[Apologies for the cross-posting]
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2023—for the first time—will
offer Special Interest Groups (SIGs) as another way for people from diverse
backgrounds and interests to join together around shared research
initiatives. SIGs enable conference attendees to meet informally about a
common interest, which may include specific technologies, societal
concerns, curious human behaviors or any other topic where there has been
or could be CSCW research. A SIG can be an excellent space for dialog and
may incorporate novel facilitation strategies, from group discussion to
collective storytelling, roleplay, and even sketching activities to help
SIG participants creatively engage with a topic. While CSCW 2023 will be a
hybrid conference from October 16-18, the SIG sessions will all be
facilitated in-person in Minnesota, USA.
Submission Details
SIG proposals must be submitted via the PCS system as a single PDF by May
11, 2023. Each submission must include a SIG Proposal (5-pages) as well as
Supplementary Materials describing the facilitation strategy and
requirements for the in-person session at the conference (2-pages).
Accepted proposals will be published as Extended Abstracts in the
Conference Proceedings. During the conference, CSCW will provide each SIG
with a meeting space for 75-minutes and will help to advertise the meetings
in various ways.
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Online submission: PCS Submission System
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Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column)
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Submission format: A proposal including references (maximum 5-pages) and
mandatory supplementary material describing the SIG (2-pages).
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Selection Process: Juried
How have other academic communities engaged with the topic of your SIG? The
SIG Proposal (5-pages) should clearly articulate a compelling reason for
the SIG. Authors are strongly encouraged to describe the topic in a maximum
of 20 primary references with approximately half of the references coming
from ACM publications and the other half from sources beyond the ACM. This
is not a hard rule as much as it is a challenge to seek out
interdisciplinary opportunities for collaboration.
Develop the proposal collaboratively with a group of people. While not
strictly required, we prefer that proposals be authored by a minimum of two
individuals representing at least two different organizations or
communities.
Clearly describe the activities you would like to facilitate during your SIG.
The Supplementary Material (also mandatory) using the same template should
be no more than 2-pages in length. Accepted SIGs will have a
scheduled, 75-minute
long session at the conference. After your SIG is accepted, we will notify
you what technical support will be available. Rooms will be set up to
facilitate discussion.
The following details about the SIG session should be included in the
Supplementary Material: (1) A brief description of the community (or
communities) to which this SIG would be of interest and why it is of
interest, (2) assumed attendee background, (3) the approach you will use
for organizing and presenting the SIG, (4) an informal schedule of
discussion topics, (5) your plan to attract a reasonable number of
attendees, and (6) which organizer should serve as the primary contact.
As you develop a plan for your SIG proposal, please pay attention to
accessibility considerations. Follow recommendations found in the Guide to
an Accessible Submission
<https://sigchi.org/conferences/author-resources/accessibility-guide/>. If
you have any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions,
please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2023(a)cscw.acm.org
<accessibility(a)chi2023.acm.org>.
All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time
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Deadline for submissions due: Thursday, May 11, 2023
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Notification of acceptance: Thursday, June 15, 2023
Selection process
Although the process is highly selective, it does not necessarily follow a
reviewing process by a committee, and authors should not expect to receive
formal feedback on their submission other than the selection decision.
Specifically, we will consider the following criteria:
1.
Appeal to the community: Is the topic both timely and of wide enough
appeal to attract a significant audience? At the same time, is the topic
sufficiently focused to allow for productive discussion during the SIG
meeting? Too narrow, and the SIG might attract too few people; too broad,
and it is difficult for progress to be made in the relatively short
duration of a SIG.
2.
Format: Is the proposed format conducive to discussion and shared
insight? Will it be possible to achieve its aims? SIGs are not workshops,
nor project showcases, nor tutorials.
3.
Diversity of perspective: It helps to be able to show that the SIG will
be able to encompass a wide perspective, and that the organizers can
accommodate and facilitate discussion across this breadth. Places to show
this are in the description of the intended community, the assumed attendee
background, and the home institutions and disciplines of the organizers.
4.
Continuity: Does the SIG support the development of a longer term
interest group, for example follow-on SIGs or other types of contributions
at subsequent CSCW and other conferences? If the topic is a very recent or
new one, or a revival of an old topic, then arguments will need to be made,
to demonstrate that it is a topic that will persist, rather than simply
being this year’s fashion. If the topic is a continuation of previous
SIG(s), then it is necessary to present the latest developments of the
topic and their projection into the future.
5.
Anonymity: Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or
proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time.
