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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP - 20th Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS 2017)
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP - 20th Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS 2017) Datum: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:33:39 -0600 Von: Nima Kordzadeh <n.kordzadeh(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Twentieth Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS 2017) Call for Papers *SAIS 2017 Conference* *March 24-25, 2017* King and Prince Resort <http://www.kingandprince.com/> *St. Simons Island, Georgia* The Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) is an official chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The annual SAIS conference is an intimate gathering of information systems academics with fewer than one hundred participants. Past SAIS conferences have attracted doctoral students and faculty, including many recognized scholars, from around the US and around the globe. SAIS 2017 will be held in beautiful St. Simons, Georgia. Bring your family to experience the beauty and history of St. Simons, the largest barrier island in the Golden Isles of Georgia. St. Simons’ exceptional historic sites and stunning sceneries make the island and its surroundings a unique getaway for visitors. The island’s villages offer a delightful selection of shops and restaurants. Thanks to the year round warm weather of the Golden Isles, visitors can also enjoy a variety of outdoor activities such as golfing, biking, fishing, and kayaking. Other popular attractions of St. Simons include St. Simons Lighthouse Museum <http://www.goldenisles.com/listing/st-simons-lighthouse-museum>, Bloody Marsh Battle Site <http://www.goldenisles.com/listing/bloody-marsh-battle-site>, and Fort Frederica National Monument <http://www.goldenisles.com/listing/fort-frederica-national-monument>. SAIS 2017 provides an opportunity for close interaction among presenters and attendees. Both completed research and research-in-progress papers from all areas related to information systems are invited for submission. All papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the AIS e-Library. In addition, selected papers will be fast-tracked for publication in the Journal of the Southern Association for Information Systems (JSAIS) (http://www.jsais.org/) with George Schell as editor. *Important Dates* December 17, 2016: Submission deadline for papers, panels and workshops January 31, 2017: Acceptance notification February 10, 2017: Deadline for author registration & submission of final versions of accepted papers February 23, 2017: Deadline to make hotel reservations at the group conference rate March 24-25, 2017: Conference Registration at the conference is open on the morning of March 24. The conference ends with lunch from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on March 25. For more information on the conference, please consult the SAIS website <http://sais.aisnet.org/> or contact the conference chair, Dr. Joy Godin at joy.godin(a)gcsu.edu, or the program chair, Dr. Nima Kordzadeh at kordnima(a)isu.edu. *Submission Guidelines* Submissions are accepted online <http://saisconferencemgmt.org/openconf/openconf.php> for full papers, research-in-progress, panels and workshops. The conference best paper will be recognized and invited for fast track submission to JSAIS. Student best paper selections are eligible for cash prizes for up to $200. Submissions must not exceed six single-spaced pages (approximately 2,500 words), including all figures, tables, appendices, and references. Previously published work or work under review elsewhere is not eligible for submission. Please use the template posted on the conference web page to prepare your submission. To facilitate a blind review, please do not include any author or affiliation identification on any page of the document, in headings, footers, or in properties of the submitted file. All authors must adhere to the AIS code of research conduct <http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/ais.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Admin_Bulletin/AIS…>. Doctoral, Master’s, and Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit their research. Students can expect to receive thoughtful and substantive feedback both through paper reviews and through comments from their presentation audience. Beginning this year, submissions from Graduate and Undergraduate students will be eligible for a best paper competition with both reviewer and audience feedback used to determine awards. Student conference attendees are eligible for reduced conference registration rates and membership fees. Please see the conference website for additional details. The topics of interest in this conference include, but are not limited to: - Accounting Information Systems - Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology - Decision Support Systems and Data Analytics - Digital Commerce - E-government - End-user Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change - Enterprise Systems - Geographic Information Systems - Global, International, and Cultural Issues in IS - Green IS and Sustainability - Healthcare Informatics and Information Technology - Human Capital in Information Systems - Human-Computer Interaction - Information Systems Security and Privacy - IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases - IT Project Management - Social Media and Virtual Communities - Strategic and Competitive Use of IT - Systems Analysis and Design Contact the program chair, Dr. Nima Kordzadeh at kordnima(a)isu.edu if you are willing to serve as a reviewer. All submissions and reviews will be submitted online at: http://saisconferencemgmt.org/openconf/openconf.php Please post and distribute this call for papers to interested colleagues and students. Best. *---* *Nima Kordzadeh, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor of Informatics College of Business Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209-8020 Office: (208) 282-5731 kordnima(a)isu.edu

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Fwd: [WI] CfP -- INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2016
