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Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: ScalA@SC 2016 - Papers due August 28
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: ScalA@SC 2016 - Papers due August 28 Datum: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:21:34 -0400 Von: Christian Engelmann <engelmannc(a)computer.org> An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA16: Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC16: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 13, 2016, Salt Lake City, UT, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2016> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https:// easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala16>. Full papers will be published with the SC'16 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission: August 28, 2016 - Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2016 - Final paper submission (firm): October 7, 2016 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 13, 2016 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.iccsa.org For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.iccsa.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP on IoT - IJITSA - Aug.31.2016
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP on IoT - IJITSA - Aug.31.2016 Datum: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:49:22 -0500 (CDT) Von: mmora(a)securenym.net An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): luiz-angelo.steffenel(a)univ-reims.fr Calls for Papers (special): International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) Special Issue On: Computing Challenges on IoT and Pervasive Systems Submission Due Date 8/31/2016 Guest Editors Luiz Angelo Steffenel (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France) Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Introduction In the next 25 years, most of the things and devices we interact with will be linked to a global computing infrastructure (Broy & Schmidt,2014). This massive integration of communicating capabilities on physical objects symbolizes the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT represents a new tendency on IT industry, in which physical environment is populated by interconnected and communicating objects, capable of interacting with each other and with the environment itself. The strength of this concept lies in the seamlessly integration of sensors, actuators and other devices in the environment in a large scale, allowing interacting and collecting information from this. According to Sundmaeker et al. (2010), things on the IoT are expected to become active, participating in business, information and social process. Several factors are contributing the increasing development of IoT, among them the cost of sensors, bandwidth and processing power that have decline in the last years (Jones, 2014). Thanks to current technology and its reducing costs, IoT is already becoming a reality. Nowadays, it is possible to put a wireless interface on almost all every day object, making possible interaction between them (Paridel et al., 2010). Such communicating capabilities open countless opportunities in different application domains, like health-care and smart cities, just to name a very few. One of the most important outcomes of IoT is the possibility of creating an unprecedented amount of data, which has to be stored and used intelligently for smart monitoring and actuation (Gubbi et al., 2013). This ability of sensing physical phenomena or triggering actions on the physical reality is what differentiates IoT from traditional networked systems. IoT focus is on data and information, since, from the conceptual standpoint, IoT is about entities acting as providers and/or consumers of data related to the physical world (Miorandi et al., 2012). The challenge therefore concerns how to opportunistically explore collected information from IoT environment. Appropriate data analysis and data mining techniques are necessary in order to explore IoT data, but analyzing such data represents a scalability issue, both on the data volume and on its distribution over the environment. The collected data is also characterized by its dynamicity and its heterogeneity, which represents an interesting challenge for data analysis techniques. To fully exploit the potential of billions of loosely connected devices, IoT applications and systems must face communication, data management, security and computing challenges without precedent. Currently, computing IoT data is been performed mostly on cloud computing infrastructures since storage and computing power of IoT devices is often limited. Indeed, cloud computing are offering powerful and flexible capabilities for running IoT data services and applications by using Internet infrastructure (Serrano et al., 2013). By using cloud platforms, it is possible to analyze increasingly volume of data, following an on-demand model, in which new resources can be easily allocated according application needs. Despite its advantages, cloud platforms have also some important drawbacks. Among these, we may cite security and privacy concerns, as well as network latency (Hofmann & Woods, 2010). Indeed, the transfer of large volume of data from IoT environments to cloud platforms may be significantly costly and time consuming. As response time is a potential source of problems for delay-sensitive applications (idem, 2010), some recent works focus on how to leverage the available resources closer to the user through the use of pervasive grids, alone or in collaboration with distant cloud infrastructures. Pervasive grids seamlessly integrate pervasive sensing/actuating instruments and devices together with classical high performance systems (Parashar & Pierson, 2010), and represent an opportunity to deploy computing and data analysis tasks in computing resources available around IoT devices, minimizing data transfer over distant network. Pervasive grids offer the possibility of consuming computing power and storage from any available resources, independently of its nature, from small devices like Raspberry Pi up to clusters or cloud infrastructures (Steffenel & Kirsch-Pinheiro, 2015). In spite of the recent advances on IoT, there are still several challenges to be tackled when carrying computations, data analysis and data management in systems at the IoT scale. