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Fwd: 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning - Final Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning - Final Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:33:56 -0000 Von: Lists <Lists(a)academic-conferences.org> An: <Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at> Hello Gustaf *This is a Final call for papers for the **8th European Conference on Games Based Learning at the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin, Germany on the 9-10 October 2014.* This call will *close*on *20^th March 2014.*** The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited*.*** *In addition to the main conference topics the advisory group invites submissions to the following mini tracks:* * *Game-based Learning in Business* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Bus…> * *Design of Learning Games* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Sha…> * *Game Based Learning in Science Education* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Wei…> * *Games Based Learning in Healthcare and Rehabilitation* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Bro…> * *Educational Card Game Based Learning* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Kor…> * *Motion sensor gaming in education* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Bra…> * *Game-Based Language Learning* <http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm#Car…> To submit an abstract and for more information please go to: http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2014/ecgbl14-call-papers.htm** *Game competition* A competition for the best educational game will be held again at ECGBL 2014. In the first instance we are asking for abstracts describing the game and further information will be sent to applicants thereafter. More information can be found here: http://academic-conferences.org/pdfs/ECGBL_2014-Call-for-Games.pdf *Publication opportunities* Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. Papers that have been presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in the *Electronic Journal of e-Learning* <http://www.ejel.org/main.html> the *International Journal of Game-Based Learning* <http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-game-based-learning…> and Serious Games <http://eai.eu/transaction/serious-games>published by the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) Endorsed Transactions. To become more involved with the conference please follow us LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/European-Conference-on-Game-Based-3713480?tr…> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/ECGBL-European-Conference-on-Games-Based-Lea…> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/ECGBL> *Please feel free to circulate this message to any colleagues or contacts you think may be interested.* Kind regards Sue Nugus Conferences Director http://www.academic-conferences.org <http://111.academic-conferences.org/> sue(a)academic-conferences.org <mailto:sue@academic-conferences.org> Tel: +44 (0) 118 972 4148 Follow me on Twitter <https://twitter.com/#%21/suenugus> Connect with me on LinkedIn <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sue-nugus/7/616/1b4> Leading Issues in Games-Based Learning Reserach Available from our Bookshop: http://academic-bookshop.com/ IMPORTANT NOTICE **************** You are receiving this email because you are on the *Conference****Call *mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this conference, please reply to this email with *REMOVE *in the Subject Line of the email. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Claranet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.claranet.co.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: SASO 2014 - First CfP (The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems)
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SASO 2014 - First CfP (The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems) Datum: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 03:56:59 +0000 Von: Tony Savarimuthu <tony.savarimuthu(a)otago.ac.nz> An: Tony Savarimuthu <tony.savarimuthu(a)otago.ac.nz> (Apologies for cross posting) ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2014) Imperial College, London (UK); 8-12 September 2014 http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/saso2014/ ************************************************************************************************************ Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2014) The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference series (SASO) 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. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software and services, especially in dealing with dynamics in the environment and problem domain, 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 such computing systems. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. The eight edition of the SASO conference embraces the inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, empirical and application dimensions of self-* systems and welcomes novel results on both self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Self-* systems theory: theoretical frameworks and models; biologically- and socially-inspired paradigms; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; - Self-* systems engineering: reusable mechanisms, design patterns, architectures, methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods, platforms and toolkits; hardware; self-* materials; - Self-* system properties: robustness, resilience and stability; emergence; computational awareness and self-awareness; reflection; - Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems: human factors and visualization; self-* social computers; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; - Applications and experiences of self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, big data and creative commons, power systems. Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results; novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks or tools; or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to submit accompanying papers for the Demo or Poster Sessions. ------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract submission: May 2, 2014 Paper submission: May 09, 2014 Notification: June 21, 2014 Camera ready copy due: July 18, 2014 Early registration: August 22, 2014 Conference: September 8 - 12, 2014 --------------------------- Submission 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 2014 conference management system, which is located at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2014 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 submissions has also been issued. -------------------- Review Criteria -------------------- Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. We expect both theoretical and empirical contributions to be clearly stated, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on. Appropriate reference must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, papers must be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome but they must clearly state the insight into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems which is of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community ------------------- Program Chairs ------------------- Ada Diaconescu - Telecom ParisTech, France Nagarajan Kandasamy - Drexel University, USA Mirko Viroli - University of Bologna, Italy --------------------- Contact Details --------------------- Please send any inquiries to: mailto:saso2014@easychair.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Workshop - Activity Theory and Social Media ISCAR2014 Sydney
