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Fwd: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2017 MiniTrack 5_Scaling IT Projects: Enabling the Next Generation of Agile Project Management
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2017 MiniTrack 5_Scaling IT Projects: Enabling the Next Generation of Agile Project Management Datum: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:11:50 +0000 Von: Dennehy, Denis <denis.dennehy(a)nuigalway.ie> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *2017 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)* *Boston, MA, August 10-12, 2017*, <http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/> *MiniTrack 5: Scaling IT Projects: Enabling the Next Generation of Agile Project Management* *Part of: IT Project Management (SIG ITProjMgmt)* *Important dates:* - January 09, 2017: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS papers begin - March 01, 2017 1pm EST: Deadline for AMCIS paper submissions - April 17, 2017: Notification of initial decision on submitted papers - April 25, 2017: Deadline for camera-ready revisions - April 28, 2017: Notification of decision on revised camera-ready papers *Mini-track Description:* Contemporary project management is heavily influenced by practice-led research where emergent methods are promoted as the next generation of agile and anecdotal evidence used to support claims that a specific method is a highly effective means of enhancing agility and scale. This presents a corresponding pair of challenges. Firstly, practice-led research tends to be restricted to textbook versions of these methods, which differ significantly to how scaling projects are enacted in practice. Secondly, poor understanding of adaptability and extension of methods in practice and the absence of rigorous research has contributed to shortcomings in extant literature. *Call for Papers: * We seek papers that attempt to scale agile methods in terms of: Applying them to areas where they were not originally intended e.g. distributed or regulated environments; Extending the original methods and components of methods e.g. new ways of being 'agile' or 'lean'; Using methods at project portfolio or organisational level. *Types of Submissions:* COMPLETED RESEARCH PAPERS EMERGENT RESEARCH FORUM (ERF) PAPERS Please see - http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/ for more information. Chair(s): Dr. Denis Dennehy (contact person), National University of Ireland Galway, denis.dennehy(a)nuigalway.ie<mailto:denis.dennehy@nuigalway.ie> Professor Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland Galway, kieran.conboy(a)nuigalway.ie<mailto:kieran.conboy@nuigalway.ie> Mairead O'Connor, National University of Ireland Galway, m.oconnor67(a)nuigalway.ie<mailto:m.oconnor67@nuigalway.ie> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] AAMAS TRUST 2017 (2nd CFP)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AAMAS TRUST 2017 (2nd CFP) Datum: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:51:49 +0800 Von: Jie Zhang <zhangj.ntu(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies https://sites.google.com/site/trustworkshop/trust2017 Co-located with AAMAS 2017 (http://www.aamas2017.org) May 8-12, 2017, Sao Paulo - Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trust is important in many kinds of interactions, including direct or computer- mediated human interaction, human-computer interaction and among social agents; it characterizes those elements that are essential in social reliability. It also informs the selection of partners for successful multiagent coordination (for example, in robotics applications). Trust is more than communication that is robust against repudiation or interference. The reliability of information about the status of a trade partner, for example, is only partly dependent on secure communication. With the growing prevalance of social interaction through electronic means, trust, reputation, privacy and identity become more and more important. Trust is not just a simple, monolithic concept; it is multi-faceted, operating at many levels of interaction, and playing many roles. Another growing trend is the use of reputation mechanisms, and in particular the interesting link between trust and reputation. Many computational and theoretical models and approaches to reputation have been developed in recent years (for ecommerce, social networks, blogs, etc.). Further, identity and associated trustworthiness must be ascertained for reliable interactions and transactions. Trust is foundational for the notion of agency and for its defining relation of acting "on behalf of". It is also critical for modeling and supporting groups and teams, for both organization and coordination, with the related trade-off between individual utility and collective interest. The electronic medium seems to weaken the usual bonds of social control and the disposition to cheat grows stronger: this is yet another context where trust modeling is critical. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers (ideally from different disciplines) who can contribute to a better understanding of trust and reputation in agent societies. We welcome submissions of high-quality research addressing issues that are clearly relevant to trust, deception, privacy, reputation, security and control in agent-based systems, from theoretical, applied and interdisciplinary perspectives. Submitted contributions should be original and not submitted elsewhere. Papers accepted for presentation must be relevant to the workshop, and to demonstrate clear exposition, offering new ideas in suitable depth and detail. The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to): o Trust and risk-aware decision making o Game-theoretic models of trust o Deception and fraud, and its detection and prevention o Intrusion resilience in trusted computing o Reputation mechanisms o Trust in the socio-technical system o Trust in partners and in authorities o Trust during coordination and negotiation of agents o Privacy and access control in multi-agent systems o Detecting and preventing collusion o Trust in human-agent interaction o Trust and information provenance o Trust and identity o Trust within organizations o Trust, security and privacy in social networks o Trustworthy infrastructure and services o Trust modeling for real-world applications -------------------------- Important Dates (Firm Deadlines) o Submission deadline: February 7, 2017 o Notification: March 2, 2017 o Camera-ready deadline: March 17, 2017 -------------------------- Organising Committee o Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore o Murat Sensoy, Ozyegin University, Turkey o Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy -------------------------- Steering Committee o Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy (Chair) o Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada o Timothy Norman, University of Southampton, UK o Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA (Emeritus) o Suzanne Barber, University of Texas, USA (Emeritus) -------------------------- Programme Committee o Athirai A. Irissappane, University of Washington, USA o Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy o Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada o Robert Demolombe, IRIT, Toulouse, France o Hui Fang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China o Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany o Rafael H. Bordini, PUCRS, Brazil o Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Andrew Koster, IIIA-CSIC, Spain o Emiliano Lorini, IRIT, Toulouse, France o Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada o Tim Muller, University of Oxford, UK o Zeinab Noorian, Ryerson University, Canada o Timothy Norman, University of Southampton, UK o Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen, UK o Jordi Sabater-Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain o Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA o Gerardo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET, Argentina o Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA o Thomas Tran, University of Ottowa, Canada o Laurent Vercouter, LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen, France o Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon -------------------------- Submission and Publication Authors should submit original papers (maximum length 12 single-columned pages) in PDF through the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trust2017 Formal proceedings of the workshop will be published through CEUR-WS.org. CEUR.org is a green open-access publisher. Authors of papers published in the proceedings retain copyright of their material. To enable us to produce this publication, authors are expected to use the LaTeX template provided on the workshop website. https://sites.google.com/site/trustworkshop/trust2017/publication The most "visionary paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Hot Topics series. The book will be a compilation of the most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2017 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2017 workshop. Additionally, the "best paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The book will be a compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2017 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2017 workshop. Authors of the selected most visionary paper and the best paper are expected to provide their latex files promptly upon request. We also plan to invite some of the best papers from our workshop to be extended for a special issue in Journal of Trust Management ( www.journaloftrustmanagement.com). _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] *******IEEE ICBDACI 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS********
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] *******IEEE ICBDACI 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS******** Datum: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:05:45 +0530 Von: Dr. S K Niranjan Aradhya <dr.niranjan.sk(a)gmail.com> An: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Researchers, ********IEEE ICBDACI 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS********* *----- Apologies for cross-postings---- * * Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** * *Greetings from ICBDACI 2017 ……* I am happy to inform you that *International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence (ICBDACI – 2017)* is being conducted at Chirala Engineering College (CEC), Chirala, Andhra Pradesh, India from *23rd to 25th March 2017* technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), USA. Last date of submission of paper: *31st January, 2017*. CEC offers FREE accommodation in beach resorts for foreign delegates, First-come-first-serve basis. CEC extends hostel facility for 100 male and 30 female delegates per day, First-come-first-serve basis on nominal charges for Indian delegates. All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEE - Xplorer online. All are informed to submit the papers. Details are available at: http://icbdaci-conference.org Or for more details contact: chair(a)icbdaci-conference.org <https://secure214.inmotionhosting.com:2096/cpsess1044756217/3rdparty/squirr…> Thanks. With Regards, General Chairs ICBDACI - 2017 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [wkwi] CfP AMCIS 2017: Digital Service Innovation Across Boundaries
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] CfP AMCIS 2017: Digital Service Innovation Across Boundaries Datum: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 18:15:29 +0100 (CET) Von: Jens Poeppelbuss <jepo(a)uni-bremen.de> Antwort an: postmaster(a)seda.wiai.uni-bamberg.de +++ CALL FOR PAPERS +++ AMCIS 2017: A Tradition of Innovation Mini-Track: Digital Service Innovation Across Boundaries Track: Organizational Transformation & Information Systems (SIGOSRA) (http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-19) Boston, MA August 10-12, 2017 Deadline for paper submissions: 01-March-2017 +++ MINI-TRACK CHAIRS +++ Jens Poeppelbuss, University of Bremen, Germany, jepo(a)is.uni-bremen.de <mailto:jepo@is.uni-bremen.de> Lars-Olof Johansson, Halmstad University, Sweden, lars-olof.johansson(a)hh.se <mailto:lars-olof.johansson@hh.se> Lauri Wessel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, lauri.wessel(a)fu-berlin.de <mailto:lauri.wessel@fu-berlin.de> +++ MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION +++ Digital innovation has prompted organizations to become more process-oriented, customer focused, and to re-organize ways to deliver and capture value through services. A fundamental principle of both process orientation and value co-creation is to span boundaries within and across organizations. In today’s world, such boundaries are becoming increasingly dynamic and therefore pose new challenges to information systems research. On the one hand, inter- and intra-organizational boundaries blur as people engage with each other on digital platforms. On the other hand, new boundaries can also emerge through the use of information systems in the process of creating customer value. Research on how