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Fwd: [AISWorld] IFIP EGOV 2012 Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] IFIP EGOV 2012 Call for Papers Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 06:51:12 +0000 From: Hans J. Scholl <jscholl(a)uw.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> 11^th IFIP Electronic Government Conference (IFIP EGOV 2012) September 3 to 6, 2012; University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway (Co-located with the 4^th IFIP ePart conference) http://www.egov-conference.org <http://www.egov-conference.org/> CALL FOR PAPERS ? we kindly ask for your understanding in case of receiving multiple postings of this call. The annual international IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) conference is the European core conference in the study domain, which presents the state of the art in e-government and e-governance organized under the auspices of the IFIP Working Group 8.5 (information systems in public administration). Since its beginnings in 2001, the EGOV conference has provided important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. The IFIP EGOV conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and from a number of disciplines. Over the years, the interest in this domain of study has steadily increased. In 2011, along with the co-located IFIP ePart conference on electronic participation, the two conferences attracted more than 160 participants from all continents including developing countries. E-government research has demonstrated its relevance to practice and, consequently, has influenced and shaped government strategies and implementations. Conversely, e-government practice has inspired e-government research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention. In recent years, the assessment and evaluation of e-government projects, the foundations of e-government as a research discipline, integration and interoperation in government, transformation, organizational change, citizens at the center, open data, adoption and diffusion, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among leading topics on the research agenda. For the 11^th IFIP EGOV conference we seek contributions that include but are not limited to: ?Foundations of e-government, open government and e-governance research ?Future directions in research and practice of ICT in the public sector ?Research theories and frameworks for public sector modernization with the support of ICT ?Research methods, method integration and techniques ?Designing and assessing systems for the public sector: innovative cases and systems ?ICT usage, acceptance and performance of technology-supported public sector activities: methods and contemporary case analyses ?Transformative government ?Open government, transparency, and collaboration ?Approaches and solutions in open data and linked open government data ?Participative governance and (agent-based) policy modeling ?Digital and social divide ?Universal access as well as equity of access to information and services ?Social media, web 2.0 and social networking in the public sector ?Trust, security and privacy in e-government ?Stakeholders collaboration in government modernization ?Stakeholder-oriented public-sector redesign ?Open innovation, innovation management, transformation and change management, and complexity management in shaping public sector advancements ?Evaluation, measurement, benchmarking and benefits management ?Law enforcement, compliance and criminal justice ?Legal compliance, legal shaping and legal impact of innovative government services provision ?Mobile services and methods in government ?Cloud computing in the public sector ?Outsourcing, insourcing, crowdsourcing, shared services, and other alternatives ?Interoperability, architectures and standards in a networked government ?Information infrastructure, information preservation, information management, and information access ?Open source and free software ?Knowledge management, information sharing, semantics, ontologies and web 3.0 ?Emergency and disaster response management ?Retaining public sector experiences, developing countries ?Education, human resources, training courses, and curricula In 2012, the IFIP e-government conference hosts four distinct formats of contributions: ?Completed research papers (max 12 pages, published in LNCS Springer) ?Ongoing research and innovative projects (max 8 pages, published in Trauner or similar) ?Workshops and panels on pertinent issues ?PhD colloquium submission These formats encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the study domain, but also welcome innovative research approaches, work in progress, and studies of practical e-government or e-governance projects along with reports on system implementations. Prior to the conference (Sunday, Sep 2, 2012), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing an international forum for doctoral students under the guidance of senior scholars for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. We seek innovative and scholarly sound contributions. Accepted papers of completed research will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Ongoing research and project papers will be published in Trauner proceedings (or similar). Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the conference website: htttp://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2012/ <file:///C/Users/wimmer/AppData/Local/Temp/htttp/--www.egov-conference.org-egov-2012-> IFIP EGOV 2012 will be co-located with IFIP ePart, the fourth International Conference on electronic participation, which is dedicated to topics on e-participation and e-democracy. IFIP ePart will only slightly overlap with the IFIP EGOV conference at the same venue. Participants registering for one conference can also attend the other conference. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of papers: 4 March 2012 Submission of workshop/panel proposals: 15 April 2012 Submissions to PhD colloquium: 15 May 2012 Notification of acceptance for papers: 30 April 2012 Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels: 15 May 2012 Camera-ready papers of completed research: 31 May 2012 Camera-ready papers of ongoing research: 15 June 2012 CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Leif Skiftenes Flak, University of Agder, Norway Carl Erik Moe, University of Agder, Norway CHAIRS OF PHD COLLOQUIUM Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, USA Björn Niehaves, European Research Center for Information Systems, Germany Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ashraf Hassan Abdelwahab, Deputy to the Minister of State for Administrative Development, Egypt Suha AlAwadhi, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait Vincenzo Ambriola, University of Pisa, Italy Kim Norman Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Rex Arendsen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yigal Arens, Digital Government Research Center, University of Southern California, USA Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden Molnar Balint, Corvinus University, Hungary Frank Bannister, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Karine Nahon, University of Washington, USA Victor Bekkers, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College, Norway John Bertot, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Melanie Bicking, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Dana Boldeanu, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Bojan Cestnik, Temida d.o.o., Slovenia Narciso Cerpa, Universidad de Talca, Chili Jean-Loup Chappelet, IDHEAP, Switzerland Yannis Charalabidis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Serge Chernyshenko, Khmelnitsky National University, Ukraine Wichian Chutimaskul, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy Ahmed M. Darwish, Minister of State for Administrative Development, Egypt Jim Davies, University of Oxford, UK Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, USA Rahul De', Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India Elsa Estevez, UN University Macao, China Enrico Ferro, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Italy Leif S. Flak, University of Agder, Norway Iván Futó, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Andras Gabor, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Hungary Rimantas Gatautis, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania J. Ramón Gil-García, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico Olivier Glassey, IDHEAP, Switzerland Dimitris Gouscos, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, Greece Luis Guijarro-Coloma, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Helle Zinner Henriksen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University - IIST, Macau, China Arild Jansen, University of Oslo, Norway Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Luiz Antonio Joia, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil Ralf Klischewski, German University in Cairo, Egypt Bram Klievink, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Trond Knudsen, Research Council, Norway Helmut Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany Herbert Kubicek University of Bremen, Germany Christine Leitner, Danube University Krems, Austria Katarina Lindblad-Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Miriam Lips, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Euripides Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ann Macintosh, Leeds University, UK Alexander Makarenko, Institute for Applied System Analysis at National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI), Ukraine Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark Carl Erik Moe, University of Agder, Norway José María Moreno Jimenez, University of Zaragossa, Spain Björn Niehaves, European Research Center for Information Systems, Germany Peter Axel Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Arvo Ott, eGovernance Academy, Estonia Monica Palmirani, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna C.I.R.S.F.I.D., Italy Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, USA Vassilios Peristeras, DERI, Ireland Rimantas Petrauskas, Law University of Lithuania, Lithuania Florin Pop, Centre for Advanced Studies on Electronic Services, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Reinhard Posch, Technical University of Graz, CIO of the Federal Government, Austria Andreja Pucihar, University of Maribor, Slovenia Peter Reichstädter, Federal Chancellery, Austria Nicolau Reinhard, University of São Paulo, Brazil Reinhard Riedl, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Tomas Sabol, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia øystein Sæbø, University of Agder, Norway Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA Margit Scholl, Technische Hochschule Wildau/Berlin, Germany Jamal Shahin, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Henk Sol, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Mauricio Solar, U. Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile Maddalena Sorrentino, University of Milan, Italy Witold Staniszkis, Rodan Systems S.A., Poland Ivar Tallo, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Switzerland Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia and CERTH/ITI, Greece Yao-Hua Tan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Anne Fleur van Veenstra, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Mirko Vintar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK Silke Weiss, Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria Lidwien Wijngaerts, University of Twente, The Netherlands Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Petra Wolf, Technical University of Munich, Germany Chien-Chih Yu, National ChengChi University, Taiwan

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Fwd: [WI] Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:53:07 -0500 From: Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler(a)wright.edu> To: Pascal Hitzler <pascal(a)pascal-hitzler.de> Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals http://www.semantic-web-journal.net Semantic Web research is interdisciplinary in nature. Indeed, progress towards the Semantic Web vision requires the incorporation of fundamental state-of-the-art and future developments from many domains including Computer& Information Science, Cognitive Science, Geographic Information Science, the social sciences, and many more. To establish bridges between these domains, it is thus important to demonstrate what and how they contribute to the Semantic Web vision, and what the Semantic Web can offer in return to these disciplines. Hence, the Semantic Web Journal calls for Special Issue proposals on topics which (a) are within the topical realm of a neighboring domain but (b) contribute directly or indirectly to Semantic Web research. Research published in such special issues should strengthen the in-depth information exchange