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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Mini-Track Proposals - AMCIS2021 - Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Information Systems Track (SIGODIS)
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Mini-Track Proposals - AMCIS2021 - Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Information Systems Track (SIGODIS) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:27:31 -0400 From: Vijayan Sugumaran <sugumara(a)oakland.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for Mini-Track Proposals for AMCIS 2021 August 5 – 7, 2021, Montréal, Canada Title of Track: Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Information Systems (SIGODIS) Sponsoring SIG: SIGODIS Track Co-Chairs: 1 (primary): Vijayan Sugumaran, Professor of MIS, Oakland University, sugumara(a)oakland.edu 2: Don Heath, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, drheath2(a)gmail.com Description of Track: The purpose of this track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions using Artificial Intelligence, computational ontologies, data driven IS, and intelligence related to business and systems including the social web, intelligent systems design, implementation, integration and deployment. An increasing number of artificial intelligence-based systems are being developed in different application domains employing a variety of tools and technologies. This track is intended to increase cross-fertilization of ideas from these areas, share lessons learned and stimulate areas for further research. Opportunities in Leading Journals (if any): International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies To submit a mini-track proposal, you must submit: 1. Mini-track co-chairs (names, emails, affiliations); 2. Mini-track Title; 3. A short description of mini-track for the AMCIS 2021 website (up to 150 words); 4. A call for papers for your mini-track. To submit a mini-track proposal, visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/ais and follow the submission guidelines. Important Dates: September 21, 2020: PCS opens for Mini-track submissions October 16, 2020: Mini-track submissions are due (PCS will close). October 23, 2020: Track chairs make recommendations on mini-tracks October 30, 2020: Mini-track decisions announced January 6, 2021: System opens for general paper submissions March 26, 2021: Reviews are due April 8, 2021: Mini-track chair recommendations are due We look forward to receiving your mini-track proposals. Best wishes, Vijayan Sugumaran and Don Heath SIGODIS Track Co-Chairs ================================================ Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Management Information Systems Chair, Department of Decision and Information Sciences Co-Director, Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics School of Business Administration 275 Varner Drive, Room 442 Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309 Phone: 248-370-4649 Fax: 248-370-4275 Email: sugumara(a)oakland.edu <mailto:sugumara@oakland.edu> ================================================ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Artificial Intelligence in IS Research and Practice @ ECIS2021
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Artificial Intelligence in IS Research and Practice @ ECIS2021 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:34:24 +0100 From: Efpraxia Zamani <e.zamani(a)sheffield.ac.uk> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ***Apologies for Cross-Postings*** *2**9th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2021)* June 14th - 16th 2021 / Marrakech, Morocco (https://ecis2021.com <https://ecis2021.com>) Track: *Artificial Intelligence in IS Research and Practice* *Track Description* Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term with an evolving meaning over the last century. AI refers to a vast amount of techniques, tools and technological artefacts. The AI artefacts and techniques range from machine learning, convolution networks, image and speech recognition, to 3D printing and an expanding number of innovative approaches. AI, as a contextual approach with a substantial role, has managed to find its place in a number of areas, ranging from household applications, to healthcare, to warfare, but also in production and the supply chain world. In this track we would like to focus in the use of AI in IS research and specifically draw our attention on the evolving concepts, practices, processes and methods related to AI-related technology management in various fields. We consider it is timely to investigate into the potential of AI within the IS community, with the view to shed more light in the management of practices and processes. At the same time, it is crucial to reflect on the challenges and the implications stemming out of AI applications. Within a digitally connected world, whereby advanced technologies, such as AI, Information Systems scholars should consider the implications for industry, for society, for individuals and for sustainability. In this track, we welcome both empirical and conceptual papers, without excluding any methodological stance (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods etc). Potential Topics of Interest (indicative): * AI concepts, tools and techniques * Challenges and Opportunities (methodological and practical) for AI adoption * Information and Knowledge sharing and the ethical implications around AI in organizations * The dark side of AI and ethical considerations * AI for decision making in organizational contexts * Swarm and Collective Intelligence for smart applications * Business Process Management and AI * AI capabilities and innovation * Decision-making and Forecasting through AI approaches * Humanitarian applications of AI * AI in emergent situations and risk management * Application of AI to address societal challenges * AI for healthcare innovation and management * AI and Information Systems Development * AI for Sustainability and Resilience of processes and practices * The role of AI in the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) * Machine learning, Cyber-physical Systems, Robotics and AI automation *Track Co-Chairs* * Efpraxia Zamani, University of Sheffield, UK, e.zamani(a)sheffield.ac.uk * Konstantina Spanaki, Loughborough University, UK, K.Spanaki(a)lboro.ac.uk * Ilias Pappas, University of Agder (UiA), Norway, ilias.pappas(a)uia.no <mailto:ilias.pappas@uia.no> Paper submission deadline:18 November 2020 Notification of conditional acceptance: 03 March 2021 Final acceptance: 23 April 2021 Conference dates: 14 –16 June 2021 Track description online: https://ecis2021.com/tracks-description <https://ecis2021.com/tracks-description> -- *Efpraxia Zamani* Senior Lecturer of Information Systems Departmental Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Information School, University of Sheffield, Room 209a, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP +44 (0)114 222 6331 www.sheffield.ac.uk/is <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is> Please note that, in line with government advice, I am currently working from home. Balancing other responsibilities may result in a delay to my response and I may send and respond to emails out of hours - there is no expectation on you to do the same. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Final CFP : The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA'20)
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Final CFP : The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA'20) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:10:39 -0700 From: Ajith Abraham <ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org> Reply-To: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org To: aco-list(a)iridia.ulb.ac.be, GASCHEDULING(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu, aisworld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu ** Final Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** -- The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA'20) -- http://www.mirlabs.net/ibica20 http://www.mirlabs.org/ibica20 On the World Wide Web * December 16-18, 2020 * Proceedings of IBICA'2019: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030493387 Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP etc. History of IBICA series: http://www.mirlabs.net/ibica20/previous.php IBICA 2020: Scopus Proceedings All accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. **Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: October 31, 2020 (Extended Deadline) Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 25, 2020 Conference: December 16-18, 2020 **About IBICA 2020** ------------------ IBICA'20 is the 11th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications. The aim of IBICA is to provide a platform for world research leaders and practitioners, to discuss the “full spectrum” of current theoretical developments, emerging technologies, and innovative applications of Bio-inspired Computing. Bio-inspired Computing is currently one of the most exciting research areas, and it is continuously demonstrating exceptional strength in solving complex real life problems. The main driving force of the conference is to further explore the intriguing potential of Bio-inspired Computing. IBICA 2020 will be held online. **Submission Guidelines** ------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. Paper format templates: http://www.springer.com/series/11156 IBICA’20 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ibica2020 ** IBICA 2020 Organization ** ------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico Program Chairs Hide Sasaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Ricardo Rios, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Lavika Goel, Malviya National Institute of Technology, India **Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org Note: We sincerely hope that this conference announcement is interesting for you. If you are not interested or wish to unsubscribe then please reply to this email and we will remove your name from our future emails. Our apologies for any inconvenience. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): First Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): First Call for Papers Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:28:54 +0300 From: George Angelos Papadopoulos <george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> To: SIGSAND-L(a)CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG, SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)acm.org, confs-submit(a)hri.org, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *** First Call for Papers *** 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 12-14, 2021, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/ Abstract submission deadline (recommended): January 15, 2021 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2021 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned with the special theme “Information Science and global crisis". Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are challenging Information Science to help building effective management solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and communication. The diversity of crises’ causes, the quality of the collected data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the relevant research challenges. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering • Requirements Engineering • Software Testing • Information Security and Risk • Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches • Social Computing and Social Network Analysis • User-Centred Design • Collaborative Computing • Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management • Databases and Information • Information Search and Discovery • Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management • Business Process Engineering and Reengineering • Process Mining • Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering • E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, … • Web-Based Applications and Services • Industry 4.0 • Web-Based Applications and Services • Smart Cities • Educational Technologies • Digital Humanities Data Science • Big Data & Business Analytics • Decision Information Systems • Knowledge Management • Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures • Cyber-Physical Systems • Web Information Systems • Grid Computing and Cloud Computing • Internet of Things • Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice • Research Methodologies in Information Science • Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual • Lifecycle Models • Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos and Research Projects @RCIS tracks will complement the main conference. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2021. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2021 . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 29, 2021. We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author names are included in the paper itself under the paper title. IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 15, 2021 (AoE) • Regular paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) • Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021 • Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 • Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 • Conference: May 12-14, 2021 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee • Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France • Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom • Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom • Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France • Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain • Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse • Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Organising Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs • Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France • Anna Perini, FBK, Italy _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Special Issue on Designing and Managing Human-AI Interactions - Information Systems Frontiers
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Special Issue on Designing and Managing Human-AI Interactions - Information Systems Frontiers Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:59:04 +1100 From: Babak Abedin <babak.abedin(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Special Issue: Designing and Managing Human-AI Interactions* *Link to the special issue * *https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/18030966/data/v2 <https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/180309…> * *Aims and Objectives* The development and use of *Artificial Intelligence* (AI) has received significant attention in academia and practice alike as AI has reached, or even surpassed, the ability of humans in a variety of domains (Arrieta et al., 2020; Sugumaran et al., 2017). AI has been described as the non-human intelligence that is flexible and autonomous enough to understand and learn from data in order to achieve specific outcomes (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2019). While different definitions for ‘Artificial Intelligence’ exist, there is a general understanding that it includes learning, reasoning, and adaptation capabilities as its key features. AI is increasingly being applied in various disciplines with potentially severe consequences for humans, including medical diagnostics (McKinney et al., 2020), job recruitment (Dastin, 2018), transport management (He et al., 2014), credit scoring (Wang et al. 2019), and autonomous vehicles (Grigorescu et al., 2019). Yet, despite information systems’ rich tradition as a discipline in theorizing and studying both the technical elements as well as the human aspects in designing and managing complex systems (Beydoun et al., 2019; Dwivedi et al., 2015), the social perspective within interactions between humans and AI systems is yet underresearched (Harper, 2019). Human–AI interaction necessitates researchers and practitioners to go beyond smart algorithms, as it rather requires effective coordination of complex problem solving, teamwork, communication, and joint action between the human agent and AI systems (Seeber et al., 2020). Collaboration between the human and the AI can create heterogeneous work groups (Arrieta et al., 2020; Kaplan and Haenlein, 2019), which would require shared understanding for effective collaborative outcomes (Bittner and Leimeister, 2014). The theme of this special issue highlights the need for conceptualization and empirical study of challenges associated with the implications of AI systems. In particular, we aim to explore, theorize, and test guidelines for upholding and implementing good AI practices in designing and managing human-AI interactions. We welcome the examination at the individual, group/team, organizational or societal level of analysis across all possible domains. We solicit case studies, surveys, experiments, qualitative research, design science research, and collaborative action research among academics, executives and policy makers that illustrate innovative approaches, resolutions, and solutions to these described tensions, risks, and opportunities. We especially seek papers that offer theoretical models along with observations or evidence of consequences related to these models. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to**:* - Theorizing Human-AI interactions at individual and organizational levels - Management and governance of Human-AI interactions - Opportunities and challenges of Human-AI interactions from the perspective of developers, users, and policy makers - (Cross-stakeholder) Design of Human-AI interactions - Ethics, legal and social issues of Human-AI interactions - Regulation and certification of Human-AI interactions - Responsibility in Human-AI Interactions - Privacy and data fusion in the context of AI - Interaction with AI through human-in-the-loop development - Trust in the context of Human-AI interactions - Transparency and explainability of AI (XAI) - Business value and consequences of Human-AI interactions - Supporting AI ethical principles during system requirements and design *Important dates*: - June 2020: Call issued - April 30th, 2021: Submission deadline for papers - July 31st, 2021: Reviews returned - October 30th, 2021: Revised papers submitted - December 15th, 2021: Notification - January 31st, 2022: Final papers due - Early 2022: Special issue published *Guest Editors* - *Babak Abedin*, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia - *Iris Junglas*, The College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA - *Christian Meske*, Freie Universität, Berlin & Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany - *Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad*, AI Lab, Global Technology Innovation, Ernst & Young, Palo Alto, California, USA - *Fethi **Rabhi*, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia *Submission Instructions * Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format to the ISF-Springer online submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi and the authors need to select "Special Issue: Managing Human-AI Interactions" during the submission process. Paper submissions must conform to the format guidelines of Information Systems Frontiers available at https://www.springer.com/journal/10796/submissionguidelines. For any further information about the special issue, please contact babak.abedin(a)mq.edu.au or christian.meske(a)fu-berlin.de _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Final CFP : The 20th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’20)-
