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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL MCETECH CONFERENCE ON E-TECHNOLOGIES]
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL MCETECH CONFERENCE ON E-TECHNOLOGIES Datum: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:37:15 -0500 Von: Morad Benyoucef <benyoucef(a)telfer.uottawa.ca> Antwort an: Morad Benyoucef <benyoucef(a)telfer.uottawa.ca> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ======================================== FOURTH INTERNATIONAL MCETECH CONFERENCE ON E-TECHNOLOGIES MAY 4-6, 2009 OTTAWA, CANADA http://www.mcetech.org The Internet pervades many of the activities of modern societies and has become the preferred medium for the delivery of information and services. The successful implementation of Internet applications, ranging from eBusiness, to eEducation or to eGovernment, is a multi-faceted problem, involving technological, managerial, economic, and legal issues. The 4th International MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the many facets of Internet applications and technologies, with a focus on the technological, managerial, and organisational issues. Original and inter-disciplinary approaches to these problems are highly encouraged. Authors focusing on the technological aspects are encouraged to highlight economic, managerial, or organizational implications of their work. Conversely, authors focusing on the economic, managerial, or organizational aspects are encouraged to highlight the technological dimension. The program committee will award a Best Paper Award to the best research paper in terms of 1) originality, 2) presentation, and 3) impact. Extended versions of the finalist papers shall be submitted to a special issue of the International Journal of E-Business. All accepted research papers will be published in the indexed conference proceedings (publisher to be determined). The conference also includes an industrial track, providing a forum for practitioners to present problems and case studies that have benefited from, or could benefit from, Internet technologies in their business. Topics ====== Submissions are invited in the areas mentioned in the following non-exhaustive list: Inter-organizational processes Organizational transformation Inter-organizational workflow Process modeling languages (syntax, semantics, validation) Process adaptation (methods, tools) E-auctions and E-negotiations Service-Oriented Architecture Architectures Languages and protocols Service compositions Open APIs and mashups Methodologies and Tools Security and trust Requirements Legal issues Compliance Privacy and data protection Identity management Identity theft Access control management Middleware and infrastructure services Novel deployment technologies Distributed transactions Recovery Ubiquity management Network management Applications eGovernment eHealth eEducation Telecommunication services Internet-based collaborative work Open source and open environments Business models Ecosystems Licensing issues Communities Inner source Format ====== The conference program will include: research paper sessions, tutorials, an industrial track, workshops Important dates =============== Research papers and Industrial track contributions December 19, 2008: Abstracts due January 9, 2009: Full papers due (6000 words max) and Industrial track contributions due (5000 words max) February 6, 2009: Notifications to authors February 17, 2009: Camera-ready copies due Workshops December 19, 2008: Workshop proposals due January 14, 2009: Notifications to organizers February 28, 2009: Workshop contributions due (suggested) Tutorials January 30, 2009: Tutorial proposals due February 13, 2009: Notifications to organizers March 20, 2009: Tutorial notes due Conference May 4-6, 2009 Venue ===== Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, with approximately one million habitants. Placed at the confluence of three rivers, it has an attractive view, great outdoors, beautiful museums and many other exciting attractions. The weather is usually quite nice in May, which is also the season of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Also known as Silicon-Valley North, Ottawa is located about 200 km from Montréal and 450 km from Toronto, with good air, train and bus connections to both. Further information =================== Conference web site: http://www.mcetech.org The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] Submission deadline extended - RefsQ '09]
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Submission deadline extended - RefsQ '09 Datum: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:33:46 -0500 Von: Anne Persson <anne.persson(a)his.se> Antwort an: Anne Persson <anne.persson(a)his.se> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Dear all, The submission deadline for RefsQ '09 has been extenden as follows: December 8: submission of abstracts December 15: paper submission January 28: notification of authors June 8-9: REFSQ'09 in Amsterdam Hoping to see you in Amsterdam, Anne Persson Organising Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C a l l f o r p a p e r s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R e f s Q ' 0 9 The 15th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Amsterdam, Holland, June 8-9, 2009 Submission: Abstracts: December 1, 2008 Papers: December 8, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.refsq.org (more news to come on this website -- stay tuned) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Since 1994, when the first RefsQ took place, Requirements Engineering (RE) never ceased to be a dominant factor influencing the quality of software, systems and services. The RefsQ working conference series has now established itself as one of the leading international forums to discuss RE in its (many) relations to quality. RefsQ�09 seeks reports of novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE�s products and processes, as well as reflections on current research and industrial RE practices. WORKING CONFERENCE FORMAT ------------------------- RefsQ has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive forum. Each session is organised in order to provoke discussion among the presenters of papers, pre-assigned discussants and all the other participants. SCOPE ----- We invite submissions on any aspect of RE. We encourage researchers and practitioners from the RE, software engineering, information systems, service science and embedded systems fields to present original work. Contributions from related areas such as formal methods, systems engineering, human computer interaction, economics, management and social sciences are very welcome for the insights they provide in RE. SPECIAL THEME: VALUE AND RISK ----------------------------- This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address the notions of value and risk in their relation to RE and