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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP:: IEEE 2nd DICTAP2012- Thailand- Bangkok
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP:: IEEE 2nd DICTAP2012- Thailand- Bangkok Datum: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:41:37 -0400 Von: The Second International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications <di(a)sdiwc.net> Antwort an: di(a)sdiwc.net An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Apologies in advance for multiple received copies of the CFP. The Second International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2012) University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce(UTCC), Bangkok, Thailand May 16-18, 2012 http://www.sdiwc.net/thi/ The DICTAP2012 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Thailand and All papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex ======================================================================== The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce(UTCC), Bangkok, Thailand during the period of May 16-18, 2012. The DICTAP2012 aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: 1) Communication Basic and Infrastructure - Telecommunications - Communication protocols - Algorithms, Architecture, and Infrastructures - Transmission Techniques - Communication Systems 2) Networks Basic and Management - Network Systems and Devices - Wireless Networks, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks - Network Modeling and Simulation - Network Management Techniques - Networks Security, Encryption and Cryptography 3) Multimedia Application - Management and Diffusion of Multimedia Applications - Multimedia Data Base - Information Retrieval - Digital Rights Management 4) Image, Video, Signal and Information Processing - Compression and Coding - Analysis and Processing - Computer Graphics - Data mining - Soft Computing - Web based applications Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Important Dates ============== Submission Date : Mar. 10, 2012 Notification of acceptance: Apr. 1, 2012 Camera Ready submission : Apr. 14, 2012 Registration : Apr. 14, 2012 Conference dates : May 16-18, 2012 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CfP ACM Student Research Competition Hypertext 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP ACM Student Research Competition Hypertext 2012 Datum: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:26:21 +0100 Von: Denis Helic <dhelic(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: Denis Helic <dhelic(a)tugraz.at> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Student Research Competition Hypertext 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext 2012 will be participating in the ACM Student Research Competition sponsored by Microsoft Research. The SRC, which is held at selected ACM conferences, will provide an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students attending Hypertext 2012 to receive a $500 travel grant from Microsoft Research to present their research at Hypertext 2012. All invited students will compete in a conference competition for the best presentations, with the winners eligible for a spot in the SRC Grand Finals. The SRC is a valuable opportunity for students to participate in Hypertext 2012 and to receive recognition from ACM for the quality of their research. The Hypertext 2012 SRC consists of two rounds: a poster session and a presentation session. A panel of judges will select a number of finalists from the poster session, who will be invited to the presentation session. Winners are selected from the presentation session. The top three undergraduate and graduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. The Hypertext 2012 SRC winners will be invited to participate in the SRC Grand Finals, an online round of competitions among the winners of individual conference-hosted SRCs. The winners of the Grand Finals are invited to the ACM awards banquet together with their advisors, for an all-expenses-paid trip. Eligibility Requirements ------------------------- - Current ACM student membership - Current "student" status as of February 1, 2012, either graduate or undergraduate Submission Details ------------------- Students who wish to participate must submit the following information: - An abstract of up to 800 words explaining the content of the poster. - Presenter's email address, phone number and surface mail address. - Indicate whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student. - Name of department and school. - Name of academic advisor. - The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must be first-authored by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of the work. Submissions of short or full technical papers are not eligible for consideration of the SRC. A submission to the Student Research Competition should describe recently completed or ongoing student research in any of the topic areas covered by HT2012. Important Dates ---------------- February 21, 2012 Deadline for submission March 21, 2012 Notification of acceptance All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template and submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht2012. Up to ten undergraduate and twenty graduate abstracts will be selected for competition at the conference. Further Information Any queries regarding the Hypertext 2012 SRC should be sent to Denis Helic, dhelic at tugraz dot at. -- 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] **Deadline Extension** CFP: 7th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS 2012)
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] **Deadline Extension** CFP: 7th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS 2012) Datum: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:21:38 -0500 Von: BRANDYBERRY, ALAN <abrandyb(a)kent.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> [EXTENSION: Submission deadline for papers, panels, workshops, and tutorials is now February 20th - see important dates below] [Note addition of Doctoral Symposium (deadline April 30th)- see below] 7th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS) CALL FOR PAPERS& PARTICIPATION May 18-19, 2012 Green Bay, Wisconsin Conference Theme: Privacy, Security, Sustainability, Innovation and Collaboration The seventh annual MWAIS conference, hosted by the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, will accept papers on state-of-the-art and current topics on pedagogy, research, and service in IT/IS. The conference will provide an intimate environment to facilitate the sharing of ideas and findings. The conference will have several presentation sessions, workshops, invited keynote speakers, panel sessions, doctoral& undergraduate student sessions. There will be speakers from academia, industry, and government including federal government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). We are excited to have attracted a number of distinguished speakers for the conference. Among these are Dov Te'eni, AIS President and Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly, and Alan Hevner, Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly and former NSF Program Manager, as well as other notable individuals. A complete list can be found at: http://www.uwgb.edu/mwais2012/Keynotes.asp. Manuscripts, research in progress, panel, and workshop proposals are invited from both academe and practice. Submitted papers and proposals will undergo a double blind review. Submission Guidelines: A paper template for MWAIS 2012 submissions and camera-ready copy can be found at the conference website (http://www.uwgb.edu/mwais2012/). Please do not include any author or affiliation identification on any page of the paper, in headings/footers, or in the properties of the submitted file. Author and affiliation information should be added in the camera ready version of the paper only. Previously published work or work under review elsewhere is not eligible for submission. All submissions should be submitted electronically in MS Word at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mwais2012. Types of Submissions: (i) Full Length Submissions You may submit a full length paper that is not to exceed six single-spaced pages (approximately up to 2,500 words) including all figures, tables, appendices, and references. The paper should be original and previously unpublished. The research may be conceptual, empirical, or applied. (ii) Research-in-Progress Submissions You may submit research-in-progress proposals (extended abstracts), preferably including a summary of tentative results of the study to date, in 1,000-1,500 words with a maximum of two figures/tables for inclusion in the conference proceedings. (iii) Panels, Workshops, and Tutorials Individuals interested in conducting a panel, workshop, or tutorial dealing with technological, managerial, professional, teaching, societal, national or international issues of information technology management are invited to submit a 500-1,000 word proposal covering the objectives, issues to be covered, and the names/addresses of any and all other members of the panel, workshop, or tutorial. Computer laboratories are also available during the workshop if needed for tutorials or other types of presentations. (iv) Doctoral Symposium The symposium will provide an opportunity for the MIS doctoral students to receive feedback on their research from senior MIS faculty. In order to apply please submit a three page (double space) abstract of your dissertation proposal along with your research interests, actual / expected dissertation proposal defense date, expected graduation date, CV and a recommendation letter of your dissertation adviser. Please email your entire application as one pdf file to Alan Brandyberry<abrandyb(a)kent.edu> by the deadline specified below. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop, and tutorial members must register and pay for the conference.) Best Paper Awards: The MWAIS program committee will nominate three papers for best paper awards, sponsored by American Journal of Business. The three best papers will be recognized at the conference. The first best paper award is $300, second best paper award is $200, third best paper award is $100. The awards are given to the authors conditionally upon submission of their work to the American Journal of Business. Important Dates: - Submission Deadline for Panels, Workshops, and Tutorial Proposals: Monday, February 20, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) - Submission Deadline for Full-Length Papers, and Research-in-Progress: Monday, February 20, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) - Submission Deadline for Doctoral Symposium Proposals: Monday, April 30, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) - Notification of Acceptance/Rejection of Papers, Panels, Workshops& Tutorial Proposals: Monday, April 2, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) - Notification of Acceptance/Rejection of Doctoral Symposium Proposals: Monday, May 7, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) - Author Registration Deadline : Monday, April 9, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) - Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: Friday, April 16, 2012 (11:59 PM CST) We are interested in a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to: - Accounting Information Systems - Business Process Management - Database Management Technologies - e-Collaboration in Organizations - Green and Sustainable IT - Human Computer Interaction - Information Privacy& Security Management - Information Technology Education - IT Management in Healthcare - IT Teaching Cases - Strategic IT Management - Any Other IT/IS related topic, especially those related to the conference theme of "Privacy, Security, Sustainability, Innovation and Collaboration" Conference Chair: Gaurav Bansal - University of Wisconsin - Green Bay (bansalg(a)uwgb.edu) Conference Co-Chair: Mariam Zahedi - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (zahedi(a)uwm.edu) Program Chair: Alan Brandyberry - Kent State University (abrandyb(a)kent.edu) Program Co-Chair: Sung Kim - University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI (skim(a)bus.wisc.edu) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th Special Track on Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF)
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th Special Track on Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:24:43 +0100 From: Mohammad Smadi <msmadi(a)iicm.tu-graz.ac.at> To: Mohammad Smadi <msmadi(a)iicm.tu-graz.ac.at> [if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif] ****** Apologies for Cross Postings ** *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* ***1^st CALL FOR PAPERS * * 5^th Special Track on ** ** Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment* * and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF 2012)* * Villach, Austria**, September 26 - 28, 2012** **http://www.iicm.edu/CAF2011* ***In conjunction with ** 15th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL 2012)* *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *CAF 2012 -- September 26 -- 28, 2012, in Villach, Austria* ** *Fifth Special Track on * */Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF)/* http://www.iicm.edu/CAF2012 This special track will take place during ICL 2012 in in Villach, Austria (26 - 28 September 2012) as a special programme item. /The Special Track CAF 2012/provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of computer-based knowledge & skill assessment in learning settings and based on that feedback provision for students and teachers. This year CAF is organized in cooperation with the European funded project ALICE (Adaptive Learning via Intuitive/Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional System), http://www.aliceproject.eu. The /International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL)/ is an interdisciplinary conference which aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in interactive computer aided learning. *Background* Our modern life at the beginning of the 21st century is strongly influenced by effects such as rapidly changing and developing information, technology-enhanced communication and information access, and new forms of production and services in a globalized world. This situation requires individuals to adapt their skills and competencies. Consequently, educational objectives and societal expectations have changed significantly in recent years. Modern learning settings must consider learning community aspects as well as learner-centered, knowledge-centered and assessment-centered aspects. By focusing on the assessment, this concept can be further distinguished in (1) summative assessment, performed at the end of a set of learning activities, and (2) formative assessment, which is intended to give continuous feedback to students and teachers. The latter mentioned formative assessment gives information about the current state of knowledge and/or the degree of knowledge acquisition within learning activities. Assessment is an important component of modern teaching and learning processes in face-to-face courses as well as in e-learning environments; it provides valuable feedback to teachers and students which allows the revision and adaptation of teaching and learning activities. Furthermore, assessment activities and results can also be utilized for building and strengthening metacognitive skills. However, continuous and frequent assessment in learning processes may cause excessive efforts and costs. Therefore, computer-assisted assessment systems (CaAS) and computer-based assessment systems (CbAS) have become of increasing interest over the years. Assessment systems may support parts or the entire chain of the assessment lifecycle. This lifecycle includes authoring and management of assessment items, compilation of specific tests, performance of assessments, and compilation and management results. Additionally, emerging interest in the sharing and re-use of assessment items or compiled assessment tests and the exchangeability of assessment outcomes has resulted in standardization efforts, such as the IMS Question & Test Interoperability Specification (IMS QTI). The special track will bring together international researchers as well as practitioners from different organisations who will have plenty of time for networking and real-world knowledge sharing. CAF is interested in novel scientific research, findings from experiments and results from real-life applications. We invite submissions that deal with issues including, but not limited to: ·Aspects of formative and summative assessment ·History and challenges of e-assessment ·Computer-supported assessment rubric ·Computer-based knowledge & skill assessment for individuals and groups ·Computer-supported peer assessment for individuals and groups ·Computer-supported self-assessment and group assessment ·Computer-based student and teacher feedback about knowledge state and acquisition ·Computer-based assessment in adaptive e-learning ·Web 2.0 and assessment & feedback for individual and group learning ·Assessment in Immersive Educational Environments ·Automated essay grading ·Natural short answer assessment ·Assessment and feedback in computer-based simulations ·Assessment and feedback in game-based learning settings ·Test & training data and evaluation procedures ·Reuse, Interoperability and Standardization ·Security and Privacy *Important Dates* ·23 April 2012: Submission of full papers (8 pages) ·28 May 2012: Notification of acceptance ·31 Aug. 2012: Camera ready version (8 pages) ·26.