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Fwd: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'20 - Budva, Montenegro | Deadline: November 17
by Gustaf Neumann 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'20 - Budva, Montenegro | Deadline: November 17 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:03:23 +0000 From: Alvaro Rocha <amrrocha(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org WorldCIST'20 conference (http://www.worldcist.org/): - Ranked in the prestigious CORE Ranking - Proceedings published by Springer, in several books of the AISC series - Indexed by Scopus, ISI and DBLP, among others - Ranked in the prestigious SCIMago Ranking with H-Index = 25 - Ranked in the prestigious Google Scholar Ranking with H5-Index = 17 ----------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------- WorldCIST'20 - 8th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 7th -10th of April 2020, Budva, Montenegro http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE The WorldCist'20 - 8th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held in Budva, Montenegro, 7 - 10 April 2020, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'19. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR); N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications (TBA) TYPES of SUBMISSIONS and DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a Word Template or Latex Package) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. Poster papers and Company papers are not published in the Conference Proceedings, being only presented and discussed. The authors of accepted poster papers should build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted Full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted Short papers and Company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATIONS and INDEXING To ensure that a full paper or short paper is published, poster paper or company paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2020, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and Short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will not be published, just presented in the conference. Published Full and Short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.4 / Q1) - Omega (IF: 5.341 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.904 / Q1) - Journal of Knowledge Management (IF: 4.604 / Q1) - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (IF: 2.196 / Q1) - Informatica - An International Journal (IF: 1.928 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.415 / Q2) - Journal of Service Theory and Practice (IF: 2.363 / Q2) - Telecommunications Policy (IF: 2.000 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 1.505 / Q2) - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (IF: 1.372 / Q2) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.637 / Q3) - Data Technologies and Applications (IF: 1.170 / Q3) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 1.098 / Q3) - AI Communications (IF: 0.765 / Q4) - Journal of Database Management (IF: 0.577 / Q4) - Journal of Information Science and Engineering (IF: 0.525 / Q4): Special Issue on Trends on Information Science and Data Analytics - Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance (ESCI & SJR: 0.35 / Q2) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ESCI & SJR: 0.22 / Q3) - Journal of Electronic Government Research (ESCI & SJR: 0.21 / Q3) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management (DOAJ & ProQuest) IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 17, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 2019 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2020. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2020 WorldCIST'20 Website: http://www.worldcist.org/ Álvaro Rocha AISTI & University of Coimbra, Portugal https://apps.uc.pt/mypage/faculty/uc42238 E-mail: amrrocha(a)gmail.com Phone/WhatsApp: +351 961539027 Skype ID: amrrocha _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: ICWE 2020 - Abstract/Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline 19 January 2020
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: ICWE 2020 - Abstract/Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline 19 January 2020 Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 12:58:30 +0100 From: Flavius Frasincar <frasincar(a)ese.eur.nl> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2020) Helsinki, Finland | June 9-12, 2020 https://icwe2020.webengineering.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop proposal submission: January 19, 2020 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Research Track - Abstract submission: January 19, 2020 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Research Track - Paper submission: January 26, 2020 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Research Track - Notification: February 28, (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Camera-ready: March 19, 2020 (23h59 Hawaii Time) ICWE 2020 AT A GLANCE The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies, ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications and in the problems of its associated technologies, as well as the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The 20th edition of ICWE will accept contributions on a wide spectrum of topics related to Web Engineering, such as, among others: * Web application modeling and engineering * Web mining, big data analytics and knowledge extraction * Semantic Web and Linked Open Data * Web crowdsourcing, social and human computation * Mobile Web application engineering * Web Personalization * Web of Things * Web composition and mashups * Web programming languages, tools and frameworks - Web Assembly * Microservice and Web API engineering * Web user interface design * Redecentralization of the Web * Web-based learning * Quality aspects of Web applications: - Accessibility and Usability - Security and Privacy - Reusability and Composition - Mobility and Distribution - Performance and Scalability - Testability and Quality Assurance - Maintainability and Sustainability In addition to the research track, ICWE 2020 also seeks contributions of demos and posters, student papers to the PhD Symposium, and tutorials. The conference will be held at Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki is the capital of Finland, hub of transportation, and hosts many private and public research institutes. Further information can be found at https://icwe2020.webengineering.org/. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Tommi Mikkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Co-Chairs: Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology Cesare Pautasso, USI, Lugano, Switzerland SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH TRACK This call addresses research contributions in one of the following categories: * Full papers: mature, original research contribution. Reported results should be supported by some type of validation, and also include a justification about the choice/suitability of the validation method. In addition, evidence of use in practice and/or demonstration of scalability is regarded as a plus. (16 pages) * Short papers: short papers presenting a discussion ? analysis, criticism, proposal, etc. ? about relevant aspects of Web engineering topics. These papers are intended to generate discussions that promise potential for research that will impact Web engineering in the coming years. (8 pages) Papers must be formatted according to the information for Springer LNCS authors at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and submitted in PDF. Papers submitted to ICWE 2020 must not be under review elsewhere while under consideration for ICWE 2020, nor may have been already previously published elsewhere. Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be desk rejected without reviewing. Accepted contributions will be included into the ICWE 2020 Springer LNCS proceedings. The best papers will be selected to be proposed, in extended form, as part of a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering. Authors should consult Springer?s authors? guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs (https://goo.gl/hbsa4D) in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer. Submissions and reviewing are supported by the EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2020 Details for formatting and submitting the papers can be found from ICWE’20 website: https://icwe2020.webengineering.org/call-for-papers/ SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals must follow the instructions given on the ICWE’20 website: https://icwe2020.webengineering.org/call-for-workshops/ Workshop proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to workshopchairs.icwe2020(a)webengineering.org. All submitted workshop proposals must be formatted in accordance to the information for Springer LNCS authors at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and submitted in PDF. Proposals should not exceed 10 pages overall, including all the required sections. CONTACT All questions about submissions should be emailed to icwe2020(a)easychair.org. Further information can be found at https://icwe2020.webengineering.org/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - GRAPP 2020 (Position Paper)
