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CSCW 2021 Early Registration ending Oct 1st (1 week left)!

by Ciolfi, Luigina

Dear Colleagues, CSCW 2021<https://cscw.acm.org/2021/> will take place online from 23-27 October 2021. The Organizing Committee have prepared a fantastic program, which includes keynote addresses by Josephine Miliza (Association of Progressive Communications & LOCNET project, Kenya) and Mary L. Gray (Microsoft Research & Indiana University, USA). See details at: https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2021 There will also be plenty of networking and social interaction opportunities available on the online conference platform. Early Registration fees are available until October 1st. For information on how to register, please go to https://cscw.acm.org/2021/registration/ Join us at CSCW 2021 for a fantastic conference! Luigina Ciolfi & Jeremy Birnholtz CSCW 2021 General Co-Chairs

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Call for Papers: OpenCERT 2021 (10th Int. Work. on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology)

by Maria De Marsico

I receive and forward ================================================================================= [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers =============== OpenCERT 2021 =============== =================================================================================== 10th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology - towards "Open community approaches" CERTification processes - =================================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opencert2021 Paper Abstract Submission suggested deadline: Friday, 8 October 2021 (EXTENDED) PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, 15 October 2021 (EXTENDED) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://opencert.github.io Tuesday, 7 December 2021 VIRTUAL EVENT organised by - Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan - the University of York, York, UK Satellite event of SEFM 2021 (https://sefm-conference.github.io) --- The concept of Open Community extends the idea of Open Source to other collaborative frameworks. It includes Open Content, under a form of non-restrictive license, and Open Knowledge, that is, the freedom to use, reuse, and redistribute knowledge without legal, social or technological restrictions. The 10th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology expands the scope of the International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification, whose 8 editions run from 2007 to 2014. The workshop promotes the use of Open Community approaches in Education and Research, with the aim to achieve wide diffusion and proper assessment of new, innovative Technology. The workshop general focus is on 1. EDUCATION, where aspects of interest are all those related to open and collaborative learning, in both formal and informal education contexts. 2. RESEARCH, with the aims at * establishing open research projects as "cauldrons" of open data, open knowledge and collaborative development, as well as devising methodologies and tools for the management and assessment of such projects; * defining open peer-review methodologies for the assessment of research outputs and appropriate bibliometrics based on the community open feedback rather than on a questionable analysis of citations; * defining, more specifically, quality metrics and a formal process to certify open source software (OSS) products and the outcomes of other peer-production efforts. 3. TECHNOLOGY, by fostering and unleashing the efforts of open communities towards global availability and acceptance of new technologies. Prominent interests, here, are in supporting the open communities during the production process, and in the validation of the information produced, or made available, by such communities, especially in the case of advices provided by thematic communities, such as the user/consumer support/review communities. This year OpenCERT is collocated with SEFM, so contributions connected to the themes of FORMAL METHODS and SOFTWARE ENGINEERING will be particularly appreciated. In addition to the thematic description provided above, we will be also interested in the following aspects: 1. EDUCATION: open and collaborative approaches in Software Engineering and in Formal Methods education; 2. RESEARCH: open community research in Formal Methods, formal modelling of learning and collaboration 3. TECHNOLOGY, integrating Formal Methods technologies and tools within OSS projects as a means for Formal Methods acceptance and diffusion; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit, via EasyChair research contributions or experience reports (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=opencert2021#). All papers should be written in English and prepared using the specific LNCS templates available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. There are nine categories of submissions RESEARCH PAPERS to present original research and the analysis, interpretation and validation of the research findings. POSITION PAPERS to present innovative, arguable ideas, opinions or frameworks which are likely to foster discussion at the workshop. PROJECT PAPERS to describe a new open community project (e.g. on a hosting provider or a dedicated portal) or a new research project, or the status of an ongoing project or the outcomes of a recently completed project. SURVEY PAPERS to collect previously published studies on topics related to the workshop and analyse them in the context of open communities. CASE STUDY PAPERS to report on case studies, preferably in a real-world setting. TOOL PAPERS to present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to an existing tool aiming at supporting open community approaches, or the use/customisation of an existing tool in the context of open communities. TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS to demonstrate the tool workflow(s) and human interaction aspects, and evaluate the overall role of the tool in supporting open community approaches. TEACHING EXPERIENCE PEPERS to report on teaching experiences using an open community approach in a formal education context (e.g. in a university/school context) or in informal education. LEARNING EXPERIENCE PAPERS to report on a learning experience within an open community in a formal education context (e.g. by university students) or in informal education. Contributions will be in the form of * FULL PAPERS between 12 and 15 pages excluding references for submission (and between 12 and 17 pages excluding references for post-proceedings camera-ready). * SHORT PAPERS between 6 and 8 pages excluding references for submission (and between 6 and 9 pages excluding references for post-proceedings camera-ready). * PRESENTATIONS extended abstract up to 4 pages, which will be included in the pre-proceeding but not published in the post-proceedings. "Short papers" and "Presentations" can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. The program committee may reject papers that are outside the above mentioned length limits. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. All submitted papers will be posted on GitHub at https://github.com/opencert/workshop-2021/ and the review process will be carried out as an interactive, open discussion between the authors and the reviewers. Final decisions about acceptance/rejection of papers will be made through a closed discussion among the PC members. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers (both "Regular papers" and "Short papers") will be included in the workshop programme and will appear in the workshop pre-proceedings as well as in the LNCS post-proceedings. Pre-proceedings will be available online before the Workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION * open education; * open learning communities and environments; * student experience in open communities; * open community approaches to teaching; * open learning in formal and informal education; * learning processes in open communities; * validation and certification of open education approaches; * Student Modeling, and Open Student Modeling * Open Educational Resources * collaborative, and social-collaborative learning; * methodologies and tool to support collaboration; * social constructivism; * peer assessment; * validation and certification of peer assessment approaches; * teaching software engineering through OSS project participation. RESEARCH * peer-production process; * open communities as peer-production models; * analytical models for peer-production processes; * business models for peer-production; * open community management and organisation; * knowledge management in open communities; * management and analysis of open data repositories; * management and analysis open source software repositories; * data mining and process mining of (software, communication, etc.) repositories; * community evolution; * community assessment; * peer review in OSS and other peer-production efforts; * quality assessment of OSS and other peer-production efforts; * certification of OSS and other peer-production processes; * peer-assessment of research outputs, citations analysis controversies, open-feedback-based bibliometrics; * legal implications in peer-production, OSS and peer-production licenses; * copyright and copyleft in OSS and peer-production, action research; * empirical studies. TECHNOLOGY * technological innovation in open communities; * open communities and technology diffusion; * information trustworthiness in thematic communities; * privacy in open communities; * recommender systems, reputation systems; * machine learning; deep learning architectures; * user/consumer reviews and quality assessment; * methodologies and tools for analysis, verification, validation, decision support, quality * assessment and certification. SEFM - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND FORMAL METHODS * open and collaborative approaches in software engineering, formal methods, logics and mathematics education; * open community research in software engineering and formal methods; * formal modelling of learning and collaboration; * integrating formal methods technologies and tools within OSS projects as a means for formal methods acceptance and diffusion; * reverse engineering of OSS; * static analysis, testing and inspection of OSS; * safety, security and usability analysis in OSS; * automated source code analyses in OSS; * software evolution and reconfigurability in OSS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Antonio Cerone, Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (Program Co-chair) * Marco Temperini, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University Rome, Italy (Program Co-chair) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TBA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted regular and short papers will be published after the Workshop by Springer in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs), which will collect contributions to some workshops and symposia co-located with SEFM 2021. Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the Workshop. One or more journal special issue(s) with selected papers may be planned, depending on the number and quality of submissions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All inquiries concerning submissions should be sent to opencert2021 AT easychair DOT org -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Associate Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312 <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Mail priva di virus. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals

by Announce Announcements

*** Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Proposals Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Important Dates • Special Session proposal submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session proposal acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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CFP: Special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' " - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal'* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *** Since issue N. 47 integrates video presentations and issues e-certificates blockchain anchored*** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call50 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Tania Di Mascio, Università de L’Aquila, Italy • Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *November 29*, 2021 • Notification to the authors: January 17, 2022 • Camera ready paper: February 14, 2022 • Publication of the special issue: end of February 2022 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as engines of social innovation and territorial development. At the core, the adjective smart comprises terms like intelligent, purpose oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does not necessarily include the usage of technology (neither does it exclude technology!). The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging to address several research contexts, suddenly the two dimensions that characterises the smart learning ecosystems – physical and virtual – started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur – processual, social, individual – to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2021. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world. *Places for smart education* future of institutional learning interplay between formal and informal learning new educational models and settings continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process in learning role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education dual education and other alternate scheme approaches monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) *People in place centered design for smart education* general frameworks and methodological advancement design, data and other relevant literacies literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens communities and co-design in smart learning sharing & participatory practices open access to any resource and disparity cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces semantic web technologies and applications text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis real/virtual communities and social network analysis interoperability and application of open/smart data and services safety & security in education IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies adaptability to educational contexts and citizens role of VR in education =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) 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 ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' ") 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: /Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal'/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • tania [dot] dimascio [at] univaq[dot] it • oem [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Spring 2022 'Gamification of the Learning Process' Guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho, Rui Silva ----------------------------------------------------------

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I: ACM Europe Council Webinar “Getting recognized by ACM Awards and Honors”