Submissions should NOT be anonymous. However, confidentiality of
submissions will be maintained during the review process. All rejected
submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted
materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the
start of the conference, with the exception of title and author information
which will be published on the website prior to the conference.
Upon Acceptance of Your Submission
The corresponding author of a conditionally accepted paper has to follow
the instructions on preparing and submitting a final version by the
Publication-Ready Deadline. If the authors cannot meet these requirements
by the Publication-Ready deadline, the venue chairs will be notified and
may be required to remove the paper from the program. The publication-ready
version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. Should you
need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to:
pubs2023(a)cscw.acm.org.
For more details, check the website:
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/submit-sig/
Thanks for your time and we hope to see you at CSCW 2023!
Best,
Brian McInnis and Sayan Sarcar
sigs2023(a)cscw.acm.org
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ACM MobileHCI 2023
The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
Athens, Greece
September 26—29, 2023
https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/
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CALL FOR PAPERS & STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
MobileHCI conference brings together people from diverse areas and
provides a multidisciplinary forum for academics, hardware and software
developers, designers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and
potential solutions for effective interaction with and through mobile
devices, applications, and services. The conference welcomes
contributions that promote the exchange of ideas and rational discourse
between academics, researchers, and industries all over the world.
Please refer to https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023 for more details.
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Demos, Tutorials, Panels, and Industrial Perspectives
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Submission May 26, 2023
Notifications June 23, 2023
Camera-Ready July 7, 2023
Web (Demos): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfordemos.php
Web (Tutorials): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfortutorials.php
Web (Panels): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callforpanels.php
Web (Industrial Perspectives):
https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callforindustpersp.php
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Late-Breaking Work
=========================
Submission May 26, 2023
Notifications June 30, 2023
Camera-Ready July 21, 2023
Web (Late-Breaking Work):
https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callforlatebreaking.php
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Doctoral Consortium
=========================
Submission June 23, 2023
Notifications July 7, 2023
Camera-Ready July 21, 2023
Web(Doctoral Consortium):
https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfordoctoralconsortium.php
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Student Volunteers
=========================
Lottery opens on May 1st, 2023
Lottery closes on July 1st, 2023
Notifications July 15th, 2023
Lottery site:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FNIiZHyeBRnAI7N1ElchZxKrFdCu_gHZKoUgyEF…
* All deadlines are AoE
If you have any inquiries, please feel free to send an email to the
organizing committee
https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/committee.php
We hope to see you this year in Athens!
Dear all,
We are excited to announce the 3rd season of Life in Academia
<https://uol.de/en/media-informatics/teaching/courses/life-in-academia>.
Join us for this online series of talks and engage with an absolutely
brilliant array of experts and interested audiences in critical
conversations around academia. Believing that academia is more than
research results and publications, this seminar series offers a wide
variety of impulses, empowering diverse voices.
Life in Academia
<https://uol.de/en/media-informatics/teaching/courses/life-in-academia>
takes place this summer 2023 (May – July), *Tuesdays at 4pm CEST via
Zoom*. We look forward to seeing you there!
*Upcoming sessions: *
*Decolonial Praxis as an Academic and Pedagogical Imperative - *09/05/2023
Rima Saini (Middlesex University London, UK)
*Academia as a Masculinity Contest - *16/05/2023
Jennifer Berdahl (University of British Columbia, Canada)
*Designing with menstruating bodies and doing feminist science - *23/05/2023
Nadia Campo Woytuk (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
*Power abuse in academia: problem description and suggestions for
solutions - *30/05/2023
Jana Lasser (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
*#IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan – Academic Precarity and Current Debates -
*05/06/2023
Jennifer S. Henke (Greifswald University, Germany)
*Community Service in Academia - *04/07/2023
Monica Pereira (Brunel University London, UK)
We hope to see you there!
Life in Academia members
*Please join our mailing list
<https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FhRwNL5…> to
be updated on all our activities.
*
*
*
--
Gözel Shakeri (she/her)
Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction
If this email arrives outside your normal working hours, please don't feel obliged to respond.
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CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS
====================================================
GOALS AND TOPICS
The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD
students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral
research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to
articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and
results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with
guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers
and the other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral
Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their
scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research
community.
The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. A
particular focus will be on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI)
and its applications to support humans, improve their performance as well
as increase safety and trustworthiness. The main scope of the consortium is
to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more
senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related
topics, and related to the conference theme.
The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their
research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their
ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage
should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further
improve and better communicate their contributions and findings.
Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to
proposing a thesis.
Students will be connected with a mentor that will provide more specific
feedback on their research.
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PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS
Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the
supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long
using the 1-column CEUR template (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip).
An Overleaf page for LaTeX users (https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt)
is also available.
Papers must:
Identify a significant research problem in the field of HCI.
Outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions.
Describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed
approach and the results achieved so far.
Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings.
Each author of an accepted paper will present orally their contribution
during the conference.
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MAIN DEADLINES (AOT)
Submission deadline: May 31st, 2023
Notifications to contributors: June 30th, 2023
Camera-ready/final version deadline: July 15th, 2023
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PAPER CHAIRS
Giovanna Varni, University of Trento, Italy
Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy
email: dc(a)chitaly2023.it
SUBMISSIONS
Submit on EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023
=== ACM GoodIt 2023 Call for Papers ===
ACM GoodIT 2023 will focus 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.
### Important Dates
-> All tracks Submission deadline: May 15th, 2023
-> Notification of acceptance: July 7th, 2023
### Link
http://goodit.campusfc.unibo.it/
### Scope
The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. The latter is defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public, such as clean air, clean water, internet access, education, or healthcare. However, new media innovations and the proliferation of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good can now reflect global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration towards a positive societal impact.
The conference will feature regular and special tracks papers, work-in-progress and PhD papers.
### Papers length
* Full papers (main track and special tracks): papers must not exceed twelve (12) single-column pages, excluding references. Papers with a length disproportionate to their contribution will likely be rejected.
*
Work in Progress Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed eight (8) single-column pages, excluding references.
* PhD Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed five (5) single-column pages, excluding references.
### Publication of papers
Submitted papers (in each of the special tracks) must be original works and must not have been previously published. They will be peer-reviewed (three reviews). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work in presence at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings.
_________________________________________
Catia Prandi, PhD.
Senior Assistant professor (RTD B),
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Bologna
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION (8 MAY, 2023)
====================================================
*CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI* *- **https://chitaly2023.it/*
<https://chitaly2023.it/>
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
====================================================
Date: 20 September, 2023
Location: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI
====================================================
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 15th Edition of the
Biannual Conference (chitaly2023.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (
http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/), whose main theme is “Crossing HCI
and AI”. CHItaly2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held in
conjunction with the main conference. The goal of the workshops is to
provide additional venues for discussing and exploring emerging areas of
research in HCI, in general, and HCAI (Human-Centered AI), in particular,
with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and
academia. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the workshop proposal
can focus on all aspects of HCI:
* Crossing HCI and AI
* Fundamentals of HCI
* Interactive Environments
* Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices
* Applications of HCI
Workshops in CHItaly are co-located events that are held the day before the
main conference starts. They represent forums where specific topics
relevant to CHItaly get discussed.
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WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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Workshop proposals will be reviewed according to quality criteria, which
consider the relevance of workshop proposals for CHItaly 2023, their
potential of gathering quality contributions, and their review
process. All workshops will be half-day.
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>Structure of the Proposal
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The workshop proposal should be organized as follows:
- Workshop title
- Workshop acronym (if any)
- Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of
attendees, and links to the websites
- List of organizers (with a short bio) and main contact person
- Motivation and objectives
- List of topics
- Target audience and expected number of attendees
- Papers Review process (if any): the strategy used to collect
contributions (such as online conference management systems or submitting
by emails to the workshop chairs, etc.), minimum numbers of reviews, ...
- Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …)
- Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of papers, reviewing process, venue
(Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …)
- PC tentative list
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>Important dates for workshop proposals
====================================================
Submission deadline: May, 8 EXTENDED
Review notification: May 16, 2023
Camera-ready for workshop summary: July 31, 2023
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> TENTATIVE dates of the workshop review cycle
====================================================
Submission deadline for workshop papers: June 23, 2023
Report workshop status to chairs: June 26, 2023
Go/No-go Decision on Workshops: June 30, 2023
Notifications to authors: July 14, 2023
Camera-ready/final version deadline: 28 July 21, 2023
Workshop held: September 20, 2023
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SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS
=========================================================
Workshop proposals, in PDF format (no specific template is required), must
be uploaded via Easy Chair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023) by selecting the Track
“Workshop Proposals”.
We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop
proposals and suggest involving organizers from different institutions,
bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops
with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions
and may ensure rich interactions.
The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop website
containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop
organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity
and reviewing processes.
Finally, a paper describing each accepted workshop will be included in the
main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements
will be defined later).
