*** 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work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the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
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!
*** Fully funded PhD position opening at the University of Bologna (Italy), Department of Computer Science and Engineering ***
We have an open fully funded PhD position in topics related to sustainability, human-computer interaction, data visualization, machine learning, data science.
Project title: Data-driven communities: Big Data, Data Visualization and Citizen science for a sustainable development
Starting Date: January 01, 2022 (duration: 3 years)
Application opening: from: October 05, 2021 to: October 19, 2021
Skills: We are looking for a person who has or will soon have (by October 31, 2021) an MSc degree in Computer Science, HCI, or related areas. Through past research and/or course project experiences, knows about:
a) qualitative/quantitative research methods;
b) data analysis, classification and aggregation;
c) developing prototype interactive user interfaces (both mobile and web applications).
Any previous experiences with publishing posters, papers or demos would be desirable (but not mandatory).
Details: The position requires to spend at least 6 months working in a company (in Italy or abroad). If abroad, the stipend will be increased to cover the additional cost.
Funding: The student will receive a stipend that covers living expenses and university fees (1.570,38 euro per month). The student will also have the opportunity to apply for additional scholarships and teaching assistantship positions.
Supervision: The student will be part of the HCI-IoT group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the University of Bologna, Italy, the oldest university in continuous operation in the world (https://www.unibo.it/en/homepage). This project offers a unique opportunity for the student to connect with members from academia and industry.
Location: The city of Bologna is located in the Emilia Romagna region, in Italy (https://www.bolognawelcome.com/en). Bologna is a very liveable city, full of art and history, and bars and restaurants where to enjoy an “aperitivo” and eat homemade local Italian food (lasagne, tortellini, mortadella, etc.).
How to apply: Please contact me, Catia Prandi (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it<mailto:catia.prandi2@unibo.it>) for further information. I will be happy to answer all your questions and feed your curiosity.
Many thanks,
Catia
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Catia Prandi, PhD.
* Assistant professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/catia.prandi2/en
* International collaborator, ITI-LARSyS, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
https://iti.larsys.pt/
* Onboarding chair, INDCOR – COST Action CA18230
https://indcor.eu/
* H2020 FET SMARTLAGOON UniBo team leader
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017861
*** Third Call for Papers and 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
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 proposal submission: October 15, 2021
• Special Session proposal acceptance: October 22, 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
*** Second 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)
Save the Date
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
www.hciv.de/ecce2022
SAVE THE DATE
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 Call for Papers with detailed information on the topics of interest and how to submit will be sent around soon.
Important Dates and Deadlines
March 15, 2022: Deadline for submissions
June 22, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready 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
*** First Call for Special Track Proposals ***
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
ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good
is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general
public. In this case, 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 positive societal impact.
GoodIT topics include but not limited to:
• IT for education
• Data Science
• Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage
• Data sensing, processing, and persistency
• Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications
• Health and social care
• IT for development
• Privacy and trust issues and solutions
• Sustainable cities and transportation
• Smart governance and e-administration
• IT for smart living
• Technology addressing the digital divide
• IT for automotive
• Frugal solutions for IT
• Ethical computing
• Decentralized approaches to IT
• Citizen science
• Socially responsible IT solutions
• Sustainable IT
• Social informatics
• Civic intelligence
Special Tracks Proposals
GoodIT 2022 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of
interest related to the overall scope of the conference. We solicit proposals for special
tracks to be held within the main conference and whose publications will be included
in the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary
themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation,
deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies.
Special Track Proposal Format
A special track proposal must contain the following information:
• Title of the special track.
• The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact
information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio.
• A short description of the scope and topics of the track (max 1/2 page) and a brief
explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related
to the conference’s main theme; (3) why the track may attract a significant number of
submissions of good quality.
• Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with
information on the process of selecting papers.
• The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a
reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help).
• A tentative Program Committee list.
• A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page).
Publication
Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the
main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously
published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least
three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must
follow the formatting instructions of the main conference
(https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). 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. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended
versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal.
Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines
Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track
Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it, valentino.vranic(a)stuba.sk,
and rysavy(a)fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2022 – special
track proposal”. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional
information during the review period.
Important Dates
• Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021
• Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021
Contact (Special Tracks Chairs)
• Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy)
• Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
• Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)
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
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OpenCERT 2021
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10th International Workshop on
Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology
- towards "Open community approaches" CERTification processes -
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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)
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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)
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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;
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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.
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LIST OF TOPICS
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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.
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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* 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)
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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TBA
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PUBLICATION
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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.
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CONTACT
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All inquiries concerning submissions should be sent to
opencert2021 AT easychair DOT org
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*** 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