quality. Ensuring that requirements, and eventually running systems, meet the values of the individuals and organisations that they are meant to serve has always been at the core of RE. Nowadays, continuously changing technology, ubiquitous software, ever-growing system complexity, and unheard of market pressure simultaneously with new business models based, e.g., on crowdsourcing, make the concern for value all the more present and challenging. The notion of value is inseparably connected to the notion of risk. We are challenged both by product risks, i.e. risks that threaten the value we want to achieve with the systems we build, and project risk, i.e. the risk of not achieving the intended value when building a system. Identifying and mitigating risks is a core task of RE. SUBMISSION ----------- We invite original submissions in various categories: � Full research papers (up to 15 pages), including solution papers, empirical studies, surveys, and comparative studies, � Experience reports (up to 15 pages), describing positive and negative experiences, � Vision papers (up to 6 pages) stating where the research in the field should be heading towards, � Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of practical or theoretical nature, � Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting on research results at a premature stage. See www.refsq.org for detailed instructions to authors about format, evaluation criteria and submission procedure. PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings will be published in Springer�s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS ------------------- Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium ORGANISATIONAL CO-CHAIRS ------------------------ Anne Persson, University of Skoevde, Sweden Guttorm Sindre, NTNU, Norway ADVISORY BOARD -------------- Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Eric Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxemburg PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Ian Alexander Aybüke Aurum Daniel Berry Jürgen Börstler Sjaak Brinkkemper David Callele Alan Davis Jörg Dörr Christof Ebert Anthony Finkelstein Xavier Franch Vincenzo Gervasi Jaap Gordjin Tony Gorschek Olly Gotel Paul Grünbacher Peter Haumer Jane Huang Matthias Jarke Sara Jones Natalia Juristo Søren Lauesen Seok-Won Lee Michel Lemoine Nazim Madhavji Neil Maiden Raimundas Matulevicius Haris Mouratidis John Mylopoulos Cornelius Ncube Bashar Nuseibeh Barbara Paech Oscar Pastor Colette Rolland Gil Regev Björn Regnell Camille Salinesi Kristian Sandahl Peter Sawyer Kurt Schneider Janis Stirna Axel van Lamsweerde Roel Wieringa Eric Yu Didar Zowghi The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. 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[Fwd: [isworld] Last CfP : Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture]
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Last CfP : Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture Datum: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:59:53 -0500 Von: Selmin NURCAN <nurcan(a)univ-paris1.fr> Antwort an: Selmin NURCAN <nurcan(a)univ-paris1.fr> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Dear Colleague, I will be grateful to you for advertising the First International Workshop on Concepts and Methods on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (CMSoEA) and inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. CMSoEA'09 is organised in conjunction with the 2d International Conference on Business Process and Service Computing (BPSC) on March 23-24, 2009, Leipzig. The goal of the CMSoEA workshop is to clarify the relationship between business process management and service provisioning. The objective is twofold: (i) To characterise the strong relationship existing between Business Process Management and Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (ii) To study and to develop concepts, methods and architectures in order to manage the life cycle of services and of their support system. The Call for Papers is available at https://sabreconference.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=616 In can also be downloaded from http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/CMSoEA_cfp_flyer.pdf Authors are invited to use the BPSC/SABRE submission system (http://www.sabre-conference.com/) for paper submissions to the workshop. Best regards, Selmin Nurcan CMSoEA'09 co-organiser *********************************************************************************************** Call for Papers First International Workshop on Concepts and Methods for Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (CMSoEA) in conjunction with BPSC 2009 March 23-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany Organizers: Selmin Nurcan � University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt � Aalen University , Germany Papers submission deadline: December 15, 2008 Detailed Call for Papers is below. It is also available at http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/CMSoEA_cfp_flyer.pdf *********************************************************************************************** -------------8 <-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- CMSoEA 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS (http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/CMSoEA_cfp_flyer.pdf) First International Workshop on Concepts and Methods for Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (CMSoEA) in conjunction with BPSC 2009 March 23-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany http://bpsc.sabre-conference.com Papers submission deadline: December 15, 2008 Organizers: Selmin Nurcan � University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt � Aalen University , Germany SCOPE: Services have become an impressive factor for growth and the creation of jobs. 93% of the new jobs created in the U.S. between 1970 and 2000 are jobs in services. Leading enterprises in the U.S. derive more than 50% of their revenues from services. This applies not only to pure services, such as transportation. but also to material products that are augmented by services such as maintenance, consulting and training. Through these services, enterprises stabilize their revenues. Therefore it is no surprise that the scientific interest in services has grown rapidly and has led to the creation of a services science. Furthermore, service-oriented practice collections such as ITILV3 or standards such as ISO/IEC 20000 have gained much influence in industry. At the same time, services have become popular as modules for enterprise architecture. An enterprise architecture defines the interaction between business and information technology. It describes the elements of this interaction and their possible aggregations. Thus, a service-oriented enterprise architecture uses service to describe the interaction of business and information technology. A service