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[Fwd: [isworld] Submssion Guidelines for ISR Special Issue: Digital Systems and Competition]
by Gustaf Neumann 31 May '08

31 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Submssion Guidelines for ISR Special Issue: Digital Systems and Competition Datum: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:11:26 -0400 Von: Sambamurthy, Vallabhajosyula <sambamurthy(a)bus.msu.edu> Antwort an: Sambamurthy, Vallabhajosyula <sambamurthy(a)bus.msu.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Colleagues: June 1 (midnight) is the deadline for submissions to the ISR Special Issue on Digital Systems and Competition. All submissions should be made through Manuscript Central. Within the system, please choose the Manuscript Category as Special Issue. For the choice of Senior Editors, please select one or more of the Guest Editors, whose names are listed in the drop-down menu: Clyde Holsapple Walter Ferrier Rajiv Sabherwal For Special Issues, submissions do not have an Associate Editor. Each special issue has an Editorial Review Board, whose names are listed in the Call for Papers (http://www.informs.org/site/ISR/index.php?c=8&kat=Special+Issues) Authors could indicate the names of reviewers either from this list or other adhoc reviewers (a maximum of five). Each submission will be reviewed by at least one member of the Editorial Review Board and an adhoc reviewer. It is not necessary for the authors to nominate an Associate Editor. Finally, by submitting a paper to the Special Issue, all authors and their co-authors agree to assist the editors with reviewing, if they are called upon to do so. With an anticipated large volume of submissions, we will be looking for an expanded pool of reviewers to manage the submissions within the usual 120 day cycle time for the journal. We look forward to the submissions. Vallabh Sambamurthy Eli Broad Professor of Information Technology Executive Director, Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 Voice: 517-432-2816 | Fax:517-432-1101 | email: sambamurthy(a)bus.msu.edu URL: http://www.bus.msu.edu/staff/staff.cfm?staffID=426 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] CFP - First International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability - IWEI 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP - First International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability - IWEI 2008 Datum: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:30:22 +0200 Von: Pontus Johnson <pontus(a)ics.kth.se> Antwort an: Pontus Johnson <pontus(a)ics.kth.se> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability - IWEI 2008 http://www.ics.kth.se/iwei 18 September 2008, München, Germany In conjunction with the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference- EDOC 2008 - The Enterprise Computing Conference Organised by IFIP TC5 SIG on Enterprise Interoperability (http://www.ifip.org/bulletin/bulltcs/tc5_aim.htm#SIGEI) In cooperation with INTEROP-VLab (http://www.interop-vlab.eu/) ABOUT THE WORKSHOP One of the trends in the global market is the increasing collaboration among enterprises. Constant changes in inter- and intra-organisational environment will persist in the future. Organisations have to flexibly and continuously react to (imminent) changes in markets and trading partners. Large companies but also SMEs have to cope with internal changes from both a technical (e.g. new information, communication, software and hardware technologies) and an organisational point of view (e.g. merging, re-organisation, virtual organisations, etc.). In this context, the competitiveness of an enterprise depends not only on its internal performance to produce products and services but also on its ability to seamlessly interoperate with other enterprises. External and internal collaborative work needs more interoperable solutions. This workshop aims at identifying and discussing challenges and solutions with respect to enterprise interoperability, both at the business and the technical level. The workshop promotes the development of a scientific foundation for specifying, analysing and validating interoperability solutions; an architectural framework for addressing interoperability problems from different viewpoints and at different levels of abstraction; a maturity model to evaluate and rank interoperability solutions with respect to distinguished quality criteria; and a working set of practical solutions and tools that can be applied to interoperability problems to date. The workshop invites original submissions from both researchers and practitioners in the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: * ODP and enterprise interoperability; * SOA and enterprise interoperability; o interoperability through service discovery and composition; o orchestration of services; o mediation between services; * MDA and enterprise interoperability; o computation-independent interoperability models; o platform-independent interoperability models; o model-to-model transformations; * other reference models and architecture approaches; * enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling; * middleware and infrastructure approaches to facilitate and enhance interoperability; * business-IT alignment for interoperability; * reference ontology and mapping mechanisms; * self-organisation and adaptation for interoperability; * semantic annotations for information interoperability; * coordination and negotiation in networks of businesses; * cross-organizational business processes; * maturity models and quality criteria for evaluating interoperability solutions; * modelling, analysis and validation of interoperability; * non-functional aspects of interoperability, such as privacy, QoS, and reputation; * interoperability requirements, approaches and solutions in specific sectors * case studies and experience reports on interoperability solutions. SUBMISSION INFORMATION The workshop welcomes submissions of full papers (8 to 12 pages long) and position papers (around 4 pages) in the IEEE Computer Society format. All submissions will be formally peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will be published on-line in the IEEE Digital Library and in print by the University of Twente as part of the CTIT Workshop Proceedings Series (ISSN 1381-3625). At least one author of each accepted paper should participate in the workshop. Submissions should be sent in PDF format by email to iwei(a)ics.kth.se. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: 13 June 2008 Notification to authors: 18 July 2008 Camera ready due: 28 July 2008 Workshop: 18 September 2008 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Pontus Johnson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, Netherlands) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be confirmed) Scott Bernard, Carnegie Mellon University, Syracuse University, USA David Chen, Université Bordeaux 1, France Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Guy Doumeingts, INTEROP-VLab/GFI, France Yves Ducq, Université Bordeaux 1, France Fatima Farinha, Algarve University, Portugal Thomas Fischer, University of Stuttgart and the Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation Stephan Kassel, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany Kurt Kosanke, CIMOSA Association, Germany Marc Lankhorst, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands Ulrike Lechner, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Kai Mertins, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany Raul Poler, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Dick Quartel, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands Joachim Schelp, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Marten Schönherr, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria Sven-Volker Rehm, University of Stuttgart and the Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur, Belgium Bruno Vallespir, Université Bordeaux 1, France Alain Wegmann, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Inaki Zugasti, Ikerlan Research Centre, Spain The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] I-USED 2008: Call for Papers]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] I-USED 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:21:45 +0200 Von: Silvia Abrahão <sabrahao(a)dsic.upv.es> Antwort an: Silvia Abrahão <sabrahao(a)dsic.upv.es> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and Software Development (I-USED 2008) (Pisa, Italy, September 24th, 2008) http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/i-used In conjunction with the 2nd Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering (HCSE 2008) Pisa, Italy, September 25-26, 2008. MOTIVATION Software development is highly challenging. Despite many significant successes, several software development projects fail completely or produce software with serious limitations, including (1) lack of usefulness, i.e. the system does not adequately support the core tasks of the user, (2) unsuitable designs of user interactions and interfaces, (3) lack of productivity gains or even reduced productivity despite heavy investments in information. Broadly speaking, two approaches have been taken to address these limitations. The first approach is to employ evaluation activities in a software development project in order to determine and improve the usability of the software, i.e. the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which users achieve their goals. To help software developers’ work with usability within this approach, more than 20 years of research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has created and compared techniques for evaluating usability. The second approach is based on the significant advances in techniques and methodologies for user interface design that have been achieved in the last decades. In particular, researchers in user interface design have worked on improving the usefulness of information technology by focusing on a deeper understanding on how to extract and understand user needs. Their results today constitute the areas of participatory design and user-centered design. In addition, the Software Engineering (SE) community has recognized that usability does not only affect the design of user interfaces but the software system development as a whole. In particular, efforts are focused on explaining the implications of usability for requirements gathering, software architecture design, and the selection of software components. However, the interplay between these two fields, and between the activities they advocate to be undertaken in software development, have been limited. Integrating usability evaluation at relevant points in software development (and in particular to the user interface design) with successful and to-the-point results has proved difficult. In addition, research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Software Engineering (SE) has been done mainly independently of each other with no in substantial exchange of results and sparse efforts to combine the techniques of the two approaches. Larry Constantine, a prominent software development researcher, and his colleagues express it this way: “Integrating usability into the software development process is not easy or obvious” (Juristo et al. 2001, p. 21). THEME AND GOALS The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the HCI and SE fields to determine the state-of-the-art in the interplay between usability evaluation and software development and to generate ideas for new and improved relations between these activities. The aim is to base the determination of the current state on empirical studies. Presentations of new ideas on how to improve the interplay between HCI & SE to the design of usable software systems should also be based on empirical studies. Within this focus, topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: - Which artifacts of software development are useful as the basis for usability evaluations? - How do the specific artifacts obtained during software development influence the techniques that are relevant for the usability evaluation? - In which forms are the results of usability evaluations supplied back into software development (including the UI design)? - What are the characteristics of usability evaluation results that are needed in software development? - Do existing usability evaluation methods deliver the results that are needed in user interface design? - How can usability evaluation be integrated