CFP: CAMA 2006

International ACM Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: Collecting, Managing and Exploiting Rich Usage Information (CAMA 2006)

In conjunction with
ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006)
(http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/cikm2006/)
In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR

November 11, 2006, Arlington, VA  22202 USA
Submission Deadline: July 4, 2006

Conference and workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM. ######################################################################################
Workshop website: http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/cama2006/

Workshop Theme:
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Providing flexible efficient access to relevant information remains a
challenge. Approaches based on attention metadata present novel
opportunities to deal with this challenge. Attention metadata indicate
what end users do with specific information objects. End user
applications (authoring tools, search tools, repositories, email
applications, blogs and wikis) can generate attention metadata.
Collecting, managing, merging, analyzing and exchanging these
distributed metadata enables smart tools to exploit data about user
experiences with heterogeneous tools for more flexible user information
interaction, while respecting user privacy. For instance, users of one
application can be recommended relevant material, based on their
attention given to information that they have interacted with in other
applications.

This workshop intends to bring together researchers from the relevant
fields, so as to discuss recent advances and identify future challenges.
Facilitating the usage of contextualized attention metadata is a
cross-disciplinary research topic that combines research results and
challenges from communities including databases, information retrieval,
knowledge representation, knowledge management, user modeling,
recommender systems, learning technologies, etc. The workshop will
enable researchers from distinct domains to create strong collaboration
links that will enable future exchange of ideas and sharing of research
results. More importantly, this workshop will enable researchers working
on related research topics to build joint research initiatives.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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     * Attention Metadata collection frameworks,
     * Management of large volumes of attention metadata,
     * Real-Time stream based attention metadata processing,
     * Methods and algorithms for analysis of attention metadata,
     * Log Analysis in databases and web applications,
     * Information mining in attention metadata streams,
     * Information extraction in attention metadata streams,
     * Privacy and Security,
     * Personal Information Management,
     * Representation of attention metadata,
     * Attention metadata services,
     * Applications of attention metadata streams,
     * Merging of attention metadata streams

Paper Submission:
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Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full
papers (8 pages), or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages).
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of
the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and
quality. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by ACM
press. Accepted papers will be fast-tracked for a special issue of a
scientific journal.

Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates
available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
A website with instructions for camera-ready formatting is available at: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/cikm.htm.

All submissions should be sent to [cama2006@cs.kuleuven.be]

At least one author of each paper must register on the CIKM 2006
conference website to present the paper at the workshop if accepted for
publication.

Important Dates:
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     * Deadline for paper submission:  July 4, 2006
     * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2006
     * Camera ready copy due: August 29, 2006
     * Workshop date: November 11, 2006

Workshop format:
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The workshop will be strongly discussion oriented. To that effect, all
accepted papers will be made available three weeks before the workshop
and the presentations of the papers will be short. Presenters will be
asked to focus more on comparison with related work presented by others
and demonstration of early  prototypes, so as to take maximum advantage
of the added value of a face-to-face meeting.

Organizers and Program Co-Chairs:
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     * Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium & ARIADNE Foundation [erik.duval@cs.kuleuven.be]
     * Jehad Najjar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium [jehad.najjar@cs.kuleuven.be]
     * Martin Wolpers, L3S Research Center & K.U.Leuven, Belgium & Germany [wolpers@l3s.de]

Program Committee:
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     * Wolf-Tilo Balke, L3S Research Center, Germany
     * Paul De Bra, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
     * Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     * Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
     * Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
     * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany
     * Wayne Hodgins, Autodesk Inc, USA
     * Dan Rehak, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
     * Griff Richards, Simon Frasier University, Canada
     * Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
     * Dragan Gacevic, Simon Frasier University, Canada
     * Marek Hatala, Simon Frasier University, Canada
     * Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
     * Xavier Ochoa Chehab, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
     * Julien Broisin, Universite Paul Sabatier - IUTA, France
     * Jehad Najjar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
     * Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet & K.ULeuven, Belgium