is defined as �the application of specialized competences (knowledge and skills) for the benefit of another entity, rather than the production of units of output� . It is important to note, that services are much more than just �rpc with a longer wire� as found in some interpretations of so-called Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Whereas services are the basic abstraction of service-oriented enterprise architecture, service systems consider the context necessary to deliver a service. A service system is defined �as a value co-production configuration of people, technology, other internal and external service systems, and shared information (such as language, processes, metrics, prices, policies, and laws)�. Wikipedia defines a service system as �a configuration of technology and organizational networks designed to deliver services that satisfy the needs, wants, or aspirations of customers�. Another approach in the context of service-oriented enterprise architecture is Business Service Management. It is an approach for aligning services provided by information technology with the business strategy. A service oriented enterprise architecture also requires a new class of support systems service management systems. Comparable to a business process management system, they have to support the creation, administration and execution of services. Thus, they must be able to store the service definitions and make them available for stakeholder in a service catalogue. The same applies to the so-called service-level agreements that define the quality of service agreed upon with customers. Upon a service request from a customer, the process which produces this service has to be instantiated according to the service level agreements and provided to the customer. During process execution, the service support system has to monitor the fulfilment of the service-level agreements; remediation procedures contain so-called escalation mechanisms. Based on the monitoring, improvement procedures shall be established. GOALS: The goal of the workshop is to clarify the relationship between business process management and service provisioning. The objective of this workshop is twofold: (i) To characterise the strong relationship existing between Business Process Management and Service oriented Enterprise Architecture (ii) To study and to develop concepts, methods and architectures in order to manage the life cycle of services and of their support system TOPICS OF INTEREST: During the workshop we will discuss the following topics: 1. Design - Which interdependencies exist between services and business strategy? - Which concepts and methods are necessary to align services with the business strategy? - Which new potentials to reengineer business processes are created by services? - How are services aligned with compliance requirements? - How are compliance and governance requirements enforced? - Do we need new paradigms to cope with services? - How is the lifecycle of service processes and their support systems organized? 2. Deployment - Which test methods exist for services? - How is a service-system rolled out? - Which methods exist to transfer a service system to production? - Which change management procedures have to be applied? 3. Performance and QoS - How are services monitored in operation? - Which data should be collected for further analysis? - Which benchmarks and key performance indicators should be applied to services? - Which information system architectures are adequate for services? - Which triggers exist and what mechanisms should be applied for escalation? - How are service levels enforced during escalation? - Which approaches exist for the continual improvement of services? SUBMISSION: Position papers of up to 3000 words are sought. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Position papers will be assigned a 20 minute presentation. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted, and will be assigned a 10 minutes presentation. The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. Authors should use the BPSC/SABRE submission system (http://www.sabre-conference.com/) for paper submissions to the workshop. EXPECTED RESULTS: All papers will be published in the workshop wiki (https://pandora.informatik.htw-aalen.de/twiki/bin/view/CMSoEA/WebHome) before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. A workshop report will be created collaboratively using the workshop wiki. Workshop papers will be published in the LNI volume for SABRE workshops (the targeted acceptance rate for the workshop papers is below 50%) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: December 15, 2008 Author notification: January 19, 2009 Camera-ready: January 27, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Karim Baïna- ENSIAS, Morocco Claudio Bartolini, Palo Alto HP Labs, USA Khalid Benali - Loria, Nancy, France Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden Chiara Francalanci - Politechnico Milano, Italy Francois Habryn KSRI, University Karlsruhe, Germany Carsten Holtmann - FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Dimka Karastoyanova University Stuttgart, Germany Ron Kenett - KPA Ltd., Israel Peter Kueng Crédit Suisse, Switzerland Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Gil Regev - EPFL & Itecor, Switzerland Sebastian Richly University Dresden, Germany Shazia Sadiq - University of Queensland, Australia Rainer Schmidt - Aalen University, Germany Pnina Soffer - University of Haifa, Israel Marco von Mevius - FZI Karlsruhe, Germany -------------8 <-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] CFC - Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies]
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFC - Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies Datum: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:30:23 +1030 Von: Jian Yu <jian.yu01(a)adelaide.edu.au> Antwort an: Jian Yu <jian.yu01(a)adelaide.