more directly in user interface design? - How can usability evaluation methods be applied in emerging techniques for user interface design? - How can usability evaluation methods be integrated to novel approaches for software development (e.g., model-driven development, web development, agile development). PARTICIPANTS Participants are accepted on the basis of their submitted papers. We aim at 15 with a maximum of 20 participants. The intended audience is primarily software engineering and human-computer interaction researchers who are working with the theme. The workshop should also be relevant for practitioners who have experiences with and ideas for improving the interplay between HCI and SE. RELEVANCE TO THE FIELD The main contribution is the determination of state-of-the-art and the identification of areas for improvement and further research. The HCI field includes a rich variety of techniques for either usability evaluation or user interface design. But there are very few methodological guidelines for the interplay between these key activities; and more important, there are few guidelines on how to properly integrate these two activities in a software development process. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: 20th July 2008 Acceptance Notification: 15th August 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: 1st September 2008 Workshop: 24th September 2008 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Authors of papers must submit their papers by JULY 20. Papers should be submitted in PDF-format to the workshop reviewing system at (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iused2008). Participants will be notified before AUGUST 15 and subsequently the papers will be made available to the workshop participants. Papers must describe empirical studies of the interplay between usability evaluation and software development. Two types of submissions are solicited: full papers with up to 6 pages describing substantial, completed work, and position papers with 2 pages describing either results that can be concisely reported or work in progress. Submissions must be clearly marked as one of these two types. Both types of papers should be formatted according to the ACM template for proceedings available at (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All papers will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee with regard to the relevance and originality of the work and their ability to generate discussions among the participants of the workshop. The workshop proceedings will be published on-line as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. ACTIVITIED PLANNED AND OUTCOMES Tentatively, the Workshop-programme (full day) is as follows: - Introduction to workshop. - A keynote speech by a recognized researcher in the field. - Presentation of selected papers followed by limited discussion. - The organization of the workshop participants around thematic groups. - Reports from the groups and plenary discussion of main issues. - Discussion of how to continue the work. The outcome of the workshop is a collection of papers as well as a presentation and discussion of the validity and significance of these papers. We plan to contact key HCI/SE journals about their willingness to produce a special issue on the interplay between usability evaluation and software development based on the best papers from the workshop. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Silvia Abrahao, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Jan Stage, Aalborg University, Denmark. Kasper Hornbæk, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. Effie L-C Law, ETH Zürich, Switzerland & University of Leicester, UK. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Scott Ambler, IBM Rational Nigel Bevan, Professional Usability Services, UK Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Tiziana Catarci, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy Xavier Ferre, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Maria Francesca Costabile, Universita' di Bari, Italy Morten Hertzum, Roskilde University, Denmark Emilio Insfran, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Nuno Jardim Nunes, University of Madeira, Portugal Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand Philippe Palanque, IRIT, France Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Italy Isidro Ramos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Ahmed Seffah, Université Concordia, Montreal, Canada Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catolique de Louvain, Belgium (list not complete yet) SPONSORS The workshop is mainly sponsored by the European COST Action n°294 MAUSE (Towards the Maturation of IT Usability Evaluation – www.cost294.org). Several members of this COST action are members of the workshop Program Committee and guarantee a large geographical and topical coverage of the workshop. CONTACT The Workshop co-chairs can be contacted by email at the address i-used2008(a)dsic.upv.es 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] CFP 3rd Intl. Conference on the Pragmatic Web (ICPW 2008) [Extended deadline]]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP 3rd Intl. Conference on the Pragmatic Web (ICPW 2008) [Extended deadline] Datum: Wed, 28 May 2008 04:43:46 -0400 Von: Mikael Lind <Mikael.Lind(a)hb.se> Antwort an: Mikael Lind <Mikael.Lind(a)hb.se> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Does your research concern the future of the Web as an arena for collaboration and innovation? If so you might be happy to know that we have decided to extend the submission deadline for ICPW 2008 by one week. Hence, there is still time to finalize that ground breaking paper of yours. ***** Extended deadline for Pragmatic Web 2008 ***** Apologies for cross-posting Due to popular demand by contributors we have decided to move the submission deadline a week forward for ICPW 2008 The 3rd Intl. Conference on the Pragmatic Web (ICPW 2008) will be held Sep 29-30 in Uppsala, Sweden. The Pragmatic Web conference is a unique forum to envision and debate how the emerging social, semantic, multimedia Web mediates the ways in which we construct shared meaning. While there is much research and development into topics relevant to this challenge