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Fwd: [AISWorld] FGCT 2016
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] FGCT 2016 Datum: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:14:59 +0530 Von: diwt(a)dirf.org An: aisworld lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Fifth International Conference on the Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2016) Luton, (near London). UK August 17-19, 2016 www.socio.org.uk/fgct In the last decade, a number of newer communication technologies have been evolved, which have a significant impact on the technology, as a whole. The impact ranges from incremental applications to dramatical breakthrough in the society. Users rely heavily on broadcast technology, social media, mobile devices, video games and other innovations to enrich the learning and adoption process. This conference is designed for teachers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and scientists in the development arenas. It aims to provide discussions and simulations in the communication technology at the broad level and broadcasting technology and related technologies at the micro level. Through a set of research papers, using innovative and interactive approach, participants can expect to share a set of research that will prepare them to apply new technologies to their work in teaching, research and educational development amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Topics discussed in this platform are not limited to- Emerging cellular and new network architectures for 5G New antenna and RF technology for 5G wireless Modulation algorithms Circuits, software and systems for 5G Convergence of multi-modes, multi-bands, multi-standards and multi- applications in 5G systems Cognitive radio and collaborative transmissions in 5G Computing and processing platform for 5G Programming models and development tools to enable 5G systems Small cells and heterogeneous networks Metrics and Evaluation of 5G systems Standardization of 5G Broadcast technology Future Internet and networking architectures Future mobile communications Mobile Web Technology Mobile TV and multimedia phones Communication Security, Trust, Protocols and Applications Communication Interfaces Communication Modelling Satellite and space communications Communication software Future Generation Communication Networks Communication Network Security Communication Data Grids Collaborative Communication Technology Intelligence for future communication systems Forthcoming optical communication systems Communication Technology for Elearning, Egovernment, Ebusiness Games and games designing Social technology devises, tools and applications Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Human-computer communication Pervasive Computing Grid, crowd sourcing and cloud computing Hypermedia systems Software and technologies for E-communication Intelligent Systems for E-communication Future Cloud for Communication Future warehousing Future communication for healthcare and medical devices applications Future communication for Mechatronic applications All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference will have workshops on specific themes, industrial presentation, invited talks and collaborative discussion forums. Important Dates Submission of Papers: June 01, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: July 01, 2016 Camera Ready: August 01, 2016 Registration: August 01, 2016 Conference Dates: August 17-19, 2016 The selected papers after extension and modification will be published in many peer reviewed and indexed journals. Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Journal of Electrical Systems Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Programme Chairs Carsten Maple, University of Bedfordshire, UK Yong Yue, University of Bedfordshire, UK Hathairat Ketmaneechairat, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand. Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct/paper-submission/ Conference email- fgct(a)socio.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP Workshops and Doctoral Consortium - BIS 2016
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CfP Workshops and Doctoral Consortium - BIS 2016 Datum: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:42:54 +0100 Von: Rainer Alt <rainer.alt(a)uni-leipzig.de> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ******************* C A L L F O R P A P E R S ******************* WORKSHOPS and DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM co-located with 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems - BIS 2016 ********************************************************* Leipzig University, Germany July 6 - 8, 2016 bis2016.org ********************************* List of workshops and Doctoral Consortium ********************************* (1) AKTB 2016 - 8th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/aktb-2016/ submission deadline: May 22, 2016 (2) BITA 2016 - 7th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/bita-2016/ submission deadline: May 10, 2016 (3) DeBASE 2016 - Workshop on big Data and Business AnalyticS Ecosystem http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/debase-2016/ submission deadline: April 29, 2016 (4) FSFE 2016 - 4th Workshop on Formal Semantics for the Future Enterprise http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/fsfe-2016/ submission deadline: May 1, 2016 (5) iCRM 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Integrated Social CRM http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/icrm-2016/ submission deadline: May 1, 2016 (6) IDEA 2016 - 2nd International Workshop on Digital Enterprise Engineering and Architecture http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/idea-2016/ submission deadline: April 12, 2016 (7) INCLuDE 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Integrative Analysis and Computation of Life Data for Smart Ecosystems http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/include-2016/ submission deadline: May 1, 2016 (8) LIT 2016 - 6th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/lit-2016/ submission deadline: May 22, 2016 (9) PMSPCR 2016 - Workshop on Process Mining for Security, Privacy, Compliance & Resilience http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/pmspcr-2016/ submission deadline: April 12, 2016 (10) SOC-LOG 2016 - 4th International Workshop on Service Orientation in Computing and Logistics http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/soc-log-2016/ submission deadline: May 22, 2016 (11) TSRB 2016 - 2nd Workshop on Tools for Setting Up and Running a Business in Cloud Computing http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/tsrb-2016/ submission deadline: May 29, 2016 (12) Doctoral Consortium http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/doctoral-consortium/ submission deadline: May 1, 2016 Detailed descriptions are also included below. ****** ** ******************************************************************** (1) 8th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2016) ** ******************************************************************** http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/aktb-2016/ The AKTB2016 is the 8th workshop organized in conjunction with BIS series conferences. It pursues to engage researchers and practitioners, specialists and market analysts to share their research experiences and domain knowledge in application of contemporary computational intelligence methods for modelling and implementation of business information systems. We invite papers which provide advanced services for the information systems users, propose innovative solutions for Smart Business and process modelling, especially targeting Big Data issues. Topics * Artificial intelligence for big data * Business process and information requirements analysis * Advanced knowledge-based business information systems * Advanced research and case studies of application computational methods in banking, insurance and credit risk evaluation, company rating systems * Computational intelligence for business (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, expert systems) * Decision support systems in business enterprises, financial institutions and e-management * Knowledge-based models of data mining in business * Agent-based and embedded systems in business applications * Information systems in e-business, e-banking and marketing * Advanced computational approaches to portfolio optimization and selection * Analysis of financial time series * Estimations, modelling, algorithms of application of investment strategies in financial markets Submission * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Important dates * May 22, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * June 6, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 12, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizer * Vilnius University, Department of Informatics Chairs * Dalia Kriksciuniene * Virgilijus Sakalauskas ** ******************************************* (2) 7th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2016) ** ******************************************* http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/bita-2016/ A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. There is today an obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises but unfortunately many organizations don’t have proper instruments (methods, tools, patterns, best practices etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modeling, enterprise architecture, and business process management are three areas belonging to traditions where the mission is to improve business practice and business and IT alignment (BITA). BITA is many times manifested through the transition of taking an enterprise from one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e. a transformation of the enterprise and it’s supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. Recent development within areas like Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), and digitalization in general has brought new dimensions to BITA where BITA becomes an important part of smart business ecosystems. A continuous challenge with BITA is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to be aware of and able to deal with a number of dimensions of the enterprise architecture, their connectivity, and their relations in order to create alignment. Examples of such dimensions are: organizational structures, strategies, business models, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures. Among the concepts that deserve special attention in this context is enterprise architecture management (EAM). An effective EAM aligns IT investments with overall business priorities, determines who makes the IT decisions and assigns accountability for the outcomes. IT governance is also a dimension that traditionally has had a strong impact on BITA. There are ordinarily three governance mechanisms that an enterprise needs to have in place, 1) decision-making structures, 2) alignment process, and 3) formal communications. This workshop aims to bring together people who have an interest in BITA. We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage to a broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for BITA, including EAM and IT governance subjects. Specific focus is on practices of