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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SERVICES, ENERGY, AND ECOSYSTEM
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SERVICES, ENERGY, AND ECOSYSTEM Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Von: Gangadharan. G.R. <gangadharan_gr(a)yahoo.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *************************************************************************** FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SERVICES, ENERGY, AND ECOSYSTEM (SEE2010) held in conjunction with ICSOC 2010, December 7-10, 2010, San Francisco, USA http://see.ws.dei.polimi.it/ *************************************************************************** MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES ************************* Although significant progress has been made in the recent years in making computing greener - energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable - the net impact of improvements in energy efficiency is generally more than offset by increasing demand for computing power and capacity, driven by new digitized business processes and services. The total energy consumption has been increasing due to proliferation of computers, data centers and various types of mobile computing and communication devices, as well as by the emergence of, and demand for, new applications. To address this issue holistically, there is now call for making applications and services themselves energy-aware and -efficient. New innovative ICT-based tools for monitoring and managing energy consumption in several application have emerged, and novel approaches for creating energy-aware systems and applications are being developed to create a better and sustainable ecosystem. The first international workshop on Services, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010) focuses on creating sustainable (green) energy-efficient services and fostering the growth towards a new eco-friendly world of services. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields working on energy-aware and energy-efficient systems and applications to share their contributions in this area and for interactive discussions to set an agenda for further work in this important new area. TOPICS OF INTEREST ****************** SEE 2010 welcomes research submissions and real-world experiences on all topics related to Services, Energy, and Ecosystems - engineering energy-efficient systems, applications and services; monitoring, and managing energy-aware services; fostering ecosystems in organizations and society, and others. Engineering Energy-Efficient Systems, Applications and Services: --------------------------------------------------------------- Sustainable Service Engineering; Sustainable Service Management; Adaptive Service Designing; Energy-efficient Service Provisioning; Energy-efficient Networking and Protocols; Energy-efficient Resources Utilization; Energy Optimization in Application system and Storage systems; Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems; Grid/Cloud/Data Center Technology as Sustainability/Greenness Enablers; Virtualization/consolidation; Energy-efficient Methodologies for Infrastructure as a Service/ Platform as a Service/Software as a Service Models; Efficient Cooling and Power Distribution; Service Resources Modeling and Management; Service Composition and Energy Consumption Analysis; Green Service Life Cycle Management; Service Orientation in Data centers. Monitoring and Managing Energy-Aware Services: ---------------------------------------------- Key Performance Indicators and Green Performance Indicators; Energy and Performance Profiling; Tools and Techniques for Monitoring Energy; Performance and Quality of Service Trade-off; Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency Analysis; Facility Monitoring/Measurement Approaches; Service/Process Mining; Sustainability Scorecards; Sustainability Auditing; Green Certificates; Green Maturity Models. Fostering Ecosystems In Organizations and Society: -------------------------------------------------- Service Chain Management; Energy use and Total Cost of Ownership; Service Economics; Energy Efficient Services procurement/Acquisition; After-Sales Services; Business Models for Sustainable Services; Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental Compliance and Legal Regulations/Policies; Risk Management; Organization culture and Energy Use; Knowledge Management for Service; Best Practices for Sustainable/Green Services; Public and Private Sectors Practices and Experiences (case studies) ORGANIZERS ********** Schahram Dustdar Technical University of Vienna, Austria G.R. Gangadharan Politecnico di Milano, Italy Patricia Lago VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands San Murugesan University of Western Sydney, Australia Barbara Pernici Politecnico di Milano, Italy IMPORTANT DATES *************** Paper submission: September 01, 2010 Notification: October 01, 2010 Camera Ready Copy: November 01, 2010 Workshop Date: December 7, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS ****************** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages, strictly following Springer LNCS style. Peer-reviewed SEE workshop papers will be published as part of the ICSOC workshop proceedings. Workshop proceedings are planned for publication by Springer-Verlag. Full research papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style format describing novel solutions to relevant problems. We also welcome a stream for short papers for work-in-progress and/or position statements (particularly, from industry). Short papers (position papers / work-in progress papers) should not exceed 6 pages in Springer LNCS style format describing particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Please see details at the ICSOC website: http://www.icsoc.org/ If you have any queries about the workshop, please contact gangadharan[at]elet[dot]polimi[dot]it or geeyaar[at]gmail[dot]com. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] IJITSA (Table of Contents of issue 3(1))
