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Fwd: Call For Papers: Deadline: March 10, 2011 - Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'11: July 18-21, 2011, USA)
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call For Papers: Deadline: March 10, 2011 - Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'11: July 18-21, 2011, USA) Datum: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:22:25 -0500 Von: Software Engineering <wcom11(a)world-comp.org> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Dear colleagues: Please share the appended announcement with those who may be interested. Thank you - Steering Committee, SERP ------------ CALL FOR PAPERS and Call For Workshop/Session Proposals ============================================= SERP'11 The 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ ============================================= You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the SERP conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online) - the proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering& Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below. The main keynote lecture will be delivered by Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; MRIA); there will also be 8 other distinguished speakers, 12 planned tutorials and panel discussions as well as about 70 research paper presentations. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Software architectures O Software design and design patterns O Architectural analysis, verifications and validation methods O Quality oriented software architecture (design and Support) O Software reliability, safety critical systems and security methods O Software reuse and component engineering O UML/MDA and AADL O Object oriented technology (design and analysis) O Software metrics O Reverse and architectural recovery methods O Domain specific software engineering O Aerospace software and system engineering O Software engineering methodologies O Survivable systems O Engineering of safety/mission critical systems O Software testing, evaluation and analysis technologies O Workflow - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) O Project management issues O Distributed and parallel systems O Legal issues and standards O Automated software design O Real-time embedded software engineering O Automated software design and synthesis O Software security engineering O Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...) O Software, domain modeling and meta-modeling O Model driven engineering O Software maintenance O Reflection and metadata methodologies O AI approaches to software engineering O Component based software engineering O Software engineering standards and guidelines O Reports on intelligent CASE tools and eclipse plugins issues O Multimedia in software engineering O Usability engineering O Novel software tools and environments O Pervasive software engineering O Requirement engineering and processes O Critical and embedded software design O Service oriented software architecture O Software cost estimation O Web engineering and web-based applications O Human computer interaction and usability engineering O Model based software engineering O Aspect oriented software engineering O Agent oriented software engineering O Programming languages and compilers O Education and law O Case studies and emerging technologies USEFUL WEB LINKS: To see the DBLP list of accepted papers of SERP 2010, go to: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/serp/serp2010.html The main web site of SERP'11 can be accessed via: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: March 10, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 03, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 24, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'11) ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of SERP (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing& Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM32229); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School& the American College of Surgeons, USA. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 10, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, SERP) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering& Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow& Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information& Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Hassan Reza (SERP Co-Chair, UND Aerospace, U. of North Dakota); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori (Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute& State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). The list of Program Committee of SERP 2010 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/serp10/c… The SERP 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science. Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor(a)world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, SERP 2011) offering to help with. GENERAL INFORMATION: SERP conference is an important track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries. WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/ architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago& ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT& Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation& Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789 An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives." One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration (ie, SERP), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). email your session proposal to editor(a)world-comp.org We would like to receive the session proposals as soon as possible. NEWS: Thanks to authors and speakers of last SERP congress and members of the editorial boards who informed us of the following good news: According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative) the SERP conference is listed as worldwide "Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" and specific information extracted from it (in reference to SERP from the link below: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361?query=SERP As of January 2011, the papers published in SERP proceedings have received over 870 citations (this data does not yet include the citations to papers published in 2010). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This email was sent to: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at To opt out of this email list: http://world-comp.org/cgi-bin/rm/full.cgi?5FD6F29A-5F75-11DE-8B8A-E397122B9…

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Fwd: [WI] BPM 2011 - Call for papers
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] BPM 2011 - Call for papers Datum: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:28:17 +0100 Von: Laurent d'Orazio <laurent.dorazio(a)isima.fr> An: Laurent d'Orazio <laurent.dorazio(a)isima.fr> ================================================================= BPM 2011 9th International Conference on Business Process Management 2011 August 29-September 2, Clermont-Ferrand, France http://bpm2011.isima.fr ================================================================= ======================== Call for Research Papers ======================== BPM 2011 is the ninth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished research forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of BPM including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical findings. With an acceptance rate in previous editions at around 13% the conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality, from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Management Information Science, Services Computing, Services Science, and Technology Management. This year's conference will continue with the broad-based themes of previous editions, and strives to strengthen and expand in several key directions . The conference encourages emerging research on new conceptual models for BPM that attempt to unify core aspects of BPM, including process management, data management, business rules and requirements, and analytics. The