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Workshop - Activity Theory and Social Media ISCAR2014 Sydney Datum: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:05 +1100 Von: Helen Hasan <hasan(a)uow.edu.au> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Are you interested in Activity Theory, social media and where they come together to tackle the wicked problems of today's world? You and your colleagues are invited to participate in an exciting event associated with the ISCAR conference to be held in Sydney this year http://www.iscar2014.com/ We are holding our day-long workshop adjacent to the Conference venue at the Sydney Olympic Park on September 29, 2014 the day before the ISCAR conference proper begins. The workshop will be the culmination of activities in which you can participate online to explore together what we can do in and with social media. You can register and help us co-create these activities by going to our wiki http://atishci-iscar2014.wikispaces.com/ and asking to join or by replying to this email. This wiki will continue to grow as more people join and more activities are initiated which hopefully will spread out into other social media. The program will be officially launched with an online event in August by which time you must formally register to continue to participate. Registration is AUD$100 for the workshop itself (AUD$50 for students) IF you are not able to come to Sydney you can register to continue the online engagement for on AUD$20. However until July31 you can join for free. Please pass this invitation on to anyone you think would be interested and feel free to contact me for more information. *Helen Hasan * Associate Professor in Information Systems Faculty of Business University of Wollongong NSW 2522 *P *+ 61 2 4221 3757 *F *+ 61 2 4221 3725 *M *0419403699 *W * http://www.uow.edu.au/~hasan/ <http://www.uow.edu.au/%7Ehasan/> *Tw*: https://twitter.com/bottlingfog *BE GREEN! Read from the screen*

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Fwd: [WI] TSD 2014 - Second Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] TSD 2014 - Second Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:03:52 +0100 Von: TSD 2014 <xrambous(a)aurora.fi.muni.cz> An: tsd2014(a)tsdconference.org ********************************************************* TSD 2014 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom France Mihelic, Slovenia Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Fabio Pianesi, Italy Maciej Piasecki, Poland Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, GB Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Salim Roukos, IBM, USA FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. The registration fee is not fixed yet, but we can anticipate that it will be similar to that of previous years, e.g. in 2012: Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10000 CZK (approx. EUR 365) Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12000 CZK (approx. EUR 440) The fee has a "all in one" form, to keep equality between participants. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File typeinst.zip). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2014 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2014(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, and Eindhoven, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Educational Innovation and Reform in the Decision Sciences Using Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Practices
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Educational Innovation and Reform in the Decision Sciences Using Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Practices Datum: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:06:07 -0700 Von: Vijay Kannan <dsjie.editor(a)gmail.com> An: <MG-ED-DV(a)aomlists.pace.edu>, <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Kopie (CC): vijay.kannan(a)usu.edu *Call for Papers* ** Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: Special Issue on 'Educational Innovation and Reform in the Decision Sciences Using Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Practices' (Educational Innovation and Reform in the Decision Sciences Using Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Practices <http://www.dsjie.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=pLDlOR-3_fk%3d&tabid=55&mid=…>) Guest Editors: Nebil Buyurgan, Mary Meixell, Qunnipiac University */Motivation and Background/* As business practices evolve and become increasingly integrated, the boundaries between disciplines fade. As such, multiple perspectives in education become essential to adequately prepare students for the workforce, and to achieve the curricular integration that is becoming increasingly common in both business and engineering programs. Multidisciplinary education is the practice of using the approaches and methods of two or more disciplines in curriculum design, pedagogy development, and course delivery. Similarly, collaborative education refers to educational endeavors that employ instructors and students from multiple disciplines. Both approaches bring together faculty and students with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to provide rich learning experiences. They also provide opportunities for instructors to seetheirdisciplines from freshperspectives,which mayenhance teaching and learning. Multidisciplinaryeducation in the decision sciences can take on different forms. For example, it can involve closely relatedfields such as marketingand management, related but distinct disciplines such asentrepreneurship and engineering, or offer integration with generaleducation topics. It can also involve different modalities. For example, technologies such as//ERPand simulation, experiential approaches such as service learning, and pedagogies such as inquiry based learning//or teamteaching, can all be used to offer deliver diverse educational experiences that cross traditional discipline based boundaries. This special issue