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP -- INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2016 Datum: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 22:10:30 +0000 Von: Wolf Ketter <wketter(a)rsm.nl> Antwort an: Wolf Ketter <wketter(a)rsm.nl> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit your best design science research to be considered for the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2016! The purpose of the Design Science Award of the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) is to promote and recognize research efforts centered on the design and realization of innovative information technology (IT) artifacts. You can find more detailed information at www.rsm.nl/informsaward <http://www.rsm.nl/informsaward> ; the submission deadline is November 7th. The winning application will recognized during the Workshop for Information Systems and Technology (WITS) in Dublin in December and will receive additional US$ 1000. We are looking forward to receive your excellent submissions! Best wishes, Wolf Chair Design Science Award, on behalf of the Design Science jury (Martin Bichler, Alok Gupta, Balaji Padmanabhan, and Jeff Parsons) Professor of Next Generation Information Systems Director, Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business (www.rsm.nl/energy <http://www.rsm.nl/energy>) Director, Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus (LARGE – www.large.rsm.nl <http://www.large.rsm.nl/>) Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Twitter: @wolfketter -- 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] ICDCS 2017 Call For Workshop Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] ICDCS 2017 Call For Workshop Proposals Datum: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:07:49 +0000 Von: Musaev, Aibek <aibek.musaev(a)gatech.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ICDCS 2017 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS IEEE the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Atlanta, GA, USA June 5 - 8, 2017 http://icdcs2017.gatech.edu/ Submission: http://icdcs2017.gatech.edu/call-for-workshops/ Submission Dates: * Workshop Proposal Submission: October 17th, 2016 * Workshop Proposal Notification: October 24th, 2016 Workshops provide opportunities for focused discussion on selected topics related to distributed computing in a group setting. A workshop proposal submission consists of a descriptive proposal that is up to 3 pages in length and contains the following information: * Title of the workshop * A brief technical description of the workshop, identification of specific technical issues, focus, and justification of its timeliness * A brief description of the review process * Names and contact information of the organizer * The names, postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee * Primary contact of the organizing committee * Estimated number of participants, length, and timetable of the workshop * Resources required, such as one day or half day workshop, expected number of attendees (room size), whether a panel setup is needed, etc. * A tentative call for papers with important dates (submission of papers, notifications, etc.) * Information about the previous edition of the workshop (if any), including: -History and frequency of the workshop -Previous conference co-locations -URLs, if available -Approximate attendance Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the workshop's potential for generating useful results, the timeliness of and the expected interest in the topic, and the proposers' ability to lead a successful workshop. Organizers are expected to perform additional advertising in related communities outside the main ICDCS community, to create and maintain the workshop website, arrange for the collection and refereeing of submissions, and to co-ordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and IEEE copyright transfers. Workshops Program Chairs * Joao E. Ferreira, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil * Teruo Higashino, Univ. of Osaka, Japan For more information, please visit http://icdcs2017.gatech.edu/call-for-workshops/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] PLS Applications Symposium; 5 - 7 April 2017; Laredo, Texas
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] PLS Applications Symposium; 5 - 7 April 2017; Laredo, Texas Datum: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:33:06 -0500 Von: Ned Kock <nedkock(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org PLS Applications Symposium; 5 - 7 April 2017; Laredo, Texas (Abstract submissions accepted until 1 March 2017) *** Only abstracts are needed for the submissions *** The partial least squares (PLS) method has increasingly been used in a variety of fields of research and practice, particularly in the context of PLS-based structural equation modeling (SEM). The focus of this Symposium is on the application of PLS-based methods, from a multidisciplinary perspective. For types of submissions, deadlines, and other details, please visit the Symposium's web site: http://plsas.net *** Workshop on PLS-SEM *** On 5 April 2017 a full-day workshop on PLS-SEM will be conducted by Dr. Ned Kock, using the software WarpPLS. Dr. Kock is the original developer of this software, which is one of the leading PLS-SEM tools today; used by thousands of researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, and from many different countries. This workshop will be hands-on and interactive, and will have two parts: (a) basic PLS-SEM issues, conducted in the morning (9 am - 12 noon); and (b) intermediate and advanced PLS-SEM issues, conducted in the afternoon (2 pm - 5 pm). Participants may attend either one, or both of the two parts. The following topics, among others, will be covered - Running a Full PLS-SEM Analysis - Conducting a Moderating Effects Analysis - Viewing Moderating Effects via 3D and 2D Graphs - Creating and Using Second Order Latent Variables - Viewing Indirect and Total Effects - Viewing Skewness and Kurtosis of Manifest and Latent Variables - Conducting a Multi-group Analysis with Range Restriction - Viewing Nonlinear Relationships - Conducting a Factor-Based PLS-SEM Analysis - Viewing and Changing Missing Data Imputation Settings - Isolating Mediating Effects - Identifying and Dealing with Outliers - Solving Indicator Problems - Solving Collinearity Problems. ----------------------------------------------------------- Ned Kock Symposium Chair http://plsas.net --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] STAF 2017: Call for Workshops
