MULTIA-PRO 2011 - MultiA-Pro 2011 - The Second International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments

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Deadline: April 22, 2011 | Date: August 22, 2011

Venue/Country: Lyon, France

Updated: 2011-02-15 00:00:34 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The Second International Workshop on User Profiles in

Multi-application Environments

CALL FOR PAPERS

The workshop is part of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference

on Web Intelligence

Conference website: http://wi-iat-2011.org

Workshop website: http://liris.cnrs.fr/gprofile/MultiAPro

GOALS:

Gather and organize a common discussion among different scientific and

industrial

communities: security, open distributed systems, interoperability and

context-aware and

personalized systems on generic, evolving, secure multi-application

use profiles in social

computing.

Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

TOPICS:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

- Multi-application user modeling

- User modeling in social networks

- User modeling in ubiquitous computing

- User modeling and e-learning

- User modeling, privacy and anonymity

- User modeling and security

- User profile representation

- User profile evolution

- User profile data collection

- User profile management and personalization

- Web identity management

- Web identity and security

- Personalized searching and personalized sharing among communities

- Personalized storage and information retrieval with user-context

- Context-aware profile in distributed environments

- Users' reliability and trust in open communities

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop paper submissions: April 22, 2011

Notification of Workshop paper acceptance: June 1, 2011

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

Workshop general chair:

- Shlomo Berkovsky, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO, TasICT Centre

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Organizing committee:

- Nadia Bennani, Université de Lyon, INSA, LIRIS

- Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond, Université de Lyon, INSA, LIRIS

- Marco Viviani, Université de Lyon, INSA, LIRIS

Technical program committee:

- Fabian Abel, TU Delft, the Netherlands

- Mohand Boughanem, IRIT Toulouse, France

- Sylvie Calabretto, LIRIS, Lyon, France

- Max Chevalier, IRIT Toulouse, France

- Ernesto Damiani, Universita Di Milano, Milano, Italy

- Dick Hardt, USA

- Dominicus Heckmann, Saarland University, Germany

- Stéphanie Jean-Daubias, LIRIS, Lyon, France

- Jérome Gensel, LIG, Grenoble, France

- Philippe Lopisteguy, IUT Bayonne, France

- Salma Noor, University of Southampton, UK

- Henning Olesen, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

- Aris M. Ouksel, The University of Illinois, USA

- Béatrice Rumpler, LIRIS, Lyon, France

- Carsten Rust, Morpho, Germany

- Johann Stan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

- Lynda Tamine, IRIT Toulouse, France

- Gottfried Zimmermann, University of Tübingen, Germany

MOTIVATIONS:

Nowadays, many different applications in different areas (e-learning,

digital libraries,

search engines, online databases, e-commerce, social networks,

ubiquitous computing, ...)

are concentrating on collecting information about users for service

personalization.

Because any specific network representation (in a specific

application) uses different

network models and different user modeling, aim of this workshop is to

organize a common

discussion among different scientific and industrial communities on

evolving and secure

multi-application personalization.

A first problem to address in this kind of scenario is to define

accurately what the

profile content is and how to represent users' properties and

behaviors. Even for

mono-application profiles there are several definitions and structure

models, content

categories and profile creation and enrichment methods. Are these

techniques still valid

in a multi-application context?

The profile management has to be user-centric. The user has to be an

active actor and

needs to be aware and to be able to control the stored information and

its evolution. How

to find and group similar profiles to enrich them mutually? Are

similar profiles part of

the same social community? How the profile modifications caused by an

application affect

the profile for another application? How to make the profile context-sensitive?

The user-centric character of the profile management means also that

the actions of the

user could affect the profile in an automatic manner. User tasks and

action history model

has to be taken into account in profile management.

Another difficulty with multi-application profiles is the security

management due to

profile data and structure sharing among different applications. Users

must have the

possibility to manage the confidentiality of their data in a direct

and practical fashion.

A credible solution must come with data security management taking

into account user needs

and application requirements. Which profile content can be shared,

modified and used by

several applications? What is useful, what is necessary and what is

forbidden to be

shared? How to guarantee users anonymity and privacy? How to prevent

identity disclosure

when profile content is shared among applications? Which trust and

reputation techniques

could be taken into account?

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Elöd EGYED-ZSIGMOND

Maître de Conférences LIRIS, Département Informatique INSA de Lyon

Bur. 501.318 Bât. Blaise PASCAL

F-69621 Villeurbanne Cedex

Tél. : 04 72 43 62 97, Fax 04 72 43 87 13

http://liris.cnrs.fr/~eegyedzs/