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Fwd: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2015 | CFP: Mini-track - Strategic and Competitive Applications of Cloud Computing
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2015 | CFP: Mini-track - Strategic and Competitive Applications of Cloud Computing Datum: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:21:18 +0000 Von: Arslan, Faruk <farslan(a)utep.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR PAPERS Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology (SCIS) Mini-track: Strategic and Competitive Applications of Cloud Computing Description: As companies seek to gain profitability and reduce costs, many are turning to cloud computing. Cloud computing provides the opportunity for strategic and competitive advantages by providing benefits such as high and rapid scalability, fault-tolerant services, and low-cost computing to the consumers and low maintenance cost to the providers. Despite the benefits, cloud computing users are concerned about security and privacy issues such as data leakage, and cloud computing infrastructure tampering. This mini-track invites researchers who explore the strategic and competitive application of cloud computing to submit empirical, theoretical, conceptual, and case-based research studies. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: • Social Networks and Cloud Computing • Mobile Cloud Computing • Data management in Cloud Computing • Factors facilitating the adoption of Cloud Computing. • Economics of Cloud Computing. • Marketing strategies for Cloud Computing services. • Security and privacy for Cloud Computing services. • Cloud Computing services: risk assessment methodologies for organizations. • Cloud Computing IT governance strategies. • Design of effective information system policies for Cloud Computing. • New business models for Cloud Computing. • International and national legal framework for Cloud Computing services. • Cloud computing as a form of “green computing”. • Using Cloud computing as a part of an organization’s competitive strategy. • Cloud Computing and Digital Divide • Clouding Computing and education. Submission Instructions: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 will be open from January 5, 2015 through February 25, 2015. Detailed instructions to authors are available on the following site: http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/ Conference Timeline and Venue: August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico Mini-track Chairs Contact Information: Aurelia Donald University of Texas at El Paso andonald(a)utep.edu <mailto:andonald@utep.edu> Faruk Arslan University of Texas at El Paso farslan(a)utep.edu <mailto:farslan@utep.edu> *Faruk Arslan* Department of Accounting and Information Systems | College of Business | The University of Texas at El Paso http://business.utep.edu/faculty/profiles/arslan/| www.linkedin.com/pub/faruk-arslan/6/1a1/913 <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/faruk-arslan/6/1a1/913>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd International Conference on e-Learning, e-Education and Online Training
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 2nd International Conference on e-Learning, e-Education and Online Training Datum: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:04:47 +0000 Von: Giovanni Vincenti <gvincenti(a)ubalt.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> 2nd International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training 16-18 September, 2015 – Novedrate (Como), Italy http://eleot.org/ Scope eLEOT 2015 will focus on e-learning initiatives related to STEM disciplines. We are looking for contributions that range from innovative ways to present information, to mobile-based interactive technologies simulating experiments, to methodologies to manage and study student performance from the back-end, and many more topics. We will also feature space for demonstrations and interactive sessions. More at http://eleot.org/. This conference is designed to allow for the maximum interaction among participants. Our goal is to foster and support communication among researchers, practitioners, and students. We believe that only through presenting our work and discussing it formally and informally with others we can not only share our knowledge effectively, but also cultivate and improve our own ideas. eLEOT 2015 is architected completely around this belief. Important dates 6 April - Paper submission due 1 April - Workshops proposal deadline 1 May - Panels proposal deadline 15 June - Acceptance Notification 6 July - Camera-ready deadline Highlights - Accepted papers to be published through SpringerLink Digital Library - Online track - Pre-conference workshops - Student Track - Demo Session Conference topics The works that will be presented at eLEOT 2015 will focus on the following topics: - Accessibility and usability of web-based instruction - Assessment - Augmented reality solutions - Best practices - Big data in e-learning - Blended learning - Collaborative learning and social networks - High-impact practices in e-learning - Informal e-learning solutions - Learning analytics - Massive Open Online Course - Mobile learning - Security and privacy in education and e-learning systems - Social and organizational perspectives - Student engagement - Teaching/Educational models, frameworks and platforms - Virtual Learning Environments Paper Submission Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three expert reviewers. Publication Accepted papers will be published in the eLEOT Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines. LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work through one of the following EAI endorsed publications: - Transactions on e-Learning (http://eai.eu/transaction/e-learning) - Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments (http://eai.eu/transaction/future-intelligent-educational-environments) - Transactions on Serious Games (http://eai.eu/transaction/serious-games)

