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Fwd: Call for chapters | Serious Games as Educational, Business, and Research Tools
by Gustaf Neumann 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for chapters | Serious Games as Educational, Business, and Research Tools Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:46:50 +0100 From: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha <serious.games.book(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: serious.games.book(a)gmail.com To: Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Serious Games as Educational, Business, and Research Tools: Development and Design Call for Chapter Proposals -------------------------- Chapter proposal submission deadline: October 25, 2010 -------------------------- A book edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha http://www.2100books.com serious.games.book(a)gmail.com -------------------------- Dear Professor /Dr. /Mrs. /Mr., It is my pleasure to invite you to consider contributing to this book within your field of expertise, related with the book topics. Chapter proposals of 1-2 pages clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter are accepted until October 25, 2010. Proposals should be sent in Word format to serious.games.book(a)gmail.com Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues / peers who might be interested. Kind regards, Manuela Introduction: ============= Serious games are being developed at an exponential rate, and the impact of their many applications in management, education, defense, scientific research, health care, emergency planning and many other fields is growing quickly. For businesses, serious games create both huge business opportunities and huge challenges, and they may generate both large investments and large returns. In areas ranging from design to programming, from psychology to mathematics, and from management to politics, serious games present great research and development opportunities. In order to maximize the potential and the profit of serious games, organizations, researchers, and developers must understand the opportunities and challenges presented by this new tool in all its domains of application. Overall objectives of this book: =================================== The book intends to collect the most recent technological developments in all embraced fields of knowledge or disciplines of computer games development, including planning, design, development, marketing, business management, users and behavior. The book will: -- Discuss the impact of this emerging domain in its wide range of applications; -- Present and discuss new technological developments; -- Present practical solutions to emerging problems; -- Introduce the state-of-the-art technologies and their applications; -- Discuss business, social and individual impacts of serious games and their technologies; -- Provide guidance for further research and development; -- And build a bridge between research and practice. Recommended topics: =================== Chapters should cover, but are not limited to, topics including: -- Technological aspects of serious games: computing developments, requirements and algorithms; data structures, processing, programming languages; communication and human-computer interaction -- Serious games as a tool of change: for social change; for innovation in business processes or products; -- The business of serious games: emerging businesses and business models; business opportunities; prospective studies; studies of impact; critical success factors -- Users and serious games: psychology and serious games; behavioral effects - social effects -- Applications of serious games: in health care and e-health; defense; industrial engineering; education; and other fields. Audience: ========= The book will serve a professional audience of top managers, computer game professionals (developers and creatives), and also an academic audience (teachers, researchers and advanced degree students). Submission Procedure: ==================== Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 25, 2010, a 1-2 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. This proposal should be sent in Word format to serious.games.book(a)gmail.com. Authors will be notified by October 31 about the status of their proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines to prepare the full chapter (7,000 ? 10,000 words) to be submitted by January 31, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis by two or three reviewers. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference? ?Business Science Reference,? and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication scheduled for release in 2012. Important dates: =============== - Deadline for proposals submission: October 25, 2010 - Notification of proposals acceptance/rejection: October 31 - Full chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2011 - Notification of review results: April 30, 2011 - Submission of revised version of accepted chapters: May 31, 2011 - Submission of final materials of accepter chapters: June 30, 2011 Editorial Advisory Board: ======================== João Varajão, Portugal João Vilaça, Portugal Jouni Smed, Finland Matthew Sharritt, USA Nuno Dias, Portugal Nuno Rodrigues, Portugal Paula Tavares, Portugal Ricardo Simões, Portugal Vítor Carvalho, Portugal For any questions, please contact the editor: ============================================= Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha serious.games.book(a)gmail.com http://www.2100books.com Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave http://igi-global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/CallForBookChapt… CallForContentId=7f2665a9

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Fwd: [WI] CFP: DANMS 2011 (co-located with IM 2011)