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
====================================================
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Università di Bari, Italy (
berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it)
Giuseppe Sansonetti, Università Roma Tre, Italy (
giuseppe.sansonetti(a)uniroma3.it)
*** Fifth Call for Submissions ***
10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023)
October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/
(Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS;
Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing)
AIM AND SCOPE
Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build
large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native
software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of
(micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple
heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can
then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies).
These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for
fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to
be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this,
researchers and practitioners 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, now also considering the Cloud-IoT
computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the
increasing growth of their computing capabilities.
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. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers
and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as
to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented
and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy,
finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models,
brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing,
next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud
Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration,
matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in
Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud
Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud
Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social
and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based
virtualization, VMs
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE)
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS
ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including
references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives
on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope)
We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be
formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track.
Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by
Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted
paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference.
The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special
Issue to be published by Springer Computing.
ORGANISATION
General Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY
(george at ucy.ac.cy)
Program Chairs
• Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE
(florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT
(jacopo.soldani at unipi.it)
Steering and Program Committee
https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/
Cari tutti,
segnalo una posizione aperta per Professore di II fascia nel SSD ING-INF/05
presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura dell'Università degli Studi
di Enna "Kore".
Le attività di ricerca attualmente in corso riguardano applicazioni di IA,
Speech Recognition, Cybersecurity e Human-Centered Design.
Dal punto di vista didattico, la Facoltà eroga un corso di laurea triennale
in Ingegneria Informatica (classe L-8), un corso di laurea magistrale in
Ingegneria dell'Intelligenza Artificiale e della Sicurezza Informatica
(classe LM-32), e un corso di dottorato di ricerca in Sistemi Intelligenti
per l'Ingegneria (XXXVIII ciclo).
A breve (entro luglio 2023) verrà inoltre realizzato un laboratorio
scientifico-didattico di Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HC-AI) da
50 postazioni, con attrezzature all'avanguardia a supporto della ricerca
sperimentale negli ambiti di cui sopra.
Link al bando:
https://unikore.it/lavorare-kore/decreto-presidenziale-n-166-2023/
Link didattica UKE: https://unikore.it/didattica/
Link ricerca e laboratori UKE: https://unikore.it/ricerca/
Contatti per ulteriori dettagli:
- Marco Siniscalchi, marco.siniscalchi(a)unikore.it
- Salvatore Sorce, salvatore.sorce(a)unikore.it
Prego voler fare circolare l'informazione a chiunque ritenete possa essere
interessato.
--
Salvatore Sorce, PhD
Professore Associato
Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore"
Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura
Cittadella Universitaria - 94100 Enna
*** Sixth Call for Papers ***
7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023)
September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/
Submissions due: May 15, 2023 (AoE)
(Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award
sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR; Special Journal Issue in the
Future Internet journal)
“Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the
Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and
equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological,
social and economic sciences.
INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners
at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn
how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are
expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we
call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities
for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the
innovation and social ecosystems it supports.
INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy-
oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role
of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective
intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for
a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation
quests.
INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer
scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex
system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic
and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between
societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen
as both drivers and consequences of each other.
Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not
limited to the following list.
TOPICS
Green, Sustainability, and Innovation
• The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution
• The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural
Projects
• Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change
• Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social
benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains)
• Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed
economic models
• Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of
environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level.
Collective intelligence, sensing and action
• Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption,
relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches
• Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms
and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models,
collaborative making, art and creativity.
Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures
• Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent
Systems
• Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content
• Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing
• Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion
aspects, feasibility and adoption
• Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and
pervasiveness aspects
• People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative
Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces
Societal Structures
• How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models
• Digital Competences and Participation
• Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the
technological platforms being used
• Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on
Internet Evolution
• Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/
VR Interactions
Digital Politics and Governance
• Internet and Political Participation
• Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives,
technological impacts and requirements
• Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences
• Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and
collaborative solutions to moderate them
• E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world
• Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness
Free Communication Patterns and Democracy
• Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing
• Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power
• Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to
counteract it
• Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web
• Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic
processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation
• Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement,
Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills,
decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions)
• E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from
currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim)
• Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify
online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking),
for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political
campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence),
economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children
protection, fake news, digital rebels)
• Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers
Sustainable Network Economy
• Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual
Property and the Digital Commons
• New Collaborative Markets Analytics
• Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data
solutions and their applicability
• Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives
• Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat
• Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets
• New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed
ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self-
disclosure and digital sovereignty
• The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in,
automated contracts and warranties
Global Access Opportunities
• Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies,
Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and
citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty
• Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide
• Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning
Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World
• Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide
• Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions
• Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies
Data Sharing and Protection
• Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies
• Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions
and intended applications
• Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open
innovation
• Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation
• Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform
governance, economic and innovation aspects
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission of Papers: May 15, 2023 (AoE)
• Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023
• Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023
• Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023
PAPER REQUIREMENTS
All submitted papers must:
• Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication
elsewhere
• Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format
• Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses
• Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
• Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the
end of the abstract
• Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023
Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures,
references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The
Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper.
Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page
limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without
review.
SELECTION
All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international
Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise.
The review process will be single-blind.
Selection will be based on:
• Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences)
• Novelty and technical merit
• Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development
The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer.
CAMERA-READY
Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the
reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including:
• The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format
• The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format
• The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference
proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will
be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers
for publication in a special issue to be organised with the international journal
Future Internet (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet), published by
MDPI.
ORGANISATION
General Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
• Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
• Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium
Steering & Program Committees
https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Forum of Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust (NEMESIS’23)
Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023
https://fedcsis.org/sessions/css/nemesis
Organized within FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573)
Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions)
KEY FACTS: Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing: DBLP,
Scopus and Web of Science; 70 punktów parametrycznych MEiN
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.
********************* Statement concerning LLMs *********************
Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we
would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text generated
from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless the produced
text is used within the experimental part of the work.
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Nowadays, information security works as a backbone for protecting both user
data and electronic transactions. Protecting communications and data
infrastructures of an increasingly inter-connected world have become vital
nowadays. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose
many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of
computer science, engineering, and information systems communities.
Information security has some well-founded technical research directions
which encompass access level (user authentication and authorization),
protocol security, software security, and data cryptography. Moreover, some
other emerging topics related to organizational security aspects have
appeared beyond the long-standing research directions.
The International Forum of Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust (NEMESIS’23)
as a successor of International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy, and
Trust (INSERT’19) focuses on the diversity of the cyber information
security developments and deployments in order to highlight the most recent
challenges and report the most recent researches. The session is an
umbrella for all cyber security technical aspects, user privacy techniques,
and trust. In addition, it goes beyond the technicalities and covers some
emerging topics like social and organizational security research
directions. NEMESIS’23 serves as a forum of presentation of theoretical,
applied research papers, case studies, implementation experiences as well
as work-in-progress results in cyber security. NEMESIS’23 is intended to
attract researchers and practitioners from academia and industry and
provides an international discussion forum in order to share their
experiences and their ideas concerning emerging aspects in information
security met in different application domains. This opens doors for
highlighting unknown research directions and tackling modern research
challenges. The objectives of the NEMESIS’23 can be summarized as follows:
To review and conclude research findings in cyber security and other
security domains, focused on the protection of different kinds of assets
and processes, and to identify approaches that may be useful in the
application domains of information security.
To find synergy between different approaches, allowing elaborating
integrated security solutions, e.g. integrate different risk-based
management systems.
To exchange security-related knowledge and experience between experts
to improve existing methods and tools and adopt them to new application
areas
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Biometric technologies
- Cryptography and cryptanalysis
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Security of wireless sensor networks
- Hardware-oriented information security
- Organization- related information security
- Social engineering and human aspects in cyber security
- Individuals identification and privacy protection methods
- Pedagogical approaches for information security education
- Information security and business continuity management
- Tools supporting security management and development
- Decision support systems for information security
- Trust in emerging technologies and applications
- Digital right management and data protection
- Threats and countermeasures for cybercrimes
- Ethical challenges in user privacy and trust
- Cyber and physical security infrastructures
- Risk assessment and management
- Steganography and watermarking
- Digital forensics and crime science
- Security knowledge management
- Security of cyber-physical systems
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Trust and reputation models
- Misuse and intrusion detection
- Data hide and watermarking
- Cloud and big data security
- Computer network security
- Assurance methods
- Security statistics
The session will also solicit papers about current implementation efforts,
research results, as well as position statements from industry and academia
regarding applications of networking technology.
Submission rules:
- Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
- The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are
available here.
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the workshop.
- Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory
stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
- Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
- Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN
and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
- Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to
information here.
- Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS
technical sessions.
Important dates:
+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there
will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 7, 2023
+ Author notification: July 11, 2023
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023
+ Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023
NEMESIS Committee: https://fedcsis.org/sessions/nsa/nemesis/committee