applications will
transform the Web into a location-aware information system. We are
particularly interested in how location concepts can be shared across
applications to provide adequate support for an evolving ecosystem of
location-aware services and applications.

Details

Location has become an important concept for many Web-based applications,
in
particular because of the increasing popularity of mobile Internet access.
So far, however, location concepts are reinvented in many different places
and these diverging concepts make it hard to use location-based services
and
data in a truly open way. The Second International Workshop on Location and
the Web (LocWeb 2009) targets the capabilities and constraints of Web-based
location-oriented services, looking at browser-based applications, as well
as at native applications using Web services. The focus of this workshop is
on exploring approaches for handling the complexity of location-based
services and, more specifically, looking at location abstractions, location
sharing, privacy issues, and interface design issues. The goal is to create
a starting point for attaining better understanding of how the Web has to
change to embrace location as a first-class concept and to bring together
key scientists in all participating disciplines in order to stimulate open
discussion. It is our hope that we will be able to achieve increased
synergy
of approaches between the disciplines engaged in Web technologies, HCI,
UbiComp, and other related fields.
More directly, we intend to encourage immediate interdisciplinary
collaboration on future research topics.

Position Papers

We are soliciting position papers from researchers and practitioners in the
fields described below. These papers should focus on current projects and
work areas as well as on future work items and collaboration opportunities.
The first half-day will set the stage with a few selected kick-off talks
and
an interactive demo and poster session. In the afternoon, we dive into open
discussions to provide a starting point for future collaboration. Each
position paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee, based on quality, relevance and balance of contributions to the
workshop. All position papers will be published in the LocWeb 2009
electronic proceedings. It is planned to publish revised versions of
selected papers in a special journal issue such as Personal and Ubiquitous
Computing.

Topic Suggestions

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

      * Empirically based guidelines for location-oriented systems
      * Abstracting, sharing and obfuscating location information
      * Location as place and space as a first-level concept in web-based
services and applications; location syntax and semantics
      * Mobile localized geographic information retrieval; personalization
and localization
      * Extracting and exploiting location in and from Web 2.0 communities
      * Integration of physical affordances of location into Web-based
mobile
applications
      * Multimodal and personalized (mobile) user interfaces making use of
location information

Submission Guidelines

Interested researchers should submit a 4-page position paper formatted
using
the ACM SIG proceedings style by October 23, 2008 to the workshop
management
system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=locweb2009. Acceptance
notifications will be sent out November 23, 2008. The workshop will be held
April 5, 2009 in Boston, USA. Please note that at least one author of an
accepted position paper must register for the workshop and for one or more
days of the CHI 2009 conference. Workshop fees for participants in 2009 for
a one-day workshop are still to be defined by the CHI 2009 Organizing
Committee. Workshop fees for participants in 2008 (previous
year) were approximately $150 ($75 for a student) for a one-day workshop.

Important Dates

      * Deadline for position paper submission: October 23, 2008
      * Acceptance notification: November 23, 2008
      * Workshop: April 5, 2009 Boston, USA

Organizing Committee

      * Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA (main contact)
      * Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
      * Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK
      * Peter Fröhlich, Telecommunications Research Center, Austria
      * Ross Purves, University of Zürich, Switzerland
      * Johannes Schöning, University of Münster, Germany

Program Committee

      * Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA (main contact)
      * Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
      * Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK
      * Peter Fröhlich, Telecommunications Research Center, Austria
      * Ross Purves, University of Zürich, Switzerland
      * Johannes Schöning, University of Münster, Germany
      * Eric Kansa, UC Berkeley, USA
      * Christian Kray, Newcastle University, UK
      * Antonio Krüger, Unversity of Münster, Germany
      * Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA
      * Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK
      * Derek Reilly, Dalhousie University, Canada
      * Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
      * Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
      * Gerhard Schall, University of Graz, Austria
      * Michael Smith, W3C, Tokyo, Japan
      * Rainer Simon, Telecommunications Research Center, Austria
      * Katharine Willis, University of Bremen, Germany
      * Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Contact Info and Links

In case of any questions, please contact the LocWeb 2009 organizing
committee at locweb2009@...

      * Workshop Website: http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/locweb2009/
      * CHI 2009 Website: http://www.chi2009.org
      * ACM SIG Proceedings Templates:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
      * LocWeb 2008 Website:
http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/LocWeb2008/

Research Openings at TelefĂłnica Research in Madrid, Spain
(Research scientists, visiting professors, post-docs, interns).

* Ph.D students interested in internships are strongly encouraged to apply.


Areas: AI & Data Mining, User Modeling, Personalization, Business
Intelligence.

TelefĂłnica Research in Madrid has several research openings at all levels
in the new Data Mining and
User Modeling research group (http://research.tid.es/usermodeling), which
focuses on human-centered
approaches to data analysis for customer modeling, personalization, and
decision support. A special
emphasis of the group is on principled data analysis taking
transdisciplinary approaches that consider sociocultural
context and personal preferences. Research topics for AI & Data Mining
positions include the
following (see website for the other areas):

- Behavioural pattern recognition, social network analysis, interactive,
online and visual data mining
and data visualization, machine learning for information extraction and
integration, probabilistic, and
model-based reasoning, ontology and knowledge representation, security and
privacy aspects in the
management of user data, soft computing techniques, semantic data mining,
relational data mining.

- Mining of multiple data types and sources: time-series analysis, streams,
high-dimensional, sensor
data, text and semi-structured data, multimedia, user logs, spatial and
temporal data.

- Statistical learning: kernel methods, SVM, bayesian inference, bayesian
networks, Boosting, EM.

- Applications of data mining and AI techniques to user modelling,
personalization, and business
intelligence.

Selected candidates are expected to and will have the opportunity to
develop and lead their own area of
research, with significant support from our engineering teams. Individuals
must therefore be able to carry out
leading independent research while working closely within an
interdisciplinary team.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related
field, a strong publication
record, and experience in at least one of the areas above.
Interdisciplinary background and interests and/or
experience in social aspects of computing considered favorably (technology
for developing regions, cultureaware
computing, etc.) Successful candidates will be highly motivated, creative,
dynamic, fluent in English,
have excellent communication skills (written and oral), and be able to
interact well in international,
multidisciplinary, R&D teams. Knowledge of Spanish is not necessary.

Selected candidates are expected to publish in the top-ranked conferences
and journals in the field, engage
in open research collaborating with international academic partners, and
actively participate in the research
community (program committees and other activities), and in European (FP7),
and other national and
international projects. Selected candidates will work closely with other
members of the research group and
interact with engineering teams to contribute to real-world research
problems.

Telefonica Research offers an internationally competitive salary and
benefits package (flexible working
schedule, Spanish classes, lunch subsidy, full medical coverage, etc.) in
an international, dynamic work
environment in Spain’s largest and most international city. As one of the
most important European capitals,
Madrid offers a vast array of cultural activities, convenient international
air connections and some of the best
restaurants and nightlife in the continent.

Inquiries and applications should be sent to Dr. Alejandro Jaimes <ajaimes
AT tid.es> with the subject
line "TID Research Application-Data Mining". There is no deadline:
positions will be open until filled.

TelefĂłnica is a world leader in the telecommunication sector, with presence
in over 23 countries and over
218 million customer accesses (2007). Services offered by the Telefonica
group include mobile & fixed line
phone, ISP, IPTV, web portals, and others. TelefĂłnica R&D is the innovation
company of the TelefĂłnica
Group. Owned 100% by TelefĂłnica, it was formed it 1988, with the aim of
strengthening the Group's
competitiveness through technological innovation. It is the most important
private R&D company in Spain, in
terms size, activities, resources, and participation in European Research
projects.

http://research.tid.es/usermodeling

New York, NY: Research Engineer, Search Analytics at Conductor, Inc.

Company Description
Conductor is an emerging leader in natural search solutions, helping
organizations manage information for greater search engine visibility
developing Conductor's analytics platform is centered on providing a clear
insight into the science of search, tracking, reporting, ROI analysis,
recommendations and predictions of natural search efforts. Conductor's link
building community includes Fortune 500 companies, some of the world's most
prestigious publications, and serves many of the leading search engine
optimization agencies.

Based in Chelsea, Manhattan, the company was founded in 2005, and has
rapidly been growing to become one of the fastest growing companies in New
York. In 2008, the company has been selected as an AlwaysOn OnMedia 100
Winner, as a category winner of the Global250, and included in Silicon
Alley Insider's 'World's Most Valuable Digital Startups.’

Position Overview
Conductor's Research & Development group is seeking results-oriented
Researchers/Engineers at all levels who want to solve real problems and
have a direct business impact. This individual enjoys formulating problems
based on customer needs, selecting, modifying and/or building appropriate
tools or methodologies, and providing true end-to-end solutions for
diversified challenging research and development projects. The individual
would own and develop state of the art machine learning algorithms for
conductor's Search analytics platform.

We encourage our team members to stay abreast of novel academic work and
seek patents when appropriate. This is an exciting opportunity to apply
your research and development skills in machine learning to large amounts
of data which Conductor collects every day. As a member of our R&D team,
you will invent and improve technology that shapes the next generation
search analytics products.