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> * CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS* Proposals Submission Deadline: 15-January-2009 Full Chapters Due: 15-April-2009 */ Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies/* A book edited by Dr. Michael Sheng ( The University of Adelaide , Australia ) Dr. Jian Yu ( The University of Adelaide , Australia ) and Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology ) Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC <http://www.crcpress.com/> Book Website: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~jyu/crc-book-cfp.html <http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/%7Ejyu/crc-book-cfp.html> * Introduction* Context awareness refers to the capability of an application or a service being aware of its physical environment or situation (i.e., context) and responding proactively and intelligently based on such awareness. With recent developments in computer hardware, software, networking, and sensor technologies, context awareness becomes one of the most exciting trends in computing today that holds the potential to make our daily lives more productive, convenient, and enjoyable. For example, a tour-guide service gives tourists suggestions on the attractions to visit by considering their current locations, preferences, and even the prevailing weather conditions. In the last decade, Web services have become a major technology to implement loosely-coupled business processes and perform application integration. Through the use of context, a new generation of Web services (i.e., context-aware Web services) is are currently emerged emerging as an important technology for building innovative context-aware applications. Indeed, considering the inextricable connection between context awareness and mobile devices, this trend is fully in line with the vision of “the Future Internet” , which is built around mobile devices, Web services, and in pervasive environments. /“Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies”/ is intended to compile the newest developments and advances in context awareness and Web services. It will offer a comprehensive and systematic presentation of methodologies, architectures, and technologies that enable the development of context-aware Web services. *Targeted Audience* /“Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies”/ is intended for an audience of researchers and engineers who are working in distributed computing, databases, and e-Business (primary application areas of service-oriented computing) and graduate students who wish to learn and spot the opportunities for their studies in this emerging research and development area. It will be of general interest to anyone using the service paradigms for software development, particularly on developing context-aware applications. *Recommended Topics* The book will provide a reference point of recent advances on context-aware Web services, organized in five parts. The first part (background) gives a historical overview (literature survey) of the context-aware Web services. The second part (Methodologies) focuses on the principle of context awareness in Web service domain and various ways to model context-aware Web services at the specification level. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are: * Context information and context representation supported in Web service context-aware systems * Models and languages for formal specification of context and policies in SOA * Ontologies and context modeling for Web services * Requirements engineering for context awareness * Context-aware Web services development process and methodology The third part (Architectures) focuses on the infrastructures, frameworks and standards for building context-aware Web services. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are: * Light and flexible approaches to service and data integration * Quality-aware framework for publishing and discovering Web services and sources * Context awareness and Web services standards * Middleware for dynamic and adaptive Web services and processes The fourth part (Technologies) focuses on the various techniques adopted from general research areas e.g. semantic Web, database, artificial intelligence, and formal methods but applied in the context-aware Web service domain. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are: * Model-driven development of adaptive Web services * Context-based semantic matching for Web services composition * Security and privacy in context-aware Web services development * Software agents and context-aware Web services * Approximate query answering models for dynamic environments * Web services personalization using context * Context quality verification Finally, the fifth part (Applications) includes Case studies, datasets, and evaluation testbed on context-aware Web services. * Submission Procedure* All book chapters must be original and will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner. The selection will base on the relevance, clarity, and technical quality. Potential contributors are invited to first submit a *2-page proposal* that clearly addresses the main content, issues and contributions of the proposed chapter. An initial schedule is proposed as the following: *Chapter proposal due: 15 Jan 2009 Proposal acceptance: 15 Feb 2009 Full chapter due: 15 Apr 2009 Notification: 30 June 2009 Final chapter due: 10 Aug 2009 * * Manuscript Preparation* Authors are advised to use LaTeX preparing their book chapters. The package including a LaTeX template for book chapter preparation will be available very soon at the book Website <http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/%7Ejyu/crc-book-cfp.html>. Manuscripts submitted for review should not exceed 25 pages following the book format. The leading author of each book chapter may get a free copy of the book. 　 Submissions can be forwarded electronically to: Dr. Jian Yu School of Computer Science The University of Adelaide SA 5005 Australia Tel: +61 8 8313 0066; Fax: +61 8 8303 4366; Email: jian.yu01(a)adelaide.edu.au The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] Social Responsibility in Information Systems and Organizational Design - AMCIS 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Social Responsibility in Information Systems and Organizational Design - AMCIS 2009 Datum: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:03:31 -0500 Von: Kevin C. Desouza <kev.desouza(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Kevin C. Desouza <kev.desouza(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> <b>AMCIS 2009 Track on Design Theory and Research: From Design Science to Positive Design Minitrack on Social Responsibility in Information Systems and Organizational Design</b> Objective and Aspirations Social responsible design of Information Systems (IS) and organizations is aimed at advancing our world. Social responsibility in IS and organizational design might address critical challenges facing our globe, such as global warming, poverty, healthcare, and national security, among others. Of interest is how we design IS and organizations for under-served communities. The notion of under-served communities is viewed broadly, to include under-developed nation states, rural areas in developed nations, and even disadvantaged communities across the globe. Being socially responsible calls for designing IS and organizations that are sensitive to societal issues of global warming, poverty, universal healthcare, and national security, among others, while promoting sustainable development methodologies. Description We are interested in papers that address design challenges in the context of addressing problems faced by under-served communities. We also seek papers that examine how can we learn from under-served communities to unravel interesting design considerations based on how