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Fwd: [WI] ACM RecSys 2014 Call for Demos
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] ACM RecSys 2014 Call for Demos Datum: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:14:18 +0200 Von: Alan Said <alansaid(a)acm.org> An: ubicomp-announcements(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk, um(a)di.unito.it, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de =================================================== RecSys 2014: CALL FOR DEMOS =================================================== 8th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014) October 6-10, 2014, Foster City, Silicon Valley, USA http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/ Demo Submission Deadline: May 19th 2014 =============================================================== RecSys 2014 is pleased to invite proposals for demos to be presented in conjunction with the conference. The demo session provides an exciting way for researchers and developers to present new recommender ideas, show off their work, and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community. We invite demonstrations of developments in all aspects of recommender systems, including (but not limited to): - Interaction techniques (preference elicitation interfaces, recommendation presentation, explanations, and more); - Tools for development and analysis of recommender systems (design tools, evaluation systems, analytics tools); - Innovative applications of recommender systems; - Recommender experiments (showing something new to RecSys attendees could be a valuable source of data on user interaction with your recommender concept). RecSys demos provide innovators and researchers a unique opportunity to get feedback from the recommender systems community on their ideas. RecSys has an excellent history of being well-attended by industry representatives — past conferences have had attendees and presenters from Ebay, Pandora, Twitter, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Netflix, Amazon, IBM, etc. The blend of industry and academic attention provides an excellent environment to demonstrate and discuss your latest invention or idea. Taking advantage of this environment, the demo track is particularly useful for several groups: - Researchers wanting to allow attendees to interact with their work, not just see it - presented, and possibly gather usage data for feedback; - Deployed recommender systems available to interact with; - Early stage start-ups looking to showcase their ideas and gain feedback and exposure. Submissions =============================================================== Demos should be submitted in PDF format through the Easychair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys14demoposter) and must include: - A two-page demo summary that includes a link to a narrated screen capture of your system in action (ideally a video). This two-page summary of accepted demo will be included in the conference proceedings. For a formatting template, please see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (tighter alternate style); - A one-page description of the demonstrated system and the required setup. If the system will feature an installable component (e.g., mobile app) or web site for users to use throughout or after the conference, please mention this. The description should also provide information about the presenter(s), including their relationship to the project. Note: At least one of the authors of each accepted demo is required to attend the conference. Important Dates =============================================================== Demo submission deadline: May 19, 2014 Demo notification: July 7, 2014 Camera ready demo summary: July 24, 2014 Poster and Demo Chairs =============================================================== Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jalal Mahmud, IBM Research, USA Please visit the conference website http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/ for more information. Check out the ACM RecSys Wiki at www.recsyswiki.com <http://www.recsyswiki.com>

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Fwd: [WI] Final CfP - EVL-BP'14
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Final CfP - EVL-BP'14 Datum: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:20:18 +0200 Von: Gerd Gröner <groener(a)uni-koblenz.de> An: <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> We apologize for cross-posting. Please circulate this CfP among your colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP'14) http://evlbp.edoc2014.org/ Co-located with the 18th IEEE International EDOC Conference, http://www.edoc2014.org/ September 1-02, 2014, Ulm, Germany The EVL-BP workshop series is devoted to evolution in business processes. Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business environments. The traditional approach to process management is only partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of new, evolutionary business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation such as design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations, optimality of adaptations, and change management. Central to the field of evolutionary business processes is the notion of requirement, which drive the change of business processes through their life-cycles. The evolution of processes and their underlying software systems becomes more and more an important and interesting topic in business process management. Since the life time of software systems frequently spans many years, business processes modeled on top of systems cannot be assumed to remain fixed, and migration between different versions is essential. As a consequence, modeling and management techniques developed in the context of ad-hoc, short-term composition of services and their processes lack the necessary constructs to concisely express the gradual evolution of processes and software systems and new dynamic, declarative, and/or configurable approaches in this context are required. The evolutionary approach to business processes raises a number of challenges: extracting declarative