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[Fwd: [isworld] International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences: Free Access]
by Gustaf Neumann 13 May '08

13 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences: Free Access Datum: Tue, 13 May 2008 00:28:38 -0400 Von: Dr. Madjid Tavana <tavana(a)lasalle.edu> Antwort an: Dr. Madjid Tavana <tavana(a)lasalle.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (IJADS) has published its inaugural issue and print copies will be shipped shortly. In the meantime, the first issue is available free-of-charge from the IJADS homepage (www.inderscience.com/ijads). I look forward to your support of this much needed new journal. Best regards, Madjid Madjid Tavana, Ph.D. Professor, Management Information Systems Lindback Distinguished Chair of Information Systems La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences Phone: +1.215.951.1129 Fax: +1.267.295.2854 E-mail: tavana(a)lasalle.edu URL: http://lasalle.edu/~tavana ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= Editorial: The art of decision sciences Madjid Tavana Regular Papers: The KM-MCDM interface in decision design: tradeoffs-free conflict dissolution Milan Zeleny Making decisions in hierarchic and network systems Thomas L. Saaty, Mariya Sodenkamp The effects of control risk and litigation risk on decision aid reliance Mohamed I. Gomaa, James E. Hunton, Jacob M. Rose A postmodern turn to estimating performance frontiers James E. Storbeck Software Review: The Planners Lab� modelling and visualisation system James F. Courtney 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] CFP: ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Datum: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:45:17 -0700 Von: Huan Liu <huanliu(a)asu.edu> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/acm-tkdd-sbp<http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Ehuanliu/acm-tkdd-sbp> *Guest Editors: *Huan Liu, John Salerno, Michael Young, Rakesh Agrawal, and Philip Yu Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling helps study and reproduce social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep understanding of behavior, patterns, and potential outcomes. The pervasive use of computing and Internet technologies provides an unprecedented environment of various social activities. Social computing facilitates behavioral modeling in model building, analysis, pattern mining, and prediction. Numerous interdisciplinary and interdependent systems are created and used to represent the various social and physical systems for investigating the interactions between groups, communities, or nation-states. This presents singular challenges to knowledge discovery from data and requires joint efforts from multiple disciplines, social computing, and behavioral modeling in order to document lessons learned and develop novel theories, experiments, and methodologies in terms of social, physical, psychological, and governmental mechanisms. The goal is to enable us to create, experiment, and recreate an operational environment with a better understanding of the contributions from individual disciplines, forging joint interdisciplinary efforts to advance science and research. This special issue promotes an interdisciplinary, fledgling field of social computing, behavioral modeling, and prediction, and offers a platform for researchers and practitioners from sociology, behavioral science, computer science, psychology, cultural study, information systems, operations research to illustrate pressing needs, demonstrate challenging research issues, and showcase the state-of-the-art research and development. Topics of Interests Papers are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications of social computing, behavioral modeling, and prediction. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, - Group formation and evolution - Group representation and profiling - Cultural patterns and representation - Social conventions and social contexts - Intentions, behaviors, and relations - Modeling, projection, and forecasting - Social network analysis and mining - Group interaction and collaboration - Influence process and recognition - Public opinion representation and extraction - Search, data, and inference - Trust and reputation - Sentiment representation and detection - Metrics and evaluation - Data collection and benchmarks - Model and analysis complexity Important Dates Submission of full papers: *September 10, 2008* Notification of paper acceptance: *November 10, 2008* Camera-ready: *December 10, 2008* Submission and Preparation Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Please submit your manuscript at ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing, Behaviroal Modeling, and Prediction<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kddsbp08> Details of the journal, manuscript preparation, and recent articles are available on the website: http://tkdd.cs.uiuc.edu Contact information: Huan Liu <http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Ehuanliu> ( sbp2008(a)gmail.com) -- http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu

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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: Data Mining 2008 last call]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: Data Mining 2008 last call Datum: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:18:18 -0400 Von: Natalia Teixeira <nat(a)iadis.org> Antwort an: Natalia Teixeira <nat(a)iadis.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 30 May 2008 -- IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008 (http://www.datamining-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Professor Václav Sná�el, Vice - Dean for Research and Science, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Professor Juan M. Corchado, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain * Conference background and goals The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM�08) is aimed to gather researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, databases and visualization. ECDM�08 is aimed to advance the state of the art in data mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM�08 will provide opportunities for technical collaboration among data mining and machine learning researchers around the globe. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692). * Types of submissions Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to Data Mining are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Core Data Mining Topics (Main area) - Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms - Data streams mining - Graph mining - Spatial data mining - Text video, multimedia data mining - Web mining - Pre-processing techniques - Visualization - Security and information hiding in data mining - Data Mining Applications (Main area) - Databases - Bioinformatics - Biometrics - Image analysis - Financial modeling - Forecasting - Classification - Clustering * Important Dates: - Submission deadline (last call): 30 May 2008 - Notification to Authors: 16 June 2008 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 30 June 2008 - Late Registration: After 30 June 2008 - Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat(a)datamining-conf.org Web site: http://www.datamining-conf.org/ * Program Committee European Conference on Data Mining 2008 Program Chair Ajith P. Abraham, School of Computer Science, Chung-Ang University, South Korea General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Committee Members: * * for committee list please refer to http://www.datamining-conf.org/committees.asp 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] WITS 2008 Call for Papers]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] WITS 2008 Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:30:26 -0400 Von: Sanjukta D. Smith <sdsmith4(a)buffalo.edu> Antwort an: Sanjukta D. Smith <sdsmith4(a)buffalo.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> WITS 2008 Call for Papers: The Eighteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'08) will be held in Paris, FRANCE, on December 13-14, 2008, just prior to the International Conference on Information Systems. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in information technology and systems issues that arise in the policy and management context. The theme for WITS’08 is Service Innovations in a Globally Networked Economy. Details regarding submission are provided at the Website for WITS’08 at http://www.citi.uconn.edu/wits2008. The detailed call for papers is provided at http://www.citi.uconn.edu/wits2008/Call%20For%20Papers%20WITS% 202008.pdf. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission ....................August 10, 2008 Deadline for paper submission .......................August 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance...........................September 26, 2008 Camera ready copy due................................October 17, 2008 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Co-chairs: Ram Gopal (ram.gopal(a)business.uconn.edu) R. Ramesh (rramesh(a)buffalo.edu) Local arrangements chair: Nicolas Prat (prat(a)essec.fr) Prototype and Technology Instruction competition chair: Kumar Mehta (kmehta1(a)gmu.edu) 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] 3rd CFP: 7th European Conference on E-Learning (ECEL 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] 3rd CFP: 7th European Conference on E-Learning (ECEL 2008) Datum: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:31:09 +0300 Von: George A. Papadopoulos <george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> Antwort an: George A. Papadopoulos <george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ECEL 2008 7th European Conference on e-Learning Grecian Bay Hotel, Agia Napa, Cyprus 6-7 November 2008 http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2008/ecel08-home.htm This is the third call for papers for the 7th European Conference on e-Learning, which will be held at the Grecian Bay Hotel, Agia Napa, Cyprus. on the 6-7 November 2008. Over the last ten years, the way in which education is delivered has changed considerably with the advent of new technologies. e-Learning is one such development, so much so that it is now regarded as a field in it?s own right. This, the 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2008); offers an opportunity for those involved in the study, implementation and delivery of e-learning to meet and exchange ideas and experiences. The conference, to be held in November 2008, invites qualitative, experience-based and quantitative papers, case studies and reports of work in progress on both the theory and practice of all aspects of web-enabled technology in learning and teaching. Submissions are welcomed from academics, teachers, practitioners, vendors and government departments. Topics may include, but are not limited to: e-Learning platforms, portals and Virtual learning environments; Course design; Emerging and best practices; Partnerships in e-Learning; Evaluation of e-Learning; Cross-cultural education; e-Learning strategies; Social benefits of e-Learning; e-Learning effectiveness and outcomes; Web-based learning, including Wikis and Blogs; Academic participation and freedom; Learner autonomy; Security and confidentiality; Self-learning integrated