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] IJITSA (Table of Contents of issue 3(1)) Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:50:19 -0500 (CDT) Von: Manuel Mora T. <mmora(a)securenym.net> Antwort an: mmora(a)securenym.net An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ========================================================================= The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) ========================================================================= Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 3, Issue 1, January-June 2010 Published: Semi-Annual in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1935-570X EISSN: 1935-5718 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijitsa Editors-in-Chief: Frank Stowell, University of Postmourth, UK Manuel Mora, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México EDITORIAL PREFACE Frank Stowell, Editor-in-Chief, IJITSA Manuel Mora, Operational Editor-in-Chief, IJITSA This issue of the International Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) contains four peer-reviewed articles to advance scientific and practical knowledge on relevant theoretical and real problems in the fields of information systems, software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems, and philosophy of system, from an interdisciplinary systems paradigm. This issue investigates the problem of how to plan and design IT mobile architectures, claims that software engineering is a social human-intensive endeavor, and consequently demands a social reading, as well as posits a research methodological process aimed for theory testing within small-N research designs. In addition, this issue also addresses the real problem of land management. To read the preface, please consult this issue of IJITSA in your library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAPER ONE Mobile Enterprise Architecture Framework Zongjun Li, Government of Ontario, Canada. Annette Lerine Steenkamp, Lawrence Technological University, USA The mobile enterprise is a new form of enterprise in the contemporary mobile era. Although several well-known enterprise architecture frameworks are used by enterprises, it is apparent that there is no industry standard available to enable an enterprise to transform its business processes to incorporate mobile technologies to an advantage. In this article, the authors present a conceptual mobile enterprise architecture framework and supporting methodology and process model to aid enterprise decision makers to evaluate the business values, analyze the risks, and other critical business and technical factors for enterprise mobile initiatives and mobile transitions. The framework covers both the enterprise and mobile enterprise architecture domains that represent the enterprise, business, and mobile adoption levels. The methodology and process model cover the strategy, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance stages for each mobile initiative and are validated in a research project against some Ontario government mobile initiatives. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=9310 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAPER TWO Towards Knowledge Evolution in Software Engineering: An Epistemological Approach Yves Wautelet, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Christophe Schinckus, Facultés Universitaires St-Louis, Belgium Manuel Kolp, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium In this article, the authors present an epistemological reading of knowledge evolution in software engineering (SE) both within a software project and into SE theoretical frameworks principally modeling languages and software development life cycles (SDLC). This article envisages SE as an artificial science and notably points to the use of iterative development as a more adequate framework for the enterprise applications. Iterative development has become popular in SE since it allows a more efficient knowledge acquisition process, especially in user intensive applications by continuous organizational modeling and requirements acquisition, early implementation and testing, and modularity. The study of software projects? actors and stakeholders using Simon?s bounded rationality points to the use of an iterative development life cycle. Popper?s knowledge growth principle could at first seem suited for the analysis of the knowledge evolution in the SE field; however, this epistemology is better adapted to purely hard sciences as physics than to SE which also takes roots in human activities and by the way in social sciences. Consequently, the authors nuance the vision using Lakatosian epistemology notably using his falsification principle criticism on SE as an evolving science. This article also points to adaptive rationality for a lecture of SE theorists and researchers? rationality. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=9311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAPER THREE Testable Theory Development for Small-N Studies: Critical Realism and Middle-Range Theory Matthew L. Smith, International Development Research Centre, Canada Theory testing within small-N research designs is problematic. Developments in the philosophy of social science have opened up new methodological possibilities through, among other things, a novel notion of contingent causality that allows for contextualized hypothesis generation, hypothesis testing and refinement, and generalization. This article contributes to the literature by providing an example of critical realist (one such new development in the philosophy of social science) theory development for a small-N comparative case study that includes hypothesis testing. The author begins with the key ontological assumptions of critical realism and its relation to theory and explanation. Then, this article presents an illustrative example of an e-government comparative case study, focusing on the concept of trust, which follows these ontological assumptions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=9312 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAPER FOUR Multi-Level Service Infrastructure for Geovisual Analytics in the Context of Territorial Management Giuseppe Conti, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy Raffaele De Amicis, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy Stefano Piffer, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy Bruno Simões, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy The management of a territory is a complex process, involving a number of different operators, administrators, and decision makers. Territory management requires accessing and processing a wide range of heterogeneous and multi-dimensional GI (GI). Within a typical scenario, the process involves departments at public administrations responsible for urban planning, environmental control, infrastructure planning, and maintenance. Additionally units such as civil protection, fire brigades also play a vital role when dealing with emergencies. Data to be managed range from alphanumerical information stored within enterprise-level databases to satellite imagery, vector data, and information coming from on-site sensors. This article illustrates the benefit of adopting a system approach, which makes use of service-oriented architectures (SOA) and 3D geobrowsers to provide an answer to the aforementioned shortcomings. The authors present the client-server platform designed to support decision makers and experts from local or regional administrations in the process of managing their territory. This article illustrates the results of the application of the infrastructure within a real-life scenario, thus providing the chance to discuss the implications of adopting such an approach. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=9313 ***************************************************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.infosci-journals.com. ***************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: next deadline is March 15, 2001 Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission themes and guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijitsa All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editors-in-Chief: Frank Stowell and Manuel Mora at frank.stowell(a)port.ac.uk, ijitsa(a)gmail.com, and dr.manuel.mora.uaa(a)gmail.com ========================================================================= ---------------------------------------------- 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: [AISWorld] Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 22, 3, 2010 Abstracts
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 22, 3, 2010 Abstracts Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:24:51 -0600 Von: Mahmood, M. Adam <mmahmood(a)utep.edu> An: 'aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org' <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The contents of the latest issue of: Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 22, Issue 3, July-September 2010 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1546-2234 EISSN: 1546-5012 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/joeuc Editor-in-Chief: M. Adam Mahmood, University of Texas at El Paso, USA EDITORIAL NOTE An extended version of the abstracts for the following JOEUC issue is provided below for your information and perusal. If you would like to submit a manuscript to the journal for publication consideration, please consult the manuscript submission guidelines provided at http://www.igi-pub.com/. After reviewing the guidelines, please send an electronic version of your manuscript to us. PAPER ONE The Influence of Perceived Source Credibility on End User Attitudes and Intentions to Comply with Recommended IT Actions Allen Johnston (University of Alabama, USA) Merrill Warkentin (Mississippi State University, USA) Through persuasive communications, information technology (IT) executives hope to align the actions of end users with the expectations of senior management and of the firm regarding technology usage. One highly influential factor of persuasive effectiveness is the source of the persuasive message. This study presents a conceptual model for explaining the influence of source credibility on end user attitudes and behavioral intentions to comply with organizationally motivated, recommended IT actions within a decentralized, autonomous environment. The results of this study suggest that the elements of source competency, trustworthiness, and dynamism are significant determinants of attitudes and behavioral intentions to engage in recommended IT actions. These findings reveal the importance of these elements of effective communication in persuading end users to follow recommended IT activities and advance IT acceptance and adoption research through the application of persuasive c! ommunication theory to the domain. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43749 PAPER TWO Enterprise Systems Training Strategies: Knowledge Levels and User Understanding Tony Coulson (California State University, San Bernardino, USA) Lorne Olfman (Claremont Graduate University, USA) Terry Ryan (Claremont Graduate University, USA) Conrad Shayo (California State University, San Bernardino, USA) Enterprise systems (ESs) are customizable, integrated software applications designed to support core business processes. This paper reports research contrasting the relative effectiveness of two strategies for ES end-user training that differentially reflect the Sein, Bostrom, and Olfman (1999) hierarchical knowledge-level model. One strategy- procedural-involves training that targets the three lowest knowledge levels of the model (command-based, tool-procedural, and business-procedural); the other-tool-conceptual-involves training that also includes a higher knowledge level (tool-conceptual). A non-equivalent quasi-experimental design was used for groups of senior business students being trained to use an authentic ES. Performance measures were administered during training and ten days after training concluded. Both experiments demonstrated that training involving the tool-conceptual knowledge level leads to superior mental models, compared with training oriented toward low! er knowledge levels, as expressed in the recollection and communication of ES concepts. Tool-conceptual knowledge-level training can be used to promote understanding and communication, and should be incorporated into training strategies for ES. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43750 PAPER THREE Culturally Compatible Usability Work: An Interpretive Case Study on the Relationship between Usability Work and Its Cultural Context in Software Product Development Organizations Netta Iivari (University of Oulu, Finland) This paper analyzes how organizational culture is intertwined with usability work in software (SW) development organizations. Usability is an important quality characteristic of software products and systems. However, the development of usability is challenging in SW development. Organizational culture has been argued to affect usability work in SW development organizations, thus, this paper takes a culture-oriented approach in the analysis of usability work in two SW development organizations operating in the product development context. First, based on a literature review, a definition of usability work is offered. An interpretive view of organizational culture, acknowledging its recent critique, is then introduced and utilized in the empirical analysis. The empirical results suggest that differences exists in how usability work is modified and interpreted in the organizations with divergent cultural contexts, those advocating different motives and practices for usability ! work. Finally, the importance of understanding the cultural context into which usability work is introduced is emphasized, and it is argued that culturally compatible strategies to usability work should be adopted. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43751 PAPER FOUR A Model of System Re-Configurability and Pedagogical Usability in an E-Learning Context: A Faculty Perspective Jianfeng Wang (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, USA) William Doll (The University of Toledo, USA) Xiaodong Deng (Oakland University, USA) Course management systems (CMSs) enable institutions to engage users efficiently, increase enrollment without major facilities investments, and serve geographically dispersed student markets on an ongoing basis. The full benefits of technology cannot be realized if faculty do not adopt the new technology and use it to achieve their instructional design objectives. From a faculty perspective, pedagogical usability of the software is an important factor affecting technology adoption and effective implementation. Pedagogical usability is measured using Chickering and Gamson's seven principles of good educational practice. In a distance learning context, this paper provides an initial exploratory study of how faculty perceptions of CMS software characteristics like content re-configurability, interaction re-configurability, and modularity design help faculty implement good pedagogical principles. Additionally, a model is presented that links CMS software design characteristics l! ike content re-configurability, interaction re-configurability, and modularity design with the pedagogical usability assessments of faculty. This model is tested using a sample of 56 faculty members using WebCT at a mid-western university. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43752 PAPER FIVE A Path Analysis of the Impact of Application-Specific Perceptions of Computer Self-Efficacy and Anxiety on Technology Acceptance Bassam Hasan (The University of Toledo, USA) Mesbah Ahmed (The University of Toledo, USA) Perceptions of computer self-efficacy (CSE) and computer anxiety are valuable predictors of various computer-related behaviors, including acceptance and utilization of information systems (IS). Although both factors are purported to have general and application-specific components, little research has focused on the application or system-specific component, especially in IS acceptance contexts. Thus, little is known about the effects of application-specific beliefs on IS acceptance or how such effects compare with the effects of more general CSE and computer anxiety beliefs. Accordingly, a research model comprising application CSE, application anxiety, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude, and intention was proposed and tested via path analysis. The results demonstrated that the direct impacts of application CSE and application anxiety on perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness were almost equal, but in opposite directions. However, the indirect effec! t of application CSE on attitude and intention was stronger than that of application anxiety. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43753 Sincerely, M. Adam Mahmood _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: Second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) at New York University
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: Second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) at New York University Datum: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 06:14:32 -0400 (EDT) Von: arun(a)stern.nyu.edu Antwort an: Arun Sundararajan <asundara(a)stern.nyu.edu> An: aisworld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit abstracts of your research for the second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), to be held at New York University Friday, September 24th and Saturday, September 25th, 2010. Briefly, the goal of WIN is to facilitate interaction between leading researchers studying information in networks from different perspectives towards nurturing conversation across fields and building a stronger multidisciplinary research community. During the workshop, speakers will share their recent research, which may have been published elsewhere, but which may not be widely known outside of their own disciplines, and each session will include substantial time for discussion. The program of last year's workshop along with video recordings of its talks can be found at http://www.winworkshop.net/ I have pasted a longer call for participation/abstracts below this message. We look forward to receiving your abstracts on or before August 5th, 2010, and to seeing you again at NYU in September. Best regards, Arun (On behalf of Sinan Aral, Foster Provost and Arun Sundararajan) ****************************************************************************************** Call for Participation and Abstract Submission: The Second Workshop on Information in Networks September 24-25, 2010, New York City Sponsored in part by the Initiative on Information in Networks Organizers: Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan We are pleased to announce the second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN). Last year’s workshop brought together a small yet influential community around