Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Analytical Software Workshops, London, Jan 14-18, 2013

The University of Greenwich Centre for Business Network Analysis is hosting a set of Analytical Software Workshops in January 2013. The workshops will provide an introduction to a range of software used for quantitative, qualitative and social network analysis research. Each workshop is taught by an academic with extensive experience in using the software for their own research.

We are running a different workshop each day from Monday 14 January to Friday 18 January 2013, 10am to 5pm.

Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Monday 14 January
Introduction to Statistical Analysis with STATA, Monday 14 January
Organisational Network Analysis with PAJEK, Tuesday 15 January
Introduction to Social Network Analysis with UCINET, Wednesday 16 January
Introduction to Statistical Analysis with R, Thursday 17 January
Longitudinal Network Analysis with RSIENA, Friday 18 January
Qualitative Data Analysis with NVIVO, Friday 18 January


When: Monday 14 - Friday 18 January 2013
Where: Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, 15 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ
Time: 10am-5pm
Fees: Student: £70 Other: £120

To register your place and for further details on the workshops please visit the workshop website. We look forward to welcoming you to the University.

Kind Regards

Bruce Cronin
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Dr Bruce Cronin MA MSc PhD MCMI
Reader in Economic Sociology
Head of the Department of International Business
Director of the Centre for Business Network Analysis
University of Greenwich Business School
Park Row, London SE10 9LS
Ph: +44(0)20-8331-9786
Fax: +44(0)20-8331-9005
Centre for Business Network Analysis:
http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/business/research/groups/cbna ________________________________________

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Call for Papers - Migrants and their Networks

*Call for Papers*

Session: Migrants and their Networks
at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26, 2013 University of Hamburg, Germany Session organizer: Boris Heizmann, University of Hamburg

Migrants crossing nation state borders usually are often faced with significant changes with regard to their social networks. While they often maintain ties to their area of origin they also establish new relationships in the receiving context. Both of these networks can act as opportunities or constraints for individual or collective action in various ways, and they may precipitate further migratory movements in the form of chain migration. In this session we want to explore how migrant networks emerge, evolve over time, and what effects they have on a variety of pertinent issues. Possible venues for approaching this topic may deal with questions about how social relations change during the process of migration, the relative importance of intra- and interethnic networks for various forms of integration, and the ways in which social relations can be put to use in order to overcome some of the economic, social and emotional hardships that migration may entail. Submissions from any discipline and methodological background are welcome.

Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words.

Proceed to abstract submission: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ When submitting your abstract, please select “Migrants and their Networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. To be extra sure please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Boris Heizmann as the session organizer.

For further information on the venue and conference registration see http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org"

Kind Regards,
Boris Heizmann

Monday, December 17, 2012

Call for Papers - 9th UK Social Networks Conferenc

Dear Colleagues

The 9th UK Social Networks Conference will be held in Greenwich, London, June 27-29th 2013. This is a lively, multi-disciplinary, annual event, with participation from across Europe and beyond and a vibrant social programme. The venue is the superb, baroque maritime campus of the University of Greenwich.

Conference Website: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/business/services/events/events/current/nusnc

Call for papers
We invite submissions of extended abstracts on theories, methods, or applications of social network analysis.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Policy, political and governance networks
• Business and organisational networks
• Knowledge, innovation and communication networks
• Interlocking directors and elite networks
• Economic and entrepreneurial networks
• Citations and scientific networks
• Social capital, brokerage and structural holes
• Models of network analysis
• Geographical networks
• Theory of relational sociology
• Cross-sectional and longitudinal network datasets
• Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks
• Information diffusion and innovation through social networks
• Online communities and social networking
• Methods for interrupting clandestine and terrorist networks
• Epidemiological networks
• Professional practice in network analysis.


Deadline for submissions: 19 April, 2013.

Bruce and Dimitris

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Call for papers “Historical Network Research” at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference

Call for papers “Historical Network Research” at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26, 2013 – University of Hamburg, Germany

The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are recently being used not only as a mere metaphor but are increasingly applied in practice. In the last decades several studies in the social sciences proved that formal methods derived from social network analysis can be fruitfully applied to selected bodies of historical data as well. These studies however tend to be strongly influenced by concerns, standards of data processing, and, above all, epistemological paradigms that have their roots in the social sciences. Among historians, the term network has been used in a metaphorical sense alone for a long time. It was only recently that this has changed.

We invite papers which successfully integrate social network analysis methods and historical research methods and reflect on the added value of their methodologies. Topics could cover (but are not limited to) network analyses of correspondences, social movements, kinship or economic systems in any historical period.

Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words. Please submit your abstract here: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ and select “Historical Network Research” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. Please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Marten During and Martin Stark as the session organizers.

For further information on the venue and conference registration see: http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/, for any questions regarding the panel, please get in touch with the session organizers.

Session organizers: Marten During, Radboud University Nijmegen, martenduering@gmail.com Martin Stark, University of Hamburg, martin.stark@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Check https://sites.google.com/site/historicalnetworkresearch/ for a detailed bibliography, conferences, screencasts and other resources.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

XXXIII Sunbelt Registration now open

XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), May 21 - 26, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

We are pleased to inform you that Registration for Sunbelt 2013, including registration for Pre-Conference Workshops, is now open!

