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Fwd: [wkwi] DESRIST 2013 / Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] DESRIST 2013 / Call for Papers Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:16:00 +0100 (CET) From: vom Brocke Jan <jan.vom.brocke(a)uni.li> Reply-To: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die DESRIST kommt wieder nach Europa. Über zahlreiche Einreichungen aus unserer Community würden wir uns freuen. Herzliche Grüße Jan vom Brocke, Matti Rossi, und Sudha Ram - Call for Papers DESRIST 2013 - Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technologies www.desrist2013.fi Helsinki, Aalto University, Finland June 11-12, 2013 There has been a surge of interest in design science research in Information Systems in the last few years and we can say that this is now a mature field. The goal of the design science research paradigm is to extend the boundaries of human and organizational capabilities by designing new and innovative constructs, models, methods, processes, and systems. Scholars from different backgrounds – such as information systems, computer science, software engineering, energy informatics and medical informatics – are actively engaged in generating novel solutions to interesting design problems in Information Systems. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The eighth DESRIST conference will bring together researchers and practitioners engaged in all aspects of design science research, with a special emphasis on the meeting points of physical and virtual designs. Apart from theoretical contributions we are encouraging submissions on specific solutions, such as products and prototypes. We invite contributions (research papers and panel proposals) that describe work in different areas of design science research, including, but not limited to, the following: - Science of Design and Design Theory - Evaluation of Design Science Research - Design Processes - Principles of Design - Representations for Design - Innovations in Service Design - Development of Service Systems - Design Economics - Modularity and Rules in Design - Architectures for Design - Design of Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial & Business Information Services - Design for Environmental Sustainability, Energy Informatics, GreenIS and GreenBPM - Emerging Methods and Tools in Design Science Research - Embedded Systems, Ubiquitous Computing, Smart Objects and Environments - Case Studies on Value Creation through IT We invite papers and panels as well as product and prototype presentations. See the website for details: www.desrist2013.fi PUBLICATIONS The DESRIST Proceedings will be published in LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their work for fast-tracked submissions in presteuous journals of our discipline. BEST PAPER AWARD An award will be allotted for the best regular Design Science Research Paper of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013 - Paper Acceptance Notifications: March 10, 2013 - Panel Submission Deadline: March 15, 2013 - Panel Acceptance Notifications: March 25, 2013 - Early Registration Deadline: April 5, 2013 - Conference: June 11-12, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium: June 10, 2013 ORGANISATION GENERAL CHAIRS Ken Peffers, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA; Marcus Rothenberger, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA; Samir Chatterjee, Claremont Graduate University, USA. PROGRAM CHAIRS Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA; Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland. PANEL CHAIRS Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, USA; Robert Winter, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS Jan Pries-Heje, Roskilde University, Denmark; Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. PRODUCT & PROTOTYPES CHAIRS Joerg Becker, University of Muenster, Germany; Oliver Müller, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Sandeep Purao, Penn State University, USA; Monica Tremblay, Florida International University, USA. PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Riitta Hekkala, Aalto University, Finland LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Aalto University, Finland PROGRAM COMITTEE Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, USA; Hans Ulrich Buhl, University of Augsburg, Germany; Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden; Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua University, China; Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA; Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia; Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Mike Goul, Arizona State University, USA; Shirley Gregor, Australian National University, Australia; Lakshmi Iyer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA; Helmut Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany; William Kuechler Jr., University of Nevada, USA; Susanne Leist, University of Regensburg, Germany; Mikael Lind, Viktoria Institute, Goeteborg, Sweden; Peter Loos, Saarland University, Germany; Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA; Marco de Marco, Universita Cattolica Milan, Italy; Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Charles Moeller Aalborg University, Dennmark; Oliver Mueller, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Bjoern Niehaves, Hertie School of Governance Berlin, Germany; Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Samuli Pekkola, University of Tampere, Finnland; Tero Päivärinta, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; Jinsoo Park, Seoul National University, South Korea; Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zuerich, Switzerland; Alexander Simons, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Henk Sol, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finnland; Oliver Thomas, University of Osnabrueck, Germany; Tuure Tuunanen, University of Oulu, Finland; Vijay Vaishnavi, Georgia State University, USA; John Venable, Curtin University, Australia; Ramesh Venkataraman, Indiana University, USA; Joseph Walls, University of Michigan, USA; George Widmeyer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA; Axel Winkelmann, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; George Wyner, Boston University, USA; J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong.

