APDS 2017 - Arctic Personal Data Systems Conference

Den første ACM SIGOPS sommerskolekonferansen om avanserte emner i datamaskinsystemer ble arrangert 14. til 17. august 2018 på den pittoreske og bortgjemte øya Sommarøy, som ligger 36 km vest for Tromsø, og 300 km nord for Polarsirkelen. Konferansen ble organisert i fellesskap av Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges arktiske universitetet i Tromsø og Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Konferansen tiltrakk seg et mangfoldig publikum av ingeniører, doktorgradsstudenter og vitenskapelig ansatte. Konferansen var i stand til å tiltrekke seg åtte fremragende foredragsholdere ("invited speakers"), inkludert en Turing award winner. Totalt holdt de 14 50-minutters foredrag om ulike tema innen distribuerte systemer. Konferansen inkluderte også en plakatøkt ("poster session"), der deltakere og forelesere kunne samhandle. Foreleserne deltok aktivt i plakatøkten og var tilgjengelige for samhandling under alle sosiale aktiviteter. Deltakelse var basert på en utvelgelsesprosess av en programkomité for en innsendt abstrakt og CV. Komiteen valgte 61 akademiske deltakere og 11 deltakere fra industrien. I tillegg var 12 plasser reservert for våre industrisponsorer. Microsoft ga et mangfoldstilskudd for seks ekstra kvinnelige deltakere. Totalt var det 104 deltakere, inkludert 90 studenter, vitenskapelig ansatte og ingeniører; 8 foredragsholdere; og 6 medlemmer fra organisasjonskomiteen. Det var 19 forskjellige land / selskaper representert, og 13,4% av deltakerne var kvinner.

APDS'18 - Arctic Personal Data Systems Conference, is the first international conference in a forthcoming series of APDS conferences. (The next conference will be APDS'19 (or APDS'20) - The American Personal Data Systems Conference.) The conference is supported by (not financially) ACM SIGOPS and potentially also ACM Multimedia adn ACM IR (pending requests). The APDS Conference aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to discuss approaches to lifelog data analytics and the challenges a world in which lifelogging is a pervasive activity, and to debate the opportunities and challenges for researchers in this new and challenging area. The disciplines involved include multimedia analytics, wearable and ubiquitous computing, information retrieval, privacy, data security, preservation, and lifelog supporting infrastructure systems. The main topics of interest include (although not limited to): - Internet of Everything run-times - Tools and infrastructures supporting life logging - Digital preservation systems and maintenance of lifeless - Multimedia data analytics - Semantic enrichment for lifelog and quantified-self data - Privacy and data security challenges of life logging - Applications of lifelogging and experiences of same This conference aims to bring together researchers from both the dissecurity and privacy community and IR community to provide solutions for these problems. Our workshop includes activities such as paper presentations, poster sessions, multiple panel discussions, and social events. The panels will be organized under three major themes: - experiences of lifelogging - technologies supporting lifelogging - lifelogging applications Local Arrangement Committee (LOC) consists of researchers at UiT- the Arctic University of Norway. Scientific Committee (SPC) is lead by prof. Dag Johansen and has international members from ACM. Proceedings will be published by Springer/ACM. We expect between 200-300 international participants.