Cfp July 2018

cfp@alice.wu.ac.at

1 participants
72 discussions

Fwd: [AISWorld] Last Call for Papers: Information Integration & Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS2018), 19-21 November, 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Last Call for Papers: Information Integration & Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS2018), 19-21 November, 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:24:46 +0200 From: Ismail Khalil <ismail.khalil(a)jku.at> To: ISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *************************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 20th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2018) 19 - 21 November 2018 Yogyakarta, Indonesia http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2018/ email: iiwas2018(a)iiwas.org Paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iiwas2018 **** Important Dates ***** 5 August 2018: Full Papers (10 pages), Short papers, demos and work in progress (4 pages) (SHARP) 15 September 2018: Acceptance Notification 10 October 2018: Camera-Ready Papers and Authors Registration 19-6 November 2018: Conference Dates ***** Publication ***** ALL accepted iiWAS2018 papers will be published by ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and the supplemental proceedings (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6479-9) which will be archived in the ACM Digital Library, and indexed by DBLP, Ei Compendex, Scopus and submitted to be reviewed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science). Selected high-quality papers will be invited to be published, after revision and extension, in special issues of international journals. **** Scope ***** WWW has been driving global information integration. In spite of the many applications in all domains of our societies: e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, e-science, and e-government, for instance, as well as the tremendous advances by engineers and scientists, the seamless integration of information and services remains a major challenge. The current shared vision for the future is one of semantically rich information and service oriented architectures for global information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML, Web services, RDF, OWL, of multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual information retrieval, and of distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing. iiWAS2018 is the 20th in the series of the highly successful International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Systems. Recently, iiWAS has been held in Salzburg (2017), Singapore (2016), Brussels (2015), Hanoi (2014), Vienna (2013), Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009), and Linz (2008). This year, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the city of culture, arts and crafts where iiWAS was first conceived 20 years ago, will host iiWAS2018. The iiWAS conference series have provided opportunities to researchers, graduate students, and industry practitioners to address recent research results and current industry practices in the area of information integration and web-based applications. We invite two types of submissions: Full Technical Papers and Short Position Papers. - A Full Paper should provide solid conceptual and theoretical foundation and substantial support for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field. - A Position Paper could be demo or work in progress, i.e., it reports the latest emerged ideas, approaches, methodologies, systems and application scenarios but have not yet been fully implemented and/or undergone extensive evaluation. ***** Topics ***** iiWAS2018 conference themes, grouped in four tracks, are the following (but are not limited to): 1. Web Engineering and Web Services Track: - Web Data Integration, Monitoring and Management - Web Data Models, Metrics, Tools, Languages and Performance - Web Agents, Intelligence and Mining - Web Security and Trust Management - Web Visualisation, Rich Web UI and Deep/Hidden Web - Web-based Enterprise Systems and Business Processes - Web-based Auction and Negotiation - Federated and cross-organisational Web engineering - Web Services Architectural styles - Web Services performance - Dependability, security and privacy of web services (blogs, RSS, wikis, etc.) - Orchestration, choreography and composition of web services - Tools and technologies for Web Services development, deployment and management - The impact of Web Services on enterprise systems - Impact of formal methods on Web Services 2. E-applications Track (e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Payment, e-Government, e-Learning, e-science, e-communities): - E-application design models and methods - E-application development processes, standards and methodologies - E-application usability, accessibility, reuse and integration - E-application localisation and internalization - E-applications case studies and best practices - E-applications social and legal issues - E-applications service architectures - E-applications competition and collaborations - E-applications data analytics and visualisation - Digital libraries - Innovative E-Frameworks & E-Applications - Innovative E-applications in Web 2.0, AJAX, E4X and other new developments - Model-driven E-application development - Workflow and E-services 3. Web Data and Semantic Web Track: - XML data and schema integration - XML data models, query processing and data management - XML data privacy and security - Web databases and warehousing - Web data mining, exploration, and visualisation - Document Engineering and Integration - Web Data Markup Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Web Semantics content creation, annotation, and extraction - Web Semantics brokering, integration and interoperability - Web Semantics search, query, and visualisation - Web Semantics middleware and services - Web Semantics provenance, trust & security - Ontology creation, searching, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment 4. Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Track: - Mobile and Ubiquitous Information and Service Integration - Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Systems - Grid and P2P architectures for service and information integration - Agent-based ubiquitous applications - Location and context-aware applications and services - Infrastructure support for mobility and pervasive Web - Web proxies and content adaptation - Service creation and management environments for pervasive web - Low-cost web access devices and networking for emerging regions - Privacy-enhancing technologies in pervasive web - Social search and the use of human computing in web search - Experience report on ubiquitous computing implementation - Visionary scenario on ubiquitous computing **** Submission Guidelines **** Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF through the conference website. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will subject to stringent peer review by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM. Format requirements for submissions of papers are: - Maximum 10 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Full Technical papers. - Maximum 4 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Short Position Papers. - All submissions should be formatted according to ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) - Submissions must be entered into the Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iiwas2018) **** Awards **** iiWAS2018 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. **** Past Conferences **** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences.htm ACM Digital library: http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE544 DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iiwas/ **** PC Members ***** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2018/ *** Contact ***** Maria Indrawan-Santiago, Program Committee Chair, Monash University, Australia Eric Pardede, Program Committee CoChair, La Trobe University, Australia **************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