Job Responsibilities:
Play a critical role in the group as a creative research scientist/engineer
working to solve complex algorithmic and machine learning problems.
Architect and build machine learning components, systems, and applications
Directly design and implement production quality code for critical Search
analytics components
Be able to see a project through the entire software engineering cycle,
from the design stage to the finished product

Minimum Job Qualifications:
M.S. in Computer Science or related field. PHD a plus but not required
C/C++/Java programming experience/knowledge
Hands on skills in coding, integration and implementing large scale systems
Strong algorithmic problem solving skills
Good understanding of Unix-like systems (FreeBSD, Linux)
Experience with large datasets and/or scalable systems
Good written and verbal communication skills
Education or experience in one or many of the following scientific areas:
data mining, information retrieval, search engines, machine learning,
statistics, probability theory, scientific computing

Contact:
Researchjobs@...

*Call for Papers - ECIR 2009*

     31st European Conference on Information Retrieval -* *
     * *Toulouse – France, 6-9 April 2009 **
     In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR, ARIA
     http://ecir09.irit.fr

----------------------------------------------
*** Important dates**
Paper submission deadline: 5th Oct. 2008
Poster submission deadline: 19th Oct. 2008
Workshop and tutorial submission: 19th Oct. 2008
Acceptance notifications (papers and posters): 12th Dec. 2008
Workshop and Tutorial: 6th April 2009
Acceptance notification (Workshop and Tutorial): 10 Nov. 2008
Technical papers: 7, 8 and 9 April, 2009 **
--------------------------------------

The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main
European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field
of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of
high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished
results.

Call for papers

The European Conference on Information Retrieval provides an opportunity
for both new and established researchers to present research papers
reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within
information retrieval. Poster submissions addressing any of the areas
identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are
encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research
results.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
- IR Theory and Formal Models
- Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
- Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based
representation, XML, Metadata, Social tagging. Summarization. Natural
language processing for IR.
- Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
- Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User
models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory
- Web IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop, Enterprise and Blog
Search. Adversarial IR
- Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination. Mobile IR
- Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation
for IR
- Multimedia IR
- Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering,
Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
- Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical
acquisition
- Text Data Mining
- Text Categorization, Clustering
- Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical
structures)
- Blog and online-community search

Submissions must be written in English following the LNCS guidelines and
must not exceed 12 pages including references and figures. All papers
and posters will be refereed through blind peer review. Accepted papers
and poster abstracts will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at
the Conference.

Queries regarding full paper submission should be directed to the
programme Chair: Mohand Boughanem (bougha@...).


Call for posters

Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress or research that is
best communicated in an interactive or graphical format, for which there
is more time for discussion and questions than is sometimes available in
a full paper session. Poster presentations are also a good way to
present work applying information retrieval approaches and techniques to
new domains and problems. Please note, however, that posters describing
work at the proposal stage cannot be accepted. Poster submissions are
welcomed in any of the areas identified in the call for papers.

Submissions in this category should be formatted as per the instructions
for full papers (above), the maximum length of poster papers is 5 pages
including figures and references. Accepted posters papers will be
presented at a dedicated session.

Queries regarding poster submission should be directed to catherine
Berrut (catherine.berrut@...).


Call for Workshops and tutorials **

Proposals are solicited for one-day workshops and tutorials the first
day of the conference. The purpose of ECIR workshops is to provide a
platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more
focused way than the conference itself. As such, they also offer a good
opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain
feedback from an interested community. Tutorials inform the Information
Retrieval community on recent advancements in related fields, or on
novel application areas related to Information Retrieval.

Submissions describing proposed workshops and tutorials should be up to
1,000 words in PDF format. They should state the title and the goals of
the proposed workshop or tutorial, as well as the full contact details
of the organizers and presenters, including a one-paragraph biography
with past experience in organizing relevant events.

The submitted proposals should include a short summary and justification
of the proposed topic, explaining its relevance to Information Retrieval
and to the audience of ECIR. Furthermore, proposals should include a
description of the format of the proposed workshop or tutorial (e.g.,
the structure of tutorials, or the type of accepted contributions,
discussion groups, and panels for workshops). The proposals should
provide the expected number of participants, potential invited speakers,
a description of the process of selecting contributions and
participants, a tentative or confirmed program committee (if a program
committee is formed), as well as the planned outcomes of the proposed
workshop or tutorial (e.g., proceedings or special issue in a journal
for workshops, or course material for tutorials).

The submitted proposals will undergo peer review and decisions will be
made by an international program committee.
Queries regarding workshop and tutorials submissions should be directed
to Josiane Mothe (mothe@...)

-----------------------------------------
An award will be presented to the author of the Best Paper, Best Student
Paper, and Best Poster presented at the conference.


Programme committee chairs**


Mohand Boughanem (full papers)
Catherine Berrut (posters)
Josiane Mothe and Chantal Soulé-dupuy (workshops and tutorials)

********************************************************************
We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers
Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested
********************************************************************

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                            Workshop on
  Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN)

                       In conjunction with
  the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE'09,
                  Shanghai, China. March 29, 2009

        Web Page: http://research.microsoft.com/dmx/M3SN/
<http://research.microsoft.com/dmx/M3SN/>
****************************** **************************************

Online social networking is gradually turning into the primary means
of interacting with friends and peers online, forming new social ties,
or most commonly as a way of users to manage their "personal spaces".
Study of these large-scale social networking systems, their
evolution, and development of data mining techniques that turn the
rich latent information within these networks into actionable
intelligence is of great interest. Presence of a diversity of content
(photos, videos, travel maps, reviews, interactive gaming, etc.) as
well as a variety of interaction paths (explicit friendships, links to
bookmarks or blogs, comments left on blogs, etc.) give raise to a
number of new and unique research challenges in terms of their
management, mining and modeling. Their effective solution requires
deeper collaboration amongst research areas ranging from graph theory
to sociology and economic models to data engineering. In this workshop
we aim to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to
address the open research challenges in dynamic social networks. We
solicit original high-quality submissions dealing with various aspects
of modeling and mining of evolving social networks with applications
to recommendation systems, targeted advertising, and classification/
clustering of entities.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

- Modeling of Social Networks
  o Evolutionary models for social networks.
  o Privacy and security issues.
  o Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.

- Recommendation
  o Importance of friendship links in social recommender systems.
  o Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network.
  o Classification models and their application in social recommender
systems.

- Advertisement models
  o Influence models and their application in social environment
  o Social advertising.
  o Use of social networks for marketing

- Search in social media
  o Web page ranking informed by social media.
  o Expertise discovery.
  o Collaborative Filtering.


IMPORTANT DATES
  Papers due:                            November 18, 2008
  Notification to Authors :              December 15, 2008
  Camera ready versions:                 January 2, 2009
  Workshop:                              March 29, 2009


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
  All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
  currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
  significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
  relevance to the workshop. Research papers must be formatted using
  the 8/5"x11" IEEE camera-ready format; templates are available at:
  http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/aik.htm <http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/aik.htm>

  Full papers should not exceed 8 pages, short papers not
  exceed 4 pages and be submitted using the M3SN site at:
  https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/M3SN
<https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/M3SN>


CONFIRMED KEYNOTES
  Edward Y. Chang  - Director of Research, Google China
  Sihem Amer-Yahia - Yahoo! Research


ORGANIZATION

Workshop Organizers
  Ralitsa Angelova, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
  Srikanta Bedathur, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
  Arnd Christian Konig, Microsoft Research, USA
  Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA

Program Committee:
  Eytan Adar          University of Washington, USA
  James Caverlee      Texas A&M University, USA
  Debora Donato       Yahoo! Research, Spain
  Thomas Hofmann      Google Europe
  Matthew Hurst       Microsoft Live Labs, USA
  Jeanette Janssen    Dalhousie University, Canada
  Georgia Koutrika    Stanford University, USA
  Evangelos Milios    Dalhousie University, Canada
  Bamshad Mobasher    DePaul University, USA
  Ingmar Weber        EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

[apologies for cross posting]



                           Call for Papers

                  Distributed and Parallel Databases
             http://www.springerlink.com/content/100257/

           Special Issue on Data Management in Social Media
      http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/misc/data-management-social-media/


Guest Editors:
  - Tim Finin, UMBC, finin@...
  - Anupam Joshi, UMBC, joshi@...
  - Akshay Java, UMBC, aks1@...