Please follow this link provided by INSNA:https://insna.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_132482

Early Conference Registration: before 11 February 2013
Regular Conference Registration: 11 February – 15 April 2013
Late/On-Site Conference Registration: after 15 April 2013


Find out more about the pre-conference workshops: http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/workshops/

Find out more about the venue and conference registration http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/

Email address for local organizers of the Sunbelt 2013 conference is: sunbelt2013@uni-hamburg.de

See you in Hamburg, the organizing committee:

Betina Hollstein
Sonja Drobnic
Michael Schnegg

Monday, December 10, 2012

Call for Abstracts for 3rd Track on “Words and Networks”

Call for Abstracts for 3rd Track on “Words and Networks” at 2013 Sunbelt Social Network Conference

We are soliciting abstracts for a special theme track dedicated to interdisciplinary, cutting edge research that brings together text analysis and network analysis. This track is part of the Sunbelt conference, which will be held in Hamburg, Germany, May 21-26, 2013 (http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/).

While text analysis and network analysis have evolved into mature yet still quickly advancing fields, work at their intersection is less prevalent. We are looking for theoretical, empirical, methodological and computational contributions that jointly utilize natural language text data and network data. By jointly considering text data and network data we can analyze networks along multiple dimensions of human behavior. This has facilitated eminent work on language change, the adoption of beliefs and sentiments, and collective problem solving through information propagation, to name a few areas. Presentations of innovative technical solutions that are freely available to researchers are also welcome. We invite submissions at the intersection of information/ semantic and social networks, for instance addressing questions such as:
• Who is talking to whom (social network) about what (semantic network)?
• How do information, opinions and rumors emerge, spread and vanish in society and online?
• How can we extract and model the structure of socio-technical networks based on text data?

 - The overarching goal with this workshop is to bring together people that bridge the gap between text analysis and network analysis, and to discuss current advances and challenges in this area.

How to submit an abstract:
Deadline: December 31 at 11:59:59 EST.
Length: 250 words or less. This does not include the title.
Where: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/. When submitting your abstract, please select “Words and networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site (this comes up during your last step of submitting). To be extra sure please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states "Diesner/ Gloor" as the session organizers. For more information about abstract submission and conference registration see http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/conference-registration-abstract-submission/

Track organizers:
- Jana Diesner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Peter Gloor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


We are looking forward to your contributions. Email any questions to jdiesner@illinois.edu or pgloor@mit.edu.

Regards, Jana

Jana Diesner, PhD
Assistant Professor
The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cell: 412 519 7576
Web: http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~jdiesner/

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Call for Papers - Session on "Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks"

Call for Papers - Session on "Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks"
XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21 - 26, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany


Session organizers:
Henning Hillmann, University of Mannheim, Germany (hillmann@uni-mannheim.de) Valery Yakubovich, ESSEC Business School, France (yakubovich@essec.fr)

One of the most exciting areas in recent studies of organizational networks concerns the emergence of new organizational forms (e.g. the volume on Emergence of Organizations and Markets, by John Padgett and Woody Powell): where do markets and organizations come from? What social structural conditions and contexts are particularly favorable to facilitate innovation in organizations and elsewhere? Social science research tends to be attracted to newness. Yet, just as important are questions about the persistence of established organizational networks: why exactly are some organizational networks more likely to survive than others? What social mechanisms may account for their long-run survival and the spill-over effects they may have into other areas of organizational life? At the same time, we routinely observe organizational change. Does such change emerge endogenously, from within organizational networks? Or, is it more likely to be triggered by exogenous shocks? We believe that a promising approach to answering these questions seeks to identify the micro-foundations and causal mechanisms that give rise to various organizational macro-structures (e.g. Peter Hedstrom and Peter Bearman, eds., Handbook of Analytical Sociology).

We invite submissions that advance our understanding of the emergence, persistence and change of organizational networks. We particularly welcome contributions that try to solve interesting empirical puzzles and advance theory through mechanism-based explanations.

Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words.

Proceed to abstract submission:http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ When submitting your abstract, please select “Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. To be extra sure please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Henning Hillmann as the session organizer.

For further information on the venue an1d conference registration see http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org

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Henning Hillmann
Professor of Economic and Organizational Sociology
School of Social Sciences
University of Mannheim
D-68131 Mannheim, Germany
Phone: +49.(0)621.181.3942
Fax: +49.(0)621.181.1983

Friday, December 7, 2012

Call for papers for a session on "Large Scale Networks Analysis"

Call for papers for a session on "Large Scale Networks Analysis"
at the 33rd Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

Session organizers:
Jürgen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon University Uwe Nagel, University of Konstanz

The ubiquity of electronic communication, e.g., via telephone networks, Facebook or Twitter, induces a growing interest in the analysis of networks derived from such settings. The vast size of the involved data sources and the ease of creating network data from them lead to networks that are of substantially larger scale than "traditionally" considered data sets, i.e. large scale networks.

From the basic questions "how to get the data" (download), "how to handle the data" (network representation), "what to do with it" (research question and method) and "how to perform the corresponding analysis" (algorithms and visualization), this session is interested in methodic aspects of all these questions. In particular, we invite submissions concerned with

- Algorithms widening the applicability of network measures to networks of larger scale.
- New methods of analysis tailored to large scale networks.
- Network visualization with a focus to large scale networks.
- Data-to-network processes for large scale dynamic networks.


