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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP: AMCIS 2015 Mini-Track: IT Consulting as a Change Agent
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP: AMCIS 2015 Mini-Track: IT Consulting as a Change Agent Datum: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:50:13 +0100 Von: Andreas Drechsler <andreas.drechsler(a)icb.uni-due.de> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org --- 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) --- --- Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015 - http://amcis2015.aisnet.org --- Conference Theme: Blue Ocean Research Track: End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change (SIG-OSRA) Minitrack: IT Consulting as a Change Agent Over the past few decades, the influence of the IT consulting industry on the use and the management of IT in enterprises has increased dramatically. Many enterprises rely on IT consulting services, and IT consultants often act as change agents for their clients. They are assigned to analyze, propose, and implement IT innovations, they serve as an HR outsourcing partner for the IT department, and with many of their projects they aim to change the client’s socio-technical configuration. IT consultants can also serve as facilitators to transfer IS research outcomes to actual organizational and IT changes in practice and can thus contribute to the relevance of IS research. But despite the prevalence of IT consulting projects in practice, IS research has not covered IT consulting very intensively. Therefore, IT consulting research can be regarded as a “blue ocean research” endeavor in the sense of the conference theme. Several challenges are specific to the IT consulting industry: Existing methods used in different IS fields (such as process management, enterprise architecture analysis, etc.) have to be adopted to fit the efficiency constraints in consulting projects, methods may need to be tailored to fit existing consulting products; and consulting companies are one of the drivers for fashion waves in the IT industry. This mini-track aims to provide a forum for IT consulting research in the IS discipline. Topics relevant to this mini-track may include but are not limited to: - IT consulting from a consulting research perspective - IT consulting from a service science perspective - IT consulting from a management perspective - Theoretical foundations of IT consulting research - IT consultants as change agents - HR-related issues in IT consulting - The relationship between IT consulting and strategy consulting - Methods, method developing, and method adoption in IT consulting - IT consulting as HR outsourcing for the IT department - Virtual IT consulting / telepresence in IT consulting - Micro-tasking in IT consulting - Knowledge management in IT consulting firms - Education and training of IT consultants (skills & competencies, job profiles, education topics, and teaching experiences) - The use of IT in IT consulting companies - The organization of internal consulting departments - IT consultants as enterprise engineers (e.g. enterprise architecture from a consultant’s perspective) - Business processes of IT consulting companies - The potentials and limitations of research transfer in cooperation with IT consulting companies. We welcome conceptual, empirical, and design-oriented contributions for this mini-track. Papers must be submitted through the conference website: http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/ You can find the paper submission guidelines and template here: http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines/ Important dates: - January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin - February 25, 2015 2pm EST: Deadline for AMCIS manuscript submissions - Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers - Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Deadline for camera-ready revisions - May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made Minitrack Co-chairs: - Andreas Drechsler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Paul Drews, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany - Volker Nissen, University of Technology Ilmenau, Germany -- Dr. Andreas Drechsler Information Systems and Strategic IT Management University of Duisburg-Essen Universitätsstraße 9 45141 Essen Germany Web: www.sitm.wiwi.uni-due.de _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: Extension Call for Position Papers: ICEIS 2015 - Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (Barcelona/Spain)
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Extension Call for Position Papers: ICEIS 2015 - Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (Barcelona/Spain) Datum: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Von: ICEIS Secretariat <iceis.secretariat(a)insticc.org> Antwort an: iceis.secretariat(a)insticc.org An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS website: http://www.iceis.org April 27 - 30, 2015 Barcelona, Spain In Cooperation with: IEICE/SWIM, AEPIA, AAAI, ACM SIGMIS and ACM SIGAI In Collaboration with: IRC Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: OMG and WfMC Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Position Paper Submission: January 19, 2015 Authors Notification (position papers): February 16, 2015 Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: March 2, 2015 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Gustaf Neumann, Let me kindly inform you that due to numerous requests the position paper submission deadline for the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2015 - http://www.iceis.org) has been extended to January 19, 2015. We hope you can participate in this prestigious conference by submitting a position paper reflecting your current research in any of the conference main topic areas, which are detailed further below. A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topics. Please check further details about position papers submission at the conference website (http://www.iceis.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx). The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), held in cooperation with the IEICE Special Interest Group on Software Interprise Modelling (SWIM), Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems (ACM SIGMIS) and ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI) and in collaboration with the Informatics Research Center (IRC). INSTICC is Member of the Object Management Group (OMG) and Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Logistics Partner the Science and Technology Events (SCITEVENTS). ICEIS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 313 submissions, 15% were presented as full papers. 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. 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/). We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers: - George Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Witold Staniszkis, Rodan Development, Poland - Martin Mocker, MIT, USA and Reutlingen University, Germany - Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo Labs, Spain We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following Workshop, whose deadline is scheduled for February 3, 2015: - 12th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems (WOSIS) - http://www.iceis.org/WOSIS.aspx A Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information Systems will take place in conjunction with ICEIS 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.iceis.org/DoctoralConsortium.aspx). ICEIS 2015 will be held in conjunction with ENASE 2015 (www.enase.org) and GISTAM 2015 (www.gistam.org) in Barcelona, Spain. Registration to ICEIS will enable free attendance to any sessions of the co-located conferences as a non-speaker. Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Vitor Pedrosa ICEIS Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 Email: iceis.secretariat(a)insticc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe please click here ( http://email.insticc.org/wf/unsubscribe?upn=9jORrjH8ndg6sPzuPt6yR0NcWpzNR2-… )

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Fwd: [AISWorld] SPECIAL ISSUE ON Big Data and Business Analytics Adoption and Use: A Step toward Transforming Operations and Production Management?