between disciplines by providing novel and high-quality contributions and at the same time demonstrate the impact on foundational research questions relevant for Semantic Web. While such manuscripts can be written with a specific audience in mind, the key ideas and contributions should be accessible to the broader Semantic web community. Proposals for special issues shall be sent to the Editors-in-Chair (contact(a)semantic-web-journal.net) and contain the following information in a single PDF file: * Names and affiliations of all guest editors * Topic of the special issue * Tentative list of Guest Editorial Board members * A short description of the topic * Why the topic is currently of interest * Why the topic is relevant to this call * Credentials of the guest editors regarding their research impact and their community standing with respect to the topic * A draft call for papers, including a suggested time-line It will be assumed that all proposed guest editors are aware of the journal's open and transparent review policy described at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers#review Submission deadline: 1st of December, 2011 Best Regards, Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz Editors-in-Chief -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal(a)pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net -- 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] CFP: Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012)
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CFP: Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:25:37 -0700 From: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> To: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> CALL FOR PAPERS DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/icalt2012/index.php?s=114&a=135 Rome, Italy July 4-6, 2012 ***Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2012*** What is the Doctoral Consortium? ************************** The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work (i.e., in their first or second year). The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on using the research environment in a constructive and international atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium provides PhD students with the opportunity to meet and discuss with experts in their area. Students will present and discuss their thesis in the context of a well-known and established international conference outside of their usual university environment. Up to 10 Ph.D. students will have the opportunity to participate. Students will be required to pay the registration fees of the ICALT Conference (student rates). The Doctoral Consortium will consist of 3 sessions. The first session aims at giving students the chance to present their work to others and get familiar with the work of other PhD students in their area. Each PhD student will give a very brief presentation (about 3 minutes) about his/her work with focus on motivation and research problem. These presentations are followed by a poster exhibition where individual discussion about each student?s work will take place. The third session aims at giving students feedback from an expert in their area and letting them discuss their work with him/her as well as with few other PhD students doing research in the respective area. After the notification of acceptance/rejection, each PhD student with an accepted paper will be assigned to a small group consisting of 3-4 PhD students and one expert in their area. Each group will start to communicate and exchange their papers so that all members of the group are familiar with the papers of each group member. During the third session, each small group will meet individually and further discussions of the works will take place with the expert in the respective research field and other PhD students. Call for Papers and Topics ******************** Submissions relating to any aspect of Advanced Learning Technologies research, development, and evaluation are welcomed, focusing on the main themes of ICALT2012. To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please submit a 2-page paper about your doctoral work using the ASK-Conference System at: http://www.ask4research.info/conference/upload.php. The paper should: * Provide the title of the PhD Research, the name of the PhD Student and the PhD Advisor and the Affiliated Organisation * Provide a motivation for the research, explaining what the problem in the respective field is and why it is a problem, * Clearly formulate the research question, * Sketch the research methodology that is to be applied, * Describe the expected contributions of the applicant to the research area, and describes how the research is innovative, novel or extends existing approaches to a problem. * Appropriately acknowledge the possible contribution of non-student advisors or collaborators Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Additionally, at the same time as the paper is submitted via the conference system, an email from the main supervisor must be sent to sabineg(a)athabascau.ca, karagian(a)uth.gr, and antonella.carbonaro(a)unibo.it to confirm that the student is in his/her first or second year of PhD studies. Eligibility ******* The Doctoral Consortium is only for PhD students in their first or second PhD year. Furthermore, the topic of the PhD thesis must be in the area of Advanced Learning Technologies. Proceedings ********** Accepted papers will be publication in the IEEE proceedings of ICALT2012, following the Author Guidelines. Co-Organization ************* The Doctoral Consortium is co-organized by the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. Important Dates ************* February 1, 2012 Deadline for submission of 2-page paper and confirmation from PhD supervisor March 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance March 15, 2012 Authors' Registration Deadline April 1, 2012 Camera-Ready 2-page paper for Conference Proceedings July 4-6, 2012 ICALT2012 Doctoral Consortium Contact Address ************* Requests for information should be e-mailed to sabineg(a)athabascau.ca, karagian(a)uth.gr, and antonella.carbonaro(a)unibo.it. -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 3rd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 3rd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:31:54 +0000 From: Hussein, Tim <tim.hussein(a)uni-due.de> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> =========================================================== 