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Fwd: [AISWorld] Last Call: IJEC special issue on m-commerce (submissions due: 1 March 2011)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Last Call: IJEC special issue on m-commerce (submissions due: 1 March 2011) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:18:50 +0200 From: George M Giaglis <giaglis(a)aueb.gr> Reply-To: giaglis(a)aueb.gr Organization: Athens University of Economics and Business To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org (apologies for cross-posting) Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce on Mobile Commerce (m-commerce) Important Dates Submission deadline: 1 March 2011 Review results: 15 June 2011 Revised manuscripts due: 15 August 2011 Final decisions: 1 October 2011 Overview Mobility represents a natural human state, hence mobile commerce (m-commerce) has been hailed as the complement, and in many aspects a natural successor to traditional desk-bound e-commerce. The proliferation of smartphones and wireless networks has brought the dream of seamless mobility and always-on connectivity closer to reality - albeit not without new challenges related to technologies, platforms, systems, applications, and business models to name but a few. The goal of this special issue is to report frontier research addressing the current status and future prospects of m-commerce and to reflect on business innovation and social transformation through mobility. The issue aims to offer an integrated view of the field by presenting approaches originating from and drawing upon multiple disciplines. The special issue welcomes theoretical, experimental, or survey-based studies that make a significant novel contribution to the field. Submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: . Theoretical foundations of m-commerce . Mobile-driven business models . User behavior and innovation diffusion in m-commerce . Context-aware and location-aware business . Mobile communities and social networking . Strategies, policies, economics and societal implications of m-commerce . Privacy, security, trust and regulation in m-commerce . Innovation in horizontal and vertical applications: mHealth; mGovernment; mLearning; mEntertainment; mPayments; mMarketing/Advertising; mSCM/CRM; mParticipation; and others Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should be sent electronically to the guest editors. All submissions should conform to the journal's formatting guidelines, which are available online at http://www.gvsu.edu/business/ijec/. Authors are encouraged to submit extended abstracts to the guest editors prior to the submission deadline for early feedback and indication of suitability. Guest Editors George M. Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, giaglis(a)aueb.gr, http://www.giaglis.eu/, http://www.wirelessresearch.eu/ Panos E. Kourouthanassis, Ionian University, Greece, pkour(a)ionio.gr _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [wkwi] CfP CMM-Workshop@CAiSE2011
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] CfP CMM-Workshop@CAiSE2011 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:11:01 +0100 (CET) From: Dimitris Karagiannis <dk(a)dke.univie.ac.at> Reply-To: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, der erste internationale Workshop für "Conceptualization of Modelling Methods" findet im Rahmen der CAiSE Konferenz in Juni in London statt. Ziel des Workshops ist es eine Plattform für Forschungs- und Anwendungbeiträge zu bieten, die sich mit: * der Entwicklung und Anwendung von Modellierungsmethoden in beliebigen Anwendungsgebieten * Method Engineering für Meta-Modellierungsplattformen beschäftigen. Die Einreichungsfrist für Beiträge endet am 25. Februar 2011. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Workshop-Webseite: http://www.openmodels.at/web/CAISE2011-CMM-Workshop oder im beiligenden Call for Papers. Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Einreichungen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Dimitris Karagiannis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dimitris Karagiannis Tel: (+43) 1 / 4277 39580, Fax: (+43) 1 / 4277 39584 e-mail: dk(a)dke.univie.ac.at http://www.dke.univie.ac.at Universität Wien University of Vienna Forschungsgruppe Knowledge Engineering Knowledge Engineering Brünnerstraße 72 Bruennerstrasse 72 1210 Wien A-1210 Vienna Österreich Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Fwd: Workshop Entwicklung zuverlässiger Software-Systeme
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Workshop Entwicklung zuverlässiger Software-Systeme Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:27:47 +0100 (CET) From: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi.de To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen zum 4. Workshop Entwicklung zuverlässiger Software-Systeme 30. Juni 2011, Bosch Zentrum Feuerbach, Stuttgart Themen Die Veranstalter bitten um Einreichung von Beiträgen zum Thema Entwicklung zuverlässiger Software-Systeme im Umfang von 3-6 Seiten oder entsprechende Vortragsunterlagen. Erwünscht sind Beiträge aus folgenden Themenbereichen ● Requirements Engineering ● Zuverlässigkeit mobiler Systeme ● Multi-Core-Architekturen und Migration ● Echtzeitsysteme ● Sprachen versus Bibliotheken ● Vorgehensmodelle und Prozesse ● Erfüllung von funktionalen und nichtfunktionalen Anforderungen ● Risikobetrachtungen, Normen und SIL ● Fehlertoleranz und Redundanzkonzepte ● Nachweis der Erfüllung der Sicherheits-Anforderungen ● Bewertung von realisierten Systemen Termine Einreichung von Workshop-Unterlagen: Freitag, 18. Februar 2011 Benachrichtigung über Annahme und erwünschte schriftliche Fassung: Freitag, 15. April 2011 Abgabe der Beiträge (schriftliche Fassung oder Präsentation): Montag, 6. Juni 2011 Einreichung mit Stichwort „Beitrag Workshop 2011“bitte an: beitrag(a)ada-deutschland.de Publikation Die angenommenen Beiträge werden auf den Webseiten von Ada Deutschland veröffentlicht. Erwünschte schriftliche Fassungen werden zur Veröffentlichung an die SWT-Trends des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik weiter gegeben. Bitte beachten Sie die Richtlinien der SWT-Trends. Programm Komitee Vorsitz: Hubert B. Keller, KIT Karlsruhe; Erhard Plödereder, Universität Stuttgart. Gerhard Beck, Rhode&Schwarz SIT; Peter Dencker, ETAS; Dirk