business and IT alignment, i.e. we have encouraged submission of case study and experiences papers. Topics * Business and IT alignment and smart business ecosystems * Best practice business and IT alignment case studies * Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises * Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement – methodologies and best practices * Business and IT alignment in the era of internet of things (IoT) and cyber physical systems (CPS) * Business and IT alignment through BPM * Business value of business and IT alignment * Challenges in business and IT alignment * Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment initiatives * Design thinking in business and alignment * Enterprise architecture management (EAM) for business and IT alignment * Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment * Experience reports and case studies * Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and structure, change management and leadership strategies * IT governance as a mean for alignment * Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design, implementation, management and improvement * Practices of business and IT alignment * Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT alignment approaches * The relationship between BPM and enterprise architecture Submission * Long papers: max. 12 pages Important dates * May 10, 2016 (11:59pm CET) - submission deadline for papers * May 31, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizers * Jönköping University * Rostock University Chairs * Ulf Seigerroth * Kurt Sandkuhl ** ****************************************************** (3) Workshop on big Data and Business AnalyticS Ecosystem (DeBASE 2016) ** ****************************************************** http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/debase-2016/ The notion of big data and its application in driving organizational decision making has attracted enormous attention over the past few years. As the label itself indicates, big data refers to large volumes of data generated and made available online and in digital media ecosystems. Associated with the notion of big data are aspects such as the diversity of data, the frequency by which it is updated, and the speed at which it grows. Companies are realizing that the data they own and the way they use them can differentiate them from competition, and even provide them with a competitive edge. Thus, todays companies try to collect and process as much data as possible. Big data and business analytics are also challenging existing modes of business and well-established companies. The need to harness the potential of rapidly expanding data volume, velocity, and variety, has seen a significant evolution of techniques and technologies for data storage, analysis, and visualization. Yet, there is limited understanding of how organizations need to change to embrace these technological innovations, and the business shifts they entail. As big data tools and applications spread, they will inevitably change long-standing ideas about decision making, management practices, and most importantly competitive strategy formulation. But as with any major change, the challenge of becoming a big data-driven enterprise can be enormous. Nevertheless, it’s a transition that executives need to navigate through, with limited empirical knowledge to guide their decisions. The purpose of this workshop is to shed some light on how big data and business analytics tools are reshaping contemporary companies. The focus is on how companies should optimally deploy and exploit big data as part of their competitive strategies, as well as how the analytic methods, tools, and techniques are best utilized for supporting business operations. The workshop will be revolved on themes such as how big data are effectively leveraged in a range of contexts and industries (e.g. technology, retail, oil and gas, healthcare, telecommunications), and what critical factors drive successful diffusion. Papers that address topics on how information sources, technological infrastructure, human skills and knowledge, organizational/team structures, and management practices coalesce to achieve desired ends, are of increased interest. Furthermore, outcomes that demonstrate the organizational impact of big data and business analytics in terms of competitive performance, innovativeness, increased agility, and market capitalizing competence are encouraged. Emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary papers that bridge the domains of organizational science, information systems strategic management, information science, marketing, and computer science. In addition, the workshop seeks to address the novel digital business strategies that emerge as part of these new technologies, and particularly the entrepreneurial wave and start-up business models that transpire. Despite the hype surrounding big data, the aforementioned predicaments still remain largely unexplored, severely hampering the business potential of big data and business analytics. The workshop aims to add in this direction and therefore welcomes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods papers, as well as reviews, conceptual papers, and theory development papers. Especially concerning the theory development papers, we highly encourage authors to explore how information systems, information management, and strategic management theories can be used or extended to explain big data and business analytics-related phenomena. Topics * Emerging concepts and methodologies on big data and analytics * Big data and management * Organizational learning and innovation from big data and business analytics * Data-driven competitive advantage * Human resource management in the data-driven enterprise * Big data digital business models * Proactive strategy formulation from big data analytics * Data and text mining for business analytics * Big data and analytics to create business value * Social media analytics for business * Data quality improvement for business analytics * Big data and its impact on business strategy-formulation * Digital ecosystem big data Submission * Full research papers: max. 12 pages * Research in progress: max. 7 pages Important dates * April 29, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * June 3, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 17, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizers * Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway * Athens University of Economic and Business, Greece Chairs * Patrick Mikalef * Ilias O. Pappas * Michail N. Giannakos * John Krogstie * George Lekakos ** ******************************************************* (4) 4th Workshop on Formal Semantics for the Future Enterprise (FSFE 2016) ** ******************************************************* http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/fsfe-2016/ The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers to share knowledge and experiences on formal aspects of the Future Enterprise, particularly pertaining to knowledge representation and how it can be employed to manage various facets of the enterprise, both at design-time (e.g., descriptions of services, processes, business context) and at run-time (e.g., process execution, service discovery). Current trends in manufacturing, supply chain management and product servitization systems are stimulated by emerging paradigms such as Factories of the Future, Virtual Enterprises, Smart Factories etc. The workshop aims to narrow down and crystallize the characteristics of such relatively informal notions, to consolidate them under the umbrella term of Future Enterprise and to highlight their requirements with respect to semantic information systems. Disciplines such as Enterprise Modeling, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web Services or Linked Enterprise Data are expected to converge under the topics proposed by the workshop. We invite papers which raise research questions and provide semantic approaches on challenges pertaining to next-generation enterprise information systems and enterprise virtualization. The workshop aims to attract interdisciplinary contributions that are rooted in areas such as Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering, while providing value and advancement opportunities for future enterprises. The proposed array of topics is an acknowledgment of the fact that non-ambiguous representation and processing of semantics can be tackled with a wide range of approaches (e.g. conceptual modeling, natural language, logics, knowledge discovery) and supported by heterogeneous technologies (e.g. ontologies, modeling languages, semantic lifting tools, information retrieval algorithms). Topics * Semantic support for collaborative business networks * Cloud management and semantics for product-service systems * Knowledge acquisition in virtual enterprises * Modeling and simulation of manufacturing processes for Factories of the Future * Description logics for decision support in virtual enterprises * Description, discovery and composition of Semantic Web Services * Description and execution of Semantic Business Processes * Methodologies and technologies for the semantic lifting of legacy enterprise systems * Formal methods for enterprise modeling * Context-awareness in Enterprise Information Systems * Computational semantics and natural language processing for business documents * Reasoning for automated decision making in virtual enterprises * Data linking and ontology management in collaborative business networks * Semantics of cyberphysical systems in Factories of the Future * Security and access control semantics for virtual enterprise resources Submission * The workshop will accept papers of up to 12 pages formatted according to the Springer LNBIP template. The initial submission must be in the PDF format. Important dates * May 1, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * May 17, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection (including revisions based on reviewer comments) * June 1, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop * July 20, 2016 - submission of final papers for publication (including revisions based on workshop feedback) Organizer * Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Business Information Systems Department Chairs * Robert Buchmann * Razvan Petrusel * Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi ** ********************************************************************** (5) 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Integrated Social CRM (iCRM 2016) ** ********************************************************************** http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/icrm-2016/ Integrated Social Customer Relationship Management (Social CRM) is an emerging concept that includes strategies, processes and technologies that bring together Social Media on the Web and CRM processes. However, transforming the large mass of data available on social media into value adding opportunities for companies remains challenging. Today, a variety of software applications based on Web and Text Mining techniques is used for this task. These are helpful for identifying relevant Social Media postings and for extracting basic information (e.g. number of “likes”, occurrence of key words in postings, identification of simple sentiments), but