-28. Sept. 2012: ICL Conference in Villach, Austria *Submission Procedure* File Types: Word for Windows Language: English (British or US) Style Guides & Template:http://www.icl-conference.org/template.doc Paper Submission System: Please use the Electronic Submission Page http://www.conftool.com/icl-conference/ In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at CAF2012(a)iicm.edu <mailto:CAF2012@iicm.edu> *Notification of Acceptance and Publishing* Accepted papers will be published within the ICL conference proceedings. At least one author has to register within 2 weeks after the notification of acceptance to be included into the conference programme (11. June 2012). Authors fee is applicable only once per paper! Some authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in the "European Journal of Open and Distance Learning" (EURODL) or the "International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning" (iJET). *CAF 2012 Chairs* Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria & Curtin University, Western Australia Mohammad AL-Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria Gudrun Wesiak, Graz University of Technology, Austria & University Graz, Austria *CAF 2012 Organization team* Isabella Pichlmair, Graz University of Technology, Austria & University Graz, Austria Johanna Pirker, Graz University of Technology, Austria & MIT, USA *CAF 2012 Program Committee (tentative)* * Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria * Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK ·Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain ·Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark * Heinz Dreher, Curtin University, Australia * Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain ·Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany * Margit Höfler, Graz University, Austria * Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany ·Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia * Stephanie Linek, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany * Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia * Sandra Schön, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria * Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands * Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany ·Daniela Tuparov, South Western University, Bulgarian ·Sylvia Wong, Aston University, UK *Further Information:* ·Information about ICL 2012: http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2012/ * Travel Information: http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2012/accom.htm ·Tourist Informaton:http://www.villach.at/inhalt/englisch/7682.htm =========================================================== *Mohammad Smadi* Senior Researcher - PhD Candidate tug_logo_06 Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM) Faculty of Computer Science Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 16c , A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (316) 873 5662 Fax: +43 (316) 873 5699 for more information please visit my Homepage <http://media.iicm.tugraz.at/msmadi/home/> =========================================================== " Strife and Struggle come before Success even in dictionary "

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Fwd: Call For Papers: 2012 Int'l Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'12, USA), Submission Deadline: March 12, 2012
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers: 2012 Int'l Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'12, USA), Submission Deadline: March 12, 2012 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:03:59 -0500 From: Computer Science <wcom12(a)world-comp.org> To: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Dear CS and CE Educators: Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested. We will be having a number of interesting panel discussions, tutorials, as well as formal presentations. Thanking you in advance, FECS Committee. ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS FECS'12 The 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering Date and Location: July 16-19, 2012, 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 printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, ...). IMPORTANT DATES: March 12, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'12) SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Accreditation and assessment O Student recruitment and retention methods O Promoting multi-disciplinary initiatives - impact on curriculum O Capstone research projects: examples and case studies O Distance learning; methods, technologies and assessment O Innovative degree programs and certificates O Innovative uses of technology in the classroom O Collaborative learning O Learning models and learning from mistakes O Computer and web-based software for instruction O Ethics in computer science and engineering O Incorporating writing into CS and CE curriculum O Preparing graduates for academia O Preparing graduates for industry O Partnerships with industry and government O Team projects and case studies O Undergraduate research experiences O Student observation and mentoring strategies O Advising methods O Evaluation strategies (professors, students, ...) O Transition to graduate studies O Integrating gender and culture issues into computer science and engineering curriculum O The balance between course-work and research O Issues related to the choice of first programming language O Debugging tools and learning O Projects, software engineering, programming issues, and laboratory practices O Computer science and computer engineering curriculum O Active learning tools O Undergraduates as teaching assistants O Funding opportunities for curriculum development and studies O Pilot studies O STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering& Mathematics) promising initiatives O Teaching methods O Recruiting methods to attract graduate students O Proposed methods for ranking CS and CE departments O The role of visualization and animation in education O Academic dishonesty in a high-tech environment O Using the web O Factors that lead to success in CS and CE CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of FECS (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list): Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others. 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 12, 2012 and they must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - 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. The name of the conference (ie, FECS) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. 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 include 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). Proceedings of FECS will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering& Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, FECS proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books 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 contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: Currently being finalized: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow& Professor, University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board member, Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; 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; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute& State University, USA); 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). 2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society; Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.) The 2012 Program Committee for FECS is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees 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, as well as deans and provosts. 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(s) offering to help with. The list of Program Committee of FECS 2011 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/fecs11/c… GENERAL INFORMATION: The FECS 2012 conference 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 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 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 (pioneer, 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; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President& Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606 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 fields 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. 67969 MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP: As of February 5, 2012, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings have received 20,405 citations. In recent months (November 23, 2011 to February 5, 2012; ie, in about 75 days), there had been 4,545 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 1,800 citations per month). The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the result of high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft Academic Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its compiled list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set of proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many reputable journals in computer science and computer engineering. Citation data was obtained obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ ) USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION: 1. Web site of FECS'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ The proceedings' Table of Contents of last offering of FECS (2011) appears at: http://world-comp.org/proc2011/fecs/contents.pdf 2. Detailed information about citations to worldcomp proceedings: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news 3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this announcement supersedes earlier ones. CONTACT: Inquiries should be sent to: editor(a)world-comp.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This email was sent to: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at To opt out of this email list: http://world-comp.org/cgi-bin/rm/full.cgi?60DD6214-5F75-11DE-8C2B-D40E0F3C4…