organizations can manage and overcome intra- and inter-organizational boundaries with the help of digital technologies and information systems, as well as studies on related organizational, strategic, and societal implications, is subject of this mini-track. We encourage papers applying a wide variety of methodologies, including empirical, theoretical and design-oriented research. Prof. Dr. Jens Poeppelbuss Junior Professor of Industrial Services University of Bremen Wilhelm-Herbst-Strasse 5 28359 Bremen, Germany Phone: +49 421 218-66950 Email: jepo(a)is.uni-bremen.de <mailto:jepo@is.uni-bremen.de> Web: www.is.uni-bremen.de <http://www.is.uni-bremen.de/>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers -- Special Issue on Security of IoT-enabled Infrastructures in Smart Cities (Ad Hoc Networks Journal)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Papers -- Special Issue on Security of IoT-enabled Infrastructures in Smart Cities (Ad Hoc Networks Journal) Datum: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 16:39:04 +0100 Von: Ali Ismail Awad <aawad(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: aawad(a)ieee.org An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleagues, We organize a Special Issue on Security of IoT-enabled Infrastructures in Smart Cities for Ad Hoc Network Journal. More details are here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-i… Theme and Scope: Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that involves a network of physical objects containing embedded technologies to collect, communicate, sense, and interact with their internal states or the external environment through wireless or wired connections. IoT uses unique addressing schemes and network infrastructures to create new application or services. Smart cities are developed urban environments where any citizen can use any service anywhere and anytime. IoT has become a generator of smart cities aiming at overcoming the problems inherent in traditional urban developments. The nature of IoT information exchange among the connected objects “Things” and remote locations for data storage and data processing gives the ability to collect numerous amounts of data about individuals, and other things in the smart city. Hence, these data can be passed to malicious or have vulnerabilities such as man-in-the-middle attack or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Therefore, collected and transferred bands of data via IoT infrastructure would affect the national security and privacy. Driven by the concept that IoT is the major builder in the coming smart cities, security and privacy have become inevitable requirements not only for personal safety, but also for assuring the sustainability of the ubiquitous city. Although, there are available researches that address the security challenges in IoT data, this special issue aims to address the security and privacy challenges emerging from deploying IoT in smart cities with a special emphasize on the IoT device, infrastructures, networking, and protocols. In addition, the special issue provides an up-to-date statement of the current research progresses in IoT security, privacy challenges, and mitigation approaches for protecting the individuals’ safety and the sustainability of the smart city. Topics of Interest: The topics of interest include but are not limited to: -- Innovative techniques for IoT infrastructure security -- Internet of Things (IoT) devices and protocols security -- Cross-domain trust management in smart communities -- Cloud computing-based security solutions for IoT data -- Security and privacy frameworks for IoT-based smart cities -- Critical infrastructures resilience and security in smart cities -- Biometric modalities involved in IoT security for smart cities -- Security challenges and mitigation approaches for smart cities -- Cyber attacks detection and prevention systems for IoT networks -- Interoperable security for urban planning and applications -- Ethics, legal, and social considerations in IoT security Publication Plan: -- Submission deadline: September 01, 2017 -- Guest editors’ constructive rejection: October 01, 2017 -- First review completed: January 01, 2018 -- Revised manuscript due: April 01, 2018 -- Second review completed: May 01, 2018 -- Revised manuscript due: June 01, 2018 -- Final acceptance notification: July 01, 2018 -- Publication date: Third quarter of 2018 Submission Guidelines: All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “Smart-City-IoT-Security” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/ Review Strategy: A constructive rejection approach will be applied prior to the review process. All the submissions will be initially screened by the guest editors as soon as the submission deadline passes. The rejection criteria at this stage include out-of-scope submissions, plagiarized manuscripts, and the submissions with no research substances. The authors will initially be notified about the rejected manuscripts within the following month after the submission deadline. A rigorous review process will be carried out on the rest of the submissions, and according to the publication plan. The submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers based on their originality, quality, and their relevance to the theme of the special issue. Lead Guest Editor: Ali Ismail Awad, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, ali.awad[at] ltu.se Guest Editors: Steven Furnell, Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research, Plymouth University, United Kingdom, S.Furnell[at]plymouth.ac.uk Abbas M. Hassan, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar University, Qena, Egypt, arch_abbas2002[at]yahoo.com Theo Tryfonas, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, theo.tryfonas[at]bristol.ac.uk Your submissions are highly welcomed. Sincerely Yours, Ali. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP Special Issue on Recommender Systems in Tourism, Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP Special Issue on Recommender Systems in Tourism, Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT) Datum: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 17:15:41 +0200 Von: Tsvi Kuflik <tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il> An: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT) Special Issue on Recommender Systems in Tourism Guest editors: Julia Neidhardt, Daniel Fesenmaier, Tsvi Kuflik, and Wolfgang Wörndl Background The focus of this special issue is on the specific challenges for recommender systems in tourism. In particular, there are considerably more complicated scenarios than finding the best product for a user. Planning a vacation usually involves searching for a reasonably large set of products that are interconnected (e.g. means of transportation, lodging, attractions etc.), with a rather limited availability, and where contextual aspects may have a major impact (spatiotemporal context, social context, environmental context). In addition and most importantly, products are emotionally “loaded” and therefore decision taking is not based only on rational and objective criteria. As such, providing the right information to visitors of a tourism site at the right time about the site itself and various services nearby is challenging. Additionally and in contrast to many other domains, information providers are normally SMEs and do not have full information about available opportunities. Finally, there is no single, standard format to house this information and with this diversity, building effective recommendation systems within the tourism domain is extremely challenging. The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) in general and the Web in particular has transformed the tourism domain whereby travellers no longer rely on travel agents/agencies. Indeed, recent studies indicate that they are now active in searching for information and composing their vacation packages according to their specific preferences. When onsite, they search for freely available information about the site itself rather than renting a visitor guide that may be available, but considered to be expensive and sometimes outdated. However, like in many other cases, the blessing of the web comes with a curse – the curse of information overload. Recommender systems have been suggested as a practical tool for overcoming this information overload. Topics of specific interest Important aspects and topics to be discussed evolve around (but are not limited to): ● Specific applications and case studies (evaluation) ● Specific methods and techniques in the domain ● Novel ICT and its impact on travel and tourism ● Integrating data from various sources, i.e., catalogues, Linked Open Data, and usage logs ● Context and mobility ● Cold-Start problem ● Preference elicitation ● Emotions and recommenders ● Group recommenders / Decision making ● Interaction concepts with personal and group (on-site public or desktop) displays ● Information needs, information access (incl. visualization) and search patterns ● Collaboration, communication and sharing aspects in the tourist information consumption ● Personalized explanations and feedback of recommendation systems ● Digital storytelling, narratives, smart summaries and recommendation explanations Submission - Papers are required no later than April 30th, 2017. - Notification of outcome will be provided by June 15th, 2017. - Revised papers should be submitted by August 1st, 2017. Please submit manuscripts through the Springer online system (if you are a new author to the system you will be required to create a system login).https://www.editorialmanager.com/jitt/ Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation. The journal imposes no hard limits on the paper length as long as what authors write is important. Submissions that exceed 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) should, however, be accompanied by a short justification as to why a briefer discussion of their research results. Full author instructions may be found here: http://www.springer.com/business+&+management/business+information+systems/… Any questions related to this special issue should be directed to: - Dr. Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria julia.neidhardt(a)ec.tuwien.ac.at - Prof. Daniel R. Fesenmaier, University of Florida, USA drfez(a)ufl.edu - Prof. Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il - Dr. Wolfgang Wörndl, TU München, Germany woerndl(a)in.tum.de Tsvika Tsvi Kuflik, PhD. Associate Professor The University of Haifa Email: <mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il> tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Home page: <https://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/tsvikak> https://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/tsvikak Tel: +972 4 8288511 Fax: +972 4 8288283

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Fwd: [WI] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals Datum: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 12:15:34 +0200 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 Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** *9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/ <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/%7Egeorge/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXdpQGFpZmIu…> Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. *Instructions to Authors * Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccci2017 <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/%7Egeorge/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXdpQGFpZmIu…> . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. *Topics of Interest * We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction *Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals * ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl *Important Dates * · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017 · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 *Organization* _Honorary Chairs _· Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland _General Chairs _· Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus _Program Chairs _· Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan _Organising Chair _· Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus _Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs _· Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland _Doctoral Track Chair _· George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus _Publicity Chair _· Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus _Local Organising Committee _· Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland _Steering Committee _· Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 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] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals Datum: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 12:11:14 +0200 Von: George Angelos Papadopoulos <george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: SIGSAND-L(a)CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG, SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)acm.org, confs-submit(a)hri.org, hellas(a)lists.psu.edu, semantic-web(a)w3.org, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *** Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/ Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccci2017 . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017 · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Cross-cultural Business Education