they are insufficient for identifying more complex patterns, for example, semantic relationships between actors, profiles and postings from large, dispersed and unstructured databases. For instance, advanced techniques such as Semantic Business Intelligence (SBI) (e.g., semantic enrichment and disambiguation of social media data, data warehouses based on the semantic Web, semantic interoperability) or Computational Intelligence (CI) (e.g. artificial neural networks, Bayesian models, fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing) promise a great potential to improve the capabilities in knowledge discovery and may also enable new usage scenarios in Social CRM (e.g. impact simulation, network analysis, topic development, trend prediction) in various domains (e.g. tourism, banking, energy, public sector, publishing, health, logistics, education). The workshop aims to shed light on current research efforts targeting the development of innovative tools and methods for intelligent data analysis in Social CRM, resulting in new (integrated) processes and capabilities. The setup is interdisciplinary and invites researchers as well as professionals to contribute research papers, case studies or to present prototypes on relevant topics, both completed and ongoing. The workshop will take place in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the German-Brazilian Partnerships for Social CRM and a tutorial on Data Analysis in Social CRM hosted by the Social CRM Research Center. Topics * Innovative Social CRM tools * Social CRM in business * Novel data analysis algorithms * Data integration and fusion in Social CRM * Innovative and data-driven Social CRM processes * Data enabled Social CRM scenarios * Big data approaches in Social CRM * CRM process support on the Social Web * Requirement and current short comings of Social Analytics * Value of data analysis in Social CRM * Theory development * Case studies representing the current and new scenarios in Social CRM * Crowdsourcing in data analysis * Privacy-preserving analysis * Privacy Management and data analysis in Social CRM * Data quality in Social CRM Analytics Submission * Full research papers: max. 12 pages * Research in progress: max. 7 pages * Case studies and teaching cases: max. 5 pages * Prototypes, including an extended abstract: max. 5 pages Important dates * May 1, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * June 5, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 26, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop and tutorial Organizer * Leipzig University/Social CRM Research Center, Germany Chairs * Rainer Alt * Olaf Reinhold ** ********************************************************************* (6) 2nd International Workshop on Digital Enterprise Engineering and Architecture (IDEA 2016) ** ********************************************************************* http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/idea-2016/ Digitization is the use of digital technologies for creating innovative digital business models and transforming existing business models and processes. Information is captured and processed without human intervention using digital means. Digitization creates profound changes in the economy and society. Digitization has both business and technological perspectives. Digital business models and process are essential for many companies to achieve their strategic goals. Digitization impacts both the product, customer and the value-creation perspective. Digitized products are dynamic, their functionality can be extended on the fly by using external services. They are capable of reflecting on their own status and thus morph the selling of physical assets to services. Digitization changes the relationships with the customer significantly. Personal interaction is replaced by self-service and proactive action. The customer interacts with the enterprise using a multitude of implicit touchpoints created by the Internet of Things. Digitization fosters new models of value creation such as Service-Dominant Logic. Value is also created by platform and network effects. On a technological level, digitization embraces the automation of processes and decisions. Advanced analytics provides the automation of decisions hitherto made by human beings. Typical elements of digital enterprise architectures are the use of decision automation, predictive or even prescriptive analytics. In this way, digital technologies such as service-orientation, cloud computing, big data, mobile or the internet of things enable the creation of new options for enterprises and organizations. Due to the high diversity of concepts, the complexity of systems involved and the heterogeneity of stakeholders, a methodological foundation is crucial to the success of digitization. Therefore, the workshop “Digital Enterprise Engineering and Architecture” integrates business with technological themes and applies methodical and engineering principles to the design of Digital Enterprise Architectures (EA). It strives for deriving the EA from the enterprise goals and strategy and aligning it with the enterprise resources. The workshop embraces concepts from Computer Science, Business Information Systems, and Business Administration. The goal of the workshop is to identify challenges from digitization for enterprises and organizations and to advance Digital Enterprise Engineering and Architecture to cope with these challenges. The workshop shall identify and develop concepts and methods that assist the engineering and the management of digital enterprise architectures and the software systems supporting them. Topics * Methods for the Design and Management of Digital Enterprises * Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategies with the digital enterprise architecture * Digital Strategy and Governance * Architectural patterns for value-co-creation, dynamic and servitized products * Service in digital enterprises * Business process management in Digital Enterprises * Advanced Analytics for the Support of Digital Enterprises * Self-service and automation in Digital Enterprises * Customer journeys and relationship management in digital enterprises * Internet of Things and Digital Enterprises * Impact of digitization on society and economy * Security in Digital Architectures Submission * Full papers: max. 12 pages * Position papers and tool reports: max. 8 pages Important dates * Apr 12, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * May 17, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 24, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizers * Université Paris 1 – Panthéon – Sorbonne, France * MUAS (Munich University of Applied Sciences), Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Germany * Reutlingen University, Germany Chairs * Selmin Nurcan * Rainer Schmidt * Alfred Zimmermann ** ****************************************************************************************** (7) 1st International Workshop on Integrative Analysis and Computation of Life Data for Smart Ecosystems (INCLuDE 2016) ** ****************************************************************************************** http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/include-2016/ The enormous progress in information technologies (IT), in circuit miniaturization as well as the immense efforts in the investigation of biomedical and ecological systems builds a strong basis to realize an optimal, healthy, economically efficient environment. The data flow, coming from sensors, business processes, enquiries, social networks and other manifold sources is extremely complex and dynamic. Therefore, sufficient analysis methods and corresponding IT solutions are crucial for the extraction and handling of the information embedded in the data. The data generating systems need to be investigated separately. However, these systems function or exist in continuous interaction among one another. The content as well as the influence of these relations is partly investigated yet, and poses a huge challenge on innovative concepts, methodologies, models and IT-architectures. New paradigms of thought are needed for empowering science, society and business to understand, design and optimize high-dimensional, spatio- temporally interacting systems and processes. This workshop provides the opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions of problems and potential solutions as well as for cooperation on the fascinating new world of complex life data. Competences from the area of Information Systems, Data Science, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology, Philosophy and Business are required to present complimentary knowledge, advanced approaches and new promising ideas contributing to the investigation of life data determined ecosystems. Topics * Methods for data analysis * Predictive analytics * Data integration * Fusion of data, methods and results * Modelling of complex life processes * Process monitoring * Ecosystem modelling * IT-infrastructures * IT-architectures * Services, e.g. for the extraction, fusion, analytics and presentation of data * Transformation processes * Sources of complex life data, e.g. social media, enterprise databases, health data * Privacy * Data protection * Result interpretation and application Submission * Full research papers: max. 12 pages * Research in progress: max. 7 pages * Case studies and teaching cases: max. 5 pages * Prototypes, including an extended abstract: max. 5 pages Important dates * May 1, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * May 15, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 26, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizers * Information Systems Institute, Leipzig University, Germany * Institute for Applied Informatics at Leipzig University, Germany Chairs * Galina Ivanova * Rainer Alt * Peter Dietrich * Bogdan Franczyk * Markus Löffler ** ************************************************************ (8) 6th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2016) ** ************************************************************ http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/lit-2016/ The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT) Workshop is a gathering of people interested in broadly understood Legal Informatics and its applications. The previous LIT was held in 2013 in Poznań, Poland as part of the 16th International Conference on Business Information Systems. As a continuation of previous editions, every LIT invites people dealing with different domains closely related to legal matter and Information Technology. The 6th Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology Workshop is planned to be a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together practitioners and researchers to investigate challenges and opportunities in the emerging trends on the verge of law and IT. The workshop will examine vital issues, including law-related business processes, legal ontologies, description frameworks, discussing new researches and innovative applications in Law, Information Technology as well as legal application domains (tax, commercial, insurance law, etc). The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in these interdisciplinary domains. Topics * Alternative & online Dispute Resolution * Computational models for legal reasoning * Information extraction & categorization