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, vi giro l’annuncio di un webinar, credo possa essere interessante per molti di noi. Ne approfitto per augurare a tutti un buon inizio di semestre, sperando che sia il più possibile in presenza! Cari saluti, Maristella Da: ACM Professional Chapter Officers in Europe <EUROPE-PROF-CHAPTERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Per conto di Panagiota Fatourou Inviato: mercoledì 15 settembre 2021 23:53 A: EUROPE-PROF-CHAPTERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Oggetto: ACM Europe Council Webinar “Getting recognized by ACM Awards and Honors” Dear ACM Europe Professional Chapter Officers, I would appreciate it, if you disseminate the attached call for participation for the webinar “Getting recognized by ACM Awards and Honors” to the members of your chapter.The webinar aims at motivating Europeans to claim the recognition they deserve for their professional achievements through the ACM Awards and Member Grades programmes. Best regards, Panagiota Fatourou Chair of the ACM Europe Council --------------------------- Webinar “Getting Recognized by ACM Awards and Honors” organized by the ACM Europe Council through the ACM Europe RAISE Working Group Date: October 1, 2021, at 15:00 CET, 9:00 EDT Registration is now open at: https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SVghqti3RYWeZtFpmcONJQ Goal: To make Europeans more proactive in claiming the recognition they deserve for their professional achievements through the ACM Awards and Member Grades programmes. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get informed about the ACM member grades and awards and communicate directly with members of the ACM Awards and Member Grades Committees, getting better informed on how to prepare a successful nomination, providing feedback on the reasons that Europeans are willing to participate or not in these programmes, and helping us better understand the kind of support you find necessary in order to become more actively involved in these ACM programmes. The webinar will take place, online, on October 1 (at 15:00 CET). It will feature an open discussion with Gabriele Kotsis, the ACM President, and Panagiota Fatourou, the ACM Europe Council Chair, as well as a panel comprised by the following members of the ACM Awards and Member Grades Committees: • Jim Larus, Chair of ACM Fellows Committee • Roy Levin, Co-Chair of ACM Awards Committee • John R. White, Co-Chair of ACM Awards Committee • Nuria Oliver, Member of ACM Fellows Committee • Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Member of ACM Distinguished Member Committee • Anastasia Ailamaki, Chair of ACM Europe Fellows Working Group Registration is free but required. To register (and see the programme) follow the link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SVghqti3RYWeZtFpmcONJQ Register now! Your opinion does matter. We are looking forward to your participation. -- Prof. Panagiota Fatourou Chair of the ACM Europe Council Department of Computer Science University of Crete, GREECE & Institute of Computer Science, Collaborating Researcher Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Crete Island, GREECE http://www.ics.forth.gr/~faturu Tel: +30 2810 391727 Cellular: +30 6973 991277 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EUROPE-PROF-CHAPTERS list, click the following link: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?TICKET=NzM4MDc4IG1hcmlzdGVsb…

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Deadline extension IxD&A Journal: special issue on "Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education"

