SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue March 2010 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: 'bergmann' or 'minor' at 'uni-trier.de' TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Reminder: Election of management board SIG KM, Deadline: March 23 2. Call for Workshop Papers: 18th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2010) Workshops, Different deadlines: April 5 - 28 3. Call for Papers: Workshop on Modeling Social Media, Deadline: April 9 4. Call for Papers: Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies(MATES 2010), Deadline: April 9 5. Call for Papers: International Workshop on Design, Evaluation and Refinement of Intelligent Systems (DERIS 2010), Deadline: April 30 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... REMINDER The election of the management board of the Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management (Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement) - in short FGWM - of the German Society of Computer Science (GI) is still ongoing until March 23, 2010. Every member should have received an email from the sender abstimmung'at'polyas'dot'de in February including a personal tan. Please vote! ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICCBR-10 Workshops WS1: Case-Based Reasoning for Computer Games Co-chairs: Manish Mehta, Santiago Ontañón Villar, Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz http://gaia.fdi.ucm.es/cbrcg10/index.html Deadline: April 16, 2010 WS2: Provenance, Trust, and Reputation in CBR: Applications to Reasoning, Metareasoning, Maintenance and Explanation Chair: David Leake Deadline: April 5, 2010 WS3: CBR Startups Chair: Ashwin Ram Deadline: April 9, 2010 WS4: WebCBR-10:Reasoning from Experiences on the Web Co-chairs: Enric Plaza, Derek Bridge, Barry Smyth http://www.comp.dit.ie/aigroup/?page_id=418 Deadline: April 28, 2010 WS5: Workshop on Knowledge Generation for CBR Co-chairs: Kerstin Bach, Miltos Petridis and Eyke Huellermeier http://www.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/KnowGen2010/ Deadline: April 23, 2010 WS6: Computer Cooking Contest Workshop Co-Chairs: Amelie Cordier and David Aha http://vm.liris.cnrs.fr/ccc2010/doku.php Deadline: April 14, 2010 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2010) http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/MSM10/ to be held on June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada colocated with Hypertext 2010 ========================================================== Important Dates: * Submission Deadline: April 9, 2010 * Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2010 * Final Papers Due: May 20, 2010 * Workshop date: June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada Workshop Organizers: * Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany * Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria Format of the Workshop: The workshop will be opened by an invited talk given by Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center). The talk will be followed by a number of peer-reviewed research and position paper presentations and a discussion panel including Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) and Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center). Submissions: We solicit position papers (2 pages), demonstration and short research papers (4 pages) as well as full research papers (8 pages) in ACM SIG proceedings format. Information about the submission system will be released on the workshop website soon. Workshop Overview: In recent years, social media applications such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, news aggregation sites and social tagging systems have pervaded the web and have transformed the way people communicate and interact with each other online. In order to understand and effectively design social media systems, we need to develop models that are capable of reflecting their complex, multi-faceted socio-technological nature. While progress has been made in modeling particular aspects of selected social media applications (such as the architecture of weblog conversations, the evolution of wikipedia, or the mechanics of news propagation), other aspects are less understood. Topics may include, but are not limited to: + new modeling techniques and approaches for social media + models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems + models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems + modeling of social phenomena and emergent social behavior + agent-based models of social media + models of emergent social media properties + models of user motivation, intent and goals in social media + cooperation and collaboration models + software-engineering and requirements models for social media + adapting and adaptive hypertext models for social media + modeling social media users and their motivations and goals + architectural and framework models + user modeling and behavioural models + modeling the evolution and dynamics of social media Objectives and Goals: The goal of this workshop is to focus the attention of researchers on the increasingly important role of modeling social media. The workshop aims to attract and discuss a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc). We want to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, 3) issues of integrating and validating social media models and 4) new modeling techniques for social media. The workshop reflects on the emerging phenomenon "social media" that includes social and real-time applications such as blogs, wikis, microblogs, instant messaging, discussion groups, chats, social networks, photo sites, etc. Our current understanding of social media is hampered by different formats, the dynamic nature of social media, and a plethora of approaches to modeling and understanding social media. This workshop aims to start a dialogue aiming to reflect upon and discuss these issues. This workshop is intended as a tool to build a community of researchers sharing an interest in modeling and to start a dialogue on modeling social media. Workshop Attendees: Participants who do research or have an interest in theoretical and practical models for social media. Preliminary Program Committee (confirmed): * Ansgar Scherp, Koblenz University, Germany * Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain * Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley, USA * Ed Chi, PARC, USA * Peter Pirolli, PARC, USA * Steffen Staab, Koblenz University, Germany * Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada * Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain * Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France * Pranam Kolari, Yahoo! Research, USA * Tad Hogg, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, USA * Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA * Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA Proceedings: We intend to publish workshop proceedings containing all accepted papers. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... M A T E S 2 0 1 0 ================================================== Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies September 21 - 23, 2010, Karslruhe, Germany http://www.alg.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010 ================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================== AIMS & SCOPE The German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers to present and discuss latest advances in research work as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies and aims to promote its theory and applications. For the eighth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence organizes this international conference in cooperation with the steering committee of MATES and thereby continues this successful track of events. Building on the successful predecessors from 2003 to 2009, MATES 2010 will be co-located with the 33st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010) and will take place from September 21 to 24, 2010 in Karlsruhe. The participants of MATES 2010 will also have full access to the concurrently running program of the KI 2010 conference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest of MATES 2010 include all aspects of agent-oriented computing and agent technologies. We solicit both basic as well as applied research papers on recent advances in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general. Also papers reporting on the successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are very welcome. MATES 2010 encourages especially submissions from recent and emerging areas of interest such as autonomic computing, distributed coordination and robust multi-agent systems. Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long- term directions for research and application. Topics of interest for MATES 2010 include, but are not limited to: Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations Agents and autonomic computing Agent and multi-agent architectures Agents and peer-to-peer computing Agents and pervasive computing Agents for Ambient Intelligence Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition Agent communication languages Agents for e-business and e-government Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and architectures Agent to non-agent interoperability Agents in novel applications Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation Autonomous robots and robot teams Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies Complex systems and their management Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution Deployed agent-based business applications Hybrid human and agent societies User modelling and interface agents Embodied conversational actors and believable agents Mobile agents Model-driven design of multi-agent systems Multi-agent planning and scheduling Multi-agent platforms and tools Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models Standards for agents and multi-agent systems DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM MATES 2010 will include a doctoral mentoring program, chaired by Ingo Timm, aimed at PhD students at advanced stages of their research. This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of MATES 2010 will appear in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). AWARDS MATES will issue a "MATES 2010 Best Paper Award". SUBMISSION DETAILS For the preparation of papers to be submitted, please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The length of each paper, including figures and references, should not exceed 12 pages. Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other conferences or journals are not eligible for submission. However, we encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted or presented in part to a forum outside of agent technology. The only acceptable document format is PDF. All papers must be written in English. Submissions not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. Papers are to submit by the EasyChair system. Please follow the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2010 Important Dates Submission Deadline: 9. 4. 2010 Notification of Acceptance: 28. 5. 2010 Camera Ready Copy: 11. 6. 2010 Conference Date: 21. 9. 2010 CONFERENCE OFFICIALS Program Co-Chairs: Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Cees Witteveen (TU Delft, The Netherlands) Steering Committee: Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany) Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Joerg P. Mueller (TU Clausthal, Germany) Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany) Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Program Committee: Klaus-Dieter Althoff Federico Bergenti Ralph Bergmann Vicent Botti Lars Braubach Longbing Cao Torsten Eymann Klaus Fischer Maria Ganzha Paolo Giorgini Christian Guttmann Koen Hindriks Benjamin Hirsch Wiebe van der Hoek Stefan Kirn Franziska Klügl Gabriela Lindemann Stefano Lodi Beatriz López Viviana Mascardi Mirjam Minor Daniel Moldt Joerg Mueller Peter Novák Andrea Omicini Sascha Ossowski Marcin Paprzycki Alexander Pokahr Alessandro Ricci Abdel-Badeeh Salem Amal Seghrouchni Ingo Timm Rainer Unland Doctoral Consortium: Ingo Timm (U. Frankfurt, Germany) CONTACTS Juergen Dix Clausthal University of Technology 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Germany Tel: +49 5323 727180 Fax: +49 5323 727189 Email dix"at"tu-clausthal.de Cees Witteveen Delft University of Technology Dept. of Software Technology Tel. +31-15-2782521 Fax. +31-15-2786632 Email: C.Witteveen"at"tudelft.nl ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: DERIS2010 ========================== International Workshop on Design, Evaluation and Refinement of Intelligent Systems (DERIS) TU-Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, September 13-17, 2010 http://deris2010.