specifications from domain experts, expressing these declarative specifications in an appropriate language or formalism, as well as designing, monitoring, checking compliance, configuring, or dynamically adapting business processes according to a set of requirements, identification and systematic handling of changes, management of process versions, or quality attributes and measurement of business processes as predictors of evolutionary business processes. Evolution in business processes takes place in a wide number of domains, and is expected to impact existing and future technology choices, business practices and standardization efforts. This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to exchange opinions, advance ideas, and discuss preliminary results on current topics related to dynamic and declarative business processes. A particular interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and practical issues. To this end, contributions stating open problems, case studies, tool presentations, or any other work assessing the practical significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of concrete examples and situations, will be particularly welcome. Work in progress, position papers stating broad avenues of research, and work on formal foundations of dynamic and declarative business processes are also sought-after. Topics: -Evolutionary business process modelling -Dynamic business process specification -Implementation issues for evolutionary processes -Tools for evolutionary processes -Methodologies for evolutionary processes -Variability management in adaptable business processes -Real-world use cases of evolutionary business processes -Business rules and policies -Rule driven business process engines -Business + technical requirements for evolutionary processes -Mathematical foundations of evolutionary business processes -Formal models of dynamic business processes -Monitoring of dynamic business processes -Validation and model checking of dynamic business processes -Software engineering methods, languages, and standards for dynamic business processes -Service-oriented architectures and dynamic business processes -Interoperability for dynamic business processes -Semantic Web and ontologies and evolutionary business processes -Collaboration and evolutionary business processes -Data-driven process evolution -Evolution of cross-organizational processes / process choreographies -Complex event processing models/support for dynamic business processes Important Dates Workshop paper submissions: April 28, 2014 Acceptance notifications: May 31, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: June 14, 2014 Workshop: September 1-2, 2014 Please check out the workshop homepage for more information: http://evlbp.edoc2014.org/

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Fwd: [AISWorld] ECIS2014 workshop for SI of ITP on Social IS
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] ECIS2014 workshop for SI of ITP on Social IS Datum: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:19:23 +1000 Von: Helen Hasan <hasan(a)uow.edu.au> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *The ECIS earlybird deadline is approaching!* *If you going to ECIS2014, and interested in contributing to this special issue, you are welcome to register for the workshop on Social IS to help develop your ideas.* *Call for Papers * *Special Issue of Information Technology & People* *Title: "The Intersection of Social Information Systems and Social Informatics"* Social Information Systems (Social IS) has recently emerged as a topic of interest to the field of Information Systems (IS). If this is a topic of interest to you please consider a submission to this Special Issue of Information Technology and People. See here for details http://socialisworkshopecis2014.wordpress.com/cfp-special-issue-of-itp/ In order to explore and scope the topic a workshop is being held on June 8 2014 in Tel Aviv in conjunction with ECIS2014. Please consider attending the workshop if you wish to submit to the Special Issue. While the closing data for submissions to the workshop is today, there are still places available so please contact me if you wish to participate. Even if you cannot attend the workshop you are invited to follow the pre-workshop activities on the website http://socialisworkshopecis2014.wordpress.com/ Information about registering for the workshop are on the ECIS2014 website http://ecis2014.eu/workshop-tutorials/ *Helen Hasan * Associate Professor in Information Systems Director ATUL, THEORI, SInet Faculty of Business Location 40.G13g 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: CFP KMIS 2014 - Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (Rome/Italy)
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP KMIS 2014 - Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (Rome/Italy) Datum: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Von: KMIS Secretariat <kmis.secretariat(a)insticc.org> Antwort an: kmis.secretariat(a)insticc.org An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing KMIS website: http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/ October 21 - 24, 2014 Rome, Italy In Cooperation with: ERCIM, AAAI, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGART and IKMS Co-organized by: Sapienza University of Rome Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: FIPA, WfMC and OMG Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: April 22, 2014 Authors Notification (regular papers): July 14, 2014 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 29, 2014 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Gustaf Neumann, We would like to draw your attention to the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2014 - http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/) whose submission deadline is scheduled for April 22, 2014. We hope you can participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research. KMIS 2014 is co-located with two related conferences in a joint conference (IC3K - http://www.ic3k.org/) format, namely: - Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/) - Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (http://www.keod.ic3k.org/) Registration to one conference allows free access to all conferences We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers: - Domenico Talia, University of Calabria and ICAR-CNR, Italy - Sonia Bergamaschi, DII - Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Michele Missikoff, CNR and Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy - Wil Van Der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands - Wim Van Grembergen, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - LIP6, France (http://www.ic3k.