conference also encourages the increasing interest in applying established and new techniques, such as model-driven architectures, Web services and Web architectures, SOA, and Cloud Computing, to the specific challenges of BPM. In this context, the conference is also looking for contributions on implementation techniques and details for process or Web service execution engines with focus on new application areas. Finally, the conference seeks to attract papers that highlight the pervasive need for BPM capabilities across application areas outside of business management, including healthcare delivery, digital government, disaster management, and management of scientific and other academic endeavors, and that highlight how new techniques can solve the distinctive challenges arising in those diverse areas. Awards will be given to the best papers in different categories. BPM 2011 will be held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and will be organized by the LIMOS Laboratory (http://www.isima.fr/limos/), CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal. The conference will take place at the campus des cezeaux which is located about minutes from the city center. Clermont-Ferrand is a medium-sized city located in the heart of Auvergne, one of the most beautiful regions of France: ancient volcanoes, lakes and gorges, historic sites and Romanesque architecture make its wealth. Information about the venue and local area are provided on the conference website: http://bpm2011.isima.fr/ . Research topics include, but are not limited to: MODELING AND THEORY OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES Process modeling languages, notations and methods Data-aware and data-centric approaches to BPM Reference process models Variability and configuration of process models Process simulation and static analysis Automated process composition and synthesis Process metadata and semantic reasoning Process patterns and standards Foundations of business process models Security and Privacy aspects in business process modeling PROCESS ARCHITECTURES AND PLATFORMS Process-oriented software architectures Service-oriented architectures for BPM Workflow management systems and infrastructure Security and Privacy aspects of business process execution Automated planning for business process execution Resource management in business process execution Process componentization and component repositories Distributed process execution Cloud computing in support of BPM MANAGEMENT OF PROCESS EXECUTION DATA Models and theory of workflow as data Process tracing and monitoring Dynamic process analysis and Process performance measurement Process mining and learning Process data warehousing Data streaming in business processes PROCESS EVOLUTION AND FLEXIBILITY Process exception handling Process change management Monitoring and provenance across change Adaptive and context-aware processes Case handling Process-enhanced groupware HUMAN-CENTRIC BPM People-intensive processes User-centric aspects of BPM design User-centric aspects of process management and use Cross-organizational processes Globally distributed process management Integrating strategy, process, people and IT Task sourcing through social networks NON-TRADITIONAL BPM SCENARIOS Knowledge-intensive processes Data-driven business processes Distributed and mobile processes Inter-process planning and coordination Scientific processes / grid workflows MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES Business process lifecycle management Relationship of business strategy and business process Success factors and measures in BPM BPM governance and compliance management BPM Maturity Adoption and Practice of BPM Case Studies and Experience Reports in BPM BPM in support of business networks ================================= Conference Paper Submission ================================= BPM 2011 invites research submissions on all topics related to business process management, including but not limited to those listed above. Research papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system at 13 March 2011. Initial submissions must be received no later than 6 March 2011 (including at least title and abstract). Final papers must be submitted by 13 March 2011. Submission details and formatting instructions are given at the website. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in their LNCS series. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference and should plan to present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue Information Systems (an Elsevier Science Journal). Additional Conference Activities The BPM 2011 conference will include a diverse set of tracks and activities in addition to the main research track. As with previous editions of the conference, there will be several associated workshops that explore newly emerging approaches, methods, and technologies in the BPM space. All or most of these workshops will be held on 29 August 2011. The Demo Track will showcase new, innovative systems that illustrate key BPM functionalities. The proceedings of the workshops, and short papers describing the demos, will be published in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). The Industrial Experiences track aims at bridging the viewpoints of leading research outcomes with practical demands and industrial experience; practitioners are encouraged to submit papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of BPM methods and techniques, with a particular emphasis on their impact on information technology use or business practice. The conference will include tutorials on cutting-edge frameworks and associated principled techniques for solving BPM challenges. There are plans for a Doctoral Consortium, that will provide students in advanced stages of their dissertation work an opportunity to share their research with peers, world-class researchers, and industry experts in Business Process Management. Finally, a summer school directly following the main conference is envisioned. ================================= Preliminary conference schedule ================================= Abstract submissions: 6 March 2011 Final paper submissions: 13 March 2011 Notification of acceptance: 13 May 2011 Camera-ready papers: 12 June 2011 Doctoral Symposium: 28 August 2011 Workshops + industry day: 29 August 2011 Conference: 30 August - 1 September 2011 Summer school: 2 September, 2011

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Fwd: [WI] Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics Datum: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:23:26 +0200 Von: ARCOE <organization(a)arcoe.org> An: organization(a)arcoe.org Sincere apologies for cross-posts. Call for Papers: ================================================ Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on "Reasoning with context in the Semantic Web" ================================================ Mechanisms for reasoning with context have become increasingly important factors in the Semantic Web. There is a growing need for general and robust reasoning techniques that make it possible to integrate heterogeneous knowledge or to use homogeneous knowledge across different domains. Research on this topic has so far, and not surprisingly, concentrated on formal ontologies, i.e., on the logical structures that encode the semantics of a software's domain of application. Work on the Semantic Web as well as on information integration, distributed knowledge management, multi-agent and distributed reasoning has focussed on the relationship between an ontology and its context. This has aimed at clarifying how to relate knowledge that is distributed over many resources. Recent Semantic Web specific developments suggest that aspects of this relation can be captured by means of named graphs (to express meta-information), the use of provenance (to track the context where data/axioms came from) and querying (to facilitate reasoning). Other neighbouring research areas, though, have also investigated topics that shed light on how to reason with context in the Semantic Web. Ontology Engineering and Maintenance, for instance, has tackled