CfP: MONET 2011

Sixth International Workshop on MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications (MONET´11) Crete, Greece, Oct 16-21, 2011 Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

The best papers of the workshop, opportunely extended, will be selected for a special issue on an international journal.

In recent years the research area of social mobile and networking technologies has made rapid progress, due to the increasing development of new mobile technologies and the widespread usage of the Internet as a new platform for social interactions.

Applications of mobile and networking technologies serve groups of people in shared activities, in particular geographically dispersed groups who are collaborating on some task in a shared context. An important characteristic of those social applications is the continuous interaction between people and technology to achieve a common purpose. Moreover, social applications tend to be large-scale and complex, involving difficult social and policy issues such as those related to privacy and security access.

Mobile technologies are devoted to play an important role in many areas of social activities, most likely in those areas where the right data in the right time have mission-critical importance. Mobile technologies play an essential role in personalizing working and interaction contexts, and supporting experimentation and innovation.

Social Networking technologies join friends, family members, co-workers and other social communities together. These technologies are convergent, emerging from a variety of applications such as search engines and employee evaluation routines while running on equally diverse platforms from server clusters to wireless phone networks.

The third generation of social networking technologies has hit the Web. This network serve increasingly significant social functions. Networking technologies have to face emerging problems of robustness, such as vulnerabilities to reliability and performance due to malicious attack.

Workshop participants can extent their background on this area, exchange ideas with other researchers and propose new solutions.

OBJECTIVES

The aim of the proposed workshop is to gather researchers, from academia and industry, and practitioners to discuss about new mobile and networking technologies, to identify challenging problems that appear in social applications of those technologies and to show results and experiences realized by researchers. The workshop will be organized in a way to stimulate interaction among the participants. Shorter position papers may be presented from researchers of all backgrounds, in particular social-mobile technologies, information networking, human-computer interaction, security and privacy.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

· Social networking technologies

· Social network analysis

· Mobile Social networks

· Social media technologies

· Semantic web

· Mobile and network security and privacy

· Web and mobile accessibility

· Knowledge Sharing and management

· Human-computer interaction

· Multi-modal applications

· Online communities and Social Computing

· Wireless technologies and services

· Mobile applications and services

· Mobile social services

· Mobile business services

· Future mobile applications

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: Jun 20, 2011
Acceptance Notification: Aug 1, 2011
Camera Ready Due: Aug 22, 2011
Registration Due: Aug 22, 2011
OTM Conferences: October 16 - 21, 2011

CfP: ICWL 2011

The 10th International Conference on Web-based Learning, December 2011, Hongkong, China

The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Technology Enhanced Learning
• Personalized and Adaptive Learning
• Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
• Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
• Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
• Game-based Learning
• Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
• Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
• Intelligent Learner and Group Modeling
• Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
• E-Learning Platforms and Tools
• Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
• Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
• E-Learning Metadata and Standards
• Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
• Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
• Pedagogical Issues
• Practice and Experience Sharing
• Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in web-based learning. All accepted full papers presented in the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected papers will be recommended for possible publication in some international journals, including IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies. Papers for submissions should be formatted in single column of no more than 10 pages in single line spacing according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guideline for review. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. Please refer to the conference website (http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011/) for more information and send us email at icwl2011@cs.cityu.edu.hk for any inquiry.

Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2011

PerCoSC 2011 Program

The program can be downloaded at http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/PerCoSC2011/program.html

9:00 - 10:00 Session 1 Mobile Cloud Computing

• Adaption of Archetype Patterns for Mobile Cloud-based Business Apps
  Jakob Strauch, FH Aachen, Germany
  Thomas Ritz, FH Aachen, Germany
• Challenges in Securing the Interface between the Cloud and Mobile Systems
  Brent J. Lagesse, CSIIR, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

10:30 -12:00 Session 2 Overview of Service Clouds

• Cloud Computing Oriented Network Operating Systems and Service Platform
  Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China
  Yanming Ye, Zhejiang University, China
  Bin Wu, Zhejiang University, China
  Zuoning Chen, National Parallel Computing Engineering Research Center, Beijing, China
• Mobile Search and the Cloud: The Benefits of Offloading
  Eemil Lagerspetz, University of Helisinki, Finland Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helisinki, Finland
• Ubiquitous Cloud: Managing Service Resources for Adaptive Ubiquitous Computing
  Koichi Egami, Kobe University, Japan
  Masahide Nakamura, Kobe University, Japan
  Matsumoto Shinsuke Kobe University, Japan
  

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3 Pervasive Community Services and Applications

• Contemporary Ubiquitous Media Services: Content Recommendation and Adaptation
  Wenyuan Yin, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
  Xinglei Zhu, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
  Chang Wen Chen, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
• Improving Pervasive Positioning through Three-tier Cyber Foraging
  Mads Darø Kristensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Thomas Toftkjær, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Sourav Bhattacharya, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
  
• Home Automation and Security for Mobile Devices
  Somak Das, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Silvia Chita, Washington State University, USA
  Nina Peterson, Lewis-Clark State College, USA
  Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA
  Medha Bhadkamkar, Washington State University, USA

15:30 – 16:30 Discussion and Wrap-up