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[Fwd: CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08]
by Gustaf Neumann 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 Datum: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:45:53 +1000 Von: cimca <cimca(a)canberra.edu.au> An: <CIMCA-list(a)canberra.edu.au>, "cimca" <cimca(a)canberra.edu.au> CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 10-12 December 2008 - Vienna, Austria http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/iawtic08/ International Conference on Innovation in Software Engineering - ISE08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/ise08/ Honorary Chair: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA Important Dates: 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Collaborators and sponsors: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra IEEE - Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE in USA The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 10-12 December 2008. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Intelligent agents, Industrial Automations, Modelling, Simulation Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: Signal Processing, Prediction and Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, and Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval: Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or through conference website: E-mail: cimca(a)canberra.edu.au CIMCA'2008 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian(a)canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca(a)canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Organising Committee: Canada and USA Liaison: J. D. Pinter, J. D. Pinter, PCS Inc. & Dalhousie University, Canada Asia Liaison: Christina Meier, W3BI, Australia R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia Europe Liaison: Frank Zimmer, ASTRA - Luxembourg Nasser Jazdi, Institut für Automatisierungs- und Softwaretechnik, Germany Andreas S. Andreou, University of Cyprus,Cyprus Publication: Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia International Programme Committee J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA J. P. Bigus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA E. André, Universität Augsburg, Germany K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany J.Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA M. Mohammadian University of Canberra, Australia K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada X. Yao, The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University,USA T. Shibata, MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain A Jafari, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI, USA A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland B. Ruhul Sarker, University of New South Wales (ADFA), Australia J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway J. Fernandez de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus,University, Poland E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey L. Guan, University of Sydney, Australia C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

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Fwd: CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08
by Michael Alexander 07 May '08

07 May '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "cimca" <cimca(a)canberra.edu.au> Date: Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:58 PM Subject: CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 To: zforum(a)comlab.ox.ac.uk CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 10-12 December 2008 - Vienna, Austria http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/iawtic08/ International Conference on Innovation in Software Engineering - ISE08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/ise08/ Honorary Chair: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA Important Dates: 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Collaborators and sponsors: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra IEEE - Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE in USA The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 10-12 December 2008. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Intelligent agents, Industrial Automations, Modelling, Simulation Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: Signal Processing, Prediction and Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, and Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval: Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or through conference website: E-mail: cimca(a)canberra.edu.au CIMCA'2008 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian(a)canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca(a)canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Organising Committee: Canada and USA Liaison: J. D. Pinter, J. D. Pinter, PCS Inc. & Dalhousie University, Canada Asia Liaison: Christina Meier, W3BI, Australia R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia Europe Liaison: Frank Zimmer, ASTRA - Luxembourg Nasser Jazdi, Institut für Automatisierungs- und Softwaretechnik, Germany Andreas S. Andreou, University of Cyprus,Cyprus Publication: Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia International Programme Committee J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA J. P. Bigus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA E. André, Universität Augsburg, Germany K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany J.Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA M. Mohammadian University of Canberra, Australia K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada X. Yao, The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University,USA T. Shibata, MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain A Jafari, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI, USA A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland B. Ruhul Sarker, University of New South Wales (ADFA), Australia J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway J. Fernandez de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus,University, Poland E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey L. Guan, University of Sydney, Australia C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan -- Best Regards, Dr. Michael Alexander WU Wien Dept. of Information Systems malexand(a)wu-wien.ac.at / +43.1.31336.4467

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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for Papers - TwUC 2008 (The 3rd International Workshop on Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing)]