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CFP: DANMS 2011 (co-located with IM 2011) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:48:08 +0100 From: DANMS 2011 Organizing Committee <danms2011(a)danms.org> To: danms2011(a)danms.org (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.) CALL FOR PAPERS DANMS 2011 Forth International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems Co-located with IM 2011, Dublin, Ireland www.danms.org Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 05th Dec, 2010 Notification of acceptance: 08th Jan, 2011 Camera-ready paper: 15th Jan, 2011 The DANMS 2011 workshop is part of a series of workshops dedicated to advances in network management and the application of new management principles in network design. This year’s workshop emphasizes on “Efficient Management of Loosely Collaborative Service Networks” where network connectivity providers, content and service providers come together to provide high-level services such as Over-The-Top (OTT) services to end-users in a loosely collaborative way. In the recent past, end-user services such as high quality video calls, web-based video content servers, HD video streaming and VoD services etc. have driven the telecom market. The appearance of these new content/service providers, which include so called Over-The-Top (OTT) service providers, has driven network usage, but also created huge network management problems for the operators. In this context, content/service providers together with network operators provide value to the subscribers in a “loosely collaborative” fashion. Service assurance in this loose collaborative environment is challenging, particularly in the presence of a network with limited or no guarantees. This nascent eco-system is driving fundamental changes in how networks are deployed and managed as well as how they interact with content and service providers. In this context, together with wider network management contributions, we expect to have technical contributions in the areas of automated service assurance and in loosely collaborative service networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Federated network management * Impact of Over the Top (OTT) services in resource management * Case studies of service assurance * Efficient use of terminal reports in service assurance * SLA for OTT service assurance * Service and resource modelling approaches for management * Business rules and organizational modelling * Use of semantics in service deployment and quality assurance * Extensions and refinements of NM standards * Aspects of service management and assurance * Automated service provisioning across multiple service providers * Fault and performance management, diagnosis, and troubleshooting * End-to-end QoS management for enterprise networks * Measurements and insights from network operations * Metrics, techniques, and experiments for evaluating network * Convergence of fixed and mobile networks Steering Committee Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne France Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Canada Gabriel Hogan, Network Management Lab, Ericsson, Ireland Workshop Co-Chairs Sidath Handurukande, Network Management Lab, Ericsson Ireland Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil Publicity Chair Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Technical Program Committee (To be announced soon) Instructions for Authors All papers must be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (including figures, tables, and references), in the standard 2-column 10 pt font IEEE conference paper format. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register and present the paper at the workshop. Full instructions regarding the submission procedure can be found at http://www.danms.org/submission.html. -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for paper submission
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for paper submission Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:36:02 -0400 From: Linying Dong <ldong(a)gwemail.ryerson.ca> To: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear Sir/Madam, Could you please post the Call for Paper (details in the following)? Many thanks! International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management (IJISCM) Call For papers Special issue on: "Information technology management in the *cloud* world" (http://www.inderscience.com/ijiscm). Guest Editor: Dr. Linying Dong, Ryerson University, Canada Cloud computing, the latest technologies for virtualization, has widely been endorsed by organizations to increase their efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance flexibility and adaptability. It is estimated that the worldwide cloud computing spend will reach US$ 148 billion in 2014. While organizations spend between 40 and 50 percent of cloud budget on cloud services from external providers, there has been an increase in spending in private cloud implementations for internal use of the enterprise. The cloud phenomenon heightens the need for advanced theories and improved practices on information technology (IT) management. This special issue is devoted to contemporary theories and empirical analyses on IT management in the *cloud* world. The context for this special issue includes public and private organizations, and cloud computing vendors and customers. The special issue welcomes a multidisciplinary approach to IT management, welcoming submissions from fields of management science, decision sciences, information systems, organizational theory, among others. Preference will be given to high quality papers that have a firm grounding in theories and that apply diverse research methodologies (e.g., case studies, surveys, experiment). Subject Coverage We encourage submission of high-quality papers addressing issues involving IT management in the *cloud* world. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: a. Adoption and diffusion of cloud computing technologies across different countries b. Management and implementation issued faced by companies in managing information technologies in the *cloud* world c. Cloud computing and IT and business alignment d. Conceptual frameworks for IT management in the *cloud* world e. Key factors for successful IT management in the *cloud* world f. Change management issues in the *cloud* world g. The impact of the *cloud* phenomenon on the changes in IT workforce composition and effectiveness h. Effectiveness of IT models applying cloud computing technologies 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 page at http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 Important Dates Full paper deadline: 20 June 2011 Notification of acceptance and review results: 20 August 2011 Revised submission deadline: 15 October 2011 Notification of acceptance: 12 December 2011 Camera-ready version deadline: 12 February 2012 Editor and Notes You may send an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following: Linying Dong, Associate Professor Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management Ryerson University Toronto, Canada M5B 2K3 Tel: 416 979 5000. Fax: 416 979 5249 Email: ldong(a)ryerson.ca _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP – “ePolitics in a Global Context” track – GITMA conference, Las Vegas – November 15, 2010