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Fwd: [WI] ISPA 2012. Workshops Paper Submission: February 15 (hard deadline)
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] ISPA 2012. Workshops Paper Submission: February 15 (hard deadline) Datum: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:34:45 +0100 Von: ISPA2012 <ispa2012(a)piojito.arcos.inf.uc3m.es> Antwort an: ISPA2012 <ispa2012(a)piojito.arcos.inf.uc3m.es> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Dear Sir or Madam, (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) ============================================================================= IPDPS 2012 WORKSHOPS CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================================= ABOUT ISPA 2012 WORKSHOPS ISPA 2012 workshops are a major part of the ISPA week-long family of events. They provide the ISPA community an opportunity to explore special topics, and the goal of the workshops is to present work that is more preliminary and cutting-edge or that has more practical content than the more mature research presented in the main symposium. Proceedings of the workshops are published by the IEEE Digital Library and are distributed at the conference. The workshops schedule by day will be announced when the full program of workshops is complete. - Clouds for Business, Business for Clouds - International Workshop on Cross-Stratum Optimization for Cloud Computing and Distributed Networked Applications - International Workshop on AstroParticle Physics Advanced Computing (APPAC) - International Workshop on Multicore Cache Hierarchies: Design and Programmability Issues - International Workshop on Heterogeneus Architectures and Computing (HAC 2012) - International Workshop on The Growing Problems with Scalable, Heterogeneous Infrastructures - International Workshop on Stream Computing Applications - Design for Ubiquitous Technology Enhanced Learning Methods, Applications, Languages and Tool ************************************************************************************************************ Clouds for Business, Business for Clouds ************************************************************************************************************ Cloud Computing has acquired enough maturity to expand its field of application to business. Yet there are not only institutions which use this paradigm in their production line but there are also those which are offering services through the Cloud. This workshop intends to put together efforts done from service producers and consumers in order to make Cloud Computing provide an added value to the economy of any kind of institution. Technologies, policies and heuristics will be shared, not discarding those coming from other areas that would benefit Cloud Computing. The Workshop intends also to focus on how services are delivered through the cloud as a popular strategic technology choice for businesses that provides a flexible, ubiquitous and consistent platform accessible from anywhere at any time. The interface of software services and cloud computing provides a rich area for research and experience to give a unique insight into how cloud-based service can be achieved in practice. We encourage submissions of research papers on work in the area of Cloud Computing, Service Engineering, and especially welcome papers describing developments in cloud-enabled business process management and all related areas, such as deployment techniques, business models for cloud-based enterprises and experience reports from practitioners. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 16 February 2012 ++ See details at http://dsa-research.org/c4bb4c/ ************************************************************************************************************ International Workshop on Cross-Stratum Optimization for Cloud Computing and Distributed Networked Applications ************************************************************************************************************ The current lack of interaction between networked applications and the underlying network during service provisioning cause inefficiencies on the use of network resources which can negatively impact the quality expectations of the final consumers of those applications. Typical networked applications are offered through Information Technology (IT) resources (as computing and storage facilities) residing in data centers. Data centers then provide the physical and virtual infrastructure in which applications and services are provided. Since the data centers are usually distributed geographically around a network, many decisions made in the control and management of application services, such as where to instantiate another service instance, or which data center out of several is assigned to a new customer, can have a significant impact on the state of the network. In the same way, the capabilities and state of the network can have a major impact on application performance. Cross-stratum optimization (CSO) is referred to the combined optimization of both the application and the network components that aims to provide joint resource optimization, responsiveness to quickly changing demands from/to application to/from network, enhanced service resilience using cooperative recovery techniques, and quality of experience assurance by a better use of existing network and application resources, among others. The CSO involves the overall optimization of application layer and network resources by envisioning next generation architecture for interactions and exchanges between the two layers to improve service continuity, performance guarantees, scalability and manageability. The goal of this workshop is to promote the research interest on the optimal integration of application and network resources. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 17 February 2012 ++ See details at http://www.cccso.net ************************************************************************************************************ International Workshop on AstroParticle Physics Advanced Computing (APPAC) ************************************************************************************************************ AstroParticle Physics (APP) and High energy physics experiments are addressing the last state of the art related to manipulation of large data sets over wide computing networks, developing tools and services for exchanging, delivery, processing and managing huge amount of data. Analysis and simulation applications involved in these experiments are deployed on a variety of architectures and usually demand high computational and storage capacities. Different solutions ranging from distributed computing (e.g. GRID, CLOUD, P2P, etc.) to recently GPUs attempt to address efficient scenario for the Astroparticle& HEP community. In particular, job- scheduling optimization in distributed environments is an active research field originated from previously worldwide successful HEP projects (ALICE, Pierre Auger observatory, etc.) and wil be implemented in future Space and on-ground APP projects as the JEM-EUSO Space Mission. The main aim of this workshop is to bring researchers from Physics, Computer Science, developers and, in general, from the AstroParticle and High Energy Physics fields, to identify and explore open issues regarding efficient solutions for HEP advanced computing. Also we foster the proposal of solutions that are being developed for each experiment applications. The APPAC workshop will provide a forum for free exchange of ideas. We plan to have a variety of presentations where applications, middleware and computing models for a few experiments are explained and discussed to give ideas for the next generations of high- energy physics analysis software being developed in the future. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2012 ++ See details at http://spas.uah.es:81/appac ************************************************************************************************************ International Workshop on Multicore Cache Hierarchies: Design and Programmability Issues ************************************************************************************************************ Caches have been playing an essential role in the performance of single-core systems due to the gap between processor speed and main memory latency. First level caches are strongly restricted by their access time but current processors are able to hide most of their latency using out-of order execution as well as miss overlapping techniques. On the other hand, last levels of the cache memory hierarchy are not so dependable on their access time but on their locality issues. The locality in lower levels is filtered by the upper levels. As requests going down in the memory hierarchy they require a greater number of cycles to be satisfied, so it becomes more difficult to hide the latency of last-level caches (LLC). In multi-core systems their importance is even large due to the growing number of cores that share the bandwidth that this memory can provide. In an attempt to make a more efficient usage of their caches, the memory hierarchies of many Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) present LLCs which can be allocated across threads and part of them may be private to a thread while other parts may be shared by multiple threads. Then, caching techniques will continue their evolution during next years in order to tackle the new challenges imposed by multicore platforms and workloads. The aim of this workshop is to strongly encourage the exchange of experiences and knowledge in novel solutions exploiting and defining new trends in multicore cache hierarchy design, also considering new programming techniques for taking full advantage of cache hierarchies in terms of performance. The Workshop will be held as a half-day meeting at the ISPA 2012 conference in Leganes, Madrid. The authors of the papers selected for the Workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscript to be considered for publication in a special issue of the Parallel Computing journal (tentative). ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2012 ++ See details at http://www.ac.uma.es/ispa-wmch12/ ************************************************************************************************************ HAC 2012: International Workshop on Heterogeneus Architectures and Computing ************************************************************************************************************ High performance computing (HPC) has significantly evolved during the last decades. The remarkable evolution of networks, the raise of multi-core technology and the use of hardware accelerators have made it possible to integrate up to hundreds of thousands cores into the current petaflop machines. This scenario has led to the emergence of massively parallel and heterogeneous systems composed of a variety of different types of computational units, such as distributed environments composed of multicore nodes some of which include hardware accelerators, like GPUs or FPGAs. However, the design and implementation of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous systems is still a very important challenge. The diverse architectures, interconnection networks, parallel programming paradigms as well as the presence of system heterogeneity have a pervasive impact on algorithm performance and scalability. The traditional parallel algorithms, programming environments and development tools as well as theoretical models are not applicable to the high performance parallel heterogeneous systems currently available. Therefore, we need a thorough analysis of these new systems to propose new ideas, innovative algorithms and tools, as well as theoretical models for modelling and working properly and efficiently with heterogeneous clusters. The workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficiently solving problems on heterogeneous networks. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2012 ++ See details at http://www.atc.unican.es/hac2012/ ************************************************************************************************************ International Workshop on The Growing Problems with Scalable, Heterogeneous Infrastructures ************************************************************************************************************ With the successful implementation of petaflop computing back in 2008 [ref], manufacturers strive to tackling the next barrier: exaflop computing. However, this figure is generally misleading, as the peak performance of a machine is basically just calculated by the number and performance of each individual processing unit in the system even the sustained performance tests through LINPACK essentially just stresses the mathematical units and not the interconnects between nodes. In other words, modern performance measurements essentially reflect the size of the system and not so much the efficiency to solve a specific class of problems. With the introduction of multi- and manycore processors, the scale of modern systems increases drastically, even though their effective frequency remains basically unchanged. It is therefore generally predicted that we reach exaflop computing by the end of this decade. Given the circumstances, the question arises whether it is worth reaching the exaflop mark in the first instance, for other than research interest: already only few applications can actually exploit the scale of existing infrastructures, let alone handle the scale of an exaflop machine if this means scale, rather than clock rate. We can distinguish in particular between embarrassingly parallel applications which benefit from the number of resources but have little requirements towards their interconnects and tightly coupled applications that are highly restricted by the interconnect limitations and the number of embarrassingly parallel applications, as well as their resource need, is typically limited itself. Problems that would really benefit from the scale in order to improve accuracy and speed of calculation also frequently expose an exponential resource need, or at least a growth by the power of n. This means that in order to reach an efficiency increment, it needs an exponential number of additional resources, i.e. a linear growth in the number of resources does not offer the increment in efficiency required. Yet manufacturers stills struggle with essential problems on both hard- and software side to increase the efficiency of larger scale systems at all: in particular the limited scalability of the interconnect, memory etc. poses issues that reduce the effective performance of larger scales rather than increase it. Promising approaches employ a mix of different scalability and consistency models which however restrict the usage domain accordingly - in particular multi-level applications exploit such hybrid models, but their development is still difficult and very rarely supported. This workshop focuses on the particular problems to increase scale and examines potential means to address these problems. It is thereby not restricted to the hardware side of problems, but addresses the full scope from hardware limitations over algorithm and computing theory to new means for application development and execution. The workshop aims at experts from all fields related to high performance computing, including manufacturers, system designers, compiler and operating system developers, application programmers and users etc. Depending on the number of submissions, this workshop will be broken into multiple strands according to topic, such as hardware, theory of computation and software development. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2012 ++ See details at http://www.soos-project.eu/GSHI/ ************************************************************************************************************ International Workshop on Stream Computing Applications ************************************************************************************************************ They workshop is devoted to a very easily parallelizable computing: STREAMS. Data volumes are expected to double every two years over the next Decade and the existing tools and technologies that aid to explode them first require data to be recorded on a storage device and run queries after the fact to detect actionable insights. Stream computing addresses this gap effectively by providing a futuristic technology that can detect insights within data streams still in motion, that is, before they are saved into databases. The goal of the Stream Computing Workshop is to show breakthrough technologies that enable aggressive production and management of information and knowledge from relevant data, which must be extracted from enormous volumes of potentially unimportant data. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 15 April 2012 ++ See details at http://www.wix.com/angelhbravo/stream/ ************************************************************************************************************ Design for Ubiquitous Technology Enhanced Learning Methods, Applications, Languages and Tool ************************************************************************************************************ We are continuously witnessing the pervasive appearance of new kinds of software (e.g. widgets, Web services, cloud computing) and mobile devices (smart phones, tablets, ultrabooks) at user hands. These new paradigms and technologies enable us to enact more engaging and innovative learning experiences, challenging existing instructional practices and pedagogies. The workshop aims to provide a forum for deepened discourse and discussion around the development of new design models and tools for Ubiquitous Technology Enhanced Learning (UTEL) environments. The main question we propose to explore with workshop contributors is "How to facilitate design-level discourse among those involved in Ubiquitous TEL development?". Designing and orchestrating materials (e.g., contents, activities, lesson plans), context information (e.g. location, time), devices, and systems for UTEL is a complex task. It requires integrated thinking and interweaving of state-of-the-art knowledge in computer science, human-computer interaction, pedagogy, instructional theory, psychology, and curricular subject domains. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from these diverse backgrounds to share their proposals and findings related with the design of educational resources and systems in the UTEL context. ++ Paper Submission Deadline: 28 February 2012 ++ See details at http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/ispa2012/CFP-M2A2-12.pdf -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [WI] CfP - Special issue "Security and Privacy in Business Networking" of the Springer journal Electronic Markets
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP - Special issue "Security and Privacy in Business Networking" of the Springer journal Electronic Markets Datum: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:43:40 +0100 Von: Stefan Sackmann <stefan.sackmann(a)wiwi.uni-halle.de> Antwort an: Stefan Sackmann <stefan.sackmann(a)wiwi.uni-halle.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Dear colleagues we would like to draw your attention to the CfP for our special issue "Security and Privacy in Business Networking" of the Springer journal Electronic Markets. Deadline for paper submission is May 16, 2012. Final decision & notification to authors is scheduled for September 5, 2012. For more details, please visit the Electronic Markets Website: http://www.electronicmarkets.org/news/call-for-papers-1/cfp-for-special-iss… Kind regards Stefan Sackmann. ======================= Prof. Dr. Stefan Sackmann Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik/ Betriebliches Informationsmanagement Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Universitätsring 3 06108 Halle/Saale Tel.: +49 345 55-23471 Fax : +49 345 55-27374 E-Mail: im(a)wiwi.uni-halle.de <mailto:im@wiwi.uni-halle.de> URL: http://informationsmanagement.wiwi.uni-halle.de ======================= Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Security and Privacy in Business Networking" ********************************************* Guest Editors * Noboru Sonehara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Hubert Österle, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland * Stefan Sackmann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany * A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Theme The technological development of web services, middleware for distributed computing, or smart objects enables an on-demand and inter-organizational orchestration of ICT services to companies. Such ICT services, e.g. providing basic computing and storage resources, provide a sound basis for both flexible business processes and fast adaption on changes in business networks as well as in the physical environment. Thus, business networks are dangled with more flexibility at decreasing costs. However, substituting "traditional" ICT infrastructure by ICT services means to ship data to the code. On the one side, the disclosure (and aggregation) of data means a fundamental principle and makes all the new ICT services possible. On the other side, the disclosure of digital content bears risks for business process and data owners since the content might be confidential or personal data at least partly. Thus, leveraging the ICT services is inherently connected with the risk of violating the main protection goals of IT security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Without providing adequate methods and tools for managing this risk to business networks, the enormous potential of ICT services is running into danger to remain unexploited. Even though security policies allow describing responsibilities and rules for the execution of ICT services and the processing of disclosed data, at least two open issues remain: - Ad (a) Controllability: Legal regulations, e.g. SOX, HIPAA, and data protection acts, define minimal security principles for business processes and processing of confidential data. Business process owners and data owners can provide security by traditional mechanisms, e.g. firewalls and identity management, as long as processes and data are processed within their security domain. However, by using external ICT services, the enforcement of security and compliance rules regarding external processing of data and execution of processes cannot be controlled any longer. Companies and customers have to trust external service providers that the rules are followed -- meaning risks to the security of the business processes and to the privacy of data. - Ad (b) Threats by unexpected -- even if not unknown -- interferences: Technical failure, crime, terrorism, or natural disasters threaten correctness and availability of ICT services. When such a threat becomes reality, ICT should still provide its services. A main approach to sustain required services is the flexible adaptation of the underlying parts of the ICT infrastructure that are still available. Such flexibility premises integration of several separate security domains. While service-oriented computing facilitates spontaneous replacement of affected services, such a spontaneous replacement implies granting access to data and functions to an "outsider" and thereby making him or her an "insider". Hence, such flexibility opens an enormous potential of misuse placing enormous challenges on providing security and protecting privacy. Topics This special issue calls for original papers on methodologies, technologies, and best practices for solving problems of security and privacy in on-demand, inter-organizational ICT usage for business processes. Contributions from research and business practice on the following and related topics are invited: Economics, methodologies, and best practices * Business Continuity Plan and Business Continuity Management Business Resilience * Critical Information Infrastructure Protection * Dependability and Security * Economics of Control * Inter-organizational Risk Assessment and Management Control mechanisms and technologies * Anonymity and Encryption Techniques * Inter-organizational Policy Enforcement * Distributed Policy Management * Detection and Identification of Anomalies in Service-Oriented Computing * Relaxed Access Control Policies and Systems * Resilience Networking * Usage Control Mechanisms Submissions for additional but related topics are welcome. Electronic Markets is a methodologically pluralistic journal. Quantitative and qualitative research methods are both welcome, as long as the studies are methodologically sound. Conceptual and theory-development papers, empirical hypothesis testing, and case-based studies are all welcome. All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets publication standards. Submission Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities -- tacitly or explicitly -- at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation. A submission must be in English and should consist of approximately 5,000 - at least 3,500 and at most of 6,000 - words. The template is available at http://www.eletronicmarkets.org. Articles must be submitted via the electronic submission system at http://elma.edmgr.com. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special theme, please contact the guest editors for the special issue. Contact addresses sonehara(a)nii.ac.jp hubert.oesterle(a)unisg.ch stefan.sackmann(a)wiwi.uni-halle.de amin(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at or editors(a)electronicmarkets.org Important deadline * Submission Deadline: May 16, 2012 The CfP is available on https://www.electronicmarkets.org/news/call-for-papers-1/cfp-for-special-is…. ==================================================================== Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business ==================================================================== Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig Editorial Office: Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business c/o Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone +49 341 9733600 Fax +49 341 9733612 E-mail: editors(a)electronicmarkets.org electronicmarkets.org facebook.com/ElectronicMarkets twitter.com/journal_EM Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed academic journal and published quarterly by Springer. ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).