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] STAF 2017: Call for Workshops Datum: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:04:20 +0200 Von: a.garcia-dominguez(a)aston.ac.uk Antwort an: a.garcia-dominguez(a)aston.ac.uk An: wi(a)lists.kit.edu ------------------ Apologies for multiple postings ------------------ STAF 2017: Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations July 17-21, 2017, Marburg, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/staf2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshops -------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations (STAF) is a federation of leading conferences on software technologies. It was formed after the end of the successful TOOLS federated event (http://tools.ethz.ch) in 2012, providing a loose umbrella organisation, with a steering committee that aims to provide continuity. The STAF federated event runs annually; the conferences that participate may vary from year to year, but all focus on practical and foundational advances in software technology. The conferences address all aspects of software technology, from object-oriented design, testing, formal approaches to modelling and verification, transformation, model-driven engineering, aspect- oriented techniques, and tools. STAF 2017 will bring together - 10th International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT) - 10th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT) - 13th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA) - 11th International Conference on Tests and Proof (TAP) STAF 2017 will also host a number of satellite events including workshops. Workshops will provide a collaborative forum for groups of typically 15 to 35 participants to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They are intended as a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. Each workshop should provide a balanced distribution of its time for both presentation of papers and discussions. We encourage prospective workshop organizers to submit proposals for highly-interactive workshops. Both research-oriented and applied topics are welcome. The duration of each workshop is either half day or full day. --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- Dec 15, 2016: Workshop proposal submission due Jan 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals Jan 30, 2017: Workshop Websites online (although draft web pages for workshops at submission time are encouraged) Mar 02, 2017 (latest): First call for papers May 25, 2017 (latest): Workshop paper notification --------------------------- Workshop Proposal Guidelines --------------------------- Your proposal document must contain the following information: 1. General Information 1.1 Event title 1.2 Organizers and primary contact (name/affiliation/email) 1.3 Abstract (200 words), intended for the STAF 2017 website 1.4 Desired length of the workshop (half day or full day) 1.5 Related STAF conference (among ICMT, ICGT, ECMFA, TAP). If more than one, please indicate the most related one. 2. Objectives and Scope 2.1 Motivation 2.2 Objectives 2.3 Intended audience 2.4 Relevance (in particular to the STAF community) 2.5 Previous events including, where applicable, * a link to the website, * the number of submitted and accepted papers, and * the number of attendees 3. Organization Details 3.1 Details on the organizers (150 words max each), including relevant past experience in workshop organization 3.2 Preliminary list of program committee members (either proposed or confirmed -- please specify) 4. Workshop Format 4.1 Intended paper format (number of pages; types of papers, e.g., full papers, work-in-progress papers, practitioners' reports, posters) 4.2 Paper evaluation process 4.3 Intended publication of accepted papers (please see proceedings options stated below) 4.4 Intended workshop format (number of presentations, planned keynotes, panels, etc.) 4.5 How many participants do you expect (please explain your underlying assumptions)? 4.6 Specific requirements (e.g., equipment, room capacity) For Section 4.4, please clarify in particular why participants should submit to your workshop instead of to a conference or journal on related topics. If your plan does not contain substantial interactive parts (such as interactive brainstorming, prototyping, benchmarking, experimentation, ...) please clarify why you still think a physical workshop is the appropriate format. 5. Additional Material 5.1 Event Web page (URL of the draft Web page, if one exists) 5.2 Draft Call for Papers for the workshop (a one-page Call for Papers that you intend to send out if your workshop is accepted) --------------------------- For accepted workshops --------------------------- General rules: - The organizers will be required to issue the workshop Web page and the first Call for Papers by the deadline indicated above (see Important Dates). - All participants, including workshop organizers, keynote speakers, and invited guests, must register at least for the workshop day. - STAF 2017 will not pay for registration, travel, or other arrangements for workshop organizers and any of their invited speakers or guests. - Workshop organizers must attend their workshop or, if not possible, communicate in advance to the STAF Workshop co-chairs who will act as session chair(s) and will be responsible for the correct realization of the event. - STAF Workshop co-chairs may decide at any time to merge workshops on similar topics. - The actual dates of workshops will be decided by the STAF organizers. Recommended deadlines to be set by the organizers of accepted workshops: - Workshop paper submission: April 21, 2017 (or later) - Workshop paper notification: May 25, 2017 (or before, but STRICTLY NOT LATER) --------------------------- Proceedings --------------------------- STAF 2016 organized joint Springer LNCS post-proceedings for the workshops. If there is a critical mass of workshop organizers interested in offering Springer post-proceedings, STAF 2017 will also organize such post-proceedings. Please indicate your preference in your proposal (Sect. 4.3, see above). Otherwise, the