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Fwd: Third CFP: 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2008)
by Michael Alexander 11 May '08

11 May '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announcements) > Date: 11. Mai 2008 14:08:24 GMT+02:00 > To: zforum(a)comlab.ox.ac.uk > Subject: Third CFP: 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2008) > Reply-To: announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy > > (Apologies for any cross postings) > > 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. Thus, 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 22nd of May 2008 via the online form at > http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2008/ecel08-abstract-submission.htm > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is not a spam. If you want to be removed from this list, please > send an email to [announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word > unsubscribe in the subject of your email. > > > >

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[Fwd: [isworld] Second call for papers: Special Issue on Instructional Technologies in Engineering Education]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Second call for papers: Special Issue on Instructional Technologies in Engineering Education Datum: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:01:57 -0400 Von: Dr Kinshuk <kinshuk(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Dr Kinshuk <kinshuk(a)ieee.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Special issue theme: "Instructional Technologies in Engineering Education" Journal: International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE) * Important Deadlines Extended abstracts (around 2 pages) May 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2008 Submission of manuscripts August 15, 2008 Reviewers' feedback September 30, 2008 Submission of final manuscripts November 1, 2008 With the adoption of e-learning in mainstream education, use of emerging and innovative instructional technologies is gaining importance in academia. This is particularly true for engineering education where the learning process lends itself to variety of multi-sensory approaches. This special issue aims to focus on the emerging and innovative design, development and implementation of instructional technologies in engineering education. With the advent of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and changing educational paradigms due to changing needs of the society, both technological advancements and instructional pedagogies have influenced the way instruction takes place. New ways of learning has resulted as a consequence, giving rise to mobile learning technologies, collaborative learning technologies, social networking technologies, to name a few. This special issue is intended to collate realisable ideas, inspirations, as well as outreach approaches which have been implemented and tested in engineering education. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Technological advancements * Theories and paradigms for use of instructional technologies * Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies for instruction * Non-traditional instructional technologies * Collaborative and social technologies * Synchronous and asynchronous technologies * Standardization and reusability issues * Specific cases of innovative use of instructional technologies * Evaluation of instructional technologies Submissions are to be sent by e-mail in MSWord to Prof. Kinshuk at kinshuk(a)athabascau.ca, with copy to Prof. Tzu-Chien Liu at ltc(a)cc.ncu.edu.tw and Prof. Mohamed Jemni at mohamed.jemni(a)fst.rnu.tn Guest editors: Prof. Kinshuk Athabasca University, Canada kinshuk(a)athabascau.ca Prof. Tzu-Chien Liu National Central University, Taiwan ltc(a)cc.ncu.edu.tw Prof. Mohamed Jemni University of Tunis, Tunisia mohamed.jemni(a)fst.rnu.tn General information and guidelines are available on the IJEE Web site: http://www.ijee.dit.ie 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] Second call for papers: Special Issue on "Adaptive Approaches to Mobile Learning"]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Second call for papers: Special Issue on "Adaptive Approaches to Mobile Learning" Datum: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:56:54 -0400 Von: Dr Kinshuk <kinshuk(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Dr Kinshuk <kinshuk(a)ieee.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Special issue theme: Adaptive Approaches to Mobile Learning Journal: International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) * Important Deadlines Extended abstracts (around 2 pages) May 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2008 Submission of manuscripts August 15, 2008 Reviewers' feedback September 30, 2008 Submission of final manuscripts November 1, 2008 Contributions are invited to a special issue of the International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) conforming to the theme of Adaptive Approaches to Mobile Learning. The exponential growth of wireless technology in recent years, increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures, advances in mobile technologies and the popularity of handheld devices have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. The true potential of e-learning as "anytime, anywhere" has finally begun to be realized in the form of m-learning, not only for those with disabilities or those living in remote communities, but also for those who have been attending traditional academia but could benefit from improved collaboration possibilities, situated learning opportunities and contextual learning. Adaptive scenarios such as the use of multimedia-rich content, design of appropriate learning tasks, and use of collaborative paradigm, have potential to take mobile learning to a level where it can deliver education, at a higher quality than is presently available in a classroom environment, surpassing that by incorporating contextual problem scenarios from learners' working and social environments, thereby, enabling collaborative problem-solving in authentic environmental contexts, such as problem themes based on the real entities in the learners' immediate environment. This special issue aims to focus on the emerging and innovative design, development and implementation of adaptive approaches to mobile learning. This special issue is intended to collate realisable ideas, inspirations, as well as outreach approaches which have been implemented and tested in mobile environment. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories and paradigms for adaptive mobile learning * Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies * Location-aware adaptivity * Learner modelling issues in adaptive mobile learning * Standardization issues in adaptive mobile learning * Authentic problem solving in adaptive mobile learning * Collaboration based adaptivity in mobile learning * Adaptivity through integration of mobile and non-mobile environments * Nomadic adaptive mobile environments * Multimedia based adaptivity in mobile learning * Specific cases of innovation in adaptive mobile learning * Specific cases of accessibility enhancement through adaptive mobile learning * Evaluation of adaptive mobile learning technologies Submissions are to be sent by e-mail in MSWord to Prof. Kinshuk at kinshuk(a)athabascau.ca, with copy to Prof. Yueh-Min Huang at huang(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw and Dr Qing Tan at qingt(a)athabascau.ca. Guest editors: Prof. Kinshuk Athabasca University, Canada kinshuk(a)athabascau.ca Prof. Yueh-Min Huang National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan huang(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw Dr. Qing Tan Athabasca University, Canada qingt(a)athabascau.ca General information and guidelines are available on the i-JIM Web site: http://www.i-jim.org The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for Papers SIGHCI Workshop at ICIS 2008-Paris]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers SIGHCI Workshop at ICIS 2008-Paris Datum: Fri, 9 May 2008 22:23:49 -0400 Von: Loiacono Colla, Eleanor T. <eloiacon(a)WPI.EDU> Antwort an: Loiacono Colla, Eleanor T. <eloiacon(a)WPI.EDU> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS (apologies for cross-postings) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- HCI/MIS 2008 The Seventh Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research in MIS (http://sigs.aisnet.org/SIGHCI/icis08_wksp/ -coming soon) Sponsored by AIS SIGHCI (http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci/) *** Saturday, December 13, 2008 (One day workshop) Paris, France *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Submissions due: August 15, 2008 - Acceptance Notification: September 29, 2008 - Extended Abstracts Due for Proceedings: October 13, 2008 - Workshop: December 13, 2008 Building upon past successes of the pre-ICIS HCI/MIS workshops as well as the tremendous interest in broad HCI issues exhibited by MIS colleagues, the AIS SIGHCI will hold its seventh annual pre-ICIS HCI/MIS research workshop prior to ICIS 2008 in Paris, France on December 13, 2008. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE: The objective of the workshop is to provide an open and constructive discussion forum of important HCI research in Information Systems that addresses the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks - especially in business, managerial, organizational, social and/or cultural contexts. HCI in MIS is concerned with the macro level (versus the micro level) of Human-Computer Interaction analysis. SPECIAL THEME PAPERS OF JAIS: The best, completed research papers from the workshop will be fast-tracked for publication consideration in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) - http://jais.isworld.org <http://jais.isworld.org/>. SUBMISSION: The workshop will be accepting high quality research papers (completed research or research-in-progress papers) and posters that describe novel, early, and creative research ideas. The submissions should not be currently under review elsewhere and the papers/posters should have not appeared elsewhere. Maximum length: Completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, and posters must not exceed 14, 7, and 3 single-spaced pages, respectively. The page limit includes all text, figures, and tables, but does not include the cover page, abstract, keywords, and references. File Formats: Only Word file formats will be accepted. All submissions must be formatted for 8.5 x 11 inch paper (1 inch = 2.5 cm) and have 1 inch margins all around. Please use Times New Roman 12-point font with single spacing for the body of the paper. The first page of the manuscript should have a title, the type of the submission (complete research, research in progress, or poster), total word count of the submission, an abstract of 150 words or less, and a list of 5-6 keywords. Submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Authors should agree to provide timely reviews of at most two other submissions, if requested. Manuscripts should be in MS Word format and be submitted as email attachments to the workshop program co-chairs (see below) with the subject heading "HCI/MIS workshop submission." Authors can use the body of the email as the cover letter for the submission and should ensure that their identities do not appear in any part of the manuscript. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Workshop Co-chairs: - Eleanor T. Loiacono, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, (eloiacon(a)wpi.edu) - Weiyin Hong, University of Nevada Las Vegas, (whong(a)unlv.nevada.edu) Program Co-chairs: - Khawaja Saeed, Wichita State University, (Khawaja.Saeed(a)wichita.edu) - Hock Chuan, National University of Singapore, (chanhc(a)comp.nus.edu.sg), - Xiaowen Fang, DePaul University, (XFang(a)cti.depaul.edu). Local Arrangement Committee: - Soussan Djamasbi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, (djamasbi(a)wpi.edu). - Andrea Everard, University of Delaware, (everarda(a)lerner.udel.edu) - Horst Treiblmaier, Vienna University of Business Administration and Economics, (horst.treiblmaier(a)WU-WIEN.AC.AT), Workshop Advisory Committee: - Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia - Dennis Galletta, University of Pittsburgh - Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University - Kenneth Kozar, University of Colorado - Scott McCoy, College of William & Mary - Fiona Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Joe Valacich, Washington State University - Ping Zhang, Syracuse University - Jane Carey, Arizona State University West - Traci Hess, Washington State University Please contact the workshop co-chairs for additional workshop information. Best regards, Eleanor Loiacono *************************************** Eleanor T. Loiacono, Ph.D. Associate Professor of MIS Department of Management Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609-2280 Phone: (508) 831-5206 Fax: (508) 831-5720 Email: eloiacon(a)wpi.edu URL: http://www.mgt.wpi.edu/People/Loiacono/ *************************************** 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] IJPRAI special issue call for papers: Video Analysis and Understanding for Surveillance Applications]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] IJPRAI special issue call for papers: Video Analysis and Understanding for Surveillance Applications Datum: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:55:48 +1000 Von: Liang Wang <lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au> Antwort an: Liang Wang <lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~wuq/CFP/SI_VAUSA.htm International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue On Video Analysis and Understanding for Surveillance Applications International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence is seeking original high-quality manuscripts for a Special Issue on Video Analysis and Understanding for Surveillance Applications, scheduled for publication in 2009. With the ubiquitous presence of low-cost cameras, video-based smart surveillance has been one of the most popular topics in the computer vision, pattern recognition and image understanding communities. The significance of this research is strongly driven by the immediate demands of real-world security monitoring systems for commercial, industrial