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[Fwd: [WI] CfP Workshop "Kundenbindung und Kundenintegration mit IT" auf der INFORMATIK 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP Workshop "Kundenbindung und Kundenintegration mit IT" auf der INFORMATIK 2009 Datum: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:09:34 +0200 Von: <Volker.Nissen(a)tu-ilmenau.de> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= Workshop auf der 39. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fuer Informatik 2009 "Kundenbindung und Kundenintegration mit IT" am 1. Oktober 2009 ====================================================================== Thema: Globaler Wettbewerb und gestiegene Kundenanforderungen fordern verstaerkte Anstrengungen zur dauerhaften Kundenbindung und Integration der Kunden in die Prozesse von Organisationen. Dazu ist es notwendig, einerseits Informationen ueber die Kundenbeduerfnisse zu erheben und auszuwerten und andererseits Produkte und Geschaeftsprozesse besser auf diese auszurichten. Mit Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systemen haben Unternehmen in juengster Vergangenheit versucht, zumindest den Bedarf an Informationen ueber Kunden zu decken. Notwendig ist aber ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz, der ueber die Prozessgestaltung und Integration der Kunden in die eigenen Unternehmensprozesse sowie ein umfassendes Informationsmanagement gewaehrleistet, dass AEnderungen der Kundenbeduerfnisse moeglichst proaktiv mitgestaltet und zeitnah in Produkte und Prozessanpassungen umgesetzt werden. Der Workshop soll eine Plattform bieten, neueste Entwicklungen auf diesem Gebiet vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Hierzu gehoeren neben CRM-Systemen, Data Warehouse Loesungen und Ansaetzen der IT-gestuetzten Kundenbindung insbesondere Loesungen fuer das Customer Lifecycle Management mit Hilfe von IT-Systemen. Moegliche Schwerpunkte von Beitraegen sollten sich am Customer Lifecycle orientieren und grundsaetzlich einen der folgenden Aspekte thematisieren: - Kundengewinnung, Marketing und Vertrieb - Kundenbindung und -entwicklung - Beschwerdemanagement - After Sales Unterstuetzung durch IT - Kundenrueckgewinnung - Kundenorientierte Produktentwicklung und Fertigung - Kundenintegration in die Logistikplanung und Disposition - CRM-Systeme - Data Warehouse Loesungen im Umfeld des Kundenmanagements - Informationsgewinnung, -analyse und -verteilung bei Kundendaten - IT-gestuetzte Verfahren zur kundenorientierten Produktgestaltung (Mass Customization) - Wissensmanagement im Umfeld des Kundenmanagements Beitraege mit anderen, hier nicht aufgefuehrten Themen, die ebenfalls einen klaren Bezug zum Rahmenthema aufweisen, sind ebenfalls willkommen. Programmkomitee: - Prof. Dr. Manfred Bruhn, Universitaet Basel - Dr. Thomas Deelmann, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn - Prof. Dr. Katja Gelbrich, TU Ilmenau - Dr. Thomas Greutmann, syskoplan AG - Dr. Carsten Joerns, IDS Scheer AG, Saarbruecken - Torsten Krueger, simple fact AG, Nuernberg - Prof. Dr. Anton Meyer, LMU Muenchen - Prof. Dr. Volker Nissen, TU Ilmenau - Prof. Dr. Andreas Otto, Universitaet Regenburg - Dr. Mathias Petsch, TU Ilmenau - Prof. Dr. Frank Piller, RWTH Aachen - Prof. Dr. Herrad Schmidt, Universitaet Siegen - Prof. Dr. Rainer Souren, TU Ilmenau - Prof. Dr. Florian von Wangenheim, TU Muenchen - Prof. Dr. Klaus D. Wilde, Universitaet Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Workshopleitung: Prof. Dr. Volker Nissen, FG Wirtschaftsinformatik fuer Dienstleistungen, TU Ilmenau Dr. Mathias Petsch, FG Wirtschaftsinformatik fuer Dienstleistungen, TU Ilmenau Autorenhinweise: Die geplante Dauer für den Workshop beträgt einen halben Tag, wobei von zwei bis drei Sessions mit jeweils drei Beiträgen ausgegangen wird. Es wird erwartet, dass sich mindestens ein Autor jedes angenommenen Beitrages zur INFORMATIK 2009 anmeldet und den Beitrag dort präsentiert. - Beiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache - Die angenommenen Workshopbeiträge müssen im LNI-Format erstellt werden. Nähere Informationen finden Sie unter LNI-Format <http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/> - Länge max. 15 Seiten (anonymisiert) plus 1-seitiger Abstract (nicht anonymisiert) - Einreichung der Beiträge bitte elektronisch als PDF an Mathias.Petsch(at)tu-ilmenau.de <mailto:Mathias.Petsch@tu-ilmenau.de> Siehe auch Webseite des Workshops: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/GI09_KKIT/ ******************************************************************** Wichtige Termine: Einreichung der Beitraege: 26. April 2009 Benachrichtigung ueber die Annahme der Beitraege: 25. Mai 2009 Ueberarbeitete Endfassung der Beitraege: 01. Juli 2009 Workshop: 01. Okt. 2009 ************************************************************************ -- Univ.Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann Institut of Information Systems and New Media WU Vienna Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA -- 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] CfP Workshop "IV-Beratung" auf der INFORMATIK 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP Workshop "IV-Beratung" auf der INFORMATIK 2009 Datum: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:49:25 +0200 Von: <Volker.Nissen(a)tu-ilmenau.de> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> >> Call for Papers << >> Workshop im Rahmen der INFORMATIK 2009 << ============================================== IV-Beratung aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive ============================================== Thema: ====== Informationsverarbeitungsbezogene (IV-) Beratung ist ein bedeutender Teilbereich der Unternehmensberatung. Die IV-Beratung uebernimmt dort eine Mittlerfunktion zwischen Forschung und Praxis, wo sich die Moeglichkeit ergibt, die Umsetzung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse in der Praxis zu beobachten oder voranzutreiben bzw. die wissenschaftliche Aufbereitung von in der Praxis aufgetretenen Frage- und Problemstellungen anzustossen. Die angesprochene Mittlerfunktion aeussert sich nicht zuletzt in der Attraktivitaet der IV-Beratung als Arbeitgeber fuer Hochschulabsolventen. Trotz der grossen praktischen Bedeutung von Unternehmensberatung wird der Branche in der deutschsprachigen Forschung und Lehre noch zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Ein Grossteil wissenschaftlicher Veroeffentlichungen zur Unternehmens?bera?tung thematisiert dabei Aspekte der Strategie- oder Organisationsberatung. Besonders gross ist das Defizit an wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung bei The?men der IV-Beratung, obwohl dieses Beratungsfeld einen substantiellen Anteil am Gesamtumsatz der Branche ausmacht. Im Rahmen dieses Workshops sollen Aspekte der IV-Beratung aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive beleuchtet werden, wobei ganz unterschiedliche Zugaenge moeglich sind. Die folgende Aufstellung gibt einen (nicht abschliessenden) Ueberblick ueber moegliche Themen: * Beratungsmarkt: Strukturen und Trends * Verhaeltnis IV-Berater - Klient: Rolle von Macht und Vertrauen, Aspekte des Wissensmanagements, Netzwerkbildung und -entwicklung, Strukturen von Beratungsprozessen, Anschlussfaehigkeit der Beratung beim Klienten * Trends und Moden: Effekte und