they organize their activities and work with information and technologies. The notion of underserved communities is viewed broadly, to include under-developed nation states, rural areas in developed nations, and even disadvantaged communities across the globe. Social responsible design requires multiple perspectives, from all disciplines, perspectives, theories and applications. Papers might analyze social responsibility issues in an exploratory manner or might advance theory through formulating and testing research models. We seek also papers that address design philosophies (e.g. appreciative inquiry) which have positive effects on our world. Papers that inform both research and practice are specifically encouraged. Papers are encouraged at all levels of analyses from individuals, to groups, organizations, inter-organizational, and even societal levels. Suggested Topics � Designing Information Systems for under-served communities � Design considerations from under-served communities � New design concepts, frameworks, methods for sustainable development and social responsibility � Design for a sustainable growth � Designing by positive methods (e.g. Appreciative Inquiry) � Information Systems and organizational design considerations in the context of global warming � Information Systems and organizational design considerations in the context of global healthcare � Information Systems and organizational design considerations in the context of global education Minitrack Chairs: Wendy Jansen University of Amsterdam and Pro Education wjansen(a)proeducation.nl Kevin C. Desouza University of Washington kdesouza(a)u.washington.edu +1 206-616-0880 Contact Email: socialresisamcis(a)gmail.com The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [WI] Second cfp: Software ENgineering within Social software Environments (SENSE) at SE2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Second cfp: Software ENgineering within Social software Environments (SENSE) at SE2009 Datum: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:13:04 +0100 Von: Anna Glukhova <glukhova(a)dbis.rwth-aachen.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Software ENgineering within Social software Environments (SENSE09) http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/sense09 The SENSE workshop is held in conjunction with the Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2009 - http://www.se2009.de/), Fraunhofer Institute Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 2-6, 2009 CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION Due to the new business models of the Web 2.0 and the new generation of Web users the development of social software requires a new SE approach. At the same time social software brings new possibilities for the SE process. Building on the positive experiences from the open source community we propose the term social software engineering which should include both Web 2.0 style engineering and engineering of the social software. Communication between different stakeholders, developers and end-users is an essential aspect for successful software engineering (SE). SE presents a social process that has to be supported by the communication enabling tools. SE-participants can express their opinion and exchange their ideas. With the globalization of software production, the social software can serve as a good option for socialization of SE processes. Special about social software is, firstly, its meritocracy; secondly, its extreme user-orientation and, thirdly, its focus on emerging scale-free structures. However, it is not enough to create tools using Web 2.0 business models. The development of social software is a social process itself. Using certain social software for SE, a community experiences endless evolution and requires continuous adaptation of tools to their changing needs. Therefore, the development of social software opens a new challenge for design of SE. The goal of the workshop is to bring together the researchers and practices interested in engineering process of social software, which in turn should/could be applied during software engineering. During the workshop a state-of-the-art discussion on advanced research and open issues on social software engineering will take place. The special focus will be put on design process and design guidelines of social systems created for SE support. Workshop topics include but not limited to the following: * Software engineering of social software * Software engineering within social software * Requirements engineering of social software * Requirements engineering within social software * Context-adaptive interaction * Cooperative information systems * Web 2.0 technologies * Community-aware systems SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 12 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 6 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published online as SE2009 workshop proceedings as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073. Revised papers of the workshop will be published in the GI LNI series volume for SE 2009 workshops. Authors should use the Springer LNI format. (http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-infor matics-lni-2005/autorenrichtlinien/) All questions and submissions should be sent to: klamma(a)dbis.rwth-aachen.de IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 13, 2008 Notification of acceptance: January 17, 2009 Workshop date: March 3, 2008 ORGANISERS Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen University Volker Wulf, Siegen University Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University Anna Glukhova, RWTH Aachen University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Oberweis (University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany) Asarnusch Rashid (Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany) Balasubramaniam Ramesh (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA) Barbara Paech (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany) Bernhard Rumpe (TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany) Dirk Veiel (FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany) Dominik Schmitz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany) Imed Hammouda (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland) Gerti Kappel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Jörg Haake (FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany) Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, US) Matthias Betz (University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany) Matti Rossi (MetaCase, Jyväskylä, Finland) Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland) Steffen Lohmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany) Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands) Tommi Mikkonen (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland) Volkmar Pipek (University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany) William Robinson (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA) Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany) -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2009 (Milano, Italy)]