Dickmanns, EADS; Simon Fürst, BMW Group; Christoph Grein, Eurocopter Deutschland; Erwin Großpietsch, ENCRESS; Peter Hermann, Universität Stuttgart; Herbert Klenk, Cassidian; Jürgen Mottok, Hochschule Regensburg; Ulrich Lefarth, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions; Michael Ebert, Robert Bosch GmbH; Francesca Saglietti, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Christian Scheidler, Daimler AG; Claus Stellwag, Elektrobit Automotive. Workshopleitung Peter Dencker, ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart Hubert B. Keller, KIT Karlsruhe Organisationsleitung Peter Dencker, ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart Veranstaltungsort Bosch Zentrum Feuerbach Fachliche Träger: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Fachbereiche „Sicherheit“ und „Softwaretechnik“ Fachgruppe Ada und zuverlässige Softwaresysteme Fachgruppe ENCRESS VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik, Fachausschuss Embedded Software Förderverein Ada Deutschland e. V. Kontakt Hubert B. Keller, hubert.keller(a)kit.edu Peter Dencker, peter.dencker(a)etas.com Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Hubert B. Keller Leiter der AGn Intelligente Sensorsysteme u. Innovative Prozessführung Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Forschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Institut für Angewandte Informatik (IAI) Gebäude 445, Raum 243 Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen T ++49 721 608-2 5756 Fax ++49 721 608-2 5702 Email: Hubert.Keller(a)kit.edu / keller(a)iai.fzk.de KIT - Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und nationales Großforschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft www.kit.edu Privat: Erasmusstr. 3, 76139 Karlsruhe Hubert.Keller(a)dr-hbkeller.com Mob ++49 171 2075269 Fax 0721 9683530 Sollen Sie diese Email irrtümlich erhalten haben, so geben Sie bitte Bescheid. Danke. ________________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: [WI] [3rd CFP] Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] [3rd CFP] Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:51:13 +0000 From: Axel Korthaus <Axel.Korthaus(a)vu.edu.au> To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Third Call For Papers Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011) "The Enterprise Computing Conference" 29.8.-2.9. 2011, Helsinki, Finland http://www.ieee-edoc.org/ & http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/ ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The IEEE EDOC Conference is the key annual event in enterprise computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2011 will be the fifteenth event in the series of conferences. Since 1997, EDOC has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, enterprise architects, solution designers and practitioners to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of academia, industry and government. Enterprise computing is based on a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and technologies. The resulting applications also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications for collaborating enterprises. In recent years, technologies related to enterprise architecture and business processes management have become some of the top areas of interest in enterprise computing. Today, the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems create challenges that range from goal and policy modeling through functional and non-functional requirements to the deployment and maintenance of solutions in and across customer businesses. The IEEE EDOC Conference emphasizes a holistic view of enterprise applications engineering and management, fostering integrated approaches that can address and relate processes, people and technology. Openness and distributed computing, based on services, components and objects are important themes. IEEE EDOC 2011 welcomes high quality scientific submissions as well as papers on enterprise computing industry experiences. Expert panel discussions and keynotes will address hot topics and issues in the domain. TOPICS The IEEE EDOC conference seeks high-quality contributions addressing the domains, the life-cycle issues and the realization technologies involved in building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. Suggested areas include, but are not limited to -- Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Application Architecture - Enterprise architecture frameworks - Enterprise architecture analysis, assessment and prediction - Enterprise ontologies Model based approaches - Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven software development - Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL) - Reference architecture based approaches - Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues Service oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise service architectures (ESA) - Evolution of service engineering specifications - Semantics-based service engineering - Enterprise service bus approaches - Event driven architectures Service oriented architecture governance - Service policies, contract definitions and enforcement - Security policy definition and description languages - Security policy interoperability Business process management (BPM) - Business process models and metamodels - Business process monitoring and intelligence - Dynamically configurable business processes - Cross-organizational business processes Business analytics - Modeling and Predictive analytics - Data-Driven Strategy - Collaboration platforms Business rules - Business rules languages and inference systems - Business rules components - Rule driven business process engines Information integration and interoperability - Business object model methodologies and approaches - Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration - Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing Networked Enterprise Solutions - Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture - Virtual organizations, including multiagent system support - Digital ecosystems - Trust management Enterprise applications deployment and governance - Performance and operational risk prediction and measurement - Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS) - Management and maintenance of enterprise computing systems - Information assurance - Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing State of the art in distributed enterprise applications - Industry specific solutions, e.g. for aerospace, automotive, finance, logistics, medicine and telecommunications - Research and public sector collaboration, e.g. in e-health, e-government, e-science - Social information and innovation networks Enterprise Computing Infrastructures - Autonomic computing and self-managing platforms - Cloud infrastructure - Mobile enterprise services SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Two types of paper submissions will be accepted: a) scientific research papers, and b) industry experience reports or case studies. Scientific research papers should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers will be evaluated for scientific or technical contribution, originality, appropriateness and significance. Experience reports should describe new insights gained from case studies or the application of enterprise computing technology in practice, contribute important feedback about the state of practice and how current research is applied, and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance and clarity. All papers should be limited to 10 pages in length. All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the EDOC Conference Management system (hosted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc2011). All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. POST CONFERENCE PUBLICATION The authors of a set of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for publication in a special journal issue (details will be announced later). In previous years, selected papers from EDOC have been published in Springer's Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), and International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS). A special issue with selected and extended papers of EDOC 2010 will appear at the Enterprise Information Systems journal (published by Taylor & Francis, with an impact factor of 2.809 in JCR 2009). KEYNOTES The EDOC 2011 programme will feature a number of keynote lectures, including presentations by * Prof. Terry Halpin - a Principal Scientist at LogicBlox (headquartered in Atlanta, USA) and a Professor at INTI International University (Malaysia) * Prof. Michael P. Papazoglou - the chair of Computer Science and the director of the ERISS at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands * Dr. Richard Hull - research manager in Business Informatics, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center WORKSHOPS Workshops complement IEEE EDOC's main scientific program with presentations and discussions of both mature and preliminary project results, ideas, experiences, and knowledge in a way that is more interactive and more focused than paper sessions in the main conference program. To foster this interactivity and focus, workshops target a narrower range of topics. Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and the IEEE Xplore. You can find short summaries of the workshops below. Please check the detailed scope and submission instructions at each workshop page. * 2nd International Workshop on Models and Model-driven Methods for Service Engineering (3M4SE 2011) The 2nd International Workshop on Models and Model-driven Methods for Service Engineering aims to discuss how service engineering, founded on advances in modeling and model-driven methods, can contribute to the alignment of business and software systems. * 5th International Workshop on Advances in Quality of Service Management (AQuSerM 2011) Service Level Management (SLM) is the process of managing the Quality of Service (QoS) demanded by clients and offered by providers. AQuSerM is concerned with recent developments in QoS management: the monitoring of widely distributed services, particularly new paradigms of enterprise system (SOA and the Cloud), dynamic adaptation strategies and the necessity for more sophisticated prediction and diagnostic analysis techniques. * 1st International Workshop on Dynamic Business-to-Business Collaboration (DynaCo 2011) The Workshop on Dynamic B2B Collaboration aims at bringing together contributions to address the complex challenges of collaboration between organizations from business, conceptual, and technological points of view. * 4th International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011) The International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes focuses on evolutionary approaches in business process management to support the change of software systems during their life cycle. * 3rd International Workshop on Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE 2011) The goal of the SoEA4EE workshop is to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and the management of service-oriented enterprise architectures and the software systems supporting them. * 6th Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR 2011) Workshop The TEAR workshop series objective is to bring together communities of Enterprise Architecture (EA) researchers and practitioners and to identify future directions for EA research with special focus on service oriented paradigms. * 6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) The 6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) aims to discuss the role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next generation enterprise solutions. IMPORTANT DATES Potential new workshop proposals: 6.12.2010 Workshop acceptance notifications: 13.12.2010 Paper abstract submission (optional): 15.2.2011 Full paper submission due: 28.2.2011 Workshop paper submissions: 15.3.2011 Conference paper acceptance notifications: 27.4.2011 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: 7.5.2011 All camera-ready papers due: 1.6.2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES General Chair Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Chi-Hung Chi, School of Software, Tsinghua University, China Workshops Chair Georg Grossmann, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Australia Finance Chair Toni Ruokolainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Publicity Chairs Axel Korthaus, Victoria University, Australia Alex Liu, California State University, USA Local Organization Sini Ruohomaa, Chair, University of