solicits submissions that offer new insights or innovations in multidisciplinary or collaborative education in the decision sciences. Submissions are sought that not only explore boundary spanning initiatives within the domain of business, but those that involve other domains such as engineering, health sciences, communication,and general education. Topics of interest include but are not limited to * The importance of multidisciplinary and collaborative education within and across disciplines * Student perceptions of and attitudes to multidisciplinary education * Educational models, methods, and pedagogies for effective, innovativemultidisciplinary education * Curriculum development, course objectives, learning goals and assessment * Developing and effectively using technology in multidisciplinary education * Faculty issues, i.e., instructor development, faculty evaluation Submission Deadline: August 1, 2014 DSJIE is a peer reviewed publication of the Decision Sciences Institute. Its mission is to publish significant research relevant to teaching, learning, and education in the decision sciences - quantitative and behavioral approaches to managerial decision making. For more details visit www.dsjie.org <http://www.dsjie.org>. Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Vijay\Desktop\bannerforeground.jpg*Vijay R. Kannan, Ph.D.* Editor, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education <http://www.dsjie.org/> email: dsjie.editor(a)gmail.com <mailto:dsjie.editor@gmail.com>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: In the Classroom & Beyond
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: In the Classroom & Beyond Datum: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:08:08 -0700 Von: Vijay Kannan <dsjie.editor(a)gmail.com> An: <MG-ED-DV(a)aomlists.pace.edu>, <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *Call for Papers* ** Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: Special Issue on 'Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: In the Classroom & Beyond' (Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: In the Classroom and Beyond <http://dsjie.org/Portals/0/Users/Vijay/Content/Rethinking_Undergraduate_Edu…>) Guest Editors: Lynn Perry Wooten, University of Michigan, Joy Oguntebi, Rochester Institute of Technology */Motivation and Background/* Business is the most popular undergraduate field of study in universities in the United States, with 21% of graduates receiving degrees in its various disciplines. In contrast, in 1970 only 14% of undergraduates received degrees in business. Despite this growth, critics contend that undergraduate business education is anti-intellectual, provides a 'skate-through' experience, and is too focused on career preparation. Research suggests that compared to students in other fields of study, undergraduate business students spend less time preparing for classes, and after two years of college have the weakest gains in writing and reasoning skills. Some educators also argue that that undergraduate business education does not have a distinct identity from MBA education. As a result, it has failed to acknowledge that students need a holistic academic education in addition to professional preparation. In light of criticisms, a growing movement is calling for a rethink of undergraduate business education. Both critics and proponents are calling for an educational experience that extends beyond an instrumental approach that only considers value as defined as career based knowledge. Undergraduate business education needs to embrace the central tenets of liberal learning, learning that empowers students and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change, by providing them with a broad knowledge of the wider world as well as in-depth study in a specific area of interest. This should embrace * Analytical Thinking: Abstracting from a particular experience to produce formal knowledge that is general in nature and independent of a particular context. * Multiple Framing: The ability to work with fundamentally different and incompatible and analytical perspectives to make sense of knowledge. * Reflective Exploration of Meaning: The deeper understanding of how an approach relates to students' values, identities, and how they engage with the world. * Practical Reasoning: The capacity to draw upon knowledge and intellectual skills to engage concretely in the world by expanding reflection to deliberate action. An education of this kind would equip students with the skills to draw on a diverse knowledge base to make sense of the world, their role as citizens of the world, and business as a societal institution. It would also help students develop the ability to examine issues from multiple perspectives and develop into intellectually adventurous, life-long learners. Adding to the need to rethink undergraduate business education is the changing landscape of higher education. Professors are facing pressure to use technology innovatively and efficiently, such as through flipped classrooms and massive open online courses (MOOC). Students are seeking educational experiences that integrate different facets of college life, such as study abroad, service learning, and civic engagement. Administrators are expected to demonstrate assurance of learning of students while confronted with increasing budgetary challenges. In response to these opportunities and challenges, this special issue solicits submissions that explore issues in undergraduate business education that include but are not limited to * Identifying pedagogies that integrate decision sciences with liberal learning * Examining how decision sciences education is employed to facilitate life-long learning * Exploring the role of technology as a tool to foster innovation and student engagement * Showcasing high impact learning experiences that incorporate decision sciences with other programmatic components such as undergraduate seminars, capstone courses, themed semesters, and writing-intensive courses * Demonstrating the potential of decision sciences education for learning beyond the classroom, such as through study abroad experiences and externships/internships Submission Deadline: June 1. 2014 DSJIE is a peer reviewed publication of the Decision Sciences Institute. Its mission is to publish significant research relevant to teaching, learning, and education in the decision sciences - quantitative and behavioral approaches to managerial decision making. For more details visit www.dsjie.org <http://www.dsjie.org>. Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Vijay\Desktop\bannerforeground.jpg*Vijay R. Kannan, Ph.D.* Editor, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education <http://www.dsjie.org/> email: dsjie.editor(a)gmail.com <mailto:dsjie.editor@gmail.com>

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Fwd: [WI] ASPOCP 2014: Second Call for papers.