such as collaboration, usability, knowledge representation, media, interoperability, software engineering and social informatics, the Pragmatic Web conference provides common ground for dialogue at the nexus of these topics. Submission deadline: 6th of June 2008 [extended deadline] Full call for papers can be found at http://www.pragmaticweb.info/ ICPW 2008 is organized by Uppsala University in collaboration with The Scandinavian Chapter of the AIS (IRIS), ACM SIGWEB, and Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. Proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library. We are also negotiating with The International Journal of Web Based Communities about a special issue with selected revised papers. There are also negotiations at the moment for publication of selected papers in The International Journal of Web Based Communities. We look forward for your submission Pär J. Ågerfalk (General chair) Harry Delugach (Co-program chair) Mikael Lind (Co-program chair) ********************************************* Dr. Mikael Lind Associate Professor School of Business and Informatics University College of Borås, Sweden and Department of Business Informatics Jönköping International Business School, Sweden Mobile: +46 705 66 40 97 Email: Mikael.Lind(a)hb.se URL: www.adm.hb.se/~ml www.e-Me.se, www.hb.se/cci. www.ITsomyrke.nu, www.vits.org www.innovationlab.se, www.sysiac.org, www.calistoga.se http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHciBETh3nM ********************************************** 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] AmPI - Call for books proposals]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] AmPI - Call for books proposals Datum: Wed, 28 May 2008 04:11:21 -0400 Von: Ismail Khalil Ibrahim <ismail.khalil-ibrahim(a)jku.ac.at> Antwort an: Ismail Khalil Ibrahim <ismail.khalil-ibrahim(a)jku.ac.at> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ********************* AmPI ************************** C A L L F O R B O O K S P R O P O S A L S Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence ISSN: 1875-7669 http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/books/ampi.html ********************* Overview ********************** Ambient and pervasive intelligence is a vision of the future where computers and computing devices will be available naturally and unobtrusively anywhere, anytime, and by different means in our daily living, working, learning, business, infotainment environments. Such a vision opens tremendous opportunities for numerous novel services/applications that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive in both real and cyber spaces. The goal of this book series is to provide students, researchers, instructors, developers, engineers, innovators, research strategists and IT-managers with the highest quality titles in the fields of Pervasive Computing, Mixed Reality, Wearable Computing, Location-Aware Computing, Ambient Interfaces, Tangible Interfaces, Smart Environments, Intelligent Interfaces, Software Agents and others. ********************* Scope and Coverage ************************* The series is seeking high quality, original and comprehensive edited or authored text books, lecture notes, conferences' proceedings, monographs, case studies on topics leveraging all aspects of ambient and pervasive intelligence with related theories, technologies, methods, applications, and services on ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI, universal, mobile, universal, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible, hidden, context-aware, calm, amorphous, sentient, proactive, post PC, everyday, autonomic computing from all engineering, business and organizational perspectives. Topics to be covered by the series include Embedded Systems, Ambient Networking and Intelligent Services, Ubiquitous/multi-modal Interaction and Intelligent Management, Smart Objects and Smart Environments, Context-aware Computing, Sensor Networks, Distributed software, systems, middleware and frameworks for Ambient Intelligence, Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of pervasive computing systems and env! ironments, and Communication systems and infrastructure for pervasive intelligence. The series also emphasizes related challenges including technical, social, legal and ethical issues of ambient and pervasive intelligence. ********************* Editorial Team ********************* Editor-in-Chief Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Institute of Telecooperation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Associate Editors * Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler, University Linz, Austria * Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan * Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates * Stephane Olariu, Old Dominion, University, USA * Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * David Taniar, Monash University, Australia ********************* Prospective Authors/Editors ********************* If you have an idea for an edited or authored text book, lecture notes, conferences' proceedings, monographs, case studies which would fit in this series, we would welcome the opportunity to review your proposal. Each proposal will be reviewed by the Series Editor and/or associate editors with additional reviews from independent reviewers where appropriate. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews and assessment of the publisher, Atlantis Press. ********************* Contact ********************* Ismail Khalil Ibrahim Institute of Telecooperation Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Strasse 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel: +43 732 2468 9888 Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 http://www.iiwas.org/ismail/ Email: ismail(a)tk.uni-linz.ac.at ********************* About the Publisher ********************* Founded in 2006 and based in Paris and Amsterdam, Atlantis Press is a new scientific publishing company aiming at serving the scientific and intellectual community by providing the best infrastructure for researchers to get their work published, referenced, found and read. Atlantis Press adheres to the principles of Open Access and Creative Commons. Atlantis Press aims at providing world-class services to authors, editors, conference organisers and readers by offering up-to-date services they may expect from a professional publisher. Atlantis Press publishes high quality, peer-reviewed conference articles, journals and books, both in print and in electronic format on the Internet. Books will be published in print at prices affordable not only for institutions but also for individual scholars and students. Through its co-publishing agreement with WorldScientific, a world-wide promotion and sales of the books published with Atlantis Press is guaranteed. ***************************************************** 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. 