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] SPECIAL ISSUE ON Big Data and Business Analytics Adoption and Use: A Step toward Transforming Operations and Production Management? Datum: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:54:23 +0000 Von: Samuel FOSSO WAMBA <Samuel.FOSSO.WAMBA(a)neoma-bs.fr> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* SUBMISSION DUE DATE: February 15, 2015 Reviewer first reports: June 15, 2015 Revised paper submission: September 15, 2015 Reviewer second reports: December 10, 2015 Final manuscript submissions to publisher: March 15, 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE ON *Big Data and Business Analytics Adoption and Use: A Step toward Transforming Operations and Production Management?* ** International Journal of Operations & Production Management *Guest Editors: * Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba, Associate Professor, NEOMA Business School, France Dr Andrew Taylor, Professor, Bradford University School of Management, UK Dr Eric Ngai, Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Dr Fred Riggins, Associate Professor, North Dakota State University, USA *Introduction:* Big data analytics is deï¬ned as â/a collection of data and technology that accesses, integrates, and reports all available data by filtering, correlating, and reporting insights not attainable with past data technologies/â (APICS 2012 <#_ENREF_1>). It is an emerging phenomenon which reflects the ever increasing significance of data in terms of its growing volumes, variety and velocity (the speed with which it is being created and processed) (Department for Business- Innovation and Skills 2013 <#_ENREF_3>). While data has always been a part of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) agenda, it is the scale and scope of change which big data is bringing that has attracted so much attention. Like many new phenomena it is sometimes over-sold because of hype or misunderstanding, yet there are tangible case studies of the power of big data to generate value and competitive advantage, albeit such examples remain comparatively small in number to-date. Its applications have been strong in the financial services, insurance, retailing and healthcare sectors, while in manufacturing, companies such as Rolls Royce and Ford have been reported to derive success from big data in predicting engine failures before they occur and in managing supplier risk (Goodwin 2013 <#_ENREF_6>). For Operations Management, big data has the potential to enable more sophisticated data-driven decision making and new ways to organise, learn and innovate (Yiu 2012 <#_ENREF_13>; Kiron 2013 <#_ENREF_7>). Its impact may be manifest in strengthening customer relationships, managing operations risk, improving operational efficiency or by improving product or service delivery or whatever the key business drivers may be (Kiron 2013 <#_ENREF_7>). Operations in many organisations are experiencing much more voluminous and unstructured data environments because of real-time information from sensors and RFID tags which facilitate asset and business process monitoring (Davenport, Barth et al. 2012 <#_ENREF_2>), end-to-end supply chain visibility, improved manufacturing and industrial automation (Wilkins 2013 <#_ENREF_12>), manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness (Zelbst, Green et al. 2011 <#_ENREF_14>). Ford, for example, is reported to be scouring â/the metrics from the company's best processes across myriad manufacturing efforts and through detailed outputs from in-use automobiles--all to improve and help transform its business./â (Gardner 2013 <#_ENREF_4>). However, despite some reported successes, OM researchers need to retain a healthy scepticism until rigorous research has been done in operations contexts. That is why this new phenomenon should have the attention of OM researchers, and hence this call for papers. Given its high operational and strategic potential, notably in generating business value within various industries, big data has recently become the focus of a variety of scholars and practitioners. Some researchers have recently suggested that âbig dataâ is the ânext big thing in innovationâ (Gobble 2013, p.64 <#_ENREF_5>), âthe fourth paradigm of scienceâ (Strawn, (2012 <#_ENREF_10>)), or âthe next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivityâ (Manyika, Chui et al. 2011, p.1 <#_ENREF_9>). As a result, challenges related to big data have confronted businesses and organizations. In the operations and service contexts, big data also holds tremendous potential. In a recent survey study on third-party logistics services (3PL), (Langley 2014 <#_ENREF_8>) found that 97% of shippers and 93% of 3PLs âfeel strongly that improved, data-driven decision-making is essential to the future success of their supply chain activities and processesâ (p. 4), whereas approximately50% of each group disagrees that âbig data fuels these decisionsâ which shows how much potential for big data has still to be realized (p. 4). Big retailers are currently leveraging big data capabilities for improved customer experience, fraud reduction, and just-in-time recommendations (Tweney 2013 <#_ENREF_11>). In addition, big data technologies can be implemented in a range of applications including industrial automation <http://www.dpaonthenet.net/products/183/Control-Automation>tools, building management systems, production equipment, sales force information systems, and power plan conditions tools. For example, big data enabled-automation and manufacturing facilitates real-time detection and diagnosis of production issues, and thus reduces significantly downtime costs. Similarly, insights from big data analytics allows real-time process monitoring and measurement for improved quality management, logistics and order fulfilment cycles (Wilkins 2013 <#_ENREF_12>). In short, â/by observing causal factors for quality issues, process variability and energy efficiency through the manufacturing process, big data analysis becomes the basis for gaining a competitive advantage/â(Wilkins 2013 <#_ENREF_12>). Even if big data holds the capability of transforming competition and thus competitive advantage, many managers are still struggling to understand the concepts related to big data, consequently failing to capture business value from big data. In addition, very few empirical studies have been conducted on the real value from big data. *Objective:* The main objective of this special issue is to fill this knowledge gap. Specifically, this special issue aims to invite OM scholars and practitioners to look at the ways and means to co-create and capture business value from big data in terms of new business opportunities, improved performance, and competitive advantage. The results will in turn reveal the implications of big data on operations management practices and strategies. ** *Recommended Topics:* The topics to be discussed in this special issue include but are not limited to the following: Â·Assessment of the effect of big data on operations and production management systems Â·Assessment of the effect of big data on the decision-making processes in operations Â·Assessment of facilitators and inhibitors of big data adoption for logistics, order fulfilment, distribution