Fwd: [AISWorld] Last Call for Papers: Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2018), 19-21 November, 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Last Call for Papers: Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2018), 19-21 November, 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:03:17 +0200 From: Ismail Khalil <ismail.khalil(a)jku.at> To: ISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *************************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 16th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2018) 19 - 21 November 2018 Yogyakarta, Indonesia http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2018/ email: momm2018(a)iiwas.org Paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=momm2018 **** IMPORTANT DATES ***** 5 August 2018: Full Papers (10 pages), Short papers, demos and work in progress (4 pages) (SHARP) 15 September 2018: Acceptance Notification 10 October 2018: Camera-Ready Papers and Authors Registration 19 - 21 November 2018: Conference Dates ***** Publication ***** ALL accepted MoMM2018 papers will be published by ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6452-2) and the supplemental proceedings which will be archived in the ACM Digital Library, and indexed by DBLP, Ei Compendex, Scopus and submitted to be reviewed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science). Selected high-quality papers will be invited to be published, after revision and extension, in special issues of international journals. **** Scope ***** A vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, instant messaging, social networks, mobile payment and transactions, mobile video conferencing, or video and audio streaming has already shaped the expectations towards current mobile devices, infrastructure, and services. Within the last five years, mobile multimedia has become the accepted standard, driven by developments in end-user devices, radio networks, and backend services. However, many open research questions remain open, from limited battery life to heterogeneous data types, increases in quality of service, context-aware adaptation to the environment, or the ever-present security and privacy issues. MoMM2018 is the 16th edition in the series of the highly successful International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia. Recently, MoMM has been held in Salzburg (2017), Singapore (2016), Brussels (2015), Kaohsiung (2014), Vienna (2013), Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009), and Linz (2008). This year, Yogyakarta, Indonesia will host MoMM2018. The MoMM conference series has provided opportunities to researchers, graduate students, and industry practitioners to address recent research results and current industry practices in the area of mobile computing and multimedia. **** Submissions ***** We invite three types of submissions: Full Technical Papers, Short Position Papers, and Demonstrations. - A Full Paper should provide solid conceptual and theoretical foundation and substantial support for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field. - A Position Paper is not expected to be theoretically or empirically thorough, but represents an earlier stage of work. Examples are demonstration or prototype work, preliminary user studies, or work in progress, i.e. a report on the latest emerging ideas, approaches, methodologies, systems and application scenarios. - A demonstration is intended to showcase novel concepts and innovative technologies which are at advanced stage and have already been implemented in working prototype systems. The informal setting of the demonstration session encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about presented work, while the accompanying short paper should describe the scientific aspects, concepts or methods underpinning the hands-on demonstration. Accepted papers and demonstrations from all three categories will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. ***** Topics ***** Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Mobile Platform Track - Mobile software architectures, systems, and platforms - Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing - Mobile network traffic engineering, performance, and optimization - Wireless and mobile network management and service infrastructure - Wireless communication technologies (GSM/UMTS, WiMAX, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) - Mobility and location management - Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks - Distributed systems aspects of mobile computing - Localization and tracking - Transaction processing in mobile environments - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless protocols - Security of mobile end-user devices - Energy efficiency in mobile systems - Approaches, and technologies for dealing with big data in mobile computing - Integration of cloud computing and mobile computing - Mobile services usage data analysis and pattern recognition - Regulatory, societal, legal, and ethical issues of mobile computing 2. Mobile Interaction Track - Mobile applications and services - Mobile computing markets and business models - Provisioning of mobile services - Personalization and context awareness in mobile computing - Location based services - Security and privacy of social network services - Mobile visualization for big data - Rapid prototyping of mobile applications - Mobile user interfaces and interaction techniques - Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services - Mobile services for older adults with diverse capabilities 3. Mobile Multimedia Track - Mobile multimedia streaming and services - Mobile multimedia coding and encryption - Mobile multimedia for learning - Interfaces for multimedia creation - Media fusion for communication and presentation - Distributed mobile multimedia systems - Audio and video analysis, modeling, processing and transformation - Image analysis, modeling, and recognition - Augmented reality on mobile devices - Communication and cooperation through mobile multimedia - Enabling infrastructures for mobile multimedia - Scalable multimedia big data management **** Submission Guidelines **** Papers and demonstration descriptions must be submitted electronically in PDF through the conference website. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings. Submitted demonstrations should convey a scientific result and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. Submitted papers and demonstrations will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers and demonstration descriptions will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM. Format requirements for submissions of papers and demonstrations are: - Maximum 10 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Full Technical papers. - Maximum 4 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Short Position Papers. - A video clip (for review purpose only) and a description of maximum 4 pages for the demonstration. The description should outline the underlying novel concepts, methods and/or approaches, and details about implementation, deployment, testing, and evaluation and user uptake. - All submissions should be formatted according to ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) - Submissions must be entered into the Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=momm2018) **** Awards **** MoMM2018 best paper awards, best student paper awards, and best demonstrations will be selected based on novelty, significance, and the presentation at the conference. Best student paper awards can only be awarded to papers on which students are first authors. **** Past Conferences **** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences.htm ACM Digital library: http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE130 DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/momm/ *** Contact ***** Pari Delir Haghighi, Program Committee Chair, Monash University, Australia ****************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

