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CFP SociUM workshop:

International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalisation in
Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities
http://tel.cti.gr/socium/

in conjunction with UM'2007
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/
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Some of the most vigorous computing applications currently are social
software environments. Collaborative work and learning technologies
support social interaction, knowledge sharing, and collaboration in
multi-user environments ranging from working in small groups or
closely-knit teams to participating in online communities and forums.
Social software is rapidly becoming an important part of mass culture by
engaging users in creating, sharing, tagging, downloading, remixing, and
rating content as well as in virtual worlds populated with other users.
Social environments unified by the Web 2.0 idea are highly dynamic; span
across a broad range of users, and produce rapidly changing collections of
resources. The difficulties that arise for individuals in such volatile
environments are manifold: cognitive overload, unawareness of current
trends in the community, or inability to find one.s place and role in the
group,  ultimately reducing the effectiveness of the community to create,
share, evaluate and evolve knowledge.

Therefore, in such environments, personalisation and adaptation are
paramount to facilitating effective knowledge construction and information
sharing and creating a trusting and motivating atmosphere for members of
groups, teams and communities to share and work together seamlessly.
Nevertheless, issues regarding how personalization and adaptation can
augment social software environments are still open.

Web 2.0 and related aspects will certainly play a major role for UM
research in the near future, and we believe it is about the time for this
workshop. It follows a trail of successful workshops in the general area:
the User and Group Models for Web-based Adaptive Collaborative
Environments Workshop at UM2003, the UMUAI Special Issue on user modeling
to support groups, communities and collaboration and the AH.2006 Workshop
on Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies. It will
bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of
social computing, online communities, user and group modelling,
personalisation and adaptation and usability to discuss opportunities and
challenges for personalisation and adaptation in social computing.


Workshop Topics
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The Socium Workshop will be open to all aspects relevant to adaptation and
personalization in social systems. Suggested topics include but are not
limited to:

* Adaptation goals in social systems
* Adaptation models in social systems
* User identities in social systems: evolution, stigmergy impact
* User and participation awareness
* Modelling teams, groups and communities in social systems
* Theoretical foundations of virtual teams, groups and communities
* Modelling the evolution of individual participation and social
relationships
* Team, group and community awareness
* Modelling reputation and trust
* Personalization based on team, group and community models
* Evaluation of personalization and adaptation in social systems


Submission
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Full papers - 10 pages
Short papers - 5 pages

Papers should be formated according to Springer-Verlag LNCS
format described in the "For Authors" instructions webpage
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).


The papers will undergo a peer-review by the members of the program
committee. Workshop proceedings will be published by the User Modelling
Conference. Electronic preproceedings will be available at the workshop
website.


Important dates
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Paper submission:    February 7, 2007
Paper notification:  March 12, 2007
Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2007

Early registration:  March 19, 2007
Workshop date:       June 25, 2007



Workshop Program Committee
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Pragya Agarwal, University College London, UK
Anupriya Ankolekar, Institut AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mathias Bauer, mineway GmbH, Germany
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Tom Erickson, IBM Research, USA
Christina Evangelou, University of Patras, Greece
Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Elena Gaudioso, UNED, Madrid,Spain
Jim Greer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Max Harper, University of Minnesota, USA
Tom Heath, Open University, UK
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, Germany
Anthony Jameson, University of Saarbrucken, Germany
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
Ralf Klamma, RTWH Aachen University, Germany
Cameron Marlow, Yahoo! Research
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK
Amy Soller, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
Christoph Schmitz, University of Kassel, Germany


Workshop Organizers
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Julita Vassileva (http://julita.usask.ca/)
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Manolis Tzagarakis (http://tel.cti.gr/tzag/)
Computer Technology Institute, Greece
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Vania Dimitrova (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vania/)
University of Leeds, UK
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