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx) Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following Satellite Workshop: - 5th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - SKY 2014 (http://www.ic3k.org/SKY.aspx) Finally, we would also like to highlight the Doctoral Consortium on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management that will take place in conjunction with IC3K and aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field (http://www.ic3k.org/DoctoralConsortium.aspx). Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. Please check further details at the KMIS conference website (http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/). Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Vera Coelho KMIS Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 Email: kmis.secretariat(a)insticc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PROGRAM CHAIR: Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Please check the program committee members at http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CONFERENCE TOPICS: - E-Learning - Organizational semiotics - e-Government - Digital libraries - Interoperability - Enterprise Information Systems - Metadata and structured documents - Best practices & communities of practice - Business intelligence & CRM - Communication, collaboration and information sharing - Impact measurement of knowledge management - Tools and technology for knowledge management - Knowledge management projects - Organizational memories - Learning organization & organizational learning - Intelligent information systems - Social networks and the psychological dimension - Intellectual capital - Studies, metrics & benchmarks - Innovation facilitation - KM strategies and implementations - Information security - Business Process Management - Requirements Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe please click here ( http://email.insticc.org/wf/unsubscribe?upn=9jORrjH8ndg6sPzuPt6yR0NcWpzNR2-… )

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Workshop on Enabling Effective Decision-Making in the Management of Disasters
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Workshop on Enabling Effective Decision-Making in the Management of Disasters Datum: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:23:04 +0000 Von: Neville, Karen <KarenNeville(a)ucc.ie> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Call for Abstracts: IFIP WG 8.3 and SIGDSS Workshop on Enabling Effective Decision-Making in the Management of Disasters (DSS 2.0) (Dr. Karen Neville) :::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS :::::::::::::::::::: IFIP WG 8.3 and SIGDSS Workshop on Enabling Effective Decision-Making in the Management of Disasters (DSS 2.0): http://bit.ly/1eZlFAG ==================================================== DESCRIPTION =========== Volatile events such as public health disasters bring the prospect of rapid contagion and the threat of disastrous impacts for Europe. Vulnerabilities and cascading effects can result in significant injuries, illness and loss of life. Damage to health infrastructure, demand for medical attention, displacement and major outbreaks all place a strain on health services. Preparedness, response and recovery capabilities of health services will directly impact society's ability to 'bounce back' to become more resilient to such devastating shocks. Health emergency management (EM) however, is a complex process. Comprehensive EM is based on four distinct processes: (1) mitigation: reducing the consequences of an emergency, (2) preparedness: equipping responders, decision-makers and the public with the tools and mechanisms to minimise losses, (3) response: actions to prevent further health suffering, and (4) recovery: returning to normal. Given the importance of health services in crisis situations, the consequences of these agencies being unprepared could be particularly dramatic in terms of casualties, panic etc. The development of decision support tools to improve their preparedness, response and recovery is of utmost importance. This workshop will investigate how to improve preparedness and decision-making response by health services involved in large scale and/or cross border emergencies by discussing decision support tools/processes including scenarios, technology, operating procedures, training programs, logistics tools, lessons-learned applicable to the Emergency Management domain. Short discussion papers/abstracts are welcomed from academic and practitioner experts in Emergency/Crisis Management -- Decision-Making which address the above. LIST OF TOPICS ============ 1. Common decision-making processes for interoperability of medical and security services in a disaster at a local, regional and cross border response. 2. Decision support tools for threat analysis with relevant reference evaluating scenarios. 3. Decision-making processes/ methods for preparedness -- prioritizing needed scenarios, creating the required standard operating procedures, identifying the necessary coordination of decision-making between stakeholders, identifying the required resources and the necessary training. 4. Decision-making tools for validating each component and the preparedness as a whole. 5. Decision support tool-set for intelligence and analysis of gathering, with the ability to alert decision-makers to the occurrence of an unusual biological event (weak signal detection), predict the evolution of the scenario, create the operational picture and share filtered information with all of the relevant stakeholders. 