and supply chain management Â·Big data-enabled business analytics at the plant location , organizational, and supply chain levels Â·In-depth & longitudinal case studies and pilot studies on the implementation of IT infrastructure to support big data initiatives for improved operations management, lean & agile operations, quality management in operations and supply chain management Â·Facilitation of innovative electronic business models and operations by using big data in various sectors (e.g., healthcare, retail industry, and manufacturing) Â·New theory development to explain the adoption and use of big data in operations at the organizational and inter-organizational levels Â·Empirical studies assessing the business value of big data in terms of quality management, new products and services design, improved internal and supply chain operations capabilities Â·Social media and big data in cloud for services, operations and production management transformation Â·Placement of data analytics and big data in cloud for services, operations and production management transformation *Submission Procedure* Prospective authorsare invited to submit papers for this special thematic issue on *â**Big Data Adoption and Use: A Step toward Transforming Operations and Production Managementâ*on or before February 15, 2015. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALâS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ij… TO SUBMISSION at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijopm. ** ** *About *International Journal of Operations & Production Management Journal The International Journal of Operations & Production Management exists to provide a communication medium for all those working in the operations management field. This includes: â¢ Private and public sectors â¢ Manufacturing and service settings â¢ Academic institutions â¢ Consultancies. The content of the Journal focuses on topics which have a substantial management (as opposed to technical) content. A double-blind review process ensures the journal content's high quality, validity and relevance. *Editor-in-Chief:*Professor Steve Brown University of Exeter Business School, UK ** *All inquiries should be directed to the attention of:* Samuel Fosso Wamba Guest Editor E-mail:samuel.fosso.wamba@neoma-bs.fr <mailto:samuel.fosso.wamba@neoma-bs.fr> *All manuscript submissions to the special issue should be sent through the online submission system: * http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijopm ** * * * * ** *Samuel Fosso Wamba, PhD., *is Associate Professor at NEOMA Business School, France. Prior, he was a Senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT), University of Wollongong, Australia. He earned an MSc in mathematics, from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on business value of IT, business analytics, big data, inter-organisational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, e-government (e.g., open data), supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce. He has published papers in a number of international conferences and journals including /European Journal of Information Systems/, /Production Planning and Control/, /International Journal of Production Economics/, /Information Systems Frontiers/, /Business Process Management Journal/, /Proceedings of the IEEE, AMCIS, HICSS, ICIS, and PACIS/. He is organizing special issues on IT related topics for the Business Process Management Journal, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Medical Systems, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, and Production Planning & Control. ** *Andrew Taylor, PhD* Andrew Taylor is Professor of Operations and Information Systems at Bradford School of Management, Andrew teaches World Class Operations, Resource Planning for Operations and Environmental Management & Quality Systems. He specialises in research relating to organisational performance improvement approaches such as Lean Systems, Performance Measurement and applications of new technologies such as Data Mining, Knowledge Management and 3D Printing. Professor Taylor has professional experience in aerospace, public utilities and government organisations, having worked in Short Brothers (now part of the Bombardier group), Northern Ireland Electricity and the Northern Ireland Training Authority. He has consulted widely. As a graduate of The Queenâs University of Belfast, Andrew holds a BSc in electronics and information systems, an MSc in industrial engineering and a PhD in manufacturing management. Previously Andrew Taylor was Professor of Information Management at Queenâs, Belfast where he worked for 12 years before coming to Bradford in 1996. His research work has been published in /Omega, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Expert Systems with Applications, European Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the ACM,/ /Information Systems Management/, /Production Planning and Control /and the /International Journal of Production Research/. ** *Eric W. T. Ngai, PhD* Prof. Eric Ngai is a Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research interests are in the areas of E-commerce, Supply Chain Management, Decision Support Systems and RFID Technology and Applications. He has over 100 refereed international journal publications including /MIS Quarterly, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Production & Operations Management,/ and others.He is an Associate Editor of /European Journal of Information Systems/ and /Information & Management/. He serves on editorial board of four international journals.Prof. Ngai has attained an /h/-index of 20, and received 1190 citations, /ISI Web of Science/. *Fred Riggins, PhD* Fred Riggins is Associate Professor in the College of Business at North Dakota State University. His research focuses on e-commerce, inter-organizational systems, RFID, and microfinance. He has published in leading journals including /Management Science/, /Journal of Management Information Systems/, /Journal of the Association for Information Systems, International Journal of RF Technologies/, /Electronic Commerce Research and Applications/, and /Communications of the ACM/. In a 2009 AIS publication, he ranked #9 on the list of top IS researchers from 2003-2007 based on number of publications and outlets. According to Google Scholar he has an /h/-index of 19 and over 2,500 citations. *References:* APICS (2012). APICS 2012 Big Data Insights and Innovations Executive Summary. Davenport, T. H., P. Barth, et al. (2012). "How Big Data Is Different." _MIT Sloan Management Review_ *54*(1): 43-46. Department for Business- Innovation and Skills (2013). Seizing the data opportunity: A strategy for UK data capability Gardner, D. (2013). "Ford scours for more big data to bolster quality, improve manufacturing, streamline processes." Retrieved 19th February 2014, from http://www.zdnet.com/ford-scours-for-more-big-data-to-bolster-quality-impro…. Gobble, M. M. (2013). "Big Data: The Next Big Thing in Innovation." _Research Technology Management_ *56*(1): 64-66. Goodwin, G. (2013). Takeaways from the MIT/Accenture Big Data in Manufacturing Conference. _MIT/Accenture Big Data in Manufacturing conference _Cambridge, USA. Kiron, D. (2013). "Organizational Alignment is Key to Big Data Success." _MIT Sloan Management Review_ *54*(3): 1-n/a. Langley, J. C. J. (2014). 