topics that at their core involve ‘information in networks‘—its distribution, its diffusion, its value, and its influence on social and economic outcomes. Scholars from fields as diverse as computer science, economics, information systems, marketing, physics, political science and sociology came together to lay the foundation for ongoing relationships and to build a multidisciplinary research community. This year’s workshop will build on this foundation toward bringing more innovative content and vibrant discussion to the forum. Speakers will share their recent research, which may have been published elsewhere, but which may not be widely known outside of their own disciplines. The workshop will combine invited and contributed talks with poster presentations selected from a pool of submitted abstracts. We hope the energy of New York City will inspire the gathering, and that our participants will leave with new ideas and a renewed sense of community. Abstract Submission =================== Contributing participants will be selected based on the extended abstracts they submit. Please submit an extended abstract of no more than 3 pages to Shirley Lau (info(a)winworkshop.net) on or before August 5, 2010. We invite descriptions of research about any interesting aspect of information in networks. We especially hope to include some research presentations around the topic of “information networks in development”. Abstracts will be evaluated as they are submitted until the program is filled. Space is quite limited, so interested researchers should submit their abstracts as soon as possible. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by August 20, 2010 and will be asked to submit a final 5-page version (including references and figures), by September 1 , 2010. These accepted abstracts will be printed and distributed as informal workshop notes. Members of the press may attend the event and submission therefore indicates no objection to their presence during presentations. Confirmed Speakers (as of July 1, 2010) ======================================= Ron Burt, University of Chicago Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University Nathan Eagle, MIT Sanjeev Goyal, Cambridge University Matthew Jackson, Stanford University Tony Jebara, Columbia University David Jensen, University of Massachussetts Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania Rachel Kranton, Duke University David Lazer, Northeastern University Mark Newman, University of Michigan (tentative) Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research Key Dates ======== Workshop Dates: September 24-25, 2010. Abstract Submission: August 5, 2010. Notification to Authors: August 20, 2010. Final Abstract Submission: September 1, 2010. Early Registration: September 5, 2010 ****************************************************************************************** -- Arun Sundararajan Associate Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow http://oz.stern.nyu.edu/ http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=155 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] Congress on Intelligent Systems & Software Engineering (EI Compendex/ISTP/IEEE Xplore)
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Congress on Intelligent Systems & Software Engineering (EI Compendex/ISTP/IEEE Xplore) Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:12:30 +0800 Von: GCIS & WCSE 2010 CFP <GCIS2010CFP(a)whut.edu.cn> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> In response to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to 15 July. **2010 Second*** **Global Congress on Intelligent Systems* *(GCIS 2010)* http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/GCIS/2010//// /16-17 December 2010, Wuhan, China/ *2010 Second **World**** Congress on Software Engineering (WCSE**** **2010)* http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/WCSE/2010//// //19-20/// ///December 2010, Wuhan, China// GCIS & WCSE 2010 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent innovations and new techniques in intelligent systems and software engineering. GCIS & WCSE 2010 conference proceedings will be published by the CPS which will include the conference proceedings in the IEEE Xplore and submit the conference proceedings to Ei Compendex and ISTP for indexing (GCIS & WCSE 2009 proceedings were already indexed in Ei Compendex). The registration fee of US D 400 or RM B 2700 includes publication of 1 paper, lunches, dinners, and banquet. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: GCIS: artificial intelligence, machine learning, intelligent control and automation, computational intelligence, soft computing, nature-inspired computation, bio-inspired algorithms, neuro-fuzzy techniques, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, semantic web, etc.. WCSE: Software metrics; Software tools and development environments; Software policy and ethics; Programming languages; Internet and information systems development; Software requirements; Software architecture and design; Software components and reuse; Software testing and analysis; Human-Computer Interaction; Software processes and workflows; Software dependability, safety, privacy and reliability; Reverse engineering and maintenance; Program comprehension and visualization, etc.. Wuhan is known as the "Homeland of White Clouds and Yellow Crane" and is one of China´s largest cities. There are many scenic spots and historical sites within and around Wuhan, for example, the Yellow Crane Tower, the East Lake, many charming colonial style buildings along Yanjiang Street and around Hongshan Square. *Important Dates:* Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): *15 July 2010* Review Notification: 1 September 2010 Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 15 September 2010 In addition to research papers, the conference also encourages companies and institutions to showcase their modern products and equipment in the conference area. Please email your inquiries to GCIS2010(a)whut.edu.cn <mailto:GCIS2010@whut.edu.cn> (for GCIS 2010) or WCSE2010(a)whut.edu.cn <mailto:WCSE2010@whut.edu.cn> (for WCSE 2010). Please feel free to forward to others. To unsubscribe, please reply with "unsubscribe wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de " as your email subject.