6. Logistic models for assessing the needed stockpiles of necessary equipment, medications, vaccinations and personal protective equipment, their positioning and restocking (resource management). 7. What-if tools for the creation of surge capacity in the event of a major crisis. 8. Decision-making coordination mechanisms for healthcare services, security agencies operating nationally and with international organisations. 9. The methodologies needed for training and creating the required knowledge and DM skills for responding in emergency situations. 10. Post crisis evaluation DS tools, with processes for identifying lessons learned, documenting them and implementation of the necessary changes for future emergencies. 11. An evaluation of current Incident Management tools used by decision makers and first responders. IMPORTANT DATES ================ 12/05/2014: Deadline for workshop Abstract submissions 16/05/2014: Notification to authors of accepted Abstracts 02/06/2014: IFIP WG 8.3 and SIGDSS Workshop SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== Authors are required to submit an abstract (600 words) of their proposed presentation to KarenNeville(a)ucc.ie <mailto:KarenNeville@ucc.ie> by the 12th of May. WORKSHOP CHAIR =============== Dr Karen Neville, Centre for Security Management Research, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================== Professor Sven Carlson, Lund University, Sweden Professor Liquat, Sydney University, Australia Dr. Nora McCarthy, Application of Science to Simulation Education Research & Training (ASSERT) Centre, University College Cork, Ireland Dr. Andrew Pope, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland Dr. William Hynes, Future Analytics Consultancy (FAC), Dublin, Ireland Dr. Simon Woodworth, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland Stephen Purcell, Future Analytics Consultancy (FAC), Dublin, Ireland Cathal Doyle, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland

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Fwd: [wkwi] HICSS CfP: Green Information Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] HICSS CfP: Green Information Systems Datum: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Von: Gilbert Fridgen <gilbert.fridgen(a)uni-bayreuth.de> Antwort an: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY Minitrack: Green Information Systems Important Dates: * June 15, 2014: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. * Aug 15, 2014: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. * Jan 5-8, 2015: Conference Minitrack Chairs: Gilbert Fridgen (gilbert.fridgen(a)uni-bayreuth.de) Johann Kranz (jkranz(a)uni-goettingen.de) Stefan Seidel (stefan.seidel(a)uni.li) Topics: Due to the growing awareness that business organizations are a major contributor to the exploitation of scarce natural resources, the increasing pollution of the environment, and the looming threat of climate change, several questions surrounding the concept of environmental sustainability have attracted the interest of management scholars around the globe. This especially holds for the field of Information Systems research given the cross-functional role of information systems within organizations as well as across entire value chains. Scholars have begun to explore the opportunities that information systems offer in support of sustainability under the term “Green Information Systems.” As information systems have been a major contributor to productivity growth and efficiency gains over the past decades their role in the development of sustainable business practices definitely warrants further investigation. Notably, it has been asserted that information systems occupy a unique role as they are both a contributor and a potential solution to environmental degradation. Potential topics range from the design of systems and digital services for environmental sustainability to the application of existing theories on change at individual, group, and organizational levels, as well as the development of novel theory. We invite rigorous and relevant studies employing a wide variety of methods. Empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual papers on theory development will be considered. In order to fully incorporate technical and business aspects, we welcome contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines including business and information systems engineering, management, operations management, computer science, marketing, and economics. ______________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Gilbert Fridgen Professor of Information Systems and Sustainable IT Management Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT Deputy Director Research Center Finance & Information Management Faculty of Law, Business Management and Economics University of Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth Phone: +49 921 55-4711 Fax: +49 921 55-84-4711 mailto:gilbert.fridgen@uni-bayreuth.de http://www.fim-rc.de ______________________________________________________

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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, SI on "Security and Privacy Protection on Clouds"
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, SI on "Security and Privacy Protection on Clouds" Datum: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:12:10 -0700 Von: Meikang Qiu <qiumeikang(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: qiumeikang(a)gmail.com An: sage-announce(a)mailman.sage.org, ecoop-info(a)ecoop.org, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, pvs(a)csl.sri.com, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, irma-list(a)irma-international.org, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu, tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org, nettopo(a)lists.deri.org, csim(a)comsoc.org, commsoft(a)ieee.org ****Call for Papers**** *Security and Privacy Protection on Clouds* Special Issue in *IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing* The emerging paradigm of cloud computing provides a new way to address the constraints of limited energy, capabilities, and resources. Researchers