Social Media tools like blogs, wikis and social networking sites are
providing new opportunities for us to connect and interact with each
other. Many social theories that could once be researched only by
conducting expensive surveys can now be studied and modeled due to the
easy availability of large scale social annotations and explicit
description of social relationships online. The rate at which blogs,
videos, bookmarks and many other user generated content is growing
presents several interesting research and data management
questions. The opportunity to mine social media content for analyzing
opinions, sentiments and trend identification has several applications
in Web search, personalization, business intelligence and national
security.  This special issue of the International Journal of
Distributed and Parallel Databases invites original research
contributions on data management in social media.  Topics include but
are not restricted to

  - community detection and evolution in social media
  - recommendation systems
  - search in social media
  - event detection, trend identification and tracking in social media
  - influence, trust and reputation in social media
  - opinion/sentiment analysis, polarity identification
  - feed distillation and ranking blogs
  - mining microblogging and real time data
  - folksonomy, tag semantics, clustering and usage
  - advertising models for the social web
  - indexing social media content, index freshness
  - visualizing social network data
  - spam detection, social network spam and profile spam

Manuscripts must be submitted by January 15, 2009 and should not
exceed 25 pages in length. Authors will be notified by April 15 and
camera ready copy will be due May 15.  Submit papers online at
http://dapd.edmgr.com/ specifying article type "S.I.: Data Management
for the Social Web".  For more information, contact Anupam Joshi at
joshi@....

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(Apologies for cross postings)

Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
IIiX 2008 - October 14-17, 2008, The BCS London Office, London, UK.

***Registration closes Friday 10 October 2008***
***Please note that there is no on-site registration***

The availability of information across media and genres, across
languages, and across modalities constantly increases. How people
access this information is highly dependent on the context of their
interaction and this context is influenced by a range of factors
such as the time, place, and history of interaction, the tasks
motivating the interaction and the technical possibilities of
the information systems. IIiX 2008 will explore the relationships
between the contexts that affect Information Retrieval and
Seeking, how these contexts impact on information behaviour,
and how knowledge of information contexts can help design truly
interactive information systems.

WEBSITE:  http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Cambridge, UK)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)

ACCEPTED PAPERS: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/programme.php
WORKSHOPS: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/workshopsp.php
TUTORIALS: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/tutorialsp.php

SPONSORS
BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group
The Information Retrieval Facility
Best Paper Award by Yahoo! Research
In cooperation with ACM

REGISTRATION: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/registration.php

ACCOMODATION
Delegates will need to arrange their own accommodation. As
IIiX 2008 co-occurs with several expositions and conferences we
strongly encourage you to book accommodation as soon as possible.


We look forward to welcoming you to IIiX 2008!

IIiX 2008 organisers (http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/organisers.php)

-------------------------------------------
*Call for Papers - ECIR 2009*

31st European Conference on Information Retrieval -* *
* *Toulouse – France, 6-9 April 2009 **
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR, ARIA
http://ecir09.irit.fr

----------------------------------------------
*** Important dates**
Paper submission deadline: 5th Oct. 2008
Poster submission deadline: 19th Oct. 2008
Workshop and tutorial submission: 19th Oct. 2008
Acceptance notifications (papers and posters): 12th Dec. 2008
Workshop and Tutorial: 6th April 2009
Acceptance notification (Workshop and Tutorial): 10 Nov. 2008
Technical papers: 7, 8 and 9 April, 2009 **
--------------------------------------

*The latest time for submission is the Pacific time (the planet's
westernmost time zone) *

------------------------------
The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main
European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field
of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of
high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished
results.

Call for papers

The European Conference on Information Retrieval provides an opportunity
for both new and established researchers to present research papers
reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within
information retrieval. Poster submissions addressing any of the areas
identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are
encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research
results.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
- IR Theory and Formal Models
- Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
- Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based
representation, XML, Metadata, Social tagging. Summarization. Natural
language processing for IR.
- Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
- Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User
models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory
- Web IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop, Enterprise and Blog
Search. Adversarial IR
- Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination. Mobile IR
- Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation
for IR
- Multimedia IR
- Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering,
Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
- Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical
acquisition
- Text Data Mining
- Text Categorization, Clustering
- Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical
structures)
- Blog and online-community search

Submissions must be written in English following the LNCS guidelines and
must not exceed 12 pages including references and figures. All papers
and posters will be refereed through blind peer review. Accepted papers
and poster abstracts will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at
the Conference.

Queries regarding full paper submission should be directed to the
programme Chair: Mohand Boughanem (bougha@...).


Call for posters

Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress or research that is
best communicated in an interactive or graphical format, for which there
is more time for discussion and questions than is sometimes available in
a full paper session. Poster presentations are also a good way to
present work applying information retrieval approaches and techniques to
new domains and problems. Please note, however, that posters describing
work at the proposal stage cannot be accepted. Poster submissions are
welcomed in any of the areas identified in the call for papers.

Submissions in this category should be formatted as per the instructions
for full papers (above), the maximum length of poster papers is 5 pages
including figures and references. Accepted posters papers will be
presented at a dedicated session.

Queries regarding poster submission should be directed to catherine
Berrut (catherine.berrut@...).


Call for Workshops and tutorials **

Proposals are solicited for one-day workshops and tutorials the first
day of the conference. The purpose of ECIR workshops is to provide a
platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more
focused way than the conference itself. As such, they also offer a good
opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain
feedback from an interested community. Tutorials inform the Information
Retrieval community on recent advancements in related fields, or on
novel application areas related to Information Retrieval.

Submissions describing proposed workshops and tutorials should be up to
1,000 words in PDF format. They should state the title and the goals of
the proposed workshop or tutorial, as well as the full contact details
of the organizers and presenters, including a one-paragraph biography
with past experience in organizing relevant events.

The submitted proposals should include a short summary and justification
of the proposed topic, explaining its relevance to Information Retrieval
and to the audience of ECIR. Furthermore, proposals should include a
description of the format of the proposed workshop or tutorial (e.g.,
the structure of tutorials, or the type of accepted contributions,
discussion groups, and panels for workshops). The proposals should
provide the expected number of participants, potential invited speakers,
a description of the process of selecting contributions and
participants, a tentative or confirmed program committee (if a program
committee is formed), as well as the planned outcomes of the proposed
workshop or tutorial (e.g., proceedings or special issue in a journal
for workshops, or course material for tutorials).

The submitted proposals will undergo peer review and decisions will be
made by an international program committee.
Queries regarding workshop and tutorials submissions should be directed
to Josiane Mothe (mothe@...)

-----------------------------------------
An award will be presented to the author of the Best Paper, Best Student
Paper, and Best Poster presented at the conference.


Programme committee chairs**


Mohand Boughanem (full papers)
Catherine Berrut (posters)
Josiane Mothe and Chantal Soulé-dupuy (workshops and tutorials)

Online Sentiment Analysis / Opinion Mining Postdoctoral Research Fellow
(2 posts)
ÂŁ26,666 - ÂŁ29,138 pa

To research the next generation of sentiment-aware online applications
based upon blogs and social network sites. This is part of the EU funded
project CyberEmotions to develop methods to harness emotions expressed
online for use in future information technology applications.

This exciting opportunity to be part of the future of software
development research involves data gathering from the web, sentiment
analysis on the downloaded data and the construction of applications
harnessing the power of online emotions. Two postdoctoral jobs are
available, each for two years in the first instance but with the
potential to be extended to four years. The expected start date is
February 1, 2009.

The posts are suitable for someone with a PhD in computational
linguistics, information retrieval or data mining, ideally with a
specialism in opinion mining / sentiment analysis. PhDs in related
fields will be considered, as will applicants who have submitted their
PhD. The posts are initially for 2 years with a possible extension to 3
or 4 years, depending upon applicants' needs and satisfactory
achievement of project goals.

The successful applicants will be required to travel to project meetings
and workshops at various locations in Europe at least twice yearly, and
will need to collaborate and cooperate with academics in various other
European universities and from various disciplines.

Please contact Professor Mike Thelwall m.thelwallATwlv.ac.uk with
expressions of interest before sending a formal application 

Ref A5178

Closing date 31 October 2008

For more information about these posts and for an application pack, go
to our website www.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobs.htm . If you do not have internet
access contact

Personnel Services,
University of Wolverhampton,
MX Building,
Camp Street,
Wolverhampton,
WV1 1AD

quoting the job reference. Tel: 01902 321049 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday -
Friday or e-mail: per@...


--
Dr. Constantin Orasan <C.Orasan@...>
Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
Research Group in Computational Linguistics
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/
University of Wolverhampton

Special issue on Data Mining
International Journal of Software and Informatics
http://www.cse.fau.edu/~xqzhu/ijsi/IJSI_DM.html

Important Dates
Papers due: October 15, 2008
Author notification: December 1, 2008
Final materials for publication due: December 15, 2008.
Special issue published: December 31 2008

Guest Editors
Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
David L. Olson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

This special issue intends to report recent research results in
broader areas of data mining and further promotes the data mining
research in the community. Although papers addressing all data mining
topics are welcome, we are particularly interested in the
contributions from the following five thrust areas:
1.Classical Data Mining Algorithms
2.Mining Web, Multimedia, Graph, and Complex data
3.Data Quality, Access Control, and Privacy Issues in Data Mining
4.Business Intelligence and Risk Assessment
5.Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Submission:
Prospective authors, please prepare your paper in IEEE journal format
(single or double columns). Authors should submit their manuscripts
in PDF format via email to xqzhu@... (or through the
EasyChair journal submission website
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijsidm08).
Please mention this special issue in your email subject and submission
remarks.

