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Fwd: [AISWorld] Elsevier Book Chapter
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Elsevier Book Chapter Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:32:26 +0530 From: SARIKA JAIN <jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in> Dear Colleague, This is a call for book chapter proposals for the book *"Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics*" to be published by *Elsevier.* Deadline for submitting the Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 The individual chapters should provide a comprehensive overview of the chosen topic covering advances in the area and should be tutorial in nature and presentation, to appeal to a broad range of readers who may NOT be researchers on the topic. Hence, they shouldn't be like a research paper. You are hereby invited to submit first, a 2-3 page extended summary including (a) an abstract, (b) an outline / TOC / list of headings and sub-headings along with a summary of each heading, (c) short biographies of the authors, and (d) a statement why you are experts for the proposed chapter. Following a review of your summary, we'll offer our feedback and suggestions for improvement and better synergy with the rest of the chapters and cohesive coverage. *Chapter Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aige2021 *Structure of the Book:* The book is planned to have 11-12 chapters divided into two sections. Part I consists of 3 chapters providing a holistic overview of global epidemics, a motivation for the book and challenges. Part II consists of emerging technologies that help fight against epidemics. Part II has 6 chapters as listed below. This makes 9 chapters. The rest 2-3 chapters are to be added dynamically based on the availability of authors (These chapters may be on The Use of Social Media for Tracking Public Behavior, Does AI help in Genome Sequencing, AI-assisted Testing, Computational Drug Repurposing, or any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book). *Part I: Controlling Epidemics: A Perspective* This part provides an overview and study of Global Epidemic situations. It starts with assessing the countries' readiness for coping with epidemics, goes through the challenges in battling with epidemic, and then closes with a survey of existing approaches, techniques and tools available or developed by academicians or industry professionals for controlling the epidemics. 1 Setting the Scene (A Chapter by the Editors) This chapter provides an overview and summary of the complete book as a whole. It acts as glue between the chapters written by different authors and brings in synergy to all the chapters in both the parts of the book. In effect, it sets the scene for the reader and acts as an introductory and a must read before proceeding for the further chapters. 2 An Overview of Global Epidemics and the Challenges Faced (a) Assessing Countries' Readiness for Coping with Epidemics: There is a need of retrospective evaluation of each country's readiness for coping with epidemics. An automated data collection followed by evaluation will help in knowing if the human kind is well-equipped to deal with it. (b) A Study related to Ebola, Corona viruses, Zika, influenza, Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria like infectious diseases will be presented in this chapter. A discussion on the most fatal pandemics recorded in the history (like the Plague, Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19) and their economic consequences. What is common in these? All these have jumped to humans after being originated in animals somehow. (c) Challenges in Battling with Epidemics (d) ... 3 A Survey of Existing Approaches and Tools to fight against epidemic and the lessons learnt (a) Survey of tools/techniques/methodologies/software already available at the time of writing of this book to predict/detect/recommend actions during an epidemic situation. (b) Lessons learnt by every epidemic that has struck this world (including COVID-19) *Part II: Emerging Technologies Fight Against Epidemics* Having gone through the background of controlling global epidemic situation, this part of the book covers the emerging techniques to fight against epidemic. At the time of writing this book, COVID-19 pandemic was caused by coronavirus and was widespread with deadly results. The case study of COVID-19 has been presented to better exploit the study presented in each chapter. 4 AI Technologies specialized to the need in the fight against epidemic All current technologies under the umbrella of AI or surrounding AI should be covered like Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, Data Analytics, cyber security. 5 Does AI help in Forecasting? This chapter will speak about WHO statistics on pathogens. AI can help predicting everything about spillovers, hence allowing the governments to plan ahead. AI can predict what, when, why, and where of the epidemic. We define AI and discuss the various machine learning models to predict the same. Case Study of Covid-19 for Predictions will be presented. 6 AI and Detection / Improved Diagnosis In case of outbreak of a disease; after detection, we need to publicize the threat. AI makes possible quick detection in order to enable possible vaccination and treatment; and alerts for the public. Diagnosis and Monitoring of cases is of paramount importance. Case Study of Covid-19 for Early Detection will be presented. 7 Generating Recommendations A global, AI-enabled data system can provide advices and issue warnings in real time. Help manage socio-economic impacts. 8 Role of AI in Contact Tracing The architecture of so called "Corona apps" and their backends is described in this chapter. The role of AI is clarified for these approaches and also other aspects like privacy and security. Furthermore, other approaches to contact tracing are introduced in this chapter. 9 Situation Awareness In any disaster, it is essential that the citizens get the correct information and organizations get the correct data. This chapter describes AI approaches to detect fake news or scams. 