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of IoT and pervasive systems targeting cloud and pervasive platforms for IoT. More specifically, we look for network, data management and data mining techniques adapted to the dynamicity and scalability of IoT. Objective This special issue aims at promoting and disseminating the recent advances in the field of computing and data management on Internet of Things (IoT) and Pervasive Systems, both at academic and industry level, with a special focus on dynamicity and scalability issues. Recommended Topics Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: Big Data and Data analytics for IoT on clouds or Pervasive Systems Data-intensive computing on hybrid infrastructures (clusters, clouds, grids, P2P) Challenges in big data storage and processing on heterogeneous environments Pervasive Grids, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing Algorithms for big data and data mining on Pervasive Systems Mining and recommendation techniques for Pervasive Systems Pervasive computing and IoT applied to Smart Cities Architectural designs methods for IoT and Pervasive Systems Programming models, including MapReduce, extensions, and new models applied to Pervasive Systems Scalability and elasticity in IoT and Pervasive Systems Fault-tolerance and reliability in IoT and Pervasive Systems Performance analysis of tools and applications in IoT and Pervasive Systems Scheduling and resource management in IoT and Pervasive Systems Architectures frameworks and standards for IoT Systems Agile development systems methodologies for IoT and Pervasive Systems Software-defined networks for IoT and Pervasive Systems Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Computing Challenges on IoT and Pervasive Systems on or before August 31th, 2016. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of: Dr. Luiz Angelo Steffenel Lead Guest Editor International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) E-mail: luiz-angelo.steffenel(a)univ-reims.fr _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: Second edition Internet of Things conference, Cambridge university, UK. Conference proceedings (ACM)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Second edition Internet of Things conference, Cambridge university, UK. Conference proceedings (ACM) Datum: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:28:46 -0700 Von: ICC'17 conference <cfp(a)iccconference.com> *Call for Papers* *Second International Conference on Internet of Things,Data and Cloud Computing* *Cambridge university, United Kingdom* *22-23 March 2017* *Published by ACM (http://www.icc-conference.org/ <http://icc-conference.org/> )* Sorry if you get multiple copies of this mail. We would like to invite you to submit your paper to second edition of *ICC'17* conference. The past edition was published by ACM <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2896387>. *Important dates: * Manuscript submission deadline (Final date of submission ): 28 June 2016 (if you could not finish your paper in the deadline given, in that case you can submit only the title of the paper and abstract, this is all to put your paper into consideration. ) *Submission* Link <http://icc-conference.org/index.php/paper-submission> *Publication:* All accepted and registered papers will be published by *ACM*, The ISBN number assigned By *ACM ICPS* to *ICC '2017 *conference is : 978-1-4503-4774-7 *ACM *send all published materials to DBLP, Scopus and Thomson Reuters for indexing in their products. *Book chapters:* The series Internet Of Things (Springer) *Extended papers:* We have many journals indexed in DBLP and Scopus, Please visit <http://icc-conference.org/index.php/publications-journals> *Committee:* *General Chair:* Hani Hamdan. CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S UMR CNRS 8506),Université de Paris-Saclay, Paris, France *Program Chair:* Homero Toral-Cruz, University of Quintana Roo , Mexico *Program Co-Chairs:* Sedat Akleylek, Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey Hamid Mcheick, Université du Québec, Canada *Publications Chairs:* Huiyu Zhou, Queen's University Belfast,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland *Publications Co-Chair:* Anna Lina Ruscelli,Scuola Superiore S. Anna of Pisa, Italy *Contact information:* icc.conference2017(a)gmail.com <mailto:icc.conference2017@gmail.com>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP--Doctoral Consortium at IEEE Intl Conf on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP--Doctoral Consortium at IEEE Intl Conf on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 21:23:40 -0500 Von: Kang Zhao <kangzhao7(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *Call for participation—ICHI 2016 Doctoral Consortium* *Deadline extended and travel award information updated!