Ultra fast publishing process: This special issue is dedicated to
deliver timely research results in data mining research, to promote
fast review and publish papers in a three month period. A decision
will be made after the first round review (by at least two reviewers)
with a final decision either to accept or reject the paper.
Consequently, it is strongly suggested that the authors carefully
prepare the submissions to avoid any delay in the review process.

About IJSI Journal:
IJSI is an international journal for publishing papers in software
and broad areas of informatics, it has an editorial board consisting
of internationally well known experts. IJSI journal establishes
dedicated sections for emerging research areas that have been
recognized internationally. For more information about the IJSI,
please refer to the following URL for details
http://www.ijsi.org/IJSI/index.htm

+ + + + + + + + + +
Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng., Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road - S&E 366, Boca Raton, FL 33431
Telephone: +1-561-297-3168, Fax: +1-561-297-2800
http://www.cse.fau.edu/~xqzhu

The research group on Multimedia in Telefonica Research* Barcelona
invites for applications for a Postdoc position in the area of
Recommender Systems.

We are looking for dynamic, creative, and resourceful individuals to
join our research efforts in designing the next-generation of
Recommender Systems and Algorithms. Our research impacts all areas of
the company, including projects related to IPTV, web, mobile, or
internet content distribution. The successful candidate will join a
multi-disciplinary team of scientists dedicated to advance and
use computational methods to solve challenging user-oriented problems.

The applicant should have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Applied
Mathematics, Statistics, or other related scientific disciplines,
combined with strong computational modeling and/or algorithmic skills.
Knowledge and experience in additional areas such as statistical data
analysis, data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition, and
other topics in artificial intelligence are desirable.  Experience in
the Recommender Systems field will be taken into account but it is not
strictly necessary.

Although this particular position is designed for a postdoctoral
candidate the group is also actively seeking for doctoral students in
this area that might be interested in finishing their Thesis in
Telefonica Research or in doing a research internship. We will also take
into consideration strong candidates that are looking for a research
position or senior research position. If you are in either of these
situations please do not hesitate to apply.

We offer competitive salary and benefits and a great working atmosphere
in beautiful Barcelona (Spain).

Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled. An initial appointment for a one year term is
anticipated with the possibility of reappointment.

Inquiries and applications should be sent to

Xavier Amatriain <xar@...>

cc Nuria Oliver <nuriao@...>

with the subject line "RS Application"

* Telefonica is a world leader in the telecommunication sector, with
presence in Europe, Africam, Asia, and Latin America, and a total of
more than 200 million clients.

Telefonica Research and Development is the innovation company of the
Telefonica Group. Owned 100% by Telefonica, this subsidiary was formed
it 1988, with the aim of strengthening the Group's competitiveness
through technological innovation. It is the most important private R&D
company in Spain, in terms of both activities and resources, and in
terms of  number of staff, and it is one of the most important companies
on the continent as regards participation in European Research projects.

-----------------------------------
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
-----------------------------------

Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language
Processing Workshop 2008
18 October 2008
London
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/corpus-profiling/index.php

***Please note that there is no on-site registration***


-----------------------------------
PURPOSE
-----------------------------------

We aim to bring together people from different research communities
interested in exploring how corpus characteristics affect the behaviour
of techniques in information retrieval and natural language processing,
and to set out a roadmap for a shared research agenda.

It is well known in NLP and IR that the effectiveness of a technique
depends on both the data on which it is deployed and its match with the
task at hand. In 1973, Spärck-Jones attributed differing degrees of
success at automatic classification to differences in dataset
characteristics. Since Croft and Harper (1979), IR performance has
repeatedly been related to collection size and other features, though no
upper bound has been found.

The importance of data and task dependencies has been highlighted in IR,
anaphora resolution, automatic summarization and recently, in word sense
disambiguation. Many web/enterprise web retrieval systems rely on URL
properties, link graph properties, click streams, and so on, with
performance dependent on the degree to which this evidence is present
and meaningful in a particular corpus.

Systematically exploring features that can be used effectively to
characterise corpora, has been missing from IR/NLP research. This
creates problems with replicability of experimental results and the
development of applications.

The time is right to pursue this dependence systematically to address
topics in tracking the effect of dataset profile on technique
performance. Over the past 15 years, the approaches of several subject
areas have converged with IR, as large corpora and test collections
assume central importance in research methodologies. These areas have
highlighted issues surrounding the role of data.


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INVITED SPEAKERS
-----------------------------------

Anne De Roeck (The Open University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Michael Oakes (University of Sunderland)
Leif Azzopardi, (University of Glasgow)
Nikolaos Nanas (TBC), Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly
(CERETETH)


-----------------------------------
ACCEPTED PAPERS
-----------------------------------

Automatic Natural Language Style Classification and Transformation
Foaad Khosmood and Robert A. Levinson (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Genre Analysis of Structured E-mails for Corpus Profiling
Malcolm Clark (The Robert Gordon University), Ian Ruthven (University
Strathclyde), Patrik O'Brian Holt (The Robert Gordon University)

Lexical Profiling of Existing Web Directories to Support Fine-grained
Topic-Focused Web Crawling
Mark Greenwood, Goran Nenadic (University of Manchester)

Building a document genre corpus: a profile of the KRYS I corpus
Vera F. Berninger, Yunhyong Kim and Seamus Ross (University of Glasgow)

Distributional Lexical Semantics for Stop Lists
Neil Cooke, Lee Gillam (University of Surrey)


-----------------------------------
YOUR CONTRIBUTION
-----------------------------------

We are looking forward to a very productive workshop with as much
interaction as possible. As stated in the workshop aims we are  to set
out a roadmap for a shared research agenda. To do this most effectively
we are asking participants to provide some input stating their views on
corpus profiling for NLP and IR. Ideally this would be a short
paragraph, suggestions for discussion or even a simple statement that
should be submitted to the workshop organizers before the workshop. Any
input is most welcome!

-----------------------------------
REGISTRATION
-----------------------------------

The registration fee will be Ł80. Registration is through the IIiX
registration site: http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/registration.php

ICWSM 2009
        International Conference on Weblogging and Social Media

			     Data Challenge
			 Call for Participation
		     http://www.icwsm.org/2009/data


Continuing the ICWSM tradition, ICWSM 2009 is making a dataset
available to researchers in the blog and social media fields.  We
invite you to download the dataset, explore it, learn something
interesting about it, and submit a paper about it to ICWSM 2009.

The dataset, provided by Spinn3r.com, is a set of 44 million blog
posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2009.  The post
includes the text as syndicated, as well as metadata such as the
blog's homepage, timestamps, etc.  The data is formatted in XML and is
further arranged into tiers approximating to some degree search engine
ranking.  The total size of the dataset is 142 GB uncompressed, (27 GB
compressed).

(We also anticipate possibly releasing additional datasets.  Stay
tuned!)

For details on how to get the dataset, including a usage agreement,
please see the data page on the conference website,
http://www.icwsm.org/2009/data/.  There is also a mailing list and
Google Code site for sharing ideas and resources.

This dataset spans a number of big news events (the Olympics; both US
presidential nominating conventions; the beginnings of the financial
crisis; ...) as well as everything else you might expect to find
posted to blogs.  ICWSM invites research studies of this data,
including but not limited to

  - link analysis
  - social network extraction
  - tracing the evolution of news
  - blog search and filtering
  - psychological, socialogical, ethnographic, or personality-based
    studies
  - analysis of influence among bloggers
  - blog summarization and discource analysis

Instructions for submitting papers to ICWSM may be found at
http://icwsm.org/2009/cfp.shtml.  When submitting your paper, indicate
that it makes use of the dataset.  Dataset papers will be reviewed for
the main conference, and additionally for presentation at the data
challenge workshop to take place on May 20th, 2009 (the last day of
the conference).  While we anticipate that several dataset papers may
appear in the main conference, the data challenge workshop will
provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion of the dataset in a
more focused forum.

We will be making a collaborative website available for sharing tools,
indexes, or other extracts of the dataset.  Please see the ICWSM
website for links.

Ian Soboroff, NIST
Akshay Java, UMBC
ICWSM 2009 Data Chairs

[Apologies for multiple postings]

Erasmus Mundus Masters Course: International Masters in NLP and HLT

Deadline for submitting applications: 24th of January 2009

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

We invite applications for the Erasmus Mundus MA course on NLP and HLT,
organized jointly by Universite de Franche-Comte (France), Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), and
the University of Wolverhampton (UK).

The objective of this Masters Course is to provide education and
training of specialists in Language Technologies and their applications
and prepare them for careers in the LT industry, research and academia.

Students from European or non European countries will be able to select
a combination of modules on topics in Linguistics, Translation Studies,
Computer Science, and Mathematics, the languages of instruction being
those of the country of each partner university. As part of the course,
the students will complete a research project jointly supervised by
lecturers from the partner universities.

During the two-year programme, each student will spend two semesters
at one university of his/her choice, and another two at either one or
two other universities. After completing the programme, students
will receive a multiple Masters degree from the universities they have
attended.

Up to 18 best non-EU candidates will be offered a grant covering
tuition fees, accommodation and subsistence for the duration of the
course.