2014 THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS STUDY: The State of Logistics Outsourcing. Capgemini Consulting*: *56pp. Manyika, J., M. Chui, et al. (2011). Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity, McKinsey Global Institute. Strawn, G. O. (2012). "Scientific Research: How Many Paradigms?" _EDUCAUSE Review_ *47*(3): 26. Tweney, D. (2013). "Walmart scoops up Inkiru to bolster its âbig dataâ capabilities online." Retrieved 15 October, 2013, from http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/10/walmart-scoops-up-inkiru-to-bolster-its-b…. Wilkins, J. (2013). "Big data and its impact on manufacturing." Retrieved 17 February, 2014, from http://www.dpaonthenet.net/article/65238/Big-data-and-its-impact-on-manufac…. Yiu, C. (2012). The Big Data Opportunity: Making Government faster, smarter and more personal. _Policy Exchange_. London*: *36. Zelbst, P. J., K. W. J. R. Green, et al. (2011). "Radio Frequency Identification Techonology Utilization and Organizational Agility." _The Journal of Computer Information Systems_ *52*(1): 24-33.

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: ACM IUI 2015 Student Consortium
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: ACM IUI 2015 Student Consortium Datum: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:10:12 +0100 Von: Alan Said <alansaid(a)acm.org> An: abis(a)l3s.de, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu, ah(a)listserver.tue.nl, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, bcs-hci(a)jiscmail.ac.uk Apologies for cross-posting. This is a friendly reminder to submit to IUI 2015âs Student Consortium, whose deadline is about six weeks away. This is a prestigious opportunity, and a wonderful chance to get feedback from the IUI research community! Please encourage your students to submit. Please also note that Student Consortium participants will be given high priority for IUI 2015âs student travel grants! Wai-Tat Fu and Brent Hecht, IUI 2015 Student Consortium Co-Chairs ============================================= CALL FOR ACM IUI 2015 STUDENT CONSORTIUM 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI â15) Atlanta, USA March 29 - April 1, 2015 Deadline: January 16, 2015 Notification: January 30, 2015 Publication-ready Deadline: February 8, 2015 Contact: studentconsortium2015(a)iui.acm.org <mailto:studentconsortium2015@iui.acm.org> Website: http://iui.acm.org/2015/student_consortium.html ============================================= The IUI 2015 Student Consortium provides an opportunity for Masters and Doctoral students to present and receive feedback about their research in an interdisciplinary workshop under the guidance of a panel of mentors selected from senior people in the field. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback to apply for this unique opportunity. The strongest candidates will be those who have a clear topic and research approach, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along in their research that they can no longer make changes. Travel Support: Student Consortium participants will be given high priority when applying for IUI student travel awards. For more information about these awards, visit:Â http://iui.acm.org/2015/attending.html#student-travel-grant Submission Instructions: To apply for the Student Consortium, please submit to the URL below a single PDF containing the following (in order): A brief cover letter containing your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional).Â A document describing your thesis/dissertation research plan and your progress thus far. This document should be in standard ACM Extended Abstract format (http://chi2015.acm.org/authors/format/#extendedformat) and should be no more than four pages long. A two-page CV Submit your single, combined PDF to https://precisionconference.com/~sigchi/ <https://precisionconference.com/%7Esigchi/> by January 16! Information about the general conference: ACM IUI 2015 is the 20th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, etc. Student Consortium Chairs ===================== Wai-Tat Fu Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science University of Illinois http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~wfu/ <http://web.engr.illinois.edu/%7Ewfu/> Brent Hecht Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota http://cs.umn.edu/~bhecht/ <http://cs.umn.edu/%7Ebhecht/> Student Consortium Mentors ====================== Prof. Elizabeth Andre, Augsburg University (http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/hcm/staff/andre/) Prof. Joyce Chai, Michigan State University (http://www.cse.msu.edu/~jchai/ <http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Ejchai/>) Krzysztof Gajos, Harvard University (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kgajos/ <http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Ekgajos/>) Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California (http://www.isi.edu/~gil/ <http://www.isi.edu/%7Egil/>) Anthony Jameson, DFKI (http://dfki.de/~jameson/ <http://dfki.de/%7Ejameson/>) Henry Lieberman, MIT (http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/ <http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Elieber/>) Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~stamant/ <http://www4.ncsu.edu/%7Estamant/>) Michelle Zhou, IBM Research --Â Alan Said Recorded Future e: alansaid(a)acm.org <mailto:alansaid@acm.org> t: @alansaid w: www.alansaid.com <http://www.alansaid.com>

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Fwd: [computational.science] CfP: EUSPN-2015
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CfP: EUSPN-2015 Datum: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:24:35 +0000 Von: Christian Kuster <Christian.Kuster(a)gt-arc.com> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> ===== CFP ===== CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** The 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2015) September 27-30, 2015 Berlin, Germany http://euspn-15.dai-labor.de/ ********************************************************************************** The 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas. All EUSPN-2015 accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/ compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of: - Journal of Mobile Information Systems, by IOS Press - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer - Journal of Web and Grid Services Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: - Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks (Chair: Fikret Sivrikaya, German-Turkish Advanced ICT Research Centre, Germany) - Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications (Chair: Ingrid Nunes, UFRGS, Brazil) - Big Data and Big Data Science (Chair: Brijnesh-Johannes Jain, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany) - Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing (Chairs: Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria; Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China) - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies (Chair: René Schumann, HES-SO, Switzerland) - Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems (Chairs: Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada; K. K. Pattanaik, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, India) - Internet of Things (Chair: Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK) - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (Chair: Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada) - Security, Privacy, and Trust (Chair: Karsten Bsufka, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany) - Semantic Web Technologies (Chair: Nils Masuch, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany) Paper Submission Guidelines: Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. The EUSPN submission link can be found at: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euspn2015. All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. Important Dates: Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2015 Submission Deadline: May 6, 2015 Author Notification: June 26, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: July 26, 2015 Committee: General Chairs Jan Keiser, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany Elhadi Shakshuki, Arcadia University, Canada Program Chairs Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium Marco Lützenberger, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany, Advisory Committee Ali Ghorbani, Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Publicity Chairs Nabeel Al Qirim, College of Information Technology, UAE Christian Kuster, German-Turkish Advanced ICT Research Centre, Germany Samir Ouchani, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computational Science Mailing List hosting provided by: Sardina Systems -- The OpenStack Data Center Automation Company http://www.sardinasystems.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] Call for Book Chapter proposals and book chapters for the book titled "Developing Interoperable and Federated Cloud Architectures"
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for Book Chapter proposals and book chapters for the book titled "Developing Interoperable and Federated Cloud Architectures" Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:07:47 +0100 Von: Zsolt Nemeth <nemeth.zsolt(a)sztaki.mta.hu> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Call for Book Chapter proposals and book chapters for the book titled "Developing Interoperable and Federated Cloud Architectures". Overview ======= Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of Virtual Machines (VM) on virtualized clusters. IaaS clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. The increasing range of choices and availability of IaaS toolkits has also allowed creation of cloud solutions and frameworks suitable for private deployment and practical use even on smaller scales. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started transitions to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To complete such solutions, they should also support the unification of multiple cloud and/or cloud and grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Hybrid, community or multi-clouds may utilize more than one cloud systems, which are also called as cloud federations. The management of such federations raise several challenges and open issues that require significant research work to be done in this area. This book will provide a dedicated forum for sharing the latest results, exchanging ideas and experiences, presenting new research, development and deployment efforts in developing and running interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. This book will be an excellent venue to help the community define the current state, determine further goals and present architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. The book will focus on presenting solutions to interoperability and efficient management challenges faced by current and future infrastructure clouds. The book will document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. Objectives ========= The more widespread cloud computing technologies are, the more likely people will face the interoperability issues when several cloud infrastructures must be used in parallel. So, the book should be well suited to the practicioners who utilize cloud infrastructures and they would like to avoid lock in issues or to increase the reliability of their virtual infrastructures. On the other hand, with the raise of private cloud infrastructures, hybrid clouds, cloud bursting technologies and partial outsourcing solutions planned to be offered in the book will aid the private infrastructure providers to help efficiently dealing with temporal under-provisioning situations Target Audience ======== This book, Developing Interoperable and Federated Cloud Architectures, is aimed at people involved in any aspects of cloud practices such as infrastructure cloud administrators, cloud developers and cloud users. Furthermore, as opposed to “general” cloud related books, this book's specific focus on cloud federation aims at readers with specific interest in topics not addressed elsewhere such as federation policies, energy awareness, federation use cases, legal aspects of federation, scheduling and interoperability. Topic coverage: ======= Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures Application programming interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation Practical experiences in increased energy-efficiency of interclouds and federations Federation, inter- and multi-cloud compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service systems Virtual machine scheduling, management and deployment algorithms in interoperable and federated cloud systems (considering multi objective solutions, energy efficiency etc.) Federation and interoperability challenges in mixed grid and cloud systems Accounting and identity management solutions that support federation-level models Legal issues and data privacy in federated Cloud management Security problems, considerations and solutions for hybrid mixed public/private clouds Performance evaluation, prediction and comparison across multiple federated cloud systems Scalability issues and comparisons of different cloud federation approaches Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement Novel IaaS architectures incorporating federative constructs in their foundations Virtual appliance marketplaces and repositories meeting the demands and serving multi-cloud systems Cloud federation-aware Big Data management solutions New use cases to support workflow systems in multi-clouds and in federative contexts (predictive VM scheduling, advanced reservation etc.) Submission Procedure ======= Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 30, 2015, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by February 28, 2015 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 30, 2015. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Notes: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Developing Interoperable and Federated Cloud Architectures. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. References within each chapter must be in APA style or the chapter will be returned to the book editor for correction. LaTEX files cannot be accepted. Further details for authors: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/ All proposals should be submitted through the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1578 About the Publisher ======= This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015. Important Dates ======= Proposal submission deadline: January 30, 2015 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2015 Full Chapter Submission: May 30, 2015 Review Results Returned: July 30, 2015 Final Chapter Submission: August 30, 2015 Final Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2015 Editors ======= Dr. Gabor Kecskemeti MTA SZTAKI & University of Miskolc Budapest, Hungary Dr. Attila Kertesz MTA SZTAKI & University of Szeged Budapest, Hungary Dr. Zsolt Nemeth MTA SZTAKI Budapest, Hungary --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computational Science Mailing List hosting provided by: Sardina Systems -- The OpenStack Data Center Automation Company http://www.sardinasystems.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] CfP: ANT 2015 - 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (Deadline Extension)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CfP: ANT 2015 - 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (Deadline Extension) Datum: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:56:48 +0000 Von: Nils Masuch <Nils.Masuch(a)dai-labor.de> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> -------------- Call for Papers ---------------------- The 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2015) in Conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-15) London, United Kingdom June 2-5, 2015 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/ **************************************************************************** Important Dates =========== - Paper Submission: January 24, 2015 (Extended) - Students Symposium: March 1, 2015 - Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2015 - Camera-Ready Submission: April 1, 2015 ANT 2015 will take place at Greenwich, home to a World Heritage Site, Europe's most successful entertainment arena, Britain's first urban cable car, London's oldest Royal Park and the place where hemispheres meet. Internationally recognized as the home of time, Greenwich is also where to find the Prime Meridian of the World. All ANT-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<http://www.sciencedirect.com>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://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/). Conference Tracks ============== - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Automatic Networks and Communications - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - Internet of Things - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications - Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences - Multimedia and Social Computing - Multimodal Interfaces - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications - Smart Environments and Applications - Systems Security and Privacy - Systems Software Engineering - Vehicular Networks and Applications - General Track COMMITTEES ========= General Chairs Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Simon Poyser, Velocity RTD, UK Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Advisory Committee Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Workshops Chair Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada Program Vice Chairs Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Davy Janssens, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium Wilfried Lemahieu, KU Leuven, Belgium Saroja Kanchi, Kettering University, USA Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France Marco Lützenberger, DAI-Labor - TU Berlin, Germany Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Dimiter Mulishev, iMinds - DistriNet - KU Leuven, Belgium Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France Michael Shen, University of Adelaide, Australia Donghoon Shin, Arizona State University, USA Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany International Journals Chair Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia Publicity Chairs Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Nils Masuch, DAI-Labor - TU Berlin, Germany Samir Ouchani, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg International Liaison Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP - XV International Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 20015
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP - XV International Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 20015 Datum: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:37:21 -0800 Von: Jeimy Cano <jjcano(a)yahoo.com> Antwort an: jcano(a)acis.org.co An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear professionals, With the request for dissemination to all of you, attached information about our information security event in Colombia. XV International Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 2015 Colombia Systems Engineers Association (ACIS in Spanish) Bogota, COLOMBIA June 24 and 25/ 2015 The fithteen International Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 2015 (ACIS ICIS 2015) as a Colombian initiative to develop and promote academic research and share experiences in computer and information security, invite all researchers and practitioners to submit research papers in security topics, in order to promote new ideas, findings and experience to open new horizon in our countries. More information: http://www.acis.org.co/index.php?id=2179 Important dates: * March 28th /2015 - Papers submit deadline * April 28th to May 3rd /2015 - Paper Acceptance or rejection notification * May 16th /2015 - Papers Camera ready (including reviewers suggestions and PPT presentation with 10 slides) * June 24th and 25th / 2015 - International Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 2015 Note: Updated article arrived after camera ready date, will not included in CD Conference Proceedings (with ISBN). All papers must be submitted to Conference Chair, Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D to jcano at acis.org.co with subject: Paper-XV ICIS All the best, Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D, CFE Conference Chair XV International Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 2015 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP: BMSD (Milano 2015)