* *SCOPE AND FORMAT OF THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM* We cordially invite doctoral students to submit extended abstracts to the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of the IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2016). The doctoral consortium offers a supportive learning opportunity for doctoral students who pursue research on health informatics problems. Participants will discuss their work in progress and receive feedback and guidance from the ICHI Doctoral Consortium mentors. To ensure that all participants have the opportunity to present their work, all doctoral students whose extended abstract is accepted will be scheduled for a rapid-fire talk where each participant has 5 minutes, with auto-advancing slides, to present a synopsis of their work. These rapid overviews will be followed by a poster session where participants and mentors can discuss research in greater details. Selected participants may also be invited to give a longer oral presentation. The consortium will close with a panel or round-table discussion on topics relevant to doctoral students (e.g., dissertation proposal, dissertation execution, job search, and grant seeking). All topics described in the Call for Papers are eligible for extended abstract submissions. The DC highly encourages students from under-represented groups to participate, such as female students and ethnically minority students. *SUBMISSION PROCESS* To be considered for the Doctoral Consortium, students are requested to submit the following items using the Precision Conference submission site for the conference (https://precisionconference.com/~ichi/): 1. A 1-page cover letter justifying what the students hope to gain by attending the DC; and, 2. A 1-page abstract of a research project (ongoing or planned) in the IEEE format. Please follow the instructions in the submission page, to submit your abstracts. All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the following formatting instructions: · Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Proceedings Format available for LaTex and Word. Changing the template’s font size, margins, inter-column spacing, or line spacing is prohibited. Each extended abstract must be submitted as a single PDF file, formatted for 8.5″ x 11″ paper. · Submissions should not list keywords, general terms, and categories and subject descriptions. In addition, submissions should not have the copyright notice located at the bottom of the left column of the first page of the IEEE Proceedings template. All extended abstract submissions for the doctoral consortium will be formally reviewed by the ICHI Program Committee to ensure every accepted submission is appropriate for ICHI. The conference organizers will work on ensuring that the doctoral consortium is well-attended and has a vibrant discussion environment. *TRAVEL AWARD* IEEE ICHI 2016 will support a number of graduate students from U.S. institutions to participate in the Conference. All Doctoral Consortium participants from U.S. institutions are eligible to apply for the travel award. High priorities will be given to those from under-represented groups. Details on how to apply for this award will be available after July 31st. *IMPORTANT DATES* · Doctoral consortium submission deadline: June 30, 2016 · Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2016 · Camera-ready copy due: July 22, 2016 · Doctoral Consortium event date: October 4-7, 2016 (the exact date of presentations TBA) Your participation is essential to making this conference a success and we are looking forward to it! If you are a faculty and interested in serving as a mentor, please email us at the addresses listed below. Kang Zhao, The University of Iowa (kang-zhao(a)uiowa.edu) ICHI 2016 Doctoral Consortium Chair -- Kang Zhao, Ph.D. Tippie College of Business The University of Iowa Website: http://www.kangzhao.net _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] DIGIT 2016 Call for Paper - Technology Adoption, Use and Diffusion Research at the Crossroad (Deadline 14th Sept. 2016, Pre-ICIS Workshop 11th Dec. 2016) (AIS SIGADIT)
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] DIGIT 2016 Call for Paper - Technology Adoption, Use and Diffusion Research at the Crossroad (Deadline 14th Sept. 2016, Pre-ICIS Workshop 11th Dec. 2016) (AIS SIGADIT) Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:10:01 +0000 Von: Laumer, Sven <sven.laumer(a)uni-bamberg.de> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> AIS Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (AIS Outstanding SIG 2014, 2015) DIGIT 2016 Sunday, December 11, 2016 Call for Papers Technology Adoption, Use and Diffusion Research at the Crossroad Submissions Due: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (Final deadline; there will be no deadline extension) When the technology acceptance model (TAM, Davis 1989) was developed in 1989 computers were new and alien to many organizations and individuals. At that time, technologies were designed to automate administrative and transactional work typically by utilizing large enterprise systems. Now digital technologies are ubiquitous in every aspect of our societies, work, and lives. With an unrelenting pace of innovation, technology acceptance includes smartphones, social media, wearable devices, IoT, and digital agents (e.g. Siri and Amazon's Echo), that are used in many new business and personal contexts. Organizations and consumers now face many new dilemmas, new questions, and new uncertainties. Individuals might on the one side be challenged