of legal documents * Information Technology & Crime Prevention * Information Technology & Dispute Resolution * Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law * Knowledge management in the legal domain * Law & Future Internet technologies * Legal argumentation * Legal aspects of BIS * Legal aspects of IT * Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning * Legal electronic agents * Legal Expert Systems * Legal ontologies – creation, use & lifecycles * Legal reasoning and its computer representation * Natural language processing in law * Question answering retrieval for law and governmental services * Risk management & trust in law * Semantic indexing of legal documents * Semantic Web technologies in law and e-government * Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law * Specific legal domains appliances (systems in civil, tax, commercial, insurance law) * Text mining and knowledge extraction in law * Validation of legal knowledge Important dates * May 22, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * June 6, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 12, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizers * University of Vienna, Austria * Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland * Victoria University, Australia Chairs * Erich Schweighofer * Piotr Stolarski * John Zeleznikow ** ********************************************************************* (9) Workshop on Process Mining for Security, Privacy, Compliance & Resilience (PMSPCR 2016) ** ********************************************************************* http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/pmspcr-2016/ Security in Business Processes (BP) is an extension to well-known security analysis. Security rules are either defined by regulation, e.g. data protection law, or as guidelines for good conducts, e.g. Basel III or SOX. Business guidelines, e.g. ITIL and COBIT, form a specification of regulation and business conduct, but there are almost no satisfying approaches as far as computer science is concerned. This workshop deals with process mining as a means for security analysis. Three phases may be identified: process analysis before execution, monitoring, or after execution of the BP. With regard to the latter, logs recording the events executed in BP build the basis for Process Mining (PM), which provides methods and tools to ensure compliance to regulations and guidelines. This workshop aims to explore the potentials of process mining to bridge the gap between an analysis of workflows and a certification of compliance and security. We invite innovative and previously undisclosed contributions, but also case studies and best practices, which present the analysis of business processes related to security, resilience and privacy aspects “by design”, during runtime, and forensically, based on the analysis of process logs. In this regard, we explicitly invite submission of practical contributions. Topics * delegation of rights in business processes * agility and resilience of business processes * temporal aspects in business processes * resource impact analysis * forensic log analysis * constraint based obstruction detection and correction/workarounds * interoperability of workflow systems * impacts of interferences on processes * process mining and ex-post analysis of processes * conformance checking * process optimization with external data sources * integration of automated workflows in existing structures Submission * Long papers: max. 12 pages Important dates * April 12, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * May 17, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 14, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizer * Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg Chairs * Günter Müller * Julius Holderer * Adrian Lange *** *********************************************************************** (10) 4th International Workshop on Service Orientation in Computing and Logistics (SOC-LOG 2016) *** *********************************************************************** http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/soc-log-2016/ Service orientation has become a prevalent paradigm for engineering and managing new forms of smart, highly integrative, usage-based business ecosystems. Its significance is being increasingly recognized by research communities that study new approaches for establishing smart service offerings in different domains. Logistics is a service domain that has a particularly high potential of benefiting from service orientation and service-based systems. The objective of logistics is to service individual firms, supply chains and entire industries with flexible means for realizing flows of goods from the point of origin to the point of destination. Logistics relies essentially on the ability to: (1) share resources of different organizations, (2) provide complex services based on configurations of elementary services, (3) coordinate service delivery across organizations, and (4) maintain an agreed quality of service. These requirements match closely to the key characteristics of service-based systems. While recent advances in the engineering and management of such systems have been made, still many questions regarding the design of the models and methods to be used as well as their efficacy and usefulness remain to be answered. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different, though overlapping areas: services computing, information systems, and logistics/supply chain management. The objective is to to discuss the state of the art, on-going projects and open research questions at the intersection of services computing and logistics/supply chain management. The workshop intends to provide a forum for discussing research approaches that will (1) enhance the understanding of the problem domain, (2) provide ideas to solving important problems either in the domain or the models and methods, or (3) evaluate models and methods of services computing by reporting their use through, e.g., case study, experimentation, simulation. The workshop is not restricted to particular research methods and we will consider both conceptual, theoretical and empirical research, as well as novel applications. Topics * Logistics services representation * Servitization of logistics systems * Modularization of services * Logistics service models * Reference models for logistics services * Semantic models for logistics services * Repositories and dictionaries for logistics services * Logistics services description * Syntactical description of logistics services * Semantic description of logistics services * Logistics ontologies / ontologies for logistics services * QoS attributes of logistics services * Contextual and mobility aspects of logistics services * Coordination of logistics services * Discovery of logistics services * Composition of logistics services * Orchestration and choreography of logistics services * Market-based coordination of logistics services, i.e., auctions, exchanges * Data-driven logistics service coordination * Management of logistics services * Logistics service lifecycle management * Logistics service governance, risk and compliance * Logistics service portfolio management * Logistics service level management * Logistics service privacy and security management * Domain-specific SLA models and semantic annotation of SLAs for logistics services * SLA negotiation protocols for logistics services * Accounting, pricing, monitoring of logistics services * Integrating logistics services into service management infrastructures * Delivery of logistics services * Logistics service runtime management and monitoring * Verification of logistics services * Simulation and optimization of logistics services * Transactional safeguarding of logistics services * Service-oriented architectures for the setup and enactment of logistics services * Technologies for service deliveries Submission * Submission system is available at EasyChair Important dates * May 22, 2016 - submission deadline papers * June 5, 2016 - notification of acceptance/rejection * June 12, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizers * University of Hohenheim, Germany * Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg/Germany * Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Chairs * Joerg Leukel * André Ludwig * Alex Norta *** ************************************************************************ (11) 2nd Workshop on Tools for Setting Up and Running a Business in Cloud Computing (TSRB 2016) *** ************************************************************************ http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/workshops/tsrb-2016/ During the last decade technology evolved in a way that resulted in huge amount of data. This evolvement imposed on enterprises, the need to automate their core processes for operational excellence while spending huge amount of money to acquire the infrastructure and the tools to do so. The data repositories developed, provided the means to accrue the significant benefit of leveraging the value hidden in information accumulated during business transactions over time to support decision making and improve performance implying additional investments for the companies. Nowadays, this need becomes crucial for the survival of enterprises since competition becomes more aggressive, profit margins are limited, market becomes more demanding and customers seek experience of high quality and value. Even though, the cost of such infrastructures has been significantly reduced, the economic crisis limited the business budgets (especially for small and medium enterprises) in ways that could not afford setting up high performance infrastructures. The concept of cloud computing provides the solution to address the problem of high cost by providing infrastructures that accommodate the tools needed for setting up and running a business. This workshop invites researchers and business experts to share knowledge by introducing innovative tools for setting up and running a business in cloud computing. We expect practitioners to demonstrate business case presentations or tutorials that will introduce the sophisticated technologies and skills needed to capture transactions and process business data: (a) to operate business and (b) to find patterns and relationships from past transactions to make decisions and to improve an organization’s performance and decision making ability. Topics * Cloud Computing: Solutions and Best Practices * Innovative Cloud Business Products and Services * Advanced Cloud-based Ecosystems * In-memory Computing * Business Intelligence and Data Analytics * Advanced Cloud Management Solutions: Financials, HR, Sales, Procurement, Billing, Order Management, etc. * Advanced Knowledge-Based Business Information Systems * Decision Support Systems * Digital Businesses Submission * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Important dates * May 29, 2016 - submission deadline for papers * June 20, 2016- notification of acceptance/rejection * June 30, 2016 - submission of final papers * July 6-8, 2016 - workshop Organizer * Cyprus Telecommunication Authority Chair * Hariklea Kazeli *** **************** (12) Doctoral Consortium *** **************** http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/doctoral-consortium/ The BIS Doctoral Consortium