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Fwd: ICCMSE 2015 - Symposium on Advanced Statistical Multivariate Methods in Medical, Biological and Laser-Matter Interaction Physics
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICCMSE 2015 - Symposium on Advanced Statistical Multivariate Methods in Medical, Biological and Laser-Matter Interaction Physics Datum: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 05:04:43 +0200 Von: Conference Support <info(a)conf-support.org> Antwort an: Conference Support <info(a)conf-support.org> An: Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at *ICCMSE 2015* <http://www.iccmse.org/> *11th International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering* http://www.iccmse.org You are cordially invited to submit an abstract and participate in the Symposium entitled: *Advanced Statistical Multivariate Methods in Medical, Biological and Laser-Matter Interaction Physics.* *Organizer: Professor Shaul Mordechai**, Ph.D. Head, Biomedical Spectroscopy, Ben-Gurion University, P.O.Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel.* *E-mail: **shaulm(a)bgu.ac.il* <mailto:shaulm@bgu.ac.il> The symposium will be held during the ICCMSE 2015, 20-23 March 2015, Metropolitan Hotel, Athens, Greece. http://www.iccmse.org/sessions_minisymposia.htm The above topics includes unsupervised statistical methods such as cluster analysis, k-means clustering and principal component analysis (PCA) as well as supervised methods such as linear discriminant analysis (LDA), artificial neural network (ANN) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. These topics will expose the broad range of applications in the growing fields of Medical Physics, Biological Physics, and Laser-Matter Interaction Physics. The newer technologies along with the developments in the fields of computational methods and information technologies have revolutionized everyday life. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scientists who focus on different experimental and theoretical aspects related to the above topics. Contributed talks and poster presentations are welcome. Please contact the symposium organizer by email. -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, visit http://conf-support.org/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=90251a04b1c2e457e442ecb57a… To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit http://conf-support.org/lists/?p=preferences&uid=90251a04b1c2e457e442ecb57a… Forward a Message to Someone visit http://conf-support.org/lists/?p=forward&uid=90251a04b1c2e457e442ecb57ae539… powered by phpList <http://www.phplist.com/poweredby?utm_source=download3.0.5&utm_medium=powere…>

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Fwd: [computational.science] FNC-2015 The 10th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications August 17-20, 2015 Belfort, France
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] FNC-2015 The 10th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications August 17-20, 2015 Belfort, France Datum: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:54:30 +0000 Von: Nasim Mahmud <nasim(a)mahmud.be> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 10th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications August 17-20, 2015 Belfort, France http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-15/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FNC-2015 will be held in the city of Belfort. Belfort exists since the Roman period and was official recognized as an autonomous city in 1307. >From this date, the city was under the authority of the Burgundy Duchy and Austrian Empire. In 1638, Belfort becomes a French city. After the war of 1871, France looses the Alsace and Lorraine regions, except the city of Belfort for its outstanding defense. The statue of the Lion of Belfort was made by Bartholdi to commemorate this event. Belfort is home to multiple academic institutions, and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment. FNC-2015 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France. The University was created in 1999 from the fusion of two engineering schools. It is member of the network of the Universities of Technology with Compiègnes, Troyes and Shanghai (China). The University is located on three campus located in the towns of Belfort, Sevenans and Montbeliard, from North to South (separated by 15 kms each). The campus of Belfort is located in one of the biggest technology and industrial activity park of the town. Basel (in Switzerland) lies 50 kms away to the East, Strasbourg 150 kms to the North-East, Zurich (in Switzerland) 160 kms to the East, Franckfurt (in Germany) 350 kms to the North-East, Lyon lies 300 kms to the South-West, Paris 500 kms to the North-West. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 15, 2015 - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2015 - Acceptance Notification: May 16, 2015 - Final Manuscript Due: June 16, 2015 PUBLICATION: ------------ All FNC-2015 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com <http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index ( http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). COMMITTEES: ----------- Honorary Chair Pascal Brochet, Director, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Abderrafiaa Koukam, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Program Chairs Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Advisory Committee Khalil Drira, Universite de Toulouse, France Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Local Arrangements Chairs Cedric Boitin, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Nicolas Gaud, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Ariane Glatiny, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Fabrice Lauri, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Publicity Chairs Vincent Hilaire, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Nasim Mahmud, University College Dublin, Ireland Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-15/#programCommittees Thank you. Kind regards, Nasim -- Dr. Nasim Mahmud Postdoctoral Fellow Dynamics Lab UCD-Geary Institute University College Dublin (UCD) and Assistant Professor (on sabbatical) (HCI Group) Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) http://www.mahmud.be <http://mahmud.be/lounge/> <http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nmahmud>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP - AMCIS 2015 - Mini track on Online Collaborative Consumption
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CfP - AMCIS 2015 - Mini track on Online Collaborative Consumption Datum: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:05:14 +0000 Von: Eusebio Scornavacca <escornavacca(a)ubalt.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> AMCIS 2015 - Mini track - Online Collaborative Consumption Mini-Track Description This minitrack examines the nature and implications of a new and emergent strand of social commerce – collaborative consumption – where the emphasis is on sharing rather than owning assets and where people consume together. Collaborative consumption websites (including, for example, AirBnB, RelayRides, TaskRabbit and NeighborGoods) allow resources such as space, goods, skills or services to be shared. Such developments have been influenced by sustainability issues including economic austerity, wasteful consumerism, and global warming and environmental pollution. This minitrack welcomes conceptual and empirical research examining this emerging phenomenon using a variety of epistemologies and methodologies. Collaborative consumption is potentially very disruptive to many industry sectors and can be considered an example of Blue Ocean Research: a new and uncontested but potentially high-impact phenomenon. Call for Papers The rapid expansion of websites based upon collaborative consumption business models is paving the way for a so-called “sharing economy” where the dominant consumption logic is shifting from product ownership to product usage, i.e. individuals are mainly interested in using products rather than owning products. Collaborative consumption websites focus on peer-to-peer marketplaces where unused space, goods, skills, money, or services can be rented, borrowed, bartered, traded, and swapped. Collaborative consumption is a form of social commerce, where online peer-to-peer commercial activities are facilitated through social networking technologies. According to Booz and Co., the global social commerce market for physical goods and services is predicted to grow from $5 billion in 2011 to $30 billion by 2015. By focusing upon sharing as a predominant form of exchange, these models are rapidly emerging in significance due to a convergence of technological, social and economic factors such as online connectivity, environmental consciousness, and the current economic downturn. Collaborative consumption websites based upon sharing values are expected to disrupt significantly conventional modes of commerce by transforming the way people consume. This posits profound implications not only for individual consumers, but for society, the retail industry, charities, and related stakeholders. However, collaborative consumption through online channels is currently not well understood and the limited amount of conceptual research and anecdotal evidence suggests that the purchase process is being redefined and that individual motivations are likely to be quite different to previous social sharing initiatives such as open source software or file-sharing. This mini-track welcomes original, innovative, multi-method and cross-disciplinary research that seeks to explore, explain or predict this emerging phenomenon. Potential Topics: User adoption of collaborative consumption websites. Consumer behavior in collaborative consumption. Case studies of collaborative consumption. Social sharing theory and collaborative consumption. Social networking analysis of collaborative consumption communities. Sustainability theory and collaborative consumption. Economic modelling of collaborative consumption. Modelling rent versus buy decision-making behaviour. Co-chairs: Stuart J. Barnes, Kent Business School, University of Kent s.j.barnes(a)kent.ac.uk<mailto:s.j.barnes@kent.ac.uk> Andrew D. Pressey, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham A.Pressey(a)bham.ac.uk<mailto:A.Pressey@bham.ac.uk> Eusebio Scornavacca, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore escornavacca(a)ubalt.edu<mailto:escornavacca@ubalt.edu> Kem Z.K. Zhang, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China zzkkem(a)ustc.edu.cn<mailto:zzkkem@ustc.edu.cn> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: February 25, 2015 Further information : http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/38-ebusiness-and-ecommerce-sige… Eusebio Scornavacca John & Margaret Thompson Professorship in MIS Dean James Chair for Distinguished Teaching Director - Teaching Innovation Incubator Merrick School of Business University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201 USA _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2015 - BPM from an End-User Perspective