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - GRAPP 2020 (Position Paper) Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:30:04 +0000 From: GRAPP Secretariat <grapp(a)scitevents.net> Reply-To: GRAPP Secretariat <grapp(a)scitevents.net> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications Position Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019 <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=p15wV6-jKrwOgxN7ViFfjBRg5QX…> http://www.grapp.visigrapp.org February 27 - 29, 2020 Valletta, Malta What is a position paper? A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. The International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Graphics. The conference will be structured along four main tracks, covering different aspects related to Computer Graphics, from Modelling to Rendering, including Animation, Interactive Environments and Social Agents in Computer Graphics. GRAPP is organized in 4 major tracks: <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=zD1d2IIzBGeYfigRkto-Ug17wAk…> 1 - Geometry and Modeling <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=zD1d2IIzBGeYfigRkto-Ug17wAk…> 2 - Rendering <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=zD1d2IIzBGeYfigRkto-Ug17wAk…> 3 - Animation and Simulation <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=zD1d2IIzBGeYfigRkto-Ug17wAk…> 4 - Interactive Environments <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=SSXPEv065r2Dr46WbjNZxirlEe9…> Conference Chair(s) Jose Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=w_Z0OEOZJ5jQivcEs0bGhfXe4c5…> Program Chair(s) Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP/INESC TEC, Portugal In Cooperation with European Association for Computer Graphics French Association for Computer Graphics With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=GnQFS0Hw5ZiegEUShN1Q1bVUlCD…> Matthias Niessner, Technical University of Munich, Germany <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=GnQFS0Hw5ZiegEUShN1Q1bVUlCD…> Anthony Steed, University College London, United Kingdom <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=GnQFS0Hw5ZiegEUShN1Q1bVUlCD…> Alan Chalmers, University of Warwick, United Kingdom <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=GnQFS0Hw5ZiegEUShN1Q1bVUlCD…> Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, SCOPUS, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=_ecxgL-0w9DAuwA2cqkfO90f-6Y…> Springer in a CCIS Series book. All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=poxE-DhtJKQzV4nhA-HM349Q5dV…> SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Kind regards, Ana Rita Paciência GRAPP Secretariat Address: Av. S. Francisco Xavier Lote 7 Cv. C, Setubal 2900-616, Portugal Tel: +351 265 520 185 Web: <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/click?d=p15wV6-jKrwOgxN7ViFfjBRg5QX…> http://www.grapp.visigrapp.org e-mail: <mailto:grapp.secretariat@insticc.org> grapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org SCITEVENTS, Av. S. Francisco Xavier Lote 7 Cv. C, Setúbal, 2900-616, Portugal <http://tracking.scitevents.net/tracking/unsubscribe?msgid=_GdlajhDgiRudDzx7…> UNSUBSCRIBE _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Announcing the Latest Issue of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (50:4)
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Announcing the Latest Issue of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (50:4) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 20:34:22 +0000 From: Petter, Stacie <Stacie_Petter(a)baylor.edu> To: 'SIGMIS-MEMBERS' <SIGMIS-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG>, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The most recent issue of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems is now published in the ACM Digital Library (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J219). In this issue of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (Vol. 50, No. 4), learn: - That we can learn much in the changing of seasons in the editorial, “A Time for Everything: Reflections on the Changing Seasons” by Stacie Petter (https://doi.org/10.1145/3371041.3371043). - The importance of having a framework to properly scale security organizing in organizations in "Security Organizing: A Framework for Organizational Information Security Mindfulness " by A.J. Burns (https://doi.org/10.1145/3371041.3371044). - How to define and measure collaboration within social networks in the article, "Quality Assessment of Peer-Produced Content in Knowledge Repositories Using Big Data and Social Networks: The Case of Implicit Collaboration in Wikipedia” by Srikar Velichety (https://doi.org/10.1145/3371041.3371045). - The challenges arising in the peer review process due to differences between reviewers and authors in "Cognitive Bias in the Peer Review Process: Understanding a Source of Friction between Reviewers and Researchers” by Chris Street and Kerry Ward (https://doi.org/10.1145/3371041.3371046). - How personalized experiences on websites affect consumer behavior in "An Experimental Study on the Swaying Effect of Web-Personalization” by Mahesh Balan U and Saji K. Mathew (https://doi.org/10.1145/3371041.3371047). This article is part of a special section on New Directions in IT Workforce and Inclusion Research, which was part of the ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Conference in 2017. - How the nature of the produce and web personalization can impact an individual’s choice to purchase products in "Embarrassment Products, Web Personalization and Online Buying Behavior: An Experimental Study” by Kanishka Priyadharshini Annamalai, Saji K. Mathew, and Lakshmi S. Iyer (https://doi.org/10.1145/3371041.3371048). This article is part of a special section on New Directions in IT Workforce and Inclusion Research, which was part of the ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Conference in 2017. To read these articles or access prior issues of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, visit the ACM Digital Library (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J219). For more information about how to submit your work to The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, visit www.TheDataBase.org<http://www.TheDataBase.org>. As a personal note from Stacie Petter, I must say that it has been a pleasure serving as co-editor-in-chief of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems with Tom Stafford during the past three years. Stay tuned for more great articles and research under the leadership of Deb Armstrong and Tom Stafford. Sincerely, Stacie Petter & Tom Stafford Editors-in-Chief, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems editors(a)thedatabase.org<mailto:editors@thedatabase.org> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2020 CFP: Minitrack Computational Social Science Research through Analytics
