CFP: APRESW Extended to March 15

APRESW 2010 (1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web), colocated under the ESWC 2010, has extended its deadline to March 15.

1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010)

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010)
30 or 31 May 2010 | Heraklion, Greece
http://nets.ii.uam.es/apresw2010/

In conjunction with the
7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
http://www.eswc2010.org/


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Important dates
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* Paper submission: 7 March 2010
* Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: 5 April 2010
* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: 18 April, 2010
* APRESW 2010 Workshop: 30 or 31 May 2010

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Motivation
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During the last years, researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web have progressively consolidated a number of very important achievements. Formal languages have been standardized to define ontology-based knowledge representations, logic formalisms and query models. Ontology engineering methodologies and tools have been proposed to ease the designing and populating of ontological knowledge bases. Reasoning engines have been implemented to exploit inference capabilities of ontologies, and semantic-based frameworks have been built to enrich the functionalities of Web services. These achievements are the pillars to deal with the complex challenge of bringing semantics to the Web.

The above gives a new ground to extend the focus of the Semantic Web by engaging it in other communities, where semantics can play an important role. The available semantic knowledge bases can be used to enrich and link additional repositories, ontology engineering techniques can be utilized to properly design and build ontologies in further real-world domains, and inference and query mechanisms can enhance classic information management and retrieval approaches.

Among these communities, this workshop aims to attract the attention of students and professionals both from academia and industry who take benefit of semantic-based techniques and technologies in within-application Adaptation, Personalization and Recommendation approaches. In parallel to the progress made in the Semantic Web research topics, there have been appearing works in the above areas that use ontologies to model the user’s preferences, tastes and interests, and exploit these personal features together with meta-information about multimedia contents in order to provide the user with adaptation and personalization capabilities for different purposes such as information retrieval and item recommendation.

Moreover, with the advent of the Web 2.0 (also called the Social Web), the potential study and development of those approaches have increased exponentially. Social networks allow people to provide explicit relationships with others, and find out implicit user similarities based on their profiles. Social tagging services offer the opportunity to easily create and exploit personal knowledge representations. Wiki-style sites represent an environment where the community contributes and shares information, and blogs are media in which users express subjective opinions.

In all of these scenarios, adaptation, personalization and recommendation are core functionalities. However, the understanding and exploitation of the semantics underlying user and item profiles are still open issues.

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Topics of interest
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The workshop will focus on establishing user/usage models for adaptation, personalization and recommendation approaches for the Social-semantic Web.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the exploitation of the Web of Data, the identification of semantics underlying social annotations of multimedia contents, and the application of semantic-based techniques and technologies in research fields related to:

* Personalized access to multimedia content
* Content-based recommendation and collaborative filtering
* Adaptive exploration of multimedia content
* Adaptive user interfaces for multimedia content browsing and searching
* Community extraction and exploitation
* Social networks analysis for collaborative recommendation
* User profile construction based on social tagging information
* Context-aware multimedia content access and delivery
* Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia content access and delivery

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Organizing Committee
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* Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
* David Vallet, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* José C. Cortizo, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
* Francisco M. Carrero, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

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Program Committee
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* Sofia Angeletou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* Ching-man Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Labs, Japan
* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Manuel Cebrián, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Rosta Farzan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Miriam Fernández, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* Enrique Frías, Telefónica I+D, Spain
* Ana García-Serrano, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
* Andrés García-Silva, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Tom Heath, Talis, UK
* Frank Hopfgartner, University of Glasgow, UK
* Ioannis Konstas, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Estefanía Martín, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
* Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Daniel Olmedilla, Telefónica I+D, Spain
* Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* Jérôme Picault, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Sergey A. Sosnovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Martin Szomszor, City University London, UK
* Marc Torrens, Strands, Spain
* Paulo Villegas, Telefónica I+D, Spain

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Organizers
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* Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, http://www.uam.es/
* Yahoo! Research, http://research.yahoo.com/
* Universidad Europea de Madrid, http://www.esp.uem.es/gsi/

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Sponsors
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* Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España (CENIT-2007-1012), https://i3media.barcelonamedia.org/
* Consorcio MAVIR, http://www.mavir.net
* Sistema Madri+d, http://www.madrimasd.org