Please submit your abstract by December 31 using the following link to the conference's abstract submission system:
http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/

Please limit your abstract to 250 words. During the submission process, you will be asked to select a session title from a drop-down box; please select "Large Scale Networks Analysis". Please also place a note in the "additional notes" field referring to "Juergen Pfeffer and Uwe Nagel" as the session organizers.

The conference website (http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org) provides additional information on Hamburg and the 33rd Sunbelt conference.

We look forward to your submissions.

--- Juergen Pfeffer, Assistant Research Professor School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Wean Hall 4218

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Sunbelt 2013, Call for Abstracts - Special Note Section - The German-Language Tradition: Approaches to Social Networks

Sunbelt 2013, Hamburg

Call for Abstracts to a Special Note Section:
“The German-Language Tradition: Approaches to Social Networks”

Session of the Section “Sociological Network Research” in the German Sociological Association (GSA)

The current techniques, methods, and theories that make up the body of Social Network Analysis hark back to developments that emanated to a large extent from North America. Its roots, however, can be found to a large part in the German-language tradition of sociology. Georg Simmel is the most prominent figure in this respect. By questioning the status of the individual as the unit of analysis and conceiving sociology as the study of relationships and their diverse forms, Simmel adumbrated many of the cornerstones of today's network research.

But Simmel was not the only one who imagined a way of doing sociology that starts from relations and networks (or forms) of relations. One of the first who thought in relational categories was Karl Marx. Much later Leopold von Wiese erected his whole system of general sociology on the notions of relation and process. Karl Mannheim's studies on the sociology of knowledge discussed the impact of social structure on forms of thinking and knowing. Theodor Litt and Alfred Schütz made fundamental contributions to relational lines of thought with their ideas on the reciprocity of perspectives. Helmuth Plessner, Norbert Elias and of course Niklas Luhmann should be added. Their ideas on relational boundaries, configurations, and patterns of related expectations are certainly part of the German-language tradition of relational sociology.

In addition to these theoretical approaches one should take into account that this tradition also comprises scholars who emigrated to the US, such as Jakob Moreno and Paul Lazarsfeld. Both of them are well-known for their substantial empirical developments. Digging a little bit deeper yet reveals that the empirical roots even date back to the 19th century. For example, in a recently rediscovered article from 1900 matrix algebra is used to trace a German schoolboy’s friends network.

All these works (many others could be added) are very instructive when viewed in the light of modern network research. They broaden the foundations for any current or forthcoming approaches that aim at a theory of social networks and the development of consequent methods. This might trigger a reconsideration of nagging questions and open issues concerning the role of meaning and stories in networks, the multiplexity of ties, the dynamics of networks, the formation of identities, and the setting, crossing, or erasing of boundaries.

In this special note section we would like to concentrate these diverse and dispersed works of the German-language tradition by using networks as a common focus. Many of the named scholars and theories have been discussed extensively in different fields. But they have never been pooled or combined under the rubric of network research so far.

Therefore we invite abstracts for 20 minute oral presentations that address scholars of this tradition and that work out how the pertinent theoretical ideas and notions reset, shift, or reframe critical issues of network research. The discussion of the contributions should revolve around possible combinations and benefits for network theory and analysis.

Submission will be closing on December 31. Abstracts up to a maximum of 250 words should be submitted to the Sunbelt abstract server: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ When submitting your abstract, please select “German-Language Tradition” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site.

Session Organizers:
Christian Stegbauer, Goethe University Frankfurt
Roger Häußling, RWTH Aachen University
Athanasios Karafillidis, RWTH Aachen University (all Germany)

Monday, November 26, 2012

Call for Abstracts - XXXIII Sunbelt, Hamburg Germany

XXXIII. Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), May 21 - 26, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

Call for Abstracts

Deadline: December 31, 2012

The Sunbelt XXXIII. program committee is soliciting abstracts for paper and poster presentations at the upcoming 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Submission closes on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. We invite abstract submissions for posters (120 minute poster session) and paper presentations (20 minute talk) on topics relevant to social network analysis, including theory, methods, and applications of social network analysis. Please limit your abstracts to 250 words. If a series of papers are being submitted as a single panel or session, please indicate this in the “special note section” of the abstract submission website (see FAQ’s). Paper and poster presentations will begin on Wed May 22 and conclude on Sun May 26. Presenting authors of accepted submissions must be members of INSNA and must register for and present their work at the meeting. This stipulation applies to both oral and poster presentations. Each member may present only one paper at the conference.

Abstract submissions are due by 31 December 2012. No abstracts can be accepted after this date.