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Cross-cultural Business Education Datum: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 14:41:55 +0530 Von: Chandan Maheshkar <ch.maheshkar(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Chandan Maheshkar <ch.maheshkar(a)gmail.com> An: dpotnis(a)utk.edu, chinnant(a)fsu.edu, jepo(a)is.uni-bremen.de, lars-olof.johansson(a)hh.se, lauri.wessel(a)fu-berlin.de, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, wkwi(a)seda.wiai.uni-bamberg.de *CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS* *Handbook of Research on Cross-cultural Business Education** * http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2446 <http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2446> Proposal Submission Deadline: *January 30, 2017* Full Chapters Due: *April 30, 2017* The book “Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Business Education (proposed to be in two volumes)” would be focused to identify and explore the role of teaching tools used in business education to add competitive benefits with the business skills and make them applied in cross-cultural business environment. The objectives of this book: * To explore significant perspectives of Business/Management Education and pedagogical practices in the cross-cultural environment. * To identify the teaching tools competent in cross-cultural environment those make Business Education competing and applied. * To create and cater knowledge to add competitive edge with business and management education. *Recommended Topics* *For /complete list of recommended topics, /please view detailed /call for chapte/r attached herewith this email or visit given web link. * * * *Submission Procedure* Management faculties, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *February 28, 2017* a chapter proposal of ranging *1000-1500* words clearly explaining how the proposal fits into the book’s objective and scope. Authors will be notified within a week about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *April 30, 2017*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Please visit http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2446 <http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2446>for more details regarding this publication and to submit your chapter proposal. *Publisher (Proposed)* This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (Formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases. This publication is anticipated to be released in First Quarter of 2018. *Important Dates* Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 Notification of Proposal Acceptance: March 10, 2017 Full Chapters Submission: April 30, 2017 Revised Chapter Submission from Authors: July 30, 2017 Final Notification of Chapter Acceptance: August 15, 2017 *On a final note, please share this opportunity with your Colleagues, Fellow Researchers, Doctoral Research Scholars of your institution or throughout your associations.* * * Sincerely,* * Chandan Maheshkar University of Indore Indore-452001, MP -- 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] dg.o 2017: 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - Extended Deadline - Feb. 3, 2017
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] dg.o 2017: 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - Extended Deadline - Feb. 3, 2017 Datum: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 19:21:23 -0500 Von: C. Hinnant <chinnant(a)fsu.edu> Antwort an: chinnant(a)fsu.edu Organisation: School of Information - Florida State University An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Submissions Deadline - Feb. 3, 2017 dg.o 2017: 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Innovations and Transformations in Government City University of New York College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY June 7-9, 2017 http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/ Twitter handle: #dgo2017 The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2017, with the theme “Innovations and Transformations in Government." The dg.o 2017 conference will be hosted by the City University of New York, College of Staten Island Campus, NY, June 7--9, 2017. The dg.o conference is an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, political participation, civic engagement, and the impact of technology and innovation on government and governance. Each year the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), and their focus on important and timely topics. The conference program combines: - Keynote and track presentations and discussions on new research on digital government at the intersections of information technology research, social and behavioral science research, and the challenges and missions of government. - Presentations of effective partnerships and collaborations among government professionals and agencies, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government. - A showcase of digital government projects, implementations, and initiatives that bring together the research and practitioner communities, demonstrate the effectiveness and/or challenges of digital government and offer best practices. JOINT EVENT WITH INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM Two global communities, the Digital Government Society (DGS) and the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), will partner in June 2017 to build new bridges between research and practice, with a shared goal of creating new interdisciplinary, multi-sector partnerships within the world’s communities focused on innovation. Both DGS and the ICF have convened respective communities in cities all around the world. This year they are bringing their communities together in New York to share knowledge, allow each group to network at a deeper level and explore new partnerships to advance urban and rural innovation. On June 7, 2017, the DGS and ICF’s representatives will host the joint program at the City University of New York Staten Island campus for the ICF’s annual Summit and the dg.o conference. For one day, members of both communities will present a set of joint and complementary sessions that provide attendees with a chance to hear from global leaders from across the world’s leading