and military applications. Visual surveillance has played a leading role in reducing the personal and financial costs of preventing crimes and terrorism, while automatic video understanding enables intelligent, real-time, and precise solution to smart surveillance systems. In recent years, video analysis and understanding has been featured in leading international journals and conferences. Although there has been great progress over past few years, there are a number of significant challenges involving the understanding, designing, building, and evaluating the complex video analysis systems. These challenges include robust segmentation and tracking objects in complex scenes, the ability to characterize a threat event, semantic linkage between camera networks and other sensors, unconstrained activity recognition and behavioural profiling, view-invariance of motion features, abnormal event detection, etc. Therefore, more advanced solutions to these challenging problems need to be exploited for meeting emerging application needs. This special issue is particularly interested in new advances in video analysis and understanding techniques for surveillance applications. We are soliciting original contributions of researchers and practitioners from academia as well as industry, which address a wide range of theoretical and application issues. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Background and environment modelling o Moving object segmentation and classification o Tracking of object motion and interaction o Motion feature extraction and representation o Activity modelling and recognition o Behaviour analysis and understanding o Abnormal event detection and recognition o Video-based biometric identification o Extraction of semantics from video o Perception and modelling of user and context o Surveillance video annotation and searching o Wide area surveillance o Camera networks and data fusion o Visual system design and performance evaluation o Other related aspects Submission procedure: Manuscript should conform to the standard guidelines of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI). Instructions for formatting papers can be found in the Guidelines for Contributors. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript via IJPRAI online submission system by Jun 1, 2008. The submissions must not have been previously published and must not be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Important Dates: o Full manuscript submission due: Jun. 1, 2008 o First notification: Sep. 1, 2008 o Revised manuscript submission due: Nov. 1, 2008 o Notification of final decision: Dec. 1, 2008 o Final manuscript submission due: Jan. 1, 2009 o Publication of special issue: 2nd or 3rd Quarter 2009 Guest Editors Dr. Liang Wang (lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au) The University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Qiang Wu (wuq(a)it.uts.edu.au) University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Dr. Ming Li (ming(a)deakin.edu.au) Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Jordi Gonzàlez (poal(a)cvc.uab.es) Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (UPC-CSIC), Barcelona 08028, Catalonia, Spain Dr. Xin Geng (xge(a)deakin.edu.au) Deakin University, Australia. 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 Papers- MoMM 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers- MoMM 2008 Datum: Sat, 10 May 2008 07:08:43 -0400 Von: Laura Rusu <irinar7(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Laura Rusu <irinar7(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ********************* Apology for Multiple Posting ********************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S 6th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM'2008) 24-26 November, 2008 Linz, AUstria Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008 ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- July 1, 2008 : Full papers submission September 15, 2008 : Acceptance Notification October 15, 2008 : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration November 24-26, 2008 : Conference ********************************************************** The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data types, Mobile Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global customer needs. MoMM'2008 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics: Mobile Computing Track - Mobile Applications & Services - Mobile Computing Software Architectures - Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization - Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure - Database and Data Management Mobile Computing - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing - Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models - Provisioning of Mobile Services - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing - Mobility and Location Management - Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments - Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks - Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing - Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing - Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems Multimedia Track - Multimedia Databases - Multimedia streaming and services - Multimedia Coding and Encryption - Multimedia for Learning - Multimedia Description Language and Standard - Image Clustering - Content-Based Image Retrieval - Interfaces for Multimedia Creation - Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation - Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation - Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation - Video Mining and MPEG - Image Modeling and Editing - AI and Image Recognition - Distributed Multimedia System Mobile Multimedia Track - Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services - Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia - Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures - Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management - Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization - Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia - Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models - Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia PUBLICATION ----------- MoMM2008 Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and indexed in ISI-Proceedings and included in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and ACM Digital Library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia (http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jmm/index.html) [2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_j/1574017x.pdf) [3] Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/530) [4] Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (http://www.cse.fau.edu/research/mmlab/journal.html) [5] More are pending approval SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------- Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008/submission.html) Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and must follow the OCG guidelines (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008/cfp.htm). COMMITTES Steering Committee Chair Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler Uni Linz, Austria General Conference Chair Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria General Program Committee Co-Chairs David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Workshops Chair Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Masters and Doctoral Colloquium Chair Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Organizing Committee Chair Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Publicity Coordinators Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Laura Rusu, La Trobe University, Australia Publicity Chairs Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada (Canada) Saad Harous, Sharjah University, UAE (North Africa) Ruzana Ishak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (Asia) Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK (Europe) Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Middle East) Bo Yang, Bowie State University, USA (North America) Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan (Asia) Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia (South America) Awards Co-Chairs Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, AUstralia Bernady O Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Program Committee Ashraf M. A. Ahmad, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK Laszlo Boszormenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, UNAB, Colombia Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK Mohamed Ali Feki, I2R, Singapore Vincenzo de Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium Panayotis E. Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Peter C. J. Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada Christos Grecos, University of Central Lancashire, UK Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Günter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Dimitrios Katsaros, Aristotle University, Greece Karlheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Birgitta König-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitdt Jena, Germany Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK Luigi Logrippo, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio, Italy Max Mühlhäuser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Vicente Pelechano, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Tom Pfeifer, TSSG - Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Lambert Spaanenburg, Lund University, Sweden Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, I2R, Singapore Zheng Da Wu, Bond University, Australia Yuping Yang, University of Exeter, UK Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan ORGANIZATION ----------------------- The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS), hosted and organized and by the Institute of Teleccoperation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the tenth international conference on Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS'2008 -http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/). CONTACT ------- David Taniar, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia Email: david at iiwas.org Eric Pardede, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC 3083 Australia Email: eric at iiwas.org ------------------------------- END OF CFP ------------------------------- 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 Papers - iiWAS 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers - iiWAS 2008 Datum: Sat, 10 May 2008 07:06:55 -0400 Von: Laura Rusu <irinar7(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Laura Rusu <irinar7(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ********************* Apology for Multiple Posting *********************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S --- 10th Year Anniversary --- 10th @WAS International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2008) 24-26 November, 2008 Linz, Austria http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/ email: iiwas2008(a)iiwas.org ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- July 1, 2008 : Full papers submission September 15, 2008 : Acceptance Notification October 15, 2008 : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration November 24-26, 2008 : Conference ********************************************************** Barely more than ten years after the birth of the World Wide Web, the Global Information Infrastructure is daily reality. In spite of the many applications in all domains of our societies: e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, e-science, and e-government, for instance, and in spite of the tremendous advances by engineers and scientists, the seamless integration of information and services remains a major challenge. The current shared vision for the future is one of semantically-rich information and service oriented architecture for global information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML, Web services, RDF, OWL, of multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual information retrieval, and of distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing. The goal of iiWAS'2008 is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in information and service integration. TOPICS OF INTEREST Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics: Web Engineering and Web Services Track: - Web Data Integration, Monitoring and Management - Web Data Models, Metrics, Tools, Languages and Performance - Web Agents, Intelligence and Mining - Web Security and Trust Management - Web Visualization, Rich Web UI and Deep/Hidden Web - Web-based Enterprise Systems and Business Processes - Web-based Auction and Negotiation - Federated and cross-organizational Web engineering - Web Services Architectural styles - Web Services performance - Dependability, security and privacy of web services (blogs, RSS, wikis, etc.) - Orchestration, choreography and composition of web services - Tools and technologies for Web Services development, deployment and management - The impact of Web Services on enterprise systems - Impact of formal methods on Web Services E-applications Track (e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Payment, e-Government, e-Learning, e-science, e-communities): - E-application design models and methods - E-application development processes, standards and methodologies - E-application usability, accessibility, reuse and integration - E-application localization and internalization - E-applications case studies and best practices - E-applications social and legal issues - E-applications service architectures - E-applications competition and collaborations - E-applications data analytics and visualization - Digital libraries - Innovative E-Frameworks & E-Applications - Innovative E-applications in Web 2.0, AJAX, E4X and other new developments - Model-driven E-application development - Workflow and E-services Web Data and Semantic Web Track: - XML data and schema integration - XML data models, query processing and data management - XML data privacy and security - Web databases and warehousing - Web data mining, exploration, and visualization - Document Engineering and Integration - Web Data Markup Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Web Semantics content creation, annotation, and