4 grants are also offered to scholars to come for 3 months in one or 2
of the consortium universities

For more information on the course, please visit:

http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/


--
Dr. Constantin Orasan <C.Orasan@...>
Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
Research Group in Computational Linguistics
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/
--
Scanned by iCritical.

We would like to bring the upcoming 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information
Systems (ACM GIS 2008). It will be held in Irvine, CA, in
November 5-7, 2008.  This year's Conference builds on the great
success of last year's Symposium where more than 180 people
attended, and on being the premier annual conference of the newly
established ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information
(ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/).  The invited
speakers include Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI,
and Vinton Cerf, VP of Google and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner.
This year we will also have for the first time a Ph.D. showcase track
and a demo track. The information can be found at
http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu/ and the program is there as well. The
program is also repeated below. There is also a pre conference
workshop on November 4, 2008 called SPRINGL2008 on Security
and Privacy in GIS and LBS. We hope that you are able to come
and look forward to seeing you there.
(Registration site: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~huangyan/acmgis08/)

Hanan Samet         Cyrus Shahabi          Ouri Wolfson
Co-general Chair   Co-general Chair      Co-general Chair

Walid Aref           Mohamed Mokbel     Markus Schneider
Program Chair      Co-program Chair     Co-program Chair


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            16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
               Advances in Geographic Information Systems
                              (ACM GIS 2008)

                        Call for Participation

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                              November 5-7, 2008
                           Irvine, California, USA
                         http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu

                         Corporate Sponsorship by
                                   ESRI
                                  Google
                                Microsoft
                        Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic
Information Systems 2008 (ACM GIS 2008) is the sixteenth event of a
series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of
bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners
carrying out research and development in novel systems based on
geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary
discussions and research in all aspects of geographicinformation
systems. The conference provides a forum for original research
contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation
aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interface
considerations,
and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues.
This year's conference builds on last year's conference great success
and on being the premier annual conference of the newly formed ACM
Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). ACM
GIS will have two invited speakers, 38 full papers, 37 poster papers,
8 Ph.D. showcases, and 12 demos. (see below)

================
Invited Lectures
================
       * Vinton Cerf, VP of Google, USA and 2004 ACM Turing Award
Winner
       * Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, USA

ACM GIS 2008: Program Schedule
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Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
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7:00-8:00 Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:10 Welcome

8:10-9:25 Paper Session 1: Geo Sensing

     SenseWeb: Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric
Interfaces
       Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research, USA), Liqian Luo (Microsoft
Research,
       USA), Suman Nath (Microsoft Research, USA), Feng Zhao (Microsoft
          Research, USA)

     Detecting Basic Topological Changes in Sensor Networks by Local
     Aggregation
       Jixiang Jiang (University of Maine, USA), Michael Worboys
(University
       of Maine, USA)

     Using Tomography for Ubiquitous Sensing
       Stacy Patterson (University of California at Santa Barbara,
USA),
       Bassam Bamieh (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA),
Amr
El
       Abbadi (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)

9:25-10:25 Invited Lecture:
         GIS: Geography in Action
            Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, USA

10:25-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-12:30 Paper Session 2: Modeling

     A Topology-based Semantic Location Model for Indoor Application
       Dandan Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong),
       Dik Lun Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong
Kong)

     Fast and Extensible Building Modeling from Airborne LiDAR Data
       Qian-Yi Zhou (University of Southern California, USA), Ulrich
Neumann
       (University of Southern California, USA)

     An Operation-Independent Approach to Extend 2D Spatial
      Operations to 3D and Moving Objects
       Farid Karimipour (Technical University of Vienna, Austria),
Andrew
       Frank (Technical  University  of  Vienna, Austria), Mahmoud Reza
       Delavar (University of Tehran, Iran)

     A Conceptual Spatial Model Supporting Topologically-consistent
Multiple
       Representations
       Donatella  Gubiani  (University of Udine, Italy), Angelo
Montanari
       (University of Udine, Italy)

12:30-14:00 Lunch (On your own)

14:00-15:30 Fast Forward Preview Session (37 Posters, 8 Ph.D.
Showcases)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:05 Paper Session 3: Route Finding and Road Networks

     The Multi-Rule Partial Sequenced Route Query
       Haiquan Chen (Auburn University, USA), Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn
University,
       USA), Min-Te Sun (National Central University, Taiwan), Roger
       Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

     Heuristic Algorithms for Route-Search Queries over Geographical
Data
       Yaron Kanza (Technion, Israel), Eliyahu Safra (ESRI, USA),
Yehoshua
       Sagiv (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Yerach
Doytsher
       (Technion, Israel)

     Continuous Proximity Monitoring in Road Networks
       Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich,
Germany),
       Peer Kr?ger (Ludwig--Maximlians-University Munich, Germany),
Matthias
       Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)

     An ACS Cooperative  Learning  Approach  for Route Finding in
Natural
       Environment
       David  Brosset (Naval Academy Research Institute, USA),
Christophe
       Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, USA), Eric Saux
(Naval
       Academy Research Institute, USA)

     Similarity-Based Prediction of Travel Times for Vehicles
     Traveling on Known Routes
       Dalia  Tiesyte  (Aalborg University, Denmark), Christian S.
Jensen
       (Aalborg University, Denmark)

18:30-23:00 Poster Reception, Demo Session, Ph.D. Showcase

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Day 2: Thursday, Nov 6, 2008
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7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-9:15 Paper Session 4: Terrain and Road Network Algorithms

     Sparse Terrain Pyramids
       Leila  De  Floriani  (University  of Genova, Italy), Kenneth
Weiss
       (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)

     Studying (Non-Planar) Road Networks Through an Algorithmic Lens
       David  Eppstein (University of Californi, at Irvine, USA),
Michael
       Goodrich (University of California at Irvine, USA)

     Parallel ODETLAP for Terrain Compression and Reconstruction
       Jared Stookey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Zhongyi
Xie
       (Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  USA),  W.  Randolph
Franklin
       (Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  USA),  Dan Tracy
(Rensselaer
       Polytechnic  Institute,  USA), Barb Cutler (Rensselaer
Polytechnic
       Institute, USA), Marcus V. A. Andrade (Universidade Federal de
Vi?osa,
       Brazil)

9:15-10:15 Invited Lecture: The Geo-Internet and How We May Use it
     Vinton Cerf, VP of Google, USA and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner


10:15-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-12:20 Paper Session 5: Geo Web

     NewsStand: A New View on News
       Benjamin Teitler (University of Maryland at College Park, USA),
Michael
       Lieberman (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Daniele
       Panozzo (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Jagan
       Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland at College Park, USA),
Hanan
       Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Jon
Sperling
       (Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy
       Development and Research, USA)

     Measuring Geographic Information on the Web
       Robert Pasley (University of Sheffield, UK), Paul Clough
(University
of
       Sheffield, UK), Florian Twaroch (Cardiff University, UK), Ross
Purves
       (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

     Qualitative Geocoding of Persistent Web Page
       Albert Angel (University of Toronto, Canada), Alexandros
Efentakis
(RA
       Computer  Technology  Institute,  Greece),  Chara Lontou
(National
       Technical  University  of Athens, Greece), Dieter Pfoser
(Research
       Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece)

     Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Agents Using RFID-Enabled Space
     Partitions
       Muhammad Atif Mehmood (University of Melbourne, Australia), Lars
Kulik
       (University  of Melbourne, Australia), Egemen Tanin (University
of
       Melbourne, Australia)

12:20-13:45 Lunch (On your own)

13:45-15:50 Paper Session 6: Imagery and Geovisualization

     Automatic  Extraction of Road Intersection Position,
Connectivity, and
       Orientation from Raster Maps
       Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Craig
Knoblock
       (University of Southern California, USA)

     Validation of Vector Data using Oblique Images
       Pragyana Mishra (Microsoft Corporation, USA), Eyal Ofek
(Microsoft
       Corporation, USA), Gur Kimchi (Microsoft Corporation, USA)

     Low-Cost Orthographic Imagery
       Peter Pesti (Georgia Tech, USA), Jeremy Elson (Microsoft
Research,
       USA), Jon Howell (Microsoft Research, USA), Drew Steedly
(Microsoft
Research,
       USA), Matt Uyttendaele (Microsoft Research, USA)

     Combining 3-D Geovisualization with Force Feedback Driven User
     Interaction
       Adam  Faeth  (Iowa  State  University, USA), Mike Oren (Iowa
State
       University, USA), Chris Harding (Iowa State University, USA)

     Integrating Gazetteers and Remote Sensed Imagery
       Shawn  Newsam  (University  of California at Merced, USA), Yi
Yang
       (University of California at Merced, USA)

15:50-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:55 Paper Session 7: OLAP and Co-location Mining

     Piet-QL: a Query Language for GIS-OLAP Integration
       Leticia  Gomez (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires,
Argentina),
       Alejandro  Vaisman  (Universidad  de  Buenos  Aires, Argentina
and
       University of Hasselt, Belgium), Sebastian Zich (Universidad de
Buenos
       Aires, Argentina)