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2020 CFP: Minitrack Computational Social Science Research through Analytics Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:06:30 -0800 From: Au Vo <auvo1001(a)gmail.com> To: This is the AISWorld List Server <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear Colleagues: Please consider submitting a manuscript to the Computational Social Science Research in Information Systems minitrack under the AMCIS 2020 Data Science and Analytics for Decision Support Track. AMCIS 2020 will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 12-16. The online submission system opens on January 6 and closes on February 28. Following is a short description of our minitrack and if you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to seeing you in Salt Lake City in 2020. Computational social science research has garnered much interest from multiple disciplines through the use of massive, multi-faceted, and authentic data. A recent trend in understanding social phenomena using computational social science research, especially through the use of analytics has led to many discoveries of, and confirmation of hypotheses and theories. The interdisciplinary nature of computational social science research is suitable for our field, for Information Systems has the ability to demonstrate both rigor and relevance of answering social science questions through innovative use of data analytics. As a discipline, Information Systems enable the collection, processing, and analyzing trace data, which are event-based records of activities of transactions that could be found in systems across organizations and the Internet. Therefore, our field are poised to explicate interesting and valuable insights. Thanks to the implosion in data analytics tools such as data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, researchers have the ability to augment understanding of existing problems and elucidate current perplexing issues. Large-scale problems are no longer a hard-to-reach problem, but an interesting one with a plethora of research directions. In general, the guideline for computational research has percolated through various disciplines via leading research outlets like Nature, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Communications of the ACM have started to solicit calls in this nascent research field to attract more researchers to work on interesting problems and theory building from data. This minitrack encourages research on the utilization of data to explore, and potentially answer social phenomena. Submissions may focus on descriptive research process, novel algorithm designs, questions forming, new and interesting directions in computational social science. In addition, nascent theory forming through a bottom up approach using data is especially encouraged. Research in any domains are welcome, including but not pertaining only to, persuasion, ethics, equality, social benefit distribution, and humanitarian efforts. Below is a list of recommended topics, however, other relevant topics are also welcome: * Algorithm designs in Computational Social Science * Computational Social Science strategies and research processes * The role of Information Systems in Computational Social Science * Computational Social Science interdisciplinary research * Computational Social Science with Big Data applications * Computational Social Science in changing and/or influencing human behaviors * Ethics of Computational Social Science research on human behaviors * Nascent theory and hypothesis forming through the use of data (quantitative grounded theory) Reference Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Safadi, H. (2018). Research Commentary—Data-Driven Computationally Intensive Theory Development. Information Systems Research, 30(1), 50–64. Conte, R., Gilbert, N., Bonelli, G., Cioffi-Revilla, C., Deffuant, G., Kertesz, J., … Helbing, D. (2012). Manifesto of computational social science. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 214(1), 325–346. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01697-8 Giles, J. (2012). Computational social science: Making the links. Nature News, 488(7412), 448. https://doi.org/10.1038/488448a Rai, A. (2016). Editor’s comments: Synergies between big data and theory. MIS Quarterly, 40(2), iii–ix. Wallach, H. (2018). Computational Social Science ≠ Computer Science + Social Data. Communications of the ACM, 61(3), 42–44. https://doi.org/10.1145/3132698 Thank you for your consideration, Best, Au Vo (Loyola Marymount University, CA, USA - au.vo(a)lmu.edu) Yan Li (Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA - yan.li(a)cgu.edu ) Anitha Chennamaneni (Texas A & M University Central, Texas, USA - anitha.chennamaneni(a)tamuct.edu) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Special Issue: Industry experiences of Artificial Intelligence (AI): benefits and challenges in operations and supply chain management of the Production Planning & Control
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Special Issue: Industry experiences of Artificial Intelligence (AI): benefits and challenges in operations and supply chain management of the Production Planning & Control Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 08:45:17 +0000 From: FOSSO-WAMBA Samuel <s.fosso-wamba(a)tbs-education.fr> To: 'aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org' <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Call for papers Special Issue: Industry experiences of Artificial Intelligence (AI): benefits and challenges in operations and supply chain management Submission Deadline: November 30, 2019 Guest Editors Professor Samuel Fosso Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France Dr Maciel M. Queiroz, University of São Paulo, Brazil Professor Ashley Braganza, Brunel Business School, UK Dr Cameron Guthrie, Toulouse Business School, France Recent cutting-edge technologies such as big data analytics, internet of things (IoT), smart factories and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way people acquire and consume goods, firms manufacture and deliver produce, and logistics networks and society interact (Bibby & Dehe, 2018; Gölzer & Fritzsche, 2017). Together, these new concepts and technologies are said to usher in a Fourth Industrial Revolution (Schwab, 2017), or Industry 4.0 (Fatorachian & Kazemi, 2018). Business models and logistics production systems need to adapt to the new dynamics of production and consumption. The ubiquity of smartphones and apps is drastically changing the customer experience and expectations, allowing individuals to participate in various stages of the production process. For example, the combination of digital manufacturing, mobile and augmented reality technologies allow customers to provide feedback in a co-creation process (Mourtzis, Gargallis, & Zogopoulos, 2019), while IoT, sensors and data analytics enable the continuous collection of usage data throughout the entire product lifecycle. These new modes of relationship are already impacting the work of operations and supply chain managers. One of the most promising technologies for contemporary operations and supply chain management (OSCM) is artificial intelligence. AI emerged in the 1960s as "the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men" (Minsky, 1968). Today, a new generation of AI is being used to work on a vast array of issues including product recommendations and customisation, dynamic pricing, real-time production tracking, prevention of order shipment delays and inventory shortages, customer feedback collection for product development and supplier monitoring to minimise procurement costs (Syam & Sharma, 2018). In addition, a subset of AI known as machine learning is developing methods, (e.g. regression analysis, specific algorithms) and associated technologies (e.g. sensors, APIs) that allow computer systems to "learn" using historical data and act without human intervention. AI can also potentially be combined with Industry 4.0 cutting-edge technologies, such as big data analytics, blockchain, internet of things and cyber-physical systems. The use of AI "in supply chain ecosystems [...] in