methodology; Ambient intelligence; Assertive and assistive educational technology; Computer-aided assessment; Learning content management systems; AV-communication and other media; Digital classrooms; Blended learning; Collaborative on-line learning; Content repositories; Data envelopment analysis; Meta data standards; Ontologies; Pedagogical models; Needs analysis; Global trends in e-Learning; Corporate training; Managing quality in e-Learning; Synchronic software; Educating the educators; Web 2.0 technologies; Mobile learning; Simulated communities; Online mentoring; e-Benchmarking; Cultural, social and gender issues; Personalisation; National/international strategies The full call for papers is available online at http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2008/ecel08-call-papers.htm Abstracts are required in the first instance and should be submitted by 22 May 2008 via the online form at http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2008/ecel08-abstract-submission.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] 3rd CfP: Second International Symposium on End User Development (IS-EUD 2009)]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] 3rd CfP: Second International Symposium on End User Development (IS-EUD 2009) Datum: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:38:15 +0200 Von: Volker Wulf <volker.wulf(a)fit.fraunhofer.de> Antwort an: Volker Wulf <volker.wulf(a)fit.fraunhofer.de> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Call for Papers Second International Symposium on End User Development (ISEUD 2009) Conference Chairs: - Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands - Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Programm Chairs: - Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany - Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State, USA Deadline for Submission: September 1, 2008 Date of Symposium: March, 2 - 4 2009 Location of Symposium : Siegen, Germany Proceedings will be published with Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) Theme: Organizations and work practices vary widely and evolve rapidly. The technological infrastructure has to follow, allow or even support these changes. Traditional Software Engineering approaches reach their limits whenever the full spectrum of user requirements can’t be anticipated or the frequency of changes makes software reengineering cycles too clumsy to address all needs of a specific field of application. Moreover, the increasing importance of ‘infrastructural’ aspects, particularly the mutual dependencies between technologies, usages, and domain competencies, calls for a differentiation of roles beyond the classical user-designer dichotomy. End User Development (EUD) addresses these problems by offering lightweight, use-time support which allows users to configure, adapt and evolve their software by themselves. EUD is understood as a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or extend a software artefact (cf. Lieberman, Paternó, and Wulf 2006). While programming activities by non-professional actors are an essential focus, EUD also investigates into related activities within the process of developing a software infrastructure, e.g. the collective understanding and sense-making of use problems and solution alternatives, the interactions among end users around the introduction/diffusion of new configurations, or delegation patterns that may also partly involve professional designers. EUD concepts have found widespread use in commercial software with some success: recording macros in word processors, setting up spreadsheets for calculations, defining e-mail-filters, desktop widget configuration or configuring/composing mesh-ups. Although these applications only realize a fraction of EUD's potential and still suffer from many flaws, they illustrate why empowering end-users to develop the systems they are using is an important contribution to letting them become active citizens of the Information Society. EUD integrates different threads of discussion from Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering (SE), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concepts such as tailorability, configurability, end-user programming, visual programming, natural programming, and programming by example already form a fruitful base, but they need to be better integrated, and the synergy between them more fully exploited.// Also driven by developments in the context of Web 2.0, the number of end-user developers compared to the number of software professionals will grow exponentially. This underlines the importance of systematic research in EUD. The potential to provide EUD-based adaptation over the Internet may create a shift from the conventional few-to-many distribution model of software to a many-to-many distribution model. EUD could also lead to a considerable competitive advantage in adapting to dynamically changing (economic) environments by empowering end-users. The increasing amount of software embedded within consumer and professional products also points to a need to promote EUD to enable effective use of these products. This momentum may also be picked up to improve software (re-)design based in user-driven innovation tools and strategies. On the political level EUD is important for full participation of citizens in the emerging Information Society. While techniques of Web 2.0 already contribute to a democratization of the creation of content, the modification of the software infrastructure are difficult for non-professional programmers. This results for many sectors of society in a division of labor between those who produce and those who consume. EUD has the potential