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Fwd: [WI] CFP Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web Datum: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:20:50 +0200 Von: Paolucci, Massimo <paolucci(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <semanticweb(a)yahoogroups.com>, <seweb-list(a)lists.deri.org>, <agents(a)cs.umbc.edu>, <news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net>, <kweb-all(a)lists.deri.org>, <seweb-list(a)cs.vu.nl>, <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, <semantic-web(a)w3.org>, <info-ic(a)listes.irisa.fr>, <agents(a)cs.umbc.edu>, <ai-sges(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>, <aila(a)disi.unige.it>, <aiia(a)dis.uniroma1.it>, <aisb(a)cogs.sussex.ac.uk>, <cadeinc(a)cs.albany.edu>, <cg(a)cs.uah.edu>, <cl-adverts(a)janeway.inf.tu-dresden.de>, <cl-adverts(a)spock.inf.tu-dresden.de>, <cladv(a)iccl.tu-dresden.de>, <colognet-all(a)janeway.inf.tu-dresden.de>, <colognet(a)ucy.ac.cy>, <community(a)mlnet.org>, <compulog(a)doc.imperial.ac.uk>, <compulognet-parimp(a)dia.fi.upm.es>, <dbitaly(a)dia.uniroma3.it>, <dl(a)dl.kr.org>, <e-eu-contact(a)dfki.de>, <elsnet-list(a)elsnet.org>, <esap-news(a)disputatio.com>, <event(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>, <folli(a)coli.uni-sb.de>, <grin(a)di.unipi.it>, <gulp(a)dimi.uniud.it>, <ieeesb-vr(a)metropolis.sci.univr.it>, <kaw(a)swi.psy.uva.nl>, <kif(a)philebus.tamu.edu>, <kr2004org(a)it.uts.edu.au>, <loom-forum(a)isi.edu>, <noe_interop(a)drimm.u-bordeaux1.fr>, <public-sws-ig(a)w3.org>, <semanticweb(a)yahoogroups.com>, <swws-list(a)isoco.com>, <taboo-list(a)deis.unibo.it>, <www-rdf-logic(a)w3.org>, <www-webont-wg(a)w3.org>, <cl(a)philebus.tamu.edu>, <dbitaly(a)dia.uniroma3.it>, <aiia(a)dis.uniroma1.it>, <gulp(a)dimi.uniud.it>, <grin(a)di.unipi.it>, <aila(a)disi.unige.it>, <swing-project(a)set.sintef.no>, <semantic-web(a)w3.org> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *SMR2-2010* Third International Workshop on http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~klusch/smr2-10/ 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010) November 8, 2010 Shanghai, China * * *Aims & Scope:* One central challenge of service coordination in the Semantic Web is how to best relate requests for services with the services that are available. This functionality is usually provided by matchmaking capabilities (which may themselves be deployed as services, brokers or middle agents) that select the services that are closest to a requested service on the basis of a declarative characterization of the capabilities of both service requested and services provided. More generally, resource retrieval extends the notion of service matchmaking to the process of discovering any kind of resource (services, data, information, knowledge, even persons and organizations) for given settings, participating entities, and purposes. It is at the core of several scenarios in the Semantic Web area, spanning from Web services, Grid and cloud computing, and Peer-to-Peer computing, to applications such as e-commerce, human resource management, and social networking applications such as dating services. The primary objective of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and industry practitioners who tackle semantic service matchmaking and discovery /from/ /various points of view/. In particular, we intend to build bridges to the software engineering and model-driven development communities in order to share requirements, technologies, and experiences that might be helpful in advancing the state of the art in semantic service matchmaking and resource retrieval. */Going to Practice: The Third Semantic Service Selection (S3) Contest/*// The SMR2 workshop also integrates the third edition of the open international contest on semantic service selection (S3) <http://www.dfki.de/%7Eklusch/s3> executed in collaboration with the Semantic Web Service Challenge. The S3 contest provides the means and a forum for evaluating the retrieval performance of Semantic Web service matchmakers in terms of recall, precision, F1, response time etc., over given test collections based on the prominent semantic service formats such as OWL-S, WSML and the standard SA-WSDL. *Publication*: Accepted papers will be available online as a volume of */CEUR proceedings/*. In addition, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on */Software Tools for Technology Transfer/* (STTT, Springer Verlag). * * * * *Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):* * Advanced searching of services and other resources in the Semantic Web * Novel approaches to matchmaking and brokering in the Semantic Web, with a particular emphasis on Semantic Web services * Model-driven semantic service engineering and matchmaking * Semantic retrieval of resources and services in P2P and Grid networks * Semantic retrieval of resources and services in Cloud Computing * Matchmaking in e-commerce scenarios: auctions, e-marketplaces, supply chains * Matchmaking in other application scenarios: e-government, biopharma, etc. * Composition planning of Semantic Web services * Negotiation of Semantic Web services and resources * Interleaving of discovery, composition, and negotiation of Semantic Web services * Semantic Web services selection * Formal description and handling of Semantic Web services, queries, and resources * Non-functional service properties and their use for discovery (and composition) * Trust issues of Semantic Web service discovery * Prototypes and tools for Semantic Web services engineering * Middleware solutions for semantic service discovery and composition * Novel approaches to achieving interoperability between services in the Semantic Web * Practical business and user-oriented issues and experiences of implementing SW service retrieval tools * Experimental comparative evaluation of implemented SW service retrieval tools * * * * *Submissions :* Contributions to the workshop can be made as technical papers, addressing different issues of service / resource matching. The papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.… All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smr22010 *Important Dates: *September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 20, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2010: Camera ready copy submission. November 8, 2010: SMR2-2010, Shanghai, China *Organizing Committee: * Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Paul Grace (University of Lancaster, UK) Massimo Paolucci (NTT DoCoMo Research Europe, Germany) *Program Committee (under construction):* Abraham Bernstein U. Zurich, Switzerland Paul Grace, Lancaster U, UK Matthias Klusch DFKI, Germany Alain Leger, France Telecom, France David Martin, Apple, USA Oliver Müller, U Muenster, Germany Massimo Paolucci, NTT Docomo, Germany Stefan Schulte TU Darmstadt, Germany Eugenio Di Sciascio, U Bari, Italy Marco Luca Sbodio, HP, Italy --------------------------------------------------- Massimo Paolucci DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Strasse 308-312, 80687 Munich Phone: +49-89-56824-238 Fax: +49-89-56824-300 Mobile: +49-162-2919238 mailto:paolucci@docomolab-euro.com <mailto:wagner@docomolab-euro.com> http://www.docomolab-euro.com Managing Directors (Geschaeftsfuehrer): Dr. Masami Yabusaki, Mr. Naoki Tani, Mr. Tsutomu Sakai Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 132976 --------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [AISWorld] JGITM, Vol 13, No 3, July 2010