Treiber der IV-Beratung; Relevanz der Beratung * Konzepte und Strukturen der IV-Beratung: Geschaeftsmodell, Prozesse und Strategien von IV-Beratungen, Selbstoptimierung der Berater, beratungsunterstuetzende Informationssysteme, internetbasierte Beratung * Informationssysteme fuer die Steuerung von Beratungsunternehmen: Berater- und Projektdatenbanken, Auswahl- und Evaluationsmechanismen und -systeme, Beratereinsatzsteuerungen * Verhaeltnis von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft zur IV-Beratung: Praxisrelevanz der Wissenschaft, Beratung als Trendgeber fuer die Praxis und Forschung, Ausbildungsfunktion der Beratung und Ausbildung fuer die Beratung Beitraege mit anderen, hier nicht aufgefuehrten Themen, die ebenfalls einen klaren Bezug zum Rahmenthema aufweisen, sind ebenfalls willkommen. Organisatoren: - Prof. Dr. Volker Nissen (Sprecher des GI-Arbeitskreises IV-Beratung) Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau - Dr. Thomas Deelmann (Stellv. Sprecher des GI-Arbeitskreises IV-Beratung) Deutsche Telekom AG, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn Programmkomitee: - Ulrich Bode, Sprecher des Beirats der Selbstaendigen in der GI e.V. - Prof. Dr. Michael H. Breitner - Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover - Dr. Thomas Deelmann - Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn - Prof. Dr. Georg Rainer Hofmann, Hochschule Aschaffenburg - Dr. Nick Gehrke, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universitaet Hamburg - Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau - Lehrstuhl fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik und Electronic Government, Universitaet Potsdam - Prof. Dr. Franz Lehner - Lehrstuhl fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik II, Universitaet Passau - Prof. Dr. Peter Loos - Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik im DFKI, Universitaet des Saarlandes - Dr. Ulrich Mueller - Leiter Strategie, T-Systems , Frankfurt - Dr. Bjoern Niehaves - European Research Center for Information Systems, Universitaet Muenster - Prof. Dr. Volker Nissen - Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau - Dr. Dirk Oevermann, Mitglied des Vorstandes, IDS Scheer AG, Saarbruecken - Prof. Dr. Jochen Pruemper - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften I, HTW Berlin - Dirk Schawag, Leiter Savvy Suite Consulting, syscovery AG - Dr. Lutz Schmidt - Geschaeftsfuehrer, X-Case GmbH, Ilmenau - Dr. Jochen Sprengart - Senior Manager, DHC GmbH, Saarbruecken Autorenhinweise: Die Dauer fuer den Workshop betraegt einen halben Tag, wobei von zwei bis drei Sessions mit jeweils drei Beitraegen ausgegangen wird. Es wird erwartet, dass sich mindestens ein Autor jedes angenommenen Beitrages zur INFORMATIK 2009 anmeldet und den Beitrag dort praesentiert. - Beiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache - Die angenommenen Workshopbeiträge müssen im LNI-Format <http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/> erstellt werden. - Länge max. 15 Seiten (anonymisiert) plus 1-seitiger Abstract (nicht anonymisiert) - Einreichung der Beiträge bitte elektronisch als PDF an Volker.Nissen(at)tu-ilmenau.de <mailto:Volker.Nissen@tu-ilmenau.de> Naehere Hinweise siehe http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/GI09_IVBeratung/ ******************************************************************** Wichtige Termine: Einreichung der Beitraege: 26. April 2009 Benachrichtigung ueber die Annahme der Beitraege: 25. Mai 2009 Ueberarbeitete Endfassung der Beitraege: 01. Juli 2009 Workshop: 01. Okt. 2009 ******************************************************************** -- Univ.Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann Institut of Information Systems and New Media WU Vienna Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA -- 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] CFP: IWWUA 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: IWWUA 2009 Datum: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:34:14 +0200 Von: Silvia Abrahão <sabrahao(a)dsic.upv.es> Antwort an: Silvia Abrahão <sabrahao(a)dsic.upv.es> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA 2009) October 5-7, 2009, Poznan, Poland http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua09 Co-located with the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009) http://wise2009.ue.poznan.pl/ ***************************************************************************** Following up the tradition established in the last two years, IWWUA 2009 aims at bringing together researchers and professionals interested in discussing recent trends and perspectives in Web usability and accessibility. One of the goals of this year's edition will be to deepen the issues related to the usability and accessibility of modern Web 2.0 applications. Contributions focusing on Web 2.0 applications are especially encouraged. However, papers addressing more traditional Web domains are also welcome. IWWUA will discuss and classify the existing research works, to identify gaps in the existing development and evaluation practices that can lead to topics or further research. An issue of particular importance is when and how usability should be integrated into a well-organized Web development process. We therefore look for contributions that discuss not only technical and theoretical aspects, but also methodological and practical issues. More information on the Workshop can be found at the Workshop Web site: gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua09/. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the Workshop will include, but will not be limited to: - Usability and accessibility guidelines, factors, criteria, metrics, patterns, and recommendations - Management of usability and accessibility requirements - Evaluation methods - Early usability evaluation (e.g., model-based evaluation) - Integration of usability and accessibility evaluation in the development processes - Automatic tools - Theoretical/empirical validation of metrics - Empirical studies - User experience - Industrial experience PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit their papers by May 1, 2009. Papers must describe completed works (8 pages maximum). Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work, as well as with respect to their ability to generate discussions between the Workshop participants. Submissions must follow the Springer-Verlag LNCS standard paper format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and be submitted electronically in PDF format through the WISE Review System (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wise2009). Please, make sure you select the *Web Usability and Accessibility track* of the WISE conference for your submission. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2009 Camera-ready papers: June 28, 2009 Author registration: June 28, 2009 Conference & Workshops: October 5-7, 2009 PUBLICATION All the accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a separate volume for the WISE Workshops. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an improved and extended version of their papers to a special issue in a relevant journal. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Silvia Abrahão, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Nigel Bevan, Professional Usability Services, United Kingdom Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy Coral Calero, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain Tiziana Catarci, Universit‡ degli Studi di Roma ìLa Sapienzaî, Italy Vicente Luque Centeno, University Carlos III, Spain Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Jair Cavalcanti Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy Gerry Gaffney, Information & Design, Australia Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Nederlands Emilio Insfran, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina Geert Poels, University of Ghent, Belgium Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA, UNLP, Argentina Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Italy Marco Winckler, University Paul Sabatier, France CONTACT The Workshop co-chairs can be contacted by email at the address admin_iwwua09(a)dlsi.ua.es ___________________________________________________________ Silvia Abrahão Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC) Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) Camino de Vera s/n - 46022 Valencia, España Phone : + 34 96 387 7000 ext. 83510 Fax : + 34 96 387 7359 Web : http://www.dsic.upv.es/~sabrahao Office: D-305 (Third floor, DSIC building) ____________________________________________________________ The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: RR 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: RR 2009 Datum: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:55:44 +0200 Von: Manuel Ojeda Aciego <aciego(a)ctima.uma.es> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.OptimaNumerics.com> Apologies for multiple postings CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009 Chantilly, Virginia, USA October 25-26, 2009 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09 The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series (acceptance pending for this year). Papers may be accepted as: * full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) * posters (2 pages in the proceedings). The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TENTATIVE DATES * Abstract submission: June 28, 2009 * Paper submission: July 4, 2009 * Acceptance decisions: August 1, 2009 * Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou FORTH-ICS (GR) Marcelo Arenas PUC Chile (CL) Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University (CA) Piero Bonatti Univ. of Naples Frederico II (IT) Carlos Damasio Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT) Wlodek Drabent IPI PAN Warszawa (PL) Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Oxford (UK) Volker Haarslev Concordia University (CA) Giovambattista Ianni Univ. of Calabria (IT) Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens (GR) Domenico Lembo DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (IT) Thomas Lukasiewicz Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK) Francesca Alessandra Lisi Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT) Wolfgang May Univ. Goettingen (DE) David Pearce Universidad Politde Madrid (ES) Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University (US) Guilin Qi Univ. of Karlsruhe (DE) Marie-Christine Rousset Univ. of Grenoble (FR) Sebastian Rudolph Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT) Michael Sintek DFKI GmbH (DE) Giorgos Stamou National Tech. University of Athens (GR) Heiner Stuckenschmidt Univ. of Mannheim (DE) York Sure AIFB - Universitaet Karlsruhe (DE) Peter Szeredi Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU) Sergio Tessaris Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT) Hans Tompits Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) Dirk Vermeir Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair: Axel Polleres Terrance Swift PC co-Chair - RR 2009 PC co-Chair - RR 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) National University of Ireland, Galway Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan - Galway, Ire. Quinta da Torre 2829-516 CAPARICA - Portugal Email: axel.polleresderi.org Email: tswiftcs.sunysb.edu For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair: Michael Kifer Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY USA Email; kifercs.sunysb.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [isworld] Workshop on Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches]
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Workshop on Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches Datum: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:08:56 -0500 Von: Muhammad Ali Babar <muhammad.alibabar(a)lero.ie> Antwort an: Muhammad Ali Babar <muhammad.alibabar(a)lero.ie> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Call For contributions and participations Workshop on Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches http://www.acube-community.org/wikis/index.php/Architecture-Centric_Methods… Co-located with the 10th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP 2009) - http://www2.xp2009.org/xp2009/ Sardinia, Italy, 25 - 29 May 2009 Workshop Theme and Goals ------------------------ Agile software development approaches have had significant impact on industrial software development practices. Many software development companies, (e.g. Nokia, Philips, ABB, Volvo, Ericsson, SAP, Microsoft, to name a few), across the globe are increasingly adopting agile approaches with an intention to increase quality, productivity, and profitability. Despite becoming widely popular, there is an increasing perplexity about the role and importance of a system's software architecture in agile approaches [1, 2]. Advocates of the vital role of architecture in achieving quality goals of large-scale-software-intensive-systems are skeptics of the scalability of any development approach that does not pay sufficient attention to architectural issues, especially in domains like automotive, telecommunication, finance, and medical devices. However, the proponents of agile approaches usually perceive the upfront design and evaluation of architecture as being of less value to the customers of a system. According to them, for example, re-factoring can help fix most of the problems. Many experiences show that large-scale re-factoring often results in significant defects, which are very costly to address later in the development cycle. It is considered that re-factoring is worthwhile as long as the high-level design is good enough to limit the need for large-scale re-factoring [1, 3, 4]. There is a growing recognition of the importance of paying more attention to architectural aspects in agile approaches [4-7]. Researchers and practitioners have also identified the technical and organizational challenges involved in integrating Agile approaches in traditional software development methods [8, 9]. However, while anecdotal evidence reveals that there are large organizations in the midst of agile transformation and that the architectural issues are somehow addressed, there has been no significant effort aimed at synthesizing and presenting a reliable body of knowledge about the architecture-centric challenges being faced by agile software development projects and potential solutions to address those challenges. Hence, it is an emerging consensus among researchers and practitioners that there is a vital need for devising