regions, cities and towns. Attendees will participate in master classes and workshops, and seek to build collaborations focused on advancing the scholarship, policy and practice of urban and rural innovation. The capstone of the collaboration of these two communities will be the announcement of the world’s Top7 intelligent communities at a joint reception in Manhattan on the evening of June 7th. THEMES AND TRACK TOPICS The 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research will feature the main theme of Innovations and Transformations in Government. Technological advances, such as big data and collective intelligence, together with policy innovations including open government, open data, and the creation of new public data labs have been a catalyst for disruptive innovations in government, causing radical re-thinking of the traditional assumptions and expectations regarding how governments should function. Public goods and services once considered exclusively the responsibility of government agencies are now often initiated and produced through collaborations with citizens, non-profits, and/or private sector partners. The conference theme will highlight challenges and solutions in harnessing innovations and transformations in government. Innovative designs in all aspects of government, including people, services, data, policy, governance, collaboration, and democracy, require leadership talent, creative ideas and implementation strategies, and clear success criteria for evaluating solutions. We welcome research and practice contributions from around the world on the topics including but not limited to innovation strategies, policy innovations, citizen services, engagement innovations, and data-driven decision innovations that address various current societal, environmental and economic challenges, across all the eight tracks below. Each track will accept full research papers as well as research in progress, management case studies and policy papers. Panel, tutorial, workshop, poster and demonstration proposals are also invited. Each conference element has co-chairs who are responsible for managing the submission and review process for their track. Feel free to contact track chairs for guidance as necessary. Track 1. Social Media and Government Track Chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh (kavan(a)cs.vt.edu) and Rodrigo Sandoval The use of social media has been growing rapidly and globally. Governments at all levels have been using microblogs, such as Twitter, and social network sites, such as Facebook, among other platforms and tools for public administration and outreach to citizens. Citizens, businesses and voluntary associations have been using these tools and affordances to share information, ask questions, and compete or collaborate on problem solving within and among neighborhoods, industries, states, and nations. The growing use of social media has created new challenges and opportunities for many users such as changes in regulations and policies, marketing, highly diverse perspectives, and feedback. Analysis of communication behavior, messages, and systems and institutions, should contribute to our knowledge of the ways these media are affecting collective problem solving and public policy development. Future trends in social media and government point to new synergies, as well as disruptions, among public agencies and users. This track welcomes research and practice papers addressing a range of similar or related topics on social media analysis on content, metrics, case studies or theoretical models to advance this area of research. Track 2. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts Track chairs: Jing Zhang (jizhang(a)clarku.edu), Yu-Che Chen, and Lei Zheng Public organizations employ information and communication technologies (ICT) to facilitate communication and transactions with many stakeholders in public and private sectors. The adoption and implementation of new ICT by public organizations is influenced by organizational factors such as the availability of resources (i.e. funding, technological knowledge, and personnel), leadership, trust, organization’s technological culture, as well as inter-organizational dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICT in government and society has generated important impacts on the organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and innovativeness of public organizations. This track solicits research that examines the organizational factors that influence the adoption and implementation of new ICT as well as the impact of new ICT. Research papers in this track examine the adoption, use, and organizational impacts of a variety of innovative technologies and policies or practices that include but are not limited to social media, citizen-centric technologies, virtual collaboration, open data, big data, and modeling tools. Track 3. Opening Government: From Open Data Infrastructures to Collaboration Track chairs: Marijn Janssen (m.f.w.h.a.janssen(a)tudelft.nl), Vishanth Weerakkody, and Adegboyega Ojo Governments are utilizing the Internet to achieve an open, transparent and accountable government while providing responsive services. This extensive transformation is required both within the government and in the way governments engage with the public. The opening and sharing of data, the deployment of tools and instruments to engage the public, collaboration amongst public organizations and between governments and the public are important drivers for realizing these goals. Governments initiate open data portals, develop apps, and open more data to engage with the public to create more value. To successfully achieve this vision, fundamental changes in practice and new research on governments as open systems are needed. Successful cases, measurement instruments, information sharing, adoption, stakeholder analysis and theoretical models and frameworks are necessary to advance this field. In particular, this track solicits papers addressing the issue of public sector transformation achieved through open government, collaboration amongst actors and information sharing within and between public and private organizations. Track 4. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Governments Track chairs: Sehl Mellouli (sehl.mellouli(a)fsa.ulaval.ca), Yigal Arens The slogan "Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Governments” refers to the promise of using linked and intertwined technologies to create innovative and intelligent solutions to life in a city that will result not only in operational efficiency, but also in government transformation through co-creative governance. Topics for this track include but are not limited to: Applications and collaborations based on the “internet of things”; Smart sensors; Big data analytics; The Civic Technology Movement, and Intercity and intergovernmental collaborations; Intelligent solutions for cities and governments. Descriptions of research and development efforts that demonstrate advances in technology and/or policy innovations in the areas of energy, transportation, health, education, public safety, structures, natural environment, and business, are all welcome, as are related issues of cybersecurity and privacy, community-based infrastructure resilience, urban informatics and governance. Track 5. Cybersecurity and Government Track Chairs: Loni Hagen (lonihagen(a)usf.edu), Hun-Yeong Kwon, Wookjoon Sung and Soon Ae Chun Increasing threats of domestic and international cyber-attacks, and growing dependencies on inter-connected cyberspace, require a need for national and global collaborations to develop secure and resilient cyber infrastructure. This track focuses on technical, policy and social dimensions of cyber security research, including theoretical and empirical models and frameworks, to address ever-expanding cyber security challenges. Topics include but not limited to: information security in e-government, cybercrimes, cyber incident response, critical infrastructure protection, national and global information sharing, surveillance and privacy, cryptography policy governance, security governance and strategies, civil engagement and public awareness. We also invite domain-specific cases and innovative approaches on security challenges, cybernational defence, private/public joint efforts, and education, such as workforce training and retention. Track 6. Beyond Bureaucracy, Co-Producing Governance & New Models of Governance Track Chairs: Alois Paulin (alois(a)apaulin.com) and Leonidas Anthopoulos The Beyond Bureaucracy track aims to outline and discuss challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities. Where well-established e-government / e-governance research ambitions focus on providing and/or studying technology that supports the work and mission of government agencies and governmental agents (incremental innovation), Beyond Bureaucracy addresses the question how radical technological innovation transforms the power of citizens and the conceptual sovereign body to actively control (rather than passively observe and follow) government agencies and governmental agents. The Beyond Bureaucracy track invites contributions that discuss pending technological (design science) challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on Beyond Bureaucracy thought and knowledge. Research keywords includes but not limited to: Liquid Democracy, Informating Governance, e-Anarchy, Participatory Budgeting & Bottom-Up Excise, Non-Bureaucratic Government, etc. Track 7. Participatory Democracy Track Chairs: Claudia Cappelli (claudia.cappelli(a)uniriotec.br), Cristiano Maciel, José Viterbo Filho E-participation comprises the use of information and communication technologies to broaden and deepen political participation by enabling citizens to connect with one another and with their elected representatives. It can lead to new methods of producing public policies and services that contrast with transaction-based methods of service delivery, in which citizens consume public services solely conceived and provided by governments. In the novel coproduction-based approaches, citizens are not only consulted but are part of the conception, design, steering, and management of public policies and services. Hence, this track focuses on e-participation approaches that instrument Participatory Democracy, supporting cooperation among citizens and governments on regular basis. Its major topics will discuss strategies, methods, techniques and tools that can contribute to the coproduction of public services. Track 8. Open Government Data Policies & Politics Track chairs: Boyi Li (b.li(a)exeter.ac.uk) and Kyung Ryul Park A growing body of literature has been focused on the benefits, motivations, as well as best practices to adopt open data in government sectors. Many theorizing efforts regard institutional structures as critical barriers to promote open innovation paradigm in public sector. In this track, we discuss the impact and change of these institutional structures by inviting research papers that examine open data initiatives as either government policies or politics. The policy lens critically analyses the policy documents and reveals how open data policies are drafted, interpreted, and implemented in a specific context. The politics lens is mainly concerned with the power relations between the state, civil society, and business. It leads to a critical reflection on the agenda of open data movement in the context of power structures of informational capitalism. Therefore, we particularly welcome the content and discourse analysis of open data documents, and the storytelling of government-business collaboration in open data innovations. Panels Chair: Teresa Harrison Panel proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that put a spotlight on practice and application. Proposals from practitioners at all levels of government featuring experiences with, perspectives on, and evaluations of digital government practice are encouraged. Individuals interested in submitting panel proposals are invited to consult the panel co-chairs about their ideas prior to developing their submissions. Please send expressions of interest for panel development to Teresa Harrison (tharrison(a)albany.edu). Poster and Demonstration Poster and Demo Chair: Kellyton dos Santos Brito and Murray Scott The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. PUBLICATIONS All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Selected papers will be invited for a journal special issue. BEST PAPER AWARDS Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories Research papers, Management, Case Study and Policy papers, Posters, and System demonstrations. Papers that reflect the main theme of the conference, Innovations and Transformations in Government, will be preferred. Other selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience. IMPORTANT DATES February 3, 2017: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due March 1, 2017: Application deadline for 2017 doctoral colloquium March 1, 2017: Author notifications March 15, 2017: Posters and demo proposals due April 1, 2017: Poster/demo author notifications April 5, 2017: Camera-ready