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] JGITM, Vol 13, No 3, July 2010 Datum: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:31:09 -0400 Von: Prashant Palvia <pcpalvia(a)uncg.edu> An: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Please distribute to colleagues and relevant lists. ************************* CONTENTS OF VOLUME 13, NUMBER 3, (July 2010) OF THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (JGITM) Note that JGITM is now among the elite group of MIS journals included in the prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). It will be included in both SSCI and CC/S&BS, both produced by Thomson Reuters. http://jgitm.uncg.edu/ Publisher: Ivy League Publishing, http://www.ivylp.com <http://www.ivylp.com/>, email: admin(a)ivylp.com <mailto:admin@ivylp.com> ****************************************************************************** IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED A FREE SAMPLE IN THE PAST AND WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE ONE, PLEASE WRITE OR SEND AN EMAIL MESSAGE TO THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Prashant Palvia, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (pcpalvia(a)uncg.edu <mailto:pcpalvia@uncg.edu> and rmouzts(a)uncg.edu <mailto:rmouzts@uncg.edu>). ****************************************************************************** CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: The journal invites contributions from all parts of the world from academic and industry scholars involved in research, management, and the utilization of global information resources. Besides quality work, at a minimum each submitted article should have the following three components: an IS topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross cultural studies or strong international implications), and strong evidence (e.g., survey data, case studies, experiments, secondary data, etc.). Please submit your manuscript electronically to the Editor-in-Chief at pcpalvia(a)uncg.edu <mailto:pcpalvia@uncg.edu>. REVIEW PROCESS: Each suitable article is blind-reviewed by three members of the editorial review board. A recommendation is then made by the Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief. If a revision is recommended, the revised paper is sent for final approval to one of the Editors. CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE OF JGITM (VOL. 13, NO.3, JULY 2010) EDITORIAL PREFACE: PROMISES AND PERILS OF INTERNET BASED NETWORKING Shailendra C. Jain Palvia, Long Island University, spalvia(a)liu.edu <mailto:spalvia@liu.edu> Rudy Pancaro, Long Island University, rpancaro(a)epcomworld.com <mailto:rpancaro@epcomworld.com> Social, professional, and entertainment networking on cyberspace are becoming the norm in today’s society. Several issues are discussed in this essay: online and offline social capital; where the real and virtual meet; humans turning into hermits in a prospering hangout culture; generation gap among users; legal and privacy issues; fraud and misuse; is Facebook the next Google?; social networking in classrooms; marketing innovations with social networking; cyber bullying; and quality, security, and trust. IT DOESN’T FIT! THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON B2B IN THAILAND Savanid Vatanasakdakul, Macquarie University, Australia, savanid.vatanasakdakul(a)mq.edu.au <mailto:savanid.vatanasakdakul@mq.edu.au> John D'Ambra, University of New South Wales, Australia, j.dambra(a)unsw.edu.au <mailto:j.dambra@unsw.edu.au> Prem Ramburuth, University of New South Wales, Australia, p.ramburuth(a)unsw.edu.au <mailto:p.ramburuth@unsw.edu.au> This study investigates how Thai culture affects the use of internet-based business-to-business (B2B) technology in the Thai tourism industry. Extending Goodhue and Thompson’s Task-Technology-Fit (TTF) model (1995), the study explores, in particular, five dimensions of cultural fit and their implications for how the B2B technology is adopted. These dimensions are personal relationships, long-term relationships, inter-organisational trust, ability to communicate in the English language and western influence. Results showed that more the B2B technology was perceived by the users to fit their culture, the more likely they were to use the technology. Nevertheless, task-technology fit still had a greater impact than culture on a firm’s perceived performance. AN ONLINE BANKING SECURITY FRAMEWORK AND A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON Nena Lim, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, n.lim(a)curtin.edu.au <mailto:n.lim@curtin.edu.au> Paul H. P. Yeow, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia, paul.yeow(a)buseco.monash.edu.my <mailto:paul.yeow@buseco.monash.edu.my> Yee Yen Yuen, Multimedia University, Malaysia, yyyuen20302000(a)yahoo.com <mailto:yyyuen20302000@yahoo.com> This research develops a security framework for online banking based on security information posted on websites of eight major banks in Australia and Malaysia and to investigate whether and why banks in culturally different countries manage security differently. Twenty-five security measures were identified and classified into three categories – physical, administrative, and technical. Results show that Australian banks provide general security information more often than Malaysian banks. Moreover, Australian banks pay attention to all categories of security measures whereas Malaysian banks lack physical security measures. Such differences are attributed to cultural factors such as individualism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance. Results help customers in Australia and Malaysia assess the security of their online banks and are useful as a benchmark to banks worldwide. LOCUS OF CONTROL AND LOCATION PRIVACY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN SINGAPORE Heng Xu, The Pennsylvania State University, hxu(a)ist.psu.edu <mailto:hxu@ist.psu.edu> Privacy concerns are particularly salient for Location-Based Services (LBS), because LBS could potentially associate the lifestyle habits, behaviors, and movements with a consumer’s personal identity. Drawing on psychological control literature, the authors conducted an experiment to test: i) whether the presence of privacy assurance approaches has a considerable influence on alleviating consumers’ privacy concerns, and ii) whether such influence will be moderated by the individual difference variable – locus of control (LOC). Results demonstrate the importance of LOC in moderating the effects of privacy assurance approaches on alleviating consumers’ privacy concerns. The marriage of the privacy and social psychology literature may provide a rich understanding of consumers’ privacy reactions to LBS usage, and therefore benefit the privacy research in IS. THE EXPERT OPINION: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE UWE DICKERSBACH, VICE PRESIDENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - THAYER LODGING GROUP Conducted by M. Naveed Baqir, University of Delaware, mnbaqir(a)udel.edu <mailto:mnbaqir@udel.edu> The interview discusses the role of information technology (IT) in the global hospitality industry in general, and Thayer Lodging Group in particular. Also explored are the emerging trends in the use of IT for improved customer experience and strategic IT applications in the next several years. BOOK REVIEW: IS OFFSHORING: ESSAYS ON PROJECT SUITABILITY AND SUCCESS, BY MARKUS K. WESTNER, GABLER VERLAG; WIESBADEN, GERMANY; 2009 Reviewed by Roberto Vinaja, Texas A&M University - San Antonio, robertvinaja(a)gmail.com <mailto:robertvinaja@gmail.com> The book “IS Offshoring” is an outstanding work that integrates an extensive literature review and two major empirical studies. One qualitative research study focuses on project suitability, while the other study focuses on project success and it is based on a quantitative approach. ********************************************** For copies of the above articles, please check for the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) in your institution's library. ******************************************** MISSION: The mission of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) is to continue to be the premier journal on Global Information Technology Management. It is a refereed international journal supported by global IT scholars from all over the world. JGITM publishes articles and reports related to all aspects of the application of information technology for international business. For example, it will report on information resource management, managerial and organizational concerns, educational issues, and innovative applications related to global IT. Very important to the journal is its emphasis on quality and relevance. The journal disseminates this knowledge to researchers, practitioners, academicians, and