extraction - Web Semantics brokering, integration and interoperability - Web Semantics search, query, and visualization - Web Semantics middleware and services - Web Semantics provenance, trust & security - Ontology creation, searching, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Track: - Mobile and Ubiquitous Information and Service Integration - Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Systems - Grid and P2P architectures for service and information integration - Agent-based ubiquitous applications - Location and context-aware applications and services - Infrastructure support for mobility and pervasive Web - Web proxies and content adaptation - Service creation and management environments for pervasive web - Low-cost web access devices and networking for emerging regions - Privacy-enhancing technologies in pervasive web - Social search and the use of "human computing" in web search - Experience report on ubiquitous computing implementation - Visionary scenario on ubiquitos computing PUBLICATION --------------------- iiWAS2008 Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and indexed in ISI-Proceedings and included in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and ACM Digital Library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijwis.htm) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] Journal of Universal Computer Science (http://www.jucs.org/) [4] More are pending approval SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at ((http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/submission.html) Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and must follow the OCG guidelines (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/cfp.htm). COMMITTES Steering Committee Chair Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler Uni Linz, Austria General Conference Chair Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria General Program Committee Co-Chairs David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Workshops Chair Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Masters and Doctoral Colloquium Chair Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Organizing Committee Chair Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Publicity Coordinators Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Laura Rusu, La Trobe University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada (Canada) Saad Harous, Sharjah University, UAE (North Africa) Ruzana Ishak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (Asia) Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK (Europe) Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Middle East) Bo Yang, Bowie State University, USA (North America) Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan (Asia) Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia (South America) Awards Co-Chairs Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, AUstralia Bernady O Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Program Committee Zaher Al Aghbari, Sharjah University, UAE AbdulMalik Al-Salman, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Omar Boucelma, LSIS - CNRS, Universite Aix-Marseille, France Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tran Khanh Dang, HCMUT, Vietnam Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST., Germany Gillian Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Klaus D. Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT - Paul Sabatier University, France Saad Harous, University of Sharjah, UAE Andreas Holzinger, Med. University of Graz, Austria Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany Roland Kaschek, Massey University, New Zealand Lau Sim Kim, University of Wollongong, Australia Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Ghita Kouadri-Mostefaoui, Oxford University, UK Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - R.O.C. Reggie Kwan, Cartias F Hsu College, Hong Kong Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA Andreas Langegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Sang-Ho Lee, Soongsil University, Korea Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia Oscar Pastor Lopez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Ilia Petrov, SAP, Germany K. Satya Sa i Prakash, Amrita University, India Steven Prestwich, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland Juha Puustjarvi, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Rodolfo F. Resende, Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Colette Rolland, University of PARIS-1 Panthéon Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina Maytham Safar, University of Kuwait, Kuwait N. L. Sarda, I. I. T Bombay, India Alexander Schatten, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain Jolita Sorbonne Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK Seyed M.M. (Saied) Tahaghoghi, Microsoft Corporation, USA Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Hiroshi Tsuji, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Welzl, University of Innsbruck, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Adam Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China ORGANIZATION The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS), hosted and organized and by the Institute of Teleccoperation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the sixth international conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM'2008 - http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008/). CONTACT David Taniar, iiWAS'2008 PC Co-Chair Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia Email: david(a)iiwas.org Eric Pardede, iiWAS'2008 PC Co-Chair Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC 3083 Australia Email: eric(a)iiwas.org ------------------------------- END OF CFP -------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Information Systems Frontiers Special Issue on Advances in Inter-organizational Disaster Management]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: Information Systems Frontiers Special Issue on Advances in Inter-organizational Disaster Management Datum: Sat, 10 May 2008 11:13:13 -0500 Von: Lee, Jinkyu <jinkyu.lee(a)okstate.edu> Antwort an: Lee, Jinkyu <jinkyu.lee(a)okstate.