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2015 - BPM from an End-User Perspective Datum: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:47:24 +0000 Von: Frank Ulbrich <Frank.Ulbrich(a)ufv.ca> An: 'aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org' <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)* Puerto Rico, August 13–15, 2015 *Mini-track:* BPM from an end-user perspective *Track:* End-user information systems, innovation, and organizational change (SIG-OSRA) *Description* End users are usually the ones that best know how business process are working in real life in their organizations. Business process modelling is known as a way to assist in better understanding business process in an organization. End users, however, have difficulties in accurately explaining and modelling organizational processes. This mini-track focuses on effective techniques for modelling business processes from an end-user perspective. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions. *Suggested topics include, but not limited to the following:* ·Best practices ·Real-work experience ·Evaluations of different modelling techniques ·Novel modelling techniques ·The end-user’s role in process modelling *Submission process* Paper submissions must be made electronically through AMCIS 2015 Manuscript Submission Site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015. For submission guidelines, please refer to http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines. *Important dates* February 25, 2015: Manuscript submission deadline April 21, 2015: Author notification April 28, 2015: Camera-ready submission due For more information, please visit the conference website at http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/ or contact the mini-track co-chairs. *Mini-track chair* Frank Ulbrich University of the Fraser Valley frank.ulbrich(a)ufv.ca <mailto:frank.ulbrich@ufv.ca>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] #Microposts2015 - submission deadline extended to 31 Jan
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] #Microposts2015 - submission deadline extended to 31 Jan Datum: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:03:56 +0100 Von: Jelena Jovanovic <jeljov(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ===================================================================== Â Â the 5th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2015) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â at WWW 2015 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2015 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 18th May 2015 ===================================================================== THEME: Big things come in small packages ------------------- The #Microposts workshops aim to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to debate current, leading edge effort toward analysing and understanding Microposts - "information published on the Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like, Google +1)". Although individual Microposts are small and therefore typically focus on a single thought, message or theme, collectively they provide a rich source of information and opinion about a range of topics. The workshop aims to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the information content of Micropost data; and discuss application of this knowledge content in a variety of contexts, including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, mass communication, opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Microposts requires techniques and tools that function at scale, and that are able to handle the very high rate at which Microposts are published. Despite advances in the development of tools to tackle the specific challenges inherent in Micropost data, applications and approaches for analysing Microposts for different tasks still rely on the use of third party text extraction tools. Such tools are typically applied to extract entities and concepts contained in Microposts. One issue here is the lack of formal evaluation of the accuracy of text extraction tools specifically for Micropost data; instead, comparative assessment using corpora of well-formed, normal length, natural language documents is reported. To address this issue, starting with #MSM2013, the workshop hosted an entity extraction challenge in which participants detected named entities typed with corresponding concepts (e.g. 'Barack Obama' is a Person). In 2014, the challenge was extended to require also the linking of entities extracted to relevant DBpedia sources. For #Microposts2015 we propose to go one step further and extend the challenge by not only testing the accuracy of entrants' systems in extracting entities and linking them with DBpedia, but also assessing the runtime efficiency of the submitted systems. Evolution of the challenge each year addresses a current need of researchers and others who rely on the output of text extraction tools, where reliability and computation time are important when dealing with large-scale datasets. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- #Microposts2015 will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below: UNDERSTAND: With a focus on the human in Micropost data generation and analysis, we encourage submissions that look at understanding how situation and context drive individual and collective generation of Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a specific person or other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary work and that driven by research in the Social, Information & Web Sciences, that lead to deeper understanding of the content of Microposts, and how this content influences the contribution of Micropost data to, among others: Â Â Â Â - Collective awareness Â Â Â Â - Education & citizen empowerment, data & citizen journalism Â Â Â Â - Civil action, media & politics Â Â Â Â - Political and polemical aspects of Microposts Â Â Â Â - Ethics, legal and privacy issues Â Â Â Â - Psychological profiling and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interaction Â Â Â Â - Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use Â Â Â Â - Impact of effortless posting and wearable devices on communication DISCOVER: The extraction of information content from Micropost data and its subsequent analysis contribute to the discovery of patterns and trends in the data. This information is key to further knowledge discovery and application, using a number of approaches including: Â Â Â Â - Emergent semantics Â Â Â Â - Data mining from Microposts Â Â Â Â - Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis Â Â Â Â - Network analysis and community detection Â Â Â Â - Influence detection and social contagion modelling Â Â Â Â - Prediction approaches Â Â Â Â - Linking Microposts into the Web of Linked Data (i.e. entity extraction and URI disambiguation) APPLY: Applications papers and case studies describing systems related, but not limited, to: Â Â Â Â - Collective intelligence, user profiling, personalisation & recommendation Â Â Â Â - Business analytics & market intelligence Â Â Â Â - Event & topic detection and tendency tracking Â Â Â Â - Microposts as second screen to television Â Â Â Â - Geo-localised, Micropost-based services Â Â Â Â - Public consensus & citizen participation Â Â Â Â - Security, emergency response & health Â Â Â Â - Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd tracking SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK ---------------------- To foster collaboration between Computer Science and Social Sciences, and continue to encourage contribution from the latter domain to improve on 'Making Sense of Microposts', there will be a special track dedicated to Social Science papers. This track will be chaired by Katrin Weller (GESIS, Germany) and Danica RadovanoviÄ (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), long-time members of the #Microposts workshop program committee. Details of this track will be sent out in a separate call for papers. NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION AND LINKING CHALLENGE ----------------------------------------------- On the back of two very successful challenges in 2013 and 2014, that saw widespread interest, we have already obtained sponsorship from SPAZIODATI for a financial award for the highest ranking submission. Each year the challenge has allowed a valuable overview of the state of the art and has received expressions of interest and submissions from both industry and academia. We have also seen continued interest after publication of the results in each year. We expect this to continue in 2015, with the extension of the challenge to recognize entities, and type them before linking to the corresponding DBpedia entities. We will also measure the runtime computation efficiency of submitted systems. In line with the overall workshop goals, we envisage that the outcomes of the challenge submissions will continue to advance work in the domains of named entity recognition and entity disambiguation, with a specific focus on function over the short length information snippets in Microposts. A detailed description of the challenge will be published in a separate call. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE ------------------- A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day, and followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected submissions to the Challenge. The workshop will close with the presentation of awards. SUBMISSIONS ------------ Â Â Full papers: 8 pages Â Â Short and position papers: 4 pages Â Â Demos & Posters: 2 pages Â Â Social Sciences track: 2/4 pages Â Â Challenge extended abstracts: 2 pages (with challenge results) All written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (seeÂ http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 author-selected keywords. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. Submission is via EasyChair, at:Â Â https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2015. Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews. The #Microposts2015 proceedings will be published as a single volume containing all three tracks, via CEUR. The same publication conditions however apply as for other workshop proceedings included in the WWW conference companion: "Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference." Note this caveat does not apply to extended abstracts submitted to the special Social Sciences track summarising or discussing previously published work or presenting position statements. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Main Track submission deadline: *31 Jan 2015* (extended) Social Sciences Track submission deadline: *07 Feb 2015* Notification: 22 Feb 2015 Camera-ready (hard) deadline (Main & Social Sciences tracks): 8 Mar 2015 Challenge timeline: Intent to participate: *20 Feb 2015* Challenge submission deadline: *28 March 2015* Other dates (incl. release of datasets) TB (all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time) Workshop - 18 May 2015 (registration open to all) CONTACT ------- E-mail:Â microposts2015(a)easychair.org <mailto:microposts2015@easychair.org> Mailing list:Â microposts2015(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:microposts2015@googlegroups.com> Facebook Group:Â http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910 <http://www.facebook.com/#%21/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910> Twitter persona: @microposts2015 Twitter hashtag: #microposts2015 W3C Microposts Community Group:Â http://www.w3.org/community/microposts ORGANISERS ----------- Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK Milan Stankovic, UniversitÃ© Paris-Sorbonne & SÃ©page, France Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK Program Committee ------------------ Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Ghent University, Belgium John Breslin, NUIG, Ireland Amparo E. Cano, KMi, Open University, UK Marco Antonio Cassanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil Ãscar Corcho, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, UK Guillaume ErÃ©tÃ©o, Vigiglobe, France Miriam Fernandez, KMi, Open University, UK AndrÃ©s GarcÃa-Silva, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Mathieu Lacage, AlcmÃ©on, France Philippe Laublet, UniversitÃ© Paris-Sorbonne, France JoÃ£o MagalhÃ£es, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal JosÃ© M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de MÃ©xico, Mexico Fabrizio Orlandi, University of Bonn, Germany Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Danica RadovanoviÄ, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Giuseppe Rizzo, Eurecom, France Harald Sack, University of Potsdam, Germany Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH, Austria Sean W. M. Siqueira, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil RaphaÃ«l Troncy, Eurecom, France Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Andrea Varga, Swiss Re, UK Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, The Netherlands Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK -------------------------------- CHAIRS: Danica RadovanoviÄ, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Katrin Weller, GESIS, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BEST PAPER AWARD: sponsored by GESIS, Germany (Â http://www.gesis.org <http://www.gesis.org/>Â ) Award: â¬250 to highest ranking submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Tim Davies, University of Southampton, UK Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech, USA Fabio Giglietto, UniversitÃ di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Simon Hegelich, UniversitÃ¤t Siegen, Germany Kim Holmberg, University of Turku, Finland Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK Raquel Recuero, Universidade CatÃ³lica de Pelotas, Brazil Bianca C. Reisdorf, University of Leicester, UK Luca Rossi, UniversitÃ di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Saskia Vanmanen, The Open University, UK Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Taha Yasseri, Oxford Internet Institute, UK CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE: -------------------------------- CHAIRS: A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, Open University, UK Giuseppe Rizzo, Eurecom, France Andrea Varga, Swiss Re, UK -------------------------------------------------- SPONSOR: SpazioDati (Â http://www.spaziodati.eu <http://www.spaziodati.eu/>Â ) Award: â¬1500 to highest ranking submission -------------------------------------------------- Program Committee -------------------------------- Gabriele Antonelli, SpazioDati, Italy Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy GrÃ©goire Burel, KMi, Open University, UK Leon Derczynski, The University of Sheffield, UK Milanâ Dojchinovski, Czech Technical University, Prague Guillaume ErÃ©tÃ©o, Vigiglobe, France AndrÃ©s GarcÃa-Silva, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Signal, London, UK JosÃ© M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de MÃ©xico, Mexico Georgios Paltoglou, University of Wolverhampton, UK Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Daniel PreoÅ£iuc-Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ermir Qeli, Swiss Re, Switzerland Giles Reger, Otus Labs Ltd, Sheffield, UK Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar RaphaÃ«l Troncy, Eurecom, France Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK

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Fwd: [AISWorld] FW: Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] FW: Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum Datum: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:23:43 -0800 Von: michael gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum - With a call to occupy the Internet PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015. A group of civil society organisations from around the world has announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'! The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a counter initiative to the WEF. The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016. “While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider public interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, Co-Coordinator of the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the initiative. The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media. It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information, knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world community to generate and share. Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups, democracy movements and social justice activists. This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005, the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's engagement towards the WSIS +10 review. The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a People's Internet Manifesto. Just Net Coalition, Global P2P Foundation, Global Transnational Institute, Global Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey Knowledge Commons, India Open-Root/EUROLINC, France SLFC.in, India CODE-IP Trust, Kenya GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Canada IT for Change, India Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland Computer Professionals Union, Philippines Free Press, USA Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines Other News, Italy Free Software Movement of India Global_Geneva, Switzerland Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy All India Peoples Science Network, India Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA Please contact us at secretariat(a)InternetSocialForum.net for further information or clarification. Or the following regional contacts: Europe Norbert Bollow Email: NorbertB(a)InternetSocialForum.net Asia Rishab Bailey Email: RishabB(a)InternetSocialForum.net Africa Alex Gakaru Email: AlexG(a)InternetSocialForum.net North America Micheal Gurstein Email: MichealG(a)InternetSocialForum.net South America Sally Burch Email: SallyB(a)InternetSocialForum.net ======================================= APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. _______________________________________________ apc.forum mailing list apc.forum(a)lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] IxD&A Journal - 2016: LAST Call for Special Issue and Focus Section Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] IxD&A Journal - 2016: LAST Call for Special Issue and Focus Section Proposals Datum: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:32:11 +0100 Von: Carlo Giovannella <mifav(a)roma2.infn.it> Antwort an: Carlo Giovannella <mifav(a)roma2.infn.it> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de *2016: last call for special issue and focus section proposals Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)* /ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998/ is a well consolidated international "think tank" situated at the cross-border among Education, Computer Science, Design-Architecture and Social Innovation that implements the Gold Open Access road to its content with no charge for authors, see: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9 IxD&A distinguish itself for the attention toward fore-front and emerging topic area of the international research and, as well, for its people centered and experiential vision, see IxD&A archive: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10 and the list of scheduled issue here below. IxD&A is now looking for new special issue and focus section proposals offering the possibility to explore challenging and fore-front subjects during year 2016. Only four proposals of special issues and focus sections will be selected. Next call for special issue and focus section proposals is expected in autumn 2015. The proposal for a special issue and focus section should contain the following sections: 1. Introduction & Background -> explain why the subject proposed is a fore-front and challenging one and describe its expected impact (max 1000 words). 2. Topics of Interest (at least 5). 3. List of guest editors, their affiliation and short bio (max 4, a larger number should be dutifully justified). 4. Dissemination strategy -> indicate the channels that the proponents intend to use to distribute the CFP, in parallel to those usually offered by IxD&A journal. 5. Description of researchers and research groups potentially interested in submitting a paper with an indication of the expected number of submissions (max 100 words - list optional). 6. Target audience short description (max 100 words). 