educators all over the world on a timely basis. Finally, the journal is international in all respects: content, article authorship, readership, and the editorial board. SCOPE AND COVERAGE: The journal's scope is multidisciplinary. It publishes research, applied, and educational articles from all areas of MIS as well as functional IT applications that have international focus. The journal also entertains a variety of methodological approaches. It encourages manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, both from academia and industry. In addition, the journal will also include educational cases and reviews of MIS books that have bearing on global aspects. Practitioner input will be specifically solicited from time-to-time in the form of industry columns and CIO interviews. Articles in the journal include, but are not limited to the following areas: Frameworks and models for global information systems (GIS), Development, evaluation and management of GIS, Electronic Commerce, Internet related issues, Societal impacts of IT in developing countries, IT and Economic development, IT Diffusion in developing countries, IT human resource issues, DSS/EIS/ES in international settings, Organizational and management structures for GIS, Transborder data flow issues, Electronic data interchange, Telecommunications, Distributed global databases and networks, Cultural and societal impacts, Comparative studies of nations, and Applications and case studies (both educational and research). ******************************** The 12^th annual Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on June 5, 6, & 7, 2011. The submission deadline is Nov. 15, 2010. http://www.gitma.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] Call for Papers: CPSRT 2010 - Deadlines Extended!
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for Papers: CPSRT 2010 - Deadlines Extended! Datum: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:22:38 -0400 Von: George Yee <gmyee(a)sce.carleton.ca> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> DEADLINES EXTENDED!! CALL FOR PAPERS (For HTML version, please visit http://CPSRT.cloudcom.org/) INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLOUD PRIVACY, SECURITY, RISK& TRUST (CPSRT 2010) In conjunction with 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010), November 30 - December 3, 2010 Indiana University, USA, http://2010.cloudcom.org/ IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED! Submission deadline: 15 August 2010 Author notification: 15 September 2010 Camera-ready manuscript: 1 October 2010 Author registration: 1 October 2010 Workshop date: 30 November 2010 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Latifur Khan – University of Texas at Dallas, USA email: lkhan(a)utdallas.edu Siani Pearson – Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK e-mail: Siani.Pearson(a)hp.com George Yee – Carleton University, Canada e-mail: gmyee(a)sce.carleton.ca WORKSHOP STEERING COMMITTEE (in progress) Martin Gilje Jaatun, Department of Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway Chunming Rong, Center of IP-based Services Innovation (CIPSI), University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway Bhavani Thuraisingham, Cyber Security Research Center, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A. WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa, Canada Andrew Charleswoth, University of Bristol, UK Giles Hogben, ENISA, Greece Paul Hopkins, University of Warwick, UK Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Steve Marsh, Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada Christopher Millard, University of London, UK Andrew Patrick, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Canada Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Simon Shiu, HP Labs, UK Sharad Singhal, HP Labs, USA Ronggong Song, National Research Council Canada, Canada Anthony Sulistio, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany George Yee, Carleton University, Canada WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE Cloud computing has emerged to address an explosive growth of web-connected devices, and handle massive amounts of data. It is defined and characterized by massive scalability and new Internet-driven economics. Yet, privacy, security, and trust for cloud computing applications are lacking in many instances and risks need to be better understood. Privacy in cloud computing may appear straightforward, since one may conclude that as long as personal information is protected, it shouldn’t matter whether the processing is in a cloud or not. However, there may be hidden obstacles such as conflicting privacy laws between the location of processing and the location of data origin. Cloud computing can exacerbate the problem of reconciling these locations if needed, since the geographic location of processing can be extremely difficult to find out, due to cloud computing’s dynamic nature. Another issue is user-centric control, which can be a legal requirement and also something consumers want. However, in cloud computing, the consumers' data is processed in the cloud, on machines they don't own or control, and there is a threat of theft, misuse or unauthorized resale. Thus, it may even be necessary in some cases to provide adequate trust for consumers to switch to cloud services. In the case of security, some cloud computing applications simply lack adequate security protection such as fine-grained access control and user authentication (e.g. Hadoop). Since enterprises are attracted to cloud computing due to potential savings in IT outlay and management, it is necessary to understand the business risks involved. If cloud computing is to be successful, it is essential that it is trusted by its users. Therefore, we also need studies on cloud-related trust topics, such as what are the components of such trust and how can trust be achieved, for security as well as for privacy. MISSION This year, the CPSRT workshop will bring together a diverse group of academics and industry practitioners in an integrated state-of-the-art analysis of privacy, security, risk, and trust in the cloud. The workshop will address cloud issues specifically related to access control, trust, policy management, secure distributed storage and privacy-aware map-reduce frameworks. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop includes but is not limited to the following topics that refer to computing in the cloud: * Access control and key management * Security and privacy policy management * Identity management * Remote data integrity protection * Secure computation outsourcing * Secure data management within and across data centers * Secure distributed data storage * Secure resource allocation and indexing * Intrusion detection/prevention * Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and defense * Web service security, privacy, and trust * User requirements for privacy * Legal requirements for privacy * Privacy enhancing technologies * Privacy aware map-reduce framework * Risk or threat identification and analysis * Risk or threat management * Trust enhancing technologies * Trust management These topics give rise to a number of interesting research questions to be discussed at the workshop, such as the following: * How can consumers retain control over their data when it is stored and processed in the cloud? * How can users' trust in cloud computing be enhanced? How can reputation management be used in a practical way? * How can transborder data flow regulations be enforced within the cloud? * How can solutions be tailored to a specific context? For example, how can privacy and security requirements be gathered and matched to service provisioning in an automated or semi-automated way, and on an ongoing basis? * How can adequate assurance be given about the way in which cloud providers process and protect data? * How can audit mechanisms be provided for the cloud? Software demonstrations are welcome. We encourage submissions of ‘greenhouse’ work, which present early stages of cutting-edge research and development. SUBMISSION The submission format must conform to the following: 10 pages maximum including figures, tables and references (see http://CPSRT.cloudcom.org/). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. The official language of the meeting is English. Please submit your paper to the CPSRT 2010 Workshop submission server (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cpsrt2010) via an EasyChair account. DISSEMINATION Peer-reviewed papers that are accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in the CloudCom 2010 IEEE proceedings, and will be available in IEEExplore (EI indexing). The workshop organisers plan to invite the authors of selected high quality papers to revise and lengthen their papers for a special issue of a related journal or an edited book. For further details, please visit the workshop Web site: http://CPSRT.cloudcom.org/

