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Fwd: [AISWorld] ICSOC 2012: last call for papers
by Gustaf Neumann 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] ICSOC 2012: last call for papers Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:56:48 +0200 From: Florian Daniel <daniel(a)disi.unitn.it> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ---------- ICSOC 2012 ---------- 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing November 12-16, Shanghai, China http://www.icsoc.org/ --------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (research track and industry track) --------------------------------------------------- ICSOC is the prime forum for academics and industry researchers and developers to report and share groundbreaking works in service oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by the gathering of experts from various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless& mobile computing, grid computing, networking, service science, management science, and software engineering. ICSOC 2012 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines to focus on service-oriented, cloud-based innovative for the 21st century enterprises. The conference will feature research and industry presentations, keynote presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. Please refer to www.icsoc.org for more details about these associated events. Topics of Interest ICSOC 2012 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences -- with emphases on results that solve open research problems and have significant impact on the field of service-oriented computing and also in particular cloud services. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: + Service Engineering - Service Design - Service Description - Service-Oriented Architecture - Service Composition - Theoretical and Technical Service Foundations - Service Engineering Methods - Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies - Semantic Web services - Service change management - Service discovery and mining + Service Operations and Management - Management Processes and Methods - Managing Service Infrastructure - Quality of Service - Security, Privacy and Trust - Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services + Services in the Cloud - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud - Grid and Computational Services - Service Composition and Engineering - Managing Services on the Cloud - Managing a Cloud Platform - Software engineering models, methods and methodologies for XaaS - Workflow management in clouds + Services in Organizations, Business and Society - Social networks and services - Human-provided and outsourcing services - Mixed Services - Business Service Modeling - Business Process Modeling - Service Outsourcing - Costs and Pricing of Services - Service Marketplaces + Service Applications and Implementations - Pervasive and Mobile Services on the Cloud - Embedded and Real-time Services - Services in Specific Application Domains - Data- and compute-intensive applications - Execution and resource allocation services - Coordination across multiple resource managers PAPER SUBMISSION The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented, cloud-based computing. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the relevance to the field, and the relation to prior work. Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Prospective authors must submit abstracts prior to submitting full papers. Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including all references and figures. All papers must be prepared in the Springer LNCS format and be submitted electronically in PDF to the conference submission system (https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2012). IMPORTANT DATES (for both research track and industry track) Abstract due: April 29, 2012 Full paper due: May 6, 2012 Notification: July 12, 2012 Camera ready due: August 2, 2012 PROCEEDINGS& SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2012 proceedings published by Springer Verlag under the Services Science series. Selected papers will be considered for possible publication in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS). PROGRAM CHAIRS Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University, Australia Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Farouk Toumani, University Blaise Pascal, France (pc(a)icsoc.org) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: IEEE SmartGridComm'12 Call for Technical & Workshop Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE SmartGridComm'12 Call for Technical & Workshop Papers Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:39:12 -0400 From: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <meetings(a)comsoc.org> To: <gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at> *Call for Technical and Workshop Papers * The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2012) is to provide a forum to discuss all aspects that are relevant to the smart grid communication technologies and to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government institutions to exchange ideas, explore enabling technologies, discuss innovative designs, and share field trial experiences and lessons learnt. *Technical Symposia - Due May 6, 2012 <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=249853993&sid=18409805&m=1896785&u=IEEEC…> *Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions on all aspects of Smart Grid Communications, including but not limited to: . Architectures and Models for the Smart Grid . The Whole Picture - Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control . Wide-Area Monitoring, Control & Protection . Smart Grid Cyber Security and Privacy . Smart Metering Infrastructure Networks and Data . Smart Grid Services and Management Models . Smart Grid Communication Networks . Demand Side Management, Demand Response, Dynamic Pricing . Performance Analysis and Co-simulation . Smart Grid Standards, Test-beds and Field Trials . Support for Storage, Renewable Sources and Micro-grid *Workshops - Due June 25, 2012* <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=249853993&sid=18409806&m=1896785&u=IEEEC…>* *The following workshops are accepting paper submissions: . Communications within Power Substations: Breaking the EM Barrier . Cognitive and Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networking for Smart Grids (ComeOn) . Wireless Infrastructure for Smart Grid For more information, visit www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=249853993&sid=18409807&m=1896785&u=IEEEC…>. Click here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=249853993&sid=18409808&m=1896785&u=IEEEC…> to unsubscribe IEEE Communications Society - 17th floor , 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Fwd: [AISWorld] WISM 2012 @ ER 2012: extended deadline 19 April 2012 cfp
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WISM 2012 @ ER 2012: extended deadline 19 April 2012 cfp Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 07:50:23 +0200 From: Philippe Thiran <pthiran(a)fundp.ac.be> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ********************************************************************** * * * * * PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED DEADLINE: 19 April 2012 * * * * PROCEEDINGS: SPRINGER * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * Ninth International Workshop on * * Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2012) * * * * (Held in conjunction with ER 2012) * * * * 15 October - 18 October 2012 * * Florence, Italy * * * * URL: http://people.few.eur.nl/frasincar/workshops/wism2012 * * * ********************************************************************** Important Dates --------------- Paper submission 19 April 2012 Author notification 15 May 2012 Camera-ready paper submission 05 June 2012 Workshop dates 15 October - 18 October 2012 Theme of the Workshop --------------------- Web Information Systems (WIS) use the Web paradigm (and technologies) to retrieve information from data sources and deliver it to the users. Due to their complex requirements the design of WIS is not a trivial task. Design methodologies provide guidelines for the creation of WIS so that the complexity of this process becomes manageable. Based on the separation-of-concerns principle some of these methodologies propose models to specify different aspects of WIS design like data integration, navigation structure, user interface, user interaction, presentation personalization, etc. Recent advances in networking technologies enabled WIS access via different devices (e.g., PDA, Smart phone, PC, BlackBerry, etc.). In addition to this device heterogeneity there is also a heterogeneous audience (e.g., different backgrounds, different goals, etc.) that wants to access the same system. In order to improve the user experience, these systems often need to personalize the content and its presentation based