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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Final Call for Papers for the Main Track

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*** Final Call for Papers for the Main Track *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=SENJLUlUQUxZCQkJaGNp… (*** Submission Deadline Extended to November 21st ***) Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service- oriented applications in the cloud. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service- oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of service-oriented computing and cloud computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions for the main track: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=SENJLUlUQUxZCQkJaGNp… by selecting the main track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. Important Dates - Paper submission: 21 November 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

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Luigi De Russis Adjunct Chair di ACM SIGCHI

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, è con grande piacere che annuncio l'ingresso di Luigi De Russis nell'Executive Committee di ACM SIGCHI come Adjunct Chair for Community Support: https://sigchi.org/executive-committee/ È un risultato importante per Luigi e anche per la nostra comunità. Congratulazioni a Luigi! Cari saluti, Maristella

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CFP: UD 2022 - 6th International Conference on Universal Design (deadline extended to November 20, 2021)

by Daniela Fogli

----------------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------------- UD 2022 - Sixth International Conference on Universal Design - Transforming our World through Universal Design for Human Development http://ud2022.unibs.it UD2022 will be hosted in Brescia, Italy, September 7-9, 2022, and is co-organized by the universities of Brescia, Trieste, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. ----------------------------- The vision of UD 2022 ----------------------------- The conference will be centered on the connection between Universal Design and 2030 sustainable development goals related to the built environment, sustainable communities, cities and urban environments, knowledge, information and life-long learning, human development, decent work, healthy aging and wellbeing. There will be a special session on Cultural Heritage. The conference brings together international research findings and best practices in Universal Design. ---------------------------- Themes for UD 2022 ---------------------------- Universal Design and: 1. Higher education and life-long learning 2. Health and healthcare 3. Mobility 4. Information and communication technology; assistive technologies; digital learning; artificial intelligence 5. Arts, culture, aesthetics and design 6. Cultural heritage 7. Inclusive and resilient cities 8. Public and private buildings and spaces 9. Navigation and wayfinding 10. Economic and legal perspectives 11. Ethical and philosophical perspectives 12. Systems, Standards, institutions and policies in the public and private sectors 13. Post COVID pandemic perspectives 14. Vulnerables and low and middle income countries 15. Tourism 16. Workplace and employment 17. Objects, products, services --------------------- Important Dates --------------------- 20th November 2021 (Extended): deadline for abstract submission 10th January 2022: abstract acceptance notification 31st March 2022: deadline for full papers 31st May 2022: end of review process for full papers 30th June 2022: deadline for final papers (camera ready) --------------------------- Conference web site --------------------------- http://ud2022.unibs.it ------------ Contacts ------------ Conference official mail: ud2022(a)unibs.it Alberto Arenghi: alberto.arenghi(a)unibs.it Giulia Bencini: giulia.bencini(a)unive.it Ilaria Garofolo: ilaria.garofolo(a)dia.units.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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Call-for-Papers Special Issue "Explainable User Models" (Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Journal)