7. Indication of the preferred issue: spring, summer, autumn, winter (note that the important dates are established by the timing of the IxD&A publication process; have a look at the calls published on the journal website) Please note that each special issue should usually contain no more than 8 high quality blindly peer-reviewed paper, while a focus section no more than 5. In special cases, when among the submitted papers there are more than 8 (or 5) very high-quality ones, the number of accepted papers can be adjusted accordingly. ------------------------ Important dates ------------------------ Deadline:*31 January 2015* Notification with feedback to the proponents:*28 February 2015* ------------------------ Submission procedure ------------------------ The proposal should be submitted, either in .doc, .pages or in .rtf format, by email to the scientific editor of the IxD&A journal info(a)mifav.unioma2.it marking the subject as: 'IxD&A, proposal of special issue (or focus section) on ...' ======================== List of 2015 scheduled issues ======================== • N. 24 - Spring 2015 special issue "Peer-to-Peer Exchange and the Sharing Economy: Analysis, Designs, and Implications" focus section "Innovative Designs with Social, Mobile and Wearable Technologies for Creative Teaching and Learning" • N. 25 - Summer 2015 special issue "Technology-enhanced assessment: Agency change in the educational eco-system" focus section "Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space" • N. 26 - Autumn 2015 special issue "Designing for Peripheral Interaction: seamlessly integrating interactive technology in everyday life" focus section "Design Anthropology in Participatory Design" • N. 27 - Winter 2015 special issue "Smart City Learning: Opportunities and Challenges" focus section "Innovation in human-centred design: What can we learn from design thinking" =====================================

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: CTS 2015 ONE WEEK MAIN TRACK NOTICE
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: CTS 2015 ONE WEEK MAIN TRACK NOTICE Datum: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:50:49 -0500 Von: Waleed Smari <smari(a)arys.org> An: SIGSAND-L(a)CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA, irlist(a)lists.shef.ac.uk, confs-submit(a)hri.org, hellas(a)lists.psu.edu, semantic-web(a)w3.org, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, CSE-CFP(a)cse.stfx.ca, ahsntc(a)trlab.ca Please Post.Â Thank you. [Sorry of you receive multiple copies of the posting]Â Main Track ONE WEEK Notice *Call For Papers and Participation** **Â ** **The 2015 International Conference on** **Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2015)** **June 01-05, 2015** **The Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel** **Atlanta, Georgia, USA** **http://cts2015.cisedu.infoÂ ,Â http://cisedu.us/rp/cts15** ** **In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP** ** **Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: _January 27, 2015_* You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in collaboration technologies, collaboration systems, social networks, virtual worlds, and related issues.Â There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits.Â Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have the following refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: *Symposia: (all refereed.Â may have different deadlines)* Â SYMP1. Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and NetworksÂ (SoMNet 2015) Â SYMP2. Big Data and Data Analytics in CollaborationÂ (BDDAC 2015) Â SYMP3. Security in Collaboration Technologies and SystemsÂ (SECOTS 2015) Â SYMP4. Collaborative Analysis and Reasoning Systems (CARS 2015) *Workshops: (all refereed.Â may have different deadlines)* Â W01. Cloud Services and Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaboration (CSWC2015) Â W02. Knowledge Management and Collaboration (KMC 2015) Â W03. Collaboration: Human-Centered Issues & Interactivity Design (CHCI&ID 2015) Â W04. Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration (STIIC 2015) Â W05. Mobile Systems and Sensors Networks for Collaboration (MSSNC 2015) Â W06. Multi-Agent Systems and Collaborative Technologies (I-MASC 2015) Â W07. Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction (CR-HRI 2015) Â W08. Collaborations in Emergency Response and Disaster Management (ERDM 2015) Â W09. Collaboration and e-Learning (Ce-Learning 2015) Â W10. Collaboration Technologies and Systems in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields (CoHeB 2015) Â W11. E-Transactions SystemsÂ (ETS 2015) Â W12: Internet of Things, Machine to Machine and Smart Services Applications (IoT 2015) Â W13: Collaboration and Virtual Environments (CoVE-2015) Â W14. Visualization and Collaboration (VisualCol 2015)Â Â W15. International Workshop on Human-Machine Teaming in Cyber (HMTC 2015) Â W16. Collaboration and Gaming (CoGames 2015)Â Â W17. Collaboration in Logistics, Planning & Services (CLPS 2015) Â W18. Culture and Collaboration Technologies (Culture 2015) Â W19. Intelligent and Tangible User Interfaces for Collaboration (ITUI-C 2015) *Special Sessions: (all refereed.Â may have different deadlines)* Â SS01. Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles (ICD&ACV 2015) Â SS02. Collective Intelligence, Crowd Sourcing in Collaboration (CICS 2015) Â SS03. P2P and Collaboration and Virtual Organizations (CDRM 2015) ================================================================= *Important Dates:* Â Main Track Paper and Poster Submission Deadline ----- January 27, 2015 Â Workshop/Special Session Proposal Deadline -----------Â November 30, 2015 Â Tutorial/Demo/Panel Proposal Deadline ------------------Â January 20, 2015 Â Notification of Acceptance ---------------------------------- February 20, 2015 Â Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due --------Â March 10, 2015 Â Conference DatesÂ -------------------------------------------Â Â June 01 - 05, 2015 ================================================================= Â For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL:Â Â http://cts2015.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/cts15Â or contact one of the organizers.Â Thank you very much. Best Regards. CTS 2015 Organizers

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