on the current user needs (e.g., user?s browsing platform or user preferences). Another aspect that can influence the behaviour of a WIS is the context of use (e.g., the geographical position, the temporal information, the weather conditions, etc.). Systems that are able to exploit this kind of information will further improve the application usefulness for their users. Integrating such information is possibly made available by specialized services and the need to seamlessly integrate these services into a WIS is therefore an important part of WIS development research. As the Web data is very diverse, WIS are seeking efficient and flexible approaches to provide integrated views over heterogeneous data sources. These data sources are usually autonomous (maintained by different organizations), overlapping, frequently changing, and distributed. All these characteristics make the data integration on the Web a very challenging research topic. The increased use of rich-clients applications (e.g., AJAX, OpenLaszlo, etc.) poses new demands to WIS design. The design of these applications needs to go beyond the server roundtrip paradigm by considering the new functionality added to clients, an intelligent data-push communication with the server, interactive-rich graphical interfaces, etc. Also, with the current emergence of social Web applications (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.) there is a need to properly model the highly dynamic aspects of these systems. In addition, WIS can tap into the data made available by these systems to provide for previously unforeseen functionalities. Making use of rich clients and allowing users to establish social networks are some of the features that need to be considered when developing Web 2.0 applications. Semantic Web (also known as Web 3.0) technologies (e.g., RDF(S), OWL, etc.) can help in the representation and processing of the different WIS design models aiming for an improved interoperability. One example of such a model is the user profile which is often described using a CC/PP vocabulary. Due to their focus on distribution over the Web, Semantic Web representation languages prove to be useful also for specifying the semantics of data and the semantics of interfaces in order to facilitate the integration of heterogeneous databases and Web services, respectively. The best practice recommendation of Linked Data allows Web applications to seamlessly publish, interconnect, and access information on the Semantic Web. The inference mechanisms of the Semantic Web (captured in the semantics of the representation language or in rule-based languages like RuleML and SWRL) can be used for deriving new information or building intelligent services on the Web. Over the last few years, Web services have offered new opportunities to deploy WIS. Web services are independent from specific platforms and computing paradigms, and have the capacity to form composed processes, referred to as composite Web services. Web services composition fulfils user requests that require the participation of several component Web services. Several composition languages are now available (e.g., BPEL, WSFL, etc.). Semantic descriptions of Web services are also proposed for automating composition (e.g., OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S, etc.). A research topic that is worth pursuing is the modeling of these composite Web services. Goal of the Workshop -------------------- The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS and discuss how specific issues of Web Information Systems (WIS) design can be addressed by means of modeling. Specifically, we will discuss how the influence of Semantic Web technology can help in a model-driven WIS development. Thus, the workshop should enable a fruitful exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of WIS modeling. Topics of Interest ------------------ The workshop topics include but are not limited to: * Methodologies for WIS Design * WIS Architectures * WIS Adaptability * WIS Personalization * WIS Evolution * Semistructured Data in WIS * Data Models in WIS * Query Languages in WIS * Integration of WIS * Optimization Techniques for WIS * Security in WIS * Business Rules in WIS * Web Services in WIS * WIS Ubiquity * Social WIS * Rich Client WIS * Web Metadata in WIS * Ontologies in WIS * Linked Data in WIS * Semantic Web Information Systems Paper Submission ---------------- Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related to one (or more) of the workshop topics. The page limit for workshop papers is 10 pages. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Papers should be submitted to wism2012(a)ese.eur.nl <mailto:wism2012@ese.eur.nl> in PDF format. Publication ----------- Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series as the official ER workshop proceedings. Organizing Committee & Workshop Co-chairs ----------------------------------------- Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Philippe Thiran (University of Namur, Belgium) Program Committee ----------------- Syed Sibte Raza Abidi (Dalhousie University, Canada) Djamal Benslimane (University of Lyon 1, France) Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sven Casteleyn (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France) Jose Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil) Olga De Troyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Roberto De Virgilio (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Oscar Diaz (University of Basque Country, Spain) Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Irene Garrigos (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Hyoil Han (LeMoyne-Owen College, USA) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE) Michael Mrissa (Namur University, Belgium) Moira Norrie (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain) Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) Hajo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) Davide Rossi (University of Bologna, Italy) Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Bernhard Thalheim (Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany) Philippe Thiran (Namur University, Belgium) Riccardo Torlone (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK) Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley, USA) Local Organizer --------------- Peter Barna (TOPIC, the Netherlands) Contact Address --------------- wism2012(a)ese.eur.nl <mailto:wism2012@ese.eur.nl>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: Decision Support Systems Special Issue on "Business Applications of Web of Things"
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Decision Support Systems Special Issue on "Business Applications of Web of Things" Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:42:19 -0400 From: Harry Jiannan Wang <hjwang(a)udel.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *CFP: Decision Support Systems Special Issue on "Business Applications of Web of Things"* http://www.journals.elsevier.com/decision-support-systems/call-for-papers/b… *Guest Editors:** *Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua University, chengq(a)sem.tsinghua.edu.cn <mailto:chengq@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn> Paulo Goes, University of Arizona, pgoes(a)eller.arizona.edu <mailto:pgoes@eller.arizona.edu> J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, jlzhao(a)cityu.edu.hk <mailto:jlzhao@cityu.edu.hk> *Managing Editors:* Harry Jiannan Wang, University of Delaware, hjwang(a)udel.edu <mailto:hjwang@udel.edu> Qiang Wei, Tsinghua University, weiq(a)sem.tsinghua.edu.cn <mailto:weiq@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn> According to Wikipedia, the Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is often seen as a prerequisite for the Internet of Things. Since its first use by Kevin Ashton in 1999, the term IoT has become popular and has been widely publicized in many countries including China and US through the applications of Auto-ID technology via RFID tags. If all objects of daily life were equipped with RFID tags, they could be identified and inventoried by computers. The IoT is a network of Internet-enabled objects and software components such as web services that interact with these objects. IoT is built upon the Internet protocols, sensory technologies, sensors, and smart phones. The terms of Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Web of Things (WoT) are also used interchangeably with IoT. However, WoT perhaps indicates a more advanced layer of networking, much like the difference between the Internet and the web. The report on the roadmap of IoT by the European Commission in 2008 outlines the results of the workshop ?Beyond RFID ? The Internet of Things?. The optimistic belief is that in the near future, smart objects will become identifiable and addressable, and smart components will be able to execute intelligent actions following the needs of tasks they are designed for. For