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Fwd: [WI] RecSys 2012: CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] RecSys 2012: CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM Datum: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:23:08 +0100 Von: KAREN CHURCH <karen(a)tid.es> Antwort an: KAREN CHURCH <karen(a)tid.es> An: 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>, kaw(a)science.uva.nl <kaw(a)science.uva.nl>, web_graph_algs(a)yahoogroups.com <web_graph_algs(a)yahoogroups.com>, webir(a)yahoogroups.com <webir(a)yahoogroups.com>, semanticweb(a)yahoogroups.com <semanticweb(a)yahoogroups.com>, all-prolearn(a)agws.dit.upm.es <all-prolearn(a)agws.dit.upm.es>, machine-learning(a)yahoogroups.com <machine-learning(a)yahoogroups.com>, mlearn(a)googlegroups.com <mlearn(a)googlegroups.com>, Web-Mining(a)googlegroups.com <Web-Mining(a)googlegroups.com>, Machine-Learning(a)googlegroups.com <Machine-Learning(a)googlegroups.com>, Data-Mining(a)googlegroups.com <Data-Mining(a)googlegroups.com>, INDUCTIVE(a)LISTSERV.UNB.CA <INDUCTIVE(a)LISTSERV.UNB.CA>, Social-media-research(a)googlegroups.com <Social-media-research(a)googlegroups.com>, researchers(a)pascal-network.org <researchers(a)pascal-network.org>, colt(a)cs.uiuc.edu <colt(a)cs.uiuc.edu>, ML-news(a)googlegroups.com <ML-news(a)googlegroups.com>, kdnet-members(a)iais.fraunhofer.de <kdnet-members(a)iais.fraunhofer.de>, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)acm.org <CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)acm.org>, SIGIR-ANNOUNCE-REQUEST(a)acm.org <SIGIR-ANNOUNCE-REQUEST(a)acm.org>, ah(a)listserver.tue.nl <ah(a)listserver.tue.nl>, IRList(a)lists.shef.ac.uk <IRList(a)lists.shef.ac.uk>, um(a)di.unito.it <um(a)di.unito.it>, adaptive(a)topica.com <adaptive(a)topica.com>, BCS-HCI(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK <BCS-HCI(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG <CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG>, chisigmail(a)chisig.org <chisigmail(a)chisig.org>, IR(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK <IR(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, editor1(a)kdnuggets.com <editor1(a)kdnuggets.com>, Dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu <Dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu>, members(a)sigsem.org <members(a)sigsem.org>, MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG <MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Kopie (CC): Sarabjot Anand <S.S.Anand(a)warwick.ac.uk>, Ido Guy <IDO(a)il.ibm.com>, Padraig Cunningham <Padraig.Cunningham(a)ucd.ie>, KAREN CHURCH <karen(a)tid.es>, "alan.said(a)dai-lab.de" <alan.said(a)dai-lab.de>, "Michael O'Mahony" <michael.omahony(a)ucd.ie> [Apologies for cross-posting] =================================================== RecSys 2012: CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM =================================================== 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012) September 9 - 13, 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://recsys.acm.org/2012/ Submission Deadline: April 23, 2012, 5:00 PM (PST). =================================================== DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS =================================================== Alexander Felfernig, TU Graz, Austria Michael O'Mahony, University College Dublin, Ireland =================================================== MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRS =================================================== The Recommender Systems 2012 Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their dissertation work to apply for this unique opportunity to share their work with students in a similar situation as well as senior researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have an idea and an area, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along that they can no longer make changes. Typically, this means they will have made their dissertation proposal, but still be about a year from completion. The feedback from attendees in previous years has been very positive and the Doctoral Symposium has been considered very useful by attendees in providing research guidance. Contact us: recsys12doctoralsymposium(a)ist.tugraz.at =================================================== ABOUT THE DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM =================================================== The symposium has the following objectives: 1. Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions. 2. Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution. 3. Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. 4. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events. The symposium will be held on 9th September, 2012. About 5-8 doctoral students and four faculty will be invited to participate. Student participants will have their extended abstracts (4 pages) published in the conference proceedings. They will also have the opportunity to present a poster of their work during the poster session at the main conference. All participants are expected to attend the entire symposium, including a group dinner taking place before the conference (subject to availability of funding). Each student will present his or her work to the group with substantial time allowed for discussion and questions by participating faculty and other students. Being accepted into the symposium is an honor, and involves a commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the field. =================================================== APPLYING FOR THE DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM =================================================== Submissions are invited from current graduate students pursuing a PhD project who would benefit from detailed workshop discussions of their doctoral research by a panel of established researchers. Funding for selected applicants may be available to offset some accommodation expenses please check back here or email the chairs for updates. Submission materials consist of: 1. An extended abstract (see below). 2. A curriculum vitae. 3. A one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation (see below). 4. A letter of recommendation from the student's primary dissertation advisor. Submit your contribution to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys12doctoralsymp by April 23rd, 5:00 PM (1700) PST. Furthermore, your supervisor should send a recommendation letter in the form of a single PDF file to recsys12doctoralsymposium(a)ist.tugraz.at. Your contribution should be named lastname_ds.pdf, where lastname is your family name. The file must be no larger than 5 Mbytes in size. Please ask your advisor to name the file (and set the email subject) according to the convention: studentLastName_ds_ref. We will send email acknowledgements to you when your application is received and to your advisor when his/her recommendation is received. =================================================== EXTENDED ABSTRACT =================================================== Prepare a four-page extended abstract of your thesis work in the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, including: title, author information, abstract, keywords, thesis research summary, and references. The extended abstract, if accepted for the Doctoral Symposium, will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The extended abstract will be evaluated with regard to: 1. Originality of the work with respect to current concepts and techniques. 2. Importance of the work with respect to fundamental issues and themes in recommender systems. 3. Rigor and validity of claims, argumentation, methodology, results, and interpretations. 4. Clarity and persuasiveness of expression. Example abstracts accepted for the Recommender Systems ¹11 Doctoral Symposium can be found here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2043932&coll=DL&dl=ACM Additional factors, such as position within the doctoral process and institutional representation, may be taken into account if the number of applicants is particularly large. Candidates who have a developed idea but who still have time to be influenced will receive the strongest consideration. This typically means that the candidate will have made a dissertation proposal but still be approximately a year away from completion. Participants in the symposium will be selected by the Doctoral Symposium Committee. =================================================== CONFIDENTIALITY =================================================== Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference (with the exception that the contributions will be made available to the symposium participants one week before the event). Submissions should contain no information or materials that are proprietary at publication time. =================================================== DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHECKLIST =================================================== Well in advance of the deadline (April 23rd): 1. Create your submission materials: - Write an extended abstract according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Format. The abstract must print to no more than 4 pages. - Write a curriculum vitae. - Write a one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation. - Obtain a letter of recommendation from your primary dissertation advisor. 