workshops are expected to publish the proceedings on an individual basis---for example, as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (see http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PRECONDS for preconditions for publishing). --------------------------- Submissions --------------------------- Please ensure that you adhere to the above workshop proposal guidelines providing all requested information using at most six pages (not including the draft Call for Papers). Submit your workshop proposal in PDF using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=staf2017workshops Proposals will be selected based on their relevance to the conferences aims, beneficiaries, and timely advances in their respective topics. In particular, proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - potential to advance the state of research and practice - organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event - meaningful use of methods that activate the audience - balance and synergy between the proposed topics - continuity of workshop series --------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs --------------------------- - Martina Seidl, JKU Linz, http://fmv.jku.at/seidl - Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, http://www.steffen-zschaler.de For further information, please email us at staf2017workshops(a)easychair.org -- 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] Publication of Volume 17, Issue 9 (September) Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Publication of Volume 17, Issue 9 (September) Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) Datum: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:04:52 +0000 Von: JAIS <JAIS(a)comm.virginia.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Contents of Volume 17, Issue 9 (September) Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Official Publication of the Association for Information Systems Published: Monthly Electronically ISSN: 1536-9323 Published by the Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, USA (http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/) Editor-in-Chief: Professor Suprateek Sarker, University of Virginia, USA Paper Business Process and Information Technology Alignment: Construct Conceptualization, Empirical Illustration, and Directions for Future Research Paul Tallon, Loyola University, Maryland Magno Queiroz, Utah State University Tim R. Coltman, University of Wollongong Rajeev Sharma, University of Technology Sydney Abstract Since strategic alignment first rose to prominence with Henderson and Venkatraman’s (1993) seminal paper, research has tended to focus on the extent of fit between IT and business strategy at the firm level. Although useful, a firm-level view of alignment could mask what firms are doing to realize intellectual alignment between business and IT strategy and whether their actions will likely succeed. In this study, we build on an emergent stream of research that considers alignment between IT and business strategy at the process level. Since research tends to view this form of alignment through the lens of IT support for business strategy, this perspective fails to account for how IT can enable the development of new business strategies. Accordingly, we conceptualize alignment between IT and business strategy at the process level using the lens of IT shortfall (a lack of IT support for business activities) and IT slack (having more IT than needed to support current business activities). Using data from matched surveys of IT and business executives at 317 U.S. and E.U. firms, we illustrate the value of this conceptualization and its process measures. Our results show that IT shortfall is negatively correlated with IT business value, while IT slack is positively correlated with IT business value. We further note that the existence of IT shortfall and IT slack depends on differences in firms’ chosen business strategy and whether a process is critical or non-critical to that strategy’s success. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below: http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol17/iss9/3/ Paper Graph-based Cluster Analysis to Identify Similar Questions: A Design Science Approach Blooma Mohan John, University of Canberra Alton Y.K. Chua, Nanyang Technological University Dion Hoe Lian Goh, Nanyang Technological University Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Epworth HealthCare & Deakin University Abstract Social question answering (SQA) services allow users to clarify their queries by asking questions and obtaining answers from other users. To enhance the responsiveness of such services, one can identify similar questions and, thereafter, return the answers available. However, identifying similar questions is difficult because of the complex language structure of user-generated questions. For this reason, we developed an approach to cluster similar questions based on a web of social relationships among the questions, the answers, the askers, and the answerers. To do so, we designed a graph-based cluster analysis using design science research guidelines. In evaluating the results, we found that the proposed graph-based cluster analysis is more promising than baseline methods. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below: http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol17/iss9/2/ Paper Impression Formation and Durability in Mediated Communication Sue Brown, University of Arizona Robert Fuller, University of Tennessee Sherry M. Thatcher, University of South Carolina Abstract Using literature from impression formation and social information processing theory, we examine the impact of communication style on impression formation and durability in a mediated environment. We leverage common writing styles found in workplace emails—emoticons, uppercase, lowercase, typographical errors—to examine how message receivers evaluate senders using these styles. Via a lab experiment with 748 subjects, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and working professionals, we found that impressions were associated with writing style beyond the email content. Receivers perceived senders of emails containing emoticons, errors, or written entirely in uppercase or lowercase as less functionally competent. They also perceived senders as less methodologically competent when emails used emoticons and less politically competent when emails were all lowercase or contained errors. They perceived senders using a neutral writing style as less sociable than senders using emoticons. In contrast to impression durability in face-to-face environments, receivers positively revised impressions when senders changed their style to neutral from any of the non-neutral styles. We attribute this difference to two characteristics of the IT artifact: symbol variety and reprocessability. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below: http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol17/iss9/1/ Elizabeth White Baker, PhD Production Managing Editor, Journal of the AIS jais(a)comm.virginia.edu _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CaEE Elsevier Special Issue on "New Trends in Humanistic Informatics: Implementations and Applications"
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CaEE Elsevier Special Issue on "New Trends in Humanistic Informatics: Implementations and Applications" Datum: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:50:42 +0300 Von: caee-publicity(a)image.ntua.gr Antwort an: caee-publicity(a)image.ntua.gr [Apologies for cross-postings] --------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------- Computers & Electrical Engineering Special Issue on "New Trends in Humanistic Informatics: Implementations and Applications" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/call-… **Submission Deadline: November 15, 2016** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The abundance of available data that is retrieved from or is related to the areas of Humanities challenges the research community in processing and analyzing it. The aim is two-fold: on the one hand, to extract knowledge that will help understand human behavior, communication, creativity, way of thinking, reasoning, learning, decision making, socializing; on the other hand, to exploit the extracted knowledge by incorporating it into intelligent systems that will support humans in their everyday activities. The nature of humanistic data can be multimodal, dynamic, time and space-dependent, and highly complicated. Translating humanistic information, e.g. behavior, state of mind, artistic creation and linguistic utterance, into numerical or categorical low-level data is a significant challenge on its own. New mining techniques, appropriate to deal with this type of data, need to be proposed and existing ones adapted to its special characteristics. The proposed special issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the application of innovative as well as existing mining and knowledge discovery techniques (like decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, learning, classifier systems, neural networks, support vector machines, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques) to data derived from Humanistic Sciences, e.g. linguistic, historical, behavioral, psychological, artistic, musical, educational, social etc. -------------- Aim and topics -------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Humanistic & social data mining and interpretation - Cloud-based mining of humanistic data - Social data analytics - Supervised or unsupervised learning of humanistic knowledge - Knowledge discovery, representation and reasoning - Humanistic data-driven architectures, algorithms & applications - High-performance humanistic computing applications - Data visualization techniques - Heterogeneous data mining & fusion - Exploitation of contextual information in humanistic computing systems - Humanistic context modeling and extraction - Biomedical data mining - Computational intelligence for humanistic media adaptation and personalization - Privacy preserving humanistic data mining and social networks ----------------- Papers submission ----------------- Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers that falls within the topics of this special section. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. For work that has been published previously in a workshop or conference, it is required that submissions to the special issue have at least 40% new content/contribution. Submissions that do not meet these requirement will be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted via journals submission website and should adhere to standard formatting requirements. Authors are required to select article type "SI-hinf" for paper submission. All submissions and inquiries regarding the special issue should be directed to the attention of the Guest Editors: - Spyros Sioutas, Associate Professor, Ionian University, Greece, sioutas(a)ionio.gr - Yannis Velegrakis, Associate Professor, University of Trento, Italy, velgias(a)disi.unitn.eu - Valia Kordoni, Professor, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany, evangelia.kordoni(a)anglistik.hu-berlin.de --------------------------------- Prospective schedule of deadlines --------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2016 Notification of the first review: January 15, 2017 Revised paper submission: February 5, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2017 Final manuscript: May 15, 2017 Expected publication: November 2017

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Published by Springer)