to counterbalance these effect. The Second International Symposium on End User Development will focus an emergent discussion which so far has been conducted on many different fori.Suggested topics include but are not limited to: - Empirical studies of EUD practises - User Interfaces for EUD - Metaphors for software modularization - Requirements specification for EUD - Architectures for EUD - EUD as part of software infrastructuring - Support for collaboration among non-professional programmers - EUD for specific types of devices - EUD in specific fields of application - EUD for user groups with specific needs - Education concepts to foster EUD - Micro-economical effects of EUD - Marco-economical impact of EUD - Political implications of EUD Programme Committee: - Peter Bogh Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark - Jörg Beringer, SAP, Palo Alto, USA - Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK - Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA - Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy - Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - Anid Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Yvonne Dittrich, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark - Christian Dörner, University of Siegen, Germany - Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany - Roman Englert, T-Labs, Ben Gurion University, Israel - Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA - Jörg Haake, FernU Hagen, Germany - Austin Henderson, Pitney Bull, USA - Thomas Herrmann, University of Bochum, Germany - Yasmin Kafai, UCLA, USA - Roger Kilian-Kehr, SAP-Research, Karlsruhe, Germany - Markus Klann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Kari Kuuti, University of Oulu, Finland - Morton Kyng, Aarhus University, Denmark - Michel Lacroix, Commission of the EU, Brussels, Belgium - Caterine Letondal, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France - Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab, USA - Wendy Mackay, INRIA, France - Nikolay Mehandjiev, UMIST, UK - Rob Miller, MIT, USA - Anders Morch, University of Oslo - Piero Mussio, University of Milano, Italia - Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Horst Oberquelle, University of Hamburg, Germany - Reinhard Oppermann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Philippe Palanque, Univerity of Toulouse, France - Fabio Paternó, CNRS, Pisa, Italy - Alexander Repenning (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA - Michael Resnick, MIT Media Lab, USA - Kjeld Schmidt, IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark - Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen, Germany - Alistair Sutcliffe, UMIST, UK - Richard van de Sluis, Philips Research Eindhoven, Netherlands - Ina Wagner, Technical University Vienna, Austria - Markus Won, Deutsche Post, Bonn, Germany - Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [computational.science] 4th International IEEE eScience 2008 Conference Indianapolis December 7-12 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 4th International IEEE eScience 2008 Conference Indianapolis December 7-12 2008 Datum: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:24:00 -0400 Von: Geoffrey Fox <gcf(a)grids.ucs.indiana.edu> Antwort an: gcf(a)indiana.edu Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> Organizing committees of the 4th International IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing eScience 2008 Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits and demos; workshops and special sessions. The conference is being held in partnership with the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop and is hosted by Indiana University. Sponsors include Microsoft Research, Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology, and Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University. Conference Dates: December 7-12, 2008 Conference Location: University Place Conference Center, Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) Campus, Indianapolis, IN, USA Submission Deadlines: Papers & Tutorials: July 20, 2008 Posters, Exhibits and Demos: September 14, 2008 Workshops and Special Sessions: June 20, 2008 For submission guidelines and more information visit the conference Web site: http://escience2008.iu.edu. Topics of interest cover applications and technologies related to eScience, grid and cloud computing. They include, but are not limited to, the following: * Application development environments * Autonomic, real-time, and self-organizing grids * Cloud computing and storage * Collaborative science models and techniques * Enabling technologies: Internet and Web services * e-Science for applications including physics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, finance, engineering, and the humanities * Grid economy and business models * Problem-solving environments * Programming paradigms and models * Resource management and scheduling * Security challenges for grids and e-Science * Sensor networks and environmental observatories * Service-oriented grid architectures * Virtual instruments and data access management * Virtualization for technical computing * Web 2.0 technology and services for e-Science Sponsors Include: IEEE Computer Society Committee on Scalable Computing Microsoft Research Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University Indiana University School of Informatics Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology Conference Leadership: General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, United States Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, United States Program Chair Anne Trefethen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Program