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Fwd: [WI] Last CFP: 19th Euromicro PDP
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Last CFP: 19th Euromicro PDP Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:51:49 +0300 Von: Announcements <announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: telespazio.com, <WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing PDP 2011 Grecian Bay Hotel, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, February 9-11 2011 http://www.pdp2011.org Paper submission: July 16th, 2010 Scope ~~~~~ Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive change over recent years. New architectures and applications have rapidly become the central focus of the discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed technologies with other rapidly evolving technologies such as telecommunications andmultimedia. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in comparison with recent research achievements in the well-established areas of parallel and distributed computing, from industry and thescientific community. The PDP 2010 aims to provide a forum for the presentation of these and other issues through original research presentations and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical level. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Distributed Systems: Distributed databases, distributed object-oriented systems, distributed operating systems, heterogeneous distributed systems, distributed algorithms, distributed shared memory systems * Network-based Computing: Web computing, cluster computing, cloud computing, computational grids, data grids, semantic grid, mobile agents, distributed web services, security in distributed systems * Parallel Computer Systems: massively parallel machines, interconnection networks, embedded parallel and distributed systems, fault-tolerance, memory organization, support for parallel I/O, multi/many core systems, GPU and FPGA based parallel systems * Models and Tools for Parallel Programming Environments: performance prediction and analysis, simulation, knowledge-based parallel program development, visualization tools * Advanced Applications: multi-disciplinary applications, parallel databases, computations over irregular domains, numerical applications with multi-level parallelism, real time distributed applications, distributed business applications * Languages, Compilers and Runtime Support Systems: task and data parallel languages, functional and logic languages, object-oriented languages, dependability issues, scheduling and load balancing, task and object migration Special Sessions ---------------- The following special sessions will be organized within the conference: * Next Generation of Web Computing, chair Konrad Klockner * Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-peer environments, chair Julien Bourgeois * New Topics in Parallel Computing in Optimization, chair Didier El Baz * Grid, Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatics Applications, chairs Ivan Merelli and Daniel D'Agostino * Grid and High Performance Computing for Nuclear Fusion Applications, chair Rainer Stotzka and Jan Westerholm * On-chip Parallel and Network-based Systems, chairs Hamid Sarbazi-Azadand Nader Bagherzadeh * Virtualisation in Distributed Systems, chair Thierry Delaitre * Security in Networked and Distributed Systems (SNDS 2011) chair Igor Kotenko Papers can be submitted either to conference main track or to one of these Special Sessions. All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Important dates --------------------------- Deadline for paper submission: July 16th, 2010 Acceptance notification: October 4th, 2010 Camera ready paper due: October 29th, 2009 Conference: February 9-11th, 2011 Venue ----- PDP 2011 will take place at Grecian Bay Hotel, Ayia Napa, Cyprus. Paper submission ----------------- Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. To facilitate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; moreover, the names of the authors of the paper must not appear in citations in the reference section. Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Yiannis Cotronis, University of Athens George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -- 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: [WI] 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:45:01 +0200 Von: Enrico Franconi <franconi(a)inf.unibz.it> An: krdbs-2010(a)inf.unibz.it 3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data (KRDBs-2010) Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 17-18 September 2010 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/school/2010/ Call for Participation The 2010 edition of the KRDB school will be focussed on methods, techno- logies, and formalisms to publish, share, access, and integrate hetero- geneous and autonomous data on the Web. The lecturers of the school are: Danny Ayers: (Semantic) Web platforms Jonathan Ellis: NoSQL and Cloud Computing Tom Heath: Linked Data Peter Mika: Semantic Search Martin Hepp: The GoodRelations Ontology for E-Commerce Marko Rodriguez: Graph Databases Detailed information about the lectures can be found on the web page. The participation to the school is free of charge. Students are required to apply by sending an email including personal details and a short curriculum vitae et studiorum to: <krdbs-2010(a)inf.unibz.it <mailto:krdbs-2010@inf.unibz.it>>. Applications are continuosly evaluated as soon as the are submitted on a first-come-first-served basis until there are available places. The final deadline for the application is on the 27th of August. VENUE The school will take place in the charming town of Brixen-Bressanone, near Bozen-Bolzano in South Tyrol at the heart of the Dolomites - the pink mountains of the Alps. Like Bozen-Bolzano, Brixen-Bressanone has always been a crossroads of various cultures and it is distinguished by its mediaeval Gothic architecture. The mediaeval alleys and the wealth of historical references are an ideal starting point for excursions into the countryside and for practising a whole variety of sports and leisure activities. Leaving directly from the town centre delegates can set off on their bikes or on foot for excursions into the surrounding hills and mountains. Brixen-Bressanone is on the main arterial road between Austria/Germany and Italy and it is easily accessible from everywhere by train, car, bus or plane.