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Fwd: [computational.science] 1st IEEE EVN-SGA 2013 - in conjunction with VTC2013-Spring
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] 1st IEEE EVN-SGA 2013 - in conjunction with VTC2013-Spring Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:02:34 +0100 From: Jaime Lloret Mauri<jlloret(a)dcom.upv.es> Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Apologies for cross-posting *****CALL FOR PAPERS***** 1ST IEEE WORKSHOP ON ELECTRIC VEHICLE NETWORKS FOR SMART GRID APPLICATIONS (EVN-SGA 2013) June 2, 2013, Dresden, Germany In conjuntion with 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2013-Spring Workshop website: http://www.nprg.ncsu.edu/evn-sga/ The number of electric and hybrid vehicles on the road is increasing at a fast pace. These vehicles require frequent charging, thus straining the power grid that needs to adapt to these extra loads. A smart grid needs to be able to accommodate seamlessly the extra power demand generated by such vehicles. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop novel vehicular protocols and communication networks to provide information regarding the placement of closest charging stations to the vehicles, availability of charging slots and other services offered in real time. Further, they can be employed for vehicle monitoring, for providing data for detailed usage analysis, remote management, as well as to improve reliability, and even to help decide whether vehicles should be charged at on- or off-peak times. To accomplish these tasks and in addition to monitor dynamic pricing, offer flexible billing smart devices need to be developed and integrated in the network. On the supply side, operators should optimize grid operations and offer energy efficiency programs to reduce consumption and help smooth demand. Smart grid technology would enable utility companies to efficiently manage large number of electric vehicles; such technologies would integrate sensors, advanced meters, smart transformers, automatic energy distribution, load monitoring, and intelligent energy management to minimize operational problems and maximize efficiency of the power grid Finally, there is need for infrastructure that would provide up to date maps of locations and services of charging stations, or for battery switching and swapping. For electric vehicles to become a viable large scale transportation option, a reliable, ubiquitous recharging network is needed and the associated information, communications and control infrastructure needs to be developed. The 1st IEEE Workshop on Electric Vehicle Networks for Smart Grid Applications (EVN-SGA 2013) will serve as a forum for researchers from industry and academia, standard developers, professionals, policy makers and practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results. The purpose of the workshop is to foster discussion on emerging and novel approaches to integrate electric vehicles within the future smart grid, from all angles of views, including researchers, developers, manufacturers, policy regulators, funding bodies. Attendees will be able to gain a clear picture on the current status, the future and opportnuities in the field of electric vehicles and to interact with the highest experts all over the world on the subject. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, techniques and applications, best practices, awareness and experiences as well as future trends and needs, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard forums or in industry consortia. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal, including, but are not limited to, the following topic areas: - Communication protocols and algorithms for Electric Vehicle networks. - Vehicle-to-Grid networks (V2G) and interconnection of electric vehicles. - Electric Vehicle and Hybrid Electric Vehicle networks. - Electric Vehicle System Architectures and infrastructures. - Electric Vehicle Services and utilities. - Electric Vehicle Modeling, Simulation and Testing. - Electric Vehicle Network Components. - Electric Vehicle Monitoring. - Electric Vehicle pricing and billing. - Electric Vehicle Mobility Services and Customer Experience. - Power Grid Challenges for Electric Vehicle Charging/Discharging Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit a 5-page full paper in PDF format through the conference website using the Trackchaironline-submission system http://vtc13spr-wp.trackchair.com/track/1067. Papers must be submitted using the IEEE conference template. Word and LaTeX versions of this template can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Important Dates Call for Papers: August 3, 2012 Paper Submission: November 23, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2013 Final Submission: February 21, 2013 Workshop Date: June 2, 2013 General Chairs Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State Univ., NC, USA Technical Program Chairs George Michailidis, University of Michigan, USA Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy TPC Members http://www.nprg.ncsu.edu/evn-sga/committees.html

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Fwd: [WI] 2nd Call for Papers for the Track "Business Process Management" at ECIS 2013
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 2nd Call for Papers for the Track "Business Process Management" at ECIS 2013 Datum: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:23:28 +0100 Von: Maximilian Roeglinger <maximilian.roeglinger(a)wiwi.uni-augsburg.de> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Kopie (CC): <m.rosemann(a)qut.edu.au>, <Michael.zurMuehlen(a)stevens.edu>, "Goerz, Quirin" <quirin.goerz(a)wiwi.uni-augsburg.de> 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2013) June 5-8, 2013, at Utrecht University Track 03: Business Process Management Deadline for paper submissions is December 7, 2012. DESCRIPTION Business Process Management (BPM) is comprised of concepts, methods, and tools dedicated to the identification, capture, improvement, implementation, and execution of organizational processes. BPM draws from and interacts with established concepts such as Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, and Six Sigma. Moreover, BPM is supported by technologies such as workflow automation and service-oriented computing. Business Process Automation promises significant efficiency gains through standardized process flows, automated resource allocation, and application integration in the process context. BPM is in high demand due to the ongoing pressure to improve operational efficiencies, opportunities related to process outsourcing/off-shoring, and compliance requirements that mandate standardized processes. Industry analysts such as the Gartner Group have identified BPM as a top priority of CIOs for the last eight years. The technical questions of modeling, simulating, and executing processes have been studied extensively in the past, but little work has been published about the adoption, use, and organizational consequences of BPM since the first wave of papers on Business Process Reengineering in the early 1990s. This is notable because the technology underlying BPM has matured significantly since then, and the organizational uptake of BPM technology is widespread. This track encourages the wider adoption of Information Systems research in the domain of BPM beyond methodological and technical questions. In particular, we are interested in papers that contribute BPM-related theories and empirical evidence. Overall, the track explicitly encourages research using a wide variety of methodologies covering quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research approaches such as case studies, action research, surveys, experiments, and design science research. TOPICS OF INTEREST ? BPM adoption and evolution ? BPM governance ? Process decision making ? Value orientation in BPM ? BPM and operations research ? BPM and organizational capabilities ? Organizational impact of BPM ? BPM and organizational design ? Process reference models ? Business process innovation ? Business process outsourcing ? Business process industrialization ? Process-aware information systems ? Inter-organizational BPM ? Social BPM ? Domain-specific BPM TRACK CHAIRS Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, m.rosemann(a)qut.edu.au Michael zur Muehlen, Howe School of Technology Management, United States of America, mzurmuehlen(a)stevens.edu Maximilian Roeglinger, University of Augsburg, Germany, maximilian.roeglinger(a)wiwi.uni-augsburg.de ASSOCIATE EDITORS Joerg Becker, University of Muenster, Germany Amit Deokar, Dakota State University, USA Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia Florian Johannsen, University of Regensburg, Germany Mikael Lind, Viktoria Institute, Sweden Lynne Markus, Bentley University, USA Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Jens Poeppelbuss, University of Bremen, Germany Flavia Santora, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ted Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Christian Suchan, University of Bamberg, Germany Peter Trkman, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein We are looking forward to your submissions. Please apologize for cross-postings. Best regards Michael Rosemann, Michael zur Mühlen and Maximilian Röglinger ______________________________________________________ Dr. Maximilian Roeglinger Research Center Finance & Information Management Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl Prof. Dr. Marco C. Meier Prof. Dr. Andreas Rathgeber University of Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg ______________________________________________________ Phone: +49 821 598-4872 Fax: +49 821 598-4899 mailto:maximilian.roeglinger@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de http://www.fim-online.eu/ ______________________________________________________ -- 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] Requirements Engineering Journal Vol. 17, No.4
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Requirements Engineering Journal Vol. 17, No.4 Datum: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:57:22 +0200 Von: Pericles Loucopoulos <P.Loucopoulos(a)lboro.ac.uk> An: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING, Published by Springer Volume17,Number4(2012), 255-330, DOI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ghh0l645j28n/ Journal Home Page: http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/766 ORIGINAL ARTICLE ?Quality requirements engineering for systems and software architecting: methods, approaches, and tools? By Rafael Capilla <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Rafael+Capilla>, Muhammad Ali Babar <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Muhammad+Ali+Babar>and Oscar Pastor <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Oscar+Pastor> ABSTRACT Requirements engineering and software architecture are quite mature software engineering sub-disciplines, which often seem to be disconnected for many reasons and it is difficult to perceive the impact of functional and non-functional requirements on architecture and to establish appropriate trace links for traceability purposes. In other cases, the estimation of how non-functional requirements, as the quality properties a system should pose, is not perceived useful enough to produce high-quality software. Therefore, in this special issue, we want to highlight the importance and the role of quality requirements for architecting and building complex software systems that in many cases require multidisciplinary engineering techniques, which increases the complexity of the software development process. ORIGINAL ARTICLE ?Deriving software architectural models from requirements models for adaptive systems: the STREAM-A approach? By João Pimentel <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Jo%c3%a3o+Pimentel>, Márcia Lucena <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=M%c3%a1rcia+Lucena>, Jaelson Castro <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Jaelson+Castro>, Carla Silva <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Carla+Silva>and Emanuel Santos <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Emanuel+Santos>, et al. ABSTRACT Some quality attributes are known to have an impact on the overall architecture of a system, so that they are required to be properly handled from the early beginning of the software development. For example, adaptability is a key concern for autonomic and adaptive systems, which brings to them the capability to alter their behavior in response to changes on their surrounding environments. In this paper, we propose a Strategy for Transition between Requirements and Architectural Models for Adaptive systems (STREAM-A). In particular, we use goal models based on the /i*/ (i-Star) framework to support the design and evolution of systems that require adaptability. To obtain software architectures for such systems, the STREAM-A approach uses model transformations from /i*/ models to architectural models expressed in Acme. Both the requirements and the architectural model are refined to accomplish the adaptability requirement. ORIGINAL ARTICLE ?Setting quality targets for coming releases with QUPER: an industrial case study? By Richard Berntsson Svensson <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Richard+Berntsson+Svensson>, Yuri Sprockel <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Yuri+Sprockel>, Björn Regnell <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Bj%c3%b6rn+Regnell>and Sjaak Brinkkemper <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Sjaak+Brinkkemper> ABSTRACT Quality requirements play a critical role in driving architectural design and are an important issue in software development. Therefore, quality requirements need to be considered, specified, and quantified early during system analysis and not later in the development phase in an ad-hoc fashion. This paper presents the quality performance model that estimates quality targets in relation to market expectations as a basis for the architecting of quality requirements. The purpose of the model is to provide concepts for qualitative reasoning of quality levels in the decision-making of setting actual targets of quality requirements for coming releases of the product. The quality performance model is evaluated at one case company, using a market-driven development approach, in the electronic payment-processing domain. The results show that the model is useful for supporting early decision-making in, e.g., release planning of quality requirements. ORIGINAL ARTICLE ?An integrated strategy to systematically understand and manage quality in use for web applications? By Philip Lew <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Philip+Lew>, Luis Olsina <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Luis+Olsina>, Pablo Becker <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Pablo+Becker>and Li Zhang <http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Li+Zhang> ABSTRACT The main goal in evaluating software quality is to ultimately improve its quality. In this work, we discuss SIQinU (/Strategy for Improving Quality in Use/), a six-phased