the problems faced by ontology engineers when developing and maintaining an ontology. The yielded automation of the process of ontology development and of its phases (e.g. knowledge elicitation, revision cycles, alignment with pre-existing ontologies etc.) has improved efficiency, reduced the introduction of unintended meanings into ontologies and in general made explicit the relationship between an ontology and its development context. Finally, research on Problem Solving and Agent Communication has explored how an agent's ontology needs to change at run-time because of interactions with its context ‚Äì for instance with other agents whose ontologies are not known or with new non-classifiable world situations. This type of research has delivered a deeper understanding of the evolution of an ontology and is often based on non-monotonic reasoning, belief revision or changes of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a minimal disruption to the original theory. * Topics of interest: This special issue aims at bringing together work on reasoning with context in the Semantic Web from the integration, development and evolutionary perspectives described above. Submitted articles, which may describe either theoretical results or applications, must clearly pertain to the Semantic Web and/or to semantic technologies. They should present either Semantic Web specific approaches to reasoning with context, or approaches that have characteristics that are interesting for the Semantic Web (e.g., scalability, bounded reasoning), or approaches that are of value to a larger community containing a non-trivial Semantic Web sub-community (e.g. revision/update techniques and error pin-pointing). Submissions are welcome on topics relevant to reasoning with context in the Semantic Web and that include but are not limited to: - Named graphs - Provenance - Knowledge representation languages for semantic technologies - Planning and reasoning about action and change in the Semantic Web - Ontology fault diagnosis and repair - Pinpointing of logical errors in contexts and ontologies - Explanation and justifications in DL ontologies - Ontology and context evolution, debugging, update and merging - Inconsistency handling in contexts and ontologies - Uncertainty handling, defeasible reasoning and argumentation in ontologies - Non-classical belief revision - Context revision and theory change in DL ontologies - Ontology and context versioning - Semantic difference in ontologies and in contexts - Information and knowledge integration - The role of context and ontology in distributed reasoning and knowledge management - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Bounded reasoning and bounded rationality in the Semantic Web - Adaptive systems and reconfiguration - Ontology-based data access - Querying - Multi-Agent systems in the Semantic Web - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Normative reasoning in the Semantic Web - General problem solving for semantic technologies - Machine learning for the Semantic Web - Philosophical foundations of reasoning about context and ontology evolution - Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies * How to submit Maximal length of submissions is 25 pages. Authors should upload submissions on Elsevier's Electronic Submission System at http://ees.elsevier.com/jws Choose "Reasoning with context in SW" as article type. See the link "Guide Authors" on the above url for instructions. * Important dates: - Submission deadline: 15 June 2011 - First-round reviews: 5 September 2011 - Revised papers submitted: 30 September 2011 - Final acceptance decisions: 31 October 2011 - Tentative publication date: April 2012 * Guest editors: Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Jos Lehmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Ivan Varzinczak (CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa) Send enquiries and communications to: organization [at] arcoe [dot] org

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Fwd: [WI] CFP: PMBI 2011 "Protocol-based Modelling of Business Interactions"
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP: PMBI 2011 "Protocol-based Modelling of Business Interactions" Datum: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:51:13 +0100 Von: Johannes Reich <johannes.reich(a)sap.com> An: wi(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Apologies for multiple copies ************************************************************************ * * * 1st Call for Papers * * * * for 1 day workshop PMBI2011 * * * * *** Protocol-based Modelling of Business Interactions *** * * * * http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2011/index_en.html * * * * Co-located with the 41. Jahrestagung of the * * German Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. * * 04.-07.October 2011, Berlin, Germany * * * ************************************************************************ Summary ------- This full-day workshop focuses on the practical and theoretical consequences of the approach to describe business interactions within the framework of protocol theory. Content ------- The relevance of software directly involved in business interactions has enormously grown in modern commerce within the last years. Therefore, it is an obvious requirement that business software which supports business interactions should mirror the orientation of entrepreneurial acting along the business interactions in the simplest possible way. To become runtime relevant from an application perspective, the interpretation of the descriptions of business interactions has to be unambiguously related to computational systems. We expect a promising impetus with respect to the automated implementation of business interactions. Especially small and medium enterprises should benefit as they are currently discouraged to explore this area by the still high initial investments. The starting point of this workshop is the assumption that economics with its game theory based notion describes the same interactions as computer science does with its descriptions of nondeterministic interactions of business processes. Due to the tight formal relation between (economic) game and (computer science) protocol, it is obvious to use the protocol notion not just for informal illustrations, as many contemporary approaches do, but also to view protocol theory as a sound formal base for the description of business interactions in the sense of a theory for consistent finite interaction of (possibly finite) systems. Adressees --------- This workshop brings together scientist of the field of business informatics with a special interest in business interactions and scientist of the more theoretical oriented field of protocol theory. We therefore invite scientific contributions which demonstrate the relevance of protocol theory for the formal description of nondeterministic business interactions either in practical or theoretical respect, if applicable with a relation to game theory. Organisation ------------ Duration: 1 day For participation at the workshop, registration at http://www.informatik2011.de is required. Important Dates 24. April 2011: Submission of workshop contributions 23. May 2011: Notification of acceptance 01. July 2011: Submission of print-ready contributions 04.