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] ASPOCP 2014: Second Call for papers. Datum: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:57:38 +0100 Von: Marco Maratea <marco(a)dist.unige.it> Organisation: DIBRIS - University of Genova An: undisclosed-recipients:; [Apologize for multiple posting.] [More information about the planned JLC special issue is added] =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2014 7th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2014 July 23rd, 2014 Affiliated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2014 (part of the Federated Logic Conference 2014) Vienna, Austria July 19-22, 2014 Collocated with the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 Vienna, Austria July 12-24, 2014 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship which is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), first-order logic (FOL), or FO(ID) logic is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, FOL theorem provers, and CLP systems. Furthermore, the practical applications of ASP also foster work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web), constraint satisfaction, and general means of external computation. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques in theory, solving, and applications, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - ASP and constraint programming. - ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID). - ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages. - ASP and external means of computation. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - ASP and multi-context systems. - Modularity and ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - ASP and related paradigms in applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format <URL:http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/>. Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp14 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014 Notification: May 1, 2014 Camera-ready articles due: May 20, 2014 Workshop: July 23, 2014 LOCATION The workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2014. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online and published in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) afterwards. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (http://logcom.oxfordjournals.org/), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. TIMELINE FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE (PRELIMINARY) Expression of interest/invitation: Right after the workshop First submissions: Fall 2014 Revision of manuscripts: (for papers not already accepted or rejected) Spring 2015 Final notification/version of accepted papers Summer 2015 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Marco Maratea, DIBRIS - University of Genova, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcello Balduccini, Drexler University, USA Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Cristina Feier, University of Oxford, UK Johannes Klaus Fichte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Gregory Gelfond, Arizona State University, USA Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Enrico Giunchiglia, University of Genova, Italy Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam, Germany Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Miroslaw Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Joost Vennekens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Fangkai Yang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [WI] SMAP 2014 - 2nd Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] SMAP 2014 - 2nd Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:49:03 +0200 Von: smap-publicity(a)image.ntua.gr An: undisclosed-recipients:; [Apologies for cross-postings] --------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------- SMAP 2014 9th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization November 6-7, 2014 Corfu/Kerkyra, Greece www.smap2014.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) workshop is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization initiative, which was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state-of-the-art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation and personalization. As the social web is a new trend becoming more and more important, the scope of the workshop is now extended to social aspects, seeking to bring together researchers from the social web and from the semantic web communities, under the umbrella of the media adaptation and personalization domain. After eight successful workshops (in Athens, London, Prague, San Sebastian, Limassol, Vigo, Luxembourg and Bayonne), the SMAP conference series has consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field. The 9th SMAP workshop will be held in Corfu/Kerkyra island, Greece. The workshop's proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and indexed by IEEE Xplore digital library. This year's workshop is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and technically supported by the IEEE Semantic Web Task Force. -------------- Aim and topics -------------- SMAP covers different issues of semantic technologies and social semantic technologies in their use for content creation, media adaptation and filtering, and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web. - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents. - User modelling and dynamic profiling. - Ontologies and reasoning. - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications. - Web adaptation methods and techniques. - Content customization and adaptation. - Semantic context modelling and extraction. - Context-aware multimedia applications. - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation. - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities. - Intelligent personalized interfaces. - Multimedia standards. - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems. - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing). - User-generated content mechanisms. - Adaptive / Personalized conversational media. - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis). - Social web economics and business. - Social network aggregation. - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications. The 1-track, 2-day conference aims to provide a platform for exchanging fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on ongoing research. ----------------- Papers submission ----------------- The paper submission deadline is *30/06/2014*. Details about the SMAP 2014 submission guidelines are available on the SMAP'14 website. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS). -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] TAMoCo'14 - Techniques and Applications for Mobile Communications & Commerce