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *Deadline extension *-> new deadline: *September 27, 2021* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *** Since issue N. 47 integrates video presentations and issues e-certificates blockchain anchored*** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call50 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Ingi Helgason, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom • Enrique Encinas, Aalborg University, Denmark • Ivica Mitrovic, Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia • Michael Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom / =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 27*, 2021 (extended) • Notification to the authors: November 20, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Speculative and Critical Design approaches and related Design Fiction practices are increasingly finding their place within interaction design and technology design educational programmes. The guest editors of this special issue are partners in the SpeculativeEdu (http://speculativeedu.eu/) project (Speculative Design – Educational Resource Toolkit), funded by the European Union, to explore novel educational skills and practices for the 21st century, especially those focused on the critical relations between technology and people. The inherently discursive and provocative nature of the Speculative or Critical Design approach makes it potentially useful for both teaching practical design skills and for reflecting on theoretical positions and the implications of introducing designed objects and systems into the world. There are however tensions and unresolved issues, and there is much potential for further development that deserves examination, particularly in the context of education, such as practical questions around; how to develop and share sets of tools, techniques and methods for concept creation, address aspects such as worldbuilding and the communication of narratives, and how best to apply criteria for assessment in educational domains as diverse as product and service design, architecture and urban studies, fashion design, media and communication, human-computer interaction, socio-technical studies and other creative fields. Further fundamental and overarching themes also deserve deeper interrogation, for example around; inclusion, diversity and participation, the influence of global and local cultures, understandings of the past, the present and the future, and the role of primary research in creative, imaginative work. Not least is the question of how to nurture the development of constructive tactics and strategies amongst students who are facing a world where problems seem too complex, too inextricably interwoven and too intractable to begin to address. For this special issue we invite contributions that extend knowledge on this domain, for example, submissions addressing how educators are tackling, or aspiring to tackle, these challenges both in the classroom and in professional situations, or which discuss the collation and presentation of resources, methods and perspectives specifically in educational contexts. These can include stories and experiences along with critical reflections on the outcomes, impacts and implications. Discussing research carried out by the SpeculativeEDU project, Julian Hanna (2019) explains, “our survey suggests that the influence of Speculative Design is constantly expanding into new regions and disciplines as new waves of designers embrace and adopt its techniques in different aspects of their work – and the approach itself is also evolving and adapting to new realities and calls for change.” The family of speculative, critical, provocative and fictional design approaches offers techniques and entry points for interrogating relationships between people and technology. This broad set of methods and perspectives places emphasis on developing imaginative designed concepts and provocations that might or “could” exist, rather than those that “should” exist or are deemed preferable or profitable. The purpose of this process is to experiment with alternative ways of living and being, and to question current norms, assumptions and structures by speculating on the world through designed objects and systems. Overviews and discussion of the speculative design approach can be found in writings such as; Galloway (2013), Dunne and Raby (2013), Auger (2013) and Malpass (2017). Addressing education more specifically, Ward’s (2019) essay, “Critical about Critical and Speculative Design” discusses the challenge of cultivating a critical design education, of “sharing and building a set of processes, practices and questions that allow for both production and reflection, analysis and making, critique and creation”. This challenge has been emerging in response to the driving forces that Ward lists as; “a shift away from an aging modernist educational culture; a growing acknowledgment and frustration with the cultural impact of mass consumption; a rapidly shifting technological culture, through the invention of microprocessors, personal computation and networked communication; and a growing disciplinary awareness of the impacts and responsibilities of the designer.”. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue includes, but is not limited to: • teaching and learning activities, methods and resources • reflections and viewpoints on critique and theory • assessment strategies, and program and course development • disciplinary and interdisciplinary working • skills development for post-education routes to employment and industry • the use of speculative and critical design in industry, and professional training and skills development • perspectives on globalization and the specifics of local contexts • future directions for the field =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) 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 ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in 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: /Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education/ • i [dot] helgason [at] napier [dot] ac [dot] uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Winter 2021 Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio • Springer 2022 'Gamification of the Learning Process' Guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho, Rui Silva ----------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: UD 2022 - 6th International Conference on Universal Design

by Daniela Fogli

-------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- UD 2022 Sixth International Conference on Universal Design - Transforming our World through Universal Design for Human Development http://ud2022.unibs.it The Sixth International Conference on Universal Design – 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 --------------------- 31st October 2021: 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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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Early Call for Contributions

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*** Early Call for Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu 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. Tracks - Main conference: three days of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops. - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: https://www.esocc-conf.eu . 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 in all the tracks: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names) - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project) 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 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right 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). Accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). 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. Workshop Proposals ESOCC 2022 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Important Dates Regular research & industrial papers: - Paper submission: 31 October 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Projects track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 PhD Symposium Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Industrial Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Satellite Workshops: - Workshop Proposal submission: 8 October 2021 - Workshop Proposal notification: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Workshop Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Workshop Camera Ready Version: 11 March 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) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions

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*** Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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BHCC 2021 - Deadline Extended

by Sihang Qiu

--- Apologies for cross-posting --- Third Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (BHCC 2021) The deadline for contributions to BHCC2021 has been extended to September 23. Website: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/ 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online) BHCC 2021 is an event of the Academic Fringe Festival Organized by TU Delft and CHI Nederland *Important Dates* Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Full Papers and Short papers due: 23 September 2021 - Abstracts due: 23 September 2021 - Notifications: 22 October 2021 - Conference: 10-12 November 2021 *Overview* The goal of this symposium is to analyse both existing human biases in hybrid systems, and methods to manage bias via crowdsourcing and human computation. We will discuss different types of biases, measures and methods to track bias, as well as methodologies to prevent and solve bias. We welcome the submission of research papers and abstracts which describe original work that has not been submitted or currently under review, has not been previously published nor accepted for publication elsewhere, in any other journal or conference. We welcome the submission of the following types of contributions: - Full papers should be at most 10 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Short papers should be at most 5 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Abstracts should contain just a title and the abstract, and should detail demos or relevant work or ideas which are under development. They can not contain references. More details: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/submission *Submission* We implement a double-blind review process. Submissions must be anonymous and the submission must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bhcc2021 We are committed to create an equal opportunity environment, without regard to race, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or any other status. For this reason, if you feel that you are in a disadvantaged situation or you require assistance please reach out to us (bhcc2021(a)easychair.org). We’ll be more than happy to help and allow everyone to submit a paper. We are keen to create a fair working environment for the crowd workers and annotators. For this reason, each submission should clearly state the policies implemented to pursue this aim; each paper should be clear about the amount of work required for an annotator to submit the task, the payment, the time spent by the annotators to finish the task, and all the relevant details aimed at making clear that workers and annotators obtained a fair compensation and treatment for their work.

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