-07.October 2011: GI Conference in Berlin, Germany. Contributions ------------- All contributions have to be electronically submitted as PDF documents until 24. April 2011. They must be formatted according to the guidelines of the GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)" and may not exceed 12 pages in this format. (http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-infor…) The submissions will be refereed, and accepted contributions will be published in GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics." At least one author is expected to register for the workshop and to give a talk about the contribution. Program Committee ----------------- - Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg - Bernd Finkbeiner, Universität des Saarlandes - Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Universität Bremen - Martin Leucker, Universität Lübeck - Lars Mönch, Fernuniversität Hagen - Ralf Peters, Universität Halle - Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg - Elke Pulvermueller, Universität Osnabrück - Johannes Reich (Co-Chair), SAP, Walldorf - Andreas Speck (Co-Chair), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Stefan Sackmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg - Herwig Unger, Fernuniversität Hagen Miscellaneous ------------- Website: http://www.sophoscape.de/workshops/pmbi2011/index_en.html Predecessor of this workshop have been: - "Games, Business Processes and Models of Interactions" of the 39. GI-Jahrestagung 2009 in Lübeck (http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/GI-WS-SGI2009/English.html) - PMBI2010 of the 40. GI Jahrestagung 2010 in Leipzig (href="http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/bit/veranstaltungen/workshop-protocol-…) Contact ------- Johannes Reich SAP AG Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16 69190 Walldorf Tel.: 06227 743006 Fax: 06227 7834157 E-Mail: johannes.reich[at]sap.com -- 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] CfP Web Semantic (WebS) 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CfP Web Semantic (WebS) 2011 Datum: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:18:25 +0100 Von: Wolfram Wöß <wolfram.woess(a)jku.at> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers WebS 2011 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2011), in conjunction with DEXA 2010, 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications 29 August - 02 September 2011, Toulouse, France http://www.dexa.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, you are invited to submit your papers to the 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics (part of the 22nd International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA), to be held on 29 August - 02 September 2011 in Toulouse, France. The objective of the workshop Web Semantics (WebS) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying Semantic Web concepts, applications, and solutions being an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results. Papers describing Semantic Web application experiences are particularly encouraged. The special topic "Reliability of ontologies" aims on detecting reusable ontologies and measuring the reliability of possible reusable ontology candidates. How can we measure the reliability and the usability of ontologies? Which adaptations of state-of-the-art ontology engineering methodologies are necessary to support modeling reusable ontologies? What measurements for defining and comparing ontologies can be used and how could ontology repositories use them? These are some of the open research questions to be addressed by papers dedicated to this year's special topic. TOPICS: ======= The relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to): * Knowledge management and sharing * Interoperability and data integration through semantic technology * Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Ontology learning and metadata generation * Ontology evaluation (guidelines) * Document analysis and semantic extraction * Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction * Modeling of Semantic Web * Search, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web * Semantic and context awareness * Semantic Web supporting business processes * Semantic Web for e-sciences * Semantic Web for e-business * Semantic Web mining * Semantic Web data querying and reasoning * Semantic Web inference schemes * Semantic Web applications - Database technologies for the Semantic Web - Intelligent user interfaces - Dynamic ontology generation and adaptation - Languages, tools and methodologies for semantic annotations of web data - Applications on mobile devices - Enhanced accessibility and multimodal interfaces - Reasoning * Special Topic: Reliability of ontologies - Ontology evaluation and reliability measurement - Ontological metrics - Ontology comparison - Ontology reuse methods and methodologies (metrics for reusability) PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: ========================= Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. The author guidelines can be found at IEEE Conference Publishing Services - Proceedings Author Forms. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF, postscript, or word format) is required and will be handled via the workshop Web site http://www.faw.jku.at/wwoess/webs/webs.html. For any questions please contact webs(a)faw.uni-linz.ac.at. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2011 workshops. Authors are requested to send their paper(s) to be received by March 04, 2011. EVALUATION PROCESS: =================== All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least three researchers in the topical area. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission: March 04, 2011 Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2011 Webs 2011 Workshop: 29 August - 02 September, 2011 WEBS CHAIRS: ============ Christina Feilmayr (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria) Wolfram Wöß (FAW, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Witold Abramowicz, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland José Francisco Aldana Montes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Mario Arrigoni Neri, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Jorge Bernardino, ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Paul Buhler, Modus21, LLC, Charleston, South Carolina, USA Radek Burget, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Barbara Catania, DISI, University of Genoa, Italy Sunil Choenni, Rotterdam University& Ministry of Justice, Research& Documentation Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands Valeria De Antonellis, Dipartimento di Elettronica per l'Automazione, Brescia, Italy Cláudio De Souza Baptista, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA Ian J Dickinson, Epimorphics Ltd, Bristol, UK Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA Nickolas J. G. Falkner, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Christina Feilmayr, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Stephan Grimm, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Abdelkader Hameurlain, Université Paul Sabatier, France Carmem Satie Hara, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna, Austria Eva Maria Hauth, voestalpine IT GmbH, Linz, Austria Stijn Heymans, SemanticBits, Herndon, USA Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan Ralf Klischewski, Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo, Egypt In-Young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, USA Michele Melchiori, Dept. of Information Engineering (DII), University of Brescia, Italy Michele Missikoff, Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI), Italy Ismael Navas Delgado, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Detlef Plump, University of York, UK Niko Popitsch, University of Vienna, Austria Isidoro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Tore Risch, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Nicolas Sabouret, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France Simon Scerri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland Bernhard Schandl, Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, University of Vienna, Austria Ulrich Schiel, DSC, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Riccardo Torlone, Università Roma Tre, Italy Alexander Ulanov, Hewlett-Packard Labs Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo, Italy Kim Viljanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Albert Weichselbraun, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC)