Fwd: [AISWorld] ToC IJISCRAM 9(3), International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] ToC IJISCRAM 9(3), International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 01:02:59 -0700 From: Murray Jennex <mjennex(a)sdsu.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, Murray Jennex <mjennex(a)sdsu.edu> Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) 9(3)The contents of the latest issue of: *International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM)* *An Official Publication of the ISCRAM Association <http://www.iscram.org/category-membership/>* Volume 9, Issue 3, July - September 2017 Indexed by: INSPEC *For a complete list of indexing and abstracting services that include this journal, please reference the bottom of this announcement.* Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1937-9390; EISSN: 1937-9420; Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA www.igi-global.com/ijiscram <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-system…> Editor-in-Chief: Víctor Amadeo Bañuls Silvera (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) and Murray E. Jennex (San Diego State University, USA) *Note: The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) has an Open Access option, which allows individuals and institutions unrestricted access to its published content. Unlike traditional subscription-based publishing models, open access content is available without having to purchase or subscribe to the journal in which the content is published. All IGI Global manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.* *GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE* Special Issue on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in the Mediterranean Countries Ioannis M. Dokas (Civil Engineering Department, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece) To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=207710&ptid=158388&ctid=15&t=Special Issue on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in the Mediterranean Countries <https://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=207710&ptid=158388&ctid=15&t=specia…> *ARTICLE 1* Dependability Levels on Autonomous Systems: The Case Study of a Crisis Management Robot Angeliki Zacharaki (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece), Ioannis Kostavelis (Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece) Professional robots should be endorsed with great autonomy capabilities when designed for release into the market. The need for autonomy is further reinforced when robots are meant to be used for crisis management situations, where close collaboration with humans and trustworthy operation in hazardous environments is necessary. To this end, this article quantifies the system's autonomy by measuring its dependability. This is achieved by defining a qualitative metric system regarding the different levels of dependability that autonomous systems should retain in order to operate in various crisis situations. It provides a detailed analysis of each level of dependability and proposes the minimum requirements that should be fulfilled in each level, thus realizing a ranking system that outlines the overall system's ability to operate autonomously. The proposed analysis is applied on a real robotic prototype developed for crisis situations and evaluates the system's autonomy capabilities by qualitative assessing the levels of dependability it retains. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/dependability-levels-on-autonomous-systems/207711 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207711 *ARTICLE 2* Hybrid Unsupervised Modeling of Air Pollution Impact to Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Lazaros Iliadis (Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece), Vardis-Dimitris Anezakis (Department of Forestry, School of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece), Konstantinos Demertzis (Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece), Georgios Mallinis (Department of Forestry, School of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece) During the last few decades, climate change has increased air pollutant concentrations with a direct and serious effect on population health in urban areas. This research introduces a hybrid computational intelligence approach, employing unsupervised machine learning (UML), in an effort to model the impact of extreme air pollutants on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases of citizens. The system is entitled Air Pollution Climate Change Cardiovascular and Respiratory (APCCCR) and it combines the fuzzy chi square test (FUCS) with the UML self organizing maps algorithm. A major innovation of the system is the determination of the direct impact of air pollution (or of the indirect impact of climate change) to the health of the people, in a comprehensive manner with the use of fuzzy linguistics. The system has been applied and tested thoroughly with spatiotemporal data for the Thessaloniki urban area for the period 2004-2013. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/hybrid-unsupervised-modeling-of-air-pollution-im… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207712 *ARTICLE 3* Metrics for Ensuring Security and Privacy of Information Sharing Platforms for Improved City Resilience: A Review Approach Jaziar Radianti (Centre for Integrated Emergency Management UiA, Grimstad, Norway), Terje Gjøsæter (Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway) City resilience is a pressing issue worldwide since the majority of the population resides in urban areas. When disaster strikes, the consequences will be more severe in the cities. To achieve resilience, different organizations, agencies and the public should share information during a disaster. ICT-based community engagement is used for strengthening resilience. The authors propose a set of metrics for assessing the security and privacy of information sharing tools for resilience. They then apply the selected metrics to a selection of information sharing tools. The authors' main finding is that most of them are reasonably well-protected, but with less than private default settings. They discuss the importance of security and privacy for different important categories of users of such systems, to better understand how these aspects affect the willingness to share information. Security and privacy is of particular importance for whistle-blowers that may carry urgent information, while volunteers and active helpers are less affected by the level of security and privacy. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/metrics-for-ensuring-security-and-privacy-of-inf… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207713 *ARTICLE 4* Serious Game Design for Flooding Triggered by Extreme Weather Jaziar Radianti (Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM), University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Mattias N. Tronslien (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Kristoffer Kalvik Thomassen (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Max Emil Odd Moland (Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Christian Anker Kulmus (Kulmus 3D, Oslo, Norway) Managing crises with limited resources through a serious game is deemed as one of the ways of training and can be regarded as an alternative to a table-top exercise. This article presents the so-called “Operasjon Tyrsdal” serious game, inspired by a real case of extreme weather that hit the west coast of Norway. This reference case is used to add realism to the game. The game is designed for a single player, while the mechanics are framed in such a way that the player will have limited resources, and elevated event pressure over time. Beside applying an iterative Scrum method with seven Sprint cycles, we combined the development work with desk research and used the involvement of testers, including crisis responders. The resulting game has expected features and behaviors, is game(ful), but allow the player to learn through an “After Action” report that logs all player's decisions, which is intended to trigger discussions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/serious-game-design-for-flooding-triggered-by-ex… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207714 *ARTICLE 5* Towards a Grid for Characterizing and Evaluating Crisis Management Serious Games: A Survey of the Current State of Art Ibtissem Daoudi (ENSI, Manouba, Tunisia), Raoudha Chebil (ENSI, Manouba, Tunisia), Erwan Tranvouez (Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France), Wided Lejouad Chaari (ENSI, Manouba, Tunisia), Bernard Espinasse (Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France) Over the last few decades, interest has grown in the use of serious games (SG) and their assessment in almost every sector. A privileged application domain of SG is crisis management (CM) in which these tools improve crisis behavior and/or management in a safe environment while reducing training costs. However, it is difficult to characterize and evaluate such specific SG. This article proposes a comprehensive grid defining features for description, analysis and evaluation of Crisis Management Serious Games (CMSG). First of all, the authors introduce SG, CM as well as evaluation and assessment concepts, and discuss their particular challenges by highlighting the need of using assessment and evaluation techniques to support learning and/or training. Then, the authors present, classify and compare the most relevant techniques dedicated to address this need by encompassing the state of the art of learners' assessment and evaluation approaches used in CMSG. Finally, this article presents in detail the proposed grid and discusses the major findings and contributions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/towards-a-grid-for-characterizing-and-evaluating… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207715 *ARTICLE 6* A Framework to Improve the Disaster Response Through a Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent System Claire Prudhomme (i3mainz, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany), Christophe Cruz (Laboratoire LE2I – UMR FRE 2005 – IC ARTS, Dijon, France), Ana Roxin (Laboratoire LE2I – UMR FRE 2005 – IC ARTS, Dijon, France), Frank Boochs (i3mainz, University of Applied Science, Mainz, Germany) The disaster response still faces problems of collaboration due to lack of policies concerning the information exchange during the response. Moreover, plans are prepared to respond to a disaster, but drills to apply them are limited and do not allow to determine their efficiency and conflicts with other organizations. This paper presents a framework allowing for different organizations involving in the disaster response to assess their collaboration through its simulation using an explicit representation of their knowledge. This framework is based on a multi-agent system composed of three generic agent models to represent the organizational structure of disaster response. The decision-making about response actions is done through task decomposition and repartition. It is based reasoning on ontologies which provides an explicit trace of the response plans design and their execution. Such framework aims at identifying cooperation problems and testing strategies of information exchange to support the preparation of disaster response. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/a-framework-to-improve-the-disaster-response-thr… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207716 ------------------------------ For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the *International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM)* in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated *"InfoSci-Journals"* database: www.igi-global.com/isj <https://www.igi-global.com/e-resources/infosci-databases/infosci-journals/> . ------------------------------ *CALL FOR PAPERS* Mission of IJISCRAM: The mission of the *International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM)* is to provide an outlet for innovative research in the area of information systems for crisis response and management. Research is expected to be rigorous but can utilize any accepted methodology and may be qualitative or quantitative in nature. The journal will provide a comprehensive cross disciplinary forum for advancing the understanding of the organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds. The goal of the journal is to publish high quality empirical and theoretical research covering all aspects of information systems for crisis response and management. Full-length research manuscripts, insightful research and practice notes, and case studies will be considered for publication. Indices of IJISCRAM: - ACM Digital Library - Bacon's Media Directory - Cabell's Directories - DBLP - GetCited - Google Scholar - INSPEC - JournalTOCs - MediaFinder - Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) - The Index of Information Systems Journals - The Standard Periodical Directory - Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Coverage of IJISCRAM: This journal covers all aspects of the crisis management information systems discipline, from organizational or social issues to technology support to decision making and knowledge representation. High quality submissions are encouraged using any qualitative or quantitative research methodology, focusing on the design, development, implementation, uses and evaluation of such systems. Submissions are especially encouraged covering the following topics in this discipline: - Case studies, research methods, and modeling approaches - Collaborative and intelligent systems - Command and control - Communication technologies - Crisis planning, training, exercising, and gaming - Data fusion, representation, and visualization - Decision making and judgment - Disaster risk reduction, risk management, ad-hoc, and sensor networks - Early warning systems - Emergency response systems - Geographical information systems - Globalization and development issues - Healthcare and health information systems - Human-computer interaction - Humanitarian operations - Information systems strategy - Knowledge management and systems - Systems interoperability information systems infrastructures - Virtual teams and organizations Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-information-syste… _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:58:10 +1000 From: Arne Wilston <arne.wilston(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, National College of Ireland, Ireland Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

