International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalisation in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities

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 Siegen, Germany


Workshop Organizers
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Julita Vassileva (http://julita.usask.ca/) University of Saskatchewan, Canada
email: jiv@cs.usask.ca


Manolis Tzagarakis (http://tel.cti.gr/tzag/) Computer Technology Institute, Greece
email: tzagara@cti.gr


Vania Dimitrova (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vania/)
University of Leeds, UK
email: vania@comp.leeds.ac.uk