by Gustaf Neumann 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers - TwUC 2008 (The 3rd International Workshop on Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing) Datum: Tue, 6 May 2008 22:16:48 -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> CALL FOR PAPERS - TwUC 2008 Third International Workshop on Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing (TwUC 2008) November 24-26, 2008 Linz, Austria http://twuc.mine.nu --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 3rd Workshop on Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing (TwUC 2008) is held in conjunction with IIWAS 2008, November 24-26, 2008, in Linz, Austria. Ubiquitous applications are getting more and more to the market these days. In spite of many applications and projects in the area of ubiquitous and pervasive computing the success of this technologies and the acceptance from the user is still low resulting from missing trust into computing systems introduced into our real world. TwUC was established to provide a forum to scientists, engineers and industry to address recent research results, to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues and to elaborate about the research areas of security, reliability and privacy which build the basis for creating trustworthy interfaces and computing environments for people interacting in ubiquitous environments. TOPICS OF INTEREST The conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed full papers around but not limited to the following topics: - Security in ubiquitous computing environments - security issues and technologies - usage policies - identity and access - threat and vulnerability - malicious software in ubiquitous environments - integrity - trusted computing - trusting platforms - Reliability in ubiquitous computing environments - software design - software quality and metrics - user perceived QoS - Methods and concepts to enhance and ensure availability - Privacy in ubiquitous computing environments - issues and appliances on privacy in ubiquitous computing environments - data and information ownership and souvereignity of social and technical methods for ensuring confidentiality - Usability in ubiquitous computing environments - Designing the user interface in ubiquitous environments - Designing Interaction for ubiquitous appliances - Usability Evaluation Methods in ubiquitous environments IMPORTANT DATES September 1, 2008 Paper submission October 1, 2008 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers November 24-26,2008 TwUC 2008 Workshop PUBLICATION All accepted conference papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in selected journals. For a detailed list of journals please visit our website http://twuc.mine.nu SUBMISSION The TwUC2008 workshop solicits full and short research papers. For detailed information concerning the submission please visit our website http://twuc.mine.nu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Thomas Grill, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria Karin Hummel, Vienna University, Austria Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia/li> Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Okbar Kazar, Biskra University, Algeria Gabriela Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Abdelmajid Khelil, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Rene Mayrhofer, Lancaster University, UK Anirban Mondal, University of Tokyo, Japan Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Bettina Thurnher, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria Edgar Weippl, Secure Business Austria, Austria Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK CONTACT Thomas Grill Department of Telecooperation Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Str. 69 4040 Linz, Austria Email: tom[at]iiwas.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 - RED 2008 ( The First International Workshop on REsource Discovery)]
by Gustaf Neumann 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers - RED 2008 ( The First International Workshop on REsource Discovery) Datum: Tue, 6 May 2008 22:14:49 -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> First International Workshop on REsource Discovery (RED 2008) http://bioinformatics.eas.asu.edu/RED/red2008.html in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2008) 24-26 November 2008 Linz, Austria from A resource corresponds to an information source such as a data repository or database management system (e.g., a query form or a textual search engine), a link between resources (an index or hyperlink), or a service such as an application or tool. Resources are characterized by core information including a name, a description of its input and its output (parameters or format), its address, and various additional properties expressed as metadata. Resource discovery is the process of identifying and locating existing resources that have a particular property. Machine-based resource discovery relies on crawling, clustering, and classifying resources discovered on the Web automatically. Resources are organized with respect to metadata that characterize their content (for data sources), their semantics (in terms of ontological classes and relationships), their characteristics (syntactical properties), their performance (with metrics and benchmarks), their quality (curation, reliability, trust), etc. Resource discovery systems allow the expression of queries to identify and locate resources that implement specific tasks. The International Workshop on Resource Discovery aims at bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying concepts, applications, and solutions addressing various issues related to resource discovery. Papers presenting either theoretical or applicative material are expected. Because of the dynamic research and development effort towards supporting resource discovery for the life sciences, we expect to receive many contributions in the scope of this very exciting application domain. However, we encourage the submission of generic solutions or the presentation of application experiences other than related to life sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Service publication standards (UDDI, OWL-S, etc.) - Web services - BioMoby services - Resource semantics - Resource formats and metadata - Resource metadata for efficient execution - Data-centric Web services - Domain ontologies for resources - Metadata models for describing web resources - Automatic extraction of metadata in particular with Web 2.0 tools (wikis, blogs...) - Models for registration of resources - Automatic registration of resources - Resource indexing - Visualization of resource metadata - Query languages for resource discovery - user-friendly interface for resource discovery - Resource mining, discovering services on the Web - Mobile web services - Service discovery protocols - Identification protocols that can distinguish between resources and metadata - Interoperability-driven resource discovery - Discovery for integration, composition, workflow, dataflow - Metadata for resource mapping - Dynamic service composition - Service efficiency prediction - QoS-based service discovery - Resource relevance measures - Semantics-driven resource discovery - Discovery on the private (or invisible) web Workshop information -------------------- The workshop will take place in Linz, Austria from 24-26 