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2009 (Milano, Italy) Datum: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:17:21 +0800 Von: WI-IAT'08 <wiiat(a)kis-lab.com> Antwort an: wiiat(a)kis-lab.com Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09) September 15-18, 2009, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ################################################################## # (Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ################################################################## WI 2009 will provide a leading international forum of scientific research and development to explore the fundamental interactions between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of Web-empowered products, Web systems and services. AI-engineering refers to a new area, slightly beyond tradional AI, which encompasses: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network intelligence, knowledge engineering, representation, planning, data mining and discovery. WI 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-09). The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss common problems in the two areas. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WI Foundations - Brain Informatics for WI - Human Level WI - New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI - Soft Computing for WI - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI - Human-Inspired WI Computing * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) - Search of Best Means and Ends - Goal-Directed Services Support - Distributed Resources Optimization - Service Self-Aggregation - Web Inference Engine - Information and Knowledge Markets - New Social Interaction Paradigms - Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4 * Web Information Retrieval and Filtering - Web Information Retrieval in context - Multimedia Indexing - Personalization - Location-based Information Retrieval - Geographic information retrieval - Content-based Information Filtering - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization - Ranking Techniques - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Pre-fetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Semantic Web - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Web Scale Reasoning * Web Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Networks Mining - Web Site Clustering - Web 2.0 - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy - Theories of Small-World Web - Virtual and Web Communities - Web-Based Cooperative Work - Knowledge Community Formation and Support - Ubiquitous Computing - Intelligent Wireless Web - Ubiquitous Learning Systems - Entertainment * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantic Grids - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery - On-Demand Planning and Routing - Brokering and Scheduling - Middleware Architectures and Tools * Web Agents - Global Information Foraging - Distributed Problem Solving - Coordination - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Self-Organization and Reproduction - Agent Networks and Topologies - Mobile Agents - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling - Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services - Service-Oriented Computing - Matchmaking - Web Service Reconfiguration - Web Service Workflow Composition - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services - Grid Services * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Emotional Factor - Learning User Profiles - Multimedia Representation - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Websites - Remembrance Agents - Visualization of Information and Knowledge - Social and Psychological Issues * Web Support Systems - Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - Recommender Support Systems - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI * Intelligent e-Technology - Business Intelligence - Intelligent Enterprise Portals - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM - Web-Based EDI - Digital Libraries - e-Publishing - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Community Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Learning - e-Medicine - e-Science - e-Government - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility…). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'09 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'09 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. All co-authors will be notified for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. A selected number of WI'09 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html). The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be found on the WI'09 homepage: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm ++++++++++ Workshops ++++++++++ As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'09 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'09 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at the homepage: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ * Workshop proposal submission: January 15, 2009 * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): April 10, 2009 * Tutorial proposal submission: April 10, 2009 * Workshop paper submission: April 30, 2008 * Author notification: June 3, 2009 * Conference dates: December 15-18, 2009 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference General Chair: * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy Program Chair: * Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain WI Program Co-Chairs: * Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium * Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA * Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jerome Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, Paris, France * Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India * Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA Organizing Co-Chairs: * Gloria Bordogna, National Council of Research, Milano, Italy * Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy Workshop Co-Chairs: * Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Milano. Italy * Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France * Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs: * Jia Hu, The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan ACM-SIGART Chair * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada *** Contact Information *** Gabriella Pasi (Conference General Chair) Email: WI-IAT09(a)disco.unimib.it The WIC Office Email: wi09(a)wi-consortium.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [isworld] Services 2.0: AMCIS MiniTrack and special issue of eService Journal.]