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Fwd: [AISWorld] IJITSA special issue on System Dynamics and other Simulation-based Approaches for Information Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] IJITSA special issue on System Dynamics and other Simulation-based Approaches for Information Systems Datum: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:02:57 -0500 (CDT) Von: Manuel Mora T. <mmora(a)securenym.net> Antwort an: mmora(a)securenym.net An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CC: ottop(a)union.edu, frank.stowell(a)port.ac.uk, andrej.skraba(a)fov.uni-mb.si **************************************************************************** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: September 30, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE ON System Dynamics and other Simulation-based Approaches for Information Systems for the International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published: Semi annual (both in Print and Electronic form) http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors: Dr. Peter Otto, Union Graduate College, USA, ottop(a)union.edu Dr. Andrej Skraba, University of Maribor, Slovenia, andrej.skraba(a)fov.uni-mb.si ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION: IS research aims to help decision-makers understand and anticipate opportunities to deploy IS and adding business value for organizations in today?s competitive environment. Decisions concerning IS are complex and challenging for a decision-maker; time pressure, incomplete information, unknown feedback loops, organizational contexts, and selfish motivations strongly influence such decisions. Inadequate decisions and subsequent actions might lead to undesired results. Enhancing the knowledge of gaining business value from IS is possible by achieving insights into the complex behavior of the system and the interaction among decision variables. Using simulation models permit the testing of various assumptions and provide decision-makers with the ability to explore the consequences of various scenarios and alternative functional relationships among variables in the system. OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: It is important to gain a broader, systemic view on the management and control problems in the fields of systems engineering, software engineering and information systems. This would contribute to better understanding of underlying system structure, dynamics and possibilities for efficient control. Papers in the special issue should therefore address practical application of System Dynamics and other simulation-based approaches in the field of Information Systems to improve understanding of business structures and decision making. Methodological papers as well as case studies are welcome. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Diffusion of new IS technology ? IS development ? IS-individuals interaction ? Implementation issues ? Outsourcing and country selection issues ? Social media and Web 2.0 issues ? Health informatics ? E-commerce and web-enabled delivery systems ? CRM, SCM applications ? Models and dynamics of efficient application of human resources and knowledge ? Organization structure, dynamics and improvements ? Optimization of systems engineering, software engineering and information systems by system dynamics models ? Sustainable financing dynamics in IT projects SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue System Dynamics and Other Simulation-Based Approaches for Information Systems on or before September 30, 2010. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.p…. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. ABOUT International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA): The Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created to disseminate and discuss high quality research results on Information Systems and related upper and lower level Systems as well as on its interactions with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Complex Systems and Philosophy issues, through rigorous Theoretical, Modeling, Engineering or Behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop organizational systems where Information Systems are the main objects of study and the Systems Approach ?any variant- is the main research methodology and philosophical stance used. This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association (http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa) IJITSA EDITORIAL BOARD ?Frank Stowell (EiC), University of Portsmouth, England ?Manuel Mora (co OEiC and OEiC), Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México ?Denis Edgar-Nevill, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ?Miroljub Kljajic, University of Maribor, Slovenia ?Amitava Dutta, George Mason University, USA ?Yasmin Merali, University of Warwick, UK ?David Brown, University of Lancaster, UK ?Robert Cloutier, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA ?James R. Burns, Texas Tech University, USA ?RRory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) is 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 All submissions should be directed to the attention of: Guest Editors: Dr. Peter Otto, ottop(a)union.edu Dr. Andrej Skraba, andrej.skraba(a)fov.uni-mb.si ---------------------------------------------- Manuel Mora, EngD. Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level Autonomous University of Aguascalientes Ave. Universidad 940 Aguascalientes, Ags. México 20100 www.uaa.mx ---------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] Call for Papers - AusPDC2010
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for Papers - AusPDC2010 Datum: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:50 +1000 Von: Jinjun Chen <jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2011) Perth, Australia, 17-20 January, 2011 http://www.swinflow.org/confs/auspdc2011/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 16 August 2010 Type of submission: full research paper, full industry experience/demo paper, or extended abstract. Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=auspdc2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2011) will be held in January, in Perth, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011. Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following this successful event, it comes to the 9th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia David Abramson, Monash University, Australia David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia Peter Bertok, RMIT, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia Zhiyi Huang, Otago University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Kevin Lee, Murdoch University, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia Weifei Liang, Australian National University, Australia Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Justin Rough, Deakin University, Australia Hong Shen, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Gaurav Singh, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Srikumar Venugopal, The University of New South Wales, Australia Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Jun Yan, University of Wollongong, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Comparative Informatics (IWCI 2010) at NordiCHI 2010