combination with human behaviour will create a new degree of intelligence, innovation, and collaboration" in organizations (Bienhaus & Haddud, 2018). Today's operations and supply chain managers need to gain a better understanding about how AI can be applied to OSCM problems. The use of AI applications within an OSCM context presents considerable managerial and organizational challenges. For example, in the adoption stage managers need to identify the requisite capabilities and potential obstacles to successful AI implementation. The potential impact of AI on operations management, production planning and control, productivity and performance also need to be investigated. Managers need to understand how AI initiatives affect the interplay of business, logistics and production systems at individual, organisational and supply chain levels. For example, AI can support individual worker's activities by performing repetitive tasks: AI commanded robots can audit manufacturing processes; robots can minimize the idleness of production systems when integrated with customers and suppliers; and AI can be used for predictive maintenance when combined with IoT and machine learning. Behind each opportunity lies a challenge for managers to successfully capture the benefits from AI. Little is known for instance about the contribution of AI driven robots to production systems. From an operations management perspective, a major challenge is how to use AI to gain insights for demand forecasting and production planning. More research is required into: strategies of AI use within organizations for existing OSCM problems (e.g. production planning and control, demand forecasting, operations management optimisation, distribution management); the impact of AI on production processes throughout the value chain; the drivers, enablers and obstacles to AI adoption and use; the development of new business models; and into the implications of AI for operations management practice. This special issue aims to explore the role of AI in OSCM, and especially how AI creates value in a digital age when combined with other Industry 4.0 cutting-edge technologies. Our objective is to stimulate research and debate both around how managers are using or could use AI to improve OSCM practice and performance, and create competitive advantage, as well as the enablers and inhibitors to adoption, integration and use. This special issue invites scholars, managers and practitioners to use case studies or other empirical methods to report in-depth on AI applications in operations and supply chain management. This special issue calls for contributions to: * In-depth cases reporting on AI technology implementation challenges and benchmarks in operations and SCM; * Case studies reporting AI adoption in logistics and production systems. What are the facilitators and barriers? * The impact and benefits provided by AI technologies in operations and SCM; * Case studies reporting on the organisational capabilities (management, technological) required to support successful AI project implementation; * Productivity and performance improvements in production planning and control through AI; * How can managers use AI applications to capture benefits, efficiency, productivity and value using customer product feedback? * How can robots in manufacturing and logistics activities be employed to improve productivity and performance? What is the role of robots in a production system? * Novel conceptual models and ways of theorising about AI, operations and SCM; * Are extant theories sufficient to explain the adoption and spread of AI or what new theories are required for AI in OSCM? * The link between AI and the innovation improvement capacity of an organisation's logistics and production systems; * The contribution of AI to knowledge and learning in logistics and production systems; * Barriers and benefits related to the integration of AI technologies across the supply chain; * How is AI impacting the decision-making process in logistics and production systems? What are the consequences for the management learning and knowledge? * Frameworks to explain AI implementation in operations and SCM contexts; * Frameworks and case studies to explain the adoption and use of AI combined with other cutting-edge technologies in operations and SCM contexts; · The effects of AI on business models. How are business models changing with the adoption of AI and related technologies? What changes do new business models bring to operations management? · The critical success factors in AI diffusion stages in operations and SCM. Papers concerning these and other related critical issues in operations and supply chain challenges are encouraged. The special issue aims to sharpen the focus on, and raise the awareness of these critical issues, especially those facing developing economies as well as advanced industrial economies, and to promote research, both theoretical and empirical, on specific digitalisation related problems and innovative practices to address these problems. References Bibby, L., & Dehe, B. (2018). Defining and assessing industry 4.0 maturity levels-case of the defence sector. Production Planning & Control, 29(12), 1030-1043. Bienhaus, F., & Haddud, A. (2018). Procurement 4.0: factors influencing the digitisation of procurement and supply chains. Business Process Management Journal, 24(4), 965-984. Fatorachian, H., & Kazemi, H. (2018). A critical investigation of Industry 4.0 in manufacturing: theoretical operationalisation framework. Production Planning & Control, 29(8), 633-644. Gölzer, P., & Fritzsche, A. (2017). Data-driven operations management: organisational implications of the digital transformation in industrial practice. Production Planning & Control, 28(16), 1332-1343. Minsky, M. L. (1968). Semantic information processing. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Mourtzis, D., Gargallis, A., & Zogopoulos, V. (2019). Modelling of Customer Oriented Applications in Product Lifecycle using RAMI 4.0. Procedia Manufacturing, 28, 31-36. Schwab, K. (2017). The fourth industrial revolution. New York: Crown Business. Syam, N., & Sharma, A. (2018). Waiting for a sales renaissance in the fourth industrial revolution: Machine learning and artificial intelligence in sales research and practice. Industrial Marketing Management, 69, 135-146. All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Production Planning & Control publication standards available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tppc20&page=… All submissions should be made online at the Production Planning & Control Scholar One Manuscripts website (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tppc). New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website. Contact Professor Samuel Fosso Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France, s.fosso-wamba(a)tbs-education.fr<mailto:s.fosso-wamba@tbs-education.fr> Dr Maciel M. Queiroz, University of São Paulo, Brazil, maciel.queiroz(a)usp.br<mailto:maciel.queiroz@usp.br> Professor Ashley Braganza, Brunel Business School, UK, ashley.braganza(a)brunel.ac.uk<mailto:ashley.braganza@brunel.ac.uk> Dr Cameron Guthrie, Toulouse Business School, France, c.guthrie(a)tbs-education.fr<mailto:c.guthrie@tbs-education.fr> For more info: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/industry-experiences-of-artificial-intel… ...................................................................................... Dr Samuel FOSSO WAMBA, Ph.D., HDR Professor in Information Systems and Data Science| TBS Service | Toulouse Business School Head of The Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics Cluster s.fosso-wamba(a)tbs-education.fr<mailto:s.fosso-wamba@tbs-education.fr> | +33 5 61 29 50 54 | www.fossowambasamuel.com<http://www.fossowambasamuel.com/> www.tbs-education.com<http://www.tbs-education.fr/en?utm_source=signature-en&utm_medium=email-en&…> [Toulouse Business School]<http://www.tbs-education.fr/en?utm_source=signature-en&utm_medium=email-en&…> [TBS news]<http://www.tbs-education.fr/en/go/signature-blockcom-en/?utm_source=signatu…> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] 20th ACM/IFIP International Conference on Middleware 2019: Call for all Doctoroal Symposium