Fwd: [AISWorld] ACM Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] ACM Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:24:59 +0200 From: Karl M. Goeschka <Karl.Goeschka(a)tuwien.ac.at> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CALL FOR PAPERS =============== +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 14th Track on Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) | | of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'19) | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ April 8 - 12, 2019 Limassol, Cyprus http://www.dedisys.org/sac19/ https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2019/ Accepted papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates: Paper submission: September 10, 2018 Author notification: November 10, 2018 Camera-ready copies: November 25, 2018 Authors are invited to submit original work not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf format using the link to the submission site at http://www.dedisys.org/sac19/. Authors are allowed up to 10 pages, but with more than 8 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. Call details ============ While computing is provided by the cloud and services increasingly pervade our daily lives, dependability, adaptiveness and security become a cornerstone of the information society. Unfortunately, most innovative systems and applications (Internet of Things, Industrial IoT, Smart Environments, Mashups, NewSQL) suffer from a lack of dependability and security, which is fueled by global scale, mobility and heterogeneity, as well as the demand for resource awareness, green computing, and increasing cost pressure. Among technical factors, software development methods, tools, and techniques contribute to dependability and security, as defects in software products and services may lead to failure and also provide typical access for malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide variety of fault and intrusion tolerance techniques available, including persistence provided by databases, redundancy and replication, group communication, transaction monitors, reliable middleware, cloud infrastructures, light-weight virtualization (docker), fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and trustworthy service-oriented architectures with explicit control of quality of service properties and service level agreements. Furthermore, adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to observed, or act upon expected changes of the system itself, the context/environment (e.g., resource variability or failure/threat scenarios) or users' needs and expectations. Provided without explicit user intervention, this is also termed autonomous behavior or self-properties, and often involves monitoring, diagnosis (analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration (repair). In particular, adaptation is also a means to achieve dependability and security in a computing infrastructure with dynamically varying structure and properties and can itself be provided as a service (Control-as-a-service). Topics of interest ================== * Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) * Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS * Protocols for DADS * Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS * Foundations and formal methods for DADS * Applications of DADS * Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS * Holistic aspects of DADS Track program co-chairs =============== Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) (main contact: dads(a)dedisys.org) Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London (UK) Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland (New Zealand) Program committee ================= Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra (Portugal) Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy) Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge (UK) Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy) Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK) Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy) Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London (UK) Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria) Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel (Germany) Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France) Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University (Sweden) Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA) Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF (Norway) Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain) Michaël Lauer, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Mark Little, JBoss (UK) István Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary) Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent (UK) Alberto Montresor, University of Trento (Italy) Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany) Francesc Daniel Muñoz-Escoí, UP Valencia (Spain) Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Barry Porter, Lancaster University (UK) Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal) Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France) Matthieu Roy, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Alirio Sá, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) Valerio Schiavoni, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Sweden) Stefan Tai, Information Systems Engineering, TU Berlin (Germany) Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University (Finland) Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, CEA - LIST, Saclay (France) Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) Uwe Zdun, Vienna University (Austria) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