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Comparative Informatics (IWCI 2010) at NordiCHI 2010 Datum: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:59:29 +0200 Von: Ravi Vatrapu <rv.caict(a)cbs.dk> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> <<<Apologies for Cross-Posting>>> ******************************************************************************************* Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Comparative Informatics (IWCI 2010): Understanding Cultural Influences in Usability, Gaming, Collaboration, Government and Design Workshop Webpage: http://www.itu.dk/people/rkva/2ndICIW/ Full-day Workshop at NordiCHI 2010 (http://www.yourhost.is/nordichi2010) on Sunday, 17-October-2010. ********************************************************************************************* <Overview> Comparative informatics is the study of design, development, evaluation, use, and impact of information technologies across a diverse set of domains, organizations, contexts, cohorts, cultures, and countries. The scientific focus of the 2nd International Workshop on Comparative Informatics (IWCI 2010) is on the following core questions: * How can we better understand the mutual relations between information and communication technologies and cultures? * To what extent is the appropriation of technologies culturally relative? * To what extent do technologies exert their own agency regardless of local practices and cultural accommodations? * To what extent do people shape, alter, bend, adapt, adjust, align, configure, reconfigure, and re-imagine technologies? Layered into the inherent complexities of technologies themselves as artifact whose qualities we do not fully understand are the technologies' uptake and appropriation in multiple cultural contexts. Temporality will be a key discussion point at the workshop and we will discuss methodological and epistemological aspects of time and its relation to technologically mediated activity. Methodological discussion will also examine the applicability of the comparative method to informatics and will proceed to identify a range of appropriate research methods. The workshop has five themes: online gaming, e-government, collaboration, usability, and design <Outcomes of the workshop> Given globalization and the multicultural social reality of the 21st century, it is clear that the core questions outlined about culture and technology cannot be approached without a coordinated global effort. A federation of researchers is required, for both practical and intellectual reasons, to shape and inform such investigations. IWCI 2010 aims to create such a research federation and a socio-technical environment to help sustain it. An edited collection or special issue of the workshop papers is planned. <To Participate> We invite position papers from researchers, practitioners, and students from a diversity of fields including but not limited to human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), computer supported intercultural collaboration (CSIC), information systems (IS), and learning sciences. languages, organizations and nations. * Author Guidelines: o Length& Format: A position paper of maximum 4 pages formatted using the ACM SIGCHI template (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform). o Relevance and Substance: Ideally, the position paper should address one or more of the core questions and/or focus on one of the five themes outlined above. We also welcome conceptual and methodological papers on comparative research in general. * Submission Guidelines: o Please submit your position paper no later than 02-August-2010 by email to vatrapu(a)cbs.dk. * Important Dates o Submission of Position Papers: 01-August-2010 o Author Notifications: 15-August-2010 o Final Versions for Accepted Papers: 17-September-2010 o Workshop Date: Sunday, 17-October-2010 <Workshop Organizers> Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Bonnie Nardi , University of California, Irvine, USA Scott Robertson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China Pradeep Yammiyavar, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel If you have any questions or need further information, please email vatrapu(a)cbs.dk ************************************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Contents of JGIM 18(3) Jul-Sep 2010
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Contents of JGIM 18(3) Jul-Sep 2010 Datum: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:47:17 +1200 Von: Felix Tan <felix.tan(a)aut.ac.nz> An: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The contents of the latest issue of: Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 18, Issue 3, July-September 2010 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1062-7375 EISSN: 1533-7995 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/jgim Editor-in-Chief: Felix B. Tan, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand PAPER ONE The Impact of National Culture on Information Systems Planning Autonomy Dinesh Mirchandani, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA Albert Lederer, University of Kentucky, USA Hofstedes national culture model has been applied in prior research to better understand the management of multinational firms. That research suggests that national culture may influence the information systems planning autonomy of the subsidiaries of multinational firms, but such an impact has not yet been tested empirically. A postal survey of 131 chief information officers and 103 senior non-IS managers of U.S. subsidiaries of such firms collected data to test hypotheses based on the model. Structural equation modeling using PLS-Graph 3.0 revealed that Individualism-Collectivism, Masculinity-Femininity, and Uncertainty Avoidance predicted autonomy for particular IS planning phases (as rated by the CIOs). On the basis of the supported hypotheses, the study provides evidence of the relevance of the national culture model to IS planning effectiveness and IS contribution. The study also suggests to subsidiary managers that an understanding of the national culture of their parent firm can help them gain an insight into the parents management perspective. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43737 PAPER TWO Cultural Impacts on Acceptance and Adoption of Information Technology in a Developing Country Elizabeth Baker, Virginia Military Institute, USA Said Al-Gahtani, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Geoffrey Hubona, Georgia State University, USA This study investigates technology adoption behavior of Saudi Arabian knowledge workers using desktop computers within the context of TAM2, and the unique effects of Saudi culture on IT adoption within the developing, non-Western, country. Following the guidelines of the etic-emic research tradition, which encourages cross-cultural theory and framework testing, the study findings reveal that the TAM2 model accounts for 40.3% of the variance in behavioral intention among Saudi users, which contrasts Venkatesh and Davis (2000) explained 34-52% of the variance in usage intentions among U.S. users. The models explanatory power differs due to specific Saudi Arabian emic constructs, including its collectivist culture and the workers focus on the managerial father figures influence on individual performance, a stark difference from TAM findings in more individualistic societies. The authors findings contribute to understanding the effects of cultural contexts in influencing technology acceptance behaviors, and demonstrate the need for research into additional cultural factors that account for technology acceptance. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43738 PAPER THREE Do Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Trade Openness Explain the Disparity in ICT Diffusion between Asia-Pacific and the Islamic Middle Eastern Countries? Farid Shirazi, Ryerson University, Canada Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK Dolores Higón, University of Valencia, Spain This study investigates the impact of FDI and trade openness on ICT diffusion in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions from 1996-2005. The results indicate that while dissimilarities exist between the economies included in this study in terms of their level of socio-economic and political development, education and the growth of GDP have had a positive impact on ICT diffusion in both regions. However, while FDI has generally had a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion in Asia-Pacific economies, its impact on Middle Eastern economies has been detrimental. The results of this study also show that trade-openness has had, in general, a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43739 PAPER FOUR Critical Factors of ERP Adoption for Small- and Medium- Sized Enterprises: An Empirical Study She-I Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Shin-Yuan Hung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan David Yen, Miami University, USA Pei-Ju Lee, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital and pervasive role in the current development of Taiwans economy. Recently, the application of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have enabled large enterprises to have direct contact with their clients via e-commerce technology, which has led to even fiercer competition among the SMEs. This study develops and tests a theoretical model including critical factors which influence ERP adoption in Taiwans SMEs. Specifically, four dimensions, including CEO characteristics, innovative technology characteristics, organizational characteristics, and environmental characteristics, are empirically examined. The results of a mail survey indicate that the CEOs attitude towards information technology (IT) adoption, the CEOs IT knowledge, the employees IT skills, business size, competitive pressure, cost, complexity, and compatibility are all important determinants in ERP adoption for SMEs. The authors results are compared with research on IT adoption in SMEs based in Singapore and the United States, while implications of the results are also discussed. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43740 ***************************************************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.infosci-journals.com ( http://www.infosci-journals.com/ ). ***************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Mission of JGIM: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM). The journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of the development, use and management of information technology (IT) in a global context. The mission of JGIM is to be the primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminatethe evolving knowledge on global IT. Original contributions concerning any aspect of global information management from both scholars and practitioners are welcome. Submission Categories and Themes: The journal accepts submissions in the following categories: a. Research Article - Contributions to this section are full papers reporting completed research b. Research Note - Research frameworks, exploratory studies and methodological papers c. Research Review - Reviews are carefully crafted articles that conceptualize research areas, synthesize prior research as well as help identify and develop future research directions Authors are encouraged to develop articles that are consistent with the following themes: a. Cross-National Studies. These need not be cross-culture per se.These studies lead to an understanding of IT as it leaves one nation and is built/bought/used in another. b. Cross-Cultural Studies. These need not be cross-nation. Cultures could be across regions that share a similar culture. They can also be within nations(subcultures, ethnicities...etc). c. Single nation studies from under-represented nations. The idea here is to look at existing literature from the better represented nations and compare it to the findings in the under-represented nation. Authors are also encouraged to weave the country context (ie. culture, firm strategies, government policies, laws ...etc) in the development of the research problem and in explaining the results. d. Studies of the development, implementation, management and use of IT in multinational, transnational, inter-national and global organizations. Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/jgim All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Professor Felix B. Tan at jgim(a)aut.ac.nz _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] Call for Papers - DDDM2010
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for Papers - DDDM2010 Datum: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:13:44 +1000 Von: xinhua zhu <xhzhu(a)it.uts.edu.au> An: wolff(a)cs.jhu.edu, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, webir(a)egroups.com, vki-list(a)dfki.uni-sb.de, vki-list(a)dfki.de, vesilind(a)bucknell.edu, uai(a)cs.orst.edu, vavtalk(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk, vavtalk(a)pigeon.csd.abdn.ac.uk *Call for Papers - DDDM2010 The 2010 International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining Sydney, Australia, December 14-17, 2010 In conjunction with the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) URL: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm/dddm10/ <http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm/dddm10/>* The Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM) series aims to provide a premier forum for sharing findings, knowledge, insight, experience and lessons in tackling potential challenges in discovering actionable knowledge from complex domain problems, promoting interaction and filling the gap between academia and business, and driving a paradigm shift from data-centered hidden pattern mining to domain-driven actionable knowledge delivery in varying data mining domains toward supporting smart decision and businesses. Following the success of DDDM2009 joint with ICDM2009 in the US, DDDM2008 joint with ICDM2008 in the Italy, and DDDM2007 with SIGKDD, DDDM2010 welcomes theoretical and applied disseminations that make efforts: o to design next-generation data mining methodology for actionable knowledge discovery and delivery, toward handling critical issues for KDD to effectively and efficiently contribute to real-world smart businesses and smart decision and to benefit critical domain problems in theory and practice; o to devise domain-driven data mining techniques to bridge the gap between a converted problem and its actual business problem, between academic objectives and business goals, between technical significance and business interest, and between identified patterns and business expected deliverables, toward strengthening business intelligence in complex enterprise applications; o to present the applications of domain-driven data mining and demonstrate how KDD can be effectively deployed to solve complex practical problems; and o to identify challenges and future directions for data mining research and development in the dialogue between academia and industry. Topics of interest This workshop solicits original theoretical and practical research on the following topics. (1) Methodologies and infrastructure o Domain-driven data mining methodology and project management o Domain-driven data mining framework, system support and infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous intelligence o Involvement and integration of human intelligence, domain intelligence, network intelligence, organizational intelligence and social intelligence in data mining o Explicit, implicit, syntactic and semantic intelligence in data o Qualitative and quantitative domain intelligence o In-depth patterns and knowledge o Human social intelligence and animat/agent-based social intelligence in data mining o Explicit/direct or implicit/indirect involvement of human intelligence o Belief, intention, expectation, sentiment, opinion, inspiration, brainstorm, retrospection, reasoning inputs in data mining o Modeling human intelligence, user preference, dynamic supervision and human-mining interaction o Involving expert group, embodied cognition, collective intelligence and Consensus construction in data mining o Human-centered mining and human-mining interaction o Formalization of domain knowledge, background