3rd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2012) February 14, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Submission deadline: Jan 6, 2012 http://www.semais.org =========================================================== WORKSHOP GOALS Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role also for the design, development, and execution of user interfaces and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or interface models in model-driven design, generation at design time as well as at runtime, and integration of user interfaces. Ontologies may enhance the visualization and interaction capabilities of user interfaces in various ways, e.g., by providing input assistance, intelligently clustering information, or adapting the user interface according to the user's context. Especially in the latter case, ontologies can be applied for representing the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive systems. In particular, they have promised to provide a technique for representing external physical context factors such as location, time or technical parameters and 'internal' context such as user interest profiles or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g., between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI generation. There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior. TOPICS OF INTEREST Following up the successful SEMAIS workshops at IUI 2010 and 2011, the workshop will address, among others, the following research issues: - Improve UI quality by using semantic models. - Representing user models, systems and their behavior, domain knowledge and interaction context by means of semantic models. - Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation spreading for semantic user models. - Context-aware interaction based on semantic models. - Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g. recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and others. - Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and support traceability. - Scalability and performance of semantic model-based interactive systems. - Semantic model-driven UI development. - Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems. - Suitability of highly formal vs. light-weight semantic representations. - Consuming linked data in user interfaces. - Bringing ontologies together with current UI modeling languages, such as UsiXML. - Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction. In this year's workshop, we especially encourage contributions that - focus on intuitive interaction - dynamically adapt to the user and/or group over long time periods - leverage information contained in Linked Open Data SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION Prospective participants should submit the work that they intend to present workshop on or before Jan 6 2012. Submissions should be 8-12 pages in Springer LNCS format. We will select participants based on the abstract's quality and the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an interdisciplinary group. Accepted submissions will be published as online proceedings at CEUR-WS.ORG. Based on the overall quality of the submissions, selected papers will be considered for a journal special issue. IMPORTANT DATES - Jan 6: Submission due - Jan 20: Notification of acceptance - Feb 6: Camera ready version due - Feb 14: Workshop ORGANIZERS Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology Heiko Paulheim, TU Darmstadt Juergen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen Gaelle Calvary, University of Grenoble Program Committee Anna Fensel, STI Innsbruck Christina Feilmayr, University of Linz Sean P. Goggins, Drexel University Artem Katasonov, VTT Finland Jörg Haake, FU Hagen Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen Tobias Ley, Tallinn University Steffen Lohmann, University Carlos III de Madrid Pablo Mendes, FU Berlin Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen Florian Probst, SAP Research Benedikt Schmidt, SAP Research Dirk Veiel, FU Hagen [to be extended] Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] KI Special Issue - Call for Papers on Social Media
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] KI Special Issue - Call for Papers on Social Media Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:59:06 +0000 From: Kai Fischbach <Fischbach(a)wim.uni-koeln.de> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ******************************* KI Special Issue Call for Papers on Social Media ******************************* KI - Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence) http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/ A Springer publication, ISSN 0933-1875 (Print) 1610-1987 (Online) Guest Editors Detlef Schoder, Prof. Dr., schoder(a)wim.uni-koeln.de, University of Cologne (Koeln), Department of Information Systems and Information Management, Cologne, Germany Peter A. Gloor, PhD, pgloor(a)mit.edu, MIT Sloan School of Management, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, PhD, Prof., pmetaxas(a)seas.harvard.edu, Wellesley College, Department of Computer Science, Wellesley, MA, and Harvard University, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Cambridge, MA, USA Call for Papers Social Media has led to radical paradigm shifts in the ways we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create information. Technology allows virtually anyone to disseminate information to a global audience almost instantaneously. Information published by peers in the form of Tweets, blog posts, or Web documents through online social networking services has proliferated on an unprecedented scale, contributing to an exponentially growing data deluge. A new level of connectedness among peers adds new ways for the consumption of (traditional) media. We are witnessing new forms of collaboration, including the phenomenon of an emergent 'collective intelligence'. This intelligence of crowds can be harnessed in myriad ways, ranging from outsourcing simple, repetitive tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, to solving complex challenges such as proving a mathematical theorem creatively and collaboratively. This call for papers welcomes contributions showing: 1) How to make sense of Social Media data, i.e. how to condense, distill, or integrate highly decentralized and dispersed data resulting from human communication, including sensor-collected data to a meaningful entity or information service, or 2) How Social Media