evaluation-driven strategy for understanding and improving software quality requirements in a systematic way. Starting with quality in use (QinU), we design specific user tasks and context of use, and through identifying problems in QinU, we determine external quality (EQ) attributes that could be related to these QinU weakly performing indicators. Then, after deriving EQ attributes related to the QinU problems, we evaluate EQ and derive a benchmark to be used as a basis to make improvements. Once improvement recommendations are made based on poorly performing EQ indicators, a new version of the software application is completed and evaluated again for its EQ to establish a delta from the initial benchmark. Then, we re-evaluate QinU to determine the improvements resulting in QinU from the improvements made at the EQ level, thus leading to a cyclic strategy for improvement and development of relationships. SIQinU is a repeatable and consistent strategy which relies on: a conceptual framework (with ontological base), a process, and specific methods. In order to illustrate SIQinU, a real case study is conducted. *_______________________________________________* *Professor Pericles Loucopoulos* Loughborough University, p.loucopoulos(a)lboro.ac.uk <mailto:p.loucopoulos@lboro.ac.uk> The University of Manchester, pericles.loucopoulos(a)mbs.ac.uk <mailto:p.loucopoulos@lboro.ac.uk> Harokopio University of Athens, p.loucopoulos(a)hua.gr <mailto:p.loucopoulos@lboro.ac.uk> web: http://www.dit.hua.gr/~p.loucopoulos <http://www.dit.hua.gr/%7Ep.loucopoulos> Editor-in-Chief,/Requirements Engineering/ http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/766 * __________________________ The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. *

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2013)
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2013) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:50:09 -0500 From: Mike Smit <msmit(a)yorku.ca> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ***************************************************** || SEAMS 2013 || 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems May 20-21, San Francisco, USA co-located with ICSE 2013 ***************************************************** Website: http://www.yorku.ca/mlitoiu/seams2013/ WikiCFP: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=23903 ================ Call for Papers ================ SEAMS is the leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas, innovations, trends and experiences in engineering software with self-managing and self-adaptation features. These key features enable software systems to adapt at run-time so they can cope with uncertainty. This uncertainty may be due to changes in their operational environment, variability of resources, new user needs, intrusions, and faults. Solutions to complementing software systems with self-managing and self-adaptive capabilities have been proposed by researchers in many different areas, including software architecture, fault-tolerant computing, robotics, control systems, programming languages, run-time program analysis and verification, and biologically-inspired computing. This symposium focuses on software engineering aspects, covering methods, techniques, and tools that support the design and runtime operation of self-adaptive, self-protecting, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-configuring software systems. The symposium's objective is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many of the diverse areas that have an interest in adaptive software to investigate, discuss, and examine thoroughly the fundamental principles, state of the art, and critical challenges of self-adaptive and self-managing systems. ------------------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------------------ We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to self-adaptive and self-managing systems. These include, but are not limited to: -- requirements elicitation techniques for self-adaptation -- programming language support for self-adaptation -- modeling and analysis of adaptive systems (e.g., run-time models, cost-benefit analysis and models, etc..) -- properties of self-adaptive systems -- reuse support for self-adaptive systems (e.g., patterns, designs, code) -- design and architectural support for self-adaptation -- feedback control and algorithms -- support for run-time monitoring and adaptation mechanisms (for requirements, design, performance, etc.) -- software processes for self-adaptive systems -- software engineering for self-adaptive multi-agent systems -- self-organizing sysems -- evaluation, assurance and user-trust for self-* systems -- verification and validation of self-adaptive and self-managing software -- decision-making strategies for self-adaptive and self-organizing systems -- model problems and exemplars -- experiences with deployed self-adaptive and self-managing systems solving science, engineering, business and society problems The following application areas are of particular interest: mobile applications, cloud computing, resource provisioning and optimization, smart applications and cyber-physical systems, autonomic computing, problem determination including logging, analysis and diagnostics, smart user interfaces, service-oriented systems, dependable computing, autonomous robotics. ------------------------------ Paper Submission Details ------------------------------ All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings that will be published in the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. SEAMS will recognise the highest quality submission(s) with a Best Paper Award. Papers should be formatted in IEEE style (see the ICSE 2013 style guidelines at http://2013.icse-conferences.org/), and submitted via Easychair. We are soliciting four types of papers, as follows: + Formal and/or technical papers (10 pages): describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of Adaptive Software Systems. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential - or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution. + Evaluation papers (10 pages): evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, surveys, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be scientifically sound and appropriate. + Experience papers (10 pages): present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The focus is on "what" and on lessons learned, not on an in- depth analysis of "why". The practice must be clearly described and its context must be properly set. Readers should be able to draw conclusions about their own practice. + Exploratory Papers (6 pages): these can be position/vision papers that describe novel research positions, targets or approaches, that go beyond current research and practice. They must describe precisely the new situation and demonstrate convincingly how current concepts, tools and methods, are inadequate. They must also present an approach for tackling the novel situation and demonstrate its pertinence and appropriateness. Papers may be submitted at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seams2013 ------------------------------ Further Information ------------------------------ Website: http://www.yorku.ca/mlitoiu/seams2013/ Email: seams2013 AT easychair.org ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ Paper Submission: Jan 11, 2013 Notification: Feb 18, 2013 Camera ready: March 11, 2013 Symposium: May 20-21, 2013 ------------------------------ Organization ------------------------------ SEAMS 2013 is co-located with ICSE 2013. General Chair: Marin Litoiu, Canada Program