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Final CFP : The 20th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’20)- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:38:48 +0530 From: Ajith Abraham <ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org> Reply-To: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org To: dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu, aisworld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu, aco-list(a)iridia.ulb.ac.be ** Final Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** -- The 20th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’ 20) –- http://www.mirlabs.org/isda20 http://www.mirlabs.net/isda20 On the World Wide Web December 12-15, 2020 Proceedings of ISDA’19: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49342-4 Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP etc. History of ISDA series: http://www.mirlabs.org/isda20/previous.php **Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: October 31, 2020 (Extended Deadline) Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 25, 2020 Conference: December 12-15, 2020 **About ISDA 2020** ------------------ The International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) is a major international conference bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of intelligent systems and its applications in industry and the real world. Every year, ISDA attracts authors from over 30 countries. After the success of the 19th conference, which was held online, this year's event will be held during December 12-15, 2020. ISDA 2020 is expected to provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in solving intriguing problems in the fields of artificial intelligence and its real world applications. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks. All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity. Conference contents will be submitted for inclusion in Springer as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. **Topics (not limited to)** --------------------------- Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications Intelligent Image and Signal Processing Intelligent Internet Modeling Intelligent Data mining Intelligent Business Systems Intelligent Control and Automation Intelligent Agents Intelligent Knowledge Management Innovative Information Security Innovative Networking and Communication Techniques Web Intelligence Intelligent Software Engineering **Submission Guidelines** ------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. Paper format templates: http://www.springer.com/series/11156 ISDA’20 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isda2020 **ISDA 2020 Organization** ------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France Program Chairs Ana Madureira, ISEP, Porto, Portugal Arturas Kaklauskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania **Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org Note: We sincerely hope that this conference announcement is interesting for you. If you are not interested or wish to unsubscribe then please reply to this email and we will remove your name from our future emails. Our apologies for any inconvenience. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Reminder: Call for papers for I&O SI on qualitative research in the age of digitalization
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Reminder: Call for papers for I&O SI on qualitative research in the age of digitalization Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:16:50 +0000 From: Galliers, Robert <rgalliers(a)bentley.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 7th December, 2020 We are pleased to announce that the Editors of Information and Organization have issued a call for papers for a special issue on Qualitative Research in the Age of Digitalization. Submissions may deal with any aspect of how qualitative research may usefully be applied in the age of digitalization, be it as it relates to advancing knowledge on digitalization or to advancing qualitative research methodology. The deadline for the special issue is 7th December 2020. Please see more details on the Information and Organization website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-organization/call-for-pap…<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.journ…> The special issue editors are: Robert D. Galliers, Bentley University, USA & Loughborough University, UK Carol Hsu, Tongji University, China Lars Mathiassen, Georgia State University, USA Suzanne Rivard, HEC Montreal, Canada We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] dg.o 2021 (International Conference on Digital Government Research)
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] dg.o 2021 (International Conference on Digital Government Research) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:58:37 +0000 From: Luis Felipe Luna Reyes <luisf.luna(a)udlap.mx> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Call for Papers/Proposals dg.o 2021: 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska June 9-11, 2021 Conference Website: http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2021 The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2021, with a special focus on the theme " Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community". the Digital Governance and Analytics Lab, the School of Public Administration, the Center for Public Affairs Research, and the College of Public Affairs and Community Service, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska on June 9-11, 2021. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, political participation, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to rigor of theory and relevance of practice, their focus on important and timely topics and the quality of their writing. THEME & TRACK TOPICS: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) will feature the main theme of "Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community." Public values - such as efficiency, equity, transparency, privacy, security, trust, etc. -- serve as the compass and goals for the development and implementation of digital innovations for public service. Recent developments in digital innovations - such as artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, social networking platforms, 5G, etc.- offer strategic opportunities for public value creation. These digital innovations are tools for us to solve monumental challenges facing our society such as pandemics, climate change, and sustainable development. More importantly, there is a return to focus on societal needs and values to guide digital innovations and to move away from technology push only for the sake of innovations. Specifically, the conference aims to advance research and practice of public value creation via digital innovations by leveraging collaboration and community-oriented solutions in an inclusive manner. Collaboration can span the boundaries of individuals, organizations, sectors (public, private, and voluntary), and national borders in such forms as data and technology collaboratives, public-private partnership, and regional or global technology standards and policies. Communities can take on a virtual, physical, or blended form with a local, national, or global reach such as people's local communities and our global community of the Digital Government Society (DGS). Community is also about taking a holistic (community-as-a-whole) approach to integrating digital innovations such as smart city and intelligent government. Inclusivity is about bridging socioeconomic and digital divides in governance such as inclusive civic engagement and e-participation. Inclusivity also entails openness, transparency, and leveraging digital means to engage community members for public value creation. IMPORTANT DATES * January 20, 2021: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due * March 1, 2021: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium * March 31, 2021: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels) * April 1, 2021: Doctoral colloquium notification * April 15, 2021: Posters and demo proposals due * April 24, 2021: Poster/demo author notifications * April 25, 2021: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair * May 1, 2021: Early registration begins * May 20, 2021: Early registration closes TRACK 1. Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms for Future Governments Track Chairs: Sehl Mellouli, Marijn Janssen, Adegboyega Ojo Artificial intelligence (AI) can be viewed as the way to simulate human behavior by machines. It is based on a set of algorithms and techniques such as deep learning, neural networks, expert systems, or probabilistic models. Even if it is a new technology, it is attracting more and more attention with the huge amount of data made available by new technologies and users. Government is one the areas that is paying attention to AI to tackle the amount of data it has. In fact, AI provides new tools and techniques for governments to exploit the vast amount of data they have. Governments are not only looking for new applications based on AI, for automated decisions, and improving policy-making, but also at the impacts that AI can have on different levels of government. The purpose of this track is to investigate how AI can be implemented and adopted by governments at different levels and what AI can add to government. TRACK 2. Social Media and Government Track chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh, Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, and J. Ignacio Criado Social media is used by government at all levels and by its constituents to communicate civic and political information, to engage in democratic and collaborative practices, and to innovate on public service delivery, routinely and during the recent turbulent times of COVID. For this year's theme "Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community" we especially welcome papers related to the adoption and use of social media with a focus on the impact of that use on public values, such as efficiency, equity, efficacy, transparency, participation, collaboration, innovation, privacy, security, and trust. This track expects to attract the attention of ongoing work in the field of social media and government, including interesting research questions, rigorous empirical studies, and in-depth case studies, with the aim of enriching the theories, research methods, data, and available cases in this research area. We welcome papers on traditional and emerging issues related to the conference theme, including: public values reflected or disrupted by social media, social media use and users, political polarization and mobilization, political expression and sentiment analysis, verification and fake news, chatbots and artificial intelligence-based systems in governments, instant messaging apps, civic use of media content sharing platforms (i.e. YouTube, Instagram or Tik Tok), and social media use for emergency management. TRACK 3. Digital Sovereignty in the Era of Smart Cities Track chairs: Bettina Distel, Robert Krimmer, and Hendrik Scholta In the digital age, the transformation of a city to a smart city is in great motion. Governments around the world are investing in the interconnection of virtual and non-virtual spaces, services are being increasingly provided digitally and proactively, and internal processes are often executed automatically. While advocates of these developments highlight positive effects on public value creation, the fast developments call critics to the scene. The pace with which new possibilities are evaluated and oftentimes put into practice, casts shadows on the idea of smart cities, sometimes turning it into dark dystopian image. The creation of a smart city hence risks becoming a technocratic frenzy where a citizen can lose what we call digital sovereignty-citizen's authority and control over personal data. The divulgence of personal data to private companies and public institutions increases convenience and efficiency, but opens space for controversies. Meanwhile, a sacrifice in digital sovereignty is inherent to implementing a smart city. The balancing of creating public value through digital innovation on the one hand and the protection and strengthening of citizens' digital sovereignty on the other hand thus becomes a major challenge for both researchers and practitioners. TRACK 4. Opening Government: Open Data-driven Innovation and Collaboration for a better Public Value Track chairs: Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti and Grace Walsh Technology has enabled our world to become increasingly connected, traditional physical boundaries either at a national level or an organizational level are becoming increasingly transcended in the digital world. The public value potential that can be garnered from collaboration far outweigh the competitive advantage outcomes emerging as a result of siloed competition. Opening government and the concept of open data encapsulates much more than freely available information; it signifies an innovative, collaborative, and progressive government; indicating transparency and trustworthiness. Structural changes, including system architecture, technology infrastructure and organizational structures, may be needed to allow institutions, governments, organizations, and communities to collaborate and co-create beyond traditional boundaries. This systematic change enables open data to mature and contribute to public value creation. However, for open data to unlock its full potential it needs to facilitate collaborative initiatives, engaging open data as the foundation upon which to build innovative solutions and contribute to public value. This track examines the challenges, opportunities, and potential outcomes emerging from the use of open data, data technologies, and infrastructures as a means for collaboration to deliver increased public value. TRACK 5. Security and AI Ethics for the Next Wave of Data-driven Society Track chairs: Kwon Hun-Yeong, Kim Mi-Ryang, Ko Yoon-Seok This track seeks to hold comprehensive discussion on the role of the government and human resources, required expertise, legal frameworks and policies needed to deal with ethical and data security issues arising from the use of data and AI to build a safe intelligent information society which may become the goal of public value. In today's society, technologies such as data and AI have become the enablers of innovation and also have become an intrinsic part of our civilization everywhere. In order to create public value when we cannot see with our eyes the achievements of such effort, we need to innovate not only the related law and regulations but also the role of the government and its human resource as well as strengthen its expertise. In particular, diverse discussions on the various regulations for data security and ethical issues related to AI are already prevalent as such issues will very likely manifest themselves unseen. In the near future in our intelligent information society, technology and ethical awareness will become standards or code of conduct and develop into some form of regulation or law based on broader consensus thus deepening their relationship to each other. The topics of this track are, but not limited to: data security, privacy protection, cybersecurity, data ethics, AI ethics, professional ethics, ethical standards and frameworks, etc. TRACK 6. Beyond Bureaucracy: Participatory Online Politics and the Future of E-democracy Track chairs: Zach Bastick and Alois Paulin The "Beyond Bureaucracy" track explores innovations in e-government and e-democracy that place the citizen at the center of governance. While traditional lines of inquiry at the intersection of politics and technology focus on enhancing or supporting existing political institutions, there is an underexplored opportunity for citizens to use technology to control government more directly. Internet optimists have long anticipated new, digital models of self-governance, including representative, direct, liquid, anarchic models. Critics have argued that technology cannot safely or desirably support greater citizen involvement. This track covers all aspects of direct, futuristic, radical, exploratory, and critical approaches to digital governance. These include the (un)desirability of using technology to support citizen self-governance; challenges to self-governance through technology; theoretical and empirical proposals; assessments of technologies to support models of governance (AI, IoT, blockchain, 5G, platforms); the impact of developing digital phenomena on self-governance (misinformation, bots, digital collective intelligence); and the ethical, technological, social, and political implications of existing and potential future models of public governance. The "Beyond Bureaucracy" serves as a platform for pro/contra deliberations on the near and distant potentials of e-democracy. TRACK 7. Inclusive and Resilient Smart Cities Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, Dongwook Kim, and Soon Ae Chun This year we have witnessed the unprecedented public health, social justice issues ingrained in the society, and natural disasters that affected citizens around the world. Smart Cities should consider not only smart growth, social coherence, and industrial transformation of cities by adopting cutting edge technologies, but also resilience, efficiency and competitiveness, to lessen social discriminations and to improve local quality of life. Inclusive and Resilient Smart Cities should ensure that key smart city innovations support infrastructure to enhance citizens' equal access to public and utility services considering their diversity, digital readiness and resource limitations, while it can generate early alerts and enable disaster monitoring, epidemic surveillance and infrastructure redundancy to respond and recover quickly. This track invites research and practices in inclusive and resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as enhancing diverse digital skills toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration and governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces resilient to adverse events. TRACK 8. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines Track chairs: Helen K. Liu, Benjamin Clark, and Lisa Schmidthuber The collaborative intelligence track aims to investigate how human, crowd, and machine can complement each other to enhance public services and policies, such as healthcare services, citizen-government communication, bias and discretion reduction, smart city planning, etc. Moreover, crowdsourcing has been recently adopted for generating information, providing public services, and resolving public problems, and artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of learning, classifying, and detecting data sources and inputs. However, while the adoption of AI may enhance the citizens' participation experience, there are potential ethical issues and implementation challenges in designing an optimal collaborative intelligence that includes both human collective intelligence and artificial intelligence. The collaborative intelligence track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate scholarly papers that explore the interactions of human, crowd, and/or machine. Possible topics include strategies for collaborative intelligence or platforms in the public sector, designs for machine and human interaction in public services or policy making, comparisons of outputs and bias from AI, experts, and/or collective intelligence, values in collaborative intelligence management and governance, best practices of collaborative intelligence in the public sector, ethical concerns or guidelines for applying collective intelligence, or other similar topics and relevant approaches. TRACK 9. Digital Transformation in Subnational Governments Track chairs: Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, Thiago José Tavares Ávila, and Maria Alexandra Cunha Digital transformation has become an essential part of the government's strategic agenda, both at national and sub-national levels. However, digital transformation initiatives at the sub-national level tend to present specific aspects when compared to national initiatives. On the one hand, this track highlights the particular challenges faced by subnational digital transformation initiatives. On the other hand, it seeks to understand the capacities supporting the digital transformation at the subnational level. The track's objectives are: a) to identify real-world examples/cases of digital transformation projects at the subnational levels; b) seek to explain this cases in the context of existing or new theoretical frameworks, and, c) create actionable recommendations for researchers, professional developers, and digital government practitioners at the sub-national level. Possible topics include but not limited to: citizen's digital and secure identification; protection of users' personal data; transparency, openness and sharing of governmental data; new technologies such as artificial intelligence or blockchain; co-creation of digital services; social participation mechanisms; collaborative governance. TRACK 10. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts Track Chairs: Jing Zhang, Chris Hinnant, and Lei Zheng The adoption and implementation of new ICTs by public organizations have been influenced by organizational factors such as the availability of resources (i.e. funding, infrastructure, technological knowledge, and personnel), leadership, trust, stakeholder involvement, organization's structure and culture, as well as inter-organizational dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICTs in government and society has generated important impacts on the organizational processes, effectiveness, and innovativeness of public organizations, as well as the smartness of the government and the society. This track solicits research that examines the organizational factors that influence the adoption and implementation, and impact of new and emerging innovative technologies such as smart city, artificial intelligence, data analytics, big data, open data, social media, citizen-centric technologies, and other novel technologies that rely on open and large data sets. Furthermore, this track seek research on the adoption of innovative policies or practices that seek to facilitate the strategic use of various ICTs by public organizations. TRACK 11. Cyber-physical Innovations for Public Policy and Service Track chairs: Sukumar Ganapati, Michael Ahn, and Chengyu (Victor) Huang This track welcomes contributions to cyber-physical systems' (CPS) innovations that transform public policies and service. CPS are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computation and physical components. Cyber-physical technologies include the type and collection of data (e.g. big data from IoT sensors), connectivity (e.g. 5G network and mobile devices), infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure and distributed computing), unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones), autonomous vehicles (AVs), artificial intelligence for intelligent decision-making, and sharing economy platforms. The track's primary aim is to examine these technologies through the lens of public values such as efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and ethics. Examples of relevant topics include but are not limited to evidence based policy-making, cyberinfrastructure for scientific innovations, innovative uses of UAS and AVs for public service, civic innovations, online community engagement, cross-sector collaboration, ethical use of CPS in governance, equitable public service delivery, and knowledge representation for policy analysis. This track invites submission of theoretical as well as empirical research papers of how CPS impact governance mechanisms. TRACK 12. Automation of Public Services - Concepts, Practice, Implications and Emerging Perspectives Track chairs: Ida Lindgren, Christian Østergaard Madsen, and Ulf Melin The scope of what we can automate has widened; processes that have previously been considered as 'cognitive', and thus in need of human involvement or discretion can now be performed, at least theoretically, by machines. However, what automation entails for public service, conceptually and empirically, is still unclear. On the technical level, automation is used to denote systems of various complexity, e.g., systems integration, RPA, and AI. Similarly, these technologies can be used to automate a large variety of different public service activities and processes. In addition, many technical and legal issues related to data sharing that have previously hindered automation are slowly being resolved, resulting in new venues for automation. Looking at the wide spread of potential application areas for automation in public service, we lack a nuanced language in the digital government community to further our understanding of the nature and implications of automation of public service. In this track, we seek conceptual and empirical papers that can deepen our understanding of what increased automation of public service will bring for public organizations, and society at large. TRACK 13. Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals Track Chairs: Rony Medaglia and Gianluca Misuraca The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are shaping the global agenda in multiple areas, including public opinion, policy, and research. Digital government can act as an enabler to sustainability, equity and social inclusion that represents a cross-cutting objective across several SDGs at both sectoral and horizontal level, with a crucial importance in particular for the goal 16 that aims to ´Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels´. This track invites contributions focusing on the potential benefits and challenges of digital government in supporting the achievement of SDGs and the role of digital technologies to sustain policy developments at both horizontal and sectoral level, including in particular the impact on democratic innovation and institutional reforms of governance systems. We invite studies on the design, management and evaluation of policies and implementation of digital government strategies in relation to the UN SDGs at global, national and local level. Papers that can combine methodological rigour with practical relevance and policy implications are particularly welcome. TRACK 14. Blockchain-based applications for e-Government Track Chairs: Jolien Ubacht, Svein Ølnes, Lemuria Carter, and Ramzi El-Haddadeh In the past years, researchers and practitioners have highlighted the potential of Blockchain (BC) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to revolutionize government processes. Transactions and information exchange between governmental organizations (G2G), between business and government (B2G) as well as between governments and citizens (G2C) can be transformed by using blockchain-based applications. These applications can improve the efficiency of information exchanges (e.g. leading to less fraud and less mistakes than paper-based registrations) and can contribute to an inclusive society (e.g. by means of digital identities). However, due to its characteristics of peer to peer information exchange, its distributed nature and the still developing technology, the implementation of blockchain-based applications requires solid analysis of the entire information chain, including the involved stakeholders and extant information architectures. In addition, blockchain initiatives have implications for citizen trust, privacy, inclusion and participation that need to be addressed in the design of the blockchain based applications. This track invites research that explores the impact and potential of blockchain based applications in G2G, B2G and C2G processes that illustrate their contribution to public services and the creation of public values. We welcome a diversity in research designs, approaches and methodologies. TRACK 15. Legal Informatics Track Chairs: Peter Parycek, Charalabidis Yannis, and Anna-Sophie Novak The application of ICT technologies in the administrative and legal field pose great challenges for both technicians and legal professionals. Additionally, there is the question of how these applied technologies can and/or must be legally regulated. Many of these technologies rely on the use of large amounts of data. In this context, questions arise as to how data usage might be regulated in order to generate the greatest possible benefit for society. With these challenges in mind, we invite papers on the legal, technical, ethical, theoretical and practical questions that arise within the multidisciplinary field of legal informatics. This track invites research and practices concerning the theory and interdisciplinary foundations for the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the legal domain, legal implications of big data applications (challenges to privacy, autonomy, governance, equity, and fairness), a legislative framework for legal informatics on a European and national level and better regulation. Specific interest areas include the field of privacy (policies, regulations, strategies, recommendations), models of legal and ethical knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values, procedures and society models, legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions and applications and use cases (implementations of legal informatics systems under realistic conditions). Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials dg.o workshops are half- or full-day facilitated discussions. Discussions are typically stimulated by short presentations by workshop participants. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations or hands-on experiences offering deeper insight into the scientific or government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experiences of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Panels Panel proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that put a spotlight on practice and application. Proposals from practitioners at all levels of government featuring experiences with, perspectives on, and evaluations of digital government practice are encouraged. Individuals interested in submitting panel proposals are invited to consult the panel co-chairs about their ideas prior to developing their submissions. Posters and System Demonstrations The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. Doctoral Colloquium The doctoral colloquium is a full-day and highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. We welcome applicants from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government. PUBLICATIONS All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Selected papers will be invited for a journal special issue. There will be several special issues related to the conference, including: * Government Information Quarterly * Digital Government: Research and Practice * Transforming Government: People, Process, Policy * International Journal of E-Government Research * Information Polity * International Journal of E-Planning Research * International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age BEST PAPER AWARDS Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories Research papers, Management, Case Study and Policy papers, Posters, and System demonstrations. Papers that reflect the main theme of the conference, Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community, will be preferred. Other selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience. SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS * Research papers * Management, Case Study, or Policy papers * Panel descriptions * Posters * System demonstrations * Pre-Conference tutorial proposals * Pre-Conference workshop proposals * Doctoral colloquium application Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2021 Submissions need to follow the guidelines established for the dg.o conference. Detailed instruction and ACM conference proceedings template will be available on conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ under "submission guidelines". Research, Management, Case Study, and Policy papers will be reviewed through a double-blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper to assist the program committee in the review process. All other submissions should use ACM proceedings submission template but include author names. At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the work. All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered for the conference for it to be included in the conference proceedings. The authors of more than two papers can register for and present at most two co-authored papers. Third paper on, some other coauthor registration and presentation are required. Research papers - blind review: These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. (Limit of approximately 8,000 words) Management, case study, or policy papers - blind review: These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. (Limit of approximately 5,000 words) Panels: Proposals should include information about the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Posters: Summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Posters prepared for the conference should measure 36" x 48". Each poster station is provided with a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) System Demonstrations: System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 1-2 page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. Each station is provided with a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Pre-conference Tutorials: dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations that offer deeper insight into e-government research, practice, research methodologies, technologies or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of particular technologies such as social media, and other insights into e-government that would benefit researchers and practitioners. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Pre-conference Workshops: We invite workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. Workshops are half- or full-day events intended to offer interactive sessions, in which the workshop host and participants discuss and engage in activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further exploration of a particular subject. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Doctoral Colloquium: The doctoral colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. Ph.D. students can submit papers describing their planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering any research areas relevant to digital government. Ideally, student participants will have completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal idea and preliminary findings, but have not reached the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this stage of study will gain the most value from feedback on their work and the more general discussions of doctoral programs and scholarly careers. See the detailed announcement for complete information on the colloquium and how to submit an application. Material provided in applications to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However, we encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as a poster or demo. (10 pages, not including references, tables and figures) CONFERENCE CHAIRS - Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - Luis Luna-Reyes, University of Albany, USA - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands PROGRAM CHAIRS - Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria - Sungsoo Hwang, Yeungnam University, Korea TRACK CHAIRS -Michael Ahn, University of Massachusetts Boston, US - Thiago José Tavares Ávila, Faculdade Estácio de Alagoas, Brazil -Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Sciences (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece -Zach Bastick, European School of Political Science, France -Lemuria Carter, University of New South Wales, Australia - Maria Alexandra Cunha, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil -Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US - Benjamin Clark, University of Oregon, US - J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Bettina Distel, University of Münster, Germany -Ramzi El-Haddadeh, Qatar University, Qatar - Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, US - Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, US - Chengyu (Victor) Huang, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA -Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands -Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US -Dongwook Kim, Seoul National University, Korea - Kim Mi-Ryang, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea - Ko Yoon-Seok, National Information Society Agency, South Korea - Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Kwon Hun-Yeong, Korea University, South Korea - Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, Universidade Federal do Paraná & IDB, Brazil - Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden - Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan R.O.C. - Christian Østergaard Madsen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - Ulf Melin, Linköping University, Sweden. - Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada - Gianluca Misuraca, Danube University Krems, Austria - Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria -Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Svein Ølnes, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway - Peter Parycek, Frauenhofer Fokus, Germany - Alois Paulin, Siemens, Austria - Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico - Hendrik Scholta, University of Münster, Germany - Lisa Schmidthuber, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria -Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands - Grace Walsh, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Maynooth University, Ireland -Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Charalabidis Yannis, University of the Aegean, Greece -Jing Zhang, Clark University, US -Lei Zheng, Fudan University, China PANELS CHAIRS - David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico - Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALs CHAIRS - Loni Hagen, University of South Florida, U.S.A. - Changsoo Song, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA POSTERS AND DEMOS CHAIRS - Djoko Sayogo, University of Muhammadiyah at Malang (UMM), Indonesia DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS - J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA - Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria COMMUNICATION AND WEB CHAIRS - Julian Villodre, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS - Sehl Mellouli, University Laval, Canada - Josie Schafer, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA LIAISON AND OUTREACH CHAIRS - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands REGISTRATION CHAIRS -Lukasz Porwol, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Catherine Dumas, Simmons University, USA FINANCE CHAIR -Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, USA

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (JDS) - Special Issue on Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (JDS) - Special Issue on Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:35:15 +0000 From: Jose Manuel Mora Tavarez <jose.mora(a)edu.uaa.mx> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CC: Gloria Wren <gwren(a)loyola.edu>, jorge.marx.gomez(a)uni-oldenburg.de <jorge.marx.gomez(a)uni-oldenburg.de> JOURNAL OF DECISION SYSTEMS Special Issue on Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The objective of this special issue is to advance decision support methods and decision-making processes to manage efficiently, effectively, and ethically critical decisions on core human dimensions (health, economic, educational, social, and recreational) impacted by global pandemics such as COVID-19. High-quality conceptual and empirical research papers are invited from the international interdisciplinary scientific community interested in helping to devise potential solutions from a decision-making perspective. RECOMMENDED TOPICS Consistently with the overall aim of the Journal of Decision Systems, the following topics are welcome in this special issue (but are not limited to): * Theoretical aspects of decision making in a crisis * Methods and applications of decision support in a crisis * Machine learning to support decision making in a crisis * Case studies of decision support in a crisis * Decision systems with descriptive analytics (visualization, dashboards, reporting, spatial systems) * Decision systems with predictive analytics (data mining, text/web mining, machine learning, soft systems) * Decision systems with prescriptive analytics (DSS, MADM, MCDM, KBS, KMS, networking science, optimization, simulation) * Collaborative decision-making frameworks, methods, and processes * Distributed decision-making frameworks, methods, and processes * Ethical decision-making frameworks, methods, and processes * Post-pandemic era implications for business decision makers * Post-pandemic era implications for policy makers IMPORTANT DATES - extended by multiple academic petitions First submission deadline – December 31, 2020 First editorial decision deadline – February 28, 2021 Second version submission deadline (conditioned papers) - March 31, 2021 Definitive editorial decision deadline – April 30, 2021 Camera-ready paper submission deadline – May 15, 2021 Publishing - last quarter 2021 GUEST EDITORS Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA, Prof. Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico, Prof. Fen Wang, Central Washington University, USA, Prof. Jorge Marx Gomez, University of Oldenburg, Germany FULL SUBMISSION INFORMATION WEBLINKS: https://www.journalconferencejob.com/decision-making-frameworks-pandemic https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjds20/current _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Security of Info & Net 2020: Online. CFP
by Gustaf Neumann 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Security of Info & Net 2020: Online. CFP Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:42:22 +0300 From: Atilla Elçi <atilla.elci(a)gmail.com> To: cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca, act-r-users(a)ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, wg-all(a)ogf.org, tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org, public-cryptoledgers(a)w3.org, public-blockchain(a)w3.org, sem-grd(a)ogf.org, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, Mailing list for the scientific community interested in computer security <Security(a)fosad.org> CC: Ronald Poet <Ron.Poet(a)glasgow.ac.uk>, Dr. Rajveer Singh Shekhawat [MU - Jaipur] <rajveersingh.shekhawat(a)jaipur.manipal.edu>, Berna ÖRS <orssi(a)itu.edu.tr>, Oleg Borisovich Makarevich <mak(a)tsure.ru>, Maxim Anikeev <maxim.anikeev(a)gmail.com>, Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo, Naghmeh <N.Moradpoor(a)napier.ac.uk>, Philipp Reinecke <ReineckeP(a)cardiff.ac.uk>, Бабенко / Babenko Людмила Климентьевна <lkbabenko(a)sfedu.ru>, Josef Pieprzyk <josef.pieprzyk(a)qut.edu.au>, Behnam Rahnama <behnam.rahnama(a)gmail.com>, Jaideep Vaidya <jsvaidya(a)business.rutgers.edu>, Vijay Laxmi <vlaxmi(a)mnit.ac.in>, Manoj S Gaur <gaurms(a)gmail.com>, Pete Burnap <BurnapP(a)cardiff.ac.uk>, Mehmet Orgun <ma.orgun(a)gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, Paper submissions to SIN Conf 2020 are now due. Your proposals are awaited at the *13th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks @ *https://sinconf.org/ The proceedings will be published by ACM and uploaded to the ACM Digital Library for perpetual access. SIN 2020 will take place on Nov 4-7 due to COVID-19 fully online. One each of the Best Paper and the Best Presentation awards will be given. The awardees will receive keys to Kaspersky products complements of Kaspersky Academy. The full CFP is given below. Cheers. Let's retard the coronavirus: stay home, remain safe! Haydi taçlı virüsü geriletelim: evde kal, güvende ol! Atilla Elci, Ph.D., camp Erenköy, Çanakkale, TR. My books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Atilla+ELCI https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wpQvtlQAAAAJ&hl=en CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ====================== 13th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2020) 4-7 November 2020 ONLINE (Istanbul, Turkey) www.sinconf.org ------------------------- Proceedings by ACM Press; all papers will be inserted into the ACM Digital Library and subsequently indexed