The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012)

May 21 – 25, 2012
The Westin Westminster Hotel
Denver, Colorado, USA
http://cts2012.cisedu.info/

In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP

Paper Submission Deadline: December 30, 2011

You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you.

The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in collaboration technologies, collaboration systems, social networks, virtual worlds, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. Main track and the following:

Symposia: (all refereed. may have different deadlines)
SYMP1. Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks (SoMNet 2012)
SYMP2. Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems (SECOTS 2012)

Workshops: (all refereed. may have different deadlines)
W01. Cloud and Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaboration (CWC 2012)
W02. Knowledge Management and Collaboration (KMC 2012)
W03. Collaboration: Human-Centered Issues & Interactivity Design (CHCI&ID 2012)
W04. Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration (STIIC 2012)
W05. Collaborative Mobile Systems and Sensors Networks (CMSSN 2012)
W06. Multi-Agent Systems and Collaborative Technologies (I-MASC 2012)
W07. Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction (CR-HRI 2012)
W08. Collaborations in Emergency Response and Disaster Management (ERDM 2012)
W09. Collaboration and e-Learning (Ce-Learning 2012)
W10. Collaboration Technologies and Systems in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields (CoHeB 2012)
W11. Adaptive Collaboration (AC 2012)
W12. E-Transactions Systems (ETS 2012)
W13. Internet of Things, Machine to Machine and Smart Services Applications (IoT 2012)
W14. Collaboration in Virtual Environments (CoVE-2012)
W15. Resilient Systems and Solutions (RSS 2012)
W16. Smart Grids and SCADA Security (SGS 2012)

Special Sessions: (all refereed. may have different deadlines)
SS01. Collaboration for Dynamic Resource Management in Mobile P2P Networks (CDRM 2012)
Important Dates:
Extended Paper and Poster Submission Deadline: December 30, 2011
Workshop/Special Session Proposal Deadline: November 15, 2011
Tutorial/Demo/Panel Proposal Deadline: December 30, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: February 01, 2012
Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: March 01, 2012
Conference Dates: May 21 – 25, 2012

For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://cisedu.us/rp/cts12/, or contact one of the organizers.

RENDER was mentioned in the news of two major German Web sites.

Heise online and taz.de reported about Wikimedia’s plan to build a centralized database that will be shared over all language versions of Wikipedia where the RENDER project is involved.

Read full article on heise online and taz.de

RENDER is proud that the poster “How to represent Knowledge Diversity” by Andreas Thalhammer, Ioan Toma, Rakebul Hasan, Elena Simperl and Denny Vrandecic has been accepted at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2011 in Bonn, Germany.

Abstract:
Information on the Web includes a huge diversity of opinions, viewpoints, sentiments, emotions, and biases. Accordingly, more and more methods, techniques and tools are available to extract these semantics from text. Representation and exchange of diversity-related information can be easily supported by the use of semantic technologies. For this, we introduce the Knowledge Diversity Ontology (KDO).

Download the poster

RENDERs 4th plenary will take place from September 29 to September 30, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. This technical meeting will be kindly supported/ sponsored by the co-working space ClubOffice.

All information on the meeting is available at the RENDER internal wiki: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/render/index.php/Plenary_4