Committee Chair: John Mylopoulos, Italy Steering Committee: Luciano Baresi, Italy Betty H.C. Cheng, USA Rogerio de Lemos, UK David Garlan, USA Holger Giese, Germany Marin Litoiu, Canada Jeff Magee, UK Hausi Muller, Canada Mauro Pezza, Switzerland Publicity Chair: Mike Smit, Canada ------------------------------ Program Committee: ------------------------------ Robert Baillargeon, USA Luciano Baresi, Italy Nelly Bencomo, France Yuriy Brun, USA Rajkumar Buyya, Australia Marsha Chechik, Canada Fabiano Dalpiaz, Italy Laurence Duchien, France Schahram Dustdar, Austria Kurt Geihs, Germany Carlo Ghezzi, Italy Holger Giese, Germany Ian Gorton, USA Shinichi Honiden, Japan Paola Inverardi, Italy Valerie Issarny, France Gabor Karsai, USA Jeffrey O. Kephart, USA Marin Litoiu, Canada Emil C Lupu, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, Canada Xiaoxing Ma, Italy Jeff Magee, UK Serge Mankovski, USA Hausi A. Muller, Canada John Mylopoulos, Italy Bashar Nuseibeh, UK Liliana Pasquale, Ireland Anna Perini, Italy Mauro Pezza, Switzerland Jerry Rolia, USA Mazeiar Salehie, Ireland Vitor E. Silva Souza, Italy Mike Smit, Canada Ladan Tahvildari, Canada Danny Weyns, Sweden Andrea Zisman, UK ------------------------------ Sponsors ------------------------------ ACM IEEE ACM SIGSOFT IEEE TCSE _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: The 2013 International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI2013)
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: The 2013 International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI2013) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:33:27 +1100 From: Guandong Xu <Guandong.Xu(a)uts.edu.au> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> BSI2013: Call for Papers (Due on January 06, 2013) ==================================================================================== The 2013 International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI2013) URL: bsi2013.behaviorinformatics.org Submission System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsi2013 Held in conjunction with The 2013 Pacific-Asia Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PAKDD2013) URL: http://pakdd2013.pakdd.org/ ==================================================================================== ========================== Important Dates ========================== Paper Submission Deadline: January 06,2013 Author Notification: January 31,2013 Camera-Ready Deadline: Febuary 15, 2013 ========================== Workshop Scope ========================== Behavior and social science are increasingly recognized as a key component in business intelligence and problem-solving. Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI) has been emerged as a new scientific field that studies effective methodologies, techniques and technical tools for representing, modeling, analyzing, understanding and managing human behaviors and social characteristics. Unlike traditional behavior and social science, which mainly focuses on qualitative and explicit behavior and social appearance and drivers, BSI intends to support explicit behavioral and societal involvement through a conversion from transactional entity spaces to behavior/social feature spaces, through a better understanding of interactions between users and computing systems and better modeling of social concepts like trust, credibility, privacy, and, and influence, further genuine analysis of native behavior/social patterns and impacts, and the facilitation of deployment of information technologies in various socially-centric application domains. A typical BSI process consists of key components including behavior/social modeling and representation, behavior/social data construction, behavior/social impact modeling, behavior/social pattern analysis and utilization, and behavior/social interplay with information technologies. Some popular examples of BSI include web usage and user preference analysis, collective intelligence and crowd behavior, credit evaluation, exceptional behavior analysis of terrorist and criminals, and trading pattern analysis of investors in capital markets. Recent years have witnessed increasing research attention on behavior/social-oriented analyses including behavioral and social interaction and network, behavioral/social patterns, behavioral/social impacts, the formation of behavioral/social-oriented groups and collective intelligence, and behavioral/social intelligence emergence. This trend raises the need for launching the International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI).BSI'2013 aims to increase potential collaborations and partnerships by bringing together academic researchers and industry practitioners from data mining, statistics and analytics, business and marketing, finance and politics, and behavioral, social and psychological sciences with the objectives to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BSI, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. ========================== Topics of Interest ========================== (1) Foundational Methods . Complex sequence analysis . Temporal-sequential pattern mining . Impact-oriented behavior and social mining . Event/activity/action mining . Agent-based data mining . Frequent pattern mining . Domain-driven behavior mining . Behavior data visualization . Algorithms and protocols inspired by societies (2) Behavior/Social Modeling and Representation . Computational models of behavior and social informatics . Behavior and social informatics theories . Abstract behavior model . Behavior life cycles . Behavior structure understanding . Behavior detection and extraction . Sequential behavior modeling . Parallel/concurrent behavior modeling . Distributed behavior modeling . Behavior and social dynamics . Temporal-spatial relationship modeling . Behavior and social privacy processing . Modeling social conventions and context (3) Behavior/Social Pattern Analysis . Frequent behavior/social pattern . Behavior/social classification . Behavior/social clustering . Demographic-behavioral combined pattern . Interaction pattern analysis . Stream behavior/social pattern . Cultural patterns and representation . Social media mining and intelligence . Trust, privacy, risk and credibility in social contexts . Social behavior analysis and synthesis (4) Behavior/Social Impact Analysis . Positive/negative impact modeling . Risk, benefit, cost and trust of behavior . High-impact behavior identification . Impact-transferred behavior pattern . Cause-effect analysis . Exceptional/outlier behavior . Critical event detection and prediction . Critical group detection and prediction . Social influence analysis and ranking . Social cognition and social intelligence . Impact on people activities in complex and dynamic environments . Impact of technology on socio-economic . Social influence and diffusion models of social influence . Social choice mechanism in e-society (5) Behavior /Social Emergence . Behavior/social self-organization . Behavior/social evolution . Behavior/social impact emergence . Behavior/social group emergence . Behavior/social mobility . Sentiment analysis and opinion mining and representation . Emotional intelligence and influence process . Social blog, micro-blog, Internet forum . Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction (6) Behavior/Social Network . Intrinsic mechanisms inside a network . Convergence and divergence of associated behavior . Hidden group and community formation and identification . Behavior/social network topological structures . Linkage formation and identification . Group formation and evolution . Community detection . Community behavior analysis (7) Behavior/Social Simulation . Behavior convergence and divergence . Behavior learning and adaptation . Group behavior formation and evolution . Social simulation . Behavior/social interaction and linkage . Behavior/social impact emergence . Critical event replay . Emergent event detection and signaling . Handheld/mobile social computing (8) Behavior/Social Presentation . Rule-based behavior presentation . Flow visualization . Graph-based behavior/social modeling . Sequence presentation and visualization . Dynamic/hidden group presentation . Visual behavior/social network . Social system design and architecture . Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling . Opinion dynamics, human and social dynamics . Markey dynamics and crowd behavior (9) Application-Oriented Behavior/Social Analysis and Mining . Web usage mining and interpretation . Customer analytics . Recommender system and personalization . Fraud detection . Misuse and anomaly detection . Human-computer interactions . AI games . Facial expression and human gesture analysis . Computational linguistics . Intelligent decision support system . Student learning behaviors in intelligent tutoring system . Criminal behavior analysis . Social networking behavior analysis . Behavior analysis in video data. . Enterprise process and workflow analysis . Design and analysis of social/collaborative Web applications . Human-Computer interaction and interface design . Socio-economic systems and applications . Social computing applications and case studies ========================== Paper Submissions ========================== Submitted papers will have a peer review by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the conference topics, originality, significance, and clarity. The proceedings in Springers LNAI series will be post conference, and it will be published in the second half of 2013. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, through the following paper submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsi2013 Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. Selected quality papers from the workshop will be recommended for publication in World Wide Web Journal (SCI-Indexed) and other top international journals after substantial extension (to be confirmed). ========================== Organization Committee ========================== General Chair Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Co-Chairs: Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Organizing Chair: Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Supported by IEEE Task Force on Behavior and Social Informatics (http://www.behaviorinformatics.org/) UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP for special issue of JGITM on theme: "IT in India and the Indian Region"
by Gustaf Neumann 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP for special issue of JGITM on theme: "IT in India and the Indian Region" Datum: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:12:00 -0800 (PST) Von: Jaideep Ghosh <jghosh20770(a)yahoo.com> Antwort an: Jaideep Ghosh <jghosh20770(a)yahoo.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) Theme: Information Technology in India and the Indian Region Tentative Publication Date: December 2013 Two-page proposal by authors (optional): December 15, 2012 Full paper submission deadline: March 15, 2013 Aims and Scope This special issue of JGITM aims to advance understanding of critical issues confronting IT in India and the Indian region as providing a focus on addressing more general IT-related issues today by attracting high quality manuscripts in this area. It would provide a forum for academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Papers of all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome. Submissions that cross multiple disciplines such as economics, law, business and management, international affairs, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies to develop theory and provide information that could move theory and practice forward in the study of cybercrime and cyber-security are especially encouraged. Consistent with the focus of JGITM, all submitted papers must address global issues associated with Indian IT. Possible contributions may include (and combine), but are not limited to, the following topics: *** Maintenance of performance standards in IT through a balanced and improved labor force, capacity utilization, etc. in India; *** IT-leveraged entrepreneurship in India and SME internationalization; *** Political pluralism in India and the Indian IT: Issues and challenges; *** Implementation challenges in e-governance development in India (focus on global trade, banking, etc.); *** Contemporary trends and issues in IT innovation, adoption, and diffusion in India; *** Multilingualism in India and challenges for the Indian IT; *** Cross-country comparison of IT with emphasis and focus on India; *** Distributed IT applications development using dispersed workforce and virtual teams with emphasis and focus on India; *** Knowledge management practices in Indian IT service companies; *** National-level measures to enhance cyber-security in India and their impact on foreign investment and outsourcing firms, and MNCs; *** Illiteracy problems in India and challenges for the Indian IT; *** IT in services, R&D, education, finance, healthcare, and rural development in India; *** IT roles in the development of industrial automation, control systems, etc.; *** Indian IT applications in consumer devices and instrumentation (for ex., in mobile phone and handheld devices); *** IT and ICT resources in India and their current utilization for global business; *** Adoption of Green IT in India; *** Multicultural aspects of Indian IT. All papers will go through a blind-review process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers and the guest editor. The guest editor will make acceptance recommendations to the Editor in Chief, Dr. Prashant Palvia, who will make the final decision. If there are more qualified papers than that can be included in the special issue, they will be published in future issues of JGITM. The special issue will include the following: *** Editorial preface by the guest editor *** 3 or 4 referred papers *** An interview with a CIO or another senior executive of a company *** A book review relevant to the theme of the special issue Important Dates: Two-page proposal by authors (optional): December 15, 2012 Proposal Feedback to authors: January 7, 2013 Deadline for submission: March 15, 2013 Initial decision and revisions sent to authors: June 15, 2013 Deadline for revised papers: August 15, 2013 Notification of final acceptances: September 15, 2013 Deadline for final versions: October 31, 2013 Tentative Publication Date: December, 2013 Submissions: Please submit electronically, as MS-Word attachment, to the guest editor Dr. Jaideep Ghosh at jghosh20770(a)gmail.com <mailto:jghosh20770@gmail.com>. Approximate size of the paper should be 25 double-spaced pages not including references, tables, and figures. Submission guidelines and instructions for authors are provided in the journal website http://www.uncg.edu/bae/jgitm. Special Issue Guest Editor: Jaideep Ghosh, Ph.D. Ramanujan Fellow Scientist Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS) K. S. Krishnan Marg, PUSA Gate, New Delhi â?? 110012, INDIA Email: jghosh20770(a)gmail.com <mailto:jghosh20770@gmail.com>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for papers The 1st International Workshop on The Social Enterprise