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Published by Springer) Datum: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:10:24 +0100 Von: ML <marialemos72(a)gmail.com> An: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org * ** Best papers will be published in more than twenty SCI/SSCI-indexed journals * --------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------ SCOPE The WorldCist'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11 - 13 April 2017, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'17 (http://www.worldcist.org/). All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES of SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors identification. Therefore, the authors names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a double-blind review by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.085 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.981 / Q1) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 2.692 / Q1) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 2.139 / Q1) - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (IF: 2.092 / Q1) - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 1.759 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213 / Q2) - Journal of Business Research (IF: 2.129 / Q2) - Pervasive and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.719 / Q2) - Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 1.702 / Q2) - Journal of Grid Computing (IF: 1.561 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Big Data" - Cluster Computing (IF:1.514 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Advanced Machine Learning in Parallel and Distributed Knowledge Discovery" - International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (IF: 1.351 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 0.947 / Q3) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.942 / Q3) - Science of Computer Programming (IF: 0.828 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / Q3) - Engineering Computations (IF: 0.691 / Q3) - Advances in Complex Systems (IF: 0.461 / Q3) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504 / Q4) - AI Communications (IF: 0.364 / Q4) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SR: 0.672 / Q2) - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (SR: 0.642 / Q2) - TEM Journal - Technology, Education, Management, Informatics (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 13, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 20156 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2017 - Website of WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/

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Fwd: [WI] IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering and Services Computing
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering and Services Computing Datum: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:41:09 +0000 Von: Wimmer Manuel <wimmer(a)big.tuwien.ac.at> Antwort an: Wimmer Manuel <wimmer(a)big.tuwien.ac.at> An: wi(a)lists.kit.edu <wi(a)lists.kit.edu> IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering and Services Computing GUEST EDITORS -) Marouane Kessentini, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn Campus, USA, marouane(a)umich.edu -) Manuel Wimmer, Business Informatics Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, wimmer(a)big.tuwien.ac.at ************** I. AIM AND SCOPE ************** Recently there has been an increasing demand for complex systems in distributed and mobile environments. The development of these complex software systems is challenging in order to deal with dynamic, imprecise and uncertain information and environments. In the recent years, an emerging paradigm focuses on the investigation and integration of computational intelligence in current software development practices to address the growing complexity of software systems and improving their robustness. This emerging paradigm uses various techniques from the computational intelligence literature (e.g., Knowledge-transfer and data-driven search, fuzzy logic, machine learning, evolutionary computation, etc.) to address problems related to requirements engineering, services computing, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), quality of services, software testing, model-driven engineering, etc. The goal of this special issue is to understand the cost/benefit of combining and using several novel computational intelligence techniques to address software engineering and services computing problems. ************** II. THEMES ************** In this special issue, we will invite papers that address problems in the software engineering and services computing domains through the use of computational intelligence techniques. We particularly encourage papers demonstrating novel computational intelligence strategies to new problems in software engineering and services computing such as software testing, IoT, quality of services, cloud computing, etc. Applications may be drawn by investigating the usage of computational intelligence techniques for the automation of all phases of the software development process, including the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. Specific topics may include the application of computational intelligence to the following areas: -) Social computing -) Brain computer interface -) Computational neuroscience for software engineering and services computing -) Knowledge-transfer and data-driven search -) Search-based software engineering -) Data mining for software engineering -) Component-based systems -) Empirical software engineering -) Human-computer interaction -) Knowledge acquisition and management -) Maintenance and evolution -) Deployment and configuration management -) Software testing, verification, and validation -) Product line engineering -) Model-driven engineering -) Refactoring and program understanding -) Neurocomputing in software engineering -) Computational intelligence for Internet-of-Things -) Computational intelligence for cloud computing ************** III. SUBMISSIONS ************** Manuscripts should be prepared according to the “Information for Authors” section of the journal found at http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-emerging-topics-in-computational-i… and submissions should be done through the journal submission website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetci-ieee, by selecting the Manuscript Type of “CI-SE Special Issue Papers” and clearly marking “Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering and Services Computing Special Issue Paper” as comments to the Editor-in-Chief. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three different expert reviewers. Submission of a manuscript implies that it is the authors’ original unpublished work and is not being submitted for possible publication elsewhere. ****************** IV. IMPORTANT DATES ****************** Submission deadline: November 5, 2016 Author notification: December 15, 2016 Revision: January 15, 2017 Final version: February 25, 2017 -- 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] 3rd Call for Pre-ICIS SIGPhil Workshop: What does influential and useful research mean to the IS community?