Helsinki, Finland Yiyun Shen, University of Helsinki, Finland Steering Committee Marten J. Van Sinderen, Chair, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jo√£o Paulo A. Almeida, Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Brazil Dirk Draheim, University of Auckland, New Zealand Keith Duddy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Peter F. Linington, University of Kent, UK Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia Donald W. Sparrow, Jr., MITRE Corporation, USA Marcus Spies, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany Maarten Steen, Novay, The Netherlands Gerald Weber, University of Auckland, New Zealand Program Committee See http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/committees *Dr Axel Korthaus* *Senior Lecturer* School of Management and Information Systems (Incorporating The Victoria Graduate School of Business) Faculty of Business and Law Victoria University G429, Footscray Park Campus PO Box 14428 Melbourne Vic 8001, Australia Phone 61 3 9919 5313 Fax 61 3 9919 4272 Email axel.korthaus(a)vu.edu.au <mailto:axel.korthaus@vu.edu.au> Web www.vu.edu.au/buslaw <http://www.vu.edu.au/buslaw>** This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects.

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 23, 1, 2011 Abstracts
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 23, 1, 2011 Abstracts Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:34:39 -0700 From: Mahmood, M. Adam <mmahmood(a)utep.edu> To: '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 23, Issue 1, January-March 2011 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 Evaluation of Information Strategy Implementation: A Critical Approach Yongmei Bentley (University of Bedfordshire Business School, UK) Steve Clarke (University of Hull Business School, UK) Information strategy is often relegated to an information technology element of corporate strategy, or worse, ignored in favour of IT operational planning. This research, conducted over a five-year period, stresses the correct framing of an information strategy and its implementation. The authors propose a framework that assists in the evaluation of such strategies, primarily those at higher education institutions, but also in a wider range of organisations seeking to improve the understanding and implementation of their information strategy. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49656 PAPER TWO The Value of TAM Antecedents in Global IS Development and Research Chad Anderson (Georgia State University, USA) Said Al-Gahtani (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia) Geoffrey Hubona (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) Theoretical models are often conceived and tested in western countries. However, culture influences theoretical models, and the importance of evaluating models in non-western cultures has grown with the accelerating pace of globalization. The technology acceptance model (TAM) is no exception, and more TAM research is being conducted in non-western countries. TAM constructs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are difficult to act on, which has led to several studies that identified valid antecedents to these constructs that make the model more practically actionable. These antecedents were conceived and tested in a western country but have yet to be evaluated in the context of a non-western country. In this paper, the authors evaluate these antecedents in Saudi Arabia and find that they function in the specific context of general computer use by Saudi knowledge workers. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49657 PAPER THREE Construct Validity Assessment in IS Research: Methods and Case Example of User Satisfaction Scale Dewi Tojib (Monash University, Australia) Ly-Fie Sugianto (Monash University, Australia) Valid and reliable measures are critical to theory development as they facilitate theory testing in empirical research. Efforts in scale development have been put on ensuring aspects of validity. In this paper, the authors address a specific topic of construct validity assessment in scale development. Using data from the five leading IS journals between 1989-2008, in this paper, the authors determine if and how the field has advanced in construct validity assessment. Findings suggest that the proportion of studies reporting construct validity had increased and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and Multi-Trait Multi-Method (MTMM) were the three most common methods of construct validity assessment. The authors also apply a popular method from psychology and exemplify how the correlation analysis technique can be used to measure construct validity. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49658 PAPER FOUR A Social Capital Perspective on IT Professionals' Work Behavior and Attitude Lixuan Zhang (Augusta State University, USA) Mary Jones (University of North Texas, USA) Attracting and retaining information technology (IT) professionals is a current concern for companies. Although research has been conducted about the job behavior and attitudes of IT professionals over the past three decades, little research has explored the effect of IT professionals' social capital. The primary research question that this study addresses is how social capital affects IT professionals' work attitude and behavior, including job satisfaction and job performance. Data were collected from 128 IT professionals from a range of jobs, organizations and industries. Results indicate that the strength of the ties an IT professional has in his or her organization is positively related to job satisfaction. The number of ties that an IT professional has outside the organization is also positively related to job performance. Several implications for research and practice are offered based on these findings. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49659 PAPER FIVE Gender Differences in E-Learning: Communication, Social Presence, and Learning Outcomes Richard Johnson (University at Albany - SUNY, USA) The first decade of the World Wide Web predominantly enforced a clear separation between designers and consumers. New technological developments, such as the participatory Web 2.0 architectures, have emerged to support social computing. These developments are the foundations for a fundamental shift from consumer cultures (specialized in producing finished goods) to cultures of participation (in which all people can participate actively in personally meaningful activities). End-user development and meta-design provide foundations for this fundamental transformation. They explore and support new approaches for the design, adoption, appropriation, adaptation, evolution, and sharing of artifacts by all participating stakeholders. They take into account that cultures of participation are not dictated by technology alone: they are the result of incremental shifts in human behavior and social organizations. The design, development, and assessment of five particular applications tha! t contributed to the development of our theoretical framework are described and discussed. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49660 Sincerely, M. Adam Mahmood _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] Call For Papers and Participation CTS 2011: Collaboration Technologies and Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call For Papers and Participation CTS 2011: Collaboration Technologies and Systems Datum: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:22:04 -0500 Von: Geoffrey Fox <gcf(a)indiana.edu> Antwort an: gcf(a)indiana.edu Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> *New Deadline January 31* *The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011)* *May 23 - 27, 2011 The Sheraton University City Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA* http://cts2011.cisedu.info/ You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in collaboration technologies, collaboration systems, social networks, virtual worlds, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. *Symposia:** (**all refereed. **may have different deadlines)** SYMP1. Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems (SECOTS 2011) SYMP2. Social Media, New media and Collaboration (SocMed 2011) Workshops: (**all refereed. **may have different deadlines) W1. Challenges in Resource Constrained Systems (CRCS 2011) W2. E-Transactions Systems (ETS 2011) W3. Adaptive Collaboration (AC 2011) W4. Multi-Agent Systems and Collaborative Technologies (I-MASC 2011) W5. Knowledge Management and Collaboration (KMC 2011) W6. Collaboration and Sensors Networks and Systems (CSNS 2011) W7. Collaboration: Human-Centered Issues& Interactivity Design (CHCI&ID 2011)** W8. Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration (STIIC 2011) W9. Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction (CR-HRI 2011) W10. Collaborations in Emergency Response and Disaster Management (ERDM 2011) W11. Collaboration and e-Learning (Ce-Learning 2011) W12. Collaboration Technologies and Systems in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields (CHB2011) ** W13: Materializing Collaboration Via Tangible User Interfaces (MCtui 2011) W14: Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices 2011 (DUCUD 2011)** W15. Smart Service and Network Management Applications in Next Generation Virtual Computing Networks (SNM 2011) **Special Sessions: (all refereed. may have different deadlines) SS1. Collaboration for Dynamic Resource Management in Mobile P2P Networks (CDRM 2011) SS2. Web 2.0 and Cloud Technology for Collaboration *================================================================== *_Important Dates_:* Extended Paper and Poster Submission Deadline ---- *January 31, 2011*** Tutorial/Demo/Panel Proposal Deadline --------------- *January 30, 2011* Notification of Acceptance ------------------------------- *February 21, 2011* Registration& Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ----- *March 8, 2011* Conference Dates ----------------------------------------- *May 23 -- 27, 2011* ================================================================== For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://cts2011.cisedu.info/, or contact one of the organizers. Thank you very much. Best Regards. CTS2011 Organizers Geoffrey Fox Waleed Smari

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Fwd: [AISWorld] INCT 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] INCT 2011 Datum: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:30:34 +0530 Von: diwt(a)dirf.org An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for Papers The First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INCT 2011) Tehran University, Tehran, Iran June 28-30, 2011 (www.dirf.org/inct) The INCT 2011 proceedings will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science Series of Springer LNCS (www.springer.com/series/7899) The first international conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INCT 2011) offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INCT intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INCT 2011) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include but not limited to the following topics: Innovative Computing Systems and Applications Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be published in the “Communications in Computer and Information Science” ((www.springer.com/series/7899) of Springer Lecture Notes Series and will be indexed in many global databases including ISI Proceedings and Scopus. The INCT proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the following special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management 2. International Journal of Web Applications 3. International Journal of Information Studies 4. Journal of Computational Linguistics 5. Journal of E-Technology 6. Journal of Networking Technology 7. Journal of Information Technology Review 8. Journal of Information Security Research 9. Journal of Intelligent Computing General Chair Hojat Ahmadi, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Program Chairs Daisy Jacobs, University of Zululand, South Africa Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Program Co-Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Vladimir Fomichov, State University, Russia Important Dates Paper submission January 31, 2011 Notification of acceptance February 22, 2011 Camera ready March 31, 2011 Registration April 1, 2011 INCT 2011 June 28 - 30, 2011 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: G. Neumann: Call for Papers from Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications .
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: G. Neumann: Call for Papers from Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications . Date: 25 Jan 2011 06:58:04 +0800 From: J. of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications <jilsa(a)gremail.org> Reply-To: jilsa(a)scirp.org To: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at This message was sent to [neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at].Unsubscribe by clicking here <http://www.member.scirp.org/member/transferParameterAction.action?personID=…>. Dear G. Neumann, Considering your research in related areas, we cordially invite you to submit a paper to */Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications /*. */Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications /*is an international, *peer-reviewed*, *open access*, online journal, publishing original research, reports, reviews and commentaries on all areas about intelligent learning systems and applications . And it has been indexed by several world class databases, such as Gale, EBSCO, ProQuest, CrossRef, Google Scholar and CSP, etc. For more information, please visit journal homepage: www.scirp.org/journal/jilsa <http://www.scirp.org/journal/jilsa>. */Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications /* is published by */Scientific Research Publishing/* (SRP: www.scirp.org <http://www.scirp.org>) which was established in 2007 and currently has more than 80 journals. SRP specializes in the rapid publication of quality peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology, life science and medicine. *Aims & Scope* * Approximate Dynamic Programming * Autonomic Computing * Autonomous Learning Systems * Clustering * Evolutionary Computation * Fuzzy and Rough Set * Intelligent Applications * Multi-Agent Learning * Neural Networks * Predictive Control * Reinforcement Learning * Smart Grid techniques and Applications * Statistical Learning Theory * Time-frequency Representation * User Behavior Modelling * Bio-inspired learning method * Cyber-physical systems * Filter bank * General Theory on Intelligent Learning Systems * Learning Control Systems * Multiple Models Strategy * Pattern Recognition Based on Learning Techniques * Recommendation System * Robotics * Social Network Analysis * Supervised Learning * Unsupervised Learning * Wavelet Theory *Editorial Board* Editors in Chief Prof. Xin Xu National University of Defense Technology, China Dr. Haibo He University of Rhode Island, USA Editorial Advisory Board Prof. Hengda Cheng Utah State University, USA Prof. Rob Law Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Prof. Mengchi Liu Carleton University, Canada Prof. Yi Pan Georgia State University, USA Prof. Simon Yang University of Guelph, Canada Prof. Shi Ying Wuhan University, China Editorial Board Prof. Alfredo Anglani Salento University, Italy Dr. Chee Seng Chan University of Portsmouth, UK Dr. Christos Dimitrakakis University of Asmterdam, Netherlands Prof. David Greenhalgh University of Strathclyde, UK Prof. Kao-Shing Hwang National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (China) Dr. Michail G. Lagoudakis Technical University of Crete, Greece Prof. Shutao Li Hunan University, China Prof. Kin Huat Low Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Amir Hooshang Mazinan Islamic Azad University, Iran Prof. George Panayiotakis University of Patras, Greece Dr. Jan Peters MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Dr. Lior Rokach Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Prof. Adil Timofeev Russian Academy of Science, Russia Prof. Theodore B. Trafalis The University of Oklahoma, USA Dr. Jue Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dr. Wei Zhong University of South Carolina Upstate, USA Dr. Yi-Rong Zhu Elder Research, USA Prof. Antanas Zilinskas Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania *Benefit of Open Access* *For Authors: * Gain increased visibility and ultimately a citation advantage. *For Readers:* Keep abreast of the professional advancement free of charge. *For Institutions:* Minimize the scientific investment on knowledge access *For Academia:* Share the knowledge faster and on a larger scale; Accelerate the development of a given field. *For Society:* Minimize the cost and time of information exchange; Speed up the process of converting scientific results to productive force; Enable the public to benefit more rapidly from the advance of science and technology; Narrow the gap between the developed and developing countries. Yours sincerely, Prof. Xin Xu Editor-in-Chief Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications jilsa(a)scirp.org <mailto:jilsa@scirp.org> SUBMIT your manuscripts now! <http://www.papersubmission.scirp.org/admin/initLoginAction.action?journalID…> Scientific Research Publishing 5005 Paseo Segovia Irvine, CA 92603-3334 USA Website: www.scirp.org <http://www.scirp.org> E-Mail: service(a)scirp.org <mailto:service@scirp.org>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Cfp - E-services as social interaction