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CfP: BMSD (Milano 2015) Datum: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:05:07 -0800 Von: Boris Shishkov <b.b.shishkov(a)iicrest.org> Antwort an: b.b.shishkov(a)iicrest.org An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *Call for Papers* *BMSD 2015 - FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BUSINESS MODELING AND SOFTWARE DESIGN* /6-8 July 2015/ /Milan, Italy/ http://www.is-bmsd.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /To download the PDF version of the BMSD'15 CfP, please click here <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/BMSD_2015_CfP.pdf>/ /To download the BMSD'15 Poster, please click here <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/Poster.pdf>/ /To download the BMSD'15 Flyer, please click here <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/Flyer.pdf>/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Chair:* *Dr. /Boris Shishkov/, IICREST, Bulgaria* *Keynote Lecturers:* *Prof. Dr. /Marijn Janssen/, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands* (Title: Architectural Governance and Organizational Performance) *Prof. Dr. /Barbara Pernici/, Politecnico di Milano, Italy* (Title: Available soon) The symposium is organized by the international institute *IICREST*, co-organized by *Politecnico di Milano*, and technically co-sponsored by *BPM-D*. Cooperating organizations are: *AUTH* - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, *SIKS* - the Nederlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems, *CTIT* - the U-Twente Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, and *AMAKOTA Ltd*. BMSD is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in: (i) Modeling in general and in particular - Conceptual Modeling, Goal Modeling, Value Modeling, Business/Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, Model-Driven Engineering; (ii) Enterprise Engineering and its relation to Software Generation; (iii) Information Systems Architectures and Design. In 2015, BMSD will be held in Milan, following four previous successful editions, namely: Luxembourg 2014, Noordwijkerhout 2013, Geneva 2012, and Sofia 2011. We welcome paper submissions from but not limited to the following areas and topics: *1. BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS* Business Analysis - Value Models and Process Models Essential Business Models Re-Usable Business Models Relating Business Goals to Requirements Business Process Coordination Business Entities and Business Roles Business Data and Semantics Business Processes and Business Rules Behavior Modeling and Pragmatics Identification and Elicitation of Requirements Domain-Imposed and User-Defined Requirements Requirements Analysis *2. BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES* Business Modeling and Service Science Relating Business Goals to the Identification of Services Service Modeling - Technology-Independent & Platform-Specific Business Rules and Service Composition Autonomic Service Behavior Context-Aware Service Behavior Re-Usable Service Models *3. BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE* Business Modeling -Driven Derivation of Software Business Innovation and Software Evolution Business-IT Alignment and Traceability Re-Usable Business Models and Software Components Business Rules and Software Specification Business Goals and Software Integration Autonomic and Context-Aware Business/Software Systems Affective Computing and User-Aware Software Systems *4. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES* Enterprise Architectures Service-Oriented Architectures Architectural Styles Architectural Viewpoints Crosscutting Concerns *Key dates* Paper submission deadline: /9 March 2015/ Notification of acceptance: /20 April 2015/ Final paper submission: /4 May 2015/ *Types of contributions* /Regular Papers/ - presenting research that is completed or almost finished /Position Papers/ - presenting an arguable opinion about an issue /Invited Papers/ - submitted by best papers' authors and former / future BMSD Keynote Lecturers *Paper formats* /Full Papers/ - 10-page limit in the symposium proceedings (oral presentation) /Short Papers/ - 6-page limit in the symposium proceedings (oral presentation) /Posters/ - 4 page limit in the symposium proceedings (poster presentation) *How to submit a paper (7 steps)* 1. View the technical scope 2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 3 and no more than 8 pages 3. Decide whether you are submitting your contribution as a Regular Paper or as a Position Paper 4. Do paper formatting, using the provided templates (http://www.is-bmsd.org) 5. Remove your names and the names of your co-authors (and also your affiliations) from the title and references sections 6. Save the file as PDF 7. e-Mail the file to: secretariat(a)iicrest.org by the 9th of March, putting in the Subject: "BMSD 2015, Regular / Position Paper" *Publication* Accepted papers will be presented at BMSD 2015 and included in the symposium proceedings, published by /SciTePress/. All presented papers will also be included in the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary) and DBLP-indexed. Finally, the authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers to a /Springer LNBIP Revised Selected Papers/ book. *Proceedings of the previous editions* 2014: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFourthBMSD.pdf <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFourthBMSD.pdf> 2013: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfThirdBMSD.pdf <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfThirdBMSD.pdf> 2012: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfSecondBMSD.pdf <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfSecondBMSD.pdf> 2011: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFirstBMSD.pdf <http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFirstBMSD.pdf> *Some photos:* 2014: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFourthBMSD.htm <http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFourthBMSD.htm> 2013: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryThirdBMSD.htm <http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryThirdBMSD.htm> 2012: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GallerySecondBMSD.htm <http://www.is-bmsd.org/GallerySecondBMSD.htm> 2011: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFirstBMSD.htm <http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFirstBMSD.htm> *Venue* The BMSD sessions will be held at Aula de Donato - Politecnico di Milano. Founded in 1863, Politecnico is currently one of the most outstanding universities in Europe, ranked 28th in the world and 9th in Europe among technical universities, according to the QS World University Ranking. Milan itself is considered the Italian economic and finance center, with the headquarter of the Stock Exchange and of many of the most important industrial and financial businesses of Italy, having a population of 1.3 million. It is also the Italian symbol of fashion and design: it hosts many of the main Italian fashion maisons and international design fairs, such as Settimana della Moda (Milan Fashion Week) and the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair). The city offers to visitors the possibility to admire a wide range of monuments, museums and buildings reflecting the vestiges of history and culture left by the people who lived there. The ancient Roman remains, the Duomo, one of the largest cathedrals in the World and an important example of Gothic architecture in Italy. The Castello Sforzesco that hosts the Michelangelos Pieta Rondanini. The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie where is the famous masterpiece The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Expo 2015 is the next scheduled Universal Exposition and between 1 May and 31 October 2015 will be hosted in Milan. The Expo goal is no longer to show the latest advances in technology, but rather to address the challenges that human mankind faces nowadays. The Expo15 theme will be: "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". It would be therefore great hosting BMSD 2015 in Milan, and particularly at Politecnico di Milano. It is worthwhile mentioning that many important scientists and architects studied and taught there, among them Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, Renzo Piano and Aldo Rossi, both Pritzker Prize winners in 1990 and 1998 respectively, and Giulio Natta, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1963. Politecnico takes part in several research and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. Politecnicos contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America through Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. *For more information* w: http://www.is-bmsd.org t: +359 888 534435 e: secretariat(a)iicrest.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP: 2nd International Workshop on Open Badges in Education (OBIE 2015)