contributes to innovation, collaboration, and collective intelligence. We invite papers covering all aspects of Social Media analysis including Social Media in Business (especially for Marketing, Innovation, and Collaboration), Entertainment (especially Social News, Social Music Services, Social TV, and Social Network Games), as well as Art (e.g. City Installations). Applications of Social Media in art may be understood as a playing field for translating highly decentralized 'social data' into centralized forms of artful expression, thus furthering our intuitive understanding of these complex emergent phenomena. The list of topics mentioned below is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Insightful artifacts and methods as well as analytical, conceptual, empirical, and theoretical approaches (using any kind of research method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on) are within the scope. - Information/Web mining (e.g. opinion mining) - Prognosis (e.g. trend and hot topic identification) - Collective Intelligence - Crowdsourcing - Swarm Creativity, Collaborative Innovation Networks - (Dynamic) Social Media Monitoring - Sentiment, Natural Language Processing - Social Media within and for Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Energy - Social Networks for the collaboration of large communities - User behavior, social interaction - Social Network Analysis (SNA), semantic network analysis - Social search engines and aggregators - Social network games - Personalization and adaptation to user preference - Trust, reputation, social control, privacy - Information reliability, Web spam, content authenticity (e.g., detecting 'astroturfing') Deadlines - Submissions open until January 9, 2012 - Camera-ready copies of revised papers by April 30, 2012 - Pre-Publication of accepted papers via Springer Online FirstT in June 2012 - Printed version of this Special Issue: Fall 2012 In addition to complete research papers, this Special Issue will accept dissertation and conference reports, as well as practical project and innovative software descriptions in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the current activities in this area. All submitted manuscripts should be original contributions and not be under consideration in any other venue. Publication of an enhanced version of a previously published conference paper is possible if the review process determines that the revision contains significant enhancements, amplification or clarification of the original material. Any prior appearance of a substantial amount of a submission should be noted in the submission letter and on the title page. For inquiries and submissions please contact: Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder University of Cologne (Koeln) Department of Information Systems and Information Management Pohligstr. 1, D-50969 Cologne, Germany Phone: +49 / (0)221 470-5325 Fax: +49 / (0)221 470-5393 URL: http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de E-Mail: schoder(a)wim.uni-koeln.de _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] JIST 2011 Call For Participation
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] JIST 2011 Call For Participation Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 22:39:37 +0000 From: Jeff Pan <jeffpan.sw(a)googlemail.com> To: web-services(a)egroups.com, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, wiss-org(a)Bonn.IZ-Soz.de, www-rdf-interest(a)w3.org ** Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students.** Call for Participation JIST 2011 - 1st Joint International Semantic Technology Conference December 4-6, 2011 Hangzhou China http://www.jist-conference.org/ EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 26, 2011 http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Registration.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JIST is a joint event for regional Semantic Web related conferences. This year's JIST brings together two regional conferences : ASWC2011 (The 5th Asian Semantic Web Conference 2011) and CSWC2011 (The 5th Chinese Semantic Web Conference). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Programme: http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Program.html JIST 2011 offers an exciting research program which includes: Keynote presentations from (in alphabetical order): Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, CH Mark Greaves, Vulcan, Inc, US Ian Horrocks - Oxford University, UK http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Keynotes.html Full papers with an acceptance rate of 25% http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Accepted_Papers.html 3 Tutorials Semantic Mediawiki and Applications (Jesse Wang, Ning Hu, Mark Greaves, Vulcan Group) Local Closed World Reasoning with OWL 2 (Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen) Semantic Mobile Web (Shonali Krishnaswamy and Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University) http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Tutorials.html Poster and Demo Track http://www.jist-conference.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hangzhou is one of the most important tourist cities in China, famous for its natural beauty and historical and cultural heritages. It is the political, economic and cultural centre of Zhejiang province as well. Famed for its natural scenery, Hangzhou and its West Lake have been immortalised by countless poets and artists. The city was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty from 1127 until the Mongol invasion of 1276. The city's population is estimated to have been as high as one million in those days, making it the largest city in the world at the time. Even Marco Polo claimed to have passed through, calling it beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world. Since June 2011, the West Lake Cultural Landscape has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Travel.html Information about visa and letter of invitation http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Visa.html A block of rooms with discount rates at the conference hotel (and a couple of others) are available based on first-come-first-serve. http://web.me.com/huajunsir/JIST2011/Venue.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can email JIST 2011 at jist2011(a)easychair.org <mailto:jist2011@easychair.org>, tweet about JIST 2011 on Twitter with #jist2011 or like us on Facebook. We look forward to seeing you at JIST 2011 in Hangzhou!