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] 20th ACM/IFIP International Conference on Middleware 2019: Call for all Doctoroal Symposium Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:26:28 +0200 From: Vinay Setty <vsetty(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de> Reply-To: Vinay Setty <vsetty(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de> To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- MIDDLEWARE 2019 9-13 December 2019 UC DAVIS, CA http://2019.middleware-conference.org Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers and Participation -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. Middleware 2019 will be held at UC Davis, California from 9 to 13 December 2019. The conference will include a doctoral symposium, to which all PhD students working on the topics of the Middleware conference are invited to apply. The doctoral symposium will be held prior to the main conference. The Middleware doctoral symposium is a welcoming and supportive environment allowing all PhD students to receive feedback, discuss their work, and prepare to get the most out of their participation to the main conference. All participating students will be offered the opportunity to engage with their peers, as well as with senior academic and industrial members of the Middleware community. This will include the feedback of panel members on the day of the symposium and individual meetings with a personal mentor during the conference. The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. Applicants will be divided into two groups: - Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on crafting their research proposal and completing background research. - Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its impact. All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the symposium’s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper. Position papers should fit within the topics of the Middleware 2019 main conference Call for Papers. Position papers are limited to 2 pages (for students in the planner category) or 4 pages (for students in the Finishers category). Submissions must use the same format as for research papers (ACM SIGPLAN 9pt or 10pt). The suggested content is detailed on the Middleware 2019 website: http://2019.middleware-conference.org/doctoral.html Contributions to the Middleware 2019 PhD Workshop will appear in a proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings. Accepted position paper will lead to a presentation during the doctoral symposium, which may require the preparation of a poster for the symposium and for the main conference. Doctoral students that submit their work to this symposium are strongly encouraged to apply for student travel grants to attend Middleware 2019. Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority for the travel grants. Paper submission site: https://middleware19ds.hotcrp.com/ Important dates - Position papers submission: September 27, 2019 - Notification: October 11, 2019 - Camera Ready: October 18, 2019 Doctoral Symposium chairs - Faisal Nawab, University of California Santa Cruz, USA - Etienne Riviere, UCLouvain, Belgium Contact the chairs at middleware19dw(a)uclouvain.be -- 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] CHAOSScon EU 2020
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CHAOSScon EU 2020 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 05:31:43 -0600 From: Matt Germonprez <germonprez(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleagues, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit a Talk to CHAOSScon EU 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y6pfoffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAOSScon is a conference hosed by the Linux Foundation's CHAOSS project: https://chaoss.community/ CHAOSScon EU 2020 will be on Jan 31, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The CHAOSS project is focused on the development of metrics and software, providing insight into open source community health. As corporations, foundations, conservancies, and governments increasingly rely on open source software as part of their work, understanding the health of related open source communities is becoming increasingly relevant. If you are doing work in this space and are interested in sharing that work with a diverse group of people also sharing this interest, consider submitting to CHAOSScon EU 2020. Details: *Call for Talk Proposals* Submit: https://tinyurl.com/y6pfoffh - Closes: Saturday, November 30, 2019 - Notifications: Monday, December 9, 2019 *When * January 31, 2020 9am to 5:30pm The day before FOSDEM begins *Where* Hotel ibis Brussels City Centre Rue Joseph Plateau N°2, 1000 Brussels, Belgium *CHAOSScon Code of Conduct* https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/code-of-conduct/ Matt Germonprez -- Mutual of Omaha Professor Information Systems College of Information Science & Technology University of Nebraska Omaha CV: https://bit.ly/2kftONr Omaha Parks Foundation Board Member http://omahaparksfoundation.org/ he / him / his _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CfP - EMoWI 2020 - Ethik und Moral in der Wirtschaftsinformatik / Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics (@WI2020 in Potsdam)
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP - EMoWI 2020 - Ethik und Moral in der Wirtschaftsinformatik / Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics (@WI2020 in Potsdam) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 12:12:42 +0100 From: Jens Gulden <jens.gulden(a)uni-due.de> Reply-To: Jens Gulden <jens.gulden(a)uni-due.de> To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Ethik und Moral in der Wirtschaftsinformatik (EMoWI) 2020 Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics 2020 Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik 2020 Potsdam, 8 Mar – 11 Mar 2020 https://sites.google.com/view/EMoWI2020 Submission / Einreichung: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2020-01-05 Submission deadline / Einreichungsfrist 2020-02-07 Notifications to authors / Benachrichtigung der Autoren 2020-02-14 Camera-ready Version 2020-03-08 Workshop in Potsdam (Sunday/Sonntag!) According to Immanuel Kant, ethics is concerned with the question, “What ought I to do?”, as opposed to the other three basic questions “What can I know?”, “What can I hope?”, and “What is human?”. “What ought I to do as a Business Informatics researcher?” therefore is the central question of the theme “Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics”. As this question is fundamentally philosophical in nature, it does not only concern judgments about proper conduct in specific situations. Instead, the questions invites reflections at a higher level of abstraction, enabling a critical reflection about methodological principles of our discipline from a distinctively philosophical outlook. For example, it is possible to examine how basic principles and concepts of Business Informatics are related to more encompassing concepts of human life in general. In this vein, concepts like process, architecture, decision model, algorithm, and organizational rule can be studied against the backdrop of concepts like Weltanschauung, human rights, and values. The workshop “Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics” is meant to address questions of this kind. (Deutsche Version s.u.) Topics Submissions to the workshop are invited to discuss ethical and moral questions arising in the whole spectrum of topics of Business Informatics. The following suggestions provide an impression of the intended orientation of the workshop, but you are cordially invited to propose additional topics. - Are the subjects of Business Informatics associated with specific ethical questions? As the subjects in Business Informatics typically are intangible, does this raise a need for specific procedures to justify proper conduct of Business Informatics research? - Do (research) methods in Business Informatics involve specific value