provides a forum where PhD students can share their work and interact with their peers as wells as senior scholars to receive valuable feedback on their work. By creating a collegial and friendly atmosphere, the objective of the consortium is to support PhD students in the effective design, implementation, and communication of their research. In particular, each student will be assigned a mentor who will also provide in-depth private feedback. In addition, the consortium offers opportunities for networking and, through the proceedings, publishing early results. Similarly to the BIS Conference, the consortium is open to PhD students from areas concerned with the development, implementation and application of business information systems, based on innovative ideas and computational intelligence methods. The consortium is not restricted to particular research methods and we will consider conceptual, theoretical and empirical research as well as novel applications. Presentation and Publication All accepted papers will be presented during the plenary sessions. Revised papers will be published in a volume of the LNBIP series (Springer). The consortium will be structured into three parts: 1) Plenary session including paper presentations by PhD students (30 minutes each), 2) Mentoring sessions of each one mentor and one or two students (60 minutes), 3) Final session to summarize results and feedback (30 minutes). Submission Applications should submit the following two documents: * Dissertation proposal: This paper should outline the research in form of an extended abstract (research question; justification for the importance of the research; description of the research approach, theoretical foundation, and methodology; progress report). Formatting should follow the LNBIP guidelines. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (including abstract and references). * Motivation letter: This two-page letter should include: a description of why the consortium is important to you; affiliation and contact details of the supervisor; short CV. All documents must be submitted in English. All dissertation proposals will be peer-reviewed. The selection will be based on quality, relevance of the research, and potential impact to the field. Important Dates * May 1, 2016 - submission of applications * May 23, 2016 - notification of acceptance * May 31, 2016 - registration deadline (early bird rate) * June 13, 2016 - submission of revised papers or consortium (including revisions based on reviewer comments) * July 6, 2016 - doctoral consortium * July 20, 2016 - submission of revised papers for publication (including revisions based on consortium feedback) Organizer * University of Hohenheim, Germany Chair * Jörg Leukel *** Rainer Alt, Prof. Dr. Leipzig University Information Systems Institute http://www.iwi.uni-leipzig.de/as facebook.com/IWIASLEIPZIG _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [computational.science] Call for Participation - The 1st MENA Spring School on Big Data Analytics (MENA-BDA)
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for Participation - The 1st MENA Spring School on Big Data Analytics (MENA-BDA) Datum: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:42:57 +0000 Von: Zakaria Maamar <Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Apologies if you receive this message many times! ************************************************************************ The 1st MENA Spring School on Big Data Analytics (MENA-BDA) Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates April 17-21, 2016 http://tinyurl.com/menabda2016 ************************************************************************ Description ------------ The 1st Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Spring School on Big Data Analytics (BDA) is an intensive hands-on introduction to the timely topic of big data along with its associated sub-topics such as statistics, data mining, text mining, sentiment analysis, and development technologies. The school targets primarily graduate students, faculty, and researchers who have a keen interest in the exciting and fast-growing field of big data. It also targets developers of big data solutions who would like to weave these applications in decision-making processes. The school will discuss, through lectures, case studies, hands-on assignments, and round-tables, the concepts and techniques that underpin data science in general and big data in particular. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the MENA region has seen a phenomenal growth in all aspects of life including political, economic, societal, and educational, requiring new ways of thinking, managing, and operating. Indeed the Internet penetration-rate in the Middle East is among the highest in the world.. The MENA-BDA school will introduce participants to the necessary concepts and techniques for harnessing this growth’s challenges. The school will consist of lectures –to provide participants with a sound understanding of big-data foundations- and hands-on sessions –to apply those foundations using the latest technologies. Some topics to discuss during the school include advanced statistics, data mining, text mining, and technologies such as Hadoop and Spark. No prior knowledge of the subject is required. However, participants should have some minimal programming skills in Java, for example, and/or basic knowledge of databases and SQL language. Recognized scientists from different parts of the world and industrial experts will deliver the lectures and conduct hands-on sessions. The venue of the school is the Dubai Campus of Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (www.zu.ac.ae). Topics of the school ----------------------- The following topics will be covered during the school. Others may be added to accommodate the audience: 1. General foundations of data mining and Big Data 2. Data Quality in Big Data; 3. Neural networks and Depp Learning 4. Evolving data structures and mining examples 5. Sentiment analysis and Fraud detection 6. Large scale news feeds ranking systems 7. Large scale Ads systems 8. Use cases Students and young researchers will also have the opportunity to present their work in the area of data mining and big data analytics in conjunction with the different talks. They will receive feedback and guidance from our lecturers as well as from the attendees. School’s Speakers/Lecturers -------------------------------- The speakers of the school combine a very rich experience in both academia and industry. They will share some aspects related to the foundations, insights, trends, and current efforts in the big data world. 1. Prof. Athena Vakali, Thessaloniki University, Greece 2. Dr. Laure Berti-Equile, QCRI , Qatar 3. Prof. Patrick Gallinari, University of Paris 6, France 4. Dr. Shengbo Guo, Facebook, USA 5. Dr. Hakim Hacid, Zayed University, UAE Student/Young Researchers Submission --------------------------------------------- As part of the spring school, students (e.g., PhD and Master) and young researchers (e.g., Postdocs) are invited to submit their current work for evaluation and presentation during the school. The submitted work will be evaluated by the lecturers, the organizing committee, and additional members from the research community of Big data analytics. Submitted articles should not exceed 4 pages (free format for the submission). Further instructions will be posted on the school website. Organizing committee ------------------------- 1. Dr. Hakim Hacid, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. 2. Dr. Zakaria Maamar, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. 3. Dr. Omar Alfandi, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu-Dhabi, UAE. To learn more about the 1st Middle East and North Africa Spring School on Big Data Analytics, visit our website or do not hesitate to contact us at MENA-BDA-2016(a)zu.ac.ae Zakaria Maamar زكريا معمر Acting Dean عميد بالإنابة College of Technological Innovation كلية الإبتكار التقني P.O. Box 19282 Dubai, U.A.E | T:+971 4 402 1461 | M: w w w . z u . a c . a e Accredited by Middle States Commission on Higher Education Disclaimer:This e-mail and the files(s) attached to it are confidential and belong to the intended receiver (unit) only.In case you are not the intended receiver of this letter, or if you have received it by mistake, please advise the sender and delete it along with its attached file(s) from your system immediately. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: "Access (or Sharing) Economy" Minitrack at the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2017)
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: "Access (or Sharing) Economy" Minitrack at the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2017) Datum: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:52:39 -1000 Von: Bo Xiao <boxiao(a)hawaii.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-50 2017 Minitrack: Access (or Sharing) Economy (Collaboration Systems and Technology track) Sharing is ingrained in the fabric of society and efficient access to goods and services constitutes a major force driving much of the economic activity today. With greater connectivity brought about by the proliferation of internetworking technologies, it has become much easier for individuals to circumvent spatial and temporal barriers during interactions, thereby giving rise to a novel access (or sharing) economy that is structured around the disintermediation of conventional channels of commerce in the exchange of both tangible and intangible resources. The access (or sharing) economy has gained notable attention within mainstream media as a new economic paradigm that leverages peer-to-peer technological platforms to facilitate exchange of resources among individuals who are joined via fluid relational networks. Almost overnight, numerous peer-to-peer platforms in the likes of crowd-working (e.g., Airbnb, Uber, Amazon Mechanic Turk, E-Lance, Fiverr), co-innovation (e.g., Mindmixer, Social Innovator), crowd-funding (e.g., Kickstarter, Indiegogo), crowd-searching (e.g., Crowdfynd, CrowdSearching), and crowd-voting (e.g., California Report Card, Threadless) have sprung up to facilitate both individuals and/or organizations to pool resources in resolving problems. While there are many practitioners who have prophesized the access (or sharing) economy as a game-changer for how organizations and society function, there are also a number of detractors who questioned the uncertain and potentially disruptive future that is brought about by such peer-to-peer exchanges. Critics have painted a dismal picture of the access (or sharing) economy as a means for individuals and/or firms to dodge proper regulations and live beyond their means, which in turn contributes to doomsday scenarios of massive job displacements and spending habits detrimental to society. In light of the opportunities and challenges posed by the access (or sharing) economy, there is a clear urgency for a systematic and thorough scrutiny of how value creation and appropriation can take place within such economic environments while minimizing its negative impact to society. This minitrack embraces both retrospective and progressive views of how the access (or sharing) economy has evolved and would transform with technological advances. We welcome papers that identify and address knowledge gaps in how emergent