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for papers The 1st International Workshop on The Social Enterprise Datum: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:40:05 +0100 Von: Ejub Kajan <ejubkajan(a)sbb.rs> Antwort an: kajane(a)acm.org Organisation: State University of Novi Pazar An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): ekajan(a)ieee.org Call for Papers The 1st International Workshop on the Social Enterprise http://www.iceis.org/SE.aspx Angers, France, July 3-4,2013 In conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2013 This workshop aims at addressing the lack of techniques and guidelines that would enable enterprises to weave social relationships (e.g., collegiality, fairness, and supervision) into their operation. This should lead into business processes in the enterprise that reinforce the fact that employees establish and maintain social networks of contacts, rely on some privileged contacts when needed, and form with other peers strong and long lasting social collaborative groups. In today’s economies, an enterprise’s ability to sustain its growth and competitiveness depends on how well it socially manages its communications with various stakeholders for instance, customers, suppliers, competitors, and partners. Specific possible topics include (but not limited to): Service computing for the social enterprise Standards for the social enterprise Methods for designing the social enterprise Semantic technologies for the social enterprise Privacy and security in the social enterprise Context management for the social enterprise Case studies Important dates: Paper Submission: April 9, 2013 Authors Notification: April 30, 2013 Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 13, 2013 Workshop Program Committee Lam Alan, Lingnan University, HK Yacine Atif, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Chiu, Dickson, Dickson Computer System, HK Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse I/IRIT, France Naoufel Kraiem, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Ma Antonia Martinez Carreras, University of Murcia, Spain In Lee, Western Illinois University, US Wathiq Mansoor, American University in Dubai, U.A.E Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Research Center, France Alexander Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University Walton Hall, United Kingdom Milan Petkovic, Technical University Eindhoven and Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands Ho, Rosiah, Lingnan University, HK Shayma Saad Abdulla Al Kobaisi, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Maja Vukovic, IBM T.J. Watson Research, US Leandro Krug Wives, UFRGS, Rio Grande, Brazil Workshop co-chairs Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Alfred Loo, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia Noura Faci, Université Lyon 1, France -- Ejub Kajan State University of Novi Pazar Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CFP: 3rd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CFP: 3rd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:49:33 +0100 From: Alan Said <Alan.Said(a)dai-labor.de> To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, ak-kd-list(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <ak-kd-list(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, kdml(a)cs.uni-kassel.de <kdml(a)cs.uni-kassel.de>, fg-db(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de <fg-db(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de>, fca-list(a)cs.uni-kassel.de <fca-list(a)cs.uni-kassel.de>, dl(a)dl.kr.org <dl(a)dl.kr.org> Sorry for cross posting ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation in conjunction with ACM WSDM 2013 Location: Rome, Italy Date: February 5, 2013 Website: http://carr-workshop.org --------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------- Following the successful 2011 and 2012 Workshops on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation we are delighted to invite you to the third installment which will be held in conjunction with the 2013 ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'13). The context of a piece of information is now often available, with many systems capturing things like people's interaction patterns with information, the devices people use, the annotations they make, and their user profiles. Context-aware retrieval systems use context to enhance their performance. The challenge in doing so lies not only in using context to retrieve the most relevant content, but also in understanding and identifying important context ad hoc. Further, once information is retrieved, it must be presented to the user in a context-aware manner, personalizing and adapting the content to the user's current situation (device, location, social surrounding) and interests. Call for Papers --------------- In the scope of this workshop, context can refer to any factor surrounding the user, information object, or system, including, for example, the location of the information interaction, the weather at the time of the interaction, or the user's mood. The need for personalizing and adapting the information exchange experience is accentuated when we consider device- and interaction-based context. The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to support context-awareness. Furthermore, CaRR aims at improving the exchange of ideas between different communities involved in research concerning, among other topics, web mining, machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, and hci. The workshop is especially intended for researchers working on multidisciplinary projects who want to discuss problems and synergies. The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to handle context-awareness. Furthermore, CaRR aims at improving the exchange of ideas between different communities involved in research concerning, among other web mining, machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, hci, etc. The workshop is especially intended for researchers working on multidisciplinary tasks who want to discuss problems and synergies. The participants are encouraged to address the following questions: * What is context? * Which benefits come from context-aware systems? * In what ways can context improve the Web experience? * How can we combine general- and user-centric context-aware technologies? * How should context affect the way information is presented? The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects: * Context-aware data mining and information retrieval * Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering * Use of context-aware technologies in Web search * Ubiquitous and context-aware computing * Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI * Context-aware advertising * Recommendations for mobile users * Context-awareness in portable devices * Mobile and social search Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically through EasyChair, please visit the submissions page for more information http://carr-workshop.org/carr-2013/submission-carr-2013/. Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission: November 30, 2012 * Notification: December 13, 2012 * Camera-ready submission: January 10, 2013 * Workshop: February 5, 2013 Organizers and Committees ------------------------- General Chairs (info(a)carr-workshop.org) * Matthias Böhmer - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) * Ernesto W. De Luca - University of Applied Sciences Potsdam * Alan Said - Technische Universität Berlin * Jaime Teevan - Microsoft Research Program Committee * Omar Alonso - Microsoft, USA * Hideki Asoh - AIST, Japan * Linas Baltrunas - Telefonica Research, Spain * Shlomo Berkovsky - NICTA, Australia * Toine Bogers - Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark * Robin Burke - DePaul University, USA * Li Chen - Hong Kong Baptist University, China * Paolo Cremonesi - Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Carsten Eickhoff - TU Delft, The Netherlands * Ido Guy - IBM Research, Israel * Frank Hopfgartner - TU Berlin, Germany * Brijnesh Jain - TU Berlin, Germany * Anthony Jameson - DFKI, Germany * Alexandros Karatzoglou - Telefonica Research, Spain * Alfred Kobsa - UC Irvine, USA * Antonio Krueger - DFKI, Germany * Petteri Nurmi - HIIT, Finnland * Till Plumbaum - TU Berlin, Germany * Karthik Raman - Cornell, USA * Francesco Ricci - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Markus Schedl - Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Yue Shi - TU Delft, The Netherlands * Domonkos Tikk - Gravity R&D, Hungary -- 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: [wkwi] 2nd CfP ECIS 2013 in Utrecht - Track "IT Governance & Sourcing"