2. Package all materials except the recommendation letter into a single PDF file. Name it according to the following convention: lastname_ds.pdf. 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Camera-ready version: June 25, 2012. =================================================== FURTHER INFORMATION =================================================== For more details on the 2012 edition of RecSys, please visit the conference website: http://recsys.acm.org/2012/ or you can follow us on twitter @recsys2012 -- Karen Church Telefonica Research Torre Telefonica Diagonal 00 Plaza de Ernest Lluch i Martín, 5, floor 15 08019 Barcelona Spain Tel: +34 93 123 33 54 Email: karen(a)tid.es Website: www.karenchurch.com Twitter: @karenchurch Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 Minitrack on Interface Design, Evaluation and Impact
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 Minitrack on Interface Design, Evaluation and Impact Datum: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:58:45 -0600 Von: Young Hwa Lee <gabe.lee(a)uni.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for Papers 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems Seattle, Washington August 9-12, 2012 Track: Human Computer Interaction ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini Track: Interface Design, Evaluation and Impact Description: This mini-track is an outlet for human computer interaction papers that research interface design, evaluation, and impact. Authors are encouraged to submit new ways of considering HCI in light of emerging technologies and technology trends. Suggested Topics: This mini-track supports a wide ranging set of research topics, methods, and perspectives. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: * Behavioral, cognitive, and motivational aspects of human/computer interaction * User task analysis and modeling * The analysis, design, development, evaluation, and use of information systems - Guidelines and standards for interface and interaction design - Novel interaction and interface designs for handheld mobile devices - Interface issues in the development of radical interaction technologies - User studies (including field tests) of interaction with mobile information systems - Usability testing for the Web and 3-D interface and interaction techniques * HCI security (HCI-SEC) and privacy for interface design and interaction * Design of trustworthy user interfaces - Design of interfaces to increase trust and credibility - Design of interfaces to decrease distrust, deception or privacy violations * User interface design and evaluation of the Web for - B2B, B2C, C2C E-Commerce or M-Commerce - Government to Consumer or Business E-commerce - Group collaboration - Negotiation and auction - Virtual World (e.g. Second Life) * The impact of interface design or usability on the attitudes, behaviors, performance, perceptions, or productivity of individuals, organizations, and society * HCI issues related to the elderly, the disabled, and other special needs populations * Design and analysis of wearable, pervasive, or ubiquitous systems and computing * Issues in teaching and designing HCI courses or programs * Human factors issues related to the design and use of information systems * Case studies looking at interface or interaction design and usability A number of papers regarding interface design, evaluation and impact have been published at the premier IS journals in the past. Excellent conference submissions have also been considered for fast-track options at journals publishing HCI research. We welcome submissions that fall within the above topical list. We also welcome papers that integrate brief demonstrations or interactive discussions of new HCI techniques, methods, or concepts into their AMCIS presentations. ------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Starting Gate: January 3, 2012 Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 1, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: April 6, 2012 Final Copy Due: April 25, 2012 SUBMISSION SITE http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012 ------------------------------------------------- CHAIRS CONTACT INFORMATION Younghwa "Gabe" Lee Department of Management College of Business Administration University of Northern Iowa E-Mail: gabe.lee(a)uni.edu Na "Lina" Li Information Systems Center for Graduate Studies Baker College Email: na.li(a)baker.edu Anna L. McNab, Ph.D. Commerce Department Niagara University P.O. Box 2201 Email: amcnab(a)niagara.edu _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Personal Beliefs and IT/IS Development
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Personal Beliefs and IT/IS Development Datum: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:31:55 -0500 (EST) Von: Purnendu Mandal <purnendu.mandal(a)lamar.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call For papers for a Special issue on: " Personal Beliefs and IT/IS Development" for International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management IJISCM) Guest Editor : Dr. Purnendu Mandal, Lamar University, Texas, USA No doubt, large IT/IS such as Supply Chain Systems have been a proven operations strategy to improve business effectiveness, particularly in developed economies. Many researchers have illustrated the impact of supply chain strategy on organizational performance with examples of actual input-output data. For businesses in developing countries, however, the scenario is not that rosy. The spread of supply chain and its effectiveness in operations at best has been moderate. Technologies such as ERP and RFID play a major role in supply chain integration and management. It could be that the personal belief factors such as religious values, democratic values, attitude towards science, attitude towards competition, etc play a significant role in the technology adoption in developing countries. And this aspect of people’s belief and perception influence the development and implementation of supply chain systems or other large IT/IS in organizations. As decision makers in charge of IT/IS implementation (and workers) are motivated and guided by their personal beliefs, it is most likely that the business managers will behave differently in developing and developed countries. This special issue tries to contrast behavioral aspects among IT/IS specialists and users in developed and developing countries. Subject Coverage: We encourage submission of high-quality papers addressing issues involving people’s beliefs and IT/IS development and implementation at organizational, national and international level. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Attitude towards technology development, societal issues. - Impacts of personal beliefs in IT use in organizational context. - Empirical analysis of ERP, SCM or large IT system implementation focusing on people issues. - Policy guidelines in incorporating religious values, democratic values, attitude towards science, attitude towards competition, etc to technology related decision making. - International comparison of religious beliefs towards technologies. - Emerging issues in IT/IS development with particular emphasis to cross-cultural issues. Notes for Prospective Authors: Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page athttp://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 Important Dates: Full paper deadline: 15 April 2012 Notification of acceptance and review results: 20 May 2012 Revised submission deadline: 20 June 2012 Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2012 Camera-ready version deadline: 31 July 2012 Editors and Notes: You may send an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following: Dr. Purnendu Mandal Professor of MIS, College of Business, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710, USA Phone: 409-880 8634, E-mail : purnendu.mandal(a)lamar.edu CONFIDENTIALITY: Any information contained in this e-mail (including attachments) is the property of The State of Texas and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. Sending, receiving or forwarding of confidential, proprietary and privileged information is prohibited under Lamar Policy. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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