If you want to submit an abstract, you will be asked to provide the following information (for further information see FAQ’s): - Name/s of author/s with affiliation and email - Title of the presentation - Abstract (limit: 250 words) - select “(oral) paper presentation”, “poster presentation” or “no preference” - select a session title (list provided) - select up to five key words (list provided)

Proceed to Abstract submission: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/

Find out more about the venue and conference registration http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/

Proceed to more information about INSNA and Sunbelt Conferences http://www.insna.org

Email address for local organizers of the Sunbelt 2013 conference is: sunbelt2013@uni-hamburg.de

See you in Hamburg, the organizing committee:

Betina Hollstein
Sonja Drobnic
Michael Schnegg

Call for Papers - 2013 Xi’an INSNA Conference

Call for Papers
Submission deadline: December 31, 2012

The 2013 Xi’an INSNA Conference will be held on July 12-15 in Xi’an, China. It is organized by the Institute for Empirical Social Science Research of Xi’an Jiaotong University and the Chinese Association for Social Network Analysis. The conference website is insna2013.xjtu.edu.cn. This is the venue where to submit your workshop or session proposals, paper abstracts, conference and hotel registrations, and tourist plans. The conference secretariat will send each registered participant an official letter of acceptance, which is to be used for a visa application from your local Chinese consulate.

The organizing committee is pleased to have the following people as international advisors: George Barnett, Ronald Breiger, Ronald Burt, Bonnie Erickson, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Nan Lin, Peter Marsden, Pip Pattison, Werner Raub, Gary Robins, John Skvoretz, Tom Snijders, Anne Tsui, and Barry Wellman.

Local organizers: Yanjie Bian (bianx001@umn.edu), Jieming Chen, Jiade Luo,
Conference secretariat Email: insna2013@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Conference website:insna2013.xjtu.edu.cn

Monday, October 29, 2012

Call for Workshop Proposals ACM Hypertext 2013


ACM Hypertext 2013 (Paris, France)
May 1-3, 2013
http://ht.acm.org/ht2013/
Call for Workshop Proposals

ACM Hypertext 2013 will be running half-day workshops, taking place on May 1st, before the start of the main conference. The purpose of the workshops is to provide a more informal setting where participants can exchange ideas on a focused topic and suggest directions for future research. As such, they also offer a good opportunity for researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community.

Acceptance of workshop proposals will be based on the experience and background of the organizers in the topic, and on the relevance of the subject matter with regard to the topics addressed in the main conference. Potential proposers are invited to discuss their ideas with the workshop chair before working out a detailed proposal.

The deadline for submitting proposals will be November 23rd, 2012. All workshop proceeedings will be published in the ACM DL.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
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Proposals for Workshops should include the following elements: * Title and acronym;
* Name(s), affiliation(s), mailing address(es) and e-mail address(es) of the proposers;
* A description of the topic and motivation of the workshop (not exceeding 500 words);
* A short description of the target audience;
* A first version of the Call for Papers;
* A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers along with an estimation of the number of participants;
* A brief description of the experience and background of the organizers in the topic, and links to homepages of the workshop chairs.

The organizers are encouraged to provide the following additional information: * A preliminary list of PC members
* A list of potential authors
* A list of potential attendees
* Possible session names, invited talks, panels, demos;

Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single PDF file to the workshop chair:
* Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology): dhelic@tugraz.at

Key dates: * November 23, 2012: Workshop submissions due
* November 30, 2012: Notification to proposers
* December 14, 2012: The organizers of each workshop send out the Call for Papers
* February 4, 2013: Workshop paper submissions
* February 18, 2013: Notification to authors
* March 1st, 2013: Complete electronic version of the camera-ready workshop proceedings (including preface etc.) to be sent to the workshop chair
* May 1, 2013: Workshop day


ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS
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After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:
* Create and distribute a Call for Papers and a Call for Participation;
* Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on the Conference Web site;
* Create a Program Committee;
* Review and select contributions to be included in the workshop proceedings (at least 2 reviewers for each paper);
* Schedule and coordinate the workshop activities.
* Put together accepted papers into electronic workshop proceedings and make them available online.

For details, please visit: http://ht.acm.org/ht2013/

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Sunbelt 2013: Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline: October 31, 2012

Sunbelt 2013: Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline: October 31, 2012

The Sunbelt XXXIII program committee is soliciting workshop proposals for the upcoming 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Workshops precede the conference and are typically 3 hours or 6 hours in length. They feature a participant-centered and highly interactive approach. Workshops cover topics and skills that are important to researchers who use social network analysis and provide substantive training and opportunities for practice and critical discussion. Workshops will take place May 21–22, 2013.

Please note that this time the workshop proposals have to be submitted through the INSNA website. INSNA has set the fee for all workshops: Students: 30$ for a 3-hour workshop, 60$ for a 6-hour workshop INSNA members and affiliate members: 50$ 3-hour workshop, 100$ 6-hour workshop

Workshop submissions are due by 31 October 2012. No proposals can be accepted after this date.