to adapt to the changes induced by the infiltration of digital technologies. They might feel a great uncertainty about these technologies and might have the impression that they are able to deal with this development in both the private and the busine ss world. On the other hand, individuals might use digital technologies to take advantage of the benefits provided to the individual or organization. Some of these heavy users are called 'digital natives' as they were born in a world that is used to information technology. Hence, it is not a challenge to explain their adoption of these technologies. Nevertheless, these heavy users of digital technologies might become addicted to their use inducing new challenges for individuals, organizations and societies. As an implication, Thomas Davenport concluded in his keynote at the CIO symposium at ICIS 2015 in Fort Worth that "we need to begin preparing people for the impacts of these technologies". As a consequence of this development, technology adoption and diffusion research is at the crossroads. Digital technologies infuse and shape our daily lives, yet many of our core theoretical perspectives derive from the time when computers where new and unknown to many individuals, in general. Hence, this development provides scholarly opportunities to discuss new theoretical underpinnings and methodological approaches that require novel approaches to understand how individuals, organizations or societies adopt and use information technology. Now in its 26th year the SIGADIT community offers the 2016 DIGIT workshop to provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss the implications of this development. In line with the general theme of ICIS 2016 we invite papers that exemplify crossroad issues of the acceptance, use and diffusion of digital technologies. We would also like to encourage contributions that use new methodological approaches that are based on the diffusion of digital technologies (e.g. big data analytics) to study technology adoption, use and diffusion phenomena. Potential topics related to the theme of the 2016 DIGIT workshop include (but are not limited to): * Organizational adoption and use of digital technologies * Individual acceptance and use of digital technologies * Factors enabling or inhibiting acceptance and use of digital technologies (e.g. individual's trust of digital technologies) * Positive and negative consequences of using digital technologies for both organizations and individuals * New theoretical perspectives on acceptance, use and diffusion of digital technologies * New methodological approaches to study acceptance, use and diffusion of digital technologies Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or empirical in nature. The workshop will include paper presentations, paper roundtables, panel discussions and poster presentations. ***Instructions for Contributors*** In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, we welcome * Full research papers (twenty double-spaced pages) * Research-in-progress papers (page limit ten double-spaced pages) * Research idea abstracts (two double-spaced pages) All submissions will be blind reviewed. Papers should not have been published previously in proceedings or journals, nor be under review elsewhere, but it is the general objective of the workshop that they will be submitted to a premier outlet after the DIGIT workshop. Submission will be published in the AIS Electronic Library. The authors can choose whether they want the full paper or only an extended abstract to be published. For past submissions see: http://aisel.aisnet.org/digit/ ***Instructions for Submissions*** The deadline for submission of papers is Wednesday, September 14, 2016. This is the final deadline; there will be no deadline extension. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made in late October. All papers should be double-spaced and submitted in Microsoft Word format. Full research and research-in-progress papers should include an abstract. Page counts exclude the title page, references and appendices. The title page should include the paper title and the authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. The main body of the paper should have a title, but no author identification. Please use the DIGIT 2016 paper template, which can be found online at http://www.sigadit.net/digit.html. This year, all paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment to digit.workshop(a)gmail.com. Questions regarding paper submissions should be directed to the program chair Sven Laumer (mailto:sven.laumer@uni-bamberg.de). ***Instructions for Participation*** The workshop date will be Sunday, December 11, 2016. At least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted. Up to 3 doctoral student authors will receive a full scholarship to cover their workshop fee. Depending upon remaining funds, full or partial scholarships will be offered to all other doctoral students, who submit papers for workshop consideration. Please contact the Workshop Chair, Ryan T. Wright, for additional information. ***Workshop Committee*** For information on SIGADIT and the DIGIT workshop, please contact the 2016 workshop committee: Andreas Eckhardt SIGADIT Chair mailto:andreas.eckhardt@ggs.de Management Department German Graduate School of Management & Law Germany Ryan T. Wright 2016 DIGIT Workshop Chair mailto:rwright@isenberg.umass.edu Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA Sven Laumer 2016 DIGIT Program Chair mailto:sven.laumer@uni-bamberg.de Department of Information Systems and Services Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg Bamberg, Germany For more information about DIGIT see http://www.sigadit.net/digit.html _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Third Call for Workshop Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Third Call for Workshop Proposals Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:36:01 +0300 Von: Announce Announcements <announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> Antwort an: Announce Announcements <announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: asis.org , <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> HTML Message *** Third Call for Workshop Proposals *** * 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://iui.acm.org/2017 <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/%7Egeorge/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXdpQGFpZmIu…> *Overview* ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. IUI 2017 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: · "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. · "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). · "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. · "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. EU funded) project. · "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hack-a-thons around selected topics with individual or team participation. *Proposal Format * _Note_: The key to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshop2017(a)iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI Paper Format, http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/%7Egeorge/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXdpQGFpZmIu…> . Please submit your proposal by e-mail to the workshop chairs at workshop2017(a)iui.acm.org. The proposals should be organized as follows: · Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. · Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2017 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. · Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. · Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. · Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. · Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop. · Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. · Length: Full-day or half-day. · Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI: http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/%7Egeorge/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXdpQGFpZmIu…> . *Additional Guidelines *· Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs and the IUI 2017 program committee chairs. · Organizers: We strongly encourage the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. · Workshop summary: An extended abstract (max. 3 pages) with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2017. · Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. · Cancellation: Workshops with fewer than 10 submissions by December 23, 2016 may be cancelled. This will be done in consultation between the workshop chairs of IUI 2017 and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop and the IUI 2017 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper sollicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2017 workshop chairs. * **Important Dates ** *Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP (workshop2017(a)iui.acm.org) · Workshop Proposals: September 16, 2016 · Decisions Sent: October 7, 2016 _** TENTATIVE dates of the review cycle ** _ · Submission Deadline: December 16, 2016 · Final go/no-go Decision: December 23, 2016 · Camera-Ready of Workshop Summary: January 5, 2017 · Notifications to Authors: January 23, 2017 · Camera-Ready of Accepted Papers: February 6, 2017 · Workshop Date: March 13, 2017 *Workshops Co-Chairs * · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA LM Opening -- 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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Fwd: [AISWorld] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Third Call for Workshop Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Third Call for Workshop Proposals Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:31:33 +0300 Von: George Angelos Papadopoulos <george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: SIGSAND-L(a)CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG, irlist(a)lists.shef.ac.uk, SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)acm.org, confs-submit(a)hri.org, hellas(a)lists.psu.edu, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ** Third Call for Workshop Proposals *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://iui.acm.org/2017 Overview ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. IUI 2017 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: · "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. · "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). · "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. · "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. EU funded) project. · "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hack-a-thons around selected topics with individual or team participation. Proposal Format Note: The key to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshop2017(a)iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI Paper Format, http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform . Please submit your proposal by e-mail to the workshop chairs at workshop2017(a)iui.acm.org. The proposals should be organized as follows: · Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. · Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2017 