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC) Datum: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:24:29 -0500 Von: Yi Pan <pan(a)cs.gsu.edu> An: mailing CS <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC) ISSN (Online): 2043-9997 - ISSN (Print): 2043-9989 http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcc Published in 4 issues per year Cloud computing refers to computing with a pool of virtualized computer resources and is driven by economics of scale. A cloud can host a variety of different workloads, and allow workloads to be deployed and scaled-out quickly on-demand by rapid provisioning of virtual machines or physical machines. A cloud supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models and allows workloads to recover from many unavoidable hardware/software failures. A cloud also monitors resource use in real time to enable rebalancing of allocations when needed. The idea is to move desktop computing to a service-oriented platform using server clusters and huge databases at datacenters. Cloud computing leverages its low cost and simplicity that benefits both users and the providers through providing cost-effective services and pay-per-use pricing model. In cloud computing, everything including software, platform, and infrastructure is as a service. Cloud computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet-accessible device. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility and virtual computing; however it has emerged from these computing domains and now has its own meaning. In cloud computing, a user does not care much what is in the cloud or what goes on there apart from being able to receive service from it. Cloud computing is now associated with a higher level abstraction of the cloud. Instead of there being application software, routers and servers, there are now services. The underlying hardware and software of networking is of course still there but there are now higher level service capabilities available to build applications. Hidden behind the services are data and computer resources. There have been many cloud computing platforms built so far including Google Cloud, IBM BlueCloud and Amazon Elastic Cloud. Programming models for cloud computing have been developed including MapReduce by Google and Hadoop by Yahoo group. Using these cloud computing models and toolsets, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Of course, many mature technologies are used as components in cloud computing, but there are still many unresolved and open problems due to its unique characteristics which are different from distributed computing, cluster computing, grid computing, utility computing and service computing. IJCC addresses the most innovative developments, research issues and solutions in cloud computing and its related technologies. Cloud computing refers to computing with a pool of virtualized computer resources and is driven by economics of scale. A cloud can host a variety of different workloads, and allow workloads to be deployed and scaled-out quickly on-demand by rapid provisioning of virtual machines or physical machines. A cloud supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models and allows workloads to recover from many unavoidable hardware/software failures. A cloud also monitors resource use in real time to enable rebalancing of allocations when needed. The idea is to move desktop computing to a service-oriented platform using server clusters and huge databases at datacenters. Cloud computing leverages its low cost and simplicity that benefits both users and the providers through providing cost-effective services and pay-per-use pricing model. In cloud computing, everything including software, platform, and infrastructure is as a service. Cloud computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet-accessible device. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility and virtual computing; however it has emerged from these computing domains and now has its own meaning. In cloud computing, a user does not care much what is in the cloud or what goes on there apart from being able to receive service from it. Cloud computing is now associated with a higher level abstraction of the cloud. Instead of there being application software, routers and servers, there are now services. The underlying hardware and software of networking is of course still there but there are now higher level service capabilities available to build applications. Hidden behind the services are data and computer resources. There have been many cloud computing platforms built so far including Google Cloud, IBM BlueCloud and Amazon Elastic Cloud. Programming models for cloud computing have been developed including MapReduce by Google and Hadoop by Yahoo group. Using these cloud computing models and toolsets, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Of course, many mature technologies are used as components in cloud computing, but there are still many unresolved and open problems due to its unique characteristics which are different from distributed computing, cluster computing, grid computing, utility computing and service computing. IJCC addresses the most innovative developments, research issues and solutions in cloud computing and its related technologies. Go Top Objectives The objectives of IJCC are to develop, promote and coordinate the development and practice of cloud computing. IJCC aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policy-makers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each other's work. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. IJCC is an outstanding outlet that can shape a significant body of research in the field of cloud computing and in which results can be shared across institutions, governments, researchers and students, and also industry. Go Top Readership IJCC provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers, graduate students, and managers, working in the field of cloud computing and its related areas such as virtual computing and grid computing, to disseminate information and to learn from each other’s work. Go Top Contents IJCC publishes original and review papers, technical reports, and case studies. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions and proposals for special issues devoted to important topics in cloud computing are welcome. Go Top Subject Coverage Although the possible set of topics is large and we encourage submission on any area within the scope of cloud computing, the following areas are particularly suitable (but not exhaustive): • Auditing, monitoring and scheduling • Automatic reconfiguration • Autonomic computing • Cloud architecture and modelling • Cloud-based services • Consistency models • Data grid and semantic web • Fault tolerance and reliability • Hardware as a service (HaaS) • High-performance computing • Integration of mainframe and large systems • Innovations in IP (esp. open source) systems • IT service and relationship management • Load balancing • Middleware frameworks • New and innovative pedagogical approaches • Novel programming models for large computing • Optimal deployment configuration • Peer to peer computing • Power-aware profiling, modelling, and optimisation • Resource registration and discovery • Scalable fault resilience techniques for large computing • Scalable scheduling on heterogeneous architectures • Security and risk • Self healing • Self monitoring • Service integration and management • Service level agreement definitions • Software as a service • Trustworthiness, security and privacy • Utility computing • Virtualisation technologies • Web services Go Top Specific Notes for Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page. To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers All papers must be submitted online . If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions(a)inderscience.com , describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal. Go Top Editors and Members of the Editorial Board Editor in Chief Prof. Yi Pan Georgia State University Department of Computer Science 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1450 Atlanta, GA 30302-4110 USA pan(a)cs.gsu.edu Editorial Board Members Prof. Rajkumar Buyya Ra The University of Melbourne Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering ICT Building, 111, Barry Street, Carlton Melbourne VIC 3053 AUSTRALIA Prof. Jiannong Cao Ji Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Computing PQ816, Mong Man Wai Building Hung Hom, Kowloon HONG KONG Prof. Ernesto Damiani Er University of Milan Department of Information Technology Via Bramante 65 Milan ITALY Dr. Jack Dongarra Ja Distinguished Professor, Innovative Computing Laboratory University of Tennessee Knoxville Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) 1122 Volunteer Blvd Knoxville TN 37996-3450 USA Prof. Geoffrey Charles Fox Ge Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Bloomington, IN 47408 USA Prof. Andrzej M. Goscinski An Professor of Computing Deakin University School of Information Technology Geelong, Victoria 3217 AUSTRALIA Dr. Bob Grossman Bo University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Mathematics, Statistics,& Computer Science Mail Code 249 851 S. Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607 USA Mr. Shigeru Hosono Sh NEC Corporation Service Platforms Research Laboratories NEC Igarashi Building 11-5, Shibaura 2-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8557 JAPAN Dr. Xuedong Huang Xu Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond WA 98052 USA Prof. Kai Hwang Ka University of Southern California Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems 3740 McClintock Ave., EEB 212 Los Angeles CA 90089-2562 USA Dr. Craig A. Lee Cr President, Open Grid Forum; Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing The Aerospace Corporation M1-102 2310 East El Segundo Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 USA Prof. Deyi Li De National Natural Science Foundation 83 Shuang Qing Road Beijing, 100085 CHINA Prof. Prabhat K. Mahanti Pr University of New Brunswick Department of Computer Science and Applied Statistics (CSAS) 100 Tucker Park Road Saint John, N.B. E2L 4L5 CANADA Dr. Judy Qiu Ju Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute Bloomington, IN 47408 USA Dr. Andy Rindos An IBM Corporation P O Box 12195 Dept W4DA/Bldg 503/Office N237 3039 Cornwallis Rd. Research Triangle Park NC 27709-2195 USA Prof. Chunming Rong Ch University of Stavanger Center of IP-Based Services Innovation N-4036 Stavanger NORWAY Prof. Kwang Mong Sim Kw Gwangju Institute of Science& Technology Multiagent& Cloud Computing Laboratory Department of Information& Communications 261 Cheomdan-gwario Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Prof. Dr. Wolf Zimmermann Wo Universität Halle Wittenberg Institut of Computer Science Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1 06120 Halle (Saale) GERMANY Prof. Albert Zomaya Al University of Sydney School of Information Technologies Building J12 Sydney NSW 2006

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Fwd: [computational.science] Call for papers: 14th Information Security Conference (ISC 2011)
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for papers: 14th Information Security Conference (ISC 2011) Datum: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:13:04 +0200 Von: sara.foresti(a)unimi.it Antwort an: sara.foresti(a)unimi.it An: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************** 14th Information Security Conference (ISC 2011) Xi'an, China -- 26-29 October, 2011 http://ste.xidian.edu.cn/isc2011/ ********************************************************************** The 14th Information Security Conference (ISC 2011) will be held in Xi'an, China. It will be sponsored by China Computer Federation (CCF) and co-organized by Xidian University. The conference website is http://ste.xidian.edu.cn/isc2011/. The Information Security Conference (ISC) is an annual international conference covering research in theory and applications of Information Security. ISC aims to attract high quality papers in all technical aspects of information security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government that present novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of Information Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - accountability - anonymity and pseudonymity - applied cryptography - authentication - biometrics - computer forensics - cryptographic protocols - database security - data protection - data/system integrity - digital right management - economics of security and privacy - electronic frauds - formal methods in security - identity management - information dissemination control - information hiding and watermarking - intrusion detection - network security - peer-to-peer security - privacy - secure group communications - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security in information flow - security in IT outsourcing - security for mobile code - secure cloud computing - security of eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment - security in location services - security modeling and architectures - security models for ambient intelligence environments - security in social networks - trust models and trust management policies - embedded security INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions are limited to 16 pages in the llncs style, including bibliography and any appendices; each submission must be intelligible and self-contained within this length. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be made at the web page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc2011. Only pdf submissions will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. There will be a best paper award and a best student paper award. Any paper co-authored by a full-time student is eligible for both the best student paper award and the best paper award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their ISC'11 papers to a Special Issue of the ISI-ranked International Journal of Information Security (IJIS). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011 Proceedings version deadline: August 5, 2011 HONORARY CHAIR Du Zide CCF, China GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Li Pizheng CCF TCCOMM, China Hui Li Xidian University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Xuejia Lai Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jianying Zhou I2R, Singapore PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michel Abdalla, ENS, France Joonsang Baek, I2R, Singapore Feng Bao, I2R, Singapore Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA Levente Buttyan, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ee-Chien Chang, NUS, Singapore Liqun Chen, HP Laboratories, Bristol,UK Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Chen-Mou Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Sherman Chow, University of Waterloo, Canada Vanesa Daza, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Roberto Di Pietro, University of Roma Tre, Italy Claudia Diaz, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Xuhua Ding, SMU, Singapore Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University,Florida, USA Josep Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Guang Gong, University of Waterloo, Canada Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Dawu Gu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University, USA Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore Zhenkai Liang, NUS, Singapore Peng Liu, Penn State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Emmanouil Magkos, University of the Ionian, Greece Masahiro Mambo, University of Tsukuba, Japan Mark Manulis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK Atsuko Miyaji, JAIST, Japan Yi Mu, UoW, Australia David Naccache, ENS, France Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Raphael Phan, Loughborough University, UK Vincent Rijmen, TU Graz, Austria Matt Robshaw, Orange Labs, France Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Gokay Saldamli, Bogazici University, Turkey Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Miguel Soriano, UPC, Spain Rainer Steinwandt, CCIS, USA Willy Susilo, UoW, Australia Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Haining Wang, College of William and Mary, USA Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jian Weng, Jinan University, China Duncan Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China Shouhuai Xu, UT San Antonio, USA Jeff Yan, Newcastle University, UK Yanjiang Yang, I2R, Singapore Sencun Zhu, Penn State University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Masahiro Mambo University of Tsukuba, Japan STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ed Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hui Li, Xidian University, China Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Spyros Magliveras, CCIS, Florida Atlantic University, USA Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Susan Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yuliang Zheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pei Qingqi, Xidian University, China Zuo Yuanyuan, Xidian University, China Zhu Xiaoyan, Xidian University, China Shi Yun, CCF TCCOMM, China CONTACT Email: xyzhu(a)xidian.edu.cn; lihui(a)mail.xidian.edu.cn Phone: +86-29-88204749