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — Special Issue "Explainable User Models" A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti> (ISSN 2414-4088). Important Dates & Facts: Abstract/title submission: ideally until November 5, 2021 Manuscripts due by: February 20, 2022 Notification to authors: March 15, 2022 Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Explainable_User_Models Benefits of submission: - Experienced Guest Editor - Open Access with quick processing time - High Visibility: Indexed within Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100945706>, ESCI (Web of Science)<https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>, Inspec<https://inspec-direct-app.theiet.org/>, and many other databases<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/indexing>. - Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q2 (Computer Science Applications) Special Issue Information This special issue addresses research on Explainable User Models. As AI systems’ actions and decisions will significantly affect their users, it is important to be able to understand how an AI system represents its users. It is a well-known hurdle that many AI algorithms behave largely as black boxes. One key aim of explainability is, therefore, to make the inner workings of AI systems more accessible and transparent. Such explanations can be helpful in the case when the system uses information about the user to develop a working representation of the user, and then uses this representation to adjust or inform system behavior. E.g., an educational system could detect whether students have a more internal or external locus of control, a music recommender system could adapt the music it is playing to the current mood of a user, or an aviation system could detect the visual memory capacity of its pilots. However, when adapting to such user models it is crucial that these models are accurately detected. Furthermore, for such explanations to be useful, they need to be able to explain or justify their representations of users in a human-understandable way. This creates a necessity for techniques that will create models for the automatic generation of satisfactory explanations intelligible for human users interacting with the system. The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to: Detection and Modelling • Novel ways of Modeling User Preferences • Types of information to model (Knowledge, Personality, Cognitive differences, etc.) • Distinguishing between stationary versus transient user models (e.g., Personality vs Mood) • Context modeling (e.g., at work versus at home, lean in versus lean out activities) • User models from heterogeneous sources (e.g., behavior, ratings, and reviews) • Enrichment and Crowdsourcing for Explainable User Models Ethics • Detection of sensitive or rarely reported attributes (e.g., gender, race, sexial orientation) • Implicit user modeling versus explicit user modeling (e.g., questionnaires versus inference from behavior) • User modeling for self actualization (e.g., user modeling to improve dietary or news consumption habits) Human understandability • Metrics and methodologies for evaluating fitness for the purpose of explanations • Balancing completeness and understandability for complex user models • Explanations to mitigate human biases (e.g., confirmation bias, anchoring) • Effect of user model explanation on subsequent user interaction (e.g., simulations, and novel evaluation methodologies) Effectiveness • Analysis or comparison of context of use of explanation (e.g., risk, time pressure, error tolerance) • Analysis of context of use of system (e.g., decision support, prediction) • Analysis or comparison of effect of explaining in specific domains (e.g., education, health, recruitment, security) Adaptive presentation of the explanations • For different types of user • Interactive explanations • Investigation of which presentational aspects are beneficial to tailor in the explanation (e.g., level of detail, terminology, modality text or graphics, level of interaction) Prof. Dr. Nava Tintarev Ms. Oana Inel Guest Editors

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graduate and post-doc positions in ADvanced AIRspace Usability (Montreal and Toronto, Canada)

by Jeremy Cooperstock

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PhD grant at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) on "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop Floors"

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear list members, At the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano we have a 3-year fully-funded Ph.D. grant to work on the project "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop Floors" within the Advanced-Systems Engineering programme. The project is done in collaboration with a company and aims to investigate how to integrate environmentally sustainable processes into the field of industrial automation. Please see the attached file for a more detailed description of the project. Applications can be submitted from *22 October to 5 November 2021*, by noon local time. Further details on the application procedure and selection process can be found on the following link: https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/Applicants/PhD-37-Cycle/ASE_scheda-de… The language of the Ph.D. programme is English, and the university implements a trilingual model providing prospective students with a suitable environment to learn German and Italian. For this concrete grant, knowledge of Italian and/or German is preferred but not required. If you have any questions you can reach us at maria.menendezblanco(a)unibz.it and Antonella.DeAngeli(a)unibz.it. Best regards, María Menéndez-Blanco *Project Title: "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop Floors"* This interdisciplinary action-research project, which draws on psychological, IT, and engineering knowledge, aims to investigate how to integrate environmentally sustainable processes into the field of industrial automation. The case study is the GKN site in Bruneck/Brunico which is transforming its production process. The company is moving from an approach in which workers were traditionally assigned to fixed tasks into a dynamic approach in which workers will be automatically assigned to different tasks based on industrial needs and their skills. An algorithm tracks the individual's behaviour through a smartwatch that notifies the opening of a task through an interface where the user can accept or reject it. From a psychological perspective this change is dramatic and, as often documented in the literature, strong resistance factors have also been shown at GKN, even after the use of economic incentives. The project aims to investigate how the green challenge can become a facilitating factor in the acceptance of work processes that in turn lead to more sustainable development. New algorithms could, for example, take into account the reduction of waste or energy consumption within the company. Highlighting these criteria in the interface could help support user participation. In summary, the project aims to (a) identify performance parameters; (b) develop algorithms and models for predicting human tasks and behaviours and calculating optimal actions; (c) communicate suitable actions and parameters to the worker; (d) create new communities of practice as stipulated in the call for funding.