instance, devices will be able to adapt to environments, self-configure, self-maintain, and self-repair. Another challenge of the IoT will be related to trust, privacy and security, not only for what concerns the technological aspects, but also for various business applications. The growing data demand and higher data transfer rates will require stronger security models to help business build trust and confidence. Recently, business applications of WoT have been built and tested in various areas such as the Internet refrigerator and the water pipe monitoring system in Singapore. Imagine a refrigerator that monitors the food inside and notifies you when you are low on milk. It also perhaps monitors all of the best food websites, gathering recipes for your dinners and adding the ingredients automatically to your shopping list. This refrigerator knows what kinds of foods you like to eat, based on the ratings you have given to your dinners. Indeed the refrigerator helps you take care of your health, because it knows which foods are good for you. This special issue will focus on exploring innovative business applications of WoT such as (1) tracking behavior of certain things, (2) enhanced situational awareness, (3) sensor-driven decision analytics, (4) process optimization, (5) optimized resource consumption, and (6) complex autonomous systems. We expect that more types of business applications should emerge in this area of research that will be deployed in different categories to benefit the enterprise. This special issue is to serve as a forum of exchange of new research results in WoT, focusing on business applications and the enabling technologies. *Topics of Interest:* * Business intelligence techniques in WoT * Business models of WoT * Case studies of WoT applications * Consumer applications in WoT * E-commerce applications in WoT * Economic modeling and analysis in WoT * Educational applications of WoT * Emergency management supported with WoT * Financial applications of WoT * Government applications of WoT * Healthcare applications of WoT * Household applications of WoT * Impacts of WoT in Business * Integration of WoT and traditional WWW * Inter-organizational applications of WoT * Privacy and security in WoT * Research on WoT architectures * Research on WoT development toolkits * Research on WoT standards * Research and development of WoT testbeds * Service modeling and management in WoT * Surveillance techniques in WoT * Theories and Methods for WoT applications in business * Transportation applications of WoT * User acceptance of WoT applications * Workflow management under WoT * WoT applications in Intelligent Campuses * WoT applications in Smart Cities *Submission Requirements:* * /Format requirements:/ Refer to the official DSS guide for authors at http://www.elsevier.com/ wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505540/authorinstructions#20000 <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505540/authori…>. * /Presentation requirements:/ All submissions must be of high English standard. Papers containing significant number of grammatical and wording problems will be rejected without review. As such, authors are not well versed in English should seek help from professional English editors before submitting their manuscripts to avoid rejection due to language and presentation deficiencies. (Note that fluent English speakers without significant editorial experiences are not qualified to serve as professional English editors.) * /Research requirements:/ A research paper should focus on discovery and resolution of one or more research issues/problems. A project report that does not address important research issues is not a research paper. A research paper must also have a strong evaluation component that is supported by well known evaluation techniques including theoretical proofs, surveys, experiments, simulation, and data mining. Papers (MS Word or PDF files) should be submitted electronically to the Managing Editors along with any questions or inquiries. Please submit two copies of the manuscript: one with author information and affiliation and the other without any author information for review purpose. *Review Policy:* Given that the research in the area of WoT is progressing rapidly, the special issue must also be reviewed in an expedited manner in order to be relevant. As such, papers submitted to this special issue will be given the opportunity of one major revision followed by a possible minor revision. Papers that will not meet the publication standard of DSS after the major revision will be rejected for the special issue but may be referred to the EiC of DSS as regular submissions. *Important Dates:* Submission due Date: October 15, 2012 Review Decision: December15, 2012 Revision Due: February 15, 2012 Final Decision: March 15, 2013 Final Version Due: April 28, 2013 ------------------------------------- Harry Jiannan Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems Lerner College of Business and Economics University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Email: hjwang(a)udel.edu <mailto:hjwang@udel.edu> Web: http://udel.edu/~hjwang <http://udel.edu/%7Ehjwang> Phone: (302) 831-4678 -------------------------------------

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP WOSIS 2012. Deadline extended: 10 April
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP WOSIS 2012. Deadline extended: 10 April Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:14:17 +0200 From: DAVID GARCIA ROSADO <David.GRosado(a)uclm.es> To: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please pass it on to your colleagues and students who might be interested in contributing] ** *The best papers will have the chance to publish extended and revised versions in a special issue of Computer Standards and Interfaces in the ISI Journal Citation Reports with Impact factor of 0.825.* **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** The Ninth International Workshop on Security In Information Systems WOSIS-2012 28 June -- 1 July, 2012 - Wroclaw, Poland http://www.iceis.org/wosis.aspx To be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2012) http://www.iceis.org/ *********Important Dates********* Regular Paper Submission: *10 April, 2012 (extended)* Authors Notification: 27 April, 2012 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 10 May, 2012 ******************************* _Co-chairs:_ Dr. David G. Rosado University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain David.GRosado(a)uclm.es <mailto:David.GRosado@uclm.es> Dr. Luis Enrique Sánchez Sicaman-NT, Departament of R+D, Spain lesanchez(a)sicaman-nt.com Dr. Carlos Blanco University of Cantabria, Spain blancobc(a)unican.es Dr. Jan Jürjens Technical University of Dortmund, Germany jan.jurjens(a)cs.tu-dortmund.de <mailto:jan.jurjens@cs.tu-dortmund.de> _Workshop Background and Goals_ Information Systems Security is one of the most pressing challenges facing all kinds of organizations today. Although many companies have discovered how critical information is to the success of their business or operations, very few have managed to be effective in maintaining their information secure, avoiding unauthorized access, preventing intrusions, stopping secret information disclosure, etc. There are various definitions of security, but all of them basically agree on the same components. Security in information systems considers the protection of information and of the systems that manage it, against a wide range of threats in order to ensure business continuity, minimize risks and maximize the return on investment and business opportunities. Security is, therefore, currently a widespread and growing concern that covers all areas of society: business, domestic, financial, government, and so on. In fact, the so-called information society is increasingly dependent on a wide range of software systems whose mission is critical, such as air traffic control systems, financial systems, or public health systems. The potential losses that are faced by businesses and organizations that rely on all these systems, both hardware and software, therefore signify that it is crucial for information systems to be properly secured from the outset. With the increasing dependence that the information society has on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the need to protect information is increasingly important for companies. The demand for products, systems and services with which to manage and maintain information is therefore increasing, and the realization of superficial security controls is not sufficient. It is necessary to apply a rigorous approach to the assessing and improvement of the security of products and processes that take place in the context of ICT. This has led to the emergence of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), which are of great importance to the stability of companies' information systems. In this new edition of WOSIS, the traditional