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] TAMoCo'14 - Techniques and Applications for Mobile Communications & Commerce Datum: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:50:56 +0100 Von: Ejub Kajan <ejubkajan(a)sbb.rs> Antwort an: kajane(a)acm.org, dr.ejubkajan(a)gmail.com Organisation: State University of Novi Pazar An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): ekajan(a)ieee.org -- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -- ===================== TAMoCo'14 - Techniques and Applications for Mobile Communications & Commerce http://fedcsis.org/tamoco as part of: Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS’14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS =============================== Mobile technology became one of the most vibrant and stimulating areas driving forward the ICT society of the 21st century. Mobile communication networks have evolved into the new delivery platform and services consumption models for many industries and government organizations worldwide. Mobile devices, such as smart phones or tablets, open the door to a great assortment of new applications and services. This may also include new types of specific application settings such as medical environments, support for disabled people, industrial workspaces, process monitoring, automatics and diagnostics or measurement activities in remote and distributed environments. Location, other context information and personal data are used to tailor services directly to the needs of the user. This leads to pervasive environments in which users can always access the Internet. While this seems to be an exciting development it also raises substantial security and privacy concerns which need to be properly addressed. Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) comprises applications and services that are accessible from Internet-enabled mobile devices. It involves new technologies, services, and business models. Whilst it is different from traditional e-Commerce it can also be considered as an extension of it since, among other reasons, it makes e-Commerce available, in a modern way, to new application areas and to a new set of customers. The goal of TAMoCo is to bring together researchers and practitioners that work in different aspects of mobile communications and services in the context of business and industrial applications. This includes the incorporation of web services and cloud-based services, autonomic mobile computing, and the integration and interplay with urban systems, industrial settings, medical environments and other contexts. Research contributions in application areas such as mobile learning, human centered design, support of disabled people, ubiquitous computing and extended enterprise are also welcome in TAMoCo’14. Finally, security is perhaps the most important factor for the success of mobile communications, commerce and mobile applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================= TAMoCo14 conference welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of mobile commerce and communication ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Mobile communications • Mobile applications, services and platforms • Mobile Cloud Computing • Mobile Social Networking • Tools, technologies, platforms and infrastructure for mobile networks and applications • Concepts and methods for evaluating problems and the usefulness of mobile technologies • Maintenance and management of distributed, remote sensing systems in industrial workspaces • Autonomic middleware for mobile computing • Mobile learning theories, games and simulation • Analysis and Design of mobile web-service based applications • Enabling technologies for ubiquitous systems (mobility, interconnectivity, pervasiveness as well as personal and body area handheld devices examples) • Governance models of mobile computation • User experience, user interface design and user studies for mobile devices and systems • Human factors and user centered design in mobile technology applications • Collaborative, cooperative and contextual mobile learning • Pedagogical and social issues as well as cultural and regional differences in mobile learning • Integration of mobile solutions in urban infrastructure • Measurement, control, and evaluation of urban infrastructure by mobile solutions • Mobile marketing • Mobile devices and technologies for disabled people • Threats to mobile security and countermeasures • Security and privacy in mobile systems • Mobile malware and platform security PAPER SUBMISSION, PUBLICATION AND INDEXATION ============================================ • Authors should submit full papers (as Postscript, PDF, MSWord, or ODF file). Submitted papers must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal (submissions that violate this requirement will be regarded as self-plagiarism). • The total length of a paper must not exceed 8 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. • Papers will be refereed, by the members of the Technical Program Committee, and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.Only papers presented at the conference will be included in the IEEE Xplore® database and submitted for indexation. • Proceedings of the TAMoCo’14 conference will be published as part of the proceedings of the FedCSIS 2014 conference, which will be indexed in the Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index.. • Furthermore, FedCSIS’14 proceedings will be submitted for indexation to: DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Inspec, Scirus, and other repositories. • Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s) to be announced later. IMPORTANT DATES ============== • Paper submission: April 11, 2014 • Author notification: May 19, 2014 • Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 • Conference