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[Fwd: Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives - Call for Papers]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives - Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:54:49 +0100 Von: Manuela Cunha <ehealth.and.telemedicine(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: ehealth.and.telemedicine(a)gmail.com An: Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives A book edited by M. Manuela Cunha, António Tavares and Ricardo Simões Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal Proposals submission deadline: June 30, 2008 http://ehealth_and_telemedicine.ipca.pt ehealth.and.telemedicine(a)gmail.com ====================================================== Dear Professor I trust this e-mail finds you well! We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives" within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics. For your reference, we have attached the Call for Chapters, in PDF format, to this e-mail. The Call for Chapters explains, in detail, our objectives for this manuscript as well as suggests some possible topics to which you may wish to contribute. You are, however, not limited to these topics. Please feel free to add any topics that you think are critical issues in Enterprise Information Systems for Business Integration in SMEs. You may also visit our project�s webpage, http://ehealth_and_telemedicine.ipca.pt, for more detailed information. Should you accept this invitation, we kindly request that, on or before June 30, 2008, you submit via e-mail a one or two page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 15, 2008 about the status of their proposals and will be sent chapter organization guidelines. Upon acceptance of your proposal, you will have until October 15, 2008, to prepare your chapter of 8,000-10,000 words and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate definitions. Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms and definitions will be sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global http://www.igi-global.com, publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints in 2010. Submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word document as attachment) to ehealth.and.telemedicine(a)gmail.com Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the editors: ehealth.and.telemedicine(a)gmail.com. We appreciate your consideration of this invitation and hope to hear from you soon! Kind regards, Maria Manuela Cunha, António Tavares & Ricardo Simões mcunha(a)ipca.pt, ajtavares(a)ipca.pt, rsimoes(a)ipca.pt Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave School of Technology Urbanizacao Quinta da Formiga 4750 Barcelos Portugal Tel.: (+351) 253 802 260 Fax: (+351) 253 812 461

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[Fwd: [computational.science] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Preference Learning at ECML/PKDD-08]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Preference Learning at ECML/PKDD-08 Datum: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:10:36 +0200 Von: Eyke Hüllermeier <eyke(a)Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.de> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> [ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ] ======================================== C A L L F O R P A P E R S W O R K S H O P O N P R E F E R E N C E L E A R N I N G ======================================== http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~kebi/ws-ecml-08/ taking place on September 19, 2008, as part of ECML/PKDD-08, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases September 15-19, 2008, Antwerp (Belgium) http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/ Methods for learning preference models and predicting preferences are among the very recent research trends in fields like machine learning and knowledge discovery. Approaches relevant to this area range from learning special types of preference models, such as lexicographic orders, over collaborative filtering techniques for recommender systems and ranking techniques for information retrieval, to generalizations of classification problems such as label ranking. Like other types of complex learning tasks that have recently entered the stage, preference learning deviates strongly from the standard problems of classification and regression. It is particularly challenging as it involves the prediction of complex structures, such as weak or partial order relations, rather than single values. Moreover, training input will not, as it is usually the case, be offered in the form of complete examples but may comprise more general types of information, such as relative preferences or different kinds of indirect feedback and implicit preference information. This workshop aims at providing a forum for the discussion of recent advances in the use of machine learning and data mining methods for problems related to the learning and discovery of preferences, and to offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify new promising research directions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to # quantitative and qualitative approaches to modeling preferences as well as different forms of feedback and training data; # learning utility functions and related regression problems; # preference mining and preference elicitation; # learning relational preference models; # embedding of other types of learning problems in the preference learning framework (such as label ranking, ordinal classification, or hierarchical