statements or Weltanschauung? - Which implications for classical moral philosophies arise from recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research? - What challenges arise from the availability of IT-supported machines that should act as stand-alone agents (autonomous cars, drones)? Are there any pitfalls in Machine Learning based decision support? - Are certain species of moral philosophies (e. g., deontologist or consequentialist moral theories) especially relevant for Business Informatics? Do typical decision models in Business Informatics implicate the basic principles of specific moral theories (e. g., consequentialism)? - What kind of statements could a „Code of Ethics“ for Business Informatics professionals include (as opposed to the “Code of Ethics” of ACM)? - What experiences in relation to ethical questions were made in previous Business Informatics research projects? - What initiatives concerning ethical values in Business Informatics do already exist in academia and industry? What are the results of these initiatives? - How are ethical topics considered in Business Informatics curriculums at universities world-wide? ...and many more. Submission The workshop invites submissions that discuss actions or principles of actions as manifested in methodological assumptions and commitments in Business Informatics from an ethical point of view. This also includes experience reports about concrete projects in academia and industry where questions about right and wrong conduct played a significant role. Submissions are both invited to raise questions and to report about situations where questions have already been answered in specific ways. Philosophical methods of inquiry are welcome, but not required. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the program committee. Accepted submissions must be presented by at least one author at the workshop, and it is planned to publish them as ceur-ws.org online proceedings. The maximum page number of submissions is 10 pages (including title, abstract, bibliography, appendixes, author names and affiliations and acknowledgments). Short papers with a size up to 4 pages are also welcome. The abstract should not exceed 150 words. Keywords are optional. Please upload your submission at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi2020. The proceedings of the previous EMoWI'19 workshop are published at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2297/. Organization Jens Gulden, Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 30 2537088, j.gulden(a)uu.nl Alexander Bock, University of Duisburg-Essen, Information Systems and Enterprise Modeling, Universitätsstr. 9, 45141 Essen, Germany, Tel: +49 201 18-34563, alexander.bock(a)uni-due.de Sergio España Cubillo, Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 30 2535913, s.espana(a)uu.nl ----- Deutsche Version ----- Ethik bezeichnet den Teilbereich der Philosophie, der nach Kant über die philosophische Grundfrage „Was soll ich tun?“ reflektiert, in Abgrenzung zu den drei anderen Grundfragen „Was kann ich wissen?“, „Was darf ich hoffen?“, und schließlich der Frage „Was ist der Mensch?“. „Was soll ich als Wirtschaftsinformatiker tun?“ ist damit die Grundfrage, mit der sich ein Themenbereich „Ethik und Moral der Wirtschaftsinformatik“ auseinandersetzt. Als ethische Frage mit philosophischem Anspruch gestellt geht es dabei nicht nur um kontextbezogene methodische Einzelaussagen. Die Frage kann auch auf einer Abstraktionsebene oberhalb der methodischen Prinzipien unserer Disziplin gestellt werden, mit philosophischer Distanz und unabhängig von spezifischen kontextuellen Gegebenheiten. Um dieses Abstraktionsniveau zu erreichen können beispielsweise fachliche Grundprinzipien der WI in Bezug zu übergreifenden Konzepten des menschlichen Lebens gesetzt werden. Dazu zählen die Reflexion über Begriffe wie Prozesse, Architekturen, Algorithmen und organisationale Regeln vor dem Hintergrund von Weltanschauung, Menschenwürde und Werten. Der Workshop bietet eine Plattform für die ethische Reflexion von Themen aus dem gesamten fachlichen Spektrum der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Er versteht sich damit als Querschnitts-Workshop mit großer thematischer Breite. Themen Einreichungen zum Workshop sind eingeladen, ethische und moralische Fragen aus dem gesamten thematischen Spektrum der Wirtschaftsinformatik zu behandeln. Die nachfolgend aufgeführten Themenvorschläge geben einen Eindruck über die Ausrichtung des Workshops, können aber gerne ergänzt werden. - Sind die Betrachtungsgegenstände der WI mit spezifischen ethischen Fragen verbunden? Ergeben sich aus den zumeist intangiblen Betrachtungsgegenständen der WI besondere ethische Herausforderungen in Bezug auf Begründbarkeit und Rechtfertigung des Handelns von Wirtschaftsinformatikern? - Manifestieren sich in den Methoden der WI spezifische Wertesysteme oder Weltanschauungen? - Welche Implikationen haben jüngere Entwicklungen wie z.B. Ergebnisse der Künstliche Intelligenz (KI)-Forschung für klassische Moralphilosophien? - Welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich aus der Verfügbarkeit von IT-gestützten Maschinen, die als eigenständige Agenten auftreten sollen (autonome Autos, Drohnen)? Liegen Gefahren in einer auf Machine Learning basierenden Entscheidungsunterstützung? - Sind spezifische moralphilosophische Theorieströme (z. B. deontologische und konsequentialistische Moraltheorien) für die WI von besonderer Relevanz? Manifestieren sich in einschlägigen Entscheidungsmodellen der WI Grundprinzipien bestimmte Moraltheorien (z. B. des Konsequentialismus)? - Auf welche Aspekte sollte ein „Code of Ethics“ für die Wirtschaftsinformatik, ggf. in Abgrenzung zum „Code of Ethics“ der ACM, besonders eingehen? - Welche individuellen Erfahrungen haben Wirtschaftsinformatiker mit ethischen Fragen bei der Lösung fachlicher Aufgabenstellungen gemacht? - Welche Initiativen zum Umgang mit ethischen Werten der WI existieren auf akademischer und industrieller Ebene? Und welche Auswirkungen haben sie bisher? - Welche Berücksichtigung finden ethische Themen in WI-Lehrplänen weltweit? u. v. a. m. Einreichung Der Workshop heißt alle Einreichungen willkommen, die Handlungen von Wirtschaftsinformatikern oder Handlungsprinzipien in methodologischen Annahmen und Festlegungen der WI aus ethischer Perspektive thematisieren. Das beinhaltet auch Berichte aus konkreten Projekten in Wissenschaft und Praxis, in denen Fragen nach dem richtigen oder notwendigen Handeln eine Rolle spielen. Es können ebenso offene Fragen gestellt werden wie über Situationen berichtet werden, in denen ethische oder moralische Fragen bereits beantwortet wurden. Die Anwendung spezifisch philosophischer Untersuchungsmethoden ist nicht erforderlich, aber selbstverständlich willkommen. Jede Einreichung wird von 3 Mitgliedern des Programmkomitees peer-reviewed. Die angenommenen Beiträge müssen von mindestens einem Autor im Workshop vorgestellt werden und es ist geplant, sie in einem Tagungsband als ceur-ws.org Online-Proceedings zu veröffentlichen. Einreichungen dürfen eine Länge von 10 Seiten nicht überschreiten (inklusive Titel, Abstract, Literaturverzeichnis, Anhängen sowie Autorendetails und Danksagungen für überarbeitete Beiträge) und müssen ein Abstract von max. 150 Wörtern voranstellen. Kurzpapers mit einer Länge von bis zu 4 Seiten sind ebenfalls willkommen. Keywords sind optional. Bitte uploaden Sie Ihre Einreichung im PDF Format unter https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi2020. Die Proceedings des vorhergehenden EMoWI'19 Workshops sind unter http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2297/ veröffentlicht. -- Dr. Jens Gulden Business Process Management and Analytics Department of Information and Computing Sciences Utrecht University Buys Ballotgebouw, Princetonplein 5, room 512 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands mail j.gulden(a)uu.nl tel +31 30 2537088 -- 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] Second call for the SIGPHIL@ICIS Workshop on the End of Theory in IS and Analytics: Does Big Data Really Make the Scientific Method Obsolete?