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Contact information
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Dr. Iván Cantador
Departamento de Ingeniería Informática
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
E-mail: ivan.cantador@uam.es
Phone: +34 91 497 2358

SSMS 2009 - Summer School on Multimedia Semantics

** SSMS 2009 - SUMMER SCHOOL ON MULTIMEDIA SEMANTICS ** -- University of Koblenz, Germany --

Managing and Modeling of Multimedia and User Generated Content in Web 3.0

http://www.smart-society.net/ssms09 23-28 August 2009, Koblenz, Germany Application deadline: 15 May 2009 (Friday)

INTRODUCTION

We are pleased to announce 4th edition of Summer School on Multimedia Semantics. This summer school series successfully started in 2006, each year offering top level education at great European locations (Kallithea, Greece; Glasgow, UK; Crete, Greece) for students from all over the world. Summer School on Multimedia Semantics is intended for PhD and Master students, who want to learn more on use of semantics in various media. We offer lectures by leading researchers in the field. Organized student poster sessions will create unique networking opportunities. They are excellent place to present your work, get comments and feedback from senior researchers, or exchange ideas with other participants.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

• Social Media Modeling
• Audio Processing and Semantics
• Video Analysis and Semantic Retrieval
• Multimedia Personalization

LECTURERS:

• Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg (IDMT Fraunhofer, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Nuernberger (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands)
• Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Germany)
• Dr. Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Prof. Dr. Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, England)
• Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece)
• Prof. Dr. Noel O`Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland)
• Dr. Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Summer school is mainly addressed for graduate students (Masters and PhD). Each participant is required to bring a poster presenting her/his work. Organized poster sessions will allow to exchange ideas and get feedback on your research. Applications must be send directly to Ruth Götten ( confsec@uni-koblenz.de ) - PDF, ?MsWord or plain text are preferred.

Application must include: - your name, - organization, - name of your supervisor(s), - abstract of your work (limit: 1 page)

More details available at: http://www.smart-society.net/ssms09/index.php?page=registration

CONTACT: confsec@uni-koblenz.de

VENUE:

Koblenz (which means: merging of the rivers) is situated in the picturesque valley of the Rhine and Moselle. Middle Rhine Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage site ( http://www.welterbe-mittelrheintal.de ) City is by four mountain ranges with many vineyards in the valley, its narrow alleyways and happy atmosphere, Koblenz is welcoming town for guests from all over the world. The town has old traditions, reaching over 2000 years to the times of the Roman empire. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koblenz

ACCOMMODATION AND SOCIAL EVENTS:

The Summer School classes will be held at the Campus of the University Koblenz-Landau ( http://www.uni-koblenz.de ). Suggested accommodation is provided by "Contel" Hotel ( http://www.contel-koblenz.de ) in Koblenz, which is conveniently located within walking distance from the Koblenz campus. Various other options for housing in different price ranges are also available - check SSMS'09 website for more details. Study hard and enjoy summer! Each
day of intensive study is followed by a different social event. Participants and lecturers will find many opportunities to talk, socialize and have more direct contact outside of the classroom. On Wednesday we plan a longer, half-day trip outside of Koblenz.

CALENDAR:

• Application deadline: 15 May 2009 Acceptance notification: 1 June 2009
• Registration deadline: 15 June 2009 Summer School: 23 - 28 August

COST:

The tuition fee for each student is 350 EUR. It covers lectures, meals, excursion and other organized social events. Accommodation is NOT included in the tuition. If you have questions, please contact Ruth Götten at confsec@uni-koblenz.de

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

We offer a limited number of student scholarships that cover the tuition fee for the summer school. To apply for a scholarship, please attach a letter to your application (limit 1 page) explaining what you expect to learn during the summer school in Koblenz, motivate why you apply for this scholarship and clarify why you cannot use other funds.

ADVISORY BOARD:

• Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
• Prof. Dr. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University London, England
• Prof. Dr. Lynda Hardman, CWI, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, England
• Prof. Dr. Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE:

• Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab
• Dr. Ansgar Scherp
• Dr. Marcin Grzegorzek
• Dr. Maciej Janik
• Ruth Götten, Dipl.-Päd.