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP – “ePolitics in a Global Context” track – GITMA conference, Las Vegas – November 15, 2010 Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:05:34 -0400 From: Celia Livermore <ak1667(a)wayne.edu> To: IS world <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> GITMA 2011 Call for Participation The Twelfth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association GITMA WORLD CONFERENCE 2011 Las Vegas, USA (http://www.gitma.org <http://www.gitma.org/>) Conference Date: June 5 - 7, 2011 *SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2010* Please visit our web site (www.gitma.org <http://www.gitma.org/>) to submit your paper or panel/workshop proposal. This conference provides a unique opportunity to all IT educators, researchers, and practitioners from all countries to get together to network, develop lasting relationships, and exchange ideas. The clear strength is the international participation and the following people should attend: § Educators, researchers, and practitioners from North America (including US, Mexico, and Canada § Educators, researchers, and practitioners from all other parts of the world, including developed, developing, and under-developed nations. § Educators, researchers, and practitioners doing work in all areas of Global IT Management Contributions are invited for the track on: *ePolitics in a Global Context* The ePolitics in a Global Context track is inviting papers on ePolitics in various contexts and environments. E-Politcs is defined as “influence attempts facilitated by or related to electronic media or to the information technology field”. As such, ePolitics is seen as an interdisciplinary field, encompassing areas such as information systems, political science, social science, security, ethics, law, management and others. *RECOMMENDED TOPICS:* Topics to be included in the track are: *The politics of the IT function and its role in organizations* * The political activities of members of the IT function vis-à-vis the rest of the organization * Changes in the power of the IT unit as a function of the diffusion of new technologies * The strategies used by members of the IT unit to influence others * The impact of global issues such as outsourcing, downsizing, political upheavals, etc. on the political role played by the IT unit within organizations. *The politics of virtual communities * * The use of electronic media for industrial relations and negotiations with employers * The use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and harassment in commercial and non-commercial environments * The impact of status and authority on electronically enabled political maneuvering by management and the effects of culture, race, and gender on political activities within and between organizations. * The political dynamics of geographically based communities (community informatics) * The political dynamics of virtual communities of practice, including: learning communities, customers’ communities, eDating communities, gaming communities, support group communities, social networking communities, etc. *Party politics and social activism* * eVoting and electronically enabled eGovernment * The role electronic media in political campaigns. Including their impact on political debate, information sharing, political decision making, fund raising, etc. * As electronically enabled party politicking is becoming a global phenomenon, the utilization of E-Politcs at all levels of governance, including the city, the state, the country and the global arenas. All inquiries and submissions should be directed by e-mail to the attention of the track chairs Celia Romm Livermore and Pierlugi Rippa (see e-mail addresses of chairs below). Celia Romm Livermre: ak1667(a)wayne.edu <mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu> Pierlugi Rippa: pierluigi.rippa(a)unina.it <mailto:pierluigi.rippa@unina.it> JOURNAL PUBLICATION: Papers judged as high quality by the reviewers will be further considered for publication on an expedited basis in the International Journal of ePolitics (IJEP), the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM), Journal of Information Technology Cases & Applications Research (JITCAR), and Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS). Many quality papers will be directly accepted in the journal: Communications of Global Information Technology (COGIT). GITMA Program Chair: Dr. Paul Licker, licker(a)oakland.edu <mailto:licker@oakland.edu>, Oakland University GITMA Conference Chair: Dr. Prashant Palvia, pcpalvia(a)uncg.edu <mailto:pcpalvia@uncg.edu>, Univ of North Carolina Greensboro GITMA Local Chair: Dr. Mehmet Erdem, mehmet.erdem(a)unlv.edu <mailto:mehmet.erdem@unlv.edu>, University of Nevada, Las Vegas GITMA Communications Chair: Dr. Alexander McLeod, www.amcleod.com <http://www.amcleod.com/>, Univ of Nevada, Reno GITMA Sponsorship Chair: Dr. Choton Basu, basuc(a)uww.edu <mailto:basuc@uww.edu>, University of Wisconsin Whitewater -- Celia Romm Livermore (PhD) Editor-in-Chief International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) School of Business Administration Wayne State University Detroit, MI, 48202, USA E-mail address: ak1667(a)wayne.edu <mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu> www.igi-global.com/IJEP <http://www.igi-global.com/IJEP> President Elect Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) http://www.gitma.org/