If you want to submit a proposal for a workshop, you will be asked to provide the following information:
- Name/s of workshops instructor/s with affiliation and email
- Title of the Workshop
- Brief Synopsis (Abstract) of the workshop
- Attendance limit
- Workshop length


Proceed to Workshop Proposals submission:
https://insna.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_128222

Email address for local organizers of the Sunbelt 2013 conference is sunbelt2013@uni-hamburg.de


Specific questions concerning the Workshops can be addressed to Sonja Drobnič, sonja.drobnic@uni-hamburg.de


The organizing committee:
Betina Hollstein
Sonja Drobnic
Michael Schnegg

Monday, September 24, 2012

LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

Second call for contributions:

LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUBMISSION TYPES

Primary Participation

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secondary Participation


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS


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

General Chairs

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

Program Chairs

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

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

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


Doctoral Consortium Chairs

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


Awareness, Interaction and Memory Chairs

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


Local Chair

-- Joris Klerkx, University of Leuven, Belgium


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Complex Networks 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Complex Networks 2012

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

Co-located with 8th SITIS 2012, Conference

Submission deadline: September 21, 2012

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

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

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

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


Important dates

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

Submission guidelines

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

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

Publication

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

Registration

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

Workshop Web Site: Complex Networks 2012

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Save the Date! 9th UK Social Networks Conference

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

Calls for Papers and Workshops will follow.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

5th International Workshop on SECurity and SOCial Networking

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SESOC 2013

 5th International Workshop on
SECurity and SOCial Networking

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

 http://www.sesoc.org

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Thursday, August 2, 2012

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

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

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

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

Specific topics of interest
To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):
  • Community detection and evolution 
  • Role detection and evolution in social networks 
  • Content evolution and Information diffusion in social networks 
  • Trend prediction in social networks 
  • Anomaly detection in social network evolution 
  • Mining dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks 
  • Mining of user behavior patterns in social networks 
  • Analysis of co-authorship and citation networks and evolution of research topics 
  • Evolution in collaborative environments, wikis, e-learning systems, … 
  • Case studies and applications from the area of social network dynamics and evolution 
  • Social network data pre-processing 
  • Evaluation techniques and benchmarks

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

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

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

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

Monday, July 30, 2012

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

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

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

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

1. INTRODUCTION

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

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

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

2. SCOPE AND INTERESTS

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

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

3. IMPORTANT DATES

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

4. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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

5. PAPER PUBLICATIONS

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

6. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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

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

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

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

Panel Chair Vincent Gauthier, Telecom Institut Sud Paris, France

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, July 19, 2012

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

ASNA 2012 Workshops:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

#Influence12 – Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media

FREE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
Where: Dalhousie Social Media Lab, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter Hashtag: #Influence12

Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com

ABOUT THE EVENT:

The objective of this 2-day event is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about the latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.

SCHEDULE:

During the first day (Symposium), the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. On the second day (Workshop), the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media.

REGISTRATION FEE: None

The registration for the event is now open and the registration form is accessible from the event page above. Please feel free to circulate it and invite your colleagues and students to attend the event.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Social Networks and Collaboration Mini-track HICSS Papers Due by Friday

Call for Papers - Social networks and collaboration

HICSS '46 Minitrack

January 7-10 2012

Maui, Hawaii, USA

The Hawaiian International Conference for System Science (HICSS - pronounced "hicks") is about to enter its 46th year. In 2012 there were about 950 people in attendance . Systems Science covers a wide range of fields: the electric power grid, cybercrime, health, law, software development and much more. It is attended by scientists and scholars from all over the world. Last year the friends I met and hung out with the most were from Barahin, the Netherlands and Germany. Our track accepted papers from Korea and China as well as Western countries. The beautiful environment and frequent mixers allow participants to meet people not only in their on field and of their own nationality, but provides an opportunity to learn about exciting work that is going in other fields and in places across the globe.

The call reflects the varied interests of the three track chairs. One has more of a sociological background working with structural (network) sociologists studying social construction, another is interested cognitive psychology, mathematical networks and models and the third is interested in persuasion, social influence, the semantic web as well as social networks.

HICSS has provided a number of my long term collaborators and friends. As a reviewer and mini-track chair I am told that if a paper is not technically perfect but exciting I should take it anyway. HICSS is not just about vetting papers like sausages, though the quality of feedback from reviewers is excellent, it is a place where real growth and discovery takes place. If you have a new and exciting idea related to human interaction and what it means to us, some new way to gather data about it using the on-line sources we have or have gathered the data by observation or other means this track will be a fun place to share your ideas and get feedback on them.

Important Dates:

Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2012

Author Notification: August 15, 2012

Final Version Submission and Registration: September 15, 2012

Conference: January 7-10, 2013

We invite papers that use social networks to help understand human behaviour by using network theory andanalysis to study and model human groups (teams, organizations, societies and individuals. We are interested in empirical papers that observe or visualize social relation and social graphs;theoretical papers that simulate society through software, design research that addresses social network based software and information systems; papers that use social networks to gain insight into human behaviour and other papers with empirical studies of social influence.

We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling social networks: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions.We are interested in applying the network sociology of Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems.

With respect to content, the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence websites, new knowledge creation, collaboration, persuasive technology, analysis of social graphs, organizational analysis, crowdsourcing as well as ad hoc social networks formed in response to pressing social needs, e.g. in the area of health and wellbeing. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations.

Topics we are interested include, but are not limited to:

•Collective intelligence websites (multimode interaction, like wikis)

•New knowledge creation

•Web collaboration (wikis, Skype, blogs, Facebook and social media in general)

•Other collaboration (Notes, ERM and other proprietary systems)

•Applications of SNA

•New methods of SNA

•Novel insights from analysis of social networks and social graphs

•Crowdsourcing

•Social networks and identity

•Social networks and cognition

•Social networks an organizations

•Networks and influence (persuasive technology)

•Ad hoc social networks formed in response to pressing social needs, e.g. in the area of health and wellbeing.

Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors submit full papers by June 15. Follow the Author Instructions to be found on the HICSS web site (http://www.hicss.org), as deadlines approach. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Authors of accepted papers submit Final Version of paper by September 15. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by September 15 with specific plans to attend the conference.

Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime.

Minitrack organizers:

Donald F. Steiny (Primary Contact)

University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science

Rakentajantie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland

US Address: 251 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Departmental phone: +358-8-553-1900

Departmental fax: +358-8-553-1890

Direct phone: +1-650-646-5368

Email: steiny@steiny.com

Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science

Rakentajantie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland

Direct phone: +358-8-553-1914

Departmental phone: +358-8-553-1900

Departmental fax: +358-8-553-1890

Email: Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen@oulu.fi

Jeffrey Nickerson

Mailing address: Stevens Institute of Technology

Castle Point on Hudson

Hoboken, NJ 07030

Direct phone: 201 216 8124

Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu

Hoboken, NJ 07030

Direct phone: 201 216 8124

Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu

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Monday, June 11, 2012

Final call: IPSA-NUS Methods Summer School

The IPSA-NUS Summer School for Research Methods in Social and Political Science will take place at the National University of Singapore from June 25 to July 6, 2012.

The following four Summer School courses are still open for registration:

• Experimental Methods (Prof. Rebecca B. Morton, New York University)
• Modern Regression Analysis (Prof. Guy D. Whitten, Texas A&M University)
• Case Study Methods (Prof. Derek Beach, University of Aarhus)
• Mixed Method Designs (Prof. Katrin Niglas, Tallinn University)


For more information on these Summer School courses and to register, please visit http://sg-summerschool.ipsa.org/ or contact Mr. Eugene Tan at ipsa@nus.edu.sg.

Please share this announcement with any colleagues, students, and friends who might be interested.

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IPSA-NUS Methods Summer School
National University of Singapore
Department of Political Science
AS1, #04-10, 11 Arts Link
Singapore 117570


ipsa@nus.edu.sg
www.sg-summerschool.ipsa.org

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Introduction to analysing social connections and occupational structure

University of Cambridge, 12 September 2012

A one-day workshop utilising Social Interaction Distance (SID) and Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Social connections between incumbents of occupations have long been analysed as a means of understanding social stratification and inequalities. The Cambridge Scale (www.camsis.stir.ac.uk), for instance, was first published in the 1970s and continues to the present to offer a useful means of understanding the relative advantage typically held by the incumbents of occupations (see www.camsis.stir.ac.uk).

This workshop will introduce, compare and contract SID and SNA techniques for analysing occupational structure. Talks and labs will enable researchers to:

Understand the principles of SID & SNA approaches
Identify existing CAMSIS schemes (based on SID)
Generate new CAMSIS schemes from their data
Perform SNA analysis of occupational data.

Key findings from a two-year ESRC-funded project will be communicated, with delegates taught the methodological skills utilised in the research.

Training will be provided in Stata, R and Pajek.

1030-1045 Registration and coffee
1045-1145 Talk: Introduction to the analysis of social connections data
1145-1245 Lab: Introduction to SNA and SID approaches with Stata, R and Pajek
1245-1345 Lunch
1345-1415 Talk: Using SID to analyse occupational structure
1415-1500 Lab: Creating CAMSIS scores from large-scale social surveys
1500-1515 Tea and Coffee
1515-1545 Talk: Using SNA to analyse occupational structure
1545-1630 Lab: Creating and analysing networks of occupational structure


Delegates are asked to bring a laptop for the software labs. Prior experience in Stata, R and/or Pajek is not required, but basic knowledge of using syntax within a quatitative software package is essential. Participation in the workshop is free and a sandwich lunch will be provided.

To register, please send an e-mail to: david.griffiths@stir.ac.uk by 31 August 2012. Please notify us of any special dietary or other requirements.

For further information, see www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/sonocs/workshops

Note: This workshop precedes the Social Stratification Research Seminar on 13/14 Sept. 2012 at the same venue. Further details of that event are found at: www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/stratif

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Dave Griffiths
Research Fellow
University of Stirling

Thursday, June 7, 2012

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS AND RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS POSTERS

What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
Where: School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter hashtag: #Influence12

Industry Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com

ABOUT THE EVENT: This is a two-day symposium and workshop organized and hosted by the Social Media Lab (http://SocialMediaLab.ca) at Dalhousie University and supported by MITACS, SSHRC, NCE GRAND, Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Management.

It is no secret that social media has become mainstream in recent years, and its adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of its growing popularity, users’ online contributions and membership in online social networks have exploded. With a multitude of voices all talking at once on social media, finding interesting and influential voices among the masses can be difficult. The objective of this 2-day workshop is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds, to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.

SCHEDULE: During the first day, the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. Over the second day, the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media.

REGISTRATION FEE: None

STUDENT TRAVEL SUBSIDIES: A limited number of competitive travel subsidies ($500 + 3-night shared accommodation with another student in a local hotel) will be available to PhD and Postdoctoral students from Canadian academic institutions. Please indicate on your submission whether you would like to be considered for a travel subsidy.

TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
1) Position Papers: Proposals should be in the form of a position paper (up to 1,000 words excluding references) and formatted using the ACM Proceedings Format (a template is available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The position paper must be on a completed or well-developed project relating to the main theme of the workshop. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period.

2) “Work-in-progress” Posters: Posters will display visual presentations of early-stage projects. Proposals should be in the form of a short abstract (up to 500 words excluding references). If selected, author(s) will have an opportunity to present their poster as part of a dedicated poster session during the workshop.

*All submissions are due June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)* and must be submitted via the EasyChair website at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=influence12

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE: • Influential User Detection • Information Visualization in Social Media • Mobile Applications • Online and Offline Social Networks • Online Community Detection • Online Identity • Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis • Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media • Scalability Issues and Social Media Data • Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics, etc.) • Social Media Mining • Social Network Analysis

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated based on their relevance and potential contribution to the main theme of the workshop: How do we define and measure influence on social media? The goal is to select and invite up to 50 researchers to participate in the workshop. Accepted and finalized papers and posters will be published on the Social Media Lab website after the event and promoted through various media channels. The workshop presentations will also be streamed online.

IMPORTANT DATES: • Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time) • Notification Date: July 15, 2012 • Camera-Ready Deadline: August 30, 2012 • Workshop Dates: September 28-29, 2012

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

* danah boyd, Microsoft Research, USA * Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing * Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada * Andrea Forte, Drexel University, USA * Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University, USA * Carolyn Hank, McGill University, Canada * Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia, Canada * Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA * Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford, UK * Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto, Canada * Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University, Canada * Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Diane Rasmussen Neal, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Anthony Rotolo, Syracuse University, USA * Marc Smith, Social Media Research Foundation, USA * Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University, Canada * Monica Whitty, University of Leicester, UK

For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd@dal.ca

Friday, June 1, 2012

9th Conference on the Application of Social Network Analysis (ASNA): Zurich, September 4-7 2012

Submission deadline for ASNA 2012 contributions is today (1 June). Make sure you submit a paper title and an abstract with EasyChair.

Full papers can be delivered until 31 July:

http://www.asna.ch/index.php?id=91

Keynotes this year by John Skvoretz and Dirk Helbing, pre-conference workshops 4/5 September (SNA intros, Siena, ERGMs, visone, Pajek XXL).

For the organizers, Uwe Serdült

Thursday, May 31, 2012

INSEAD Conference on Network Evolution 3.0 - Call for Papers

INSEAD Conference on Network Evolution 3.0: New Directions for Organizational Networks Research

CALL FOR PAPERS October 22-23, 2012

Deadline June 10 is approaching…

The INSEAD Conference on Network Evolution is a two day event where we will provide a forum for researchers interested in organizational networks. We are looking for submissions that have the potential to set directions for the organizational networks research over the next 10 years. The following is a sampling of potential topics to discuss, but the submissions can go beyond them:

a) What are the drivers of network dynamics
b) What are the network outcomes for individuals or organizations
c) How does membership in multiple networks affect outcomes for individuals and organizations
d) What are the new ways to think about network outcomes (e.g. creativity, performance, career trajectories)

We expect this to be small conference (around 30 papers) so that the participants can receive quality feedback. This is the third time INSEAD organizes the conference on Network Evolution.

Keynote speakers:

Joel Baum (Toronto)
Ron Burt (Chicago)
David Stark (Columbia)

Discussants / participants:

Martin Gargiulo (INSEAD);
Henrich Greve (INSEAD);
Herminia Ibarra (INSEAD);
Martin Kilduff (Cambridge);
Joe Labianca (Kentucky);
Bill McEvily (Toronto);
Melissa Schilling (NYU);
Guiseppe Soda (Bocconi);
Brian Uzzi (Northwestern);
Aks Zaheer (Minnesota)

INSEAD organizers:

Andrew Shipilov;
Rose Luo;
Jarrett Spiro;
Michele Rogan;
Frederic Godart;
Bart Vanneste;
Kim Claes;
JungYun Han

Please submit a full paper to network.evolution@insead.edu by June 10, 2012. There is no attendance fee, but the participants should cover their own transportation and lodging in Fontainebleau.

This information is available on the following website:

http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/personal/ashipilov/network12.cfm

Use the following links for the materials on 2008 and 2010 conferences:

http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/personal/ashipilov/network10.cfm

http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/personal/ashipilov/network.cfm

Andrew V. Shipilov Akzo Nobel Fellow of Strategic Management Associate Professor of Strategy INSEAD
 http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/ashipilov/http://ssrn.com/author=728108Blog: http://networks-and-innovation.insead.edu/

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Multilevel Social Networks Symposium - reminder.

The Multilevel Network Modelling Group, in association with the Mitchell Centre, is hosting an International Symposium on the Statistical Analysis of Multilevel Social Networks. The Symposium takes place on the 19th and 20th of June 2012 at the Digital Centre, The Lowry, Manchester. Funded by The Leverhulme trust.

The symposium will explore new approaches in multilevel network analysis and the challenges that lie ahead.

The keynote speaker is Professor Tom Snijders (Oxford/Groningen), and other speakers include: Noshir Contractor, Philippa Pattison, Garry Robins, Johan Koskinen, Emmanuel Lazega, Stanley Wasserman, Alessandro Lomi, Rafael Wittek and Mark Tranmer.