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Journal of Information Systems Education - Vol. 21, No. 4
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Journal of Information Systems Education - Vol. 21, No. 4 Datum: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 04:18:35 +0000 Von: Kruck, S - kruckse <kruckse(a)jmu.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Professors and IS Education Professionals around the world: The Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) is pleased to announce that Volume 21, Number 4 has been published. JISE is the leading academic journal dedicated to IS education and is the official publication of the Education Special Interest Group (EDSIG) of AITP (the Association of Information Technology Professionals). The index and abstracts for each paper for this issue and abstracts for all papers in Vol. 21(4) can be found at http://jise.org/current.htm . Contents of Vol. 21(4) include: Teaching Tip-Using Virtual Servers to Teach the Implementation of Enterprise-level DBMSs: A Teaching Note, by William P. Wagner, Villanova University, and Vik Pant, Oracle Corp., pp. 349-354 Teaching Tip-Consuming Web Services: A Yahoo! Newsfeed Reader, by Mohammad Dadashzadeh, Oakland University, pp. 355-360 Teaching Case-Teaching Software Componentization: A Bar Chart Java Bean, by Michel Mitri, James Madison University, pp. 361-371 Teaching Case-Mobile Phone Service Process Hiccups At Cellular Inc., by Theresa M. Edgington, Baylor University, pp. 371-374 Using the Same Problem with Different Techniques in Programming Assignments: An Empirical Study of its Effectiveness, by Michael Newby, California State University Fullerton, ThuyUyen H. Nguyen, Northumbria University, pp. 375-382 An Active, Reflective learning Cycle for E-Commerce Classes: Learning about E-Commerce by Doing and Teaching*, by Alan S. Abrahams, Virginia Tech, and Tirna Singh, Strategic Solutions Group, pp. 383-390 Mapping the Information Systems Curricula in UK Universities, by Angelos Stefanidis, University of Glamorgan, and Guy Fitzgerald, Brunel University, pp. 391-410 Are We Teaching the IS 2009* Model Curriculum? by Charles H. Apigian, and Stanley E. Gambill, Middle Tennessee State University, pp. 411-420 Reviewer Acknowledgement for Volume 21, pp. 421-424 Author Index for Volume 21, pp. 425-432 Subject Index for Volume 21, pp. 433-448 *********************************************************************** About the Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) SAMPLE COPIES: If you have not received a free sample and would like to receive one, please send an e-mail message with your name and full mailing address to editor(a)jise.org <mailto:editor@jise.org>. CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: JISE invites contributions from IS educators and scholars involving IS education. We accept manuscripts in the following areas: IS education research, teaching tips, innovative classroom practices, curriculum issues, teaching cases, classroom minicases, current topics in IS education, IS education trends and new ideas and other IS education-related topics. Submissions should be sent electronically to editor(a)jise.org <mailto:editor@jise.org>. REVIEW PROCESS: Each article submitted to JISE is blind reviewed by members of the Editorial Board and/or other reviewers. Authors are informed of the results of the review by the Editor. The final decision for the publishing of any manuscript is made by the Editor. JISE is indexed by ABI/Informs, EBSCO Business Source Complete,EBSCO's ERC(Education Research Complete, WilsonWeb/Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition, Gale Group, Gale/Cengage, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management, ProQuest, H.W. Wilson, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Educational Research Abstracts (ERA), Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). The JISE web site is now located at http://jise.org S.E. Kruck, Ph.D., CPA, CCP KruckSE(a)JMU.edu <mailto:KruckSE@JMU.edu> Professor, Computer Information Systems Department- http://cob.jmu.edu/kruckse Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Systems Education - http://jise.org <http://jise.org/> (editor(a)jise.org <mailto:editor@jise.org> or jise(a)jmu.edu) LinkedIn: Journal of Information Systems Education Twitter: J_Info_Sys_Educ Facebook: JISE Board of Directors, EdSIG (AITP) - http://www.aitp-edsig.org <http://www.aitp-edsig.org/> President, Friends of Valley Charities - http://tinyurl.com/FriendsofValleyCharities James Madison University 800 Main Street College of Business - MSC0202 Harrisonburg, VA 22807

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Fwd: [AISWorld] TOC: International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), Volume 7, Issue 1, January-March 2011
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] TOC: International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), Volume 7, Issue 1, January-March 2011 Datum: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:50:40 -0600 Von: Ned Kock <nedkock(a)scriptwarp.com> An: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 7, Issue 1, January-March 2011 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1548-3673 EISSN: 1548-3681 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijec Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock, Texas A&M International University, USA PAPER ONE A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations Eldar Sultanow (University of Potsdam, Germany) Edzard Weber (University of Potsdam, Germany) Sean Cox (Mathematicians Anonymous, USA) Collaboration in temporal and spatially distributed environments has consistently faced the challenge of intense awareness extensively more than locally concentrated team play. Awareness means being informed, in conjunction with an understanding of activities, states and relationships of each individual within a given group as a whole. In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary to share and locate essential information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the exigency for easy routes where personnel can navigate and access pertinent information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and context-sensitive way. Even as awareness has become a more pressing topic, extensive disagreement still remains concerning how any type of transparency can be conceptually and technically implemented. This paper introduces an awareness model to visualize and navigate such information in multi-tiers using semantic networks, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Web3D. Ultimately, the model presented is used for an evaluation from a business organization's perspective. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49661 PAPER TWO An Exploratory Study of How Technology Supports Communication in Multilingual Groups Milam Aiken (University of Mississippi, USA) Jianfeng Wang (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) Linwu Gu (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) Joseph Paolillo (University of Mississippi, USA) In this paper, the authors study how new technology can support multilingual groups. Their results show that no significant difference was found between group members' comprehension of contributed comments and their stated minimum acceptable understanding. However, comprehension of relevant comments was higher than that for off-topic text, indicating that the sharing of important information was achieved. Further, reading comprehension tests of translations from Chinese, German, Hindi, Korean, Malay, and Spanish to English show that, except for Hindi, the automatic translations achieve accuracies that are acceptable for graduate studies at a university in the United States. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49662 PAPER THREE The Virtual Individual Education Plan (IEP) Team: Using Online Collaboration to Develop a Behavior Intervention Plan Robyn Catagnus (Arcadia University, USA) Donald Hantula (Temple University, USA) A team of professional educators in a private school for children with disabilities (a Virtual IEP Team) used an online platform to collaborate and produce a behavior intervention plan for a student. The collaboration was effective and efficient; the plan was produced in 9 days, rather than the customary 3-6 weeks. Qualitative data yielded four major themes: beneficial augmentation, reflective practice, barriers to change, and improved interactions. Quantitative results showed that although end user satisfaction was moderate, they produced a successful behavior intervention plan that showed positive changes in both the teacher and student behavior. An increase of in-person staff discussion as a result of online dialogue was a unique finding in this study warranting further investigation. Now that federal (U.S.) education law has changed to allow technologically mediated IEP meetings, the Virtual IEP Team may serve as a model for more efficient use of education professionals' time. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49663 PAPER FOUR Measuring Collective Cognition in Online Collaboration Venues Paul Dwyer (Willamette University, USA) By monitoring online conversations, organizations can receive value from the intellectual activity of their most interested constituents as they engage in problem solving and ideation. However, since intergroup dynamics often hinders people from optimizing collaboration, it should be measured and monitored for quality. Current metrics assess collaborative value solely from the number of collaborators, assuming that differences between individuals can be ignored. This study found that assumption to be wrong by identifying three distinct collaborator segments that strongly differ in the timing of their participation and in the variety of ideas they introduce. Therefore, a new metric is proposed that takes into account the diverse value individuals add. This new measure is correlated with existing measures only in those infrequent situations when collaboration productivity is maximized. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49664 ***************************************************************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Mission of IJeC: The mission of the International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) is to publish papers that address the design and implementation of e-collaboration technologies, assess the behavioral impacts of e-collaboration technologies on individuals and groups, and present theoretical considerations on links between the use of e-collaboration technologies and behavioral patterns. This journal emphasizes technologies that include Web-based chat tools, Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools, e-mail, listservs, collaborative writing tools, group decision support systems, teleconferencing suites, workflow automation systems, and document management technologies. Coverage of IJeC: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: Analysis of different research methods and their impact on the study of e-collaboration technologies in organizations Collaborative writing tools Comprehensive reviews of previous studies on e-collaboration technologies in organizations Design and evaluation of asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) in organizational setting Design and evaluation of intelligent e-collaboration technologies in organizational settings Design, implementation, and assessment of e-business solutions that include e-collaboration features E-collaboration technologies impact on individuals and society E-collaboration technologies impact on knowledge management and organizational learning E-collaboration technologies support for distributed process reengineering and process improvement E-collaboration technologies support for quality certification programs E-collaboration technologies support for the creation of virtual teams and virtual organizations E-mail Listservs Organizational and national culture as moderating factors in the adoption and use of e-collaboration technologies in organizations Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools Web-based chat tools Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijec. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Ned Kock at nedkock(a)tamiu.edu

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Special Issue on: "Usability Design for Learning and Education in Virtual Worlds"
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Special Issue on: "Usability Design for Learning and Education in Virtual Worlds" Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:10:14 +0200 From: panagiotis <zaharias(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> To: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *International Journal of Human Computer Studies* Call for papers Special Issue on: *"Usability Design for Learning and Education in Virtual Worlds"* International Journal of Human Computer Studies is inviting papers for a special issue on "Usability Design for Learning and Education in Virtual Worlds". Virtual worlds (VWs) have a great potential for learning and teaching practices. Constructivist learning can be implemented in VWs (2D or 3D) for both adults and children, enhancing motivation and engagement and fostering collaborative and problem-based learning methods. Nevertheless very few empirical research studies have documented user experience (UX) and usability issues in these worlds. The main aim of this special issue is to bring together HCI, Virtual World/Games and Educational practitioners and researchers in order to investigate the meaning and applicability of usability in the design of VWs for learning. Research has to further explore what are the main parameters that delineate the user experience in these worlds and how to evaluate them. Accordingly intense work is needed for developing new usability/UX evaluation methods and metrics. In parallel, more concrete conceptual frameworks and design models are expected to emerge where pedagogical design guidelines and heuristics have a prominent place. We expect to receive studies that have been applied in both higher education and corporate training settings. The following topics are encouraged but are not limited to: . Usability evaluation studies of learning applications in VWs . Usability/User Experience evaluation methods and metrics for learning spaces in VWs . Usability Design models and Conceptual frameworks for learning spaces in VWs . Pedagogical design guidelines and heuristics for learning spaces in VWs . Affective and sociability parameters of learning spaces in VWs *Important Dates* Submission deadline: 15 March 2011 Review results: 30 June 2011 Revised manuscripts due: 30 August 2011 Final decisions: 15 October 2011 Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should be sent electronically to the guest editors. All submissions should conform to the journal's formatting guidelines. (available online at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622846/authori…) 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* 1) Panagiotis Zaharias, University of Cyprus, Cyprus zaharias(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~zaharias/files/Specialissue_learning_VWs.pdf <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/%7Ezaharias/files/Specialissue_learning_VWs.pdf> 2) Brad Mehlenbacher, NC State University, USA brad_m(a)gw.ncsu.edu

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