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 15:55:54 -0400 From: Celia Livermore <ak1667(a)wayne.edu> To: IS world <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ <http://www.igi-global.com/> IJEP Editor-in-Chief*: *Celia Romm Livermore Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) *MISSION OF IJEP:* The primary objective of the *International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)* is to lay the foundations of E-Politics as an emerging interdisciplinary area of research and practice, as well as, to offer a venue for publications that focus on theories and empirical research on the manifestations of E-Politics in various contexts and environments. E-Politcs is defined as influence attempts facilitated by or related to electronic media or to the information technology field. As such, it is seen as interdisciplinary, encompassing areas such as information systems, political science, social science (psychology, sociology, and cultural studies), security, ethics, law, management and others. *RECOMMENDED TOPICS:* Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: *The politics of the IT function and its role in organizations* * The political activities of members of the IT function vis-à-vis the rest of the organization * Changes in the power of the IT unit as a function of the diffusion of new technologies * The strategies used by members of the IT unit to influence others * The impact of global issues such as outsourcing, downsizing, political upheavals, etc. on the political role played by the IT unit within organizations. *The politics of virtual communities * * The use of electronic media for industrial relations and negotiations with employers * The use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and harassment in commercial and non-commercial environments * The impact of status and authority on electronically enabled political maneuvering by management and the effects of culture, race, and gender on political activities within and between organizations. * The political dynamics of geographically based communities (community informatics) * The political dynamics of virtual communities of practice, including: learning communities, customers’ communities, eDating communities, gaming communities, support group communities, social networking communities, etc. *Party politics and social activism* * eVoting and electronically enabled eGovernment * The role electronic media in political campaigns. Including their impact on political debate, information sharing, political decision making, fund raising, etc. * As electronically enabled party politicking is becoming a global phenomenon, the utilization of E-Politcs at all levels of governance, including the city, the state, the country and the global arenas. *SUBMITTING TO IJEP:* Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf <http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.p…> PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to Celia Romm Livermore at ak1667(a)wayne.edu <mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu>. *PUBLISHER:* The *International Journal of E-Politics *is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com <http://www.igi-pub.com/>. All inquiries and submissions should be directed by e-mail to the attention of: Celia Romm Livermore (PhD) Editor-in-Chief International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) School of Business Administration Wayne State University Detroit, MI, 48202, USA E-mail address: ak1667(a)wayne.edu <mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu> www.igi-global.com/IJEP <http://www.igi-global.com/IJEP>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] J of Operations Management special issue
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] J of Operations Management special issue Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:00:34 +0000 From: Viswanath Venkatesh <VVenkatesh(a)walton.uark.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Colleagues: Journal of Operations Management welcomes submissions to a special issue on IT, supply chain, and services. I am serving as the guest editor. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2011. Additional details (topics, types of papers, submission guidelines) are available at: http://fisher.osu.edu/supplements/10/9261/JOM_CFP_IT_SC_Services%202010.pdf Sincerely, Viswanath Venkatesh Professor and George and Boyce Billingsley Chair in Information Systems Walton College of Business University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 Phone: 479-575-3869; Fax: 479-575-3689 Email: vvenkatesh(a)vvenkatesh.us <mailto:vvenkatesh@vvenkatesh.us> Website: http://vvenkatesh.com <http://vvenkatesh.com/> IS Research Rankings Website: http://vvenkatesh.com/ISRanking

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Fwd: [AISWorld] JITCAR Volume 12, Number 3 has been published
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] JITCAR Volume 12, Number 3 has been published Datum: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:49:58 -0400 Von: Gordon, Steven <gordon(a)babson.edu> An: <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear Colleagues: It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the 47th issue of JITCAR (Volume 12, Number 3) -- The Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research (http://www.jitcar.org). Sincerely, Steven R. Gordon Editor-in-Chief, JITCAR Professor, Information Technology Management Babson College, Babson Park, MA 02457 Tel: 781-239-4571 Web: http://faculty.babson.edu/gordon *************************************************** Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research Volume 12, Number 3, 2010 Editorial Preface Knowledge Management Systems for Emergency Preparedness: The Way Forward Murali Raman, Multimedia University, Malaysia Murray Jennex, San Diego State University, USA Research Article One Structuring Interactions With Technology: A Social Identity Approach Canchu Lin, Bowling Green State University, USA Research Article Two Discovering the Hidden Dynamics of Learning Communities Francesca Grippa, Marco De Maggio, Angelo Corallo, and Giuseppina Passiante Scuola Superiore ISUFI, University of Salento, Italy Research Article Three An Exploratory Study of the Contextual Factors That Influence Success of ICT Projects in Developing Nations: A Case Study of a Telecommunications Company in Ghana Millicent Yawa Atsu, MainOne Cable Company, Accra, Ghana Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, University of Texas-Pan American, USA Babajide Osatuyi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA The Expert Opinion An Interview with Maurice Leatherbury, Ph.D. Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of North Texas, USA Conducted and Documented by: Daniel A. Peak, University of North Texas, USA Book Review Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges By Andrew McAfee Published in 2009 by Harvard Business Press, ISBN: 978-1-4221-2587-8; 231 pages Reviewed by Richard G. Platt, University of West Florida, USA ***************** Knowledge Management Systems for Emergency Preparedness: The Way Forward Murali Raman, Multimedia University, Malaysia Murray Jennex, San Diego State University, USA INTRODUCTION "This is your captain speaking". "We are 30,000 feet above sea level and in flight MH009 (Malaysia Airlines) and are flying at a ground speed of 869KM//hour..." The destination is Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei..." Several hypothetical questions are on our minds as this paper is written. What if one or more of the passengers in this flight takes control, as in uses the flight (or the remaining time therein) as part of a well-coordinated attack linked to terrorism? Can any knowledge and work in the area of information systems (and knowledge management systems) prevent that from happening? Well, clearly evidence from numerous man-made emergency situations (e.g. the London Subway bombings, the 9/11, the Bali Blasts etc.) would suggest that the answer is a resounding No. So, then why are researchers concerned with issues surrounding the design, development, implementation, and use of knowledge management systems in support of emergency situations? Are we wasting our time, efforts, and energy? Again, the answer is a resounding No! ***************** Research Article One Structuring Interactions With Technology: A Social Identity Approach Canchu Lin, Bowling Green State University, USA ABSTRACT This case study investigated social construction of technology from the perspective of social identity theory. Four pre-existing social categories were found to be important sources of social influence: professional, organizational, departmental, and disciplinary identities. Additionally, an emerging social category (cross-unit and cross-discipline faculty and staff committees and learning groups) influenced technology use as well. Organizational members drew on structural elements from these five sources in their social construction of an information communication technology system. Theoretical as well as practical implications were addressed with respect to technology use. The findings helped to show how social identity influenced people's interpretations of technology and then use and non-use of technology. It is suggested that organizations make efforts to identify all possible social identities that may influence technology use and non-use. ***************** Research Article Two Discovering the Hidden Dynamics of Learning Communities Francesca Grippa, Marco De Maggio, Angelo Corallo, and Giuseppina Passiante Scuola Superiore ISUFI, University of Salento, Italy ABSTRACT This paper presents a framework developed to monitor the evolution of learning communities intended as open communities of peers, tutors, and mentors from industry and academia. The proposed framework is described through a case study that provides empirical evidence of the benefits of studying learning communities by observing group dynamics and detecting individual trends. It has been applied to observe and supervise a learning community built around a Master's Program intended to create e-Business Solutions Engineers. The framework is based on two dimensions of analysis: the individual growth and the team growth. The first is function of personal development and satisfaction, while the second depends on social networking dynamics and cooperative content creation. The analysis of data, collected through ten months of exchanged e-mails and five monthly web-surveys, has been validated through interviews of the Program's coordinator and the Program Director, as well as through the involvement of academic and industrial partners in the formal assessment of the learners' performance. ***************** Research Article Three An Exploratory Study of the Contextual Factors That Influence Success of ICT Projects in Developing Nations: A Case Study of a Telecommunications Company in Ghana Millicent Yawa Atsu, MainOne Cable Company, Accra, Ghana Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, University of Texas-Pan American, USA Babajide Osatuyi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ABSTRACT Organizations use various information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support business operations. In the developing world, ICT has promise for socio-economic development of the people. Successful project implementation is necessary in order to obtain the needed benefits from ICT endeavors. Factors that contribute to the successful implementation of ICT projects are well known. However, the implementation of ICT projects in developing countries is a more recent phenomenon that has not been well researched. In this paper we use a case study of ICT project implementation within one company in Ghana to highlight factors that underlie the implementation of ICT projects and how these factors collectively impact project success. The study shows that some of the factors identified as important in developed nations were relevant in the developing nation environment. However, the relative ranking of the importance of the factors was different between developed and developing nations. The study also identified additional factors that were relevant in the developing nation context. Our study is informed by the diffusion innovation theory, Hofstede's cultural theory and DeLone and McLean's IS success model. We present a framework that ties the ICT project success factors together and can serve as a guideline in ICT implementations in similar environments. ***************** The Expert Opinion An Interview with Maurice Leatherbury, Ph.D. Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of North Texas, USA Conducted and Documented by: Daniel A. Peak, University of North Texas, USA INTRODUCTION Maurice Leatherbury has been an Air Force officer, a librarian, an entrepreneur, a college professor, and an IT manager at a large university in the course of his career. Graduating from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1966, he served four years in the Air Force then went to graduate school at Florida State University where he earned a Master's degree in Library Science in 1970. After working at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida for two years he went to the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1979, also working at the Houston Academy of Medicine Library for several years before finishing his doctorate. He and a fellow Ph.D. student formed a software company in 1970, MetaMicro Library Systems, where they developed a turnkey library system as well as performed contract programming for thirteen years. Maurice then went to the University of Missouri where he was an assistant professor in the School of Informational Sciences for two years before taking a similar position at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Texas. He switched to computer center administration two years after starting at UNT, and progressed in his career until he became the chief information officer of the