manuscripts due May 5, 2017: Early registration closes! SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS . Research papers (maximum of 10 pages) . Management, Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum of 6 pages) . Panel descriptions (maximum of 4 pages) . Posters (maximum of 2 pages) . System demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages) . Pre-Conference tutorial proposals (maximum of 2 pages) . Pre-Conference workshop proposals (maximum of 2 pages) . Doctoral colloquium application (maximum of 10 pages) Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2017 Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission in camera-ready ACM Proceedings format (double column, single spaced pages). Please do not use page numbers. Paper titles should be on the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. . Research, Management, Case Study, and Policy papers will be reviewed through a double-blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper to assist the program committee in the review process. . All other submissions should follow the same ACM proceedings camera-ready format, but include author names. . All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered for the conference before the camera-ready copy is due for it to be included in the conference proceedings. . At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the work. Research papers (8 - 10 pages) – blind review These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Management, case study, or policy papers (4 - 6 pages) – blind review These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Panels (2 - 4 pages) - Proposals should include information about the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). Posters (1 - 2 pages): Two-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided with a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. System Demonstrations (1 - 2 pages): System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. Each station is provided with a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. Pre-conference Tutorials (1 - 2 pages): dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations that offer deeper insight into e-government research, practice, research methodologies, technologies or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of particular technologies such as social media, and other insights into e-government that would benefit researchers and practitioners. Pre-conference Workshops (1 - 2 pages): We invite workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. Workshops are half- or full-day events intended to offer interactive sessions, in which the workshop host and participants discuss and engage in activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further exploration of a particular subject. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Doctoral Colloquium (7 - 10 pages, not including references, tables and figures): The doctoral colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. Ph.D. students can submit papers describing their planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering any research areas relevant to digital government. Ideally, student participants will have completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal idea and preliminary findings, but have not reached the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this stage of study will gain the most value from feedback on their work and the more general discussions of doctoral programs and scholarly careers. See the detailed announcement for complete information on the colloquium and how to submit an application. Material provided in applications to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However, we encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as a poster or demo. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs . Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York (CUNY), US . Beth Simon Noveck, New York University and Yale Law School, US . Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University, US Organizing Chairs . Paolo Cappellari, CUNY College of Staten Island, US . Rob Domanski, CUNY College of Staten Island, US . Richard Flanagan, CUNY College of Staten Island, US Program Chairs . Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, US . Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Track Chairs . Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US . Jing Zhang, Clark University, US . Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands . Rodrigo Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico . Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada . Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US . Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK . Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland . Yigal Arens, University of Southern California, US . Loni Hagen, South Florida University, US . Hun-Yeong Kwon, Korea University, S. Korea . Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, S. Korea . Kyung Ryul Park, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK . Boyi Li, University of Exeter, UK . Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria . Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Sciences (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece . Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska Omaha, US . Lei Zheng, Fudan University, China . Claudia Cappelli, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . Cristiano Maciel, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Brazil . José Viterbo Filho, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Panels Chair . Teresa Harrison, University at Albany, SUNY, US Workshop and Tutorial Chair . Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark . Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain Poster and Demo Chairs . Kellyton dos Santos Brito, Pernambuco Rural Federal University, Brazil . Murray Scott, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Doctoral Colloquium Chairs . Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY, US . J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY, US Publicity and Web Chairs . Yoo Jung An, Essex County College, US . Chulwoo Kim, Pace University, US Liaison and Outreach Chairs . Theresa Pardo, University at Albany, USA . Norman Jacknis, Intelligent Community Forum, USA Registration Chairs . Lukasz Porwol, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland . Catherine Dumas, University at Albany, US Finance Chair . Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Cfp January 2017