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Services 2.0: AMCIS MiniTrack and special issue of eService Journal. Datum: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:41:03 -0600 Von: Thomas Stafford (tstaffor) <tstaffor(a)memphis.edu> Antwort an: Thomas Stafford (tstaffor) <tstaffor(a)memphis.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> We invite submissions to the AMCIS 2009 IT Services MiniTrack, "Services 2.0," from which quality papers will be fast-tracked to a special issue of eService Journal. What we know of services construction and delivery we know from the paradigm of services marketing. Yet, the conceptualization of services drawn from the marketing paradigm is no longer sufficient to inform the theorization and operationalization of constructs involving technological services delivery. Many IT services are not bought or sold, and are not much like traditional customer service, either. We need a new services paradigm to reconcile our reference discipline underpinnings with the emergent technological realities of services in the IT sector. The increasingly non-economic-transaction nature of IT services, juxtaposed with a strictly economic transaction paradigm brought from marketing as a theoretical genesis, augurs for a new conceptualization of services for the IT era. We call this "Services 2.0." For a special issue of eService Journal, in association with the IT Services Track of AMCIS 2009, we invite papers that demonstrate the new functionality of services delivered by IT, delivered in support of IT, manifested in IT. We seek new thinking on what the very nature of service is when delivered on, for and through technology channels: * New methods for assessing services quality in an IT context: beyond SERVQUAL * Services production for the new millennium: when the human agent of traditional services production is removed from the equation, how do services change? * Service recipient perceptions of the new services paradigm * Services without economic transactions. Extending from "free." * IT Services in "service" of social networks; the service-like nature of Facebook, MySpace, virtual world and other social networking applications. * New economic models for service delivery: how can IT Services be cost effective in the absence of a customer purchase? Our main desire is to simulate a dialogue on the changing nature of services in the world of Information Systems and Technology. Because we expect to see innovative and thoughtful discourse arise, we have arranged for this special issue to coincide with the AMCIS 2009 MiniTrack on Services 2.0. Submissions through the AMCIS submission portal (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2009) begin January 2, 2009, and close February 20. Acceptance notifications will take place on April 2, with camera-ready copy due by April 20. For further information, contact the MiniTrack chairs: Tom Stafford (tstaffor(a)memphis.edu) and Bill Kettinger (wjkttngr(a)memphis.edu) ******************************* Thomas F. Stafford Editor, ACM Data Base for Advances in Information Systems MIS Department Fogelman College of Business and Economics University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152 901-678-4628 tstaffor(a)memphis.edu http://memphisstate.org http://the-database.org The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [computational.science] HiPerGRID 2009 - First Call for Papers]
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] HiPerGRID 2009 - First Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:39:58 +0200 (EET) Von: hipergrid(a)grid.pub.ro Antwort an: hipergrid(a)grid.pub.ro Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> Dear Professor, We have a great pleasure to invite you to participate to the 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware (HiPerGRID - 28 may 2009, Bucharest, Romania), held in conjunction with CSCS-17 2009, THE 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. Web page: http://hipergrid.grid.pub.ro Email: hipergrid(a)grid.pub.ro You are welcome to forward this CFP to your friends and colleagues working in the field. Scope and Motivation -------------------- HiPerGRID is an annual workshop dedicated to dissemination and evaluation of current advances in Grid technologies research. The purpose of the workshop is to provide an open forum for researchers from the Grid middleware community to present, discuss, and exchange research-related ideas, results, and experiences in the area of high performance grid middleware. The objective of this event is to support community of researchers, developers, practitioners as well as current and potential Grid users who work in the field of grid technologies and their applications. Grid Middleware refers to resource management, execution management, data management, security, monitoring and discovery, accounting, and other functions required by Virtual Organizations to operate effectively a shared services environment. Obtaining high performance Grid Middleware through new, innovative solutions is a challenge of today research, due to the strong requirements imposed by the dynamic behavior of the user and resource communities. The workshop also aims at stimulating synergies between Grid communities and related technology communities (P2P, Service Orientation, Workflow management). Topics of Interest ------------------ Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Service Oriented Architecture * P2P computing * Cloud computing * Cluster computing * Scheduling and Meta-scheduling * Load balancing and load sharing * Resource Management * Grid Monitoring and Control * Distributed data storage and retrieval * Data transfer and management * Fault-tolerance and replication * Grid security * QoS and SLA * Modeling and simulation * Performance evaluation and prediction * Workflow management Workshop chairs --------------- Nicolae Tapus, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO Alexandru Costan, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO Important Dates --------------- March 15, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline April 12, 2009 Acceptance Notification May 3, 2009 Final Papers Due May 3, 2009 Workshop Registration and fee May 28, 2009 Workshop will take place in Bucharest (CSCS-17) Publication ----------- The papers of up to 8 pages should be formatted according to the IEEE style (available on IEEE formatting - 8.5"x11", two-column) and must be submitted in an electronic form (PDF format) using the submission page. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the program committee of HiPerGRID and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics. Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the HiPerGRID proceedings edited by IEEE Romania Section. Registration and accommodation ------------------------------ Information about registration and workshop fee will be available on the website (http://hipergrid.grid.pub.ro) after Acceptance Notification. Contact ------- E-mail: hipergrid(a)grid.pub.ro Computer Science Department, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest Splaiul Independentei 313, 040062, Bucharest, Romania Best regards, HiPerGRID Chairs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [isworld] *CFP* AMCIS 2009 MiniTrack Users as Designers: Theory and Research on Tailorable Systems and Services]