Vice-Chair David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Workshops Chair Ken Chiu, State University of New York, United States Tutorials Chair Krishna Madhavan, Clemson University, United States Exhibits, Demos, and Posters Chair Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, United States Exhibits, Demos, and Posters Vice-Chair Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, United States Education, Diversity, and Broadening Participation Chair Alex Ramirez, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Communication and Outreach Chair Daphne Siefert-Herron, Indiana University, United States Microsoft e-Science Conference Chair Kristin Tolle, Microsoft, United States Conference Manager Therese Miller, Indiana University, United States -- : : Geoffrey Fox gcf(a)indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 : SkypeIn 812-669-0772 with voicemail, International cell 8123910207 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] RIGiM'08 in conjunction with ER'08 - deadline extension]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] RIGiM'08 in conjunction with ER'08 - deadline extension Datum: Mon, 12 May 2008 05:16:48 -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> Dear colleagues, Due to numerous requests, it was decided to extend RIGiM'08 submission deadline, until May 18th. Please find underneath the Call for Paper for the 2d International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modeling. We hope to meet you in Barcelona. Best regards, Selmin Nurcan RIGiM'08 Publicity Chair *********************************************************************************************** Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM) in conjunction with ER 2008 October 20� 23, 2008, Barcelona, Spain http://mis.sauder.ubc.ca/rigim2008/ Organizers: Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Papers submission deadline: May 18, 2008 Detailed Call for Papers is below. RIGiM'08 Call for Papers can also be downloaded from the Web site : http://mis.sauder.ubc.ca/rigim2008/CFP_rigim2008.pdf *********************************************************************************************** -------------8 <-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- RIGiM 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modeling in conjunction with ER 2008 October 20� 23, 2008, Barcelona, Spain Papers submission deadline: May 18, 2008 http://mis.sauder.ubc.ca/rigim2008/ Organizers: Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Publicity: Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France SCOPE AND TOPICS: The use of intentional concepts, the notion of "goal" in particular, has been prominent in recent approaches to requirement engineering (RE). Goal-oriented frameworks and methods for requirements engineering (GORE) have been keynote topics at requirements engineering conferences, and at major software engineering conferences. What are the conceptual modeling foundations in these approaches? Traditionally information system engineering has made the assumption that an information system captures some excerpt of world history and hence has concentrated on modeling information about the Universe of Discourse. This is done through conceptual modeling that aims at abstracting the specification of the required information system, i.e., the conceptual schema, from an analysis of the relevant aspects of the Universe of Discourse about which the user community needs information. This specification concentrates on what the system should do, that is, on its functionality, serving as a prescription for system construction. Whereas conceptual modeling allowed system developers to understand the semantic of information and led to a large number of semantically powerful conceptual models, experience demonstrates that it often fails in supporting the delivery of systems that were accepted by the community of users. Indeed, a number of studies have shown that many systems fail due to an inadequate understanding of the requirements they seek to address. Furthermore, the amount of effort needed to fix these systems has been found to be very high. To correct this situation, it is necessary to view information systems as fulfilling some purpose in an organisation. Understanding purpose, goals, and intentions is a necessary condition for the design of successful systems. Conceptual modeling therefore needs to go beyond functionality requirements that specify the �what,' to encompass the deeper contextual understanding of the �whys.' The why questions are answered in terms of organisational objectives and the desires and motivations of stakeholders and participants. modeling the �whys' helps in requirements elicitation, validation, and specification in a more focused manner. Goal-oriented approaches in requirements engineering has emerged to meet this expectation. The Workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between requirements engineering and conceptual modeling, and in particular, to investigate how goal- and intention-driven approaches help in conceptualising purposeful systems. What are the fundamental objectives and premises of requirements engineering and conceptual modeling respectively, and how can they complement each other? What are the demands on conceptual modeling from the standpoint of requirements engineering? What conceptual modeling techniques can be further taken advantage of in requirements engineering? What are the upcoming modeling challenges and issues in GORE? What are the unresolved open questions? What lessons are there to be learnt from industrial experiences? What empirical data are there to support the cost-benefit analysis when adopting