by Gustaf Neumann 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Second call for the SIGPHIL@ICIS Workshop on the End of Theory in IS and Analytics: Does Big Data Really Make the Scientific Method Obsolete? Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 18:25:12 -0600 From: Nik Rushdi Hassan <nhassan(a)d.umn.edu> To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear IS colleagues, This year's popular SIGHPHIL@ICIS workshop tackles what's on every IS researcher's mind -- where are my IS theories? It is inconceivable for a field so relevant to this social media era of "fake news", weaponized information, disruptive technologies, Big Data, and what Soshana Zuboff calls "surveillance capitalism," not to be brimming with its own theories about all these phenomena. If you haven't watched Zuboff's interview on the latest PBS Frontline show "In the Age of AI" you don't want to miss it! Our IS researchers are positioned in the best possible intellectual space to respond to all these issues. Is analytics being exported from the US and China to other countries that want to control their citizens? What is the future outlook for jobs as AI and analytics take over? "We thought we were searching Google. We have no idea that Google was searching us" ~ Zuboff. Facebook and other social media providers have been hiding the extent of their collection of private data. How can we make this more transparent to the average user? What will happen when analytics that have so far been successful at suggesting what next to buy or what next to watch become also good at deepening inequalities, challenging democracies, and dividing nations and the world. Do we not have our own concepts and theories that can address such issues? These are but a few of the questions that remain unanswered and our line-up of speakers and panelists that include AIS LEOs Kalle Lyytinen, Rudy Hirschheim, Fellows Alan Hevner, Shirley Gregor, Leslie Willcocks, Alan Dennis, and other experts on analytics like Ahmed Abassi, Vasant Dhar, Foster Provost, Sumit Sarkar and Ramesh Sharda will address. The goal of the SIGPHIL workshop is to provide an opportunity to spend quality time with thought leaders of the IS community and listen to the interesting backstories and "behind the scenes" revelations in an informal and friendly environment. Because the workshop is held in the evenings of ICIS, you will still be able to attend it if you are attending any pre-ICIS programs and of course, you can always attend the workshop even if you are not attending ICIS conference, and dinner is included. If you have already registered for ICIS, go to https://icis2019.aisconferences.org/register/ to add the workshop or just add the workshop when you register for the ICIS conference. You can also register just for the workshop. Don't hesitate to email me directly at nhassan(a)d.umn.edu if you have any questions. See you there! Workshop co-chairs Nik Rushdi Hassan, Varun Grover, Leslie Willcocks SIGPHIL@ICIS 2019, Dec 15-16, Munich, Germany The End of Theory in IS and Analytics: Does Big Data Really Make the Scientific Method Obsolete? In conjunction with the 2019 International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), the AIS Special Interest Group on Philosophy in Information Systems (AIS-SIGPHIL) will hold its 8th Concurrent SIGPHIL@ICIS Research Workshop during two evenings of the ICIS conference in Munich, Germany at the Internationales Congress Center München (ICM). Following last year’s SIGPHIL@ICIS, this year’s event continues the call for the edited series on “Advancing IS theories” by Nik Hassan and Leslie Willcocks. At the same time, the workshop provides an excellent opportunity to spend quality time with thought leaders of the IS community in an informal and friendly environment. Workshop Presenters, Organizing Committee and Contributors (in alphabetical order) Ahmed Abbasi, University of Virginia Alan Dennis, Indiana University Vasant Dhar, New York University Varun Grover, University of Arkansas Nik Rushdi Hassan, University of Minnesota Duluth Alan Hevner, University of South Florida Shirley Gregor, Australian National University Rudy Hirschheim, Louisiana State University Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University Foster Provost, New York University Sumit Sarkar, University of Texas Dallas Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University Leslie Willcocks, London School of Economics Workshop Theme The title of this workshop is paraphrased from the title of an editorial by *Wired Magazine’s* chief editor Chris Anderson (2008) who argued that with big data, we no longer have to settle for imperfect models, and since the scientific method relies on models from which we test hypotheses, big data has essential made the scientific method obsolete. Extending this argument, because theory is the goal of the scientific method, theory itself becomes unnecessary. Why do we need theory when big data can already help us predict? Not surprisingly this claim has attracted much attention from both industry and academia (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier, 2013; Kitchin, 2014). Like many highly cited pieces, the *Wired* editorial has taken on a life of its own, as it is interpreted and reinterpreted by many to support their own stance on the topic of theory. Another article from *Wired Magazine* (Steadman, 2013) featured how big data predicted Osama bin Laden’s location from publicly available data without any need for models or theories. In other words, “it just needs to work: prediction trumps explanation” (Siegel, 2016, p. 90). Some of these researchers take big data research as an extreme form of empiricism to reignite long-standing debates surrounding the legitimacy of the social sciences and eagerly use big data to claim the status of the natural sciences for their own works. Big data has supposedly shifted the paradigm of research itself which previously could only take place as a result of trade-offs among generality, control and realism (Chang, Kauffman and Kwon, 2014). “Computational social science” (Lazer et al., 2009) using big data is free of those trade-offs. Others are more cautious. Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier (2013) consider preposterous the claim that generalizable rules are irrelevant. For example, they argue that the process of collecting big data itself is based on some kind of theory. For a field that is still struggling with theory and the role of theory in its research, this debate about the relevance and irrelevance of theory vis-a-vis analytics places our researchers in a difficult position on at least two levels. First, theory for description, explanation and prediction for any area within IS – analytics included – is itself being put to question by big data. Second, theory building within and for analytics as a subfield of IS too is unclear. At the first level, can practical questions that are targeted by analytics for specific instances (Will the customer buy? Can the MRI show anomalies?) be generalized? At the second level, why do we, IS researchers, need to worry about theory in analytics when all of its theoretical foundations were already built by scholars of statistical learning theory, computer science and operations research? Only a few scholars have addressed theory for analytics directly (Shmueli and Koppius, 2011; Agarwal and Dhar, 2014; Abbasi, Sarker and Chiang, 2016) while the rest of the IS community remain silent. Of the few IS studies that do address