November 2008. Please visit the conference website for more information: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/. Workshop key dates ------------------ Submission deadline: July 1st Acceptance notification: September 30th Camera ready: October 15th Maximum number of pages: 10 pages Publication ----------- The workshop proceedings will published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) books(a)ocg.at series. We expect to invite selected papers to be extended for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) (www.inderscience.com/) Workshop Chair -------------- Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University and Translational Genomics Research Institute, USA Contact: zoe(a)iiwas.org Program committee ----------------- Bernd Amann, LIP6, Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, France Marie-Dominique Devignes, INRIA Lorraine, LORIA, France Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA Christine Froidevaux, LRI, Universite Paris-Sud (Orsay), France Carole Goble, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK Daniela Grigori, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France Cartik Kothari, University of British Columbia, Canada Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK Bertram Ludascher, University of California, Davis, USA Herve Menager, Institut Pasteur, France Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Patricia Rodriguez-Tome, Center for Advanced Studies, CRS4, Italy Malika Smail-Tabbone, LORIA and Universite Henri Poincare, France Pierre Tuffery, INSERM & Universite Diderot (Paris 7), France Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: 4th Workshop on Ad Auctions - Extended Deadline May 11, 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: 4th Workshop on Ad Auctions - Extended Deadline May 11, 2008 Datum: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:23:12 -0400 Von: Siva Viswanathan <sviswana(a)rhsmith.umd.edu> Antwort an: Siva Viswanathan <sviswana(a)rhsmith.umd.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions http://research.yahoo.com/workshops/ad-auctions-2008/ July 8-9, 2008 Chicago, Illinois, USA SUBMISSIONS DUE MAY 11, 2008 In conjunction with the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08) ======================================================================= We solicit submissions for the Fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions, to be held July 8-9, 2008 in Chicago in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss the latest developments in advertisement auctions and exchanges. In the past decade we've seen a rapid trend toward automation in advertising, not only in how ads are delivered and measured, but also in how ads are sold. Web search advertising has led the way, selling space on search results pages for particular queries in continuous, dynamic "next price" auctions worth billions of dollars annually. Now auctions and exchanges for all types of online advertising -- including banner and video ads -- are commonplace, run by startups and Internet giants alike. An ecosystem of third party agencies has grown to help marketers manage their increasingly complex campaigns. The rapid emergence of new modes for selling and delivering ads is fertile ground for research from both economic and computational perspectives. What auction or exchange mechanisms increase advertiser value or publisher revenue? What user and content attributes contribute to variation in advertiser value? What constraints on supply and budget make sense? How should advertisers and publishers bid? How can both publishers and advertisers incorporate learning and optimization, including balancing exploration and exploitation? How do practical constraints like real-time delivery impact design? How is automation changing the advertising industry? How will ad auctions and exchanges evolve in the next decade? How should they evolve? Papers from a rich set of empirical, experimental, and theoretical perspectives are invited. Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: * Web search advertising (sponsored search) * Banner advertising * Ad networks, ad exchanges * Comparison shopping * Mechanism and market design for advertising * Ad targeting and personalization * Learning, optimization, and explore/exploit tradeoffs in ad placement * Ranking and placement of ads * Computational and cognitive constraints * Game-theoretic analysis of mechanisms, behaviors, and dynamics * Matching algorithms: exact and inexact match * Equilibrium characterizations * Simulations * Laboratory experiments * Empirical characterizations * Advertiser signaling, collusion * Pay for impression, click, and conversion; conversion tracking * Campaign optimization; bidding agents; search engine marketing (SEM) * Local (geographic) advertising * Contextual advertising (e.g., Google AdSense) * User satisfaction/defection * User incentives and rewards * Affiliate model * Click fraud detection, measurement, and prevention * Price time series analysis * Multiattribute and expressive auctions * Bidding languages for advertising We solicit contributions of two types: (1) research contributions, and (2) position statements. Research contributions should report new (unpublished) research results or ongoing research. The workshop proceedings can be considered non-archival, meaning contributors are free to publish their results later in archival journals or conferences. Research contributions can be up to ten pages long, in double-column ACM SIG proceedings format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Position statements are short descriptions of the authors' view of how ad auction research or practice will or should evolve. Position statements should be no more than five pages long. Panel discussion proposals and invited speaker suggestions are also welcome. The workshop will include a significant portion of invited presentations along with presentations on accepted research contributions. There will be time for both organized and open discussion. Registration will be open to all EC'08 attendees. The first three workshops on sponsored search auctions successfully attracted a wide audience from academia and industry working on various aspects of web search advertising. Following the footsteps of the previous workshops, the Fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions strives to be a venue that helps address challenges in the broader field of online advertising, by providing opportunities for researchers and practitioners to interact with each other, stake out positions, and present their latest research findings. While the first three workshops focused on web search advertising, we have broadened the scope this year to include auctions and exchanges for any form of online advertising. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Research contributions should report new (unpublished) research results or ongoing research. The workshop's proceedings can be considered non-archival, meaning contributors are free to publish their results later in archival journals or conferences. Research contributions can be up to ten pages long, in double-column ACM SIG proceedings format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Positions papers and panel discussion proposals are also welcome. Papers should be submitted electronically using the conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adauctions2008 no later than midnight Hawaii time, May 11, 2008. Authors should also email the organizing committee ( adauctions2008(a)yahoogroups.com ) to indicate that they have submitted a paper to the system. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend and present their findings at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES =============== May 11, 2008 Submissions due midnight Hawaii time a. Submit to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adauctions2008 b. Notify adauctions2008(a)yahoogroups.com May 23, 2008 Notification of accepted papers June 8, 2008 Final copy due ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Susan Athey, Harvard University Rica Gonen, Yahoo! Jason Hartline, Northwestern University Aranyak Mehta, Google David Pennock, Yahoo! Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be updated) ============================== Gagan Aggarwal, Google Animesh Animesh, McGill University Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Tilman Borgers, University of Michigan Chris Dellarocas, University of Maryland Ben Edelman, Harvard University Jon Feldman, Google Jane Feng, University of Florida Slava Galperin, A9 Anindya Ghose, New York University Kartik Hosanagar, University of Pennsylvania Kamal Jain, Microsoft Jim Jansen, University of Pennsylvainia Sebastien Lahaie, Yahoo! Ilya Lipkind, A9 Chris Meek, Microsoft John Morgan, University of California Berkeley Abhishek Pani, Efficient Frontier Martin Pesendorfer, London School of Economics David Reilly, Yahoo! Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Catherine Tucker, Massechusetts Institute of Technology Rakesh Vohra, Northwestern University MORE INFORMATION ================ For more information or questions, visit the workshop website: http://research.yahoo.com/workshops/ad-auctions-2008/ 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] CFP: The 2nd KDD workshop on on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-08)]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 May '08

06 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP: The 2nd KDD workshop on on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-08) Datum: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:14:39 -0400 Von: Xingquan Zhu <xqzhu(a)cse.fau.edu> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please disseminate the following announcement to those who may be interested ***************************************************************************** The 2nd ACM KDD Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-08) In conjunction with ACM SIGKDD-08, August 24, 2008 http://www.cse.fau.edu/~xqzhu/mmis/kdd08_mmis.html Deadline of Paper Submission: May 30, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2008 Camera-ready Paper Submission: June 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of this workshop is to bring together data mining experts to revisit the problem of pattern discovery from multiple information sources, and identify and synthesize current needs for such purposes. Representative questions to be addressed include but are not limited to: 1. Harnessing Complex Data Relationship a. Database similarity assessment b. Automatic schema mapping and relationship discovery c. New mapping framework for multiple information sources d. Data source classification and clustering e. Data cleansing, data preparation, conflict and inconsistency resolution 2. Integrative and Cooperative Mining a. Model integration for heterogeneous information sources b. Mode transferring across different data domains c. Incremental and scalable data mining algorithms d. Multi-tasks multi-sources co-learning for multiple information sources 3. Differentiation and Correlation a. Local pattern analysis and fusion b. Global pattern synthesizing and assessment c. Merging local rules for global pattern discovery d. Pattern summarization from multiple datasets e. Multi-dimensional pattern search and comparison f. Pattern comparison across multiple data sources g. Inter pattern discovery from complex data sources 4. Stream data mining algorithms a. Clustering and classification of data of changing distributions b. Data stream processing, storage, and retrieval systems c. Sensor networking 5. Security and privacy issues in multiple information sources 6. Interactive data mining systems a. Query languages for mining multiple information sources b. Query optimization for distributed data mining c.Distributed data mining operators in supporting interactive data mining ------------------------------------------------------------------- For submission of the paper, please use Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmis08 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee Workshop Co-chairs Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University Ruoming Jin, Kent State University Yuri Breitbart, Kent State University Program Committee Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA Christopher Jermaine, University of Florida, USA Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA Tao Li, Florida International University, USA Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Prem Melville, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Xintao Wu, UNC Charlotte, USA Jieping Ye, Arizona State University, USA Shichao Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Zhi-hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China _____________________________________________________________________ This email was sent using a [try before you buy] newsletter program: [32bit Email Broadcaster] http://www.electrasoft.com/32be.htm You may try it for free but please do NOT use it to send SPAM. -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [WI] Call for Papers: WBBTMine'08 workshop at ECML/PKDD 2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 May '08