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 3rd Call for Pre-ICIS SIGPhil Workshop: What does influential and useful research mean to the IS community? Datum: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:16:56 -0500 Von: Nik Rushdi Hassan <nhassan(a)d.umn.edu> An: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear IS Colleagues, Deadline for paper submissions to the SIGPhil Workshop is getting close (Oct 1). I'd like to invite you to the SIG Philosophy's popular workshop at ICIS in Dublin. This year, the workshop is organized as a Pre-ICIS event on Sunday, Dec 11, from 11:30am-6pm. The workshop's theme is on what the IS community considers to be "useful," "influential," and "valuable" academic research, following up on recent exchanges on this issue. We have an exciting line-up of speakers (see below) who will present findings from an ad-hoc committee and discuss the theme in detail. If you are looking for the latest developments in the philosophy of IS or your ICIS submission didn't quite get accepted, or just want to socialize with thought leaders in IS, please consider attending this workshop and perhaps submitting a paper (paper not required to attend workshop). Lunch and intelligent conversations included. Take advantage of early registration discount for the pre-ICIS program before Oct 4. The SIGPhil will be pleased to verify your participation for travel funding purposes. *6th Pre-ICIS SIGPHIL Workshop What does influential and useful research mean to the IS community? Time for a paradigm shift* The AIS Special Interest Group on Philosophy in Information Systems (AIS-SIGPHIL) will hold its 6th ICIS SIGPHIL Research Workshop as a Pre-ICIS program in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday, December 11, 2016 starting at 11:30am. Although labeled as a workshop, this event provides an opportunity to spend quality time with thought leaders of the IS community discussing important topics in an informal and friendly environment. Workshop Presenters and Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order) Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein Samir Chatterjee, Claremont Graduate University, USA Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Nik Rushdi Hassan, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland. Monica Tremblay, Florida International University, USA Workshop Theme One of the AIS’s recent presidents (2013-2014), Jane Fedorowicz (2013), made “On the road to relevance,” her presidential manifesto, acknowledging that as a field, relevance is still a work in progress. This perennial issue is a favorite in journal articles, conferences and panels, and reemerged again, in a somewhat casual proposal to list the “most influential” IS research to date (Chatterjee 2016). What transpired instead was a seemingly endless firestorm of responses that spoke of how much this issue struck a chord with the IS community. The responses ranged from the IS field having significant impact on companies and on students to very little impact if any. The wide range of responses suggests that the IS community views “influence,” “usefulness,” or “value of research” in very different ways. The theme of this year’s SIGPhil workshop is to explore what influential, useful and valuable research means to the IS community so that we can agree on some principles that can move our collective effort in a positive direction. An ad hoc panel of distinguished IS scholars is working towards generating a broader understanding of “Influence” and will report some of their findings at the workshop. The inaugural Debate Section of the Communications of the AIS that explored the issue of the “Value of IS research” (Hassan 2014) with seven experienced IS researchers (Avital 2014; Chiasson 2014; Frank 2014; Grover 2014; Johnston and Riemer 2014; Niederman 2014) also reached different conclusions. We are not alone. The organizational sciences fields now and again address this same problem regarding the impact of their own research, the latest round (Davis 2015) even questioning the goals of organizational research. Commercialization of ideas is obviously one measure of value and usefulness, but it appears that even for the experts, influence, usefulness and value may not be so apparent. One report stated that Google’s Larry Page, who was on the verge on starting his PhD, had no intention of creating a search engine (Battelle 2005). When he first stumbled on the idea of ranking a page on the Internet, he just thought that given the complexity of the Internet, it would be something useful. “My goals were to work on something that would be academically real and interesting,” he recalled, and that “there is no reason if you are doing academic work to work on things that are impractical” (p. 74). The goal of this workshop is to start this important conversation on influential and valuable academic research. Program *Sun, Dec 11, 2016, Gresham Hotel, Room: O'Connell 2* 11:30am-12:30pm Lunch and Poster Session 12:30-12:45pm Introduction 12:45-1:30pm *Keynote Presentation by Prof. Samir Chatterjee. “Does IS research have influence? Findings from a community-wide study”* 1:30-2:45pm Panel discussion and Q&A by Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Monica Tremblay and Matti Rossi 2:45-3:00pm Coffee Break 3:00-3:45pm *Second Keynote Presentation by Prof. Dennis Galletta. “IS research has relevance: Let’s stop beating ourselves up.”