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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: ACM Mediation Services in Computing Environments
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: ACM Mediation Services in Computing Environments Datum: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:13:34 +0200 Von: Guadalupe Ortiz <guadalupe.ortiz(a)uca.es> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> *We apologize for multiple posting* ==================== Call for Papers ========================== Mediation Services in Computing Environments (MeSC 2011) http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rza/mesc/mesc2011<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/%7Erza/mesc/mesc2011> Technical Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011) http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/ Taichung, Taiwan, March 21-25, 2011. The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM =============================================================== ----- Scope ----- The heterogeneity of the vast resources of the Internet, their transparent access, integration and interoperation pose a significant challenge that mediation services are increasingly called upon to address. In foundational systems mediation takes many forms and ranges from assistance in the search and discovery of resources to arbitration and negotiation by autonomous agents. Mediation presides also over the deployment of cooperative and collaborative schemes, by marshalling resources and scheduling processes. In service provision a manager mediates adaptively the configuration and allocation of resources in a variety of environments including Grids and Cloud. Among the applications that fall within the scope of mediation, architectural frameworks in e-commerce, e-government and e-learning have been successfully introduced to create synergy between humans and systems. The fundamental basis for any mediation is that autonomous entities and systems need to overcome their environmental heterogeneity and resolve syntactic and semantic differences. The main role of a mediation service is to facilitate processes such as data and system integration, coordination of behaviour, resource sharing and participation in complex activities. Mediation services play a fundamental role in ubiquitous and pervasive environments. In managing differences and resolving conflicting requirements a range of methods and techniques were introduced to support interoperation and facilitate semantic interoperability. Data transformation, resource management, configuration, adaptation and negotiation define a wide spectrum of mediation, from reactive behaviour to proactive intervention. ------------------- Topics of interests ------------------- The track seeks original contributions on mediation and mediation services related but not limited to the following topics: - Mediation in resource management and brokering - Arbitration and negotiation in mediation - Data mediation and process mediation - Personalisation and recommendation systems - Implicit and explicit profile generation in mediation - Ontology mapping in mediation - Mediation in hypermedia systems - Context-awareness in mediation - Self-configuration and adaptivity in mediation - Autonomous and emergent behaviour in mediation - Aggregation of mediation services - Trusted mediation - Mediation patterns - Formal aspects of mediation - Models and model transformation in mediation - Aspect-Oriented mediation - Domain specific languages (DSL) in mediation - Mediation in collaborative and cooperative systems - Mediation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments. - Mediation in social and P2P community systems - Mediation services in mobile contexts - Architectural frameworks for mediation - Mediation in e-commerce, e-government and e-learning - Case studies and experiences of mediation services --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Submission deadline: August 24, 2010 - Author notification: October 12, 2010 - Camera-ready copies: November 2, 2010 - Symposium/Track dates: March 21-25, 2011 ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK Irfan Awan, University of Bradford , UK Sandford Bessler, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria Valeria de Castro,Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Jen-Yao Chung, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Gregorio Diaz, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada Howard Foster, Imperial College, London, UK Christian Glasner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Germany Nathan Griffiths, University of Warwick, UK Robert J. Hendley, University of Birmingham, UK Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Michael Maximilien, IBM Research, Almaden, USA Massimo Mecella, University of Rome, Italy Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK Kozo Okano, Osaka University, Japan David Parker, Oxford University, UK Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Martin Randles, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Stefan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan Georgios Theodoropoulos, University of Birmingham, UK Mathias Weske, University of Postdam, Germany Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany --------------- Track Co-Chairs --------------- For any inquiries please contact the track organisers: Rachid Anane Faculty of Engineering and Computing Coventry University, UK r[dot]anane[at]coventry[dot]ac[dot]uk Behzad Bordbar School of Computer Science University of Birmingham, UK b[dot]bordbar[at]cs[dot]bham[dot]ac[dot]uk Guadalupe Ortiz Department of Computer Science University of Cadiz, Spain guadalupe[dot]ortiz[at]uca[dot]esp

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