Call for Tutorials: Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11)

[John Breslin]

== Call for Tutorial Proposals ==

= Tutorials at the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and
Social Media (ICWSM-11) =
== July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain ==

=== Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence ===
=== Co-Located with the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) ===

== Important Dates for Tutorial Organizers ==

* February 18, 2011: Tutorial Proposal Submission
* March 4, 2011: Tutorial Acceptance
* July 17, 2011: ICWSM-11 Tutorials Day

The ICWSM-11 Committee invites proposals for Tutorials Day at the
Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
(ICWSM-11). The Tutorials Day will be held on July 17, 2011 in
Barcelona, Spain. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at
ICWSM-11 should submit a proposal to the 2011 Tutorials Chair (via
EasyChair). ICWSM-11 is being co-located with IJCAI-11, and we plan to
have a special conference rate for IJCAI registrants.

== What Is the Tutorials Day? ==

The Tutorials Day provides an opportunity for junior and senior
researchers to spend a day before ICWSM freely exploring exciting
advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. We believe this
type of forum is essential for the cross-fertilization, cohesiveness,
and vitality of the social media field. We all have a lot to learn
from each other; the Tutorials Day promotes the continuing education
of each member in our community.

== Topics ==

ICWSM is interested in proposals for advanced tutorials at the leading
edge of social media in all its incarnations, including but not
limited to: NLP, Social Psychology, Data Mining, Sociology and
Visualization. We are particularly interested in tutorials that offer
two types of knowledge. The first type provides in-depth background
tools to help educate researchers and students for the purpose of
conducting social media research; examples of this type of tutorial
from ICWSM-10 include "Introduction to Social Media Network Analysis"
and "Large-Scale Social Media Analytics with Hadoop". A second type of
tutorial provides a broad overview for a social media area that
potentially crosses boundaries with an interesting application area;
examples of this type of tutorial from ICWSM-10 include "The Social
Semantic Web: How Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web Can Strengthen Each
Other" and "The Social Psychology of Social Media through the Lens of
Text Analysis".

Our goal is to present a diverse program that includes tutorials on
core areas of social media research for new or non-technical
audiences, and tutorials from allied non-computing disciplines that
can inform research within social media. Previous years' tutorial
programs provide an indication of the scope and variety of possible
topics. The list is not exclusive; indeed, we are expressly interested
in topics that we would not have imagined to mention. Finally, note
that we very much welcome proposals for educational approaches that go
beyond the traditional format of four-hour tutorials, exploiting the
flexibility that the open format program offers.

== Submission Requirements ==

We need two kinds of information in the proposals: information that
will be used for selecting proposals and information that will appear
in the tutorial description brochure. The proposal should provide
sufficient information to evaluate the quality of the technical
content being taught, the quality of the educational material being
used, and the speakers' skill at presenting this material.

Each proposal should include at least the following:

* Goal of the tutorial: Who is the target audience? What will the
audience walk away with? What makes the topic innovative?
* History: List of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if
the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an
estimate of the audience size.
* Content: Detailed outline and list of additional materials,
augmented with samples, such as past tutorial slides and survey
articles, whenever possible. Be as complete as possible.
* Tutorial description: 1-2 paragraphs summarizing the tutorial
outline (suitable for promotion on the ICWSM-11 website), and the
intended duration of the session (the default is four hours).
* Prerequisite knowledge: What knowledge is assumed of the target
audience?

Please also submit the following information about the team of
presenters: name, mailing address, phone number, email address;
background in the tutorial area, including a list of relevant
publications and/or presentations; any available examples of work in
the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation
materials on the subject); evidence of teaching experience (courses
taught or references); and evidence of scholarship in computer science
or social science.

== Submission Deadline ==

Proposals must be received by February 18, 2011. Decisions about the
Tutorials Day program will be made by March 4, 2011. Submissions must
be in PDF format and can be made via the EasyChair conference system
at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwsm2011tutorials
http://bit.ly/icwsm-t

== Tutorials Chair ==

John Breslin
College of Engineering and Informatics / DERI
NUI Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
+353 91 492622
john.b...@nuigalway.ie
@johnbreslin

== Conference Information ==

http://www.icwsm.org/
icw...@aaai.org
@icwsm