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. · Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. · Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. · Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. · Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop. · Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. · Length: Full-day or half-day. · Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI: http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform . Additional Guidelines · Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs and the IUI 2017 program committee chairs. · Organizers: We strongly encourage the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. · Workshop summary: An extended abstract (max. 3 pages) with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2017. · Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. · Cancellation: Workshops with fewer than 10 submissions by December 23, 2016 may be cancelled. This will be done in consultation between the workshop chairs of IUI 2017 and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop and the IUI 2017 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper sollicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2017 workshop chairs. Important Dates Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP (workshop2017(a)iui.acm.org) · Workshop Proposals: September 16, 2016 · Decisions Sent: October 7, 2016 ** TENTATIVE dates of the review cycle ** · Submission Deadline: December 16, 2016 · Final go/no-go Decision: December 23, 2016 · Camera-Ready of Workshop Summary: January 5, 2017 · Notifications to Authors: January 23, 2017 · Camera-Ready of Accepted Papers: February 6, 2017 · Workshop Date: March 13, 2017 Workshops Co-Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: SPeL 2016 (9th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: SPeL 2016 (9th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities) Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:41:42 +0300 (EEST) Von: Elvira Popescu <popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ================================================================== SPeL 2016 9th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2016 In conjunction with ICWL 2016 (15th International Conference on Web-based Learning) http://icwl2016.dis.uniroma1.it & SETE 2016 (1st International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education) http://www.isete.net 26-29 October 2016 Rome, Italy * Paper submission deadline: August 6, 2016 (preceded by a mandatory abstract submission by July 30) * All accepted workshop papers will be published in a post-conference proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) ================================================================== MOTIVATION =========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL 2011, DULP & SPeL 2012, SPeL 2013, SPeL 2014 and SPeL 2015 workshops, held in conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference, WI/IAT 2009 conference, DEXA 2010 conference, ICWL 2011 conference, ICALT 2012 conference, ICSTCC 2013 conference, ICWL 2014 conference and ICSLE 2015 conference respectively. The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities. Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. The challenge in this context is to provide intelligent and adaptive support for collaborative learning, taking into consideration the individual differences between learners. This workshop deals with current research on the interplay between collaboration and personalization issues for supporting intelligent learning environments. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners. The workshop is targeted at academic researchers, developers, educationists and practitioners interested in innovative uses of social media and adaptation techniques for the advancement of intelligent learning environments. The proposed field is interdisciplinary and very dynamic, taking into account the recent advent of Web 2.0 and ubiquitous personalization, and it is hoped to attract a large audience. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about: * Social learning environments * Theory and modeling of social computing in education * Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning * Personal learning environments * Lifelong learning networks * Virtual spaces for learning communities * Social networks analysis and mining * Computer-supported collaborative learning * Personalized and adaptive learning * Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners * Intelligent learner and group modeling * Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners * Game-based social learning * Personalized mobile learning applications * Cloud-based social learning * Intelligent agent technology for social learning * Metadata, folksonomies and tagging * Semantic web and ontologies for personalized learning * Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects for personalization * Practice and experience sharing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================== The workshop papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The length of the manuscript should not exceed 6 pages for short papers and 10 pages for full papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2016. All accepted workshop papers will be published in a post-conference proceedings volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract submission: July 30, 2016 Full paper submission: August 6, 2016 Acceptance notification: September 10, 2016 Registration and camera-ready papers: September 30, 2016 Conference dates: October 26-29, 2016 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2016) for more information and contact us at: popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro or sabineg(a)athabascau.ca for any inquiry. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for papers ENTER 2017 - Rome