a research agenda for identifying and dealing with architecture-centric challenges in agile software development [10]. Such research agenda is expected to make it possible to guide the future research on integrating architecture-centric methods in agile approaches and give advice to the software industry on dealing with architecture related challenges. Workshop goals: The overall goal of this workshop is to refine and further develop the research agenda developed in the previous workshop [10, 11]. Developing such an agenda will require activities for brainstorming, discussion and reaching consensus on important directions. To foster discussions at the workshop, the accepted position statements will be put online before the event and the prospective participants will be invited to read them as preparation for the workshop. Moreover, we will also update the Wiki setup for the last workshop to reflect the research progress that has been made since the last workshop. During the previous workshop on this topic, held at XP08, the organizers and participants identified several research questions that are expected to stimulate the group discussions in the workshop. These questions are: � How has the role of software architecture and software architects changed in projects using Agile approaches and its impact on the quality of the products and processes? � What are the key architecture-centric challenges to implementing Agile processes for developing large scale systems and potential solutions available to practitioners? � How can the considerations for non functional requirements be appropriately addressed while using Agile approaches? � What are the prerequisites for integrating Architecture-Centric methods in agile development and potential implications of such integration on the processes and products? � What kind of training needs to be provided in the areas of architecture-centric technologies (methods, techniques, and tools), customization and integration of architecture-centric approaches into Agile software development process? � How can the use of patterns by agile developers help address architectural issues related to the required quality attributes? � How does the architectural knowledge transfer from design to implementation in agile software development settings? The workshop will be divided in two parts: Part one will include short presentations of position statements and identification of controversial topics. Part two will consist of focused brainstorming and discussion activities in order to deliberate on the relevant issues and research questions Guidelines for Submission ------------------------- We are looking for two categories of submissions: * short position papers, up to 4 pages. * Position statements, up to 2 pages or powerpoinnt slides. Every submitted position papers and statements will be evaluated based on the potenial for stimulating lively and productive discussions. Submissions should be e-mailed in PDF to Ali Babar (malibaba "at" lero.ie) with "Architecture-Agile 2009" in the subject line. All the accepted position papers and statements will be made available on the workshop Wiki before the workshop. Important dates ---------------- 10 April - deadline for submission 13 April - notification 15 April - Registration 8 May - Workshop Workshop organizers ------------------- * Muhammad Ali Babar, Lero, Ireland, malibaba(a)lero.ie * Pekka Abrahamsson, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland, pekka.abrahamsson(a)vtt.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. 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: EUC 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP: EUC 2009 Datum: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:29:59 -0500 Von: Agustinus Borgy Waluyo <abwaluyo(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Agustinus Borgy Waluyo <abwaluyo(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> [Apologies for cross-postings] *************** EUC-09 Call for Papers **************** The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09) http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/ Sponsored by IEEE and IFIP Vancouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009 ******************************************************* INTRODUCTION ============ Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting paradigm that promises to provide computing and communication services to the end users all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now invading in every aspect of our daily life and promise to revolutionize our life much more profoundly than elevators, electric motors or even personal computer evolution ever did. The emergence of this technology is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in a variety of areas including embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies. EUC-09 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), previously held as ICDCS-ECS04 (Tokyo, Japan, March 2004), EUC-04 (Aizu, Japan, August 2004), EUC-05 (Nagasaki, Japan, December 2005), EUC-06 (Seoul ,Korea, August 2006), EUC-07 (Taipei, Taiwan, December 2007) and EUC-08 (Shanghai, China, December 2008). TOPICS ====== The EUC-09 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all resulting profound challenges including technical, safety, social, legal, political, and economic issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of embedded and ubiquitous computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: EMBEDDED COMPUTING: * Embedded System Software and Optimization * Embedded System Architectures * Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation * Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems * Application-Specific Processors and Devices * Power-Aware Computing * Sensor Networks * System/Network-on-Chip * Reconfigurable Computing Systems and Applications * Cyber-Physical Systems UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING: * Pervasive Computing and Communications * Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing * Internet Computing and Applications * Multimedia and Data Management * Human-Computer Interaction * Network Protocols * Wireless Communication & Networks * Mobile Computing * Agents and Distributed Computing * Security and Fault Tolerance Applications IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 Authors Notification: May 25, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2009 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION ===================== Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the EUC-09 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/sub/ Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library. PAPER PUBLICATION ================= Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the EUC-09 conference by IEEE Computer Society. Selected bested papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of Journal of Embedded Computing (JEC), International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems and several SCI-indexed journals. One best paper each in embedded and ubiquitous themes will be selected. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL ================= In conjunction with the EUC-09 conference, several workshops will be held. Please submit a workshop proposal including call for papers, organizing committee, important dates, short bio of the organizers to the EUC-09 workshop chairs before March 01, 2009. Proceedings of EUC-09 workshops will be published by IEEE CS Press. The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration for the leading workshop organizer. ORGANIZATION ============ General Chairs Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan General Vice-Chairs Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Kin F. Li, University of Victoria, Canada Program Chairs Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Vice-Chairs Embedded Systems Software and Optimization Jenq-Kuen Lee, National Tsing hua University, Taiwan Embedded Systems and Hardware/Software Co-Design Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Cyber-Physical Systems Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems Paul Pettersson, Mälardalen University, Sweden Power-Aware Computing Zili Shao, Hong kong Polytechnic University, China Wireless Communications Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Sensor Networks Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Mobile Computing Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Agent and Distributed Computing Brian Logan, University of Nottingham, UK Middleware and P2P Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK Multimedia and Data Management David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Dependable, Autonomic, Secure and Trusted Computing Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, USA Daniel C. Doolan, Robert Gordon University, UK Steering Chairs Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Award Chairs Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea Panel Chairs Edwin H.-M. Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Marco Avvenuti , University of Pisa, Italy Publicity Chairs Lei Shu, National University of Ireland, Ireland Senol Z. Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey Evi Syukur, University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan Bing Guo, Sichuan University, China Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Borgy Waluyo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Local Chairs Peidong Zhu, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Andy Yongwen Pan, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Leo Liu Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Conference Secretary Vivian Zichun Xu, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee See EUC-09 web site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/ Further questions, please contact with General: euc09(a)googlegroups.com Program: Jingling Xue (jingling(a)cse.unsw.edu.au) Workshop: Wei Zhang (zhang(a)engr.siu.edu) Daniel C. Doolan (d.c.doolan(a)rgu.ac.uk) ************************************************************************ The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: CFP: Sixth International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2009)]
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: Sixth International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2009) Datum: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:20:31 -0700 Von: REV 2009 <rev(a)rev2009bridgeport.org> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Dear Colleagues, If you received this email in error, please forward it to the appropriate department at your institution. If you wish to unsubscribe please follow the unsubscribe link at bottom of the email. Please do not reply to this message. If you need to contact us please email us at info(a)rev2009bridgeport.org ********************************************************************* * International Association of Online Engineering * * * * Sixth International Conference on Remote Engineering and * * Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2009) * * * * * * University of Bridgeport * * * * * * http://www.rev2009bridgeport.org * * * * * * June 22-25, 2009 * * * ********************************************************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE OVERVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sixth International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2009) will be held on June 22-25, 2009 at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.A. REV 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual events addressing the area of remote engineering and virtual instrumentation. Previous editions of REV were organized in the form of an international symposium, and evolved in 2007 to be the annual conference of the International Association of Online Engineering. The general objective of this conference is to discuss fundamentals, applications and experiences within the field of online engineering, both in industry and academia. REV 2009 offers an exciting technical program as well as academic networking opportunities during the social events. Scope of the conference: Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation are emerging trends in engineering and science. Due to: o The increasing complexity of engineering tasks o The availability of specialized and expensive equipment as well as software tools and simulators o The need for highly qualified staff to control equipment o The demands of globalization The general objective of this conference is to discuss fundamentals, applications and experiences in the field of remote engineering and virtual instrumentation. It is becoming increasingly necessary to allow the shared use of equipment and specialized software. The use of virtual and remote laboratories is one of the future directions for advanced teleworking, remote services, collaborative research and e-working environments. Another objective of the conference is to discuss guidelines for education in university level courses. The organizers encourage industry personnel to present their experiences and applications of remote engineering and virtual instruments. This conference will be organized by the School of Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Virtual and remote laboratories o Remote process visualization and virtual Instrumentation o Remote control and measurement technologies o Online engineering o Networking and grid technologies o Mixed Reality environments for education and training o Demands in education and training, e-learning, b-learning, m-learning and ODL o Teleservice and telediagnosis o Telerobotics and telepresence o Support of collaborative work in virtual engineering environments o Teleworking environments o Telecommunities and their social impact o Present and future trends including social and educational aspects o Human computer interfaces, usability, reusability,accessibility o Applications and experiences o Standards and standardization proposals o Innovative organizational and educational concepts for remote engineering The REV 2009 Conference is soliciting manuscripts which address the various challenges and paradigms in this technological world through research and instructional programs in Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation. Suggested conference session topics are listed above. Other innovations in course and laboratory experiences are also most welcome for submission. To submit your paper abstract, please visit the conference website at http://www.rev2009bridgeport.org