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for mini-track proposals - AMCIS 2012 Track on Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and Business Intelligence (sponsored by AIS SIGDSS)
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for mini-track proposals - AMCIS 2012 Track on Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and Business Intelligence (sponsored by AIS SIGDSS) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:12:27 -0500 From: Lakshmi Iyer <lsiyer(a)uncg.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleagues: We are soliciting mini-track proposals for the AMCIS 2012 track sponsored by AIS SIGDSS. The details are as follows: Track Name: Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and Business Intelligence (SIGDSS) Track Co-Chairs: Lakshmi Iyer, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Lsiyer(a)uncg.edu Ozgur Turetken, Ryerson University, turetken(a)ryerson.ca Deadline for proposal submissions: November 16, 2011 (12 midnight EST) Submit your mini-track proposal using the manuscript central system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012 Guidelines: The Proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages long. Proposals should provide a brief one- or two-paragraph description of the main theme, its importance and relevance to information systems research and practice, and its relevance to the track. You should also list some potential topics for your mini-track. Please see detailed track description and some suggested topics. Each proposal must list names and contact information of mini-track chair(s). Track Description: The abundance of information available to today's managers makes it essential to efficiently represent, filter, and present information for effective decision making. This track aims to attract novel research on technologies, applications, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data, information and knowledge for informed managerial decisions and improved organizational performance. In addition to the plethora of applications that are already available for data mining and business intelligence, newer technologies such as web 2.0 and social networking environments bring in novel managerial and technical challenges related to analyzing large volumes of data. Knowledge management also encompasses knowledge that exists in unstructured forms and that intersects with technology, processes and people. The result is not only technical, but also business and management challenges that include economic, strategic, and behavioral issues. This research track aims to promote forward- thinking research in theoretical, design science, and behavioral aspects of BI/KM/DSS/Analytics. This track has consistently taken place in the AMCIS program with varying combinations of BI/KM related topics such as data warehousing, text mining and data visualization. The track has evolved over time as there are changes in the available technologies and related issues in the domain. The AMCIS 2011 track included the following mini-tracks: . Web Intelligence . Harnessing Social Media for Business Intelligence . Business Intelligence for Organizational Performance Measurement and Improvement . Master Data Management: Strategies, Concepts and Cases . Building Intelligent IT Processes: Definition, Development and Control . Web, Text, and Data mining . Knowledge Management Value, Success and Performance Measurements . Design, operations, and consolidation of BI applications . Spatial Business Intelligence, Decision Support, and Knowledge Management . Next Generation Data Warehousing: Transitioning to the Era of Advanced Analytics . Knowledge Management (KM) and Work Group Collaboration In addition, we are soliciting mini-tracks in topics including, but not limited to: . DSS Design Methodologies and Approaches . Specifications for Detail and Precision in DSS Models . Decision Support Model Formulation . DSS Model Management in Web and Distributed Computing Environments . Evaluation of DSS Designs . Technical Antecedents of DSS Acceptance and Use . Role and Effects of User Involvement in DSS Design and Development . Comparative Effectiveness of Different Interactive Structures for DSS . Emerging Technologies for DSS Development and Delivery . Online analytical processing (modeling) . Data integration management (such as ETL, EAI, EII, SOA) . Social media and Web 2.0 analytics . Pervasive and real-time BI . Data warehouse or data mart design (conceptual, logical, physical) . BI for customer relationship management . Data and information visualization . Business performance management (BPM) and optimization . Data Security . Information privacy . Behavioral Economics and BI . BI strategies . BI performance metrics . BI governance, implementation, management and metrics . Management of knowledge and business process improvement . Measurement of organizational knowledge . Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) . Social and behavioral issues in KM . KM and Web 2.0. Best regards, Lakshmi S. Iyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Information Systems Graduate Programs Director The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Email: Lsiyer(a)uncg.edu; Phone: 336/334-4984; Fax: 336/334-5580 URL: http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/lsiyer Women in IT - http://wiit.uncg.edu, www.facebook.com/wemakeIT Global IT conference: www.gitma.org _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] DESRIST 2012 - Las Vegas, NV - May 14-15, 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] DESRIST 2012 - Las Vegas, NV - May 14-15, 2012 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:44:38 -0800 From: Marcus Rothenberger <rothenb2(a)unlv.nevada.edu> Reply-To: marcus.rothenberger(a)unlv.edu To: <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *Call for Papers: DESRIST 2012* /Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology Conference/ *Las Vegas, NV; May 14 -- 15* // Over the last several years, Design Science research has evolved into a mainstream research paradigm in information systems and related disciplines. At the center of this research paradigm is the creation of technology artifacts and their evaluation. DESRIST has become an established venue for design science researchers in our community. The conference invites papers that are both, exploring aspects of design methodology, as well as conducting research using Design Science. The *Seventh DESRIST