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for papers ENTER 2017 - Rome Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:18:47 +0000 Von: b.stangl(a)surrey.ac.uk An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): Roland.Schegg(a)hevs.ch **************This is a gentle reminder for ENTER 2017***************** Dear colleagues, The call for papers for ENTER 2017 taking place in Rome is out. Please find the call attached. The ENTER conference aspires to bring together people from various disciplines such as fields related to information system and tourism, hospitality and events (see also topics below). In doing so it offers a great platform for different fields to find partners to collaborate with on interdisciplinary projects. ENTER is organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) and offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations. With a theme Developing Digital Strategies for Cultural and Creative Tourism the ENTER 2017 conference will focus on exploring emergent and cutting-edge ICT concepts, applications, and business models that reflect the progressive transformation in travel and tourism, with special focus on developing digital strategies, big data, and digital economy. Issues to be covered at the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Information Systems ● Big Data, Measurement, Text Mining and Analytics ● Mobile Services and Wearable Technologies ● Location-based Services and Context-Aware Systems ● Internet-of-Things and Smart Destinations ● Travel Information Search and Retrieval ● Geospatial Web ● Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Digital Marketing ● Gaming, Gamification and Augmented Reality ● Website Design and Evaluation ● E-Marketing and Social Media Strategies ● Social Networking, Social Media and Social Inspiration ● ICT and Tourism Experience ● ICT Adoption, Use, and Value Creation ICT, Governance & Business Models ● E-strategy and e-Business models ● Advanced Distribution Systems and Strategies, Dynamic Packaging ● ICT-enabled Partnership and Collaboration ● ICT for Innovation and Service Design ● E-Learning, life-long learning and MOOCs ● ICT for Regional Development and Sustainability ● Legal and Social Aspects of ICT ● E-Government and public policy in tourism ● Digital Divide and Socio economic development ● Privacy and Internet Security Information Science ● Semantic Web ● Privacy and Data Security The conference brings together the research community with the industry and it is organized in three streams, namely industry, destinations and research tracks. The conference also features six to eight world-class keynote speakers. Time Schedule Submission closes: August 26, 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision: October 11, 2016 Deadline to submit revised version: October 21, 2016 Final acceptance: October 28, 2016 End of Early Bird registration: November 10, 2016 Registration deadline to be published: November 12, 2016 Conference: January 24 - 26, 2017 Fast Track Journal of Information Technology and Tourism Best papers' authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their article to Journal of Information Technology and Tourism (Springer). These articles will be reviewed under a special fast track in order to assure a timely publication. JiTT website:<http://goo.gl/nR8AXi> http://goo.gl/nR8AXi We look forward to receiving your submissions and to see you in Rome. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on 'Social Computing and Service Innovation': Journal of Electronic Commerce and Organisational Computing, deadline: November 15, 2016 (Babak Abedin)
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on 'Social Computing and Service Innovation': Journal of Electronic Commerce and Organisational Computing, deadline: November 15, 2016 (Babak Abedin) Datum: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:36:21 +1000 Von: Babak Abedin <babak.abedin(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for submissions for *Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC): *Special Issue on “Social Computing and Service Innovation” *Guest Editors* Dr. Babak Abedin (Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, babak.abedin(a)uts.edu.au) Dr. Hamed Qahri-Saremi (College of Business and Management, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA, hqahr2(a)uis.edu) *Aims and Objectives* Service innovation is defined as the exchange and application of competences (knowledge and skills) to create novel resources that are beneficial to some actors inside and/or outside of organizations (Lusch and Nambisan 2015). Unlike the past, when service innovations were predominantly developed from within the confines of an organization, nowadays they can emerge from the interactions within a network of actors ranging from suppliers and partners to customers and independent inventors. This evolution in service innovation development can be mainly ascribed to the advent and proliferation of social computing technologies (Kanter, 2015; Tsou & Chen, 2012). Social computing technologies refer to the IT-enabled social applications and services such as online communities, blogging services, chat applications, and social media services that