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP: 2nd International Workshop on Open Badges in Education (OBIE 2015) Datum: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:30:45 +0100 Von: Jelena Jovanovic <jeljov(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org [Apologies for cross-posting] ==================================== 2nd International Workshop on Open Badges in Education (OBIE 2015):Â From Learning Evidence to Learning Analytics - https://sites.google.com/site/obie2015ws/ - => in conjunction with the 5th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK'15), Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, March 16-20, 2015 (http://lak15.solaresearch.org/) IMPORTANT DATES ==================================== * 16 January 2015: Paper submission deadline * 02 February 2015: Notification of acceptance * 16 February 2015: Camera-ready paper OVERVIEW ======== Open digital badges are Web-enabled tokens of learning and accomplishment. Unlike traditional grades, certificates, and transcripts, Open Badges (OBs) include specific claims about learning accomplishments and detailed evidence in support of those claims. The thinking and negotiations that go into deciding what claims and evidence to include in badges often result in highly credible and valuable information about the accomplished learning. Considering the richness of data associated with OBs - (meta)data stored in badges themselves, primarily requirements, achievement evidence and timestamps, as well as data about learning pathways followed by students (i.e., learning traces) - it is reasonable to expect a very powerful predictive element at the intersection of OBs and Learning Analytics. The data associated with OBs might offer highly valuable input not only to predict what may be a good fit for the next learning activity, but perhaps even what a learner is capable of in a certain timeframe. This fertile ground could have substantial implications for recommending and exposing students to a variety of curricular and co-curricular pathways utilizing data sources far more nuanced than grades and achievement tests.Â AUDIENCE ========= OBs connect educational providers and practitioners, entrepreneurs, and researchers in discourses on teaching, learning, assessment, digital credentials, and digital education in general. While preserving its general focus on opportunities and challenges associated with OBs, this 2nd installment of the OBIE workshop will be primarily intended for those interested in the intersection of OBs and Learning Analytics. This intersection includes gathering, integration, and analysis of data and resources associated with OBs, with the ultimate aim of providing teachers, learners and other stakeholders in the ever-increasing OBs ecosystem with informative and relevant feedback, and predictive functions. Participants in the workshop will be exposed to presentations and discussions on the position and role of digital badges in instructional design, on compelling data and analytics challenges and opportunities that the OB infrastructures open for the Learning Analytics field, and on different types and designs of OB systems and their potential to impact the future of education. Â Â TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop would welcome submissions from the following (though not restrictive) list of topics: * Challenges and opportunities associated with the use of Learning Analytic methods and techniques in the domain of OBs. * Different kinds of feedback for teachers and students that could be generated based on the data and resources associated with OBs. * Leveraging learners' badge-earning pathways as means of i) assisting badge issuers in improving their instructional design, and ii) scaffolding learners' reflection over the learning process. * How different kinds of badges - e.g., participatory badges vs. assessment-based badges - impact learners' engagement in disciplinary discourse? * Intersection of OBs and the recent initiatives to open and share analytics data - how openness and visibility affect the functionality of badges as a motivator of behaviour? * Combined use of OBs with other recent education-oriented initiatives (e.g., xAPI, LRMI), to allow for a greater insight into to evidence associated with badges. * Examining learning pathways that emerge in large scale OBs efforts like the seven-city Cities of Learning in 2014. * Using semantic technologies to i) analyze evidence contained in digital badges, ii) allow for a comparison and alignment of badges issued by different organizations, and iii) interpret the meaning of a collection of heterogeneous badges. SUBMISSIONS ========================== We welcome the following types of contributions: Â Â * Demonstration abstracts (up to 2 pages)Â Â Â * Short research papers (up to 5 pages)Â Â Â * Full research papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM Proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at Â https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obie2015 All the submissions will go through a blind peer-review process. Submissions will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop.Â At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. All accepted workshop papers will be published in a separate volume of CEUR proceedings.Â WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS =================== * Daniel Hickey, Indiana University, USAÂ * Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia * Steven Lonn, University of Michigan, USA * James E. Willis, Indiana University, USAÂ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =================== * Samuel Abramovich, University at Buffalo * June Ahn, University of Maryland * Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University * Sheryl Grant, Duke University * Mart Laanpere, Tallinn University * Rudy McDaniel, University of Central Florida * Ivana Mijatovic, University of Belgrade * Jose Luis Santos Odriozola, KU Leuven * Abelardo Pardo, University of Sydney * Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova * Razvan Rughinis, University Politehnica of Bucharest * Adolfo Ruiz, Tallinn University * Felicia M. Sullivan, Tufts University For further questions please contact the organisers viaÂ *** obie2015[at]easychair[dot]org ***Â

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