information systems security topics will remain but we want explicitly focus the workshop on one of the most important issues and currently considered as it is security in Cloud computing. Although there are many benefits to adopting cloud computing, there are also some significant barriers to adoption as is security followed by issues regarding compliance, privacy and legal matters. Security is the main obstacle for many organizations in their move to the cloud, related to risk areas such as external data storage, dependency on the "public" internet, multi-tenancy and integration with internal security. The objective of this new edition is to contribute to the study and analysis of solutions and approaches which help to achieve and facilitate the level of security needed for such distributed environments and that its adoption is not any problem for the society, administration and enterprise. _Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:_ _Topic for Cloud Computing_ * Security Engineering for Cloud-Based Systems * Security Requirements Engineering for Cloud-Based Systems * Risks and threats in Cloud * Privacy and Data protection in Cloud * Cloud Legal Issues * Trust and policy management in Clouds * Issues and recent approaches in portability, interoperability and migration * Secure migration processes to cloud computing * Security in migration models * Systems adapted to the cloud * Storage security * Cloud Infrastructure Security * Security Governance in the Cloud * Risk management and assessment and third-party risk management * Identity & Access Management in the Cloud * Security and Virtualization__ * Security in SaaS, PaaS and IaaS * Security in Cloud applications * Cloud security models * MDA and MDS applied to cloud computing * Case studies _Rest of topics_ * Security in Software development Life Cycle * Information Security Management System * Security Management and Assessment * Analysis and management of risks * Security Implementation, Secure programming and Security Deployment * Case studies and experiences of secure software * Security culture * IT Governance * IT Service Continuity * Language-based Security * Open Security Standards and Security Certification * Common practice, legal and regulatory issues * Security for SOA, Web Services, Grid computing * Security for Databases and Data Warehouses * Metadata and Security * Secure Data Management * Workflow and Business Process Security * Security Metrics and Measurement * Security Ontologies * Security in Software Product Lines * Distributed and Network Security * Security & Trust Models * Authentication, Authorization and Access Control * Anonymity and Privacy * Security for Mobile Computing, sensors networks, multimedia systems * Security for Electronic Commerce, Electronic Business and e-Services (e-voting, e-banking, e-governement, e-health) * Security in Social Networks * Security for embedded systems, smart cards and RFID * Security Issues in Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing * Intellectual Property Protection * Digital Rights Management (DRM). Mobile DRM * Personal Data Protection for Information Systems and Digital Identity management * Access Control and Rights Expression Languages * Semantic Web Technologies applied to Security * Security Engineering * Disaster Recovery and Failure Prevention * Incident Response and Prevention * Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection * Biometric Security * Cryptology: Cryptography and Cryptanalysis * Information hiding: Steganography & Steganalysis * Digital Forensics * Cyber terrorism _Paper Submission_ Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the topics listed above. Submitted papers must present original, non-published work of high quality. Only papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages for full papers and 8 pages for short papers (figures and appendices included). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris _Publications_ All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support. Additionally, the best papers will have the chance to publish extended and revised versions in Journal of Computer Standards and Interfaces in the ISI Journal Citation Reports. _Workshop Program Committee _ Alfonso Rodriguez. University of Bio-Bio. Chile Ambrosio Toval. University of Murcia. Spain Andreas Bauer, National ICT Australia. Australia Antonio Maña. University of Malaga. Spain Brajendra Panda. University of Arkansas. USA Csilla Farkas. University of South Carolina. USA Daniel Mellado. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain Debasis Giri. Haldia Institute of Technology. India Duminda Wijesekera. University George Mason. USA Eduardo Fernández-Medina. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain Eduardo B. Fernández. Florida Atlantic University. USA Ernesto Damiani. Università degli Studi di Milano. Italy Günther Pernul. University of Regensburg. Germany Hugo Jonker. University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg Indrakshi Ray. Colorado State University. USA Jaejoon Lee. Lancaster University. UK Jaime Delgado. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Spain Kevin Butler. University of Oregon. USA Luigi Lo Iacono, European University of Applied Sciences. Germany María Carmen Fernández. Universidad de Málaga. Spain Mario Piattini. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain Mihai Christodorescu. University of Wisconsin. USA <http://www.wisc.edu/> Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu. Estonia Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne. Australia Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati. Università degli Studi di Milano. Italy Shareful Islam. University of East London. UK Shinsaku Kiyomoto. KDDI R & D Laboratories Inc. Japan Siani Pearson. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Bristol, UK. Spyros Kokolakis. Athens University of Economics and Business. Greece Stamatis Karnouskos. SAP AG. Germany Steven Furnell. University of Plymouth. UK Toshihiro Yamauchi. Okayama University <http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/index_e.html>. Japan

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Fwd: Call For Papers: Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012 (July 16-19, 2012, USA, Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, EIS, & e-Government, EEE'12)
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers: Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012 (July 16-19, 2012, USA, Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, EIS, & e-Government, EEE'12) Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:17:19 -0400 From: e-Learning <wcom12(a)world-comp.org> To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012 The 2012 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'12) July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/eee12 ********************************************************************* 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. The proceedings of the congress that EEE is part of, enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations so far. IMPORTANT DATES: April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages) April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days) May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'12) SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O e-Learning: - e-Learning design and methodologies - e-Learning portals - Instructional design methodologies - Audio and video technologies for e-Learning - Authoring tools - e-Learning technologies and tools - Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning - Content management and development - Policy issues in e-Learning - On-demand e-Learning - e-Learning standards - Learning tools and strategies - Assessment methodologies - Knowledge management - Virtual learning environments - AI and e-Learning - On-line education (all levels: elementary, secondary, ...) - Open-source e-Learning platforms - Training and evaluation strategies - e-Universities - Case studies and emerging applications O e-Business: - e-Business systems integration and standardization - Electronic negotiation systems and protocols - Internet payment systems - e-Procurement methods - Techniques for B2B e-Commerce - Global e-Commerce and e-Business - e-Business models and architectures - Service-oriented e-Commerce - Trust, security, and privacy in e-Commerce and e-Business - Intelligence in e-Commerce - Secure Databases and e-Commerce applications - Business-oriented and consumer-oriented e-Commerce - Development of e-Business and applications - e-Business in developing countries - Novel marketing strategies on the web - Organizational and management issues - Supply chain management - e-Retailing and web design - Applications of new technologies to e-Business - Middleware technologies to support e-business - Case studies and applications O Enterprise Information Systems: - Strategic decision support