06 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for Papers: WBBTMine'08 workshop at ECML/PKDD 2008 Datum: Tue, 06 May 2008 20:12:40 +0200 Von: Andreas Hotho <hotho(a)cs.uni-kassel.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, ak-kd-list(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, kdml(a)cs.uni-kassel.de, fg-db(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de, fca-list(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de -------------- Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------- Call for Papers Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0 (WBBTMine'08) http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/wbbtmine2008/ Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2008 - Antwerp, Belgium, 15 Sept. 2008 Important dates =============== * Paper submission deadline: June 16 * Author Notification: July 16 * Camera Ready Papers: August 14 * Workshop: September 15 Overview ======== Many Web 2.0 applications have rapidly emerged on the Web. This indicates a currently ongoing grass-root creation of knowledge spaces on the Web. The reason for the success of cooperative Web tools (wikis, blogs, etc.) and resource sharing (social bookmark systems, photo sharing systems, etc.) lies mainly in the fact that no specific skills are needed for publishing and editing. Web 2.0 applications are a very interesting application area for data mining. Unlike in traditional data mining scenarios, data does not emerge from a small number of (heterogeneous) data sources, but virtually from millions of different sources. As there is only minimal coordination, these sources can overlap or diverge in many ways. These fundamental features of heterogeneity and independence, known from collaborative filtering, are not limited to ratings and recommendations but extend to arbitrary complex data and data mining tasks. Steps into this new and exciting application area are the analysis of this new data, then the adaptation of well-known data mining and machine learning algorithm and finally the development of new algorithms. As research analyzing Wikis, Blogs and the structure underlying Social Bookmarks matures (and Web 2.0 workshops and conferences begin to proliferate), this workshop seeks contributions focused on state-of-the-art data mining algorithm and machine learning methods on Web 2.0 data. Papers describing new algorithms working on Web 2.0 data or work discussing aspects on the intersection of Web 2.0 and Knowledge Discovery are also highly welcome. In short, we want to accelerate the process of identifying the power of advanced data mining operating on Web 2.0 data, as well as the process of advancing data mining through lessons learned in analyzing these new data. Topics of interest ================== include, but are not limited to: * network analysis of social resources sharing systems * analysis of wikis and blogs * analysis of social online communities * discovering social structures and communities * analysis of network dynamics * discovering misuse and fraud * Web 2.0 personalization * Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems * information retrieval in the Web 2.0 * community detection * emergent semantics * Web 2.0 based ontology learning * predicting trends and user behavior * semantic association identification by link analysis * Web 2.0 crawling * mining information from distributed and re-combined Web 2.0 sources / mash-ups * mobile Web 2.0: social search; mobile communities; ? * usage interfaces for mining: parallelization of Web and mobile interfaces; mash-up interfaces * interactions between usage interfaces and data collection, mining, and presentation * privacy challenges in Web 2.0 and mobile Web 2.0 applications * applications of any of the above methods and technologies Workshop chairs =============== * Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium * Natalie Glance, Google, USA * Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany ---> Please contact us at wbbtmine08(a)gmail.com Program committee (to be extended) ================================== Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK Mathias Bauer, mineway, Germany Janez Brank, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Italy Ed H. Chi, PARC, USA Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari, Italy Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Ion Muslea, SRI International, USA Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany Maarten van Someren, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Michael Wurst, University of Dortmund, Germany -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Hotho Tel.: +49-(0)561-804-6252 Universitaet Kassel Fax.: +49-(0)561-804-6259 Wilhelmshoeher Allee 73 mail: hotho(a)cs.uni-kassel.de 34121 Kassel www: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/hotho/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [isworld] 2nd CFP: 3rd REA Technology Workshop (immediately preceding CAiSE 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 May '08

06 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] 2nd CFP: 3rd REA Technology Workshop (immediately preceding CAiSE 2008) Datum: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:08:14 -0400 Von: Geert Poels <geert.poels(a)rug.ac.be> Antwort an: Geert Poels <geert.poels(a)rug.ac.be> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: 3RD REA TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (AT MONTPELLIER, FRANCE, IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING CAISE�08) Workshop site: http://www.managementinformation.ugent.be/REAworkshop2008/ NEW: We received an offer to publish the extended versions of the position papers from the 3rd REA Technology Workshop in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), a new series by Springer. Please make sure the submitted papers are not already freely available on the web. Reworked and extended versions of freely available papers will be accepted if they are sufficiently modified. Introduction William E. McCarthy published the REA enterprise model in the 1982 July issue of the Accounting Review. In 2002 Guido Geerts and William E. McCarthy presented the REA enterprise model as a business domain ontology that is embedded in Sowa�s top-level ontology. The article was published in the International Journal of Accounting Information System and indicates a new zest in REA research that broadens the initial scope (accounting and education) to representing intra-enterprise phenomena (e.g. ERP-systems) and inter-enterprise phenomena (e.g. supply chain models). The inter-enterprise aspect of REA was further clarified by its use in the ISO Open-edi accounting and economic ontology (ISO/IEC 15944-4) published in November 2007. Prior REA Technology workshops (e.g. Copenhagen, Santorini) offered interesting discussions concerning these REA extensions. In Montpellier, we would like to continue the discussion and offer a forum for both fundamental REA research and applications for the REA ontology. Participation The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in the use, formalization or implementation of the REA ontology. We would like to receive a sign of your interest in this workshop on Managementinformation(a)UGent.be by Friday April 18th 2008 in order to enable us to procure appropriate workshop infrastructure. Position papers presenting REA related research will be welcomed until May 24th 2008. Presentations will be determined by invitation, based on the organizing committee�s evaluation of the submitted position papers. Authors of accepted position papers will be notified by June 1st 2008. Topics of Interest Fundamental REA Research � Precise semantics of the ontological categories in REA � Extensions of the REA ontology as we know it today � Semantic similarities