If you are interested in submitting a special paper session, panel, tutorial, or workshop proposal, the contact information are also available at the conference website at http://www.rev2009bridgeport.org If your company or institution would like to exhibit at, or co-sponsor, the conference, the sponsorship and exhibit forms are also available at the conference website. Paper and other Proposal Submissions ====================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit their abstracts online in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at http://www.rev2009bridgeport.org. Proposals for special sessions, tutorials, panels, workshops, co-sponsorship and exhibitions are also welcome. Please check the conference website regarding instructions for these proposal submissions. Important Dates =============== Abstracts due 21st April, 2009 Acceptance notification 8th May, 2009 Final manuscript & Registration due 29th May, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ N. Gupta REV 2009 Program Chair University of Bridgeport 221 University Avenue e-mail:info@rev2009bridgeport.org Bridgeport, CT 06604, U.S.A. http://www.rev2009bridgeport.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here on http://server1.streamsend.com/streamsend/unsubscribe.php?cd=3326&md=322&ud=… <http://server1.streamsend.com/streamsend/unsubscribe.php?cd=3326&md=322&ud=…> to update your profile or Unsubscribe

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[Fwd: MoViX'09: submission deadline extended]
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MoViX'09: submission deadline extended Datum: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:50:56 +0100 Von: movix(a)ksi.ms.mff.cuni.cz An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at 1st International Workshop on Modelling and Visualization of XML and Semantic Web Data (MoViX'09) August 31 - September 4, 2009, Linz, Austria http://ulita.ms.mff.cuni.cz/ws/MoViX09/ to be held in conjunction with DEXA 2009 http://www.dexa.org/ XML and semantic data formats (RDF) are currently in the main focus of many researchers who deal with their management, processing, updating, exploitation, etc. However, with their growing popularity, there occurs rises the need for efficient and usable methods and tools for their design and visualization. Such approaches help the user to better understand the structure and semantics of the data and, hence, to propose more appropriate processing methods. In addition, various types of data models, conceptual schemas and visualisation techniques enable users to omit unnecessary technical details such as correct nesting of XML elements, case sensitivity, matching of parenthesis, etc. and to focus on important aspects of the particular application such as precise abstraction of the reality, data semantics, etc. Naturally, most of the existing general approaches to data visualization and modelling can be adapted for XML and Semantic Web data as well. However, since their structure, semantics as well as processing is relatively special, in certain cases it is useful or even necessary to propose a brand new approach suitable for these specific features. Consequently, a wide area of unsolved issues opens. Primarily, since all the approaches are highly related to user interaction, the key problem is how to enable a user to state his/hers requirements. For instance, in case of RDF data visualization, we encounter the problem of their complexity and amount. Or, in case of modelling of XML data, we need to cope with problems such as finding the mapping between a model and an XML schema or reverse engineering of a model from XML data, where the user-interaction is crucial. Even though XML and Semantic Web data processing is the main topic of many conferences around the world, the community dealing particularly with XML and Semantic Web data design and visualization and related issues is still scattered. Similarly, there are conferences that focus on particular types of data modelling in general, however they focus on all related topics and the papers dealing with XML and Semantic Web aspects form only a special group. Therefore, we believe that this specialized workshop will enable to bring all the related topics together and provide an opportunity to deal with the know issues more thoroughly, to share the respective ideas and to discuss them from various points of view. On the other hand, since correct modelling of data and the knowledge of their structure as well as semantics is one of the key aspects for their successful management, we believe that holding the workshop in conjunction with DEXA conference will also provide the opportunity for sharing the ideas with data management experts and finding new issues and challenges on both sides. We invite original submissions from research communities dealing with different theoretical and applied aspects of XML and Semantic Web data visualization and modelling. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to: * Conceptual modelling and visualization of XML data * Visualisation, browsing and exploration of Semantic Web data * Visualisation of ontologies * Formal models for XML and Semantic Web data * Applications of existing visualisation methods for XML and Semantic Web data * User participation in conceptual modelling of XML data * Evolution of conceptual models of XML data * Languages for description of visualisation of XML and Semantic Web data * Tools for data visualization and conceptual modelling of XML and Semantic Web data * Tools and methods for analysis of real-world XML and Semantic Web data Important Dates * Abstract and paper submission: April 4, 2009 (extended!!!) * Author notification: April 20, 2009 * Camera-ready paper submission: March 15, 2009 * Workshop: August 31 - September 4, 2009 Organizers * Jiri Dokulil, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic * Irena Mlynkova, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic * Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Program Committee Chairs * Daniel Moody, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Program Committee * Radim Baca, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic * Martine Collard, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France * Jiri Dokulil, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic * Peter Gursky, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia * Tomasz Kaczmarek, University of Poznan, Poland * Jana Katreniakova, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia * Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore * Agnes Koschmider, Institute AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany * Michal Kratky, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic * Philipp Liegl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Pavel Loupal, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * Essam Mansour, International University, Bruchsal, Germany * Marco Mevius, Institute AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany * Irena Mlynkova, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic * Daniel Moody, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic * Alexander Paar, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany * Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia * Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia * Dmitry Shaporenkov, University of Saint-Petersrburg, Russia * John Soldatos, Athens Information Technology, Greece * Victoria Torres, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain * Michal Valenta, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Proceedings Authors should submit papers reporting original works that are currently not under review or published elsewhere. The paper should be submitted in PDF format, with maximum length five (5) pages, following IEEE Conference Publishing Service (CPS) guidelines. All papers accepted by MoViX'09 will be published in combined workshop proceedings by IEEE. -- Univ.Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann Institut of Information Systems and New Media WU Vienna Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA

