Workshop organizer: Jan Smid
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  WWW Based Communities For Knowledge Presentation, Sharing, Mining and Protection

The P S M P workshop within CIC 2003

June 23 - 26, 2003

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas near Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA
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The 2003 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC 2003) focuses on the communication requirements directly induced or required by computations. The PSMP Workshop will focus on the same problem for cyber communities.

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday, March 24, 2003 Extended manuscript due date: Monday, March 24, 2003
Monday, March 10, 2003 Manuscripts due
Friday, March 28/Monday April 7 2003 Notification of acceptance
Tuesday, April 22 2003 Final, camera-ready copy due (both hardcopy and electronic versions will be required)
Wednesday, June 25 2003 PSMP Workshop

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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE, Last update June 8, 2003


June 25, 09:00am - 12:00pm
LOCATION: Meeting Room C
  1. 9:00-9:20am A Finite State Approach in Modeling Human-Computer Communication
    I.Kopecek
  2. 09:20 - 09:40am: Term Indexing in information Retrieval Systems
    J.Dvorsky, M.Kratky, T.Skopal, V.Snasel
  3. 09:40 - 10:00am: Searching Internet Using Topological Analysis of Web pages
    T.Skopal, V.Snasel, V.Svatek, M.Kratky
  4. 10:40 - 11:00am: Lexical Semantic Networks and Ontologies in XML, Their viewing and Authoring
    A. Horak, K. Pala and P. Smrz
  5. 11:00 - 11:20am: Framework Supporting Information Sharing For Collaborative Model Construction
    M.Obitko, J.Smid
  6. 11:20 - 11:40am: Clustering of Documents via Similarity Measures
    H.Rezankova, D.Husek, J.Smid, V.Snasel
  7. 11:40 - 12:00pm: Towards Cyber Communities
    J.Smid, W.Truszkowski
  8. TBA Semantic-web enabled, user-driven, interactive environments
    R.Masuoka, Yannis Labrou
  9. TBA Web-Based Education in Demography: Building the Infrastructure
    M. Devedzic, V.Devedzic
  10. TBA Web technology in Teaching and Learning Radio Communications
    G.Simic, V.Devedzic
  11. TBA Towards Petri-Net WWW Community: Starting Points
    D. Gasevic, V. Devedzic

TOPICS

The following topics are suggested as particular examples of interest to CIC 2003. Submissions are not limited to these topics. In all cases, submissions must reflect the focus of the psmp workshop.
  1. Knowledge Exchange
  2. Knowledge Representation for Knowledge Communication (Ontologies and hard wired models)
  3. Client-server, server-server Communication
  4. User Modeling and Tutorial Systems
  5. Computing on the WWW
  6. Computing on the WWW Using Commercial Products (Matlab, Mathematica,..)
  7. Exchange of Scientific Models on the WWW
  8. Server based Tutorial Systems
  9. Knowledge Mining
  10. Protocol and Dialogue based Systems
  11. Security and Privacy for Scientific Model Exchange
  12. Security and Privacy for Tutorial Models

CYBER COMMUNITIES FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND TUTORING

A cyber community consists of a set of nodes, connections between nodes and a set of languages/protocols. Cyber communities are subsets of the WWW. Nodes are either servers, users or authors. The goal of a community is to build knowledge, provide and protect this knowledge. Cyber users and authors live in sub-communities and enclaves. The architecture of communication between nodes and enclaves is specific for a given application. One illustrative case of an application is for communities exchanging tutorial information ranging from plain documents to interactive tutorials with user models. The communication can be as simple as to facilitate exchange of materials and checking for missing materials. This type of model would well fit in the area of collaborative learning, user modeling and authoring. For example an interactive textbook can be incrementally written by a number of remote authors. Servers, authors and users can be granted with different levels of access and they can exchange messages within a flexible protocol. This model can then serve as a framework for security and survivability issues. Activities in communities can be monitored by sensors conveniently placed. The robustness and survivability is then derived on top of this architecture and collected data from sensors. The current encryption based technology is very important. However large and diversified societies living on the Internet/WWW, will have a need to develop semantic contextual communication/dialogues among the players. This does not mean to eliminate encryption based security (such as RSA, PKI) but rather to build on top of it.

The goal of this workshop is to discuss and to inspire research on algorithms for cyber communities. One of the purposes of PSMP is to answer the following questions in the context of cyber communities

  1. the ease of implementation versus complexity
  2. complexity versus portability
  3. should we use adaptive and learning features or more stable and hard-wired procedures for practical systems
  4. how to extract and fuse information
  5. how to construct distributed tutorials
  6. how to exchange distributed models (e.g. regression models)
  7. how the issues of communication and computation are dealt with

ORGANIZER

Jan Smid
Department of Computer Science
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD 21251-0002, USA
Phone: +1 443-885-1395
Fax: +1 410-319-3628
jsmid@jewel.morgan.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, Inc., USA
Ivan Bruha, McMaster University, Canada
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Ivan Kopecek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Marek Obitko, FEL, Prague, Czech Republic
Walt Truszkowski, NASA/GSFC, USA
Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Email either a Postscript or PDF file as an attachment to J.Smid (jsmid@jewel.morgan.edu).
Submit eight or less pages for regular paper submissions or four or less pages for short paper submissions. Regular paper submissions are intended to provide significant research content, whereas, short paper submissions provide more of an overview. Papers are to be numbered starting from page one, be single spaced with 11pt font and are to include an abstract of 250 words or less together with up to five keywords describing the paper's content. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. Indicate the presenter or primary contact author if presenter is unknown.

A final preparation format will be available upon notification of acceptance. Be advised that page charges may be assessed for those accepted papers exceeding the page limit. Submitted papers greatly exceeding the page limit or otherwise deviating significantly from the requested format may be rejected without review.

All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two reviewers with background in the areas of the reported work. All authors will receive referees' comments. Such comments will be divided into two categories: required and optional changes. All required changes will need to be incorporated prior to final acceptance in the symposium proceedings. Papers submitted as regular papers may, upon the recommendation of the reviewers and/or the conference chairs, be accepted as short papers.

EVALUATION PROCESS

All papers submitted will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
contribution to the area of research,
relevance to the focus of this conference,
technical merit,
novelty of the approach,
soundness of results,
clarity of presentation.

Authors of accepted papers will be requested to submit their conference registration materials along with the camera-ready copy.

PUBLICATION

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) and will be available at the conference. We plan to identify a selection of `best papers' and to consider re-publication in a special journal issuance. In addition to the hardcopy proceedings, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD which will be available at the conference. Papers will be available on the World Wide Web for convenient retrieval.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE

The conference will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles to and from the airport. This hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for families and children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable ($79 + tax) per night (no extra charge for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference.
About 100 miles to Death Valley National Park