technologies are shaping the access and sharing of resources within online peer-to-peer communities. Papers that subscribe to inter-disciplinary perspectives and/or adopt mixed methods are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -- Collaborative consumption and production in access (or sharing) economy -- Crowdfunding and communal investment -- Crowdsourcing and open innovation -- Crowd platform strategies -- Data privacy and security in access access (or sharing) economy -- Design and innovation of crowd platforms -- Digital business models of access access (or sharing) economy -- Digital labor markets and workforce management in access (or sharing) economy -- Disruptive innovation in access (or sharing) economy -- Market mechanics of access (or sharing) economy -- Policy formulation for access (or sharing) economy -- Reputation and trust in access (or sharing) economy -- Social network in access (or sharing) economy -- Socio-economic and political challenges of access (or sharing) economy -- Value appropriation in access (or sharing) economy MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS: Bo Sophia Xiao Information Technology Management Department Shidler College of Business University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Honolulu, HI, USA Tel: +1 (808) 956-7368 Fax: +1 (808) 956-9889 Email: boxiao(a)hawaii.edu Website: http://shidler.hawaii.edu/directory/bo-sophia-xiao/itm Eric Lim School of Information Systems, Technology and Management Australian School of Business University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Tel: +61 (2) 9385-4688 Fax: +61 (2) 9662-4061 Email: e.t.lim(a)unsw.edu.au Website: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/eric-t-k-lim.aspx Chee-Wee Tan Department of IT Management Copenhagen Business School Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark Tel: +45 3815-4460 Email: cta.itm(a)cbs.dk Website: http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ctaitm IMPORTANT DATES: *June 15 (11:59 pm, Hawaii Time): Deadline to submit full manuscripts for review. *August 16: Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to authors. *September 4: Submission deadline for papers accepted with mandatory changes. Please follow Author Instructions (http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp) for all details on submitting a paper to an upcoming HICSS Conference. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data Datum: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:45:23 +0000 Von: OBD Conference <obd.conference(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ----------------------Call for Papers----------------------------------------- The 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD 2016) 22-24 August 2016, Vienna, Austria http://www.ficloud.org/obd2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE CS-TCI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. Open Data on the other hand can make Big Data more useful and widely accessible. The combination of Open and Big data can benefit users, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2016) is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of open and big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Challenges and opportunities in open and big data - Data models and architectures - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS in open and big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Open and big data in cloud and IoT PUBLICATION: All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services; Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see Journal Special Issues section). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2016 Authors Notification: 30 May 2016 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2016 General Chair: A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Program Co-Chairs: David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada Local Organising Chairs: Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Christine Strauss, University of Vienna, Austria Publication Chair: Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Workshop Coordinator: Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Advisory Committee: Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Katarzyna Wac, University of Geneva, Switzerland Keith Jeffery, Independent Consultant and Ex-Director IT at STFC RAL, UK Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, University of Copenhagen, Denmark David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] Extended deadline for Focus section on "Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems" - IxD&A Journal
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Extended deadline for Focus section on "Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems" - IxD&A Journal Datum: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:40:55 +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 /Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Focus section on *"Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems"* to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2015 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=c… ========================================================= Guest Editors:  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy • Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy • Andrej Košir, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bolzano, Italy/ =========================================== Important dates: ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *March 14, 2016 -> extended* • Notification to the authors: April 10, 2016 -> extended • Publication of the special issue: end of May, 2016 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Personality and emotions shape our daily lives by having a strong influence on our preferences, decisions and behaviour in general. Hence, personalized systems that want to adapt to end users need to be aware of the user’s personality and emotions to perform well. Recently, there have been extensive studies on the role of personality on user preferences, gaming styles and learning styles. Furthermore, some studies showed that it is possible to extract personality information about a user without annoying questionnaires, by analyzing the publicly available user’s social media feeds. Also, the affective computing community has developed sophisticated techniques that allow for accurate and unobtrusive emotion detection. Such affective information can be used in various personalized systems like recommender systems. In recent years, emotions and personality have shown to play an important role in various aspects of recommender systems, such as implicit feedback, contextual information, affective content labeling, cold-start problem, diversity, cross-domain recommendations, group recommendations etc. With the development of robust techniques for the unobtrusive acquisition of emotions (e.g. from various modalities, such as video or physiological sensors) and personality (e.g. from social media) the time is right to take advantage of these possibilities to collect massive datasets and improve recommender systems. The focus section of IxD&A aims at sharing research papers discussing innovative opportunities and challenges on the usage of affect and personality to improve personalized systems. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interests* ----------------------------------------------------------- We welcome papers on any of the following topics, and related ones: • Usage of affect and personality to improve personalized systems • Implicit detection of affect and personality for personalized systems • Computational models of emotion and personality • Affect and personality as contextual factors • Affect and personality in cross domain recommenders • Affect and personality-based evaluation methods • Affect and personality with human decision making • Affect and personality in group recommenders • Privacy aspects of the usage of affect and personality in personalized systems • Affect and personality in connection to social media =========================================== Submission procedure ---------------------------------------------------------- The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php ========================================================== Authors' guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php (when submitting the paper please choose Domain Subjects under: "IxD&A focus section on: ‘Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems') More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advices and for any query please contact the guest-editors: /• marco [dot] degemmis [at] uniba [dot] it // //• berardina [dot] decarolis [at] uniba [dot] it // //• marko [dot] tkalcic [at] jku [dot] at// //• andrej [dot] kosir [at] fe [dot] uni-lj [dot] si/ marking the subject as: 'IxD&A focus section on: 'Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems' " ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** 2015: IxD&A Stats **** ---------------------------------------------------------------- See: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=403 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Forthcoming issues:* http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Summer 2016 'The Social Innovation capacity of Open Education and Learning' Guest Editors: Carlo Giovannella & Demetrios Sampson http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=c… /with a focus section on: /"Experiences of Technology Appropriation: Unanticipated Users, Usage, Circumstances, and Design" Guest Editors: Alina Krischkowsky, Nervo Verdezoto, Manfred Tscheligi/, /Michael Muller http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=c… • Autumn 2016 'On Making' Guest Editors: Joep Frens & Patrizia Marti http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=c… with a focus section on:/ 'Player and Learner eXperience' Guest Editors: Monica Divitini, Gabriella Dodero, Rosella Gennari http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=c… • Winter 2016 'Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development' Guest Editors: Alke Martens, Radu Vasiu, Annika Wolff ----------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 18th International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2016 (ICEC 2016)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 18th International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2016 (ICEC 2016) Datum: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:27:32 +0900 Von: Sung-Byung Yang <sbyang(a)ajou.ac.kr> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CALL FOR PAPERS for the 18th International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2016 (ICEC 2016) "e-Commerce in Smart Connected World" We invite you to submit a paper to be considered for inclusion in the Program of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2016. Accepted papers will be presented on August 17-19, 2016. The detailed information will be available in due course through the conference website (www.icec.net/icec2016 <http://www.icec.net/icec2016> ). For further inquiries, please feel free to contact the Program Secretariat (contact(a)icec.net <mailto:contact@icec.net> ) or the Conference Secretariat (icec2016(a)mci-group.com <mailto:icec2016@mci-group.com> ). [Theme] The