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] 2nd CfP ECIS 2013 in Utrecht - Track "IT Governance & Sourcing" Datum: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:55:20 +0100 (CET) Von: Martin Wiener <martin.wiener(a)wiso.uni-erlangen.de> Antwort an: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de (Many thanks in advance for also forwarding this CfP to interested colleagues!) * * * * *:: CALL FOR PAPERS ::* *21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)* June 5-8, 2013, Utrecht University, Netherlands https://sites.google.com/site/ecis2013nl/ *Track: IT Governance & Sourcing* https://sites.google.com/site/ecis2013nl/the-conference/tracks-and-keynotes… *** Deadline for paper submission: December 7^th , 2012 *** *:: Track Description ::* In today’s environment, the available choices and possibilities for how to source IT make the demands on effective IT governance even greater and more multifaceted. Over the past decade “new” IT sourcing models, such as offshore outsourcing or crowd and open sourcing, have become well-established practices. By going beyond borders and boundaries, these models challenge existing conceptualizations and theories of IT governance: (1) Offshore outsourced IT projects span national borders, bridge organizational boundaries and highlight the intersection ofcultures. (2) Crowd- and open-sourced projects not only challenge organizational boundaries, but also traditional ideas about ownership of resources, tasks and outputs. (3) Cloud services may make the IT artifact seemingly disappear; but while the IT resources have moved outside of the organization’s boundaries, the efforts of molding organizational routines, usage practices, and IT resources have not disappeared and still have to be controlled. (4) In addition, where more “traditional” technologies and organizational arrangements are still dominant, such as for example with ERP packages, the challenges of exercising governance over development and implementation efforts remain highly important and complex. IT sourcing initiatives are often organized in the form of projects. To advance such projects towards their goals, governance and control mechanisms are needed to regulate the actions of stakeholders, to motivate participants, and to ensure that their capabilities are fully brought to bear on the task. As such, the term IT project governance emphasizes not only the control of an individual project, but also the organizational governance mechanisms for monitoring and overseeing IT projects, which are enacted in each individual project. This includes for example the use of project managementoffices (PMOs), the role of the board of directors, project portfolio management practices, and the coordination of related IT projects through “change programs” or other coordination mechanisms. The objective of this track is to foster and promote research on IT (project) governance and sourcing by providing deeper, richer, and more nuanced insights into the topic. The track particularly tries to bring together researchers studying governance issues in different sourcing contexts (e.g., outsourcing, offshoring, agile and open source software development, etc.), from different stakeholder perspectives (e.g., client vs. vendor, business vs. IT), as well as using innovative research methods. We thus particularly welcome papers that address the overall conference theme “/Beyond Borders/” by addressing IT governance and sourcing at the intersection between hierarchical, organizational, national, and cultural borders. We also welcome contributions that venture beyond the boundaries of current conceptualizations and theorizations of IT governance and sourcing. The track invites both completed research papers and research in progress papers. *:: Track Topics ::* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: /* ITgovernance:/ Effective governance structures, processes, and capabilities; executive and board involvement in IT governance; structure and nature of business-IT relationships, etc. /* ITsourcing decisions and outcomes /of various sourcing models including outsourcing, crowd and open sourcing, sourcing via the cloud, offshoring, nearshoring, insourcing, and shared services; governance structures that produce sourcing decisions; multi-vendor strategies, etc. /* ITsourcing practices:/ Contractual vs. relational governance, agency vs. stewardship theories, client- vs. vendor-retained capabilities, governance of vendor portfolios, etc. /* Interfaces between IT governance and IT project governance:/ Impact of IT governance arrangements on IT projects; PMOs, project portfolio management, and other arrangements that allow monitoring, control, and prioritization of resources and work across projects; executive and board involvement in IT projects; roles and responsibilities of IT project stakeholders, etc. /* ITproject governance/control:/ Governance of different project types and IS methodologies (e.g., internal vs. outsourced, traditional vs. agile), dynamics of governance and control mechanisms over the project lifecycle, transmission of control in hierarchical and lateral relationships, etc. /* Social aspects of IT (project) governance:/ Cultural influences on governance practices, intended vs. unintended effects of governance mechanisms, etc. // /* New theoretical perspectives and research approaches /that challenge and extend our understanding of IT governance and sourcing such as critical and constructivist views, action design research, longitudinal andethnographic approaches, etc. *:: Track Chairs ::* Martin Wiener, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, martin.wiener(a)wiso.uni-erlangen.de <mailto:martin.wiener@wiso.uni-erlangen.de>(primary contact) Magnus Mähring, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, magnus.mahring(a)hhs.se <mailto:magnus.mahring@hhs.se> Ulrich Remus, University of Innsbruck, Austria, ulrich.remus(a)uibk.ac.at <mailto:ulrich.remus@uibk.ac.at> *:: Associate Editors ::* Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany Jens Dibbern, University of Bern, Switzerland Robert Gregory, University of Göttingen, Germany Julia Kotlarsky, Aston Business School, UK Susanne Leist, University of Regensburg, Germany Johan Magnusson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Gary Pan, Singapore Management University,Singapore Joe Peppard, Cranfield University, UK Carol Saunders, University of Central Florida, USA Susanne Strahringer, University of Dresden, Germany Steffen Zimmermann, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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