by SCOPUS. ------------------------- In succession to the successful annual SIN 2007 - SIN 2019, the 13th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2020) provides an international forum for the presentation of research and applications of security in information and networks. SIN 2020 conference features contributed as well as invited papers, special sessions, workshops, and tutorials on theory and practice of security of information and networks. SIN 2020 will feature the following keynote talks: - Liudmila Babenko, Southern Federal University, Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. - Albert Levi, Sabancı University, Turkey. - Muhammed Ali Aydın, Istanbul University, Turkey AWARDS: ======== Two prizes will be offered (complements of Kaspersky Labs): - Best Paper Award - Best Presentation Award TUTORIAL: ========= Kaspersky Labs will offer a workshop/tutorial for the conference participants. PROPOSALS ========= Papers, special sessions, tutorials, and workshops addressing all aspects of security in information and networks are being sought. Researchers and industrial practitioners working on the following and related subjects are especially encouraged: development and realization of cryptographic solutions, security schemes, new algorithms; critical analysis of existing approaches; secure information systems, security, privacy, and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, secure smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, especially distributed control and processing applications, and security in networks; interoperability, service levels, and quality issues in such systems; information assurance, security, and public policy; detection and prevention of cybercrimes such as fraud and phishing; next-generation network architectures, protocols, systems, and applications; industrial experiences and challenges of the above. Doctoral students are encouraged to propose papers on ongoing research. Original papers will be considered; submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee judging its originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. Authors are also encouraged to propose position papers on practical studies and experiments, a critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Enterprises and research centers developing, implementing, or using security tools and frameworks are encouraged to propose application/tool demo. Proposals of half-day tutorials on fundamental to advanced subjects covering practical implementation aspects of security are welcome. Proposals of special session(s) to be held in the main conference are welcome. Proposals of workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are welcome. The theme of a workshop proposal should be closely related to a specific area of the conference topics. Broad areas of interest in security theory, technology, and applications will include, but are not limited to, the following: * Access control and intrusion detection * Security of cyber-physical systems * Autonomous and adaptive security * Security tools and development platforms * Computational intelligence techniques in security * Security ontology, models, protocols & policies * Computer network defense * Standards, guidelines, and certification * Cryptographic techniques and key management * Security-aware software engineering * Industrial applications of security * Trust and privacy * Information assurance * Next-generation network architectures * Malware analysis * Network security and protocols * Security challenges in Mobile/Embedded Systems * Cloud security * Security, privacy, and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies * Secure smart contracts * Consensus mechanisms * Security Awareness and Education * Post Quantum Cryptography * IoT Security and Trust * <update as needed> SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS ======================= Papers must be submitted electronically via the SIN 2020 Submission Site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sin2020. Title, author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, and email of the principal author should be included. The maximum length for the proceedings is 8 pages for a full paper, 4 pages for a short paper, 2 pages for fast abstract and position statement, and 2 pages for demo and tutorial proposals. Extra page charges apply for full and short papers. All papers should be written according to the double-column ACM conference format ( https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). All proposals for organizing workshops, tutorials, demos, and special sessions are expected at the conference e-mail sinconf(a)sinconf.org. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press in conference proceedings and uploaded into ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue. Each accepted paper must be registered to be included in the proceedings. Papers not presented during the conference may be removed from the online proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Please consult www.sinconf.org site for the most up-to-date info on the following: Paper Submission by 10 October 2020 (**Extended**) All Author Notification: 25 October 2020 All Camera-Ready and Author Registration: 1 November 2020 Tutorial Date: 7 November 2020 Conference Dates: 4-6 November 2020 ORGANIZATION & SPONSORS ======================= Organized by ------------ - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey - Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey - The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK - Rutgers University, Newark, USA - Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA - Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India - Manipal University Jaipur, India - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia - Cardiff University, Wales, UK - Southern Federal University, Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, Russia - Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia Hosted by --------- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Venue: ONLINE ----- ORGANIZERS ========== Conference Chair: Berna Ors Yalcin, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Conference Co-Chair: Atilla Elçi, Aksaray University, Turkey Conference Co-Chair: Ron Poet, University of Glasgow, Scotland Conference Co-Chair: Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Conference Co-Chair: Manoj S. Gaur, MNIT, India Conference Co-Chair: Rajveer S. Shekhawat, MUJ, India Conference Co-Chair: Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia Conference Co-Chair: Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, Wales Conference Co-Chair: Oleg Makarevich, Ludmila Babenko, Southern Federal University, Russia Program Chair: Berna Ors Yalcin, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Program Co-Chair: Alexander Chefranov, Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC Program Co-Chair: Maxim Anikeev, Southern Federal University, Russia; and, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany. Program Co-Chair: Philipp Reinecke, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Program Co-Chair: Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University, USA Program Co-Chair: Vijay Laxmi, MNIT, India Program Co-Chair: Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom Program Co-Chair: Behnam Rahnama, Medis Inc., Iran Program Co-Chair: Josef Pieprzyk, CSIRO, Australia and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Promotion Chair: Şerif Bahtiyar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Promotion Co-Chair: Tahir Sandıkkaya, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Promotion Co-Chair: Rajan Shankaran, Macquarie University, Australia Promotion Co-Chair: Manoj Kumar Bohra, Manipal University Jaipur, India Promotion Co-Chair: Xavier Bellekens, Strathclyde University, Scotland Local Committee -------------------- Latif AKÇAY Istanbul Technical University Mehmet Onur DEMİRTÜRK Istanbul Technical University Yasin Fırat KULA Istanbul Technical University Mustafa TANIŞ Istanbul Technical University Serdar Duran Istanbul Technical University Logo, certificates & covers designs: Efe Cem Elçi, Turkey Volunteers Team: Students of Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Advisory Committee Members: Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Bülent Örencik, Beykent University, Turkey Cetin Kaya Koc, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Edward Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA N. Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore, India Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Alexander Shelupanov, Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radio Electronics, Russia SPONSOR: ======== Kaspersky Labs offers rewards for the best paper and the best presentation. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE =============================== A full list of the IPC is available at www.sinconf.org. GENERAL INQUIRIES ================= For updated information, please refer to www.sinconf.org or the Conference e-mail sinconf(a)sinconf.org. Dated 2020-09-23. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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