systems - Organizational semiotics and semiotics in computing - Datacenters, data warehouses and technologies - Knowledge management - Enterprise resource planning and e-Business - middleware integration - Intranet and extranet business applications - Databases and information systems integration - Intelligent agents - Enterprise-wide client-server architectures - Information systems analysis and specification - Ontology engineering - CASE tools for system development - B2B and B2C applications - Business processes re-engineering - Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions, ... - Semantic web technologies and Cloud computing - Web interfaces and usability - Human factors and e-Learning - Case studies and applications O e-Government: - e-Government - Use of e-Government methodologies to prevent corruption - Legal aspects of e-Government - Risk management - Methods and tools for e-Government - Policies and strategies - Designing web services for e-Government - Trust and security in e-Government - Enterprise architecture for e-Government - Interoperability frameworks in e-Government - Inter-administration and G2G issues - Public and private partnership - Teaching e-Government - Case studies O e-Politics: - e-Democracy and e-Voting - Parliamentary informatics - e-Participation - Open-source governance - Open politics - Electronic rule-making - Interactive public docket - Hacktivism - Politics in the information age - Case studies and related issues SUBMISSION OF REGULAR 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 April 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, EEE) 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). Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work (ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not suffer from any acts of plagiarism.) Proceedings of EEE 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, the proceedings of SAM was 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 - 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. SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS: Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so. GENERAL INFORMATION: EEE conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences, WORLDCOMP congress. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research federated meetings. The congress 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. The congress 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 the congress 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. 32229 MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings of the congress enjoys a high number of citations. As of March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers. In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformati… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-c… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-c… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-co… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-dat… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-internation… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-r… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-co… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-f… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-co… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-co… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-con… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-con… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-con… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-kn… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-c… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-mode… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-di… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-mana… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-enginee… http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-s… USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION: 1. Web site of EEE'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/eee12 2. To see the caliber of the past offering of EEE, refer to the web site of the 2011 congress and its affiliated conferences and tracks: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws 3. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606 4. 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: sc(a)world-comp.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This email was sent to: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at To opt out of this email list: http://world-comp.org/cgi-bin/rm/full.cgi?5FD6F29A-5F75-11DE-8B8A-E397122B9…

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Cloud Computing (ISD2012)
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Cloud Computing (ISD2012) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:13:32 +0100 From: Edward Curry <edcurry(a)acm.org> Reply-To: edcurry(a)acm.org To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *Call for Papers 21st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2012), Prato, Italy, August 29-31, 2012* *Track: Cloud Computing* http://infotech.monash.edu/research/ISD2012/track_cloudcomputing.php Cloud computing describes a computing paradigm where services (computation, software and data) are deployed on virtualized and dynamically scalable computing resources in remote data centres. Cloud computing resources are offered in one of three levels depending on the needs of the user: software as a service, infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. The computing resources underlying a given cloud computing provider's offering such as Amazon's EC2 or Microsoft's Azure may be distributed on a regional or global level, and to gain flexibility and efficiency, these resources are often shared by many applications and many companies. Cloud-based services are accessed remotely by users via Internet and telecom (voice and SMS) protocols through Web browsers and dedicated applications on devices ranging from mobile phones to game consoles to tablets to personal computers. Flexibility in the cloud computing paradigm provides a logical migration path for various forms of SOA and service models - software, storage, infrastructure, platform etc. and enables new flexibility in the rapid development and scaling of online services. Companies often combine offerings from multiple cloud providers and multiple levels (software, platform and infrastructure) to achieve a much wider range of outcomes than could be achieved using their own computing and information system development capabilities alone. With this flexibility and power comes a broad range of potential issues ranging from technical to organizational to social and thus, cloud computing invites consideration of new models of governance for systems, service and organization. It also invokes legal, national, and social considerations. Cloud computing can help organisations manage risks related to demand, innovation, efficiency, scaling, and control leading them towards a more sustainable future. At the same time, cloud computing is also enabling for a massive proliferation of online services which in turn is paradoxically having negative impact as more computing resource is needed for all of these services. With the rapid growth in cloud computing has come significant interest among the practitioner community with major research activities being conducted in corporate R&D labs. To compliment this and to explore the role of cloud computing in the context of sustainable information systems, we invite rigorous and relevant contributions from a wide variety of research methods addressing topics such as those mentioned below. *Topics* ? Green Clouds and Resource Efficiency ? Trust, Security and Access ? New Make vs. Buy IT decision-making processes in the Age of the Cloud ? The Role of the IS architect in leveraging Cloud technology ? Development, implementation, maintenance of cloud-based projects and systems ? Information infrastructures, reuse and quality in the era of Cloud Computing ? Challenges in simultaneously maintaining Legacy system and cloud based systems ? Cloud scalability, reliability, flexibility, recovery and performance ? Cloud infrastructure for data management ? The dark side of cloud computing *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: 20th April, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: 15th June, 2012 ISD Conference: 29th - 31st August, 2012 *Chairs* Edward Curry (ed.curry(a)deri.org <mailto:ed.curry@deri.org>) Brian Donnellan (brian.donnellan(a)nuim.ie <mailto:brian.donnellan@nuim.ie>) Philip A. DesAutels (philip.desautels(a)ltu.se <mailto:philip.desautels@ltu.se>)