theme of the ICEC 2016 is "e-Commerce in Smart Connected World". With the advent of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies, e-Commerce expands to deal with smart connected products and smart connected services. The emergence of smart connected products and services has been changing the way of doing business of incumbents and startups, their business models, and the commerce among them itself. Firms and their executives should be aware of the change and the impacts and prepare for the new business models and processes based on their products and services. The authors are asked to find ways to balance the technical aspects and managerial aspects of e-Commerce in utilizing this new trend and encouraged to cover some of the characteristics of the theme and analyze real businesses and technology cases. [Topics] Topics include, but are not limited to: - Smart Connected Products and Services - Smart and Wearable Technologies - Smart Health & Hospitals - Smart Tourism and Smart Logistics - Internet of Things and e-Commerce - Mobile and Social Commerce - O2O Commerce and Economics of e-Commerce - Social Media and Digital Marketing - FinTech: Mobile Payments, Bitcoin & Blockchain - Data Mining & Big Data Analytics - AI and Deep Learning for e-Commerce - Social Network Analysis and Network Science - Human Computer Interactions - Bright Internet and Cybersecurity - Cloud Services and Service Innovation - LPWAN and LTE-MTC Applications [Important Dates] Paper Submission Deadline: April 13, 2016 Paper Decision: May 24, 2016 Camera-ready papers and abstracts: June 15, 2016 [Journal Publication Arrangements] High quality papers from ICEC 2016 will be invited to be fast-tracked (at the authors' prerogative) to: - Information & Management (Listed in SCI/SSCI/Scopus/etc.) - A special issue on "Smart Tourism" - Technological Forecasting & Social Change (Listed in SCI/SSCI/Scopus/etc.) - A special issue on "Smart Tourism" - Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (Listed in KCI) - A special issue on "Smart Connected World" - Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems (Listed in Korean Citation Index: KCI) - Journal of the Korea Service Management Society (Listed in Korean Citation Index) - Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management (Listed in Korean Citation Index) - Other well-reputed journals to be added Please note that all the invited papers must be substantially revised, expanded, and rewritten so that they are significantly different from the conference paper on which it is based. The authors will be required to clarify the difference between the conference paper and their new submission. [Paper Submission] Please submit your papers here (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icec2016). The online submission system is hosted by EasyChair Conference System. If you don't have an EasyChair account, please create one and then log on to make your submission. The deadline for paper submission is April 13, 2016. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles should be limited to 8 pages in length totally (including also abstract and references), and follow the ACM Proceeding guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). The official ACM Proceedings format is available as a template in MS Word format (https://goo.gl/GuPqA5). Please submit your manuscript in PDF format via the EasyChair system. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library within its International Conference Proceedings Series. ******************************************************* Sung-Byung Yang Ph.D. of Management Engineering (e-Biz & MIS) Assistant Professor School of Business Ajou University 206 Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 16499, Korea E-mail: <mailto:sbyang@ajou.ac.kr> sbyang(a)ajou.ac.kr Tel: +82-31-219-2726 Fax: +82-31-219-1616 ******************************************************* _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] 1st CfP: UMAP Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (EvalUMAP 2016)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 1st CfP: UMAP Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (EvalUMAP 2016) Datum: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:01:20 +0000 Von: Kevin Koidl <kevin.koidl(a)scss.tcd.ie> Antwort an: Kevin Koidl <kevin.koidl(a)scss.tcd.ie> An: ah(a)listserver.tue.nl ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= EvalUMAP 2016 Workshop Towards comparative evaluation in user modeling, adaptation and personalization http://evalumap.adaptcentre.ie/ ================================================================ To be held in conjunction with the 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2016, July 2016, Halifax, Canada Call for Papers Submission deadline: May 7, 2016 Research in the areas of User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization faces a number of significant scientific challenges. One of the most significant of these challenges is the issue of comparative evaluation. It has always been difficult to rigorously compare different approaches to personalization, as the function of the resulting systems is, by their nature, heavily influenced by the behaviour of the users involved in trialling the systems. To-date this topic has received relatively little attention. Developing comparative evaluations in this space would be a huge advancement as it would enable shared comparison across research, which to-date has been very limited. Taking inspiration from communities such as Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, the first EvalUMAP Workshop seeks to propose and design one or more shared tasks to support the comparative evaluation of approaches to User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization. The workshop will solicit presentations from key practitioners in the field on innovative approaches to evaluating such systems and will provide a forum to start scoping and designing tasks for the following year. The resulting shared task(s) will be accompanied by appropriate models, content, metadata, user behaviours, etc., and can be used to comprehensively compare how different approaches and systems perform. In addition, a number of metrics and observations will be outlined, that participants would be expected to perform in order to facilitate comparison. The planned outcome of the EvalUMAP Workshop 2016 will be a roadmap to develop initial shared task(s) that will be published well in advance of UMAP 2017, giving an opportunity for participants to test and tune their systems and complete the task in order for comparative results and associated publications to be prepared for and presented at the EvalUMAP Workshop in 2017. We envision that EvalUMAP 2017 will be the starting point for an annual comparative evaluation challenge at future UMAP conferences. *Workshop topics are evaluation focused and include, but are not limited to:* - Understanding UMAP evaluation - Defining tasks and scenarios for evaluation purposes - Identification of potential corpora for shared tasks - Interesting target tasks and explanations of their importance - Critiques or comparisons of existing evaluation metrics and methods - How we can combine existing evaluation metrics and methods - Improving on previously suggested metrics and methods - Reducing the cost of evaluation - Proposal of new evaluation metrics and methods - Technical challenges associated with design and implementation - Privacy, Ethics and security issues - Legal and ethical issues - Workshop format: This will be an interactive workshop structured to encourage group discussion and active collaboration among attendees. The workshop will feature a keynote talk, lightning round presentation session for position papers, multiple (parallel) breakout sessions, and a final discussion session to wrap up the event. *Paper Submissions* The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Position papers (max 2 pages) describing approaches or ideas / challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evalumap2016 no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on May 7, 2016. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the UMAP 2016 EvalUMAP workshop proceedings, which will be indexed with CEUR. Authors of select papers may be invited to contribute to a journal publication which describes the outcomes of the workshop. *Important Dates* May 7, 2016: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight Time) June 1, 2016: Notification to authors June 7, 2016: Camera-ready paper due July, 2016: Full-day Workshop during UMAP *Further Information* Further information is available on the workshop website at http://evalumap.adaptcentre.ie/ or by emailing the workshop organizers at evalumap(a)adaptcentre.ie. *Workshop Organizers* Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Liadh Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Kevin Koidl, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Séamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Killian Levacher, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Athanasios Staikopoulos, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: UMAP 2016 Workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems (SOAP)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: UMAP 2016 Workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems (SOAP) Datum: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:39:13 +0100 Von: Marko Tkalcic <marko.tkalcic(a)gmail.com> An: sw-ergo(a)gui-design.de <sw-ergo(a)gui-design.de>, collab(a)sims.berkeley.edu <collab(a)sims.berkeley.edu>, bcs-hci(a)jiscmail.ac.uk <bcs-hci(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>, HCITALY(a)CNUCE.CNR.IT <HCITALY(a)CNUCE.CNR.IT>, chisigmail(a)chisig.org <chisigmail(a)chisig.org>, chi-II(a)acm.org <chi-II(a)acm.org>, cscw-all(a)jiscmail.ac.uk <cscw-all(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>, ubicomp-announcements(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk <ubicomp-announcements(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, announcements(a)ubicomp.org <announcements(a)ubicomp.org>, uai(a)ENGR.ORST.EDU <uai(a)ENGR.ORST.EDU>, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu <agents(a)cs.umbc.edu>, kdml(a)cs.uni-kassel.de <kdml(a)cs.uni-kassel.de>, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, cogsci(a)psy.utexas.edu <cogsci(a)psy.utexas.edu>, game_edu(a)igda.org <game_edu(a)igda.org>, community(a)ismir.net <community(a)ismir.net>, announce(a)emotion-research.net <announce(a)emotion-research.net>, hci-link-owner(a)lists.uni-paderborn.de <hci-link-owner(a)lists.uni-paderborn.de>, um(a)di.unito.it <um(a)di.unito.it>, ah(a)listserver.tue.nl <ah(a)listserver.tue.nl>, abis(a)l3s.de <abis(a)l3s.de>, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)acm.org <CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)acm.org> **** Apologies for cross postings **** Workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems (SOAP) held in conjunction with UMAP 2016, July 13-17, Halifax, NS, Canada. https://soapworkshop2016.wordpress.com Call for Papers The phenomenon often referred to as the "filter-bubble", i.e., the effect that collaborative, as well as content-based recommender systems keep making obvious, uninspiring, and therefore disengaging suggestions based on previous interactions, has