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[Fwd: [isworld] Important Dates Change: ACM-L-2009 Second International Workshop on Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning]
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Important Dates Change: ACM-L-2009 Second International Workshop on Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning Datum: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:34:54 -0500 Von: Mingdr Shr <mshr1(a)lsu.edu> Antwort an: Mingdr Shr <mshr1(a)lsu.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> To be held in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2009 November 9-12, 2009, Gramado, Brazil (The specific date for the workshop will be determined at a later date) http://chen-lab.csc.lsu.edu/ACM-L-2009/ACM-L-2009.htm We are organizing ACM-L for next-generation learning-base system development. The goal is to enhance our fundamental understanding of how to capture knowledge from transitions between system states, model continual learning from past experiences, and recognizing new types of knowledge. This understanding will enable us to provide traceable lessons learned for improving current situations, adapting to new situations and potentially predicting future actions. We will focus on providing a theoretical framework for active conceptual modeling based on human cognition paradigm for developing a learning-base system to support cognitive capability development and applications such as joint decision-making, global situation monitoring, info-forensics, command and control, lessons-learned systems, medical/patient information systems, and mobile learning/training. Learning is a continuous process by which relatively permanent behavioral changes occur in the human mind, potentially as a result of an experience. Experience is a kind of knowledge, which includes inference and reasoning about the totality of past events through direct or indirect participation as an individual or group. Learning, which is reflected by discrete changes between states of knowledge, creates meaning from experience. Experience, which is the basis of learning, comprises knowledge or skills gained directly or indirectly through exposure to people, environment, and/or events. Lessons learned represent knowledge gained by reflecting on experiences that can avoid the repetitions of past mishaps to share observations and to improve future actions. While learning is an ongoing process that transfers knowledge from one state to another, a lesson learned summarizes knowledge at a point in time. To describe an experience is to model past events and associated knowledge from a different perspective. This historical perspective allows us to describe a lesson learned from the interaction of episodic and semantic memories in terms of topic, time/space, people, scenarios/events, cause/effect and general knowledge about the situation or domain. A framework for learning based on Active Conceptual Modeling is being investigated. Active conceptual modeling is a continual process of describing all aspects of a domain, its activities, and changes under different perspectives based on our knowledge and human cognition. For any given time, the model is viewed as a multi-dimension, multi-level and multi-perspective high-level abstraction of reality. Some parts of the model may also be innovative constructs without existing concrete experiences. The objectives of ACM-L are to: .Link snapshots as frames to form a dynamic, moving picture of the evolving world with traceability .Capture the workflow from state changes to provide trends and lessons learned from past changes and experience .Present situational outlooks with view progression across snapshots in addition to views of single snapshots .Represent and track changes to the underlying model for knowledge management and application support .Provide a unified dynamic model integrating conceptual, semantic, logical, temporal, spatial and uncertain relationships in information and events .Serve as a basis for interactive user interface 1st ACM-L Workshop (ACM-L 2006) ACM-L 2009 is a follow-up to the 1st International Workshop on ACM-L (ACM-L 2006), which was held in conjunction with the ER 2006 in Tucson, Arizona. Results of ACM-L 2006 can be found in the following Proceedings: Peter P. Chen and Leah Y. Wong (eds.) Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning, First International Workshop on Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning (ACM-L 2006), Tucson, Arizona, November 8, 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science #4512, Springer, January, 2008. Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): Ontological and epistemological foundations of ACM-L Incorporate cultural and cognitive aspects in conceptual model Mathematical framework for conceptual modeling with time, space, perspective, uncertainty dimensions Mapping of constructs among conceptual models Ontology evolution in ACM-L Management of continuous changes Modeling of learning activities Learning as dynamic processes Complex event processing in creating high-level events from numerous low-level events Relationships between concept construction, learning and training with respect to knowledge generation, processing, and integration Continuous knowledge acquisition and generation Modeling of multi-media information and changes based on cognitive paradigm Combined episodic and semantic memories for structuring historical information Active archived data and storage management Executable active conceptual model Pattern recognition, context awareness and changes, and trend detection over time Visualization of change Query of conceptual systems and other kind of conceptual structures Query of historical data Information provenance Origin and source of information Software engineering for active conceptual modeling systems Software for design and use of concept definition libraries Patterns for design of active conceptual modeling systems for different situations Architectures of meta-models for active conceptual modeling systems Systematic definition of requirements for software evolution Software for rule repositories for active conceptual modeling systems Publication of Proceedings Proceedings of all ER 2009 workshops will be published as part of the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS), as a single volume separate from the ER Conference proceedings. ACM-L 2009 Proceedings will be available for all workshop participants. Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in parallel with the printed version, so the electronic source of accepted papers following the Springer format will be required. Format and Submission of Papers Format of submissions will be the same as for the other ER 2009 workshops (10 pages in LNCS standard format) following the ER09 and Springer guidelines. Submissions must be in English and should be e-mailed to leah.wong(a)navy.mil by Friday, 15 May 2009. Detailed format requirements can be found in http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0. All correspondence with authors will be via e-mail so make sure your submission includes an e-mail address for the corresponding author. Key Dates for ACM-L 2009 Workshop Thursday, 28 May 2009 - Submission of papers Thursday, 18 June 2009 - Notification of acceptance for presentation Thursday, 2 July 2009 - Submission of camera-ready copy Important Links Springer LNCS Author Guidelines and Copyright Form: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0 Registration: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ER2009/?p=registration ER 2009 Workshops: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ER2009/?p=accworkshops Workshop Chair Leah Y. Wong, SPAWARSYSCEN Pacific, U.S.A., E-mail: leah.wong(a)navy.mil Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland, E-mail: hk(a)cs.uta.fi Workshop Honorary Chair Peter Chen, Louisiana State University, U.S.A., E-mail: pchen(a)lsu.edu Program Committee · Salvatore T. March, Vanderbilt University, USA · Jari Palomäki, Tampere University of Technology/Pori, Finland · Paul Losiewicz, Office of Naval Research Global, USA · Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA · Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA · Bernhard Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany · Ray Liuzzi, RaymondTechnologies, USA · Jacky Akoka, Titularie de la Chaire d�Informatique d�Enterprise, France · Dave Embley, Bringham Young University, USA · T.C. Ting, University of Connecticut, USA · Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA General inquiries should be addressed to: leah.wong(a)navy.mil . 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. -- Univ.Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann Institut of Information Systems and New Media WU Vienna Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA

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[Fwd: [WI] 2nd CfP: Studying Work Practices in Global Software Development]
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 2nd CfP: Studying Work Practices in Global Software Development Datum: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:06:21 +0100 Von: Volker Wulf <volker.wulf(a)fit.fraunhofer.de> Antwort an: volker.wulf(a)uni-siegen.de An: Liste@fit.fraunhofer.de:Wirtschaftsinformatik <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Call for Papers - Information and Software Technology (IST) Special Issue on Studying Work Practices in Global Software Engineering http://www.idc.ul.ie/gsd/IST_Special_Issue_SWP.html Submission Desdline: June 15th, 2009 Guest editors: - Gabriela Avram, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland - Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany Background and rationale Software development is increasingly distributed across geographical, political, social, and cultural boundaries. Enterprises that wish to take advantage of globalization require innovative techniques, tools, and practices to overcome the various difficulties of organizing and managing globally distributed software development. The field of Global Software Engineering (GSE) or Global Software Development (GSD), as it is sometimes called, has emerged as a transdisciplinary research arena bringing together software engineers as well as social scientists and organization theorists involved in examining various aspects of how globally distributed software teams function. However, while many experimental studies on problem-solving in teams have been performed, as well as interview studies with management referring to problems in distributed coordination and management, extensive participative field study material on actual workplace practices is relatively meagre. Thus, despite of occasional empirical studies of distributed software development activities over the years there is still a dearth of well-designed studies in Information Systems, Software Engineering and CSCW that provide good examples of field research in the area. Goals and objective The purpose of this special issue is to examine practices of global software engineering and to reflect upon the strengths and limitations of empirical research methods being deployed in the field. Methods are not simply techniques to be chosen and deployed at will, but are constructed from particular conceptual worldviews, and entail theoretical commitments. Actual use of methods also requires training and sensitivity to the local situation. These issues are often not adequately dealt with before the researcher enters the field. In order to illustrate this topic in a concrete fashion, we are soliciting papers from researchers who are actively engaged in empirical studies of GSE and wish to reflect on their empirical findings in relation to the methods applied. We are interested in field studies of actual in situ practices of software engineers. Potential topics for the papers (but not limited to these!) are: * The strengths and limitations of particular empirical methods; * The variety of ways in which methods can be used in practice, grounded in specific GSE case studies; * Studying the same topic in different environments; * Gaining access to GSD field sites; * Gaining access to digital artefacts; particular issues with gaining access to source code; * Approaches that go beyond a one-sided local view; * Methods and tools for disentangling complex work trajectories and situating artefacts; * Methods for a quick familiarization with the context: participation in social events, regular meetings, recruiting informants; * Different roles the researcher could adopt; * Dealing with micro-political conflicts in the field; * Dealing with different languages and cultural issues; * Roles of consultants vs. researchers: to what extent and in what circumstances is a consulting role acceptable/desirable? * Opportunities for engaging in a shared commitment with the practitioners in order to identify potentials for change and conjoint learning (e.g. concept of "business ethnography"); * Shortcomings and benefits of exploratory and evolutionary research designs compared to more statistical approaches with predefined hypotheses (i.e., why is it important for the GSD community to take into account this kind of research instead of doing experiments and such?), * Using student groups as proxies in GSE studies. Submission information Authors are invited to submit papers on their field study research, providing an account of the rationale for the choice of research method(s) being used, showing how these relate to the research questions being examined, and interesting findings attained by using the method. Papers should conform to the IST Elsevier format and be submitted as PDF files. -- 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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