Conference* brings together researchers from different backgrounds ranging from computer science, information systems, and software engineering to social ethnography designers to create a forum for discussing novel solutions to emerging problems. DESRIST invites contributions (research papers, demos and panels) that describe work in all areas of Design Science research. These include but are not limited to: ·Science of Design and Design Theory ·Philosophical Foundations of Design Science ·Evaluation of Design Science Research ·Design Processes ·Representations for Design ·Design Evolution ·Business and Organizational Design ·Design for Innovation ·Design Economics ·Modularity and Rules in Design ·Architectures for Design ·Meta-Design Control in Design ·Design of Software Intensive Systems Submitted manuscripts should follow the guidelines below: ·Abstract up to 250 words ·Papers should be double spaced with a font size of 12 and one inch margin on all sides. ·Length: maximum of 20 pages for completed papers and 10 pages for work-in-progress papers, including tables, figures, and references. ·Anonymized (remove author names and affiliations) for the double-blind review process. Important dates: ·Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012 ·Acceptance Notifications: February 29, 2012 ·Conference Dates: May 14-15, 2012 /Detailed information is on the DESRSIT 2012 website at *desrist2012.unlv.edu* <http://desrist2012.unlv.edu/>/ // General Chairs Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Atish Sinha, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Program Chairs Ken Peffers, University of Nevada Las Vegas Marcus Rothenberger, University of Nevada Las Vegas Proceedings Chair William Kuechler, University of Nevada at Reno Communications Chair Michael Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas

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Fwd: [AISWorld] TOC -- Intl J of Acctg Info Systems (IJAIS) - December 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] TOC -- Intl J of Acctg Info Systems (IJAIS) - December 2011 Datum: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 15:34:03 -0500 Von: Nicolaou, Andreas I. <anicol(a)bgsu.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Andreas I. Nicolaou Owens-Illinois Professor, Department of Accounting& IS Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403, USA Editor, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems http://www.elsevier.com/locate/accinf -----Original Message----- From: aisworld-bounces(a)lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Merrill Warkentin Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:40 AM To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Subject: [AISWorld] CFP Special Issue of EJIS on Cross-Cultural IS Research Call for Papers European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) (www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/) Special Issue on Cross-Cultural IS Research: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Traditions Globalization not only affects all dimensions of organizational management, it can also impact IS research and research methods. China and other Eastern cultures are contributing the Oriental traditions to the Occidental lenses of analysis, while also providing interesting contrasts to the historical experiences in the Western world. With this backdrop, the significance of cultural issues is becoming increasingly evident in many academic disciplines. What role does culture play in the design of, adoption of, and use of information systems? How do these experiences differ between Eastern and Western cultural environments? Beyond that, to what extent and how should we integrate unique Eastern and Western management theories? Cross-cultural IS research has piqued increasing interest among IS scholars. A variety of theoretical frameworks derived from various reference disciplines have guided cross-cultural IS researchers to investigate intra-cultural congruence and variation. However, recent key studies indicate that much of the extant work could fall into an "ecological fallacy" because researchers have substituted national stereotypes for individualistic and idiosyncratic traits, and have ignored the fact that culture, which isn't solely a national differentiator, may co-vary with other national characteristics and could continuously evolve. Studying IS in the Chinese culture should help us surface the unstated assumptions in Western-culture theories. We need research that extends and expands the contributions to our understanding of the role of culture in IS. The focus of this special issue will be on innovative yet critical thinking on cross-cultural IS research, especially as it relates to contrasting or converging Eastern and Western experiences and viewpoints. In essence, we are keen on receiving novel and extendable studies on cross-cultural IS artefacts instead of merely replicating existing models in various contexts. We also invite scholarly conceptual analyses of the role of scientific discovery across the globe, and how various research traditions may be enhanced by inclusion of new lenses and perspectives that are prominent in other cultures. We seek fresh research approaches that go beyond the traditional Hofstede paradigm which pursue new theoretical and methodological avenues for investigating IT-related phenomena in Asia and the Western World. We wish to be inclusive and not limit our investigation to any technologies, research methods, or paradigms, but would welcome any meaningful, rigorous scholarship that extends our understanding of current research findings in both the Occidental and Oriental worlds. Research can be conducted at the individual, group, organization, industry (inter-organizational), or society/nation level. Theoretical perspectives may include behavioural, organisational, cognitive, cultural, socio-technical, or other lenses for analysis of important issues in this domain. We particularly encourage contributions to knowledge based on rigorous research methodologies, such as field or case studies, controlled experiments, or various other qualitative, quantitative, normative, critical, or rational analyses. This special issue will serve as a venue to inform and be informed, to share knowledge, and to foster continued research interactions between the two research traditions. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: -Novel methods and tools for cross-cultural investigation (e.g. new validated scales) -Insightful analyses of Eastern versus Western IS research traditions -Information system usage behaviours under different cultural influences (e.g. adoption behaviours, security behaviours, social patterns within groups using IT, etc.) -IS behaviours when Eastern users collaborate with Western users -Managerial strategies and their impacts on IS usage patterns -Innovative research into contrasts between emerging IT usage, such as comparisons between usage patterns of mobile social networking or cloud computing -The role of national social and economic policies in promoting and altering IT usage by organizations and individuals Special Issue Guest Editors: Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State Univ., USA M.Warkentin(a)msstate.edu Patrick Y.K. Chau, The Univ. of Hong Kong, China Pchau(a)business.hku.hk Brigitte Charles-Pauvers, Univ. of Nantes, France Brigitte.Charles-Pauvers(a)univ-nantes.fr Submission Guidelines: - Authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors early for initial feedback on proposals. - Papers may be submitted to the special issue any time before April 1, 2012. - Follow the EJIS formatting guidelines: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/author_instructions.html - Note that manuscripts should be no longer than 8000 words. - Submit using the EJIS online paper submission system and select Special Issue "CCR" at http://ejis.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex - The guest editors will screen all submissions before sending papers out for review. Key Dates: Submissions for the Special issue close on April 1, 2012 First round decisions: July 2012 Second round revisions due: October 2012 Second round decisions: December 2012 Final round revisions due: March 2013 Special Issue Editorial Board (Associate Editors): Ariane Bertho-Antal, University of Berlin, Germany Shekhar Chaudhuri, IIM Calcutta, India Himadri Das, IMI, India Robert M. Davison, City University of Hong Kong, China Qing Hu, Iowa State University, USA Yaobin Lu, Huazhong University of Science& Technology, China Shin-Yuan Hung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan John Kidd, Aston University, UK Vincent Siu-king Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Paul Benjamin Lowry, City University of Hong Kong, China Xin Luo, University of New Mexico, USA Je-Yi Mao, Renmin University, China Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Zhong-Ming Wang, Zhejiang University, China Thank you, Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] ECIS 2012 - IT/IS Management and Development Methodology Track CfP
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] ECIS 2012 - IT/IS Management and Development Methodology Track CfP Datum: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:37:03 -0500 Von: Kunal.Mohan(a)ebs.edu An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit your work to the IT/IS Management and Development Methodology Track in the upcoming European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 11-13 June, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain *Submissions* *now accepted at* http://www.ecis2012.eu/submissions/ *Submission Deadline* is December 1st, 2011 *Track chairs* Frederik Ahlemann, European Business School, Germany, frederik.ahlemann(a)ebs.edu <mailto:frederik.ahlemann@ebs.edu> Kunal Mohan, European Business School, Germany, kunal.mohan(a)ebs.edu Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida, USA, Abhatt(a)usf.edu <mailto:ABhatt@usf.edu> *Description* Despite the existence of mature IT/IS management and development methodologies, organizations often struggle to realize the expected benefits from their implementation. Researchers and practitioners alike face challenges in understanding and explaining the design, adoption, and success of methodologies from areas such as (and not limited to) project management, software engineering, architecture management, and service management. The objective of this track is to foster research on methodologies by providing deeper insights into factors that affect their successful design, dissemination, and application. Researchers and practitioners interested in submitting papers for this track are encouraged to explore IT/IS management, development methodologies, and related methods and tools â?? for example, from a design or behavioral perspective. Papers may consider different units of analysis: individual, group, or organizational level. *Possible paper topics:* -Designing IT/IS management and development methodologies -Method engineering -Methodology acceptance and adoption -Strategies to improve methodology acceptance -Leadership, power, and politics regarding methodology use and success -Role of knowledge management and networks in methodology use and success -Implications of project outsourcing for IT/IS management and development methodologies -Methodology customization -Software and tools that support effective methodology use (e.g., project management information systems, software development tools, etc.) *Associate Editors* Christine Legner, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Suprateek Sarker, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Nils Urbach, EBS Business School, Germany Best Regards Kunal Mohan ___________________________________________ Dipl. -Kfm. Kunal Mohan, MBA EBS UniversitÃ¤t fÃ¼r Wirtschaft und Recht EBS Business School Institute of Research on Information Systems (IRIS) SÃ¶hnleinstraÃ?e 8D 65201 Wiesbaden GERMANY Phone: +49 (0) 611-7102-2157 Fax: +49 (0) 611 7102 10 2157 Email: kunal.mohan(a)ebs.edu Web: www.ebs.de/iris *Attention*: For the period *01.Sept.2011- 15.Dec.2011*, I am in USA (visiting scholar) and China (ICIS). Consequently, as a result of the time difference my responses to emails might be delayed. __________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EBS European Business School gemeinnuetzige GmbH, Amtsgericht Wiesbaden HRB 19951; Universitaet fuer Wirtschaft und Recht, Umsatzsteuer-ID DE 113891213; Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Hellmut K. Albrecht, Vorsitzender; Geschaeftsfuehrung: Professor Dr. Rolf D. Cremer, PrÃ¤sident; Professor Dr. Rolf Tilmes, Dekan EBS Business School; Professor Dr. Dr. Gerrick Frhr. v. Hoyningen-Huene, Dekan EBS Law School; Georg Nikolaus Garlichs, Kanzler ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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