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Today's Topics:

1. Neo Ubimedia MindTrek Award - 31st August 2014 - THE
competition for pervasive/ubiquitous/ambient 'minded'...
(Artur Lugmayr)
2. SAME 2014@NORDCHI - Ambient & Smart Media Usability,
Interaction, and Media Technologies - 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014
(extended) (Artur Lugmayr)
3. PhD positions at the University of Cagliari (G. Michele Pinna)
4. LATA 2015: 2nd call for papers (GRLMC - URV)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:40:35 +0300 (EEST)
From: Artur Lugmayr <artur.lugmayr@tut.fi>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Neo Ubimedia MindTrek Award - 31st August 2014 - THE
competition for pervasive/ubiquitous/ambient 'minded'...
Message-ID: <1262822392.123.1408740035529.JavaMail.lugmayr@HLO-PC43>
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NEO UBIMEDIA MINDTREK AWARD 2014

CALL FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES

THE award for the pervasive, ubiqutious, and ambient intelligent community
Award submission DEADLINE: 31st August 2014

4th-6th November, Tampere Finland
http://www.numa.fi, http://www.mindtrek.org

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/
In cooperation with MindTrek Association, Internatinal Ambient Media Association (iAMEA),
and the AIS SIG-eMedia
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NUMA 2014 - THE award for pervasive, ubiquitous, ambient technologies, media, services, user experience, concepts, and applications. We refurbished the competition for 2014 after having received over 220 competition entries over the past seven years. We want to integrate all the latest trends in the world of smart media, as we want to see incredible re-interpretations of the original notion of ubimedia, pervasive media, and ambient media. Any new fresh idea is welcome in this area! The vision of ubimedia today spreads in smart city concepts, smart cards, and smart phones - and starts to become mainstream - there are still many more exciting, seamless, and unobtrusive experiences that need to be discovered. We still seek for cutting edge tech innovations, and look for makers that single-handedly engineer fascinating new ubimedia services and devices on a shoestring budget. We welcome all ubimedia masterminds, pervasive computation enthusiasts, and ambient intelligent research!
ers to participate in writing the next chapter for the most innovative, inspiring, and sometimes slightly mad competition in ubimedia's history and seek projects, applications, services, technological solutions, concepts, or new media environment as competition entry. Note, there will be also a price sum giving to the very best three entries.

Possible themes, topics, and areas where your application could contribute to:
- smart environments (smart cars, smart houses, smart devices, smart cities)
- cyber, social, and physical computing
- human computer interaction in the era of ubiquitous computation
- smart robots, interaction with robots, and robotic applications
- new interaction devices (Google glasses, Pebble, ?)
- big data concepts for pervasive computation
- the ?quantified? self and the digital human
- sensor data, context awareness, and intelligence
- mobile phone applications, NFC technologies, and embedded systems (e.g. Arduino)
- wearable technologies, smart watches, smart glasses, and smart gadgets
- cyber physical systems (CPS)
- urban informatics and smart transportation
- security and safety of environments
- smart saving of energy, and sustainable environments
- production and industrial applications that are smart
- information systems and management in smart environments
- entertainment applications (e.g. pervasive games, ambient television, ...)
- artisic works, apps, and creative designs
- ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and consumer experience
- software, hardware, and middleware frameworks

NUMA is looking for your bold, irritating and mind-opening ideas, no matter if you are a student, seasoned researcher, entrepreneur or artist. Whether thesis, project or product - our only condition is: you must be able to demo it, otherwise you are out! You will have to prove your idea with a working prototype, and if you are nominated you will need to demonstrate your work during MindTrek. As we are a cross-disciplinary competition, we created the following categories, to cope with all the latest trends:

- ?NUMA-TEC? - You have been pushing the boundaries of sensors and ubiquitous computing or invented some incredible new pervasive hardware? This award focuses on advances in ?Technology?.

- ?NUMA-KERS? - You have mastered the odds of physical computing and rapid prototyping and want to expose your devices beyond the maker community? This award focuses on the community of ?Makers?.

- ?NUMA-UX? - You are an interaction, experience designer, or artist and have gone where no content has been seen before? This award focuses on the ?Experience?.

- ?NUMA-CONTENT? - You are a content creator, application developer, designer, artist, game designer, or new media developer? This award focuses on new ambient, ubiquitous, and pervasive content.

NUMA 2014 gives all of you the chance to show your work to an interdisciplinary international jury and win a the award! Winners will also be invited to become part of the great MindTrek 2014 event and community with travel costs covered.