If you would like to attend, or require further information, please contact: elaine.mackey@manchester.ac.uk

Sunday, May 27, 2012

PhD scholarship for study on corporate networks in international investment and trade

The University of Greenwich is offering a PhD scholarship for study on corporate networks in international investment and trade.

The project, located with the Centre for Business Network Analysis, will involve the development of a longitudinal international dataset of international investment and trade decisions in context of ownership groups, parent‐subsidiary relationships, and informal groupings. This will be used to test traditional theories of international economics and international management against emerging sociological theories utilizing network embedded concepts.

The scholarship covers all tuition fees and provides an annual bursary of £13,590 for three years.

For full details, please see: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/study/studentships/bus

Closing Date: 13.7.12

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Dr Bruce Cronin MA MSc PhD MCMI
Reader in Economic Sociology
Head of the Department of International Business
Director of the Centre for Business Network Analysis
University of Greenwich Business School
Park Row, London SE10 9LS
Ph: +44(0)20-8331-9786
Fax: +44(0)20-8331-9005
Centre for Business Network Analysis:
http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/business/research/groups/cbna

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Of Interest for INSNA Members - CSCW Conference

CSCW 2013 SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

16th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing San Antonio, TX, Feb 23-27th http://cscw.acm.org

CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. By bringing together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry in the area of social computing, CSCW addresses both the technical and social challenges encountered when supporting collaboration.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES CSCW invites a wide variety of contribution types. For complete information about deadlines, submission procedures, and revision timelines, see calls for participation at http://cscw.acm.org.

Papers May 25, 2012: Title and Abstract requested June 1, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Submissions due

Workshops June 29, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Videos October 23, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT

Demos November 2, 2012, 5PM PDT

Interactive Posters November 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Panels November 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT

PAPERS http://cscw.acm.org/participation_paper.html

We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the design or deployment of systems. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to, social computing, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for entertainment. To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review process and does not impose an arbitrary length limit on papers submissions. Please see the conference website for details about the review process and aligning paper contribution and length.

Papers co-chairs: Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota & Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan papers2013@cscw.acm.org

WORKSHOPS http://cscw.acm.org/participation_workshop.html

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of CSCW research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Workshops may focus on any aspect of CSCW theory or practice, established concerns or new ideas; however, radical new ideas expected to draw a sufficient number of participants are very much encouraged! The goal of a workshop is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions.

Workshops co-chairs: Jeremy Birnholtz, Cornell University & Andy Crabtree, University of Nottingham workshops2013@cscw.acm.org

VIDEOS http://cscw.acm.org/participation_video.html

The CSCW Videos Program provides researchers, designers, and practitioners with opportunities to present their cutting-edge work in an interactive fashion in front of an expert audience. Videos are ideally suited to demonstrate the practical application of research results and the functionality of CSCW systems, visualize the outcome of research and development projects, or describe inspiring visions of future systems that are grounded in todays reality. The Videos Program provides a venue to present work that involves dynamic interaction, ranging from demonstrations of new systems to complex aspects of group communication and work practice.

Videos co-chairs: Sasa Junuzovic, Microsoft Research & Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University videos2013@cscw.acm.org

DEMONSTRATIONS http://cscw.acm.org/participation_demo.html

CSCW 2013 demonstrations present implementations of new CSCW systems and concepts. The peer-reviewed demonstrations allow conference participants to view novel and noteworthy CSCW systems in action, discuss the systems with those who created them, and try them out. Appropriate demonstrations include applications, technologies, and research prototypes, and may showcase work that has been or is being published at CSCW or elsewhere. Demonstrations can also serve to showcase novel commercial products not previously described in the research literature. Demonstrations should be interactive and provide attendees a hands-on experience. The demo forum is not an opportunity for marketing or sales presentations. Presenters must have been directly involved with the development of the system and be able to explain the unique and novel contributions of the system.

Demos co-chairs: Dan Cosley, Cornell University & Travis Kriplean, University of Washington demos2013@cscw.acm.org

INTERACTIVE POSTERS http://cscw.acm.org/participation_poster.html

CSCW 2013 will include an interactive poster category for late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a full or short paper, innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies, early student research, and other research best presented in an interactive forum. Posters will be presented in a special Poster Session where researchers will interact directly with conference attendees. The posters will remain up throughout the remainder of the conference.

Posters co-chairs: Gary Hsieh, Michigan State University & Chen Zhao, Microsoft posters2013@cscw.acm.org

PANELS http://cscw.acm.org/participation_panel.html

Panels are a great way to generate debate and raise new and interesting issues at CSCW. With panels we want to provide a forum for discussing provocative, controversial, innovative, emerging, boundary-spanning and boundary-breaking issues. While paper sessions provide detailed discussions of work recently completed, panels provide an opportunity to explore what is on the horizon or what is already here but not adequately recognized, acknowledged or discussed.

Panels co-chairs: Darren Gergle, Northwestern University & Siân Lindley, Microsoft Research panels2013@cscw.acm.org

Conference co-chairs: Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech & Scott Counts, Microsoft Research chairs2013@cscw.acm.org