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Cfp - E-services as social interaction Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:36:41 +0100 From: Göran Goldkuhl <goran.goldkuhl(a)liu.se> To: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> */Call for papers /* ** *Special Issue on ”E-services as social interaction”* The international journal */Systems, Signs &/**/Actions/*invites to a Special Issue on ”E-services as social interaction”. Submissions are welcome! Systems, Signs & Actionsis an open journal with special emphasis on communication, information technology and work (www.sysiac.org). *Background* There is a rapid growth in the development and launching of new e-services. E-services are widely used both in the commercial and the public sector. What is special with an e-service compared with other IT resources? An e-service is often defined to be an electronically mediated service to customers outside the organisation that is providing the service. The customers (as external users) can be consumers in commercial settings or citizens in public settings. An e-service implies important differences compared to human services. In e-services there is usually not any face-to-face meeting between the customer and the service provider. Instead of a direct human-to-human interaction there will be a human-artefact interaction. The customer will interact with an IT-based service artefact instead of interacting with humans. This important feature has sometimes concealed the genuinely social character of e-services. Even if human service providers are not present in the e-service meeting, they are participating in a distant way. The e-service artefact is a service agent representing the e-service provider. It is important that the use of e-services is not reduced to a limited human-computer interaction. The social character of the e-service use should be acknowledged. There is always a customer – service provider interaction that is mediated through the e-service. Many times the e-service will also be a mediator between different customers. Many e-services have features for interaction within customer communities. *Topics* Possible topics for this special issue: ·Customers and suppliers interacting through commercial e-services ·Citizens and public agencies interacting through public e-services ·Interaction among customers (communities) through the use of e-services ·The co-existence of different e-services ·Service transformation through e-services ·Understanding services in new ways through e-services ·User-interfaces of e-services as communication media ·E-services and different types of actor roles Other related issues are also welcome. *Submissions* Submit your article to submissions(a)sysiac.org not later than May 15, 2011. We plan to publish this special issue before the end of 2011. If you submit earlier than May 15 we put your paper into a review process immediately. Guest editor for this special issue is Karin Axelsson. Enquiries concerning this Special Issue can be sent to ·Chief editor Göran Goldkuhl (goran.goldkuhl(a)liu.se <mailto:goran.goldkuhl@liu.se>) ·Guest editor Karin Axelsson(karin.axelsson(a)liu.se) *A Special Issue in honour of Göran Hultgren* This special issue is prepared in honour of Göran Hultgren who conducted research on e-services. He was very eager in arguing for a social interaction perspective when studying e-services. In 2007 he presented his PhD dissertation in Swedish on this subject. He did not, however, write so many papers in English on this subject. Two important papers written in English are: Hultgren, G; Eriksson, O (2005) The Concept of e-Service from a Social Interaction Perspective, in /Proc of Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems ALOIS*2005/, The 3rd International Conference, 15–16 March 2005, Limerick, Ireland; Available at http://www.vits.org/?pageId=10&pubId=493 <http://www.vits.org/?pageId=10&pubId=493> Hultgren, G; Eriksson, O (2005) The User Interface as a Supplier of Intertwined e-Services, /the 14th Intl Conf on Information Systems Development/, Karlstad University Available at http://www.vits.org/?pageId=10&pubId=708 <http://www.vits.org/?pageId=10&pubId=708> Göran Hultgren died suddenly in April 2009, only 49 years old. There are many research friends who miss him and his warm, friendly and humble personality. Submissions to this Special Issue may refer to works by Göran Hultgren, but you are not obliged to do so. *Table of contents – latest issue of **Systems, Signs & Actions* Volume 4 (1) of Systems, Signs & Actions has recently been published. It contains three articles: */Dynamic Trust in Implementation of Large Information Systems: Conceptualized by Features from Giddens’ Theory of Modernity by Bjarne Rerup Schlichter /* Abstract: Trust is an important concept in the implementation of large information systems. Earlier research in this area has focused primarily on trust as either a static concept (‘what is trust’), on the consequences of a lack of trust (‘what happens if trust does not exist’), or on the different ways in which trust is created. This paper suggests a dynamic model, based on features of Anthony Giddens’ theory of modernity, to provide insight into how trust is created dynamically and how trust influences the implementation of Integrated Healthcare Information Systems in a Faroese healthcare case. The dynamic model is used to analyse a critical incident in the project to further illustrate the case. Suggestions for further research in the form of an interpretative case study are given. Download from http://www.sysiac.org/uploads/Sysiac2010-schlichter.pdf */How to Design Things with Words – a Communicative Perspective on Design Research in Information Systems by Hans Weigand/* Abstract: Design research is establishing itself as a research approach in Information System (IS). Topics of IS design research include system development methods