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Fwd: Call for DEMOS/CONTESTS at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for DEMOS/CONTESTS at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:32:32 +0200 (CEST) From: SASO 2012 Publicity Chair <SASO2012-Publicity(a)iiia.csic.es> To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at CC: SASO 2012 Publicity Chair <saso2012-publicity(a)iiia.csic.es> Dear colleague, we have the pleasure to announce that this year, in addition to regular papers, the SASO conference also hosts DEMOS and CONTESTS. Please find below the corresponding calls for DEMOS and CONTESTS, as well as all others calls for papers, posters, and tutorials (DEADLINES APPROACHING!!). Please, distribute it among potentially interested colleagues, Zhang Jie, Sam Malek, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez SASO 2012 Publicity Chair DEADLINES REMINDER !! Deadline for PAPERS submission : Abstract submission: April 23rd, 2012 Full paper submission: April 30rd, 2012 Deadline for DEMOS/CONTESTS submission: June 25, 2012 Deadline for POSTERS submission: May 30, 2012 Deadline for TUTORIALS submission: May 1, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SASO 2012 - Call for Demos, Papers, Poster and Tutorials 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Lyon, France; 10-14 September 2012 --- http://saso2012.univ-lyon1.fr/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for the foundations of a principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications. The complexity of current and emerging computing systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets of a paradigm shift. Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. --------------------------- Call for Demos and Contents --------------------------- Students and researchers are invited to present their work/system at the SASO'2012 Conference to a group of judges from academia (and industry). Each project will be judged based on its overall self-* abilities, originality, and completion of the work. In particular, we will consider robustness, resilience and scaling abilities, while the means of showing the self-* properties. The subject for a Demonstration is free, even if we would like to emphasize two themes: Collective Adaptive Systems, and Ambient Intelligence (see more information below). For the Contest, a specific problem is defined, which can be treated in simulation or with robots (see more information below). Important Dates : ----------------- Deadline for demo/contest submission: June 25, 2012 Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 20, 2012 Demo and Contest session date : from 10 to 14 September, 2012 Demos ----- - Collective Adaptive Systems Simulated Collective Adaptive Systems are of interest for this call. The system must include a variety of autonomous nodes (humans, robots, agents, and control units, etc. ) pursuing different and possibly conflicting goals. The system should present any characteristic like self-organization, self-stabilization, and self-adaptation, etc. - Ambient Intelligence Any Ambient Intelligence application with self-* capabilities is a potential candidate. Among smart environments, those for multiple-users or cognitive impaired users are very welcome. The smart environment must present any self-* characteristic to handle either multiple requests/needs -even conflicting- in case of multiple users, or irrational behaviors in case of cognitive impaired users Contests -------- The contest is proposed in two separate categories : simulation and robotics platform. Authors are free to propose/use a simulator but it must conform to the system characteristics given below (the source code must be available for consultation by the jury). The simulations have also to propose a 2D view of the system, showing the whole arena. The abilities of the system are defined through the commands which can be broadcast to agents : - The system shall be able to self-organize in several teams of a specific size: agents must come together to constitute a team, without being stuck to another team. The required commands are (i) giving the size of the teams to constitute (ii) giving the number of teams to constitute. - The system shall be able to self-reconfigure when the number and/or size of teams change. Required commands are the same as the previous point. - The system shall be able to maintain the teams when agents perception/communications are perturbed. Required commands are (i) giving the new R radius of agent perception (for all agents) (ii) giving the new C radius for agent communication (see below). - For simulated systems, agents can be added or removed by sending the number of agents to add (positive value) or to remove (negative value). The removed robots are chosen randomly. The added robots are randomly located. - All other commands are welcome ! The proposed applications/systems must conform to the specified characteristics : - The proposal can be a simulated or a robotic system (the two categories will be judged separately). - Agents evolve in a square arena of size minimum 100cm x 100cm, the arena can have sides or not. - There is no obstacles inside the arena (optionally, obstacles can be added) - All agents/robots are identical. They have a size between a cube of 1cm and 20cm of side. - Agents/robots are autonomous: they take decisions by themselves (no external computer/agent can control them) and they have no global positioning system. - The system contains initially N mobile agents, such as N> 5, initial locations are free. - Agents could be removed or added on-line to the system (manually with robots, by commands in simulations) - Agents or robots have a limited perception of their environment, i.e., within a radius of R centimeters. The R parameter must be configurable on-line (0< R< 100 cm). - Simulated agents move as simple mobile robots. Their speed do not have to exceed 30 cm/s. All agents move at the same speed. - Each agent can communicate only with other agents within a radius of C centimeters. C must be configurable on-line (0< C< 100 cm). - Users can only communicate by broadcasting commands to agents - All distances must be entered in centimeters. - Source code must be available for consultation by the jury. The evaluation committee (jury) will judge of the efficiency, robustness and simplicity of the proposed algorithms and agent/robot architectures. Program Chairs -------------- Olivier Simonin, INRIA& LORIA Maia team, Universite de Lorraine, France, email: olivier.simonin(a)loria.fr Antonio Coronato, Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking, CNR, Italia, email: antonio.coronato(a)na.icar.cnr.it --------------- Call for Papers --------------- The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for presenting the latest results about self-adaptive and self-organizing systems, networks and services. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between research fields, to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications, and to identify new challenges. The complexity of current and emerging computing systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, sociology, biology, etc.) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better function or performance is possible. A challenge is often to identify how to change specific behaviors to achieve the desired improvement. Self-organizing systems work bottom up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to typically simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions. Here, a challenge is often to predict and control the resulting global behavior. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: April 23rd, 2012 Full paper submission: April 30rd, 2012 Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2012 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: July 18th, 2012 Early registration: August 20th, 2012 All deadlines are at 11:59 PM American Samoa Time (UTC-11). Topics of Interest ------------------ The SASO conference is interested in both theoretical and practical aspects of systems exhibiting self-* characteristics. A particular focus is the modeling of natural, man-made and social systems that exhibit self-adaptation and self-organization characteristics as well as the constructive use of the underlying basic principles in technical systems. The sixth edition of SASO particularly encourages submissions from the following, non-exclusive list of topic areas: - Principles, Theory, Methods and Architectures for SASO Systems - Robustness, Resilience and Fault-Tolerance in/with Self-* Systems - Self-* Behavior in Communication Networks - (Self-)Control, (Self-)Observation, (Self-)Monitoring of Engineered Systems - Collective Phenomena in Social and Socio-Technical Systems - Self-Organization and Self-Adaptation in Biological/Natural Systems - Applications of Spatial and Physics-Inspired Self-Organization - SASO Principles in Cyber-Security - SASO Principles in Collective Robotic Systems - SASO Principles in Cyber-Physical Systems - Real-World Experience with Engineered Systems Exhibiting Self-* Properties All contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems and applications. Contributions that contrast "conventional" engineering principles with novel approaches making use of SASO principles are especially welcome. Submissions Instructions All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2012 conference management system. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. Note that a separate call for poster and demo submissions has also been issued. Emerging Topic Papers --------------------- In addition to regular papers, SASO also encourages the submission of papers on emerging topics. These submissions should be clearly marked as such (indicating "Emerging Topic:" in the title) and should provide a well-rounded survey of novel questions, methods and abstractions that are relevant for the design of SASO systems along with a clear indication of the possible impact on the SASO community. In this category we particularly encourage submissions that present innovative applications of methodological frameworks being used in other fields of science that study SASO related phenomena, thus highlighting connections and potential for collaboration between different scientific communities. Program Chairs -------------- Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT- University of Toulouse, France Ingo Scholtes, Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ---------------- Call for Posters ---------------- The sixth SASO conference continues its tradition of offering poster sessions, a great opportunity for interactive presentation of diverse research. Poster sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work. Posters are an ideal format in which to present late-breaking results, innovations in their initial stages, and speculative/provocative ideas. Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged: - Principles, theory, and architectures for SASO systems - Building trustworthy SASO Systems - Self-* behavior in communication networks - Design& engineering of SASO Systems / SASO principles in design automation - (Self-)Control, (self-)observation, (self-)monitoring of engineered SASO systems - Robustness, resilience, fault-tolerance in/with self-* systems - Complex collective phenomena in social and socio-technical systems - Self-organization and self-adaptation in biological/natural systems - Applications of spatial and physics-inspired self-organization - SASO principles in cyber-security - SASO principles in robotic systems - SASO principles for ambient systems and context-awareness - Real-world experience with engineered systems exhibiting self-* properties Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submission: May 30, 2012 Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 20, 2012 Camera ready poster abstract due: July 18, 2012 Poster session date: September 12, 2012 Submission Process ------------------ For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract of their poster. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and it shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available here. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2012 conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2012 Poster authors should use the poster track for their submissions. Accepted Posters ---------------- If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters will be advertised in the final program, and authors' two-page extended abstracts will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. Poster Content -------------- All posters should include the following information: - The purpose and goals of the work. - Any background and motivation needed to understand the work. - Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work. - A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them. - The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters. - Where to find additional information. This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work how to contact the authors, including email addresses citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. Poster Layout Guidelines ------------------------ The format of posters and the nature of poster sessions require authors to capture the viewers' attention effectively, and present core concepts so as to clearly position the context of their research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. Though left to the authors' discretion, we recommend that authors bring laminated A0 or A1-sized posters with them to the conference. Facilities for printing posters are available in Ann Arbor, but may not be conveniently located to the conference venue. Attendance ---------- At least one of the poster authors is required to register at the conference and will be required to give a brief presentation of the poster in the interactive poster session, as well as staying with the poster to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled poster sessions. For More Information -------------------- For additional information, clarification, or questions, please contact the Poster Chair: Stefan Dulman, Univ. Delft, Netherlands Email: s.o.dulman(a)tudelft.nl ------------------ Call for Tutorials ------------------ The goal of the tutorial program of SASO 2012 is to provide an instructional offer to scholars, practitioners and student attending the conference, on a range of topics related to self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. We plan to accommodate either half-day tutorials (approx. 3.0 hours, plus one 30-minutes break) and full-day tutorials (approx 6.0 hours, plus two 30-minutes breaks, and a lunch break). The topic of a tutorial may range from practical techniques and technologies, to methodologies, to guidelines over standards, to theoretical aspects. The topics areas that fall into the general scope of SASO, as well as the focus of this year???s conference, are listed in the Call For Papers that is available on the conference web site. Please note that no marketing or product specific tutorials will be accepted. Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. Topics that can capture the interest of a broad audience of scholars, practitioners or students are preferred. Important Dates --------------- The exact deadlines are at 11:59pm Hawaii time (HST). Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012 Presenter Notification: May 15, 2012 Tutorial Paper Submission Deadline (optional): June 22, 2012 Tutorial Paper Notification: July 4, 2012 Tutorial Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: July 18, 2012 Early registration deadline: Aug. 20, 2012 Presentation handouts due: Aug. 24, 2012 Tutorial presentation: Sept. 10, 14, 2012 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Tutorial proposals must not be longer than three pages, in the same format of the SASO research papers, that is, compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style. Please make sure the submission includes the following elements: - title of the tutorial; - preferred duration (half-day or full-day); - intended level (introductory, intermediate, or advanced) and prerequisites - contact information for all presenters, including full name, affiliation, email address, full postal address, phone and fax number, URL of personal homepage; - short bio of all presenters including prior teaching and tutorial experiences; - description of the material covered by the tutorial, not exceeding two pages (approx. 1500 words): must include a proposed structure of the content to be presented; - identification of the target audience (e.g., researchers, teachers, practitioners, students); - references of publications (books, papers etc.) the tutorial builds on; - indication of whether the submission of a tutorial paper (see below) is planned. All proposals should be submitted as a PDF document via email to the tutorial chairs. Accepted Proposals and Tutorial Papers -------------------------------------- Once notified that the tutorial has been accepted, proposers of accepted tutorials will be given the opportunity to submit a tutorial paper to SASO 2012. Please note that submitting a tutorial paper is optional. The content of a tutorial paper must directly relate to the material covered by the tutorial and must not exceed 10 pages, in a format compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings Style. All submitted tutorial papers will undergo a review process by the organizing committee. The SASO organizing committee reserves the right to refuse the publication of tutorial papers if, for example, the technical quality of the paper is insufficient, or the content of the paper does not match the topic of the corresponding tutorial, etc. Accepted tutorial papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. Proposers of an accepted tutorial preferring not to submit a tutorial paper -- or whose tutorial paper is rejected -- are however required to submit a two page extended abstract describing the content of the tutorial together with the handout material. Please note that the extended abstract will not be published in the conference proceedings.