classification); # comparison of different preference learning paradigms (e.g., "big bang" approaches that use a single model vs. modular approaches that decompose the learning of preference models into subproblems); # ranking problems, such as learning to rank objects or to aggregate rankings; # scalability and efficiency of preference learning algorithms; # methods for special application fields, such as web search, information retrieval, electronic commerce, games, personalization, or recommender systems; # connections to other research fields, such as decision theory, operations research, and social choice theory. In addition to papers reporting on mature research results we also encourage submissions presenting more preliminary results and discussing open problems. Correspondingly, two types of contributions will be solicited, namely short communications (short talks) and full papers (long talks). ======================================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================================== Papers must be formatted in Springer LNCS style and submitted in PDF to one of the organizers. There is no strict page limitation, though 10-15 pages for full papers and 6-8 pages for short communications should be taken as rough guidelines. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES ======================================== JUN 23 Deadline for workshop paper submission JUL 31 Notification of acceptance for workshop papers AUG 18 Final camera ready copies due ======================================== WORKSHOP CHAIRS ======================================== Eyke Huellermeier Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Marburg, Germany eyke(a)mathematik.uni-marburg.de Johannes Fuernkranz Department of Computer Science Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany juffi(a)ke.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de ======================================== WORKSHOP-WEBSITE ======================================== For further information, please visit the workshop website at http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~kebi/ws-ecml-08/ or contact one of the workshop co-chairs. 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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP Machine Learning]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 May '08

30 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP Machine Learning Datum: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:23:32 +0200 Von: Goethals, Frank <Frank.Goethals(a)econ.kuleuven.be> Antwort an: Goethals, Frank <Frank.Goethals(a)econ.kuleuven.be> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ============================================================= | 2nd Call for Papers | | Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data | | Special Issue for the International Journal | | Machine Learning | ============================================================= CFP can be found online at: http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/public/ndbaf65/CFP.pdf Guest editors ------------- David Martens (K.U.Leuven) Tom Fawcett (Stanford University) Bart Baesens (K.U.Leuven/University of Southampton) Scope ----- Swarm Intelligence is a relatively new subfield of artificial intelligence which studies the emergent collective intelligence of groups of simple agents. It is based on the social insects' metaphor where a number of insects with limited capabilities are able to come to intelligent solutions for complex problems. In recent decades the Swarm Intelligence paradigm has received widespread attention in research, mainly as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Successful applications of swarm intelligence include the modelling of agent behaviour, such as the large numbers of fighting individuals in the battle scenes of the Lord of the Rings movies, and various optimization problems, such as the routing of packages through networks, the travelling salesman problem, scheduling, etc. This special issue focuses on the intersection of the swarm intelligence paradigm with Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Data. We solicit high-quality, previously unpublished papers where both domains are properly addressed. Possible topics for papers include: The application of * Particle Swarm Optimization * Ant Colony Optimization * Stochastic Diffusion Search * Any algorithmic approach based on biological swarm intelligence, such as bird flocking, fish schooling, bee behaviours, bacterial growth, animal herding, etc. For * Clustering * Classification * Regression * Association Rule Mining * Time Series Analysis * Feature Selection Other topics of interest are: * Computational models of self-organizing systems * Use of fine-grained parallel models, such as cellular automata, in machine learning and knowledge discovery * Emergent behavior and its relationship to pattern recognition and learning Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: June 20, 2008 First notification: September 26, 2008 Revised manuscripts due: December 30, 2008 Final acceptance notification: February, 2009 Intended publication date: 2009 Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm 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] Call for contributions to RE'08 workshops]
by Gustaf Neumann 29 May '08

29 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for contributions to RE'08 workshops Datum: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:51:35 -0400 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> ===================================================================== 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08) September 8th - 12th, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain http://www.re08.org ===================================================================== The call for submissions at RE'08 workshops is open until 4th July. http://sites.upc.edu/~www-gessi/re08/re_workshops.html The workshops and their organizers are: + IWSPM'08: 2nd Intl' Workshop on Software Product Management Christof Ebert, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Gerald Heller, Slinger Jansen http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/OI/IWSPM/ + MERE'08: 3rd Intl' Workshop on Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering Oliver Creighton, Olly Gottel http://www.mere07.de/ + MaRK'08: Managing Requirements Knowledge Walid Maalej, Anil Kumar Thurimella, Hans-Jörg Happel, Björn Decker http://www1.in.tum.de/mark08/ + REET'08: 3rd Intl' Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET�08) Didar Zowghi, Jane Cleland-Huang, Joy Beatty http://re.cs.depaul.edu/reet08/ + REV'08: 3rd Intl' Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization Brian Berenbach, Olly Gottel http://csis.pace.edu/~ogotel/professional/REV08.html + RELAW'08: 1st Intl' Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law Annie Antón, Travis Breaux, Dimitris Karagiannis, John Mylopoulos http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tdbreaux/relaw/ + SOCCER'08: 3rd Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Consequences for Engineering Requirements Luciano Baresi, Neil Maiden, Klaus Pohl http://home.dei.polimi.it/baresi/soccer08/ Important dates: + 4th July: paper submission deadline + 28th July: notification to authors + 8th August: camera-ready versions of papers + 8th-9th September: workshops celebration Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library. For additional information you may contact the RE'08 workshops chair: Thomas Alspaugh alspaugh(a)ics.uci.edu Also don't forget to check out our rich tutorials program: Monday, September 8, 2008 http://sites.upc.edu/~www-gessi/re08/re_tutorials.html Selmin Nurcan RE'08 Publicity Co-Chair 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] CFP: SEASS 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 29 May '08

29 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: SEASS 2008 Datum: Thu, 29 May 2008 05:42:38 +1000 Von: Liming Zhu <limingz(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> Antwort an: Liming Zhu <limingz(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive Software Systems (SEASS 2008) http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2008test/workshop2.html Theme: Empowering Web Services with Adaptability In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'08) September 23-26 2008, Beijing China Call for Papers Web services have been driving service-oriented architecture (SOA), promising not only a new paradigm for B2B collaboration, but also more opportunities for the creation of value-added services and new business models. While SOA presents a harmonious and exciting picture for enterprise applications, a variety of classical and emerging challenges arise when deploying and operating an SOA in dynamic environments. These include how to rapidly and accurately discover and bind to the 'right' service; how to automatically negotiate an SLA among a group of collaborative services; how to check/resolve policy conflicts between these services; how to monitor and audit these service behaviours and QoS at runtime; how to handle exceptions of long-running transactions across loosely coupling services, and so on. All of these challenges share a similar requirement for Web services: building adaptability in Web services so that they can adapt to accommodate heterogeneity of interface and QoS, resolve conflicts and handle faults in a dynamic environment at runtime. Following the success of SEASS'07, SEASS 2008 will bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss adaptability-related research and experiences especially within SOA and web services domains. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: * Software architecture support for enhancing SOA adaptability * Standards and protocols proposals or extension for dynamic collaborations among services * Requirement analysis for adaptation in SOA * Negotiation protocols for SLA and dynamic service binding * Policy definition, confliction checking and resolving and enforcement at runtime * Testing, configuration and deployment for adaptive service management * Patterns, best practices and experience reports in adaptation development for a class of web service applications * Adaptive service development process * Adaptive service engineering Submission Guidelines * Full research papers (up to 8 pages) are invited for this workshop. Short papers (up to 6 pages) on industry applications/experiences and work-on-progress are also welcome. Allsubmitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. * The manuscripts are required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template (http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2008/IEEEProceedingsTemplate.doc) and submitted in pdf or word. The submission should be done via the ICWS08 online submission system http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2008/submission.html * For the accepted papers to be included in the workshop proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper on the workshop. * The workshop proceedings will be indexed in EI. Important Dates (All in 2008) * Submission deadline: May 30th * Notification of acceptance: June 30th * Camera-ready copy: July 10th Organizers Shiping Chen, Senior Research Scientist Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia shiping.chen(a)csiro.au Ian Gorton, Senior Research Scientist Computational and Information Sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US ian.gorton(a)pnl.gov Yan Liu, Senior Researcher Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia Jenny.liu(a)nicta.com.au Liming Zhu, Researcher Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia Liming.zhu(a)nicta.com.au Program Committee: Rainbow Cai, Auckland University, New Zealand Hong-Mei Chen, Hawaii University, US Xiaoying Bai, TsingHua University, China Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China Carlos Juiz, University of Balearic Islands, Spain Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Qing Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Yexin, Dalian University of Technology, China Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Science, China Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada Vladimir Tosic, National ICT Australia Paul Brebner, National ICT Australia Mark Staples, National ICT Australia Liam O'Brien, NICTA, Australia Chi-Hung Chi, Tsinghua University, China Liangzhao Zeng, IBM Thomas J. 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