GORE methods? Are there applications domains or types of project settings for which goals and intentional approaches are particularly suitable or not suitable? What degree of formalization and automation or interactivity are feasible and appropriate for what types of participants during requirements engineering? e.g., business domain stakeholders, requirements modellers, ontology engineers, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * modeling and semantics in GORE frameworks * analysis and reasoning with intentions and goals * ontological and epistemological foundations * cognitive, behavioral, and sociological perspectives * goals, scenarios, and business process modeling * goals and viewpoints, management of conflicts and inconsistencies * goals in requirements and design patterns * goals in reuse * goals and traceability * goals and aspects * change management, versioning and view management for GORE * visualization and tool support for GORE * software engineering process and organization for GORE * GORE and agile methods * GORE in distributed software development * GORE for COTS system development and selection * GORE for product families and high-variability software * GORE for adaptive systems and agile enterprise * comparison and evaluation of GORE approaches * industrial experiences and empirical studies * GORE for services engineering * GORE and business modeling and strategy reasoning * goal-oriented conceptual modeling for security, privacy, and trust * goal-oriented modeling for user experience and interaction design * goal-oriented modeling of system architecture * interaction and integration with other conceptual modeling paradigms, e.g., object-oriented and agent-oriented models * goal-oriented modeling for specific application domains - e.g., healthcare, e-government, mobile commerce, ambient intelligence PAPER SUBMISSION Format and Duration: We aim for a highly interactive forum. Discussants and discussion facilitators will be formally appointed for each paper and session, respectively. The working language is English, and will last one full day. Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Thus, authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. Submission and types of papers: We solicit technical research papers, industrial experience reports, and speculative/visionary papers. Submissions should be in LNCS and pdf format. The maximum length is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS workshop proceedings. Submit papers by e-mail to: rolland(a)univ-paris1.fr carson.woo(a)ubc.ca camille(a)univ-paris1.fr IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: May 18, 2008 Author notification: June 6, 2008 Camera-ready: July 16, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, United Kingdom Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada Mikio Aoyoma, Nanzan University, Japan Aybuke Aurum, University of New South Wales, Australia Franck Barbier,University of Pau, France Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Luiz Cysneiros, York University, Canada Eric Dubois, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong , Australia Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter Haumer, IBM Rational, USA Aneesh Krishna, University of Wollongong, Australia John Krogstie, NorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology , Norway Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Peri Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen , Norway Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Yves Pigneur,University of Lausanne, Switzerland Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland Bjorn Regnell,Lund University, Sweden Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute Of Technology, Japan Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Carine Souveyet, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands -------------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] Last Call for Paper (CBP'08)]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Last Call for Paper (CBP'08) Datum: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:35:53 -0400 Von: Xiaohui Zhao <xiaohui(a)grad.nii.ac.jp> Antwort an: Xiaohui Zhao <xiaohui(a)grad.nii.ac.jp> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Call for Papers (CBP 2008) The 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes To be held in conjunction with the 6th Int'l Conf on Business Process Management (BPM'08) 1 September 2008 Milan, Italy http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/cbp2007/ Aims and Scope -------------- Recently, organisations have been undergoing a thorough transformation towards highly flexible and agile collaborations. The business processes of different organisations are required to be integrated seamlessly, while the constructed business process network dynamically evolves to adapt to the continuously changing business conditions. On the way to fully support such flexible collaborations, issues such as privacy and security, reliability and flexibility, scalability and agility, process validation, QoS guarantees, etc., place challenges in front. Therefore, more academic research, facilitating infrastructure, protocols and standards are being expected to shift current business process management for supporting collaborative business processes. The 1st CBP workshop was successfully held in Brisbane, Australia, last year, followed by a special issue on collaborative business processes, in Information System Frontiers. With these, the 2nd CBP workshop continues to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences of researchers, practitioners, and engineers working in the area of collaborative business process