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Apologies for cross-postings. CALL FOR PAPERS Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796 ISSN: 1387-3326 (print version); 1572-9419 (electronic version) Special Issue on "Advances in Inter-organizational Disaster Management" http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/CFP%20Disas… Inter-organizational disaster response requires collaboration among geographically distributed public and private organizations to enable a rapid and effective response to an unexpected event. In order to ensure coherent coordination among the responding organizations, relevant information needs to be collected from multiple sources, verified for accuracy, and shared with appropriate responding organizations, all within a short time frame. As a disaster situation unfolds, multiple aspects of disaster response continuously change, including urgency, scope, impact, the types of appropriate responders, and the responders' needs for information and communication. These changes add to the complexity and uncertainty. Unfortunately, recent response experiences and evaluations of disaster responders suggest that many disaster management systems often fall short of the capability to cope with the complexity and uncertainty. The majority of current information systems for disaster response have been designed based on probable scenarios, and optimized for intra-organizational response and routine processes. Therefore, such systems cannot adequately adapt to a constantly changing situation that often deviates from the design-time scenario by far. Due to scarce resources, it is infeasible to develop information systems for each and every conceivable disaster situation. Consequently, recent interdisciplinary research efforts have focused on developing the ability to facilitate the ever-changing information needs under the complex and unpredictable environments. Within the area of disaster and crisis management, a large number of technological innovations have realized over the last couple of years. Often these technologies have been developed in isolation of the other developments and have not been integrated into the daily routine operations of first responders, which might prevent effective use of the technologies during an emergency. Many cultural, organizational, jurisdictional and legal barriers also hamper or prevent necessary and proper coordination of relevant public and private organizations during unexpected events. Nevertheless, all these technologies and advances together provide the foundations of a unique platform that becomes a key to our ability to effectively respond to unpredictable and complex situations. This special issue of ISF aims to compile the advances surrounding the emerging issues of inter-organizational disaster management and contribute to the creation of a common body of knowledge to the multi-disciplinary field of study. Topics We solicit for papers showing innovative solutions, theoretical developments, or insightful experiences that can contribute to the foundations for the interdisciplinary research area. The topics include, but are not limited to: · Innovative application of technologies · Secure infrastructure for distributed data sources · Adaptive, flexible and responsive information architectures · Information quality and information sharing · Information processing of large amounts of data · Alignment of organizational and technical issues · Network centric operations and information architecture · Inter-organizational collaboration · Decision-support systems and expert systems · Case studies, lessons learned, and best practices · Service-oriented architectures, orchestration, and semantic web · Modeling, gaming and simulation of disasters About Information Systems Frontiers Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) is a high-ranking, international scholarly journal designed to bridge the contributing academic disciplines and provide a link between academia and industry. The central objective of ISF is to publish original, well-written, self-contained contributions that elucidate novel research and innovation in IS/IT which advance the field fundamentally and significantly. ISF is Abstracted/Indexed in ABI inform, CompuMath Citation Index, Computer Literature Index, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), Inspec, ISI Alerting Services, ISI Web of Science, Risk Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math. Special issue editors Marijn Janssen, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands M.F.W.H.A.Janssen(a)tudelft.nl JinKyu Lee, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, USA jinkyu_lee(a)hotmail.com Nitesh Bharosa, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands N.bharosa(a)tudelft.nl Anthony Cresswell, Administration & Policy Studies, University at Albany, The State University of NY, USA tcresswell(a)ctg.albany.edu Important Dates Prospective authors are encourages to submit an abstract or concept for appropriateness. Submission Deadline: June 1, 2008 Notification of First Round Reviews: September 15, 2008 Revised Manuscripts Due: November 15, 2008 Final Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2009 Publication: Mid 2009 ------------------------------------------ JinKyu Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Management Science and Information Systems Spears School of Business Oklahoma State University PHONE: (918) 594-8254 FAX: (918) 594-8281 Mail: 380 North Hall 700 N. Greenwood Ave. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74106-0700 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 MCIS 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 11 May '08

11 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP MCIS 2008 Datum: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:35:41 +0200 Von: Par Agerfalk <par.agerfalk(a)dis.uu.se> Antwort an: Par Agerfalk <par.agerfalk(a)dis.uu.se> Organisation: Uppsala University An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> CALL FOR PAPERS MCIS 2008 www.mcis2008.org MCIS 2008 AIS Sponsored Conference Hammamet, Tunisia 23-26 October, 2008 CONFERENCE DATES June 10th: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts June 25th: Notification of acceptance to authors July 25th: Deadline for final full paper submission October 23rd : Workshops October 24th-26th: Conference sessions KEYNOTE SPEAKERS David Avison, ESSEC Business School Antonio Cordella, London School of Economics Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne Mike Martin, University of Newcastle Jeremy Rose, University of Aalborg AIM AND OBJECTIVES The Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2008) focuses on the distinctive characteristics and goals of Mediterranean countries concerning the applications of information technologies and information systems. A key objective of this conference is to develop a network of IS researchers interested in topics associated with the Mediterranean region. The 2008 Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems will take place from October 23 to 26 in the beautiful and unique setting of Hammamet,Tunisia. The program chairs, Mokhtar Amami, Par Agerfalk, Carlo Batini and Johnathan Wareham invite you to join us and contribute to this special conference via seven different avenues: . Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Diversity track chair: Marianna Sigala, Jamie Murphy and Oleg Missikof . Networks of SMEs track chair: Barbara Pernici and Alice Guilhon du Hellen . Creativity and Innovation track chairs: Joan Rodon and Feliciano Sese . Strategic planning and requirements engineering in eGovernment track chairs: Carlo Batini, Henda Hajjami Ben Ghezala and Sofiane Sahraoui . Global Software Development track chairs: Samir Tata and Faiez Gargouri . Flexible IS development track chairs: Jolita Ralyte . General track track chair: Mohkthar Amami TRACK DESCRIPTION Tourism and Cultural Heritage (Track chair: Marianna Sigala Jamie Murphy and Oleg Missikof) Mediterranean countries rely on tourism and travel, which represented the 3rd largest (7.3%) worldwide export of goods and services in 2002 (World Tourism Organization). The distinction is the willingness of governments to base this tourism on cultural heritage, especially city tourism. According to the European Commission (2001), Europe's cultural heritage is a "unique public asset" that provides a foundation for "the development of our content industry in a sustainable knowledge society". European cultural tourism is an important industry commanding a larger market share of international tourism arrivals than North America. However, Europe's revenue per arrival lag North America's. Even though France, Spain and Italy were the world's 1st, 2d and 4th cultural tourism destinations in 2003, their tourism receipts also lag the USA (World Tourism Organization, 2004). Have Americans emphasized interpretive services versus Europeans who emphasized academic functions of museums and other cultural assets? Will new information technologies such as broadband and always-on wireless IT be an enabler for reaping the benefits -- economic, political and cultural -- of Europe's cultural heritage as a tourism and historical-socio-political asset? Networks of SMEs (Track chairs: Barbara Pernici and Alice Guilhon du Hellen) European and Mediterranean countries rely extensively on networks of SMEs. This is the basis of the theory of "industrial district" especially developed in the UK and in Italy. The challenges of managing Networks of SMEs require the development of inter-organizational information systems such as EDI over the Internet (EOI), Extranet with their B2B electronic marketplaces and any information systems that are developed to ensure visibility, integration and synchronization of the supply chain. Major issues: 1) Role of IT in connecting people, isolated SMEs and universities research groups to form networks and foster entrepreneurship and innovation; 2) Development of websites to develop weak ties networks among Mediterranean countries that are useful for entrepreneurship and innovation; 3) Information Technology and changes in information and physical flows, cost structures and market forces that IT causes throughout the traditional value chain of SMEs particularly in developing countries; and finally 4) Open Innovation & IT Based Entrepreneurship. Creativity and Innovation (Track chairs: Joan Rodon and Feliciano Sese) Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) bring new opportunities for creativity and innovation in the limits of human interaction and social enterprise. Some practitioners have emphasized the need to invest in business innovation rather than simply on ICT. On the other hand, others have emphasized that the implementation of rationalized systems, the case of ERP and CRM, quite often reduces the opportunity of end users to innovate. This track encourages both theoretical and empirical papers that 1) explore the use of ICT in processes of innovation and creativity in teams, organizations and business networks, 2) explore the limits of creativity and innovation that new rationalized ICT systems pose to social actors, 3) examine different forms of innovation in the adoption and use of ICT applications, as well as papers that 4) conceptualize the concepts of creativity and innovation in the context of organizations and business networks from the perspective of information systems. Strategic planning and requirements engineering in eGovernment (Track chairs: Carlo Batini, Henda Hajjami Ben Ghezala and Sofiane Sahraoui) What are the consequences of the fact that European and Mediterranean countries have active public sectors for e-Government, e-Health Care, and e-Learning? What are the consequences of the European policies on IS management in our countries, especially the European requests for proposals, like the Information Society technologies? Furthermore, what is the impact on IS development? What are the existing methodology for the planning and design of value added eGovernment initiatives? As software development has a relevant role in enabling the change enacted by eGovernment in the public sector, requirements engineering is strategic for the development of Information Systems that aims to understand and translate users' needs into effective solutions; in particular, requirements have to reflect cultures and languages and local needs in the context of Mediterranean Countries. On the basis of requirements that align social and IT perspectives, the planning of value added initiatives and the development of sustainable solutions becomes a collaborative activity across different countries. Global Software Development (Track chairs: Samir Tata and Faiez Gargouri) Mediterranean countries include Developing Countries are facing the globalization and the commoditization phenomenon. This track will be devoted to study the consequences of these phenomenon on IS management in the Mediterranean countries. Particularly the track will focus on the impacts of Global Software Development (GSD), IS Risk Management and Cross-National IS Project Management. Major issues: 1) cultural and communication differences and challenges of managing functionality, cost, duration and risk of GSD; 2) commoditization of hardware, bandwidth and software and migration of value to proprietary applications on commodity systems; 3) approaches, methods, tools, best practices and GSD; 4) the role of Free and Open Software in GSD; 5) Open and non-organizational software development; 6) artifact, use, global software development and reality construction; and finally 7) how does global software development may benefit Mediterranean developing countries? Flexible IS development (Track chairs: Jolita Ralyte) Information systems engineering situations vary considerably from project to project. Application domain, project objectives (e.g. IS evolution, interoperability), product features (e.g. web-based, mobile, service-oriented), licence form (open source v. proprietary), stakeholders involved, team structure (distributed v. co-located), and various technological conditions and constraints all have a significant impact on the IS development process. To deal with such a variability of situations ISD methods are evolving from rigid and monolithic to flexible, modular and configurable ones. Besides, it is recognized within the area of situational method engineering that each ISD project requires tailored or specific methods and tools. This track will be dedicated to study flexibility of ISD processes, methods and tools and their adaptability to the characteristics of ISD projects in the European and Mediterranean countries. Major issues: 1) Requirements for flexibility in ISD projects, 2) ISD project situation assessment and modelling, 3) Method engineering techniques for situation-specific ISD method construction, 3) Domain-specific ISD processes, 4) Agile methods for ISD, 5) Experience and case studies of building and tailoring ISD methods, techniques and tools. General track (Track chair: Mohkthar Amami) We invite you to submit completed research papers, exploratory research papers, panel proposals, and workshops, about IS, especially Mediterranean IS, and about philosophy and epistemology in IS. Although you are welcome on relying on the distinctions noted above, we also encourage you to challenge them. Papers or panels allowing comparative points of view about IS research or with other social and design sciences will be especially welcome, particularly if they allow us to make progress in the quest for a European possibly Mediterranean - identity in IS research. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS High Scientific Patronage Dennis Galletta, AIS President Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Dov Te'eni, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Emmanuel Monod, Paris Dauphine University, France Conference Chairs (chairs(a)mcis2008.org) Gianni Jacucci, University of Trento, Italy Moez Limayem, Universitè de Lausanne, Switzerland Program Chairs (program(a)mcis2008.org) Mokhtar Amami, Royal Military College of Canada Par Agerfalk, Uppsala University and Lero Carlo Batini, University of Milan Bicocca Johnathan Wareham, ESADE - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona Track Chairs (tracks(a)mcis2008.org) Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano Marianna Sigala, University of the Aegean Alice Guilhon du Hellen, CERAM Business School Joan Rodon, ESADE Barcelona Feliciano Sese, ESADE Barcelona Carlo Batini, University of Milan Bicocca Samir Tata, Institut National des télécommunications, Evry France Faiez Gargouri, ISIMS, Tunisie. Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva Mokhtar Amami, Royal Military College of Canada Jamie Murphy, director of IFITT Oleg Missikoff, Luiss Rome Henda Hajjami Ben GHezala, Université de La Manouba Sofiane Sahraoui, American University of Sharjah Panels (panels(a)mcis2007.org) Joseph Valor, IESE, Spain Workshops (workshops(a)mcis2007.org) Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy Organizing Committee (info(a)mcis2008.org) Gianluigi Viscusi, University of Milan Bicocca Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Trento Rim Faiz, IHEC at Carthage Boutheina Ben Yaghlane, IHEC at Carthage PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Pär Ågerfalk, Sweden Jacky Akoka, France Ghada Alaa, Egypt Moktar Amami, Canada Redouane el Amrani, France Kim Viborg Andersen, Denmark Peter Bogh Andersen, Denmark Bo Andersson, Sweden Saïd Assar, France Chrisanthi Avgerou, Greece Rodolfo Baggio, Italy Bouchaib Bahli, Canada Liam Bannon, Ireland Reza Barkhi, USA Theodor Barth, Norway Arthur Baskin, USA Francois Bedard, Canada Marc Bidan, France Jean-Claude Bocquet, France Giacomo Buonanno, Italy Frada Burstein, Australia Erran Carmel, USA Ellen Christiaanse, Spain Evangelos Christou, Greece Cécile Clérgeau, France James Cornford, England Giovanni Costa, Italy Vincenzo D'Andrea, Italy Shana Dardan, USA Fiorella De Cindio, Italy Marco De Marco, Italy Giorgio De Michelis, Italy Monica Divitini, Norway George Doukidis, Greece Aurélie Dudézert, France Owen Eriksson, Sweden Marc Favier, France Maria Ferrara, Italy Bernard Frisher, USA Goran Goldkuhl, Sweden Gerald Grant, Central African Republic Ulrike Gretzel, USA Stefan Henningsson, Sweden Clark Hu, USA Carina Ihlströmer, Sweden Pam Jackson, USA Giulio Jacucci, Finland Gianni Jacucci, Italy Ianni Kallinikos, Greece Adi Katz, Israel Finn Kensing, Denmark Mohamed Khalifa, China Tsvi Kuflik, Israel Gianfrancesco Lanzara, Italy Rob Law, China Dorothy Leidner, USA Michel Léonard, Switzerland Mikael Lind, Sweden Gary Lock, UK Ann Macintosh, Scotland Piercarlo Maggiolini, Italy Volker Mahnke, Denmark Evangelos P. Markatos, Greece Marcello Martinez, Italy Ephraim Mc Lean, USA IP McLoughlin, UK Pierre Mendès, France Valéry Michaux, France M. Missikoff, Italy Emmanuel Monod, France Eric Monteiro, Norway Brian Nicholson, England Yuan Niu, USA Gal Oestreicher-Singer, USA Prashant Palvia, USA Lopez Para, Spain Gabriele Piccoli, USA Carlos Pinto, Portugal Volkmar Pipek, Germany Nava Pliskin, Israel Nancy Pouloudi, Greece Jon Franklin Ramsoomair, Canada Arjan Raven, USA Pedro Ribeiro, Portugal Peter Rittgen, Sweden Cecilia Rosignoli, Italy Mareike Schoop, Germany Florence Sèdes, France Ulf Seigerroth, Sweden Marianna Sigala, Greece Carla Simone, Italy Mohini Singh, Australia Maddalena Sorrentino, Italy Odd Steen, Sweden Constantinos Stefanou, Greece Detmar Straub, USA Vasso Stylianou, Cyprus Doron Tauber, Israel Bettina Törpel, Denmark Vicky Vrana, Greece Jonathan Wareham, Spain Hannes Werthner, Austria Peter Wolcott, USA Kostas Zafeiropoulos, Greece Christopher W. Zobel, USA The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [WI] Call for Papers SAM Special Issue: Data Analytics for Decision Support]
by Gustaf Neumann 10 May '08

10 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for Papers SAM Special Issue: Data Analytics for Decision Support Datum: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:59:13 +0200 (CEST) Von: myra(a)iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING Call for Papers Special Issue: Data Analytics for Decision Support Guest Editors: - Naoki Abe, IBM Research, nabe(a)us.ibm.com - Donald P. Gaver, Naval Postgraduate School, dgaver(a)nps.edu - Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, myra(a)iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de The purpose of this special issue is to feature recent advances in data mining and statistical analysis within the challenging new area of data analytics for decision support.Current decision makers rely upon a variety of heterogeneous data and information fragments, to make well-informed and productive decisions. Advanced methods of data mining, machine learning and statistical analysis are utilized to enable them to deal with massive data volumes, which arrive from different sources, in different formats or granularities, and with possibly incomplete or unreliable content. Methodological foundations are also needed to guarantee the delivery of desired decision support within predefined narrow time frames, as required for significant applications such as crisis management or emergency surgery. The area of data analytics for decision support covers business applications ranging from strategic or tactical management, through resource or process management, to marketing or distribution, and the collaborations they require. It also involves a large variety of other stakeholders, including government authorities responsible for defense, environmental protection, homeland security, infrastructure, public health, medicine, robotics and many more.In this special issue, we are soliciting papers describing methodologies, tools and successful solutions to facilitate decision support. We also welcome potential data analytic responses to challenging decision support issues. Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2008 Consult http://www.interscience.wiley.com/SAM for the special issue and the Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Journal (SAM). -- Prof. Dr. Myra Spiliopoulou Work group KMD: Knowledge Management & Discovery Faculty of Computer Science Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg PO Box 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg Germany Phone: ++49.391.67 18967 Fax: ++49.391.67 18110 Email: myra(a)iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Webpage: http://omen.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/itikmd/ -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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