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP BPMN 2012 - 4th International Workshop on the Business Process Model and Notation
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP BPMN 2012 - 4th International Workshop on the Business Process Model and Notation Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:01:17 +0300 From: Matthias Weidlich <weidlich(a)techunix.technion.ac.il> Reply-To: weidlich(a)techunix.technion.ac.il To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ****************************************************************************** Second Call for Papers BPMN 2012 4th International Workshop on the Business Process Model and Notation 12-13 September 2012, WU Vienna, Austria http://bpmn2012.org/ ****************************************************************************** -------------------------------------- BACKGROUND -------------------------------------- The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard experiences a huge uptake in both academia and industry. It is seen by many as the de-facto standard for business process modeling, analysis, and execution. Its promise of being one language for Business and IT has made it very popular with business analysts, tool vendors, practitioners, and end users. Dozens of standard implementations are listed on the OMG website. After three successful workshops in Vienna, Austria, Potsdam, Germany, Lucerne, Switzerland, this fourth workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss and present the latest developments around BPMN. -------------------------------------- TOPICS -------------------------------------- We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute to the workshop on practical and theoretical aspects of the BPMN standard, addressing or going beyond one of the following topics: Analysis of BPMN models * Consistency between BPMN collaboration, conversation, and choreography models * Similarity of BPMN models * Matching elements of different BPMN models * Verification of BPMN models BPMN as a modeling language * Process modeling methodologies * Modeling extensions and language profiles * Integration with other modeling languages and language comparisons * Quality of BPMN models and of BPMN as a notation Practical experience with BPMN * Success factors of business process management with BPMN * Addressing the need of different stakeholder and specific industries in BPMN * BPMN beyond modeling: process reengineering and optimization * Bridging the Business-IT gap: Does BPMN deliver on its promise? BPMN tool support * Implementation and semantics of BPMN as an execution language * Collaborative modeling * Managing repositories of BPMN models * Simulation based on BPMN models BPMN for business analysis * Usability and understanding of BPMN diagrams * Process optimization * Process monitoring and improvement * BPMN and its relation to Enterprise Architecture Empirical research on BPMN * BPMN in specific industries and e-government * User experience studies * Quality aspects of BPMN tools (smart editors, simulators, runtimes, monitoring environments) Future directions of BPMN -------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: 15 May 2012 Author notification: 15 June 2012 Camera-ready copy: 27 June 2012 -------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------------------------- We invite two types of contributions to the workshop: full scientific papers and short papers. Full scientific papers must present unpublished work that is not being considered in another forum, but can present unfinished research. They should clearly establish their research contribution and relation to previous research. Authors are requested to prepare submissions in English of no more than 15 pages. Short papers of no more than 6 pages can be submitted for inclusion in the paper proceedings. Short papers can be practical experience reports or tool demos. All papers must be formatted in English following the Springer LNBIP instructions for authors available from Springer: http://www.springer.com/series/7911. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF) is required via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpmn2012. Submitted papers will be evaluated by an international program committee on the basis of their significance to the workshop topics, originality, and technical quality. Papers selected for this workshop will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Presentations and demos will be listed with title and abstract in the workshop brochure. Presentations of the speakers selected for the workshop will be video-recorded and speeches will be available on the workshop webpage after the workshop depending on agreement of the speakers to the publication of their speeches. -------------------------------------- ORGANISATION -------------------------------------- Program Co-Chairs * Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria * Matthias Weidlich, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Local Organization * Katharina Disselbacher-Kollmann * Stefanie Errath Program Committee * Agnes Koschmider, KIT, Germany * Alexander Luebbe, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany * Alistair Barros, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Andreas Oberweis, KIT, Germany * Andreas Gadatsch, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany * Artem Polyvyanyy, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany * Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Bela Mutschler, HS Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany * Chun Ouyang, QUT Brisbane, Australia * Denis Gagne, Trisotech, Canada * Diogo R. Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal * Dirk Fahland, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Felix Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Frank Michael Kraft, SAP, Germany * Frank Puhlmann, inubit, Germany * Gero Decker, Signavio GmbH, Germany * Gregor Scheithauer, Opitz Consulting, Germany * Hagen Voelzer, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland * Hajo Reijers, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Henrik Leopold, HU Berlin, Germany * Jan Recker, QUT Brisbane, Australia * Jana Koehler, Lucerne University, Switzerland * Karsten Wolf, University of Rostock, Germany * Luciano Garcia-Banuelos, University of Tartu, Estonia * Lucineia Thom, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany * Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Markus Nuettgens, University of Hamburg, Germany * Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia * Marta Indulska, Queensland University, Australia * Mathias Weske, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany * Niels Lohmann, University of Rostock, Germany * Oliver Kopp, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Peter Wong, Fredhopper, The Netherlands * Philip Effinger, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel * Ralf Laue, University of Leipzig, Germany * Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Sergey Smirnov, SAP Research, Germany * Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria * Stephen White, IBM, USA * Susanne Patig, University of Berne, Switzerland * Thomas Allweyer, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Special Issue of JIITO on Digital Divide
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Special Issue of JIITO on Digital Divide Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:10:40 -0400 From: Alexander Serenko, Ph.D. <aserenko(a)lakeheadu.ca> To: <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *//* */Call for Papers - Special Issue of JIITO on Digital Divide/* ** Ravi Sharma & Bob Travica (Special Issue Editors) Digital information and communication technologies and systems (ICTS) are now seen as necessary infrastructures for development. The traditional developed economies where ICTS had originated no longer exclusively enjoy advantages of ICTS, as it penetrates into the lifeblood of other emerging powerhouses such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) and other parts of the world. This growth measures in hundreds and thousands of percent annually. Still, since these parts of the word started from a relatively smaller ICTS footprint, they still lag behind developed countries in absolute growth measures, such as the penetration rate of the Internet, access devices such as laptops and mobile phones, availability of content and software, and so on. And there are parts of the world where the ICTS draught has all but subsided. A digital divide within and between countries and continents still appears significant, even as it narrows. Digital divides do not apply only to the global context. In many countries there is a gap between the ICTS availability in urban vs. rural areas. Even economically advanced countries are not spared of this disparity. Within the urban milieu itself, digital divide may correlate with the economic status of neighbourhoods. Moreover, at the organizational level of analysis, there can be a digital divide between the white collar and blue collar employees. This problematic situation charts a space for framing digital divide as an ongoing and theoretically relevant research problem. This special issue of JIITO intends to address some of the contemporary issues. We invite authors from _different academic and practitioner disciplines_ who may be interested in the indications, aspects, causes and effects of the digital divide. Conceptual research, empirical studies, as well as practitioner accounts are welcome. */Specific topics include but are not limited to the following themes/*: _ICTS and economic inequality/inequity_. Which is the cause and which the effect? Why does it exist? Can it be eradicated? Are we destined for a flat world or is it a myth? Is this a universal problem or restricted to the developing world? _The omnipresence of a digital divide as a multi-level and resilient phenomenon_. What are the indications, causes and effects of digital divide at the global level? Country level (within society)? Municipal level? Organizational level? _The digital divide and data (information) and knowledge management_. What are the consequences of data (information) and knowledge asymmetry at various levels? How does digital divide at any level relate to knowledge management or to the knowledge economy? _The digital divide and globalization_. What is the relationship between digital divide and economic development (what is the cause and what the effect)? What is the relationship between digital divide and economic inequality that is currently brought into global public discourse (e.g., by the Occupy Movement)? _Overcoming digital divide_. What are the possibilities, opportunities, models and methods of overcoming digital divide at different levels (e.g., one laptop per child, affordable technology, flexible technology using locally available sources of energy, etc.)? What are the cases (success stories) of overcoming digital divide at different levels? */Submission guidelines/*: Please visit http://jiito.org for instructions to authors and for online submission. Papers are due by _1-July-2012_.

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