and prior information, meta knowledge, empirical knowledge in data mining o Constraint, organizational, social and environmental factors in data mining o Involving networked constituent information in data mining o Utilizing networking facilities for data mining o Ontology and knowledge engineering and management o Intelligence meta-synthesis in data mining o Domain driven data mining algorithms o Social data mining software (3) Deliverable and evaluation o Presentation and delivery of data mining deliverables o Domain driven data mining evaluation system o Trust, reputation, cost, benefit, risk, privacy, utility and other issues in data mining o Post-mining, transfer mining, from mined patterns/knowledge to operable business rules. o Knowledge actionability, and integrating technical and business interestingness o Reliability, dependability, workability, actionability and usability of data mining o Computational performance and actionability enhancement o Handling inconsistencies between mined and existing domain knowledge (4) Enterprise applications o Dynamic mining, evolutionary mining, real-time stream mining, and domain adaptation o Activity, impact, event, process and workflow mining o Enterprise-oriented, spatio-temporal, multiple source mining o Domain specific data mining, etc. Important Dates July 23, 2010 Due date for full workshop papers September 20, 2010 Notification of paper acceptance to authors October 11, 2010 Camera-ready of accepted papers December 14, 2010 Workshop date Submission All papers should be submitted through the ICDM2010 submission system here (http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/icdm10/scripts/submit.php). Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to domain driven data mining, originality, significance and clarity. All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the ICDM'10 Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. For more information Please refer to the DDDM2010 website: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm/dddm10/ <http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm/dddm10/>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: JITTA Special Issue: Boundary-Spanning through Business Process Management (BPM)
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: JITTA Special Issue: Boundary-Spanning through Business Process Management (BPM) Datum: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:25:44 +1000 Von: Jan Recker <j.recker(a)qut.edu.au> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *Important Dates*** Deadline for submissions May 1, 2011 Initial Review Round Completed July 31, 2011 Revisions Due (where applicable) October 1, 2011 Final Acceptance Decisions December, 31 2011 Special Issue Published March, 1 2012 * * * * *Objective and Aspirations* The purpose of this special issue is to draw the attention of the Information Systems community to the emerging significant role of Business Process Management as a boundary-spanning and identity-defining discipline of IS research, bringing together management philosophies and process-aware information technology. Our objective is to provide a discussion forum for researchers who are interested in providing examples for the contemporary state of the art in BPM research, spanning design-oriented approaches as well as traditional empirical research approaches. A particular aim of this special issue is to push the discussion in contemporary BPM research beyond information technology and methods to also embrace aspects of strategic alignment, governance, people and culture. *Description*** Business Process Management has become one of the most widely discussed approaches for information professionals. The potential of BPM particularly lies in the integration of advanced information technology with organizational and managerial methods to foster and leverage business innovation, operational excellence and intra- and inter-organizational collaboration. Business Process Management as an Information Systems discipline is characterized by a myriad of approaches towards the analysis, modeling, implementation, execution and management of information systems with an explicit process focus, ranging from those supported by groupware and project management products to those supported by workflow management systems and, more recently, business process management systems. However, Business Process Management also embraces further, widely undefined themes pertaining to the engineering and management of systems and organizations, particularly with respect to the areas of organizational culture, process-aware information systems, strategic alignment, and governance structures. The wide application areas and the impact of Business Process Management present an exciting opportunity for IS researchers to contribute to our knowledge in this area, be it through the design of innovative process-oriented artifacts or through theorizing about the application, appropriation and usage consequences of BPM artifacts in organizational practice. We invite rigorous and relevant contributions from a wide variety of research methods. Interpretive and positivistic research approaches as well as Design Science Research are welcomed, and theory building is encouraged regardless of the chosen research methodology. Topics of interest pertaining to Business Process Management may include but are not limited to the following: - Strategic alignment of BPM (e.g., value-based process management) - BPM Governance (e.g., BPM center of competence) - Methods for BPM (e.g., Six Sigma, procedure models, methodologies, process modeling) - Process-aware Information Systems (e.g., workflow management and eBusiness standards) - Engagement and Education of Process Practitioners(e.g., educational programs, curriculum design) - Cultural Impacts of/on BPM (e.g., in global roll-out projects) - Adoption and Diffusion of BPM and Process standards - Open-source Systems for BPM - BPM and Service-Orientation - Business Process Intelligence - Business Process Forensics and Performance Management - New enabling technologies for BPM (e.g., cloud computing, Mobile technologies) - End user and community enablement of BPM *About JITTA*** JITTA aims to publish articles with short publication cycle times, attract a portfolio of very exciting and high quality research contributions, and maintain highest quality standards. The journal welcomes research papers (research agenda papers, interpretive or exploratory papers, speculative research, state-of-research reviews, or full research papers), research essays, and application papers (normative papers or case studies). Please go to the Aims & Scope page <http://aisel.aisnet.org/jitta/aimsandscope.html> for a detailed description of all encouraged submission types. New Manuscripts should be submitted using the Submit Article link <http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/submit.cgi?context=jitta>. Please select the appropriate special issue as article type. Revisions need to be submitted by logging into the JITTA Review System <http://aisel.aisnet.org/jitta/review_system.html>. Instructions for Authors are on the Policies page <http://aisel.aisnet.org/jitta/policies.html>. *Special Issue Editors*** * * Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology j.recker(a)qut.edu.au <mailto:j.recker@qut.edu.au> Jan vom Brocke The University of Liechtenstein Jan.vom.Brocke(a)hochschule.li <mailto:Jan.vom.Brocke@hochschule.li> Jan Mendling Humboldt-University Berlin jan.mendling(a)wiwi.hu-berlin.de <mailto:jan.mendling@wiwi.hu-berlin.de> Alexander Dreiling SAP Research alexander.dreiling(a)sap.com <mailto:alexander.dreiling@sap.com> *Contact Email*: j.recker(a)qut.edu.au <mailto:j.recker@qut.edu.au>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: 2nd Int. Workshop Service Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG, at ICSOC 2010)
