Introduction to Conference Workshop Sessions and International Status Reports

Introduction to the First International Workshop

We may be working toward making human interaction through devices (or with a device) resemble as much as possible interpersonal interaction. Or we may aim at a different type of interaction, so that digital interaction is a sort of augmented interpersonal interaction. In any case, it appears that the creation of common ground amongst interacting agents is both a prerequisite and a goal of inter...

Introduction to the 5th ADEA International Women's Leadership Conference Proceedings.

XVII International AIDS Conference: From Evidence to Action - Introduction

Introduction For over 25 years, International AIDS Conferences have played a key role in the response to AIDS: by providing the research community with opportunities to share important scientific advances, by profiling both successes and failures in the response to AIDS, and by offering a unique platform for people working professionally in the HIV field to address critical issues before a glob...

International Conference on Islamic Awakening

Recent developments in the middle-east have been differently explained by different figures and dignitaries from different countries of the world. Calling these developments as "Islamic awakening", "Human awakening", "Arab Spring" and "Purple Revolution" indicates there are different theories in this regard definitely leading to different measures in the political arena. Among supreme leader's ...

Reports on the 2013 Workshop Program of the Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

The Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition allowed participants to compare the results of their systems on a common benchmark. Unlike competitive shared tasks, the workshop did not focus just on performance, but rather on discovering which feature sets, resources, and learning techniques are useful in the extraction of personality from text. Organizers provided two gold-standard labe...