emphasized the value of system qualities beyond pure accuracy, e.g., diversity, novelty, serendipity, or unexpectedness, to keep the user satisfied. In addition to these, in this workshop, we want to explore concepts beyond these qualities, namely surprise, opposition, and obstruction. Surprise relates to existing concepts like serendipity in complex scenarios. Opposition, as an extreme form of variation, is highly subjective and context-dependent. Obstruction refers to the intentional restriction of functionality through the machine in an active manner by "embodying opposition". We are interested in these aspects in the context of personalized and adaptive systems, such as recommender systems, user modeling, e.g., through personality-based preference models, and creative processes, such as music making, that are facilitated through collaborations with intelligent machines and their effect on creative output. (More details can be found at https://soapworkshop2016.wordpress.com/background/) Topics of Interest: ------------------- - Surprise and unexpectedness in retrieval and recommender systems - Serendipity, diversity, and novelty - User-centric evaluation studies on aspects of diversity and serendipity - Inspirational recommender systems - Aspects of personalization in inspirational systems - Formal models of creativity - User models dealing with opposition and "otherness" - The roles of chance and randomness in intelligent and user-adaptive systems - Imitation, subversion, and opposition in creative and cooperative systems - Learning to variate - Models for obstruction in collaborative scenarios - Case studies of intelligent systems in creative domains, e.g., music creation - Automatic improvisation and variation systems - Intelligent accompaniment - Personalized sound quality verbalization and semantic embeddings - Sound retrieval for music creators Important Dates and Submission Format: -------------------------------------- Workshop paper submission deadline: May 7, 2016 Notification to authors: June 1, 2016 Camera-ready paper: June 7, 2016 Publication of electronic proceedings: June 30, 2016 The SOAP workshop will be held in a mini-conference style. Based on the recency of the above mentioned developments in recommender systems, music creation, and even computational creativity research, we consider this to be a breaking topic highly relevant to the UMAP community and beyond. We ask prospective participants to submit a paper detailing their position or technical contribution with regard to the questions discussed above prior to the workshop. To this end, we allow for different types of paper entries (non-anonymized, all in the main conference's ACM format): - position paper (extended abstract, up to 4 pages) - technical short paper (up to 6 pages) - technical full paper (up to 10 pages) Submissions are to be made through the SOAP submission website on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sooap2016 Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee to select participants. Authors of accepted submissions will be required to give a short presentation at the workshop. Accepted submissions will be compiled and published as online proceedings through CEUR-WS.org in the UMAP 2016 Extended Proceedings. Organizers: ----------- Peter Knees, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Kristina Andersen, STEIM, Amsterdam, Netherlands Alan Said, Recorded Future, Gothenburg, Sweden Marko Tkalčič, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Contact: soapworkshop2016 AT easychair DOT org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Marko Tkalcic mailto:marko.tkalcic@gmail.com http://markotkalcic.wordpress.com Skype : markotkalcic Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/RecSysMare Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markotkalcic Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JQ2puysAAAAJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] 2nd CFP ICLP 2016, New York City: 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming, Oct 17-21
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 2nd CFP ICLP 2016, New York City: 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming, Oct 17-21 Datum: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:38:51 +0200 (EET) Von: Peter Schueller <peter.schuller(a)marmara.edu.tr> Antwort an: Peter Schueller <peter.schuller(a)marmara.edu.tr> Second Call For Papers 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming New York City, USA October 17-21, 2016 http://software.imdea.org/Conferences/ICLP2016/ Conference Scope Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the pre- mier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. - Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Han- dling Rules, Tabling. - Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. - Related Paradigms: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Soft- ware Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates Paper registration (abstract): 22 April, 2016 Submission deadline: 29 April, 2016 Notification to authors: 17 June, 2016 Revision deadline (when needed): 8 July, 2016 Final notification: 22 July, 2016 Camera-ready copy due: 5 Aug, 2016 Conference: 17-21 Oct, 2016 Submission Details Submissions of regular papers must be made in the condensed TPLP format (see http://software.imdea.org/Conferences/ICLP2016/TPLP-ICLP-2016.tar) via Easy- Chair (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2016). A regular paper must not exceed 14 pages including the bibliography, but the paper may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards this limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. We accept three kinds of papers: - Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; - Application papers that impact interesting application domains; - System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge Uni- versity Press (CUP). In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the deci- sion period). The program committee may recommend some papers to be published as technical communications. Technical communications (TCs) will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/). These TC papers should not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. Authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the TCs. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. All regular papers and regular TCs will be presented during the conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Pro- gramming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization General Chairs: Michael Kifer Stony Brook University, USA Neng-Fa Zhou City University of New York, USA Program Chairs: Manuel Carro UPM and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Andy King University of Kent, UK Workshop Chair: Marcello Balduccini Drexel University, USA Publicity Chair: Peter Schueller Marmara University, Turkey Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Programming Contest Chair: Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA Web Presence: Joaquin Arias IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Preliminary Program Committee: Marcello Balduccini Drexel University, USA Mutsunori Banbara Kobe University, Japan Roman Bartak Charles University, Czech Republic Pedro Cabalar University of Corunna, Spain Mats Carlsson SICS, Sweden Manuel Carro UPM and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy Gregory Duck National University of Singapore, Singapore Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Turkey Wolfgang Faber University of Huddersfield, UK Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm, Germany John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark, and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Marco Gavanelli Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy Martin Gebser University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Hanus CAU Kiel, Germany Katsumi Inoue NII, Japan Gerda Janssens KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium Andy King University of Kent, UK Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University, UK Michael Leuschel University of Dusseldorf, Germany Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas, USA Jose F. Morales IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Jorg Puhrer Leipzig University, Germany Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal Zoltan Somogyi Independent Researcher, Australia Harald Sondergaard University of Melbourne, Australia Theresa Swift NOVALINKS, US, and UNL, Portugal Francesca Toni Imperial College London, UK Irina Trubitsyna University of Calabria, Italy Mirek Truszczynski University of Kentucky, USA Alicia Villanueva Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jan Wielemaker VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Stefan Woltran TU Wien, Austria Fangkai Yang Schlumberger Inc., USA Jia-Huai You University of Alberta, Canada Workshops The ICLP 2016 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportuni- ties for intensive discussions and project collaboration. Autumn School on Computational Logic A school on computational logic is planned. More up to date information will be available at the conference Web page. Doctoral Consortium The Eleventh Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research direc- tions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Conference Venue The venue will be the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Flushing, New York City. New York City is an international tourist destination, receiving 56 million tourists in 2014 alone. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world. Times square, known as the city's heart, is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theatre district. The Statue of Liberty greets new arrivals to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th century, and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States. Flush- ing is associated by many with the National Tennis Centre, since Flushing Meadows has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament every year since 1978. New York is the most populous city in the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Situated in one of the world's largest natural harbours, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The conference hotel is situated in the Queens borough, just a two-minute walk from the Flushing-Main Street rail station. Direct train lines take you directly from there to Times Square in just over 45 minutes, which is fast for New York City. The Museum of Modern Art can be reached in under 40 mins, Grand Central Terminal in 40 mins, the Empire State Building under 50 mins, and The High Line Park in 50 minutes. The hotel is also close to LaGuardia Airports and JFK. LaGuardia is just 3 miles away and the hotel offers a complementary shuttle service. John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is 10 miles away and can be reached within 30 minutes by taxi. The hotel is situated in a vibrant Asian district that offers a variety of Eastern cuisine, as well as many stores and shops. Sponsor The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). Financial Assistance The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disad- vantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

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