management. All accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume in their series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. The best paper of CBP 2008 will be invited to a special issue of the "Software Process Improvement and Practice" Journal. Suggested Topics ---------------- The workshop will cover the scope of research relevant to collaborative business processes, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Contracting for business collaboration * Process discovery in business collaboration * Process composition in business collaboration * Service matching in business collaboration * Change management in business collaboration * Process evolvement in business collaboration * Process migration in business collaboration * Privacy and confidentiality management in business collaboration * Process continuity in business collaboration * Autonomy in business collaboration * Authorisation management in business collaboration * Collaborative business process modelling * Verification and validation of collaborative business process models * Performance assessment on collaborative business processes * Monitoring and tracking over collaborative business processes * Architectures and infrastructures for collaborative business processes * Protocols for collaborative business processes * Choreography and orchestration in collaborative business processes * Collaborative business processes in service oriented computing environments, such as Web service, Grid, P2P, etc. * Collaborative business process applications, such as supply chain and virtual organisation alliance * Studies on business process management or service oriented architecture (e.g. current difficulties, unsolved issues, etc. ) * Case studies on business process management or service oriented architecture * Other facilitating technologies for or experiences with business process management or service oriented architecture Submission Guidelines --------------------- All contributions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality and relevance to workshop themes. Papers must be no more than 12 pages and should be formatted in LNBIP format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0 for details). Submitted papers must be written in English and clearly state the contribution. All accepted workshop papers will appear in the proceeding together with other BPM workshops published by the Springer a couple of months after the workshop. Authors of accepted papers must register for the BPM 2008 conference. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 23 May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2008 Camera-ready papers deadline: 6 July 2008 Workshops: 1 September 2008 Post-proceeding version of the paper 23 September 2008 Co-Organisers ------------- Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research, Australia Xiaohui Zhao, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Nam Wook Cho, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jaap Gordijn, Free University, The Netherlands Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Yanan Hao, Victoria University, Australia Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia Ruopeng Lu, SAP Research, Australia Massimo Mecella, Università di Roma, Italy Hamid R Motahari Nezhad, University of New South Wales, Australia Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany Hajo Reijers, Technische University Einddhoven, The Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Ulm, Germany Cynthia Ruppel, Nova Southeastern University, USA Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Minhong Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria Mathias Weske, Posdam University, Germany Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08) at EC-TEL'08]
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '08

12 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08) at EC-TEL'08 Datum: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:00:15 -0400 Von: Ralf Klamma <klamma(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Antwort an: Ralf Klamma <klamma(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08) - The power of narration and imagination in technology enhanced learning http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/steg08 CALL FOR PAPERS The STEG workshop is held in conjunction with the 3rd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'08 - http://www.ectel08.org/), Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2008. CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION Stories and story-telling are cultural achievements of significant relevance even in modern times. Nowadays, story-telling is being enhanced with the convergence of sociology, pedagogy, and technology. In recent times, computer gaming has also been deployed for educational purposes and has proved to be an effective approach to mental stimulation and intelligence development. Many conceptual similarities and some procedural correlation exist between story-telling and educational gaming. Therefore these two areas can be clubbed for research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Many facets of story-telling and educational gaming emulate real life processes, which can be represented either as complex story graphs or as interleaved sub-problems. This model is congruent with that used for Technology Enhanced Learning in vocational training. TEL in vocational training requires learning models that focus more on the process and less o= n the content. The main difference between educational games and story-telling lies in the users motivational point of view. Story-telling aims at reliving real life tasks and capturing previous