Fwd: [WI] "IT Service Management" - Aufruf zur Einreichung eines Beitrags für die HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] "IT Service Management" - Aufruf zur Einreichung eines Beitrags für die HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:57:10 +0200 From: Hans-Peter Fröschle <hpf(a)i-t-consult.de> Reply-To: Hans-Peter Fröschle <hpf(a)i-t-consult.de> To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, als Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift HMD –Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik bin ich für das Schwerpunktheft "*IT-Servicemanagement*" (HMD 325) verantwortlich, das im April 2019 beim Springer-Verlag erscheinen wird. Zur Planung des Heftes bitte ich interessierte Autorinnen und Autoren, mir baldmöglichst, jedoch bis *sp**ä**testens 15. September 2018 einem kurzen Abstract Ihres Beitragsvorschlags *zuzusenden. Dieser Abstract soll die wesentliche Themenstellung, eine Arbeitsgliederung und Stichworte zum Inhalt umfassen. Ich werde Ihnen dann kurzfristig eine Rückmeldung geben, ob Ihr Beitragsvorschlag für das Heft in den weiteren Bearbeitungsprozess aufgenommen wurde. Der fertige Beitrag sollte dann für den Review-Prozess und gegebenenfalls die Überarbeitung bis *sp**ä**testens 30.11.2018 *eingereicht sein. *Bitte richten Sie Ihre Beitragsvorschl**ä**ge an Hans-Peter Fr**ö**schle, i.t-consult GmbH, hpf(a)i-t-consult.de <mailto:hpf@i-t-consult.de>.* ** *Das Heft wird mit dem folgenden Kurztext angek**ü**ndigt:* ** *IT-Servicemanagement* Die zunehmende Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche bedeutet für die Unternehmen, dass die IT sich mehr und mehr von einer betrieblichen Unterstützungsfunktion zu einem zentralen Wertschöpfungsprozess wandelt. Damit ist es erforderlich, dass die IT nach ähnlichen Prinzipien wie die Kernprozesse der Unternehmen funktioniert. Neben den bisherigen Anforderungen nach Stabilität, Sicherheit, kostenoptimaler und zuverlässiger Betrieb wird eine hohe Innovationsfähigkeit und hohe Veränderungsgeschwindigkeit vorausgesetzt. Hat sich die IT in den vergangenen Jahren von einem Technologielieferanten über eine Serviceorientierung hin zur Geschäftsorientierung (IT/Business Alignment) gewandelt, besteht die Herausforderung für die nahe Zukunft darin, dass die IT zunehmend zum Innovationstreiber des Kerngeschäftes werden muss. Die Konsequenzen sind bereits heute in vielen IT-Organisationen sichtbar: Herkömmlich Architekturen und Betriebsmodelle werden durch Cloud-basierte Lösungen ersetzt. Der eigentliche Betrieb der IT rückt in den Hintergrund. Gefordert ist eine Steuerung der Anbieter und Partner in einem Multi-Sourcing-Umfeld. Zur Gewährleistung von IT-Qualität und Anpassungsgeschwindigkeit werden bisherige Bereichsgrenzen in Frage gestellt. So werden in vielen IT-Organisationen mit DevOps die Abteilungsgrenzen zwischen Entwicklung (Dev) und Betrieb (Ops) überwunden. Agile Vorgehensweisen aus der Softwareentwicklung finden Einzug im IT-Projektmanagement, IT-Betrieb und Support. Innovative Anwendungen künstlicher Intelligenz bzw. selbstlernender Systeme werden als Enabler für Automatisierung eingesetzt. Dies sind nur beispielhafte Ansätze, die mit dem Schwerpunktthema „IT-Servicemanagement“zur Diskussion gestellt werden. Daneben stellt sich sicherlich auch die Frage, inwieweit etablierte Entwicklungs- und Betriebs-Frameworks (Ansätze des Software Engineerings, ITIL) für die Bewältigung der Anforderungen genutzt werden können. Sollten sie einen Beitrag zu dem Schwerpunktthema „IT-Servicemanagement“leisten können, freue ich mich auf Ihren Artikel aus Forschung und/oder Praxis. Zur Orientierung finden Sie anbei den Call for Papers sowie die Autoreneckdaten für das Heft. Für Rückfragen stehe ich Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung und freue mich auf Ihre Beitragsvorschläge. Mit freundlichen Grüßen *Hans-Peter Fröschle - *Geschäftsführer - _________________________________ *i.t-consult GmbH** *Organisations- und Technologieberatung Pischekstrasse 68 D-70184 Stuttgart *Neue Telefonnummern: Fon: ++49-711-50655764 Fax: ++49-711-50655766* Mobil: ++49-171-3 19 78 10 mailto: hpf(a)i-t-consult.de <blocked::mailto:hpf@i-t-consult.de> internet: http://www.i-t-consult.de/ Firmensitz: Stuttgart Handelsregister: Stuttgart / HRB 17256 Geschäftsführer: Hans-Peter Fröschle Dieses E-Mail ist vertraulich. Wenn Sie nicht der rechtmäßige Empfänger sind, dürfen Sie den Inhalt weder kopieren, verbreiten oder benutzen. Sollten Sie dieses E-Mail versehentlich erhalten haben, senden Sie es bitte an uns zurück und löschen es anschließend. This email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, disclose or use its contents. If you have received it in error, please inform us immediately by return email and delete the document -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