facilitate collaborations within a network of actors through exchange of experiences and specialized competences and evolution of aggregate knowledge (Parameswaran and Whinston 2007). Social computing technologies have enabled organizations to unprecedentedly interact and collaborate with external actors such as customers and business partners to improve their processes, operations, and value propositions (Tsou & Chen, 2012). Although social computing technologies are giving rise to new forms of service innovations, their implications for service innovations have yet to be fully elucidated in the research findings. Thus, the theme of this special issue highlights the need for conceptualization and empirical study of the implications of social computing technologies for service innovation. For this special issue, we call for high quality research studies from academia, industry, governments, and non-profits, especially collaborations among these groups, to address tensions and/or synergies that may arise between social computing and service innovation. We welcome examination of these synergies and/or tensions at the societal, organizational, group/team, and individual levels of analysis. We solicit case studies, surveys, experiments, qualitative research, and collaborative action research among academics, executives, and policy makers that illustrate innovative approaches, resolutions, and solutions to these tensions, risks, and opportunities. We especially seek papers that offer theoretical models combined with evidences of the consequences or findings of observations related to these models. The papers included in this special issue could include, but not limited, to the following areas: · Positivist, interpretive, and critical studies of the use of social computing applications in support of service innovation · Impacts of social computing on service innovation · Affordances of social computing technologies for service innovation · Implications of social computing in organizational IS value research · New theories in social computing and service innovation · Opportunities and challenges of service innovation in the social computing context · Design and evaluation methodologies for social computing technologies in support of service innovation · Ethical and legal issues of social computing for service innovation · Service innovation using virtual 3D social environments · Implications of social computing for value co-creation *Timeline for the Special Issue*: · *November 15, 2016* – full paper submission deadline for JOCEC Special Issue review process. · *March 15, 2017* – notification of acceptance · *May 15, 2017* – final versions of accepted papers will be submitted for publication process, with the special issue targeted for publication in a late 2017/early 2018 issue. *About Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC): * JOCEC disseminates and stimulates original research about relationships between computer/communication technology and the design, operations, and performance of organizations. JOCEC is published by Taylor & Francis, with Impact Factor (2014): 0.879; Australia ERA rank A; ISSN: 1091-9392 (Print), 1532-7744 (Online) *Submission Guidelines * Submit the digital manuscript in standard MS Word format (.doc not .docx) as an attachment to an email with “JOCEC” (without quotes) as the first word in the subject line to Guest Editor, Dr. Babak Abedin at babak.abedin(a)uts.edu.au. Specifically, all papers submitted should conform to JOCEC standards and have no identifying information in the papers to allow for the double-blind review process. Articles should be concise and in English, not more than 40 pages and/or 12,500 words. This limitation applies to the entire paper - cover page, abstract, narrative, footnotes, figures, and references included. Manuscripts (including title page, abstract, text, quotes, acknowledgments, references, appendixes, tables, figure captions, and footnotes) should be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, using 8 1/2'' 11'' page settings. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, starting with the title page. The title page should contain the article title, author(s), affiliations, a short form of the title (less than 50 characters including letters and spaces), and the name, complete mailing address, and telephone number of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Page 2 should contain a short abstract (200-250 words), and 5-10 related keywords. All acronyms should be spelled out where first used. Each table and figure should be called out within the text. For more specific formatting information, please refer to the Instructions for Authors found on the journal’s website: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653688~tab=submit… *Selected Reference * Kanter, R. M. (2015). “From spare change to real change: The social sector as beta site for business innovation”. *Havard Business Review*. (retrieved on Oct 16 2015 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/2974.html) Lusch, R.F., and Nambisan, S. 2015. "Service Innovation: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective," *MIS Quarterly* (39:1), pp. 155-175. Parameswaran, M., and Whinston, A.B. 2007. "Research Issues in Social Computing," *Journal of the Association for Information Systems* (8:6), pp. 336-350. Tsou, H. T., & Chen, J. S. (2012).”The influence of interfirm codevelopment competency on e-service innovation”, *Information & Management*, 49(3), 177-189. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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