University in 2007. He will retire on the first of October of this year. ***************** Book Review Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges By Andrew McAfee Published in 2009 by Harvard Business Press, ISBN: 978-1-4221-2587-8; 231 pages Reviewed by Richard G. Platt, University of West Florida, USA INTRODUCTION Regardless of where you get your news, whether it is print, television, radio, internet or some other form, you have been inundated with stories that include references to some form of what is called social media. Politics, politicians, and elections are influenced by the blogosphere. Celebrities tweet constantly, whether personally or using robo-tweet software to generate the messages. Some tweeters (that's a new definition for the dictionary) even compete to have the largest number of "followers" on the Twitter service, and before you write this off as a fad of the younger generations, even Larry King of CNN fame has over a million followers. Millenials use MySpace and Facebook to stay constantly linked with hundreds of "friends." In fact, part of the sky rocketing increase in the number of SMS messages over cell phones occurs when Facebook members are notified every time one of their friends posts anything on that hugely popular social media site. Upon first inspection, one might conclude that these technologies, labeled as Web 2.0, simply allow individuals to keep in contact, but that their use in organizations would be relegated to employees wasting productive time keeping in contact with their friends. However, that is not the case and Andrew McAfee steps in to correct that misconception in Enterprise 2.0 starting with replacing the word "social" with the word "collaborative." _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] WEB 2010 - Submission Deadline Extension - until Oct. 5, 2010
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WEB 2010 - Submission Deadline Extension - until Oct. 5, 2010 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 07:28:33 -0500 (CDT) From: <rsubrama(a)illinois.edu> Reply-To: rsubrama(a)illinois.edu To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleagues, The submission deadline for the 9th Workshop on e-Business(WEB) 2010 in St. Louis has been extended until October 5th, 2010 midnight. The main details of the workshop are at: http://infosys.bschool.washington.edu/web2010/ The submission system can be accessed through this direct link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=web2010 We look forward to receiving your submissions and meeting you at St. Louis. Thanks, Program Co-Chairs Deb Dey, University of Washington Ming Fan, University of Washington Ramanath Subramanyam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Conference Co-Chairs Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University Michael J. Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] ECIS 2011: CFP "Global Service Infrastructures"
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] ECIS 2011: CFP "Global Service Infrastructures" Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:08:03 +0300 From: Jan M. Pawlowski <jan.pawlowski(a)jyu.fi> Organization: University of Jyväskylä To: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Call for Papers: ECIS 2011 - Global Service Infrastructures (09.-11.06.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- http://www.ecis2011.fi/ -------- Outline -------- The main idea of this track is to present recent developments regarding the globalization and internationalization of services, service infrastructures and their organizational embedding, e.g., in globally distributed organizations and teams. The track aims at discussing service-orientation in global settings from a human, an organizational as well as from the technology perspective in selected settings, such as in global software development, but also in other domains. The track shall discuss state-of-the-art solutions for information systems, IS development as well as methodological aspects encouraging the discourse on this emerging field of research. The track will bring together methodological, technological as well as human aspects to the topic. It will discuss innovative solutions for globally distributed, services-oriented systems and contribute towards advancements for research and practice. -------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------- We appreciate full research papers and research in progress from all areas contributing to the development and application of global service-oriented systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Global settings for service-oriented solutions including cloud computing, SaaS, IaaS, and related approaches * Adoption and acceptance of distributed service infrastructures * Quality of services * Support services for organizations, teams and individuals * Architectures and integration methods * Methodologies for systems development in global settings * Collaboration services for globally distributed teams * Social software for international collaborations * Cultural influence factors in global settings * Awareness and trust for global teams * Knowledge& Competencies for the globally distributed worker * Applications and Cases for globally distributed work The track will lead to comprehensive insights into all phases of systems development in global settings. ----------- Deadlines ----------- December 1, 2010: Submission deadline January 31, 2011: Reviews due March 1, 2011: Notification of acceptance April 5, 2011: Submission of final version June 9-11, 2011 Conference in Helsinki ------------------------- Contact and Organisation ------------------------- Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski (Correspondance for the workshop) Professor Digital Media - Global Information Systems Department of Computer Science and Information Systems PL 35 40014 Jyväskylä Finland Phone: +358(0)142602596 Mail: jan.pawlowski(a)jyu.fi Web: http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow Dr. Markus Bick Professor Business Information Systems ESCP Europe Campus Berlin Heubnerweg 6 D-14059 Berlin Germany Phone: +49(0)3032007182 Web: http://www.escpeurope.de/wi Erran Carmel, Ph.D. Professor of Information Technology and International Business Research Professor Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C. 20016-8044 USA. Tel: +1.202.885.1928 Mail: carmel(a)american.edu Web: http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/carmel.cfm Dr. Ole Hanseth Professor Department of Informatics University of Oslo PO Box 1080 Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway Phone: (+47) 22 85 24 10 Mail: oleha(a)ifi.uio.no Web: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oleha/ Dr. KBC Saxena Professor of Information Management Management Development Institute Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali GURGAON-122001 India Phone: (0)0124-4560507 Web : http://www.mdi.ac.in -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] ICSOC 2010: Call for Participation