To submit your entry, please go to http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open). If you would like to get more information or have questions, please send your email to: chairs@lists.numa.fi. Subscribe to our email list on: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa.

The competition is organized in cooperation with the MindTrek Association (http://www.mindtrek.org) and the International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA) (http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org), the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) and part of the MindTrek Festival. The chairs of the competition are Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND; Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, GERMANY; and Timothy Merritt, Aarhus School of Architecture, DENMARK.

Website: http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open)
Contact Email: chairs@lists.numa.fi
EMAIL List: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/




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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:04:18 +0300 (EEST)
From: Artur Lugmayr <artur.lugmayr@tut.fi>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] SAME 2014@NORDCHI - Ambient & Smart Media Usability,
Interaction, and Media Technologies - 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014 (extended)
Message-ID: <712256162.123.1408741458297.JavaMail.lugmayr@HLO-PC43>
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NordiCHI 2014 Workshop
Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media Technologies
6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences (SAME 2014)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED!!!): 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014

NordiCHI Website: http://nordichi2014.org/

Workshop Website: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameanew/same2014

Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/

NOTE! The workshop series is indexed by Scopus, and we plan to have a special
journal issue...

Publications
The Workshop proceedings will be published in the International Series on
Information Systems & Management in Creative eMedia (indexed by Scopus!):
https://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Journal/
The workshop is in-corporated with the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia)
and iAMEA ? The International Association for Ambient Media (www.ambientmediaassociation.org)

Workshop Chairs
Estefan?a Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium, estefania.serralasensio@kuleuven.be
Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, University of Hanover, Germany, risse@L3S.de
Artur Lugmayr, University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc, Finland, artur.lugmayr@tut.fi
Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, Germany, bjoern.stockleben@gmail.com
Emilija Stojmenova, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, emilija.stojmenova@ltfe.org

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1 Motivation and Objectives of the Workshop
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Ambient (aka pervasive, ubiquitous) media environments offer a plethora of context data as
well as opportunities for context-related content production and consumption. They are the
perfect environments for providing users with highly contextualized data-driven services
and data-driven visual and additive content.

To build such ambient media environments, semantics play an essential role to deal with a
seamless integration of the urban context as well as the digital services to be provided.
The application areas range from smart cars, urban informatics, smart homes, ambient
assisted living, smart media environments, and new interaction devices.
We aim to bring together communities involved in different semantic applications needed
for the creation of ambient media environments, like: digital services, media
interoperability, open data, user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user-centred
and interaction design, user experience, business modelling, knowledge management, etc.

This will allow identifying common themes between the participant's current work and
research agenda, and, eventually, leading to the discovery of new insights and opportunities.
The primary research goal is to assess new trends for applying semantics in digital
services for urban contexts and the disciplines involved in the creation of these services.
The workshop organizers have extensive experiences in organizing high level workshops
through the non-profit International Ambient Media Association (AMEA) they founded.
The organizers have also established an own free open access series and journal within
the association, attracted large audiences, and disseminated the results through
high level journal special issues as e.g. Springer-Verlag?s Multimedia Tools &
Applications.

2 Topics of the Workshop
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In line with the above, contributions to the workshop should propose applications of
applications and services in the domain of ubiquitous media centering on usability,
interaction, and intelligent interaction focused on, but not limited to ubiquitous/ambient usability:
- Ambient Intelligent Semantics & Technologies
o Vocabularies, ontologies & linked data for urban environments
o Context-data aggregation and context awareness
o Semantics of usage contexts and sensor data
o Context adaptive services
o Service interoperability
o Implementation and evaluation of urban services
o Ambient and ubiquitous devices
- Ambient Intelligent Presentation and Interaction
o Service interoperability
o Usage of ambient media for increasing application usability
o Methods and best practices for urban service design
o Usability in ubiquitous smart systems
o Ubiquitous human-computer interaction
o User experience, needs and user studies
o New smart media based user interfaces
- Emerging Ambient Services & Applications
o Smart cars, smart cities, smart urban environments
o Big data, opened data, and linked data applications
o New smart media based interfaces
o User-driven content and semantic data generation
o Smart media environments
o Unobtrusive mobile applications
o Non-screen based user interfaces
o Trust and security

3 Target Audience
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The target audiences to be addressed by this workshop are communities involved
in the creation of ambient intelligence systems for urban environments,
digital services, media interoperability, open data, user interaction design,
business modelling, knowledge management, etc.