and differences between REA and double-entry bookkeeping, ERP-systems, workflow models, business (process) models� � REA and model-driven software development � The contribution of REA as a reference model (i.e. canon) for ambiguity reduction in discussions between different business fields. � Business domain ontologies that are complementary to the REA ontology � The contribution of REA in process control and fraud detection REA applications � REA domain-specific modeling � REA and emerging technologies � REA application ontologies � REA formalizations (e.g. OWL, UML, XML, XBRL �) � Accounting artifacts � REA as a mechanism for interoperability � REA-based software applications and architectures � Best practices, guidelines and patterns for creating REA-based models Important Dates Position paper submission deadline Sunday May 25th 2008 Notification of acceptance Sunday June 1st 2008 Workshop date Sunday June 15th 2008 Submission Guidelines Participants wishing to present REA related research are solicited to submit a short position paper in pdf format. We encourage the participants to focus on the ideas in progress, on which they would like to get feedback from the fellow workshop participants. Length of the paper is not limited but should contain enough information for the program committee to evaluate the submission. We advise 1500 words. The position papers will be published on the workshop webpage. Submissions are to be sent by e-mail to Managementinformation(a)UGent.be no later than May 24th 2008. All submissions must include the full contact information for at least one author. Venue This informal workshop will be held in the Mercure Montpellier Antigone, 285 bld de l�aéroport Internationale-Antigone, 34000 Montpellier, France in the build-up to The 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE�08), for which the official workshops start Monday June 16th 2008. Hotel: http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/fr/mer/1544/fiche_hotel.s… CAiSE: http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/ Organizing Committee William McCarthy (mccarthy(a)bus.msu.edu); Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Pavel Hruby (phruby(a)acm.org); REA Technology, Egehegnet 46, 2850 Naerum, Denmark Geert Poels (Geert.Poels(a)UGent.be) ; Department of Management Information and Operations management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University; Tweekerken 2, B-9000 Ghent Ken Decreus (Ken.Decreus(a)UGent.be) ; Department of Management Information and Operations management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University; Tweekerken 2, B-9000 Ghent Wim Laurier (Wim.Laurier(a)UGent.be) ; Department of Management Information and Operations management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University; Tweekerken 2, B-9000 Ghent The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] Final Reminder: ISR special issue on Digital Systems and Competition]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 May '08

06 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Final Reminder: ISR special issue on Digital Systems and Competition Datum: Mon, 5 May 2008 23:16:46 -0400 Von: Clyde W. Holsapple <cwhols(a)uky.edu> Antwort an: Clyde W. Holsapple <cwhols(a)uky.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> FINAL REMINDER: SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUNE 1, 2008 Information Systems Research -Special Issue- Digital Systems and Competition Walter J. Ferrier, University of Kentucky, walter.ferrier(a)uky.edu Clyde W. Holsapple, University of Kentucky, cwhols(a)uky.edu Rajiv Sabherwal, University of Missouri � St. Louis, sabherwal(a)umsl.edu FOCUS Digital systems within and across firm boundaries have become fundamental to business operations, spanning multiple activities in value chains and supply chains. As firms continue to digitize their business processes and enhance their capabilities via increasingly powerful computing platforms, they are better able to access and process critical knowledge in real-time, increasing their awareness of emerging market opportunities, and their ability to respond to those opportunities. Business actions are becoming increasingly inseparable from information technology (IT), either IT-enabled or IT-induced. Consequently, digital systems, and IT in general, are becoming core to many products and services, and thereby becoming indistinguishable from the rest of the business. Thus, there is a pressing need to move toward a more expansive view of the relationship between digital systems and competitive action. Digital systems are inter-related with emergent forms of competition in several important ways. First, digital systems impact competitive actions and competitive dynamics. For example, in the airline industry, retail automation, co-host programs, discriminatory pricing, frequent flyer programs, joint marketing arrangements, dynamic pricing, and incentive programs are examples of competitive actions that have been enabled by digital systems, but constitute the core of the airline business. Strassmann (2005) emphasizes the use of IT-induced or enabled competitive actions as a new kind of IT value measure. According to him, companies should evaluate how much of their technology actually supports competitive actions, and how much is allocated to support functions such as finance, personnel, and corporate management? Understanding the impacts of digital systems on competition could benefit from the adoption of a competitive dynamics perspective (Smith, Ferrier, and Ndofor, 2001). Grounded in Austrian economics and Schumpeter�s (1934) theory of creative destruction, this perspective recognizes the need to explicitly account for the dynamic and adaptive process-based relationships in complex, interactive research contexts, and focuses on the process of how firms act-react to their environment in order to achieve greater competitiveness. Second, digital systems enable different forms of competition, which might even involve collaboration among competitors. By providing a common infrastructure for managing interdependencies within and across firms, many digital systems have opened new avenues for collaborative linkages among competing firms, leading to growing �co-opetition� (i.e., concurrent collaboration and competition) in e-business. Digital systems enable this through numerous means, including shared repositories, real-time integration of business processes, electronic communities that foster learning and relationships, and virtual organizations that allow rapid assembly of external resources and capabilities (Strader, Lin, and Shaw, 1998). Third, widespread use of digital systems enables competition to occur across traditionally defined industry boundaries. Although research on competitive actions and IS has largely focused on firms that compete as direct rivals in industry contexts that are fairly circumscribed, it has become increasingly important to account for competition among indirect rivals from industries that are tangential or altogether unrelated from the focal industry. For example, as they becoming increasingly reliant on web-based ticketing, airlines face competition from firms such as sidestep.com and travelocity.com. Similarly, retailers of all kinds face competition from pricewatch.com and amazon.com. This special issue of ISR is designed to stimulate fresh investigation of the relationship between digital systems and emergent competition. All lenses of inquiry into the nature of this relationship are encouraged, including: strategic, organizational, behavioral, economic, and technical. The special issue welcomes theoretical, analytical, and empirical (using any kind of research method, including case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on) examinations of topics dealing with relationships in this area. The research topics addressed in the papers might relate to some of the trends mentioned above, or to other aspects of the relationship between digital systems and competition. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: �Relationships between digital systems and competitive actions �Relationships between digital systems and emerging forms of competition �Dynamics of digital systems and competitive actions in inter-firms networks �Digital systems as enabling or inhibiting competition across industries �Links between digital systems, competitive actions, and firm performance �Contingency impacts of the nature of the firm, the firm�s industry, the firm�s socio-political environment, and the role of IT �Competitive action measures for gauging impacts of digital systems on competitive actions (and consequent firm performance) �Longitudinal evolution of the linkage between a firm�s digital systems and competition �Firm and network capabilities for leveraging digital systems in competitive actions �Links between IT investments, IT capabilities, complementary organizational capabilities, and competitive actions. �Dynamics of competitive actions in the digital goods industry (media, content, software, travel services, retail finance, etc.). �IT-enabled new product development, pricing, multi-channel marketing, and competitive dynamics �The role of standards in competing through digital systems �Economics of digital systems and competition References Schumpeter, J.A. The Theory of Economic Development. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, MA, 1934. Smith, K.G., Ferrier, W.J., and Ndofor, H. �Competitive Dynamics Research: Critique and Future Directions,� in Handbook of Strategic Management, M. A. Hitt, R. E. Freeman and Jeffrey S. Harrison (eds.), Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, 2001, pp. 315-361. Strader, T.J., Lin, F.R., and Shaw, M.J. �Information Structure for Electronic Virtual Organization Management,� Decision Support Systems, (23), 1998, pp. 75-94. Strassmann, P.A. �Real Numbers: Taking a Bite out of Overhead,� Baseline, May 2005, pp. 30. GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD Senior Editors (listed alphabetically): Walter J. Ferrier, University of Kentucky (walter.ferrier(a)uky.edu) Clyde W. Holsapple, University of Kentucky (cwhols(a)uky.edu) Rajiv Sabherwal, University of Missouri � St. Louis (sabherwal(a)umsl.edu) Editorial Review Board: Members of the Editorial Review Board for the special issue have been recruited from among prominent researchers in the areas of: �competitive dynamics �impacts of information technology on firm performance. The Editorial Review Board for this special issue is comprised of the following scholars (listed alphabetically): Anitesh Barua, University of Texas-Austin  Manuel Becerra, Instituto de Empresa (Spain) Anandhi Bharadwaj, Emory University  Sudip Bhattacharjee, University of Connecticut  Ram Chellappa, Emory University  Ming-Jer Chen, University of Virginia Lei Chi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  Vivek Choudhury, University of Cincinnati   Brian Dos Santos, University of Louisville  Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California  Samer Faraj, University of Maryland  Avi Fiegenbaum, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) Devi Gnyawali, Virginia Tech University Curt Grimm, University of Maryland Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University (Sweden) Ram Gopal, University of Connecticut  Varun Grover, Clemson University  Alok Gupta, University of Minnesota  Kai-Lung Hui, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and National University of Singapore (Singapore)   Prabhudev Konana, University of Texas-Austin Juha-Antti Lamberg, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne (Germany) Ravi Madhavan, University of Pittsburgh Rich Makadok, Emory University Arvind Malhotra, University of North Carolina  Hermann Nfdofor, Texas A&M University Mogens Kühn Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) Sudha Ram, University of Arizona  Ram Ramesh, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York   H.R. Rao, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York   T. (Ravi) Ravichandran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  Ken Smith, University of Maryland Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University  Bruce W. Weber, London Business School (United Kingdom) Youngjin Yoo, Temple University Greg Young, North Carolina State University TIME TABLE Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2008. No late submissions will be considered. Symposium hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (possibly in nearby Hartford CT): circa March 2009 PROCESS �All research paper submissions must be made through ISR�s online submission system which can be accessed at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isr. The author should state in the submission message that the paper is being submitted to this special issue of ISR. �All submitted papers will receive an initial screening by the Senior Editors. Only papers that are deemed a priori to have a reasonable chance of acceptance in an accelerated review process will remain under consideration. Papers that do not pass this initial screening will not be considered further. �Papers that pass the initial screening will undergo no more than three rounds of review (i.e., two revisions). Papers not accepted by the end of the third round will be rejected. Papers will be returned to the authors for a second revision only if the revisions to be undertaken after the second round are fairly straightforward. �Following the first round of review, authors of papers for which revisions are invited will be asked to present their work at a conference organized around the special issue theme and sponsored by the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in early 2009. These authors will be required to present their work at the conference in order to have their papers remain under consideration. Attendees will be expected to cover their own travel and lodging expenses. The conference will be valuable in providing feedback to authors, enhancing insights into