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] *CFP* AMCIS 2009 MiniTrack Users as Designers: Theory and Research on Tailorable Systems and Services Datum: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:20:51 -0500 Von: Dirk S Hovorka <dhovorka(a)bond.edu.au> Antwort an: Dirk S Hovorka <dhovorka(a)bond.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> *CFP* MiniTrack: �Users as Designers: Theory and Research on Tailorable Systems and Services� 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2009 San Francisco, CA, USA 6-9 August 2009 We invite you to submit your work to the minitrack described below: Objective and Aspirations The proliferation of tailorable information systems and services has engendered a shift in our conceptions of information systems as �artifacts�. The shift away from provision of defined and preset applications and services toward dissemination of information environments that enable users to actively select and integrate information services presents unique challenges to design research and design theorizing. The recognition of secondary redesign or tailoring of systems and services by users has exposed a new problem space for the creation of information environments that are mutable, loosely coupled, and emergent. Designers and users engage in an interplay of continual creation, consumption, disengagement, and re-creation in a broad design process resulting in use as intended, and/or appropriation for some unanticipated purpose, and/or redesign. The actions, created meanings, and processes by which designers and �users-as-designers� engage in design-redesign of information systems and services are poorly understood. In this context services refer to �the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via technology� (Federal Communications Commission, 2008). This mini-track focuses on design research approaches that focus on the broader context of tailorable information systems and services and how design theory that supports these interactions is developed and evaluated. Description Recent initiatives have demonstrated a shift from the provision of defined and preset services or applications, to an environment that enables users to select and integrate pre-built technology services in the ongoing creation and re-creation of unique information systems. Information services make multiple, heterogeneous information sources discoverable and accessible by breaking through traditional barriers of location, structure and context. What faces us now is the reality that many of our information systems have multiple design states, including an initial design state and multiple secondary states, in an evolutionary trajectory of human-system-service interactions. Design can be viewed as a series of production activities (by a designer or a user), and also interpretation, appropriation, and understanding activities. So, for example, a stakeholder may produce a problem statement or articulate a need which is interpreted by a designer, and a solution produced which is then interpreted, appropriated and redesigned and possibly disseminated to a user community. The process may continue as the new information system or service is again designed by a primary designer. Traditionally, research has focused on building and evaluating information systems in accordance with performance criteria that are frequently not reflective of the range of interactions. Much of the current design science research and theorizing focuses on programmatic building of artefacts and evaluation of performance in terms of utility and efficiency. Little research has examined design from the perspective of the user to understand how the user interacts in the secondary design states of the system, what goals are accomplished, or what meanings are created through the recombinant design. Questions regarding the philosophical foundations of design research and a pervasive view that design science as currently conceptualized is about technical �things� have increased interest in extending design research into areas less amenable to traditional technically-oriented design research. A variety of research questions of a more socio-technical and interactionist nature and oriented more towards the roles of users and designers in design-redesign have in the main not been addressed. For example, can design metaphors, the rhetorical framing of the problem space, or alternative epistemological approaches provide greater insights and understandings into design research? (e.g. How has the Cartesian object-subject dualism defined views of design research? Does the concept of embodied interaction inform secondary design in design science?) In addition, questions about appropriate means of design theorizing are under-developed in relation to theories that can offer insights into the production, interpretation, redesign and appropriation of artifacts by users-as-designers? (e.g. Can understanding their point of view help develop theory? How are recombinant systems disseminated into broad use? How can inherently flexible services, which encourage loosely coupled, ad hoc, temporary and emergent systems be evaluated?) This minitrack seeks to look at this new problem space and the processes and interactions of design, redesign, and evolution from a broad perspective with the goal of informing design theory and practice. Suggested Topics (not an exhaustive or exclusive list) * Theoretical and conceptual foundations of users-as-designers - Research approaches to explaining, understanding, or predicting user redesign of tailorable information systems and services - Theory development for the phenomenon of tailoring -Principles of secondary design by �users as-designers� * Design and theory in Information Environments - Ecologies of components vs. artifacts - Discovery and innovation with information services - Active vs. reflective environments * Service Science - Co-value creation - Balance of commodities and innovation - Configuration of resources (people, technology, organization, & information) - Definition and categorization of �information services� * Evolving information systems and services - Reconciling Design Science frameworks with evolving systems - Cycles of system innovation-dissemination-acceptance-( re)innovation - Principles of rigid systems vs. mutable, evolving systems - Contributions to design by user and designer production and interpretation activities * Approaches to Design Science in tailorable systems - Use of metaphor in design theorizing - Alternative ontological/epistemological approaches for design science - Designing �interactions� vs. �artifacts� Important Dates: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions January 2, 2009 Papers Due February 20, 2009 (11:59 PST) Notification of Acceptance April 02, 2009 Camera Ready Copy Due April 20, 2009 (11:59 PST) Questions? Please contact: Dirk S. Hovorka Bond University dhovorka(a)bond.edu.au Judy McKay Swinburne University of Technology JMcKay(a)swin.edu.au The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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