date: September 7-10, 2014 PC CHAIRS ========= Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia (Main Chair) kajane(a)acm.org Andrzej Romanowski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland androm(a)kis.p.lodz.pl Tarek Gaber, Suez Canal University, Egypt tmgaber(a)gmail.com Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland wm(a)tele.pw.edu.pl Sebti Foufou, Qatar University, Qatar sfoufou(a)qu.edu.qa STEERING COMMITTEE ================= Cherif Branki, Consultant, UK Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain Hanno Hildmann, NEC, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany -- Dr. Ejub Kajan State University of Novi Pazar ACM senior member, IEEE member Editor of Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities and Challenges Editor of Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Final CFP AMCIS 2014 - Successful and Sustainable Mobile and Electronic Health (mHealth/eHealth) Solutions
by Gustaf Neumann 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Final CFP AMCIS 2014 - Successful and Sustainable Mobile and Electronic Health (mHealth/eHealth) Solutions Datum: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:44:32 -0500 (EST) Von: Sweta Sneha <ssneha(a)kennesaw.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CALL FOR PAPERS: 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems Savannah, Georgia, August 07-10, 2014 Mini-track: Successful and Sustainable Mobile and Electronic Health (mHealth/eHealth) Solutions ================================================================ MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION: In the wake of the 21st century healthcare systems around the globe are faced with the aggravating challenge of providing quality healthcare to an aging populace, exponential rise in healthcare costs (approximately 17% of GDP in US), and, limited financial as well as human resources. Mobile Health(mHealth), refers to the integration of mobile information communication and multimedia technologies towards healthcare delivery and practice. This opens the door to the possibility of pervasive anytime, anywhere, for anyone delivery of healthcare services. Although the potential for the far reaching impact of mHealth/eHealth is indisputable, the challenge lies in realizing the vision. The objective of this mini-track is to address these challenges by soliciting work-in-progress and completed research papers covering technical, organizational, behavioral, economical, and managerial perspectives on mHealth, eHealth, or mHealth combined with eHealth that: (1) assess the infrastructure issues towards supporting mHealth/ eHealth; (2) propose and/or evaluate the design, development, and implementation of successful mHealth/ehealth applications; (3) assess the impact of mHealth/eHealth applications on patients, doctors, healthcare organization, and society in general; (4) develop theories to better understand the phenomenon of mHealth and eHealth; and (5) examine mobile applications and sustainability challenges across a specific population segment and/or disease; (6) assess the impact of underlying regulatory, security, and policy issues impacting the mHealth/eHealth domain; and (7) innovation in healthcare practice and delivery utilizing mobile devices. Successful papers maybe fast tracked for a special issue in Health and Technology and /or International Journal Networking and Virtual Organizations. ================================================================ POTENTIAL TOPICS: Possible topics include but are not limited to the following areas: • Internet and networked solutions for superior healthcare delivery • Technology use to better manage healthcare data/information/knowledge • Business modeling in healthcare • Wired and/or wireless healthcare initiatives • The management of information and knowledge in integrated healthcare systems • Adoption and evaluation of mHealth/ eHealth applications • Designing healthcare organizations, systems and processes to incorporate mHealth/ehealth solutions • Electronic medical records (EMR) • MHealth/Ehealth and emergency and disaster relief • Evaluation and assessment of ehealth solutions • The role of regulations on the diffusion of e-knowledge in healthcare • Techniques and tools that facilitate e-knowledge initiatives for healthcare • Knowledge management in joint, large scale (national/international) healthcare operations • Privacy, security, and trust issues with adoption and usage of ubiquitous healthcare applications • Assessment of intercultural challenges/opportunities associated with adoption, implementation, and usage mHealth and eHealth • Telehealth in combination with mobile health. • Sustainable mobile health applications – population specific and/or disease specific challenges • Regulatory, security, and policy issues impacting the mhealth/ehealth domain • Innovation in healthcare practice and delivery utilizing mobile devices ================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES AND MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INFORMATION: January 5, 2014 - Manuscript submissions open March 1, 2014 - Final day for manuscript submissions April 4, 2014 - Author notification The submission website is http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 More information about the conference can be found at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/ ================================================================ MINI-TRACK CHAIRS: Sweta Sneha, PhD Associate Professor of Information Systems Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University Email:ssneha@kennesaw.edu Ton Spil, PhD School of Management and Governance University of Twente, The Netherlands Email: a.a.m.spil(a)utwente.nl Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD Epworth Chair Health Information Management School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University Melbourne, AUSTRALIA email: nilmini.wickramasinghe(a)rmit.edu.au Warm Regards, Sweta ________________________________________________________ Sweta Sneha, PhD Associate Professor of Information Systems Coles College of Business Kennesaw State University Phone: 770-853-0661 Email:ssneha@kennesaw.edu _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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