the nature of their research efforts/results, and stimulating interest in the special issue theme. �Authors must adhere to a strict schedule for submission and revision of papers: o the first round of reviews will be returned to authors three months after the initial submission date o the first revision of the paper will be due three months after the return of the first round of reviews o the second round of reviews will be returned to authors two months after the conference o the second revision of the paper will be due two months after return of the second round of reviews o a final decision on the paper will be made within two months of the receipt of the second revision of the paper o papers that miss revision deadlines will be rejected � Rejected papers can be submitted as regular submissions to Information Systems Research only if such an action is recommended in the Special Issue rejection letter. A recommendation to revise and resubmit as a regular Information Systems Research article will only be undertaken in special circumstances, such as when a formally reviewed manuscript was found to possess a strong likelihood of acceptance but was deemed to either be a poor fit with the theme of the Special Issue or required revisions which, while perceived to be feasible, are unlikely to be accomplished within the Special Issue�s accelerated review schedule. 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 : IJIMA Special Issue on Mobile Advertising and Communication (Due: 1 JUNE 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 May '08

06 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP : IJIMA Special Issue on Mobile Advertising and Communication (Due: 1 JUNE 2008) Datum: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:13:45 +0800 Von: Eldon Y. Li <eli(a)calpoly.edu> Antwort an: Eldon Y. Li <eli(a)calpoly.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> . . . . . . . . . . . [ Apologies for cross-mailing. ] C A L L . F O R . P A P E R S Submit by June 1, 2008 ******************************************************************* INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERNET MARKETING AND ADVERTISEMENT (IJIMA) Indexed by ABI/INFORM, Cabell's, EI-Inspec, Management/Marketing Abstracts, & Scopus Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., Geneva, Switzerland ISSN (Online): 1741-8100 - ISSN (Print): 1477-5212 Journal URL: http://www.icebnet.org/ijima/ or http://www.inderscience.com/ijima/ Online Paper Submission URL: http://www.icebnet.org/author/ ******************************************************************* Special Issue on: "Mobile Advertising and Communication" Guest Editors: Jaana Tähtinen and Jari Salo, University of Oulu, Finland Commercial communication sent to and received with mobile hand held devices (e.g. mobile phones, PDAs) is among the newest ways for marketers to communicate and even interact with their customers. Mobile advertising and communication continues to grow as mobile technology advances and the penetration of sophisticated mobile phones increases. Also, developments in telecommunication networks and internet technologies enable more interactive mobile advertising and communication campaigns. Currently, text and multimedia messages are used to communicate with customers, both in consumer and business-to-business markets. Even mobile advertising games have been introduced to the market. In research, the topic has been addressed under such labels as mobile marketing, mobile CRM, mobile commerce and/or business and mobile advertising. Recent studies have suggested that no other form of commercial communication shares the exact same essential elements with the mobile form, making it unique and deserving of more rigorous research. The distinctive features of mobile advertising and communication are interactivity of the media, the personal and ubiquitous nature of the mobile device and services, and its context-sensitivity, for example when the customer is actually shopping. Regardless of the rapid increase in studies focusing on mobile advertising and communication, the theory development and conceptualisations of mobile means of commercial communication suffer from a lack of attention. The purpose of this special issue is to advance the theory development in this area and bring forward multiple and overlapping aspects of the phenomenon. The theme covers all commercial communication delivered via mobile hand held devices. Theoretical (including reviews) and qualitative and quantitative empirical papers from consumers' and marketers' points of view are welcome. Subject Coverage Topics of relevance to this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Mobile advertising and communication in business-to-consumers/ business-to-business markets and in non-profit marketing * Word-of-mouth in mobile context * Mobile advertising and communication as a part of CRM and IMC * Ethics and legal considerations in mobile advertising and communication * Efficiency and creativity of mobile advertising and communication * Role of mobile advertising and communication in service quality and recovery * Mobile games as an advertising forum * Extension of the social web (2.0) into mobile sphere * Young consumers and mobile advertising and communication * Acceptance and usage of mobile advertising and communication * Search engine marketing coupled with mobile advertising and communication * Business models within mobile advertising and communication * Digital media and advertising agencies and mobile advertising and communication * Global issues in mobile advertising and communication Important Dates Due date for full-paper submissions: 1 June, 2008 Outcomes of initial screening are returned to authors whose papers are rejected for further reviews: 15 June, 2008 Outcomes of 1st-round formal reviews are sent to authors of all papers: 1 August, 2008 Due date for resubmission of papers required revisions: 1 October, 2008 Outcomes of 2nd-round formal reviews are sent to authors of resubmitted papers: 1 November, 2008 Due date for resubmission of papers required only minor revisions.: 1 December, 2008 Outcomes of 3rd-round formal reviews are sent to authors of resubmitted papers: 15 December, 2008 Due date for authors to submit properly-formatted copies for all accepted papers: 1 January, 2009 Notes for Prospective Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the _Author Guidelines_ <http://www.icebnet.org/author> web-page. Editors and Notes Submit one copy of your paper as an MS Word or PDF file online via the Author Portal <http://www.icebnet.org/JMS/>. If you have any questions or any problem submitting the paper via the portal, please e-mail your problem description to: Prof. (acting) Jari Salo University of Oulu 90014 University of Oulu Finland E-mail: jari.salo(a)oulu.fi or Prof. Jaana Tahtinen University of Oulu 90014 University of Oulu Finland E-mail: jaana.tahtinen(a)oulu.fi The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. 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