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Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2012)
Real-world entities often interconnect with each other through explicit or implicit relationships to form a complex network. Examples of complex networks are found in many fields of science such as biological systems, engineering systems, economic systems as well as social systems. In line with 's tradition of SITIS promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications  aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different science communities working on areas related to complex networks. The workshop targets two types of contributions from prospective authors: Contributions dealing of theoretical tools and methods to solve practical problems as well as applications solved by tools from network sciences. Both contributions should stimulate interaction between theoreticians and practitioners.

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Workshop on Situation Aware Computing
Situation-aware computing is an emerging computation paradigm for achieving automatic awareness of environmental elements, recognizing their meaning in a particular situation. A number of situation-aware systems have been developed that can dynamically adapt to changing environments; however, the level of situation awareness of web-based services and systems is still low, as the vast majority of existing approaches do not take into account any situational information integrated or infused from various kinds of sensors including that from mobile phone or wearable computers. The SACOM workshop aims to bring together researchers with wide-ranging backgrounds to identify important research questions, to exchange ideas from different research disciplines, and, more generally, to facilitate discussion and innovation in the area of web-based situation-aware computing.

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Workshop on Colour and Multispectral Imaging
For the second year now, there will be a Color and Multispectral Imaging Workshop hosted by the 8th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS, beside the two main tracks on Internet-Based Computing and Systems and on Signal and Image Technologies. The steering committee cordially invites you to submit your work to this unique event to be held in Sorrento, Italy. This year, we would like to emphasize discussions on colour and multispectral information on/through the internet, which includes, but is not limited to, cross-media color and multispectral reproduction, visualization and sharing of spectral data through the web, etc. Demonstration of new and relevant technologies hardware and software are welcomed.

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Workshop on on multImedia Techniques for augmEnted Reality: PResence and Emotion in virtual environmenT (InTERPRET)
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are nowadays part of the daily life of people for entertainment, shopping, travelling, as well as for professional. The user is now at the center not only as a customer but also as an information provider; therefore, the relation between the human being and the technology becomes essential. People do not communicate with words only but also with facial expression and gesture that express emotional states. When two or more people get connected, understanding the emotions of each other is important to carry out an effective communication. The sensation of “being there” in a virtual situation assures a natural interaction with the technology and improves its effectiveness. The scope of this second edition of InTERPRET workshop is to investigate new approaches for involve users’ emotional states in advanced human/computer interaction. The workshop will bring together researchers, psychologists, designers and human/computer experts, both from academia and industry, with a common objective: go beyond the frontiers of today interactivity in Virtual Environments.

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Workshop on Methods, Models and Technology for Semantic-driven Knowledge Building  (MTSK 2012)
Web 2.0 paradigm has shifted the role of users from passive audience to participatory users. Growing number of users are taking advantage of collaborative and interactive features (e.g., blog, wiki, RSS, and so on) in order to share their own contents with each other (i.e., user-generated content). Specifically, the adoption of Web 2.0 tools in the organizational context (i.e., Enterprise 2.0) changes the roadmap of Knowledge Management. Success of Enterprise 2.0 leads to the availability of large amount of information that is still targeted to the human consumption. This stresses the activities of Knowledge Management, especially in large organisations. So, nowadays Knowledge Management is still a huge challenge.
Semantic Web vision could address this challenge. In particular, Semantic Web standards enabling the creation of machine-understandable knowledge. Ontologies provide a common knowledge layer that could be exploited to bridge the gap between tacit and explicit knowledge. Specifically, ontologies can offer a consistent access point to anything that an organization does enabling opportunities to find relevant information. On one hand, well-known ontologies (e.g., FOAF, SIOC, etc.) could be reused to represent enterprise artefacts. On the other hand, organizational domain ontologies (e.g., controlled vocabulary, taxonomies, and so on) have to be developed and kept up-to-date. In this way, by exploiting ontologies when a project belongs to certain research topics, we can infer that also the publications of the project relate to the same topic, or to the employees that have skills relevant to that project, and so on. Nevertheless, Semantic Web tools are still under development and ontologies learning and maintenance require a considerable effort.
Although Semantic Web provides enabling features to face with Knowledge Management challenge, there are many research opportunities that should be addressed. Firstly, there is a need to fill the gap combining Web 2.0 features such as collaboration with semantic technologies. Next, there are several needs to support knowledge life cycle and to provide intelligence service for knowledge discovery. Finally, it is important to define intelligent methodologies able to prepare and maintain up-to-dated organizational domain ontologies.
In particular, the aim of this session is to provide a forum to disseminate and discuss methods, models, and technologies to address a new generation of knowledge management systems.

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Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation (Kare 2012)
The International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Knowledge, Ontology and Semantic Web Services Engineering. We will discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and assessing the suitability of such methods.  Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system.  Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge of the next years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information.

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WORKSHOP ON WEB BASED AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (WEBDIS'12)
Web based information systems present many challenges including problems of modeling, representing and using semantics of diverse information sources, distributed information management, distributed and parallel query processing, emerging social and community based application, and information and knowledge mining. Applications of web based information systems range over many domains, particularly spatial information and mobile applications. The aim of WEBDIS workshop is to provide a forum to bring together reseachers and practitioners interested in sharing ideas and results in these challenging research domains.

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