     Embedding and Extending GIS for Exploratory Analysis of
      Large-Scale Species Distribution Data
       Jianting Zhang (The City College of the City University of New
York,
       USA), Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma, USA)

     Density based Co-Location Pattern Discovery
       Xiangye Xiao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong
       Kong), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Qiong Luo
(Hong
Kong
       University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Wei-Ying Ma
       (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

     Finding Regional Co-Location Patterns for Sets of Continuous
Variables
in
       Spatial Datasets
       Christoph Eick (University of Houston, USA), Rachana Parmar
(University
       of  Houston,  USA),  Wei Ding (University of Houston, USA),
Tomasz
       Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, USA),
Jean-Phillippe
       Nicot (Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin,
USA)

18:00-19:00 Sponsor Demo Session

19:30-23:30 Banquet

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Day 3: Friday, Nov 7, 2008
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7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-10:05 Paper Session 8: Trajectories

     Scalable Processing of Trajectory-Based Queries in
      Space-Partitioned Moving Objects Databases
       Ralph Lange (Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany), Frank D?rr
(Universit?t
       Stuttgart, Germany), Kurt Rothermel (Universit?t Stuttgart,
Germany)

     Towards a Geometric Interpretation of Double-Cross Matrix-based
     Similarity of Polylines
       Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt University & Transnational University of
       Limburg, Belgium), Bart Moelans (Hasselt University &
Transnational
       University of Limburg, Belgium)

     Detecting Single File Movement
       Kevin  Buchin  (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Maike
Buchin
       (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Joachim Gudmundsson
(NICTA,
       Sydney, Australia)

     Mining User Similarity Based on Location History
       Quannan  Li  (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Yu Zheng
(Microsoft
       Research Asia, China), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia,
China),
Yukun
       Chen (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Wenyu Liu (Huazhong
University
       of Science and Technology, China)

     Feed-links for Network Extensions
       Boris Aronov (Polytechnic University, New York, USA), Kevin
Buchin
       (Utrecht  University,  The  Netherlands),  Maike  Buchin
(Utrecht
       University, The Netherlands), Bart Jansen (Utrecht University,
The
       Netherlands), Tom de Jong (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands), Marc
       van Kreveld (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Maarten L?
ffler
       (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Jun Luo (Utrecht
University,
The
       Netherlands), Rodrigo I. Silveira (Utrecht University, The
       Netherlands), Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

10:05-10:35 Coffee Break

10:35-12:40 Paper Session 9: Systems and Algorithms

     An Inconsistency Tolerant Approach to Querying Spatial Databases
       M.  Andrea  Rodr?guez (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile),
Leopoldo
       Bertossi (University of Carleton, Canada), M?nica Caniupan
(Universidad
       del Biobio, Chile)

     Should SDBMS Support the Join Index?: A Case Study from Spatial
      Statistical Analysis
       Pradeep Mohan (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA),
Shashi
       Shekhar (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA), Ned
Levine
(Ned
       Levine and Associates, Houston, USA), Ronald Wilson (National
Institute
       of Justice, USA), Betsy George (University of Minnesota at Twin
Cities,
       USA), Mete Celik (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA)

     Spatial Queries in Disconnected Mobile Networks
       Xinjuan Zhu (Xian Polytechnic University, China), Bo Xu
(University
of
       Illinois at Chicago, USA), Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois
at
       Chicago, USA)

     Efficient Algorithms for Reverse Proximity Query Problems
       Yokesh  Kumar  (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA),
Ravi
       Janardan (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA),
Prosenjit
Gupta
       (International Institute of Information Technology, USA)

     Dual-heap kNN: k-Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Data
Retrieval in
      Embedded DBMS
       Hideki Hayashi (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan),
Daisuke
       Ito (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan), Masaaki
Tanizaki
       (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan), Kohji Kimura
(Hitachi
       Software Division, Japan), Hisanori Kajiyama (Hitachi Software
       Engineering Co, Japan)

12:40-13:00 Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Symposium

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Poster Papers: Program Schedule
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Fast Forward Preview Session: 14:00-15:30, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
Poster Reception: 18:30-23:00, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008


    1. Efficient Search of Moving Objects on a Planar Graph
       Thuy Le (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Bradford
Nickerson
       (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

    2. Geometric Algorithms on an Ellipsoid Earth Model
       Michael Kallay (Microsoft Corporation, USA)

    3. Approaches for Determining the Geographic Footprint of Arbitrary
Terms
       for Retrieval and Visualization
       Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg, Germany), Volker L?decke
       (University of Bamberg, Germany), Daniel Blank (University of
Bamberg,
       Germany)

    4. Bridging the Gap Between Geospatial Resource Providers and Model
       Developers
       Gilberto Zonta Pastorello Jr (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Rodrigo Dias
Arruda
       Senra (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (IC-UNICAMP,
       Brazil)

    5. An Online Approach Based on Localized Weighted Learning for
Short-term
       Traffic Flow Prediction
       Meng Shuai (Beijing University, China), Wen Pu (Beijing
University,
       China), Kunqing Xie (Beijing University, China), Guojie Song
(Beijing
       University, China), Xiujun Ma (Beijing University, China)

    6. Privacy-Preserving Trajectory Collection
       Gyozo Gidofalvi (Uppsala University, Sweden), Xuegang Huang
(Aalborg
       University, Denmark), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University,
       Denmark)

    7. Discovering Controlling Factors of Geospatial Variables
       Tomasz Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute, USA), Wei Ding
       (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA), Christoph Eick
       (University of Houston, USA)

    8. An Automatic Approach to Integrate Routing-relevant Information
from
       Different Resources
       Meng Zhang (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Lu Liu
(Technical
       University of Munich, Germany), Hongbo Gong (Technical
University of
       Munich, Germany), Liqiu Meng (Technical University of Munich,
Germany)

    9. Geo-ontology Enrichment through Reverse Engineering
       Guillermo Hess (UFRGS, Brazil), Cirano Iochpe (UFRGS, Brazil)

10. Snapshot Location-based Query Processing on Moving Objects in Road
       Networks
       Haojun Wang (University of Southern California, USA), Roger
Zimmermann
       (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

11. Content-based Ontology Matching for GIS Datasets
       Jeffrey Partyka (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Neda
Alipanah
       (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Latifur Khan (University
of
Texas
       at Dallas, USA), Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas at
Dallas,
       USA), Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities,
USA)

12. The DAEDALUS Framework: Progressive Querying and Mining of
Movement
Data
       Riccardo Ortale (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Ettore Ritacco (ICAR-CNR,
Italy),
       Nikos Pelekis (University of Piraeus, Italy), Roberto Trasarti
       (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Gianni Costa (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Fosca
Giannotti
       (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Giuseppe Manco (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Chiara
Renso
       (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus,
Greece)

13. Morphological Analysis of Terrains Based on Discrete Curvature and
       Distortion
       Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi (University of Paris, France), Leila
De
       Floriani (University of Genova, Italy), Paola Magillo
(University of
       Genova, Italy)

14. Applying Hierarchical Graphs to Pedestrian Indoor Navigation
       Edgar-Philipp Stoffel (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich,
       Germany), Korbinian Schoder (Ludwig-Maximilians University of
Munich,
       Germany), Hans J?rgen Ohlbach (Ludwig--Maximilians University of
Munich,
       Germany)

15. Composing Geoinformatics Workflows with User Preferences
       David Chiu (Ohio State University, USA), Sagar Deshpande (Ohio
State
       University, USA), Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State University, USA),
Rongxing
       Li (Ohio State University, USA)

16. Path Planning on a Compressed Terrain
       Daniel Tracy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), W.
Randolph
       Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Barbara Cutler
       (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Franklin Luk
(Rensselaer
       Polytechnic Institute, USA), Marcus Andrade (Federal University
of
       Vicosa, USA), Metin Inanc (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
USA),
       Zhongyi Xie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Jake
Stookey
       (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

17. Computing Information Gain for Spatial Data Support
       Tao Hong (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA), Ashok Samal
       (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA), Leen-Kiat Soh
(University
of
       Nebraska at Lincoln, USA)

18. Efficient Data Modeling and Querying System for Multi-Dimensional
       Spatial Data
       Wei Li (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA), Cindy Chen
       (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA)

19. Two-Site Voronoi Diagrams in Geographic Networks
       Matthew Dickerson (Middlebury College, USA), Michael Goodrich
       (University of California at Irvine, USA)

20. Data Mining for Visual Exploration and Detection of Ecosystem
       Disturbances
       Haibin Cheng (Michigan State University, USA), Pang-Ning Tan
(Michigan
       State University, USA), Christopher Potter (NASA Ames Research
Center,
       USA), Steven Klooster (California State University at Monterey
Bay,
       USA)

21. Charting New Ground: Modeling User Behavior in Interactive
       Geovisualization
       David Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA),
Heather
       Richter Lipford (University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
USA),
Erin
       Carroll (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) , USA,
Pamela
Karr
       (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Nadia Najjar
       (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