1 0

Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Systems Research Humans, Algorithms, and Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Work, Organizations and Society
by Gustaf Neumann 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Systems Research Humans, Algorithms, and Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Work, Organizations and Society Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:05:43 +0000 From: Jain, Hemant <hemant-jain(a)utc.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Systems Research Humans, Algorithms, and Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Work, Organizations and Society Guest Editors: Hemant Jain, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida Paul A. Pavlou, Temple University Raghu T Santanam, Arizona State University “…the main intellectual advances will be made by men and computers working together in intimate association” -- J C R Licklider, 1960. While artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other autonomic technologies are usually in the spotlight, many important problems are often solved through human beings and computers working cooperatively. The design of information systems has to focus as much on Intelligence Augmentation (IA), defined as computers enhancing human intelligence, as it would on Artificial Intelligence (AI), commonly defined as computers replacing human beings. Additionally, recent concerns about AI raised by pioneers like Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk raises major issues related to control in system design.1 IA requires a focus on design that optimally combines the abilities of human beings with various AI technologies and algorithms while keeping the ultimate control of human beings. As such, designers of information systems have to increase their focus on interactions, control, and interface points such that the resulting system is efficient, effective and addresses the issues of appropriate human control. Applications of IA are beginning to emerge in a number of domains such as cybersecurity, counter-terrorism, healthcare, and space exploration, among others. There are also several applications to the design of information systems. This Special Issue of Information Systems Research invites researchers to submit their best work to highlight how they are beginning to seamlessly integrate human and computer intelligence to solve interesting and important problems that impact the future of work, organizations, and broadly society. BACKGROUND In the 1960’s, Engelbart and Licklider (both managed research programs at DARPA) pioneered the arguments for “human-computer symbiosis” (Licklider 1960). A fundamental assumption behind the need for human-computer symbiosis is that computers and human brains have different problem-solving capabilities. As such, IA research pursues design ideas that are intended to optimize the combined computational potential of human beings and computers. One branch of IA very familiar to Information Systems researchers is Human Computer Interaction (HCI). One of the pioneers of the HCI approach, Terry Winograd, has commented on the tensions between the AI and the HCI camps, and the associated “rationalistic” and “design” perspectives that they represent (Winograd 2006). Some parts of AI attempted to model human beings as cognitive machines and sought to build human-like AI systems. HCI, on the other hand, focused on a design approach which emphasizes interpretation, human behavior, and experimentation. Winograd quotes David Kelley, the renowned design thinker, as saying: “Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellect”, suggesting the importance of iteratively improving by modeling the interaction between humans and AI. However, HCI is not the only perspective to human-computer symbiosis. Large scale computational problems often cannot be solved by either computer or humans alone – such problems are termed “human computation problems” (von Ahn 2008). For instance, crowd-sourcing strategies for many messy large-scale image or character recognition problems fall into this domain. Human computation problems rely on harnessing human processing power (i.e., common sense) to solve problems that computers are not yet good at solving. More interestingly, many early human computation problem-solving approaches have utilized gamification strategies that seem to be very well aligned with the HCI tradition of “design approach.” Given the increasing role AI plays in society today, the White House issued an RFI in 2016 to solicit commentaries and feedback on the role of AI for current and future needs of the economy. A report summarizing the responses to the RFI was released recently by the White House. IBM’s response to the RFI declared an emphasis on Augmented Intelligence in IBM’s approach to AI – “We call our particular approach to augmented intelligence “cognitive computing.” Cognitive computing is a comprehensive set of capabilities based on technologies such as machine learning, reasoning and decision technologies; language, speech and vision technologies; human interface technologies; distributed and high-performance computing; and new computing architectures and devices. When purposefully integrated, these capabilities are designed to solve a wide range of practical problems, boost productivity, and foster new discoveries across many industries.” In contrast, Google’s approach to AI, especially its search engine design, is also arguably more in the tradition of IA than AI. SPECIAL ISSUE FOCUS Recent developments in hardware, sensor and networking technologies combined with significant growth in Internet of Things (IOT) devices has increased interested in combining them with AI technologies to develop completely autonomous systems, such as driverless cars. The design of these systems poses unique technical, organizational, societal, and ethical questions. The human-computer symbiosis has potential to address some of these difficult issues. IS researchers (including many authors in ISR) have embraced both AI and IA traditions. Recent publications in ISR have revived both the design and rational schools of thoughts in research papers, notes and commentaries (see for example, Gregory and Muntermann (2014); Dhar et al., (2014); Clarke et al., (2016); and Meyer et al., (2014)). However, there is still a lack of coherent discussion and an integrated body of literature on the direct implications of how IA and AI research can contribute to organizational and societal applications and to their impact on the future of work. This Special Issue of Information Systems Research is intended to begin a new dialog on the potential synergies between IA and AI within the context of IS research. Given the long tradition of IS researchers to cross-disciplinary boundaries, we are confident of attracting a large number of high-quality submissions that will highlight the prevailing knowledge and research endeavors in the discipline and beyond. We hope to showcase the best research in this domain as part of this Special Issue. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Design approaches for effectively combining human and computer cognitive power. * Applications and evaluation of human-computer symbiosis in various industry sectors, including healthcare, education, finance, cybersecurity, and transportation, among others. * Generalizable modeling innovations and applications that bridge IA and AI concepts. * Evaluation of theoretical predictions on how human beings and computers collaborate in solving large-scale computational problems. * Social, behavioral, and economic implications of AI and IA, including how they may impact the nature and future of work, productivity, jobs, and industries. * Theoretical predictions and evaluations of legal, policy, governance and business models associated with applications of AI and IA systems in various industries and markets. * Issues related to human control in the design of IA systems. [1] http://observer.com/2015/08/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-and-bill-gates-warn-a… Accessed 2/3/2017 2 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/A… Accessed 2/2/2017 [1]3 https://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/ostp/rfi-response.shtml Accessed 2/2/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIMELINE Full Papers Due: December 1, 2018 Initial Screening Decisions: January 1, 2019 Round 1 Decisions: April 15, 2019 Workshop: June 15-16, 2019 (tentative) 1st Round Revisions Due: October 15, 2019 Round 2 Decisions: January 15, 2020 EDITORIAL BOARD Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University Gordon Burtch, University of Minnesota Ram Chellappa, Emory University Theodoros Evgenious, INSEAD Tomer Geva, Tel Aviv University Alan Hevner, University of South Florida Kevin (Yili) Hong, Arizona State University Panos Ipeirotis, New York University Nishtha Langer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ting Li, Rotterdam School of Management Xitong Li, HEC Paris Jiahui Mo, Nanyang Technological University Joe Nandakumar, University of Warwick Gautam Pant, University of Iowa Sandeep Purao, Bentley University Liangfei Qiu, University of Florida Sam Ransbotham, Boston College Benjamin Shao, Arizona State University Atish Sinha, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Tianshu Sun, University of Southern California Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania Monica Tremblay, College of William and Mary Sunil Wattal, Temple University Heng Xu, Pennsylvania State University Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University Rong Zheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong Hangjung Zo, KAIST References Clarke, R., Burton-Jones, A., & Weber, R. (2016). On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a Dual Perspective. Information Systems Research, 27(2), 365-382. Dhar, V., Geva, T., Oestreicher-Singer, G., & Sundararajan, A. (2014). Prediction in economic networks. Information Systems Research, 25(2), 264-284. Gregory, R. W., & Muntermann, J. (2014). Research Note—Heuristic Theorizing: Proactively Generating Design Theories. Information Systems Research, 25(3), 639-653. Licklider, J. C. (1960). Man-computer symbiosis. IRE transactions on human factors in electronics, (1), 4-11. Meyer, G., Adomavicius, G., Johnson, P. E., Elidrisi, M., Rush, W. A., Sperl-Hillen, J. M., & O'Connor, P. J. (2014). A machine learning approach to improving dynamic decision making. Information Systems Research, 25(2), 239-263. Von Ahn, L., & Dabbish, L. (2008). Designing games with a purpose. Communications of the ACM, 51(8), 58-67. Winograd, T. (2006). Shifting viewpoints: Artificial intelligence and human–computer interaction. Artificial Intelligence, 170(18), 1256-1258. Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

