*** Third Call for PhD Symposium Applications ***
29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
(Euro-Par 2023)
August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus
http://2023.euro-par.org
SCOPE
The Euro-Par PhD Symposium is a welcoming and supportive forum for PhD students to
present their work, meet and interact with peers, and to receive constructive feedback about
their work from experts in the Euro-Par community. The program will feature technical
presentations by PhD students, and discussions in panel and open formats.
Contributions accepted to the PhD Symposium will appear in the Euro-Par companion
proceedings.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
We invite submissions from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. Applicants
must be officially enrolled in a PhD Program at the time of submission, and each submission
MUST be backed by an endorsement from the official PhD adviser(s). Required submission files
are as follows:
1. Proposal (in Springer LNCS format, no longer than 6 pages with references) including: • Title of work, author and affiliation • Abstract of the work • Brief description of work being/planned to be done, including the problem being addressed,
the research methodology, and preliminary results (if any)
2. Adviser Statement of Support on institutional letterhead (no longer than 2 pages),
including: • Declaration that the applicant is their PhD student, and the length of time of this relationship • Confirmation of support for applicant’s participation • The applicant's expected academic contributions • The level of work that has been achieved by the student (in the course of or before the PhD
work) • How the student will prepare for the event • How the student plans to attend the event (i.e. in person or online) • How travel and accommodation costs are to be met, if planning to attend in person • The expected impact of attending the event on the student's work
REGISTRATION STUDENTSHIPS
We are happy to announce that we can cover the registration fees of 15 student attendees; 15
awards will be funded by the Euro-Par Foundation. To qualify, you should be a PhD student
studying Informatics and Computing Science at the time of the event.
On top of the above specific criteria for each studentship, the following criteria will be used:
• Explicit recommendation by the advisor(s) is paramount, as awards will be given based on
the strength of the advisor(s) letter
• Priority will be given to in-person attendees
Successful applicants may be asked to undertake some tasks to assist the running of
Euro-Par 2023.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The submission consists of:
• Proposal: A manuscript that address item 1 of the call -- see above.
• Adviser letter: A statement of support from the applicant's adviser(s) as described in the call.
Both elements are to be submitted together as a single PDF to EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2023
REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS
The symposium committee members will review the submitted applications based on
originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference.
Submitted documents that do not meet the above requirements might be rejected without a
review. All submitted proposals will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate
(proposals which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review).
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission: May 20, 2023 (AoE)
• Notification: July 1, 2023
• Camera-Ready: July 15, 2023
PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
• Herodotos Herodotou, University of Cyprus. Cyprus
• Demetris Thrihinas, University of Cyprus. Cyprus
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CHI2023 Workshop on Intervening, Teaming, Delegating: Creating Engaging
Automation Experiences
Workshop (hybrid/online), April 23rd, 2023
<http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at>
http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of position papers: February 14th 2023
Decision to authors: March 3rd 2023
Camera-ready versions due: March 31th 2023
Workshop: April 23rd 2023
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Automated systems are becoming increasingly common and transitioning towards
active communication partners, embodied as vehicle cockpits, connected
homes, self-checkout machines and manufacturing tools. With the advent of
more flexible and powerful settings of automation, for example collaboration
between teams of humans and robots, the question arises how to make also
these accessible to everyday usage scenarios. This workshop sets out to
investigate different forms of human engagement with automated technology in
various domains: (1) monitor and intervene, (2) team up and cooperate, and
(3) orchestrate and delegate.
Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing their relevant
recent or future work. In agreement with the authors, accepted position
papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing their relevant
recent or future work. Topics of interest include but are not limited to
* Communicating capabilities and risks of an automated system prior to its
usage
* Creating efficient takeover requests that encourage operators to intervene
and emphasize possible outcomes
* Encouraging sustained interaction with automated systems
* Designing for overall reliability of human-automation teams
* Supporting the development of trust in human-automation cooperation
* Ensuring and supporting the well-being of human operators
* Dealing with authority and responsibility in human-automation teams
* Enabling serendipitous automations by non-professionals through intuitive
orchestration approaches
* Feeling in control and managing conflicts between AI- and user-generated
automation
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PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION
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* Papers must be formatted according to the CEUR-ART style (double-column)
and comprise up to 4 pages (excl. references) (templates for Word and
Overleaf)
* Position papers must be submitted in PDF format (non-anonymized) to
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp23>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp23.
* The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers (and additional
experts, if required) based on relevance, originality, significance and
quality.
* Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must
attend the workshop.