22. Quantifying Spatial Prepositions: An Experimental Study
       Mark M. Hall (Cardiff University, UK), Christopher B. Jones
(Cardiff
       University, UK)

23. Multigranular Spatio-temporal Models: Implementation Challenges
       Elena Camossi (University College Dublin, Ireland), Michela
Bertolotto
       (University College Dublin, Ireland), Elisa Bertino (Purdue
University,
       USA)

24. An Ontology Framework for Quality of Geographic Information
       Richard Onchaga (Internation Institute for Geo-Information and
Earth
       Observation (ITC), The Netherlands), Ing Widya (University of
Twente,
       The Netherlands), Javier Morales (Internation Institute for
       Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC) , The Netherlands),
L.J.M.
       Nieuwenhuis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

25. Mobile Continuous Nearest-neighbor Queries on Air
       KwangJin Park (Wonkwang University, Korea), Patrick Valduriez
(INRIA
       and LINA, France), Hyunseung Choo (Sungkyunkwan University,
Korea)

26. A Situation-centric Approach to Meteorological Services in the
SITUMET
       Platform
       Stefan Pfennigschmidt (Fraunhofer Institute for Software and
Systems
       Engineering, Germany), Agn?s Voisard (Fraunhofer Institute for
Software
       and Systems Engineering and Free University Berlin, Germany)

27. Pedestrian Flow Prediction in Extensive Road Networks using Biased
       Observational Data
       Simon Scheider (University of M?nster, Germany), Michael May
       (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany), Roberto R?sler
       (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany), Daniel Schulz
       (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany), Dirk Hecker
       (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany)

28. Dynamic Travel Time Provision for Road Networks
       Dieter Pfoser (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute,
       Greece), Sotiris Brakatsoulas (Research Academic Computer
Technology
       Institute, Greece), Petra Brosch (Technical University of
Vienna,
Austria),
       Martina Umlauft (Technical University of Vienna, Austria),
Nektaria
       Tryfona (TALENT, Greece), Giorgos Tsironis (TALENT, Greece)

29. Clustering of German Municipalities Based on Mobility
Characteristics
       Andrea Zanda (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain),
Christine
       K?rner (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany), Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR,
Italy),
       Daniel Schulz (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany), Michael May
(Fraunhofer
IAIS,
       Germany)

30. Towards Provenance-Aware Geographic Information Systems
       Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Anand
       Padmanabhan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
James
       Myers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Wenwu
Tang
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Yong Liu
(University
       of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

31. Indexing Planar Point Quartets via Geometric Attributes
       Charles B. Cranston (University of Maryland at College Park,
USA),
       Hanan Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)

32. Tracking Deformable 2D Objects in Wireless Sensor Networks
       Guang Jin (University of Maine, USA), Silvia Nittel (University
of
       Maine, USA)

33. Geospatial Information Integration Based on the Conceptualization
of
       Geographic Domain
       Miguel Torres (IPN, Mexico), Rolando Quintero (IPN, Mexico),
Serguei
       Levachkine (IPN, Mexico), Marco Moreno (IPN, Mexico), Giovanni
Guzman
       (IPN, Mexico)

34. GEDMWA: Geospatial Exploratory Data Mining Web Agent
       Edward Pultar (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA),
Martin
       Raubal (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA), Michael
       Goodchild (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)

35. Optimal Incremental Multi-step Nearest-Neighbor Search
       Ming Zhang (University of Calgary, Canada), Reda Alhajj
(University
of
       Calgary, Canada), Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada)

36. Selective Data Replication for Distributed Geographical Data Sets
       Xuan Gu (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Richard Pascoe
       (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

37. Geographical Analysis of Hierarchical Business Structures by
Interactive
       Drill Down
       Klaus Boehm (University of Applied Sciences at Mainz, Germany),
Eva
       Daub (University of Applied Sciences at Mainz, Germany)

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Ph.D. Showcase Papers: Program Schedule
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Fast Forward Preview Session: 14:00-15:30, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
Ph.D. Showcase: 18:30-23:00, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008

    1. Enriching the Spatial Reasoning System RCC8
       Ahed Alboody (Universit? Paul Sabatier, France) (Ph.D. Student),
Jordi
       Inglada (Centre National d?Etudes Spatiales, France) (Advisor),
       Florence Sedes (Universit? Paul Sabatier, France) (Advisor)

    2. Query Optimization for Spatio-temporal Data Stream Management
Systems
       Hicham G. Elmongui (Purdue University, USA)

    3. Specification of a Framework for Semantic Annotation of
Geospatial
Data
       on the Web
       Carla Macario (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil) (Ph.D. Student), Claudia
Medeiros
       (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil) (Advisor)

    4. Change Analysis in Spatial Datasets by Interestingness
Comparison
       Vadeerat Rinsurongkawong (University of Houston, USA) (Ph.D.
Student),
       Christoph Eick (University of Houston, USA) (Advisor)

    5. Data Mining of Maps and their Automatic Region/Time/Theme
       Classification
       Judith Gelernter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

    6. Mapping of Large Magnitude Discontinuous Sea Ice Motion
       Mani Thomas (University of Delaware, USA) (Ph.D. Student),
Chandra
       Kambhamettu (University of Delaware, USA) (Primary Advisor),
Cathleen
       Geiger (University of Delaware, USA) (Secondary Advisor)

    7. Evaluating Hydrology Preservation of Simplified Terrain
Representations
       Christopher Stuetzle (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
(Ph.D.
       Student), W. Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute,
USA)
       (Advisor), Barbara Cutler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
USA)
       (Advisor), Jonathan Muckell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
USA)
       (Collaborator), Marcus Andrade (Univ. Fed. Vicosa, Brazil, and
       Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator), Jared
Stookey
       (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator), Metin
Inanc
       (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator), Zhongyi
Xie
       (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator)

    8. pRPL: An Open-source General-purpose Parallel Raster Processing
       Programming Library
          Qingfeng Guan (University of California at Santa Barbara,
USA)

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Demo Papers: Program Schedule
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Demo Session: 18:30-23:00, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008

    1. Computing Isocrones in Multimodal, Schedule-Based Transport
Networks
       Veronika Bauer (Free University of Bolzano, Italy), Johann
Gamper
(Free
       University of Bolzano, Italy), Roberto Loperfido (Municipality
of
       Bolzano, Italy), Sylvia Profanter (Municipality of Bolzano,
Italy),
       Stefan Putzer (Creaform, Italy), Igor Timko (Free University of
       Bolzano, Italy)

    2. Efficient Generation of Area Thematic Maps in KML
       Bruce Ralston (University of Tennessee, USA), Josh Streufert
       (University of Tennessee, USA)

    3. Web-in-Car: A Web Search Method Not Requiring Keyword Input for
Car
       Navigation Systems
       Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan), Takuma Segawa
(Micware,
       Japan), Kazuya Sugihara (Micware, Japan), Kenji Narushima
(Micware,
       Japan)

    4. Monitoring Continuous Queries over Streaming Locations
       Kostas Patroumpas (National Technical University of Athens,
Greece),
       Evi Kefallinou (National Technical University of Athens,
Greece),
Timos
       Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

    5. Near-Real-Time Spatiotemporal Precipitation Virtual Sensor
Creation
       based on NEXRAD Level II Data in a Semantically-enhanced Digital
       Watershed
       Yong Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
David
Hill
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Alejandro
Rodriguez
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Luigi Marini
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Rob Kooper
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Joe Futrelle
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Barbara
Minsker
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), James Myers
       (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

    6. GISolve Toolkit: Advancing GIS through Cyberinfrastructure
       Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

    7. A Location Aware Role and Attribute Based Access Control System
       Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Pohsiu Lin
       (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Mirko Orsini
(University of
       Illinois at Chicago, USA), Rigel Gjomemo (University of
Illinois at
       Chicago, USA)

    8. Highway Operation Monitoring and Evaluation System
       Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and State
University,
       USA), Arnold Boedihardjo (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and
State
       University, USA), Jing Dai (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and
State
       University, USA), Feng Chen (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and
State
       University, USA)

    9. *Miner: A Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining System
       Ranga Raju Vatsavai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Shashi
       Shekhar (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA), Thomas
Burk
(University
       of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA), Budhendra Bhaduri (Oak Ridge
       National Laboratory, USA)

10. Development of Trail Network Model and a Web-based Bikeway Routing
       Service System
       Qifeng Lu(Virginia Polytechnic Institure and State University,
USA),
       Stephen Sedlock (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and State
University,
       USA)

11. MAEviz - An Earthquake Risk Assessment System
       Terrence M. McLaren (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications,
       USA), James D. Myers (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications,
       USA), Jong Sung Lee, (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications,
       USA)Nathan Tolbert (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications,
       USA), Shawn Hampton (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications,
       USA), Chris Navarro (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications,
       USA)

12. Biography as Events in Time and Space
       Fredric Gey (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Ryan
Shaw
       (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Ray Larson
(University
of
       California at Berkeley, USA), Michael Buckland (University of
       California at Berkeley, USA)

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                                                  SPRINGL PROGRAM
                                    NOV. 4, 2008
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======
    8:15am-8:30am  Opening Remarks

    8:30am-10:30am Inaugural Session for the SPRINGL 2008 Workshop
Series

        Key note presentation
        Understanding the Privacy- Efficiency Trade-off in Location-
Based
              Queries
                  Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University, USA)
                  Abstract: Mobile devices with global positioning
capabilities
                          (e.g., GPS) allow users to ask queries
relative to
their
                          present location. Since certain queries may
be
                          privacy-sensitive, it is important to
protect the
identity
                          of the users who send requests for Location-
based
Services
                          (LBS). Instead of reporting the exact user
location to the
                          LBS provider, existing privacy-preserving
techniques either
                          perturb or encrypt the location data.
                          Current LBS privacy solutions fall into
several
categories,
                          based on the type of location transformation
they
employ,
                          and the system architecture they rely on. In
this
position
                          paper, we introduce a taxonomy of LBS privacy
solutions, and
                          discuss the privacy-efficiency trade-offs
achieved
by
                          various techniques. We also identify several
open
problems,
                          and propose some interesting directions for
future
research.