Fwd: Computer Science and Information Systems (ISI journal, IF: 0.613), New Issue Published (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018)
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Computer Science and Information Systems (ISI journal, IF: 0.613), New Issue Published (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:23:15 +0200 (CEST) From: comsis.promo(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs To: Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Dear Readers, Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) is an international, ISI indexed journal published by ComSIS Consortium with: - two-year impact factor (2017): 0.613 - five-year impact factor (2017): 0.675 We are pleased to share with you the Table of Contents of the latest ComSIS issue (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018) and invite you to visit our website (www.comsis.org) where the full text of articles is available. Thanks for the continuing interest in ComSIS, Mirjana Ivanovic, Editor-in-Chief Computer Science and Information System (ComSIS), Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2018 Table of Contents ================= Editorial --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=pag1502 *** Interoperability in Emergency Management. A Solution Based on Distributed Databases and P2P Networks Marcelo Zambrano, Francisco Pérez, Manuel Esteve and Carlos Palau --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr620-1702 *** Solving the DNA Fragment Assembly Problem with a Parallel Discrete Firefly Algorithm implemented on GPU Pablo Javier Vidal and Ana Carolina Olivera --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr629-1705 *** Exploring Instances for Matching Heterogeneous Database Schemas Utilizing Google Similarity and Regular Expression Osama A. Mehdi, Hamidah Ibrahim, Lilly Suriani Affendey, Eric Pardede and Jinli Cao --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr633-1705 *** Managing Software Requirements Changes through Change Specification and Classification Shalinka Jayatilleke, Richard Lai and Karl Reed --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr612-1611 *** Data Imputation Using a Trust Network for Recommendation via Matrix Factorization Won-Seok Hwang, Shaoyu Li, Sang-Wook Kim and Kichun Lee --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr642-1708 *** Use of Linguistic Forms Mining in the Link Analysis of Legal Documents Đorđe Petrović and Milena Stanković --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr637-1707 *** OLAPS: Online Load-Balancing in Range-Partitioned Main Memory Database with Approximate Partition Statistics Djahida Belayadi, Khaled-Walid Hidouci and Ladjel Bellatreche --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr660-1803 *** Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of a Teaching Approach Using Barker or Bachman Notation for Conceptual Database Design Aida Kamišalić, Marjan Heričko, Tatjana Welzer and Muhamed Turkanović --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr661-1803 *** Conceptual Approach for Reuse of Test Automation Artifacts on Various Architectural Levels Dani Almog, Hadas Schwartz Chassidim, Yaron Tsubery, Miroslav Bures and Shlomo Mark --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr638-1707 *** CpG Islands’ Clustering Uncovers Early Development Genes in the Human Genome Vladimir N. Babenko, Anton G. Bogomolov, Roman O. Babenko, Elvira R. Galieva and Yuriy L. Orlov --> http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr632-1705

1 0

Fwd: [computational.science] Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:03:58 +0200 From: Massimo CAFARO <massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it> To: Morris, Karla NMN via computational.science <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/): - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

1 0

Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:25:59 +1000 From: Andrew Clashe <andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

1 0

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

Cfp July 2018