As the workshop organizers are from different institutions and research perspectives,
and from academic and from industry, a high number of attendees is expected.
We expect approx. 15-25 attendees to allow a reasonable number of
working groups (see Section 4 ?Workshop Format?).

4 Workshop Format and Activities
==============================================================================

The workshop is part of a larger set of initiatives and is supported and incorporated with:
* iAMEA ? International Association of Ambient Media Ry (www.ambientmediaassociation.org)
* the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group (SIG) SIG-eMedia
(aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia)
* iAMEA established an open access journal and series (indexed in Scopus, and within the
Finnish publication ranking system)
o International Journal on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia
o International Series on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia

The workshop will be a full-day workshop grouped into several sessions. We allow the
submission of papers up to 10 pages which will be peer-reviewed by members of the
program committee.

After the workshop, it is planned that the results of the group work are consolidated in a
journal paper to be published in the special issue of the Springer journal on
?Multimedia Tools and Applications?. Also the authors of the best accepted papers of
SAME workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the
special issue. Respective arrangements with Springer are on the way for the
proposed workshop.

5 Submission Guidlines
==============================================================================

Please follow the submission guidlines for NordiCHI papers on: http://nordichi2014.org/submissions/papers/.
Workshop papers can be 5-10 pages long, however, they need to fulfill the submission guidelines of NordiCHI.
Please submit your papers on: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:03:44 +0200
From: "G. Michele Pinna" <gmpinna@unica.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] PhD positions at the University of Cagliari
Message-ID: <53FAEDE0.6030108@unica.it>
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The University of Cagliari is offering 6 PhD positions in Computer
Science and Mathematics. 4 of the 6 are funded by the University, the
other 2 are funded by one of the research groups of the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science.
Among the research groups of the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science we mention:
- the Computer Graphic group headed by Riccardo Scateni
(http://people.unica.it/riccardoscateni/)
- the Trustworthy Computational Society Group headed by Massimo
Bartoletti and Salvatore Carta (http://tcs.unica.it)

For further enquiries please contact any of the followings:
Massimo Bartoletti (bart@unica.it)
Salvatore Carta (salvatore@unica.it)
G. Michele Pinna (gmpinna@unica.it)
Riccardo Scateni (riccardo@unica.it)


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G. Michele Pinna
Dipartimento di Informatica e Matematica
Universita' di Cagliari
Via Ospedale 72, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
tel: +39 328 0089421
email: gmpinna@unica.it
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:02:55 +0200
From: "GRLMC - URV" <grlmc@urv.cat>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] LATA 2015: 2nd call for papers
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9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

LATA 2015

Nice, France

March 2-6, 2015

Organized by:

CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271
Nice Sophia Antipolis University

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/

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AIMS:

LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.

VENUE:

LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automata, concurrency and Petri nets
automatic structures
cellular automata
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
digital libraries and document engineering
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
fuzzy and rough languages
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
unconventional models of computation
weighted automata

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2015 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Paola Inverardi (L?Aquila), Synthesis of Protocol Adapters
Johann A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa), Hankel Matrices for Graph Parameters and Graph Grammars
Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca), tba
Andreas Podelski (Freiburg), Automated Program Verification
Antonio Restivo (Palermo), The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK)
Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV)
Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE)
Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US)
Jos?-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES)
Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR)
Erzs?bet Csuhaj-Varj? (E?tv?s Lor?nd, Budapest, HU)
Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT)
Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT)
Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA)
Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR)
Tero Harju (Turku, FI)
Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE)
Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP)
Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK)
Anton?n Ku?era (Masaryk, Brno, CZ)
Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR)
Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES)
Veli M?kinen (Helsinki, FI)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair)
Filippo Mignosi (L?Aquila, IT)
Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES)
Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL)
Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR)
Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE)
Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT)
Jo?l Ouaknine (Oxford, UK)
Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL)
Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR)
Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US)
J?rg Rothe (D?sseldorf, DE)
Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE)
Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP)
Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE)
Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG)
Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US)
Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL)
Jacobo Tor?n (Ulm, DE)
Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL)
Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL)
Pierre Wolper (Li?ge, BE)
Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN)
Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL)
Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

S?bastien Autran (Nice)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair)
Sandrine Julia (Nice)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Christophe Papazian (Nice)
Julien Provillard (Nice)
Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2015

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier, 2013 JCR impact factor: 1.0) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014
Early registration: November 25, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 26, 2014
Late registration: February 16, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2015
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Nice Sophia Antipolis University
Rovira i Virgili University




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