theory, they mostly introduce the notion of theory building within analytics as a consequence of the predictive analytics process rather than explanatory theory in general or foundational analytics theories that cut across all analytics processes including data collection, data preparation and cleaning, exploratory data analysis, model building, evaluation and deployment. Anecdotal evidence suggest that the IS community may have gravitated towards the notion that theory is indeed irrelevant for business analytics. For instance, an editor for a prestigious IS conference noted: “we have witnessed explosive growth of the business analytics field in this decade, both in research and in practice. So, why is theory building mandatory for the growth and legitimacy of the field?” Such as a state of affairs is problematic, not the least because the majority of programs in business analytics (BA) in the Schools of Business around the world are led by IS scholars and researchers. The discussion on theory in the field has left us unclear about whether or not theory does or does not play a major role and whether theory for business analytics matter at all. It may be clear to most within the IS field that our researchers are not expected to invent the next Hadoop or MapReduce, or even to write the next classification or clustering algorithm. If those technologies are not where our efforts should be expended, what exactly is the role of the IS researcher, and by extension, the practice of BA that is most relevant to IS? Is the IS researcher left with the trite and uninspiring task of researching the adoption or acceptance of big data analytics? Or can the IS researcher, as Dhar (2013) proposes, provide interesting answers to questions that we do not yet know? Or even better, as Pentland (2014) claims, we can solve macro-level problems using the micro-level big data that are being analyzed and “build a society that is better at avoiding market crashes, ethnic and religious violence, political stalemates, widespread corruption, and dangerous concentrations of power” (p. 17), all of which cannot do without solid theoretical foundations. Edited Book Series: Advancing IS Theories This struggle for theory is the theme for this year’s SIGPHIL@ICIS workshop, focusing on theory in business analytics and supporting the goals of a planned series of volumes on information systems (IS) titled: “Advancing Information Systems Theories.” The goal of this series of volume is to advance IS research beyond borrowed legitimization and derivative research towards fresh and original research that naturally comes from its own theories – information system theories. The first volume on the process of IS theorizing is in the final stages of review and near publication. The second volume concerns efforts that approach theories – what Weick (1995) calls “interim struggles.” This volume comes out of the realization that the process of theorizing can be long and arduous and like all great things, will not be built in a day, much less in an edited volume. So, although they may not be called theories with a capital “T,” they nevertheless approximate theory and should not be dismissed. They may be called “principles,” “propositions,” “models,” “paradigms,” “concepts,” “frameworks” or what have you. They are the products of theorizing and are precursors to strong theory, and as long as they are fresh and original, they go a long way in advancing IS theories. A demonstrative list of chapters for Vol. II is provided below: Introduction: The products of IS theorizing (Hassan, Mathiassen & Lowry) 1 The prospects of theory for business analytics 20 A review of information theory in information systems (McKinney) 40 Design principles in design science (Gregor and Hevner) 60 IS Concepts: Declaring IS to the world 80 Mapping an IS research framework 100 Models and contexts of discovery in IS 120 IS constructs and variables 140 A collection of IS propositions 160 [Tentative] Program Schedule Sunday, Dec 15, 2019 (Location: TBD) 7:30pm-7:40pm: Introductions by Nik Hassan: The goals for the workshop and the notion of products of theorizing 7:40pm – 8:10pm First Plenary Keynote by Varun Grover and Kalle Lyytinen on “Role of theory in the environment of big data” 8:10pm-8:40pm Second Keynote by Rudy Hirschheim on “Big Data is anathema to theory and understanding” followed by Q&A 10 min Coffee Break 9:00-9:30pm Third Keynote by Alan Hevner and Shirley Gregor (via Skype) on “The Scientific Method is Alive and Kicking in Design Science Research for Analytics” 9:30pm-10:00pm Panel response to Keynotes: Panelist Sumit Sarkar and Ramesh Sharda Monday, Dec 16, 2019 (Location: TBD) Dinner 5:30-7:00pm (Venue: TBD) 7:00pm-7:15pm: Brief introduction by Leslie Willcocks: Where are the IS Theories in Analytics? 7:15pm-7:50pm Third Keynote, Ahmed Abbasi on “The Pendulum has Swung: From Big Data Hubris to AI Hubris” with Discussion and Q&A 7:50-8:30pm Skype Guest Speakers Vasant Dhar and Foster Provost on “Prospects of Theory with Big Data Analytics” 10 min Coffee Break 8:45pm-9:30pm Workshop wrap-up discussion by Alan Dennis, Rudy Hirschheim and Leslie Willcocks References Abbasi, A., S. Sarker and R. Chiang. (2016). “Big data research in information systems: Toward an inclusive research agenda.” *Journal of the Association for Information Systems*, *17*(2), i–xxxii. Agarwal, R. and V. Dhar. (2014). “Big data, data science, and analytics: The opportunity and challenge for IS research.” *Information Systems Research*, *25*(3), 443–448. Anderson, C. (2008). “The end of theory.” *Wired*, *16*(7), 71. Chang, R. M., R. J. Kauffman and Y. Kwon. (2014). “Understanding the paradigm shift to computational social science in the presence of big data.” *Decision Support Systems*, *63*, 67–80. Dhar, V. (2013). “Data science and prediction.” *Communications of the ACM*, *56*(12), 64–73. Kitchin, R. (2014). *The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures & Their Consequences*. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Lazer, D., A. Pentland, L. Adamic, S. Aral, A.-L. Barabási, D. Brewer, … M. Van Alstyne. (2009). “Computational social science.” *Science*, *323*(5915), 721–723. Mayer-Schönberger, V. and K. Cukier. (2013). *Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think*. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Pentland, A. (2014). *Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread -- the Lessons from a New Science*. New York: Penguin Press. Shmueli, G. and O. Koppius. (2011). “Predictive analytics in information systems research.” *MIS Quarterly*, *35*(3), 553–572. Siegel, E. (2016). *Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die*. New York: Wiley. Steadman, I. (2013). “Big data, language and the death of the theorist (Wired UK).” Retrieved from http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/25/big-data-end-of-theory (visited on September 27, 2019) Weick, K. E. (1995). “What theory is not, theorizing Is.” *Administrative Science Quarterly*, *40*(3), 385–390. -- Nik Rushdi Hassan, PhD and Assoc. Professor of MIS Head, Dept of Management Studies Labovitz School of Business and Economics University of Minnesota Duluth 1318 Kirby Drive, LSBE 385A Duluth MN 55812 Office Phone: (218) 726-7453 Fax: (218) 726-7578 Home Page: www.d.umn.edu/~nhassan Email: nhassan(a)d.umn.edu LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nikrushdi/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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