* 3:45-4:45pm Panel Discussions and Q&A by Robert Davison, Nik Rushdi Hassan, and Jan vom Brocke 4:45-5:45pm Workshop paper presentations 5:45pm Workshop wrap-up Workshop Paper Reviews/Poster Session We invite you to submit your philosophy-related works, or works-in-progress to be reviewed by selected discussants. Papers can be as short as 2 pages or full-length papers. Full-length papers are more likely to be accepted for presentations. Papers should be designed to encourage in-depth discussion during the workshop. Submitting authors will present their papers and discussants will be selected to discuss each paper. We are particularly interested in papers that are close to the theme of the workshop, in particular papers that address useful, influential and valuable in IS. However, we welcome all papers on any IS philosophy-related topics. Doctoral students and junior faculty members are especially encouraged to submit their research. Student papers will be given special consideration. The SIGPhil can provide written confirmation for authors needing support for conference travel. Submit all papers to the EasyChair conference site *“**https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icissigphil6* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icissigphil6>*” *by October 1st, 2016. This year, we add an additional feature where papers that are not presented can still be discussed in a poster session held over lunch. Papers presented during the workshop can be forwarded to the History and Philosophy section of the *Communications of the AIS* to be considered for publication. *Important Information and dates:* Register for ICIS Conference and workshop as early as possible Workshop Registration Fee: Early registration $60/Regular $80 (Student $45/$65) includes lunch Submission site: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icissigphil6* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icissigphil6> Deadlines: For workshop papers: October 1st, 2016 Decision on papers: October 15th, 2016 Discussant for papers appointed: TBD SIGPhil Home Page: http://sigphil.wordpress.com References Avital, M. 2014. "Constructing the Value of Information Systems Research," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:Art 42) pp. 817-822. Battelle, J. 2005. *The Search*, London: Portfolio. Chatterjee, S. 2016. "Most Influential IS Papers"* AISWorld Listserv*, Association for Information Systems, 2016 Chiasson, M. 2014. "Let’s Start Fooling Ourselves: Strategies for Manoeuvring within the Micro-Political Influences Surrounding Our Research Practices," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:Art 46) pp. 843-848. Davis, G.F. 2015. "Editorial Essay: What Is Organizational Research For?," *Administrative Science Quarterly* (60:2) pp. 179–188. Fedorowicz, J. 2013. "On the Road to Relevance." Association for Information Systems, Retrieved Sept 7, 2013, from http://ais.site-ym.com/news/138204/On-the-Road-to-Relevance-.htm Frank, U. 2014. "Higher Value of Research," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:Art 43) pp. 823-828. Grover, V. 2014. "Value of IS Research: Let’s Not Talk Crisis – but We Can Do Better," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:1 Art 45) pp. 837-842. Hassan, N.R. 2014. "Value of IS Research: Is There a Crisis?," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:Art 41) pp. 801-816. Johnston, R., and Riemer, K. 2014. "On Putting the Score Ahead of the Game," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:Art 47) pp. 849-856. Niederman, F. 2014. "Responding to Hassan (2014): The Core, Social Value and IS, and Distinguishing Research Value," *Communications of the Association for Information Systems* (34:1 Art 44) pp. 829-836. -- Nik Rushdi Hassan, PhD Assoc. Professor, Finance & MIS Dept. Labovitz School of Business and Economics University of Minnesota Duluth 1318 Kirby Drive, LSBE 335Q Duluth MN 55812 Office Phone: (218) 726-7453 Fax: (218) 726-7516 Home Page: www.d.umn.edu/~nhassan Email: nhassan(a)d.umn.edu LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nikrushdi/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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