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] ICSOC 2010: Call for Participation Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:33:44 +0200 From: Weidlich, Matthias <Matthias.Weidlich(a)hpi.uni-potsdam.de> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ******************************************************************** Call for Participation 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing ICSOC 2010 December 7 - 10, 2010 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.icsoc.org/ ******************************************************************** Early Bird registration is available until November 7 at http://www.icsoc.org/registration.html . ******************************************************************** You are kindly invited to participate in the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010), which will be held in San Francisco, CA. Join ICSOC 2010, the prime forum for academics and industry researchers and developers to report and share groundbreaking works in service oriented computing. The program features research and industry presentations, keynote presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and a PhD track. ICSOC 2010 takes place in beautiful San Francisco, a pearl of a city. Besides the famous Golden Gate Bridge or the former prison island of Alcatraz, San Francisco is known for its lively downtown area, cultural diversity, superb cuisine, and a vibrant nightlife. ******************************************************************** Venue and hotel information is available at http://www.icsoc.org/venue.html ******************************************************************** PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS * 3 outstanding keynotes given by Jim Spohrer, IBM "Service Science Progress and Directions" Larry Leifer, Stanford University "Dancing with Ambiguity" Kaj van de Loo, SAP AG "SOA meets Reality - 10 Years of Lessons Learned" * Presentations of 33 research full papers and 3 industry track full papers * 14 demo presentations that feature emerging technologies in service science * 4 tutorials given by renowned experts on "Multidisciplinary Views of Business Contract" "Quantitative Service Analysis" "Scalable Services: Understanding Architecture Trade-off" "Crowd-driven processes: state of the art and research challenges" * 4 workshops covering a broad range of topics in service oriented computing ******************************************************************** CONFERENCE PROGRAM Wednesday, December 8, 2010 ----------------------------- 09:00 - 10:30 Opening and Keynote 1 Jim Spohrer, IBM Almaden Research Center "Service Science Progress and Directions" Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session P1: Service and Business Process Modeling (1) * Business Process Model Abstraction based on Behavioral Profiles Smirnov, Sergey; Weidlich, Matthias; Mendling, Jan * Root-Cause Analysis of Design-time Compliance Violations on the basis of Property Patterns Elgammal, Amal; Turetken, Oktay; van den Heuvel, Willem-Jan; Papazoglou, Mike * Artifact-Centric Choreographies Lohmann, Niels; Wolf, Karsten 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session P2: Service Management (1) * Adaptive Service Composition Based on Reinforcement Learning Zhou, Xuan; Wang, Hongbing; Bouguettaya, Athman * A Service Execution Control Framework for Policy Enforcement Tanaka, Masahiro; Murakami, Yohei; Lin, Donghui * An integrated solution for runtime compliance governance in SOA Birukou, Aliaksandr; D'Andrea, Vincenzo; Leymann, Frank; Serafinski, Jacek; Silveira, Patricia; Strauch, Steve; Tluczek, Marek Lunch Break& Poster Presentations 13:30 - 15:00 Paper Session P3: Service and Business Process Modeling (2) * Resolving Business Process Interference Using Dynamic Reconfiguration van Beest, Nick; Bulanov, Pavel; Wortmann, Hans; Lazovik, Alexander * Linked Data and Service Orientation Wilde, Erik * Risk Sensitive Value of Changed Information for Selective Querying of Web Services Harney, John; Doshi, Prashant 13:30 - 15:00 Paper Session P4: Service Management (2) * A Differentiation-Aware Fault-Tolerant Framework for Web Services Kotonya, Gerald; Hall, Stephen * Repair vs. Recomposition for Broken Service Compositions Yan, Yuhong; Poizat, Pascal; Zhao, Ludeng * Interoperation, Composition and Simulation of Services at Home Kaldeli, Eirini; Warriach, Ehsan Ullah; Bresser, Jaap; Lazovik, Alexander; Aiello, Marco Coffee Break& Poster Presentations 15:30 - 17:00 Short Paper Session S1: Business Service Modeling * Business Artifacts Discovery and Modeling Maamar, Zakaria; Badr, Youakim; Narendra, Nanjangud * Carbon-Aware Business Process Design in Abnoba Hoesch-Klohe, Konstantin; Ghose, Aditya * On Predicting Impacts of Customizations to Standard Business Processes Rembert, Aubrey J.; Mazzoleni, Pietro; Akkiraju, Rama; Liu, Rong * Extended WS-Agreement Protocol to Support Multi-Round Negotiations and Renegotiations Langguth, Christoph; Schuldt, Heiko 15:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion 1 17:00 - 18:30 Short Paper Session S2: Run-time Service Management * Event-Driven Virtual Machine for Business-Integration Middleware (Industry Track) Zeng, Liangzhao; Frank, Joachim * Consistent Integration of Selection and Replacement Methods under Different Expectations in Service Composition and Partner Management Life-Cycle Ishikawa, Fuyuki * Optimizing the Configuration of Web Service Monitors Heward, Garth; Jun, Han; Mueller, Ingo; Schneider, Jean-Guy; Versteeg, Steve 17:00 - 18:30 Paper Session P12: Quality of Service * Efficient QoS-aware Service Composition with a Probabilistic Service Selection Policy Klein, Adrian; Ishikawa, Fuyuki; Honiden, Shinichi * Using Real-time Scheduling Principles in Web Service Clusters to Achieve Predictability of Service Execution Gamini Abhaya, Vidura; Tari, Zahir; Bertok, Peter * Aggregate Quality of Service Computation for Composite Services Dumas, Marlon; Garcia-Banuelos, Luciano; Polyvyanyy, Artem; Yang, Yong; Zhang, Liang Thursday, December 9, 