and practitioners have embraced cloud computing as a new approach that has the potential for a profound impact in our daily life and world economy. However, security and privacy protection is a critical concern in the development and adoption of cloud computing. To avoid system fragility and defend against vulnerabilities exploration from cyber attacker, various cyber security techniques and tools have been developed for cloud systems. This special issue will focus on the challenging topic--"Security and Privacy Protection on Clouds" and invites the state-of-the-art research results to be submitted here. *Topics * This special issue calls for original, high-quality, high-impact research papers related to the following broad topics, but are not limited to: · Cloud Security in New Paradigms · Mobile cloud security · Mobile cloud privacy protection · Cloud hacking and virus protection · Cloud browser security · Next generation fire wall for clouds · Cloud monitoring · Cloud incident response · Digital forensics in clouds · Big data security in clouds · Cloud data center security · Database security for cloud systems · Social engineering in clouds · Insider threats and models in clouds · Advance spear phishing in clouds · Cloud threat intelligence for cloud systems · Reliability and fault tolerance for cloud systems · Cloud-based tele-health and medical security and privacy protection · Hardware-related security in clouds · Security and performance trade-off · Energy-aware security in clouds · Infrastructure security for clouds *Schedule * Submission due date: Sep. 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Dec. 15, 2015 Submission of final manuscript: Feb. 15, 2015 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2015 (Tentative) *Submission & Major Guidelines * The special issue invites original research manuscripts which have significant contributions to the various topics in "Security and Privacy Protection on Cloud". The manuscripts submitted first time are encouraged and they must not have been previously published or submitted for journal or conference elsewhere. Extended work must have significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% brand "new" material. Every submitted paper will receive at least three reviews. The editorial review committee will include well known experts in the area. Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE TCC submission web site at *https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs>*, and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. For additional information, please contact Meikang Qiu, qiumeikang*(a)gmail.com <http://gmail.com>.* *Selection and Evaluation Criteria * - Relevance to the topics of this special issue - Significance to the areas of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - Novelty, new techniques, and impact of the research - Quality of the contents - Readability of the article - Sufficiency of references and related work - New and original work, first submission *Editor-in-Chief * Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia *Guest Editors * Meikang Qiu, meikang.qiu(a)sjsu.edu, San Jose State University, California, USA Sun-Yuan Kung, kung(a)Princeton.edu, Princeton University, USA

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Workshop on Open Badges in Education @ ICWL2014 - 2nd Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Workshop on Open Badges in Education @ ICWL2014 - 2nd Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:58:58 +0200 Von: Jelena Jovanovic <jeljov(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org [Apologies for cross-posting] ==================================== 1st International Workshop on Open Badges in Education (#OBIE2014) - https://sites.google.com/site/obie2014ws/ - => in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL2014), Tallinn, Estonia, 13-16 August 2014 => proceedings published by Springer IMPORTANT DATES ==================================== * 1 May 2014: Paper submission deadline * 23 May 2014: Notification of acceptance * 13 June 2014: Camera-ready paper * 12 August 2014: Open Badges in Education workshop day (to be confirmed by the Conference organizers) OVERVIEW ======== Open Badges (OBs) initiative is a community effort aimed at introducing novel means and practices for knowledge/skill assessment, recognition, and credentialing. Along the way, it is also promoting values such as openness and learner?s agency, as well as participatory learning practices and peer-learning communities. Even though digital badges are not a new phenomenon, their use prior to the emergence of the OBs initiative was largely associated with isolated efforts of individual organizations, and there was no systematic approach to issuing and using badges. Likewise, OBs should not be equated with digital badges that are used solely as a part of gamification efforts aimed at motivating users for different kinds of tasks; OBs differ in at least two significant ways. First, they allow learners to gather badges that originate from different sources (i.e., organizations acting as badge issuers), and to select and combine the earned badges into custom profiles suitable for the given occasion (e.g., job application). Second, OBs are self-sufficient in the sense that they carry all the information one would need to understand and value the achievement/status they refer to. All these novel and distinctive features have positioned OBs as suitable candidates for addressing some of the pressing challenges in the context of life-long and Web-based learning, including: i) recognition of learning in multiple and diverse locations and environments that go beyond traditional classrooms; ii) recognition of diverse kinds of skills and knowledge, including soft and general skills; iii) recognition of alternative forms of assessment; iv) the need for transparent and easily verifiable digital credentials. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Open Badges (OBs) are rapidly gaining traction among educational practitioners as well as education-oriented companies and non-profit organizations. However, so far, there have been only a few research studies aimed at validating the propositions related to OBs. This indicates an obvious need for higher engagement of the research community in order to assure a deeper understanding of not only OBs and their potential roles, but also the larger educational ecosystem within which they operate and evolve. Considering everything stated above, this workshop would welcome submissions on some of the topics from the following (though not restrictive) list: * OBs as a motivational mechanism * OBs as means of supporting and promoting participatory learning practices * OBs as means of supporting and recognizing alternative assessment * OBs as means of recognizing prior learning * OBs as means of charting learning trajectories * OBs as a facilitator of self-regulated learning * OBs as means of building and maintaining learner's profile (portfolio) * Implementation of OBs in different kinds of educational settings (formal, non-formal, informal) * Software systems and tools for the implementation and deployment of OBs * Technical challenges in enabling the intended functionalities of OBs SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ========================== We welcome the following types of contributions: * Short (up to 5 pages) and full (up to 10 pages) research papers, * Poster abstracts and system demonstrations (should not exceed 2 pages). All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obie2014 All the submissions will go through a double-blind review process. Submissions will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. All accepted workshop papers will be published in a separate post-proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS =================== * Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway * Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada * Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =================== * Samuel Abramovich, University at Buffalo - SUNY, USA * Simon Cross, The Open University, UK * Elizabeth Dalton, University of New Hampshire, USA * Rebecca Galley, The Open University, UK * Sheryl Grant, Duke University, USA * Richard Kimbell, Goldsmiths University of London, UK * Rudy McDaniel, University of Central Florida, USA * Ivana Mijatovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia * Michael R. Olneck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA * Razvan Rughinis, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania * Jose Luis Santos Odriozola, KU Leuven, Belgium * Julian Sefton-Green, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK * Felicia M. Sullivan, Tufts University, USA For further questions please contact the organisers via *** obie2014[at]easychair.org <http://easychair.org> ***

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Fwd: [AISWorld] HCist 2014 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies | Troia, Portugal, October 15-17 | New submission deadline: April 25
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] HCist 2014 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies | Troia, Portugal, October 15-17 | New submission deadline: April 25 Datum: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:27:25 +0100 Von: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha <mcunha(a)ipca.pt> Antwort an: mcunha(a)ipca.pt An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ---------- HCIST 2014 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://hcist.scika.org ---------- New paper submission deadline: April 25, 2014 ---------- ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until April 25, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage. Only original contributions will be accepted and submissions will be double-blind reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications All accepted short and full papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Industry and Poster papers will be published in a book with ISBN. ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker General conference chairs: - Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal - Rui Rijo, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal Program Chair: - Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA Keynote speaker: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organization Chair: - Ricardo Correia, University of Porto, Portugal ---------- We look forward to welcoming you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CENTERIS 2014 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems | Troia, Portugal, October 15-17 | new submission deadline: April 25
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CENTERIS 2014 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems | Troia, Portugal, October 15-17 | new submission deadline: April 25 Datum: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:28:29 +0100 Von: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha <mcunha(a)ipca.pt> Antwort an: mcunha(a)ipca.pt An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ---------- CENTERIS 2014 Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://centeris.scika.org ---------- New paper submission deadline: April 25, 2014 ---------- ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 25, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage. Only original contributions will be accepted and submissions will be double-blind reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications All accepted short and full papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Industry and Poster papers will be published in a book with ISBN. ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker General conference chairs: - João Eduardo Quintela Varajão, University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal Program Chair: - Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Danmark Keynote speaker: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organization Chair: - Emanuel Peres, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal ---------- We look forward to welcoming you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October.

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