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Co-located with 55th IWK, TU-Ilmenau Background ========== Evaluation, Verification, Validation and Refinement of Intelligent systems, have been an important issue from the very beginning of their applications. These issues were an important research area and engineering aspect in the 80's and 90's. A number of conceptual approaches as well as practical tools were developed then. With time the focus of research in the design of intelligent systems moved away from these topics, towards knowledge representation, discovery and processing, the Semantic Web technologies, and a number of other AI-inspired areas. However, recently a number of researchers have realized that the lack of systematic methods and formal techniques for the design, evaluation and refinement is often an important reasons for limited applications of even mature intelligent systems. Therefore, there is a growing need to reconsider some of the basic issues in this field. Today, in fact, the classic approaches to the Design, Evaluation, Verification, Validation and Refinement have to be assessed from the new perspectives in order to transfer their principles to new approaches and application fields. The practical design issues are of prime importance. The integration of Intelligent Systems with mainstream technologies and design approaches from other areas, e.g., from Software Engineering, from Machine Learning, or from the Social Sciences, is especially important. The quality issues need to be considered as early as possible during the Design phase of the system. Aims and Scope ============== The goal of the workshop is to promote community-wide discussion of ideas that will influence and foster continued research concerning the topics of Design, Evaluation, and Refinement, as well as attract new researchers to the field. The objective is to focus on the contributions in the above fields and to provide an environment for communicating different paradigms and approaches, thus hopefully stimulating future cooperation and synergistic activities. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Principles in knowledge systems and ontology design * Detecting and handling inconsistencies and other anomalies within knowledge bases * Fundamentals and formal methods for verification of AI systems * Fundamentals and formal methods and techniques of validity assessment of AI systems, AI principles, and intelligent behavior in general * Special approaches to verify and/or validate certain kinds of AI systems: rule-based, case-based, * Special approaches or tools to evaluate systems of a particular application field * Knowledge base refinement by using the results of evaluation * Development and evaluation of ontologies * Maintenance and evolution of knowledge systems and ontologies * Explanation in the context of evaluation and assessment * Problems in system certification * Ontology and knowledge capture * Design and evaluation issues in automatic knowledge capture and knowledge discovery * Design and evaluation of semantic web applications and systems * Formal methods in verification and evaluation of intelligent systems * Case studies in design and evaluation and the lessons learned Intended Audience ================= We expect researchers and practitioners working on design, evaluation, and refinement issues in knowledge systems, e.g., from knowledge engineering, knowledge discovery, semantic web, social web, and web science. No limitation on the number of participants is planned. Submission Details ================== Authors are requested to initially submit complete manuscripts. However, draft versions of papers (work in progress, etc.) are also acceptable. The submitted works will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Papers should be formatted according to the IWK guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 6 pages for regular papers and 4 pages for short, or work in progress papers (including figures and references), see: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/uni/fileadmin/Startseite/iwk10/submission/latex_templates_55iwk.zip. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Paper submission is a two-step process: 1. Extended Abstract Submission at the IWK-Website (http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/uni/55-Submission.7808.0.html) - Submission format: Word file. 2. Full Paper Submission via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deris2010) - Submission format: See above. Publication =========== The abstracts of the papers will be published in an Abstract-Booklet of the IWK conference, and the full papers will be included in the printed IWK proceedings. Additionally, the full papers will be published online as CEUR proceedings http://ceur-ws.org after the event, edited by the workshop chairs. A Journal Special Issue of selected and revised papers of two subsequent DERIS workshops is planned in 2010. Important dates =============== * Submission of extended abstracts: April 30, 2010 * Submission of full papers: May 01, 2010 * Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2010 * Camera ready copy submission: July 31, 2010 * The Workshop: September 13-17, 2010 Organization ============ The workshop will be held with presentations of accepted papers. A comfortable time slot for discussion of all papers will be given. Workshop Chairs M. Atzmueller, University of Kassel, R. Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Program Committee M. Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany J. Baumeister, University Würzburg, Germany S. Gaudl, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany A. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA K. P. Jantke, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany R. Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Germany A. Ligêza, AGH UST Krakow, Poland G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST, Krakow, Poland Th. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI GmbH, Germany D. H. Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................