experiences in problem-solving for reuse, whil= e educational games reproduce real life tasks in a virtual world in an (ideally) engaging and attractive process. Nevertheless, educational games require highly specialized technical and pedagogical skills and learning processes to cover the topics in sufficient depth and breadth. Imbalance between depth and breadth of study can lead to producing trivial games, which in turn can lead to de-motivating the learner. While the integration of learning and gaming provides a great opportunity, several motivational challenges (particularly in vocational training) must also be addressed to ensure successful realization. Non-linear digital stories are an ideal starting point for the creation of educational games, since each story addresses a certain problem, so that the story recipient can gain benefit from other user experiences. This leads to the development of more realistic stories, which then provide the kernel for developing non-trivial educational videogames. These stories can cover the instructional portion of an educational game, while the game would add the motivation and engagement part. In summary, this workshop aims at bringing together researchers, experts and practitioners from the domains of non-linear digital interactive story-telling and educational gaming to share ideas and knowledge. There is a great amount of separate research in these two fields and the celebration of this workshop will allow the participants to discover and leverage potential synergies. Workshop topics * Story-telling and game theorie * Story and game design paradigms for Technology Enhanced Learning * Augmented story-telling and gaming * Story-telling and educational gaming with social software * Story-telling and educational gaming with mobile technologies * Cross-media/transmedia story-telling and gaming * Computer gaming for story-telling (Game design for narrative architectures) * Multimedia story and game authoring * Story-telling and educational gaming applications * User experience and empirical research in story-telling and gaming for TEL SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 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 EC-TEL workshop proceedings as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073. Moreover, the two best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Technology-Enhanced Learning (IJTEL - http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel) Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All questions and submissions should be sent to: steg08(a)dbis.rwth-aachen.de IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2008 Camera Ready Submission: August 20, 2008 Workshop date: September 17,18 or 19, 2007 ORGANISERS Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen University, Germany Nalin Sharda, Victoria University, Australia Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Complutense University, Spain Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany LOCAL ORGANISATION Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Anna Glukhova, RWTH Aachen University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tbc) Amanda Gower (British Telecommunications plc, UK) Anna Glukhova (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany) Ansgar Scherp (UC Irvine, CA, USA) Armin Weinberger (LMU, Munich, Germany) Bailing Zhang (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia) Baltasar Fernandez Manjon (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Dietrich Albert (Unversity of Graz, Graz, Austria) Daniel Burgos (ATOS Origin, Spain) Carlos Delgado Kloos (Carlos III University, Spain) Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Georg Thallinger (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria) Griff Richards (Athabasca University, Canada) Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany) Hermann Maurer (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Irma Lindt (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany) Jose Luis Sierra (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Kinshuk (Athabasca University, Canada) Lionel Brunie (INSA de Lyon, France) Marc Spaniol (MPII, Saarbrücken, Germany) Marius Preda (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Martin Haller (TU Berlin, Germany) Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University, Austria) Michael Granitzer (Know Center, Graz, Austria) Michael Hausenblas (Joanneum Research, Austria) Michael Ransburg (Klagenfurt University, Austria) Nalin Sharda (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia) Pablo Moreno-Ger (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Peter Schallauer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria) Raphael Troncy (CWI, The Netherlands) Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany) Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France) Romulus Grigoras (ENSEEIHT, France) Stamatia Dasiopoulou (ITI Thessaloniki, Greece) Stephan Lukosch (Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany) Vedran Sabol (Know-Center Graz, Austria) Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios (University of Technology Graz, Austria) Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT, France) Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA) Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria) Werner Klieber (Know-Center Graz, Austria) Wolfgang Gräther (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany) Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany) Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany) The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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