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Call for Papers ECCE 2022 4-7 October 2022 - Kaiserslautern, Germany

by Lammers, H.A.

Apologies for multiple posting ECCE 2022 - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS 33rd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 4-7 October 2022 | Kaiserslautern, Germany http://www.hciv.de/ecce2022 CALL FOR PAPERS ECCE 2022 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including keynote talks, paper presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 33rd ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to cognitive ergonomics and its role in design processes, information presentation and visualization, human factors and simulation, prototyping, cross / extended reality, user interfaces development, evaluations, and emerging ethical issues. The special theme of ECCE 2022 is: “Evaluating the Reality–Virtuality Continuum”. The Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones: * Cognitive processes in design * Cognitively-orientated human factors * Consequences of VR/AR/MR usage * Context awareness * Cross / Extended reality (XR): VR, AR, and MR * Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization * Design methods, tools, and methodologies for designing interactive systems * Ecological approaches to human cognition and human-technology interaction * Efficient collaborations * Ethical issues in virtual environments * Human-computer interaction * Human error and reliability * Human factors and simulation * Human-technology interaction in the Internet of Things era * Interactive learning * Intuitive interaction * Motivation, engagement, goal sharing * Multisensory perception * Resilience and diversity * Scalable evaluation spanning the reality–virtuality continuum * Situation awareness * Trust and control in complex virtual systems * User experience design * User interfaces * User research concepts, methods, and empirical studies Submissions All submissions fulfilling the submission requirements will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please visit https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow for all information on formatting and templates to create your manuscript for submission. All submissions are handled through Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2022[AE1] Proceedings will appear on ACM Digital Library. Submission Categories * Long and Short Papers * Demonstrations * Workshops * Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium Important Dates and Deadlines March 15, 2022: Deadline for submissions June 22, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready version submissions July 15, 2022: Early registration deadline October 4, 2022: ECCE 2022 doctoral consortium and workshops October 5-7, 2022: ECCE 2022 main conference General chairs Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas Lachmann, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Call for Participation: BHCC 2021 - 3rd symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

by Sihang Qiu

BHCC 2021 - Third symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online) *Registration* Registration is now live for BHCC 2021: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/registration Registration is free and we welcome everyone to participate. Register before 25th October 2021 and be eligible to receive a cool BHCC 2021 welcome package. Only available for the first 50 registrations! *Program* An overview of BHCC 2021 Program is available here: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/program On this page, you can find the details about BHCC Social Events, Interdisciplinary Panel on "Open Science & Good Research Practice", and the full schedule. *Invited Speakers* https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/invited-speakers - Ming Yin, Purdue University - Saiph Savage, Northeastern University - Alexandra Olteanu, Microsoft *Accepted Papers and Abstracts* View the list of accepted papers and abstracts: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/program/accepted-papers-and-abstracts *Related Events* Please check out the workshop at ACM CSCW 2021: Investigating and Mitigating Biases in Crowdsourced Data on 23 October 2021! https://sites.google.com/view/biases-in-crowdsourced-data

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): First Call for Contributions

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*** First Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Main Track Paper Submission The papers should not exceed six (6) pages (US letter size) double-column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. Special journal issues will be organised where the best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions. Separate call-for-papers will be announced for the special tracks (more information will be available on the conference web site). Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed four (4) pages (US letter size) double column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Program Chairs • Costas Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece • Diogo Pacheco, University of Exeter, UK • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy WiP & PhD Track Chairs • Marco Furini, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy • Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

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MUM 2021 - Registrations now open (early bird until November 7 2021)

by Benjamin Tag

The registration portal for the 21st edition of the Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Conference is now open. The situation in Belgium is stationary and coronavirus measures have been relaxed. The current plan is to hold the conference in a hybrid manner, with talks happening both in-person and online. We encourage you to attend the conference physically for the best experience. The registration website is available from https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/registration/ The Early Bird deadline is November 7 2021. You can still contribute to the conference via poster and demos (DL October 8), check the website for more details: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-posters/ https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-demos/ See you in Leuven in a few months!

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