by Gustaf Neumann 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: 2nd Int. Workshop Service Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG, at ICSOC 2010) Datum: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:25:47 +0200 Von: joerg.leukel(a)uni-hohenheim.de An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ================================================================== Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Service Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG 2010) In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010) December 7-10, San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop website: http://soclog10.wifa.uni-leipzig.de <http://soclog10.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/> =================================================================== Workshop Theme ============== Logistics is of paramount importance for many industries: It plans and realizes the flow of goods from sources to destinations by means of transformations in space, time, and quantity. Coordinating logistics activities faces organizational and technical boundaries of the participating firms as well as must resolve conflicting goals and strategies of such firms. Information plays a crucial role in logistics, in particular in today’s business environment, which is changing significantly due to, e.g., globalization of supply chains, stronger customer orientation and individualization, all increasing the need for more adaptive logistics systems. IT is the key enabler for managing these challenges, supporting supply chain collaboration, and managing increasing economic dynamics. Advanced IT support allows supply chains to advance their efficiency significantly, to better fulfill customer needs, and handle the growing organizational complexity and the associated supply chain risks. While existing logistics IT systems provide solid support for static, self-contained logistics systems, research on managing the logistics in supply chains that are dynamically changing, is still less advanced. Service-oriented Computing (SOC) is a promising paradigm, which automates inter-organizational processes by loosely coupled software-based services. The focus of this workshop is the study and exploration of SOC’s potential to solve coordination problems in logistics systems and supply chains. Key research questions are: (1) How to represent logistics systems in service-based computing systems by employing and adopting constructs, models, and methods of the SOC technology stack, (2) how to describe software-based logistics services with service description languages, (3) how to coordinate software-based logistics services, by employing and adopting approaches for service discovery and service composition, (4) how to negotiate and agree about the delivery of software-based logistics services with approaches for SLA representation, SLA management, and SLA negotiation, and (5) how to control the delivery and how to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of software-based logistics services? With the set of design principles, architectural models and concepts and last but not least with its existing and growing set of standards, SOC promotes adaptiveness of logistics systems and supply chains, a flexible and re-configurable provisioning along multiple supply chains, and their efficiency. The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss recent significant developments at the intersection of service-oriented computing and logistics systems/supply chain management, and to promote cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas and techniques between these fields. The relation to ICSOC 2010 is that, on one hand, the conference addresses the core concepts such as interacting business processes, service composition, service operations, and quality of services, and on the other hand, would receive feedback, experiences, and requirements from a highly relevant application domain to validate and advance its current approaches. Topics ====== In particular, we are inviting papers on the following topics: 1) Logistics services representation - Servicetization of logistics systems - Logistics service models - Reference models for logistics services - Semantic models for logistics services - Repositories and dictionaries for logistics services 2) Logistics services description - Syntactical description of logistics services - Semantic description of logistics services - Logistics ontologies / ontologies for logistics services - QoS attributes of logistics services 3) Coordination of logistics services - Discovery of logistics services - Composition of logistics services - Orchestration and choreography of logistics services - Market-based coordination of logistics services, i.e., auctions, exchanges 4) SLA Management of logistics services - Domain-specific SLA models - Semantic annotation of SLAs for logistics services - SLA negotiation protocols for logistics services - Pricing of logistics services - Integrating logistics services into SLA management infrastructures 5) Delivery of logistics services - Logistics service runtime management and monitoring - Verification of logistics services - Simulation and optimization of logistics services - Transactional safeguarding of logistics services - Service-oriented architectures for the setup and enactment of logistics services Paper Submission and Publication ================================ Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers, as - Full papers (up to 15 pages including all references and figures) or - Position papers (up to 5 pages including all references and figures) on the listed or related topics. Please, submit papers (in PDF format) via our electronic submission system which is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soclog10. All workshop papers will be included in the joint workshop proceedings of ICSOC 2010. These proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS Services Science Subline. This subline is an integrated part of the LNCS. Thus, papers should be written in English and must be prepared in the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for more information). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. For short position papers, clarity of exposition and the degree of innovation will be sufficient, while for full papers, a clear technical contribution is expected. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the work. Attendance of the workshop requires registration to the main ICSOC 2010 conference. Key Dates ========= 14 September 2010: Submissions due 30 September 2010: Notification of acceptance 07 December 2010: Workshop (1 day) 10 January 2011: Camera-ready Submission Program Chairs ============== Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim, Germany André Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Committee ================= Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Samuil Angelov, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Marcelo Cataldo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Diogo Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Netherlands, University of Twente Axel Korthaus, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia Carlos Müller, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Manuel Resinas, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Toni Ruokolainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Ingo Weber, University of New South Wales, Australia Supported by ============ - D-GRID Project InterLogGrid (http://www.interloggrid.org <http://www.interloggrid.org/>) - FMER Project Logistics Service Bus (http://www.lsb-plattform.de <http://www.lsb-plattform.de/>) Contact ======= Joerg Leukel Department of Information Systems 2 University of Hohenheim Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +49 711 459-23968 E-Mail: joerg.leukel(a)uni-hohenheim.de URI: http://www.joerg-leukel.net <http://www.joerg-leukel.net/> André Ludwig Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 9733732 E-Mail: ludwig(a)wifa.uni-leipzig.de URI: http://www.andre-ludwig.info <http://www.andre-ludwig.info/> Alex Norta Department of Computer Science University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland Phone: +358 44 0303720 E-Mail: alexander.norta(a)cs.helsinki.fi URI: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/anorta/

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