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

MultiA-Pro 2011
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/