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CSKGOI Proceedings Online @ CEUR-WS

Last Monday the post proceedings of the Common Sense and Goal Oriented Interfaces Workshop (CSKGOI 08) in January in Gran Canaria went online. We chose the Ceur Workshop Proceedings server for post publication. It’s an open access server with a rather easy submission procedure and papers normally get indexed by Google Scholar and Citeseer. All papers are available along with a nice short preface as Vol. 323:

• ScratchTalk: A Natural Language framework for Social Computation
  Ian Eslick
• Thematically Related Words toward Creative Information Retrieval
  Eiko Yamamoto and Hitoshi Isahara
• Paving the Path to Automatic User Task Identification
  Anne Gutschmidt, Clemens H. Cap and Friedemann W. Nerdinger
• Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts: An Exploratory Study of User Goals in a Search Query Log
  Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer and Mathias Lux
• Using Spreading Activation through Ontologies to Support Personal Information Management
  Akrivi Katifori, Costas Vassilakis and Alan Dix

CfP: Sixth International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI’08)

The CBMI’08 takes place on 18-20th June, 2008, London, UK. Submission deadline is 5th of February. Conference homepage can be found at http://cbmi08.qmul.net/.

From the CfP: CBMI is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances, industrial needs and product developments in multimedia indexing, search, retrieval, navigation and browsing. Following the five successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, and Bordeaux 2007), CBMI’08 will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London in the vibrant city of London. The focus of CBMI’08 is the integration of what could be regarded as unrelated disciplines including image processing, information retrieval, human computer interaction and semantic web technology with industrial trends and commercial product development. The technical program of CBMI’08 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers.

Research & Teaching Assistent in Distributed Multimedia Systems

There is an full time 4 year position as PhD student & researcher at Klagenfurt University, Dept. for Information Technology open. Master certificate in related area necessary. Job applications need to be sent until 09.01. 2008. For more information contact Prof. Laszlo Böszörmenyi.

Find more information (in german) here:

• Job Description (de, pdf)
• Job Description (de, HTML)
• Job Description (funny automatic translation, en, HTML)

M3R 08: Deadline Extension

The deadline for submissions to the WIAMIS has been extended to 21.12.2007. Therefore also the deadline for the the 8th workshop of the multimedia metadata community (http://www.multimedia-metadata.info) M3R 08 has been extended.

Hubert J. Farnsworth would put it this way: “Good news, everyone!”

Call For Participation: CSKGOI

On January 13th 2008 the CSKGOI, the Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal Oriented Interfaces, is taking place in Gran Canaria in the context of the IUI 2008. If you plan to attend the workshop be sure to register for the IUI conference before Dec. 17th 2007. 6 Papers have been accepted and will be presented there:

• Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts
• PACO-T: A Common Sense Aided Tool to Support Teachers on Planning Learning Activities
• Paving the Path to Automatic User Task Identification
• ScratchTalk: A Natural Language framework for Social Computation
• Thematically Related Words toward Creative Information
• Using Spreading Activation through Ontologies

Multimedia Book Coming Feb. 2008

Behind the curtains of the Multimedia Metadata Community we prepared a book consisting of 12 contributions in context of multimedia metadata and semantics. It’s already mentioned online. It’s available in Feb. 2008.

Title: Multimedia Semantics – The Role of Metadata
Editors: M. Granitzer, M. Lux & M. Spaniol
Pages: ~260
ISBN: 978-3-540-77472-3

The web page at Springer is here. I’ll blog more about the book as soon as it is published.

Featured Blog: Research on Business & Web 2.0

A Friend of mine – Alex Stocker – has asked me to promote his weblog focusing on Web 2.0 in business context. He talks about topics he’s coming across in his ongoing work on his PhD and publishing slides, results, ideas and thoughts. He’d be happy to get some contacs and directions, so give it a try

However note that his blog is german only ;(

CfP (Reminder): Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

Here is a reminder as the deadline is approaching (2007-11-19): The workshop CSKGOI’08 takes place at the at IUI’08 in January 2008. Topics include, but are not limited to

Knowledge Acquisition:

• Mining of common sense knowledge and goals from different corpora
• Algorithms and techniques for collaborative knowledge acquisition
• Methods for knowledge validation

Knowledge Representation

• Representational theories of commonsense knowledge
• Distributed forms of knowledge representation, such as goal-oriented ontologies and metadata
• Goal-oriented modeling languages and frameworks
• Algorithms for goal-centered reasoning and inference

User Interfaces

• Integrating commonsense knowledge and inference into user interfaces
• Observational and interactive techniques for goal elicitation and recognition
• Evaluation of goal-oriented user interfaces
• Goal-oriented software configuration

Full papers as well as demo descriptions (+ screen shots) are accepted for submission. Submission deadline is Nov. 19th 2007. The full CfP as well as additional information are available on the CSKGOI’08 homepage.  Hope to meet you there …

CfP: Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

The workshop CSKGOI’08 takes place at the at IUI’08 in January 2008. Topics include, but are not limited to: 

Knowledge Acquisition:

• Mining of common sense knowledge and goals from different corpora
• Algorithms and techniques for collaborative knowledge acquisition
• Methods for knowledge validation

Knowledge Representation

• Representational theories of commonsense knowledge
• Distributed forms of knowledge representation, such as goal-oriented ontologies and metadata
• Goal-oriented modeling languages and frameworks
• Algorithms for goal-centered reasoning and inference

User Interfaces

• Integrating commonsense knowledge and inference into user interfaces
• Observational and interactive techniques for goal elicitation and recognition
• Evaluation of goal-oriented user interfaces
• Goal-oriented software configuration

Full papers as well as demo descriptions (+ screen shots) are accepted for submission. Submission deadline is Nov. 11th 2007. The full CfP as well as additional information are available on the CSKGOI’08 homepage.

Here @ ACM Multimedia 2007

Currently listening to the last talk of this day for me I’ll try to put my impressions together to a full image of the first two days of the ACM Multimedia 2007. The location is quite charming: Augsburg is nice and the university here has a lot of nice ‘landscape’ (~green nothingness) around

The picture to the right shows W. Wahlster doing his keynote yesterday. While it was impressive how many parallel and interconnected  research activities can do with such an amount of  funding the content of the talk was more like selling an EU IP

Todays first keynote was rather cool: R. Fageth from CeWe talked about their company and gave lots of impressive figures how people submit photos for printing. They for instance receive 4 TB of digital photos via upload for printing each day, while the mean image maximum age of an order is ~80 days.

The overall impression on the conference is: Many good contributions and lots of demos & posters to see. Many – but not all – present novelties or interesting ideas.  Also interestingis the mere number of posters/demos/papers dealing with social media. Seems to hit the research