        Security and Privacy for Geospatial Data ?Concepts and Research
              Directions (Inaugural Paper for the ACM SPRINGL Workshop)
                          Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
                  Michael Gertz (University of California at Davis,
USA)
                  Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas at
Dallas, USA)
                  Maria L. Damiani (University of Milano, Italy)

    10:30am-11:00am  Coffee Break

    11:00am-12:15am  Session: Access Control Model for GIS and
Pervasive
                                      Environments

      Towards an ODRL Web Map Service Profile
           A. Gabillon (Universit?de la Polyn?sie Fran?aise, French
Polynesia)
           P. Capolsini (Universit?de la Polyn?sie Fran?aise, French
Polynesia)
      QACBAC: An owner-centric QoC-Aware Context-Based Access Control
Model
for
              Pervasive Environments
           J. Bringel Filho (Grenoble University, France)
           H. Martin (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
      Towards movement-aware access control
           Maria L. Damiani (University of Milano, Italy)
           Claudio Silvestri (University of Milano, Italy)

    12:15am-1:00pm Lunch

    1:00pm-2:30pm Session: Location Privacy

      Towards a Scalable Model for Location Privacy
            N. Poolsappasit (Colorado State University, USA)
            I. Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
      Towards Trajectory Anonymization: a Generalization-Based Approach
            Y. Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey)
            E. Nergiz (Purdue University, USA)
            M. Atzori (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
      Position Transformation: A Location Privacy Protection Method for
Moving
              Objects
            Dan Lin (Missouri University of Science and Technology,
USA)
            Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
            Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong, China)
            Sunil Prabhakar (Purdue University, USA)

    2:30pm-3:00pm Coffee Break

    3:00pm-4:00pm Session: Policies

      Privacy Policies Compliance Across Digital Identity Management
Systems
            A. C. Squicciarini (Penn State University, USA)
            A. Czeskis (University of Washington, USA)
            A. Bhargav-Spantzel (Intel Corporation)
      Consistency Checking Role Assignments in Inter-Organizational
              Collaboration
            P. El Khoury (SAP Research and LIRIS University of Lyon1,
France)
            E. Coquery (University Lyon 1, France)
            M.-S. Hacid (Lyon University ?UCBL, France)

    4:00pm-4:30pm Business Meeting and Closing Remarks

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*  Information Processing & Management
    Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 1819-1922 (November 2008)
    Adaptive Information Retrieval
    Edited by Joemon M. Jose, Hideo Joho and C.J. van Rijsbergen
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2) Adaptive information retrieval: Introduction to the special topic issue
of information processing and management
Pages 1819-1821
Joemon M. Jose, Hideo Joho and C.J. van Rijsbergen
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3) A faceted approach to conceptualizing tasks in information seeking
Pages 1822-1837
Yuelin Li and Nicholas J. Belkin
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4) Adapting information retrieval systems to user queries
Pages 1838-1862
Giridhar Kumaran and James Allan
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5) Using genetic algorithms to evolve a population of topical queries
Pages 1863-1878
Rocío L. Cecchini, Carlos M. Lorenzetti, Ana G. Maguitman and Nélida
Beatríz Brignole
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6) On test collections for adaptive information retrieval
Pages 1879-1885
Ellen M. Voorhees
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7) Complex adaptive filtering user profile using graphical models
Pages 1886-1900
Yi Zhang
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8) Adapting information retrieval to query contexts
Pages 1901-1922
Jing Bai and Jian-Yun Nie
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First Call for papers
Special Issue on Question Answering
Information Processing & Management Journal

Guest Editors
Patrick Saint-Dizier, IRIT, France (http://www.irit.fr/~Patrick.Saint-Dizier/)
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
(http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~sien/)

Important dates
Submissions of articles: April 1, 2009
Notification to authors: June 20, 2009
Final version of accepted papers: September 13, 2009


Question answering regards a sophisticated form of information retrieval
characterized by information needs that are expressed as natural language
statements or questions. In contrast to classical information retrieval where
complete documents are considered relevant to the information need, in question
answering specific pieces of information are returned as an answer. Often,
automated reasoning is needed to identify correct answers.

Question answering has its roots decades ago when natural language interfaces to
data or knowledge bases were researched. Today, such older technologies are
blown in a new life, when we witness the growing power of, for instance,
searching multimedia data (i.e., images, video, text, audio) combined with
natural language expressions, and making inferences over content recognized in
text or in the other media.

In this special issue we would like to compose a collection of state of the art
question answering papers which address the problem from different angles, but
are united by the recent technologies for automatically recognizing content in
the textual sources or the semi-automatic recognition in other media sources,
and by the knowledge representation and reasoning paradigms used. Some more
practical issues such as presentation of answers, scalability issues and
indexing structures for question answering might also be addressed.

We particularly welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following
topics:

Natural language processing for question analysis:
- Question analysis, semantic role labeling
- How to deal with complex questions

Natural language processing for document analysis:
- Information extraction, semantic role labeling, coreference resolution
and content linking
- Discourse analysis

Multimedia processing for question answering:
- Content recognition in images, video, audio and text
- Recognition and resolution of spatial and temporal relationships
- Applications of multimedia question answering

Knowledge representations and reasoning strategies:
- Formal content representations
- Reasoning and matching strategies
- Constraint processing and relaxation
- Textual inference
- Handling incompleteness and uncertainty
- Probabilistic inference
- Data fusion

Speech interfaces and interactive question answering:
- Improved user models through speech interaction
- Dealing with noisy and uncertain question transcripts
- Interaction design
- Dialogue and question answering

Text and multimedia answer generation:
- Response production: summarization, fusion, co-operativity

Data indexing structures and scalability



Submissions for the special topic issue should be high-quality manuscripts on
the theoretical, empirical and methodological issues surrounding question
answering information retrieval. Submissions should describe original research
and not be under consideration in any other forum.

All submissions should be formatted according to the Information Processing &
Management guidelines
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/244/author
instructions) for papers, references, and citations and should be submitted
using the Elsevier Editorial System for Information Processing and Management
(http://www.ees.elsevier.com/ipm/).

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the
special issue, it is important that authors select Special Issue: Question
Answering when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.
Submitted articles will be reviewed according to the Information Processing &
Management reviewing criteria and appropriateness to the special topic issue.


Contact Patrick Saint-Dizier (stdizier at irit.fr) or Marie-Francine Moens
(sien.moens at cs.kuleuven.be) for further information on the CFP.
The program committee will be composed of experts who served on the program
committees of the past and current KRAQ workshops.



Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

Call for Workshops and Tutorials - ECIR 2009

31st European Conference on Information Retrieval -
Toulouse – France, 6-9 April 2009
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR, ARIA
http://ecir09.irit.fr

We realized that the deadlines (papers, posters, workshops and tutorials)
were to close one from the other. For that reason, we decided to extend
deadlines.
New deadlines
         - Workshop proposals (full submissions): 31th October 2008
         - Intention to submit a tutorial (title, short summary, organizers):
31th October 2008
         - Tutorial proposals (full submissions): 30th November 2008

Details at : http://ecir09.irit.fr/access.php?p=submit

Any questions, email: mothe@...



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Hi All,

Ten years ago today I sent out an email to about 30 people who said they'd
agree to be subscribed to a group on eGroups named WebIR
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/webir/message/1).

I was then a student and very enthusiastic about the new retrieval ideas of
hypertext and the old notions of citations all fusing into a new community
of interest. I still love links and hypertext and the smell of books, but I
want to close this list since WebIR is now mature enough and the list too
broad in scope (you need to see what I'm not allowing onto the list in
order to understand how the notion changed over the years).

I think my claim to fame is the coining of the term "Web IR" but I may be
wrong - still it's nice to think I contributed something.... +:o)

So, 10 years, 3 children, one job, and some other major life events later,
I'd like to send everyone a big thankyou. Thanks to those who are still
here 10 years later and to those who joined along the way.

Einat

P.S. I thought so hard what to write to you all that it is now the 29th...
so WebIR is 10 years and a day old. Good night.