All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and for at
least one day of the main conference.
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Peter Froehlich, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Matthias Baldauf, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
Philippe Palanque, University of Toulouse
Virpi Roto, Aalto University
Fabio Paternó, C.N.R.-ISTI
Wendy Ju, Cornell University
Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg and AIT Austrian Institute of
Technology
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CONTACT
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Web: <http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at>
http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at
Email: <mailto:everyday-automation@tech-experience.at>
everyday-automation(a)tech-experience.at
/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/
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*DEADLINE EXTENSION -> March 7, 2023 (new hard deadline)*
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Special Issue on
*Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship,
wellbeing and democracy*
to be published at the
/*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000
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• Stefano Cacciamani, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy
• Romina Cachia, JRC - EU, Spain
• Arianna Sala, JRC - EU, Spain
• Nadia Sansone, Unitelma - La Sapienza Roma, Italy/
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*Important dates:*
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• Deadline: *March 7*, 2023 (new hard deadline)
• Notification to the authors: April 30, 2023
• Camera ready paper: May 20, 2023
• Publication of the special issue: June, 2023
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*Overview*
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The transition to Content and Curricula based Education to the
Competence based ones is a challenge and, at the same time, an
opportunity for the entire world to promote sustainable development and
lifestyles together with “human rights, gender equality, the culture of
peace and nonviolence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural
diversity”.
To fully grasp such opportunity, national and regional governments need
to renew educational practices to promote key competences beyond the
curricular ones and equip the students not only with digital skills but
with a full set of life skills to make them grow as responsible citizens
capable to contribute to societal wellbeing, to the safeguard of the
democracy and the achievements of the SDGs, taking advantage also of the
ICT infrastructures.
Not by chance, in the last years, major training agencies and regulatory
documents at EU and at international level have been pushing in this
direction.
For example, the European Commission, in collaboration with
international experts, has developed frameworks to set a common language
to describe the key competences (DigComp 2.2., EntreComp, LifeComp,
DigCompOrg, DigCompEdu and GreenComp) and has developed tools to further
empower education stakeholders to foster digital competences at school
(SELFIE and SELFIEforTEACHERS) with more or less incisive repercussions
on national policies.
This special issue intends to promote reflections and studies on
visions, frameworks and key enabling factors to make competence based
education effective and inclusive to achieve the aforementioned goals.
How can the implementation of competence-based education be supported?
What are the enablers and challenges for such education? How can
targeted research and exchange of knowledge contribute to advance
competence-based education? How can competence frameworks inform policy
monitoring and policy making? How can we intercept the requests for a
real transformation of educational practices in a cultural and
constructivist perspective? How is possible to fully exploit the
potential of digital technologies to support the development of life
skills? What are the appropriate contents and methods to train teachers
for a full implementation of competence based learning? How should
competences be recognized and certified? How can the impact and
effectiveness of competenciesframeworks be measured?
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*Topics of Interest*
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Topics of interest are focused on theoretical frameworks, policies,
methods of inquiry, innovative practices in competence based education
(cbe) and other topics such as:
• Competence based frameworks for education
• New educational models and/or innovative programs for cbe
• Competence based LLL
• Certification of competences and portfolios
• Cbe for responsible citizenship, social innovation and SDGs
• Trainings for students in different educational contexts
• Trainings for teachers in different educational contexts
• Sharing & participatory practices of cbe
• Innovative methods of inquiry in the field of cbe
• Models and strategies for the assessment of cbe
• Digital technologies supporting progresses in cbe
• Networking for cbe
• Public policy for cbe
• Transformative perspectives of cbe
• Good practices from cbe
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/*Submission guidelines and procedure*/
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All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another
publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors'
information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines
-> link
<http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7>
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*Authors' guidelines*
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Link to the paper submission page:
link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login>
(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page.
When submitting the paper, please, choose the section:
"SI: Competence Based Education")
More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.
For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific
editor marking the subject as:
/IxD&A special issue on Competence based education./
• bocconi [at] itd [dot] cnr [dot] it
• s [dot] cacciamani [at] univda [dot] it
• romina [dot] cachia [at] ec [dot] europa [dot] eu
• arianna [dot] sala [at] ec [dot] europa [dot] eu
• nadia [dot] sansone [at] unitelmasapienza [dot] it
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* Forthcoming issues:*
http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102
• N.58
'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with
Children'
Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula,
Nitin Sawhney
• N. 59
'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in
the Digital Age'
Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch,
Alesandro Pagano
'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and
tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces'
Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli,
Daragh Byrne
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