and conceptual modeling languages that often find their way into CASE tools. However, there is also a lot of confusion about the differences between design and design research, the idea of “design science”, and the role of the IT artifact in IS. In this paper we critically examine some design science approaches, in particular the guidelines of Hevner, and propose an alternative approach in which design is viewed as communicative action and design research in IS is ultimately aimed at improving information and communication processes in organizations. Download from http://www.sysiac.org/uploads/Sysiac2010-weigand.pdf */On the Potential of some Pragmatic Concepts for the Web/* */Jens Allwood and Mikael Lind/* Abstract: Within the IS-field the notion of a speech act has been used as a point of departure by many scholars in the analysis of computer-mediated communication. This pragmatic concept has turned out to be very useful in the development of the field. However, the notion of speech acts is too restricted for continued exploration of the full potential of the pragmatic web. In this paper we examine some pragmatic concepts that we believe have potential in relation to three core activities of the IS-field; 1) description and understanding, 2) evaluation, and 3) design. The concepts that we will examine are “social activity”, “communicative act”, “sequences of communicative acts” or “exchange types”, “communicative feedback” and “turn management”. We describe the concepts and then exemplify how they can be used to analyze web services by examining e-mail and Wikipedia as two activities currently on the web. Our analysis leads to a partly new description of both IS-artifacts. It also leads to a number of open questions concerning the functionalities of both IS-artifacts. Download from http://www.sysiac.org/uploads/Sysiac2010-Allwood-Lind.pdf

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Fwd: [WI] 2nd Call for Papers: AMCIS 2011 Mini-track "Master Data Management: Strategies, Concepts and Cases"
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] 2nd Call for Papers: AMCIS 2011 Mini-track "Master Data Management: Strategies, Concepts and Cases" Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:16:14 +0100 From: Boris Otto <boris.otto(a)unisg.ch> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, wkwi(a)seda.wiai.uni-bamberg.de, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de CC: anette.weisbecker(a)iao.fraunhofer.de, Eberhard Hechler <EHECHLER(a)de.ibm.com> 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011) August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA Track: Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management Mini-track: Master Data Management: Strategies, Concepts and Cases DESCRIPTION Master data management is an application-independent function which describes and manages the business data resource in an organization. It ensures high quality of these data by providing guidelines for its management and it creates a common view on the data. Recently, master data management received much attention from business. A major reason for this is the important role high-quality master data plays with regard to a number of business drivers. Among them are compliance to regulatory requirements, integrated customer management and the need of a "single source of the truth" for company-wide reporting purposes. Despite the relevance of master data quality, current efforts in practice leave much to be desired. Moreover, the topic has been discussed in the information systems (IS) research area to a marginal extent only so far. The proposed mini-track addresses this gap and aims at giving a forum for novel concepts and research work in the following areas: * Strategies for master data management * Master data centric business scenarios and use cases * Cost and benefit analysis for master data management * Application of valuation theories of master data management * Organizational concepts for master data management * Human factors in master data management * Master data governance * Master data quality * Master data security and privacy aspects * Master data lifecycle management * Master data architectures including reference architectures and architecture patterns * Master data management deployment methods * Business metadata management * Standardization activities * Data modeling for master data * Master data and service-orientation * Software architectures * Patterns for data distribution and data synchronization * Case studies and applications * Industry specific aspects of master data management The mini-track chairs welcome innovative research papers from both the academic and the practitioners’ community. PAPER SUBMISSION Please submit papers via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submissions: February 17, 2011 Author notification: March 24, 2011 Final copy due: April 21, 2011 MINI-TRACK CHAIRS Boris Otto (corresponding mini-track chair) University of St. Gallen, Institute of Information Management CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland +41-71-224-32-20 Boris.Otto(a)unisg.ch Anette Weisbecker Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Fraunhofer IAO) D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany +49-711-970-2400 Anette.Weisbecker(a)iao.fraunhofer.de Eberhard Hechler IBM Research & Development GmbH D-71032 Boeblingen, Germany +49-7031-16-3999 ehechler(a)de.ibm.com

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