2010 ----------------------------- 09:00 - 10:30 Keynote 2 Prof. Larry Leifer, Stanford University "Dancing with Ambiguity" Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session P5: Service Science and Design * Creating Context-Adaptive Business Processes Hermosillo, Gabriel; Seinturier, Lionel; Duchien, Laurence * Statistical quality control for human-based electronic services Kern, Robert; Thies, Hans; Satzger, Gerhard * A Requirement-Centric Approach to Web Service Modeling, Discovery, and Selection Driss, Maha; Moha, Naouel; Jamoussi, Yassine; Jezequel, Jean-Marc; Hajjami Ben Ghezala, Henda 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session P6: High-level Description Languages * Conjunctive Artifact-Centric Services Cangialosi, Piero; De Giacomo, Giuseppe; De Masellis, Riccardo; Rosati, Riccardo * Diagnosis of Service Failures by Trace Analysis with Partial Knowledge Mayer, Wolfgang; Friedrich, Gerhard; Stumptner, Markus * Automatic Fragment Identification in Workflows Based on Sharing Analysis Ivanovic, Dragan; Carro, Manuel; Hermenegildo, Manuel Lunch Break& Demo Presentations 13:30 - 15:00 Industry Track Session P7: Process, Composition, and Collaboration and Business Process Modeling * Enhancing Collaboration with IBM's Rational Jazz Anderson, Laura C.; Jedadessan, Bala; Johns, Kenneth; Lichtsinn, Mario; Mullan, Priti; Rhodes, James; Sharma, Akhilesh; Strong, Ray; Zhou, Ruoyi * Understanding Business Process Commonalities Ivan, Anca; Akkiraju, Rama * A Scalable and Highly Available Brokering Service for SLA-based Composite Services Bellucci, Alessandro; Cardellini, Valeria; Di Valerio, Valerio; Iannucci, Stefano 13:30 - 15:00 Short Paper Session S3: Formal Methods * Soft-Constraint based Approach for QoS-aware Service Selection Zemni, Mohamed Anis; Benbernou, salima; Carro, Manuel * Timed Conversational Protocol based Approach for Web Services Analysis Guermouche, Nawal; Godart, Claude * Service Discovery Using Communication Fingerprints Wolf, Karsten; Oanea, Olivia; Suermeli, Jan * Quantifying Service Compatibility: A Step Beyond the Boolean Approaches Ouederni, Meriem; Salaun, Gwen; Pimentel, Ernesto Coffee Break& Demo Presentations 15:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion 2 15:30 - 17:00 Demo Session 17:00 - 18:30 Paper Session P10: Service Development and Run-time Management * Spreadsheet as a Generic Purpose Mashup Development Environment Hoang, Dat Dac; Paik, Hye-Young; Ngu, Anne H. H. * Combining Enforcement Strategies in Service Oriented Architectures Gheorghe, Gabriela; Schleicher, Daniel; Mietzner, Ralph; Monakova, Ganna; Anstett, Tobias; Crispo, Bruno; Leymann, Frank * Fault Handling in the Web Service Stack Kopp, Oliver; Leymann, Frank; Wutke, Daniel 17:00 - 18:30 Short Paper Session S4: Quality of Service * Consistency Benchmarking: Evaluating the Consistency Behavior of Middleware Services in the Cloud Klems, Markus; Menzel, Michael; Fischer, Robin * Service Composition with Pareto-Optimality of Time-Dependent QoS Attributes Klaepper, Benjamin; Ishikawa, Fuyuki; Honiden, Shinichi * QoS-based Optimization of Service Compositions for Complex Workflows Schuller, Dieter; Eckert, Julian; Miede, Andre; Papageorgiou, Apostolos; Lampe, Ulrich; Steinmetz, Ralf * Privacy-Aware Device Identifier Through A Trusted Web Service (Industry Track) da Cruz Pinto, Juan Marcelo; Morin, Ricardo; Torino, Maria Emilia; Varner, Danny Conference Banquet Friday, December 10, 2010 ----------------------------- 09:00 - 10:30 Keynote 3 Kaj van de Loo, SAP AG "SOA meets Reality - 10 Years of Lessons Learned" Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session P9: Service Level Agreements * Preventing SLA Violations in Service Compositions Using Aspect-Based Fragment Substitution Leitner, Philipp; Wetzstein, Branimir; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Hummer,Waldemar; Dustdar, Schahram; Leymann, Frank * Adaptive Management of Composite Services under Percentile-based Service Level Agreements Lo Presti, Francesco; Casalicchio, Emiliano; Cardellini, Valeria; Grassi, Vincenzo * BPMN Modelling of Services with Dynamically Reconfigurable Transactions Bocchi, Laura; Guanciale, Roberto; Strollo, Daniele; Tuosto, Emilio 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session P8: Service Security, Privacy, and Trust * From Quality to Utility: Adaptive Service Selection Framework Hang, Chung-Wei; Singh, Munindar * Trust Assessment for Web Services under Uncertainty Malik, Zaki; Medjahed, Brahim * Incorporating Expectations as a Basis for Service Selection ElMessiry, Adel; Gao, Xibin; Singh, Munindar P. Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 Paper Session P11: Service Engineering Methodologies * Programmable Fault Injection Testbeds for Complex SOA Juszczyk, Lukasz; Dustdar, Schahram * Abstracting and Applying Business Modeling Patterns from RosettaNet Telang, Pankaj; Singh, Munindar * Heuristic Approaches for QoS-based Service Selection Comes, Diana Elena; Baraki, Harun; Reichle, Roland; Zapf, Michael; Geihs, Kurt 13:30 - 15:00 Short Paper Session S5: Service Applications * Towards Mitigating Human Errors in IT Change Management Process De, Pradipta; Gupta, Manish; Madduri, Venkat; Anand, Vishal * A service-based architecture for multidomain search on the web Bozzon, Alessandro; Brambilla, Marco; Corcoglioniti, Francesco; Vadacca, Salvatore * Natural language service composition with request disambiguation Pop, Florin-Claudiu; Cremene, Marcel; Vaida, Mircea; Riveill, Michel Conference Closing ******************************************************************** TUTORIALS& WORKSHOPS Tutorials and workshops take place on December 6, 2010. This day ends with a welcome reception. Tutorials: * Multidisciplinary Views of Business Contract Munindar P. Singh; Nirmit Desai * Quantitative Service Analysis Naveen Kulkarni; Deepti Parachuri; Shashank Trivedi * Scalable Services: Understanding Architecture Trade-off Stefan Tai; Markus Klems * Crowd-driven processes: state of the art and research challenges Claudio Bartolini; Maja Vukovic Workshops: * 1st International Workshop on Performance Assessment and Auditing in Service Computing (WS-PAASC 2010) * 6th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA 2010) * 1st International Workshop on Services, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010) * 2nd International Workshop on Service Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG 2010) ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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