10-12 Open Topics dynamically picked by the authors Any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book can be incorporated. Editors: - Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma, USA, ggruenwald(a)ou.edu - Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in. - Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany, groppe(a)ifis.uni-luebeck.de *Deadlines:* Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 Notification of Proposal Approval: Oct 20, 2020 Full Chapter Submission: Jan 10, 2020 Best Regards Dr. Sarika Jain Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/ ######################################## Consider contributing to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021 <https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/> Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: OSS2021 - The 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: OSS2021 - The 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 06:47:14 +0000 From: Valentina Lenarduzzi <Valentina.Lenarduzzi(a)lut.fi> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ************************************************** The 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2021) https://www.oss2021.org 12-13 May 2021 Lahti, Finland ************************************************** Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has emerged as one of the most important phenomena in computer science, engineering, and collaboration at large. It has had a major impact on the information technology industry, has changed software development practices world-wide, and has been instrumental for education and research in academia, providing free access to essential tools and pioneering research on large-scale peer production. FLOSS has changed the way people perceive the software business and helped in keeping markets away from monopolies and lock-in risks. As such, a deep understanding of FLOSS requires an understanding of a wide spectrum of issues. The 17th edition of the International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2021), true to the conference traditions, will be a holistic forum on the advances in the theory and practice of FLOSS, for people from very diverse backgrounds. All traditional OSS topics will be covered and welcome (see full list below). In addition, OSS 2021 will have a special focus on large-scale open source, covering topics such as, but not limited to: The use of FLOSS in large organizations, including private for-profit corporations, major non-profit organizations, large public administrations, etc. The migration to FLOSS from proprietary systems in said large organizations. - The development and maintenance of very large FLOSS systems, such as individual software products made of multi-million lines of code or entire software ecosystems encompassing tens of thousand components. - The study and analysis of very large FLOSS systems, as defined above, focusing on traits such as evolution, quality, and health, of both the systems themselves and the associated communities. - Wide-area collaboration and peer production using FLOSS and/or aimed at developing them. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, experience reports about how FLOSS systems have enabled remote work, remote conferences, or remote collaboration will be particularly welcome. OSS 2021 will bring together people from industry and academia to share experiences and ideas as well as to provide an archival source for scholarly papers on FLOSS topics. The conference will also inform and educate practitioners, identify directions for further research, and offer a platform for ongoing technology transfer. The conference will accept three kinds of submissions: - Research papers (max 10 pages): Submissions describing original research in the area of FLOSS systems. Research papers that discuss actionable insights resulting from the presented results will be particularly welcome. - Tool papers (max 5 pages): Submission describing the novel release or original development of software applications, libraries, frameworks, or other FLOSS tools that have a significant user base or have been used to achieve significant practical results. Tool papers are expected to include a validation section showing the usefulness of the presented tools. - Experience reports (max 5 pages): Submissions reflecting on the experience of adopting FLOSS processes, techniques, tools, business models, best practices, etc. in an industry, community, or public sector context. Note that, to allow for more complete and fully formatted reference lists, bibliographic references do not count towards the page limit. Topics of Interest: ------------------------ Conference topics include, but are not limited to: - Business models for FLOSS - Cost and quality models for FLOSS - Diversity in FLOSS communities - Documentation of FLOSS - Empirical analysis of FLOSS development artifacts - FLOSS and agile methodologies - FLOSS in DevOps workflows - FLOSS and E-government - FLOSS case studies and experiments - FLOSS education and training - FLOSS in large organizations and public administrations - FLOSS in the wider Open* ecosystem: Open Culture, Open Data, Open Hardware - FLOSS licensing - FLOSS projects and communities - Foundations and rationale of FLOSS - Human factors in FLOSS - Impact of FLOSS on collaboration and peer production - Knowledge management in FLOSS - Legal issues and policies in FLOSS - Migrations from proprietary to FLOSS systems - Remote collaboration on FLOSS projects and using FLOSS tools - Software health in FLOSS systems and communities - Tools and methodologies for FLOSS development and management Submission Details: -------------------------- All submissions must present original work, unpublished, and not under submission elsewhere. The authors must clearly explain the contribution of the work in terms of its theoretical and/or practical value and situate it in relationship to previous work. Submissions must be in English and conform to https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. Papers should submit as PDF files at: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oss2021#<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oss2021> All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer. The Open Access status of the official proceedings is still being determined. In any case, open access preprints of all accepted submissions will be collected and referenced from the conference website. OSS 2021 Best Papers - Special Issue: ------------------------------------------------- A selection of conference distinguished papers will be announced at the conference and invited to submit extended paper versions to the upcoming special issue on large-scale open source software of the journal Science of Computer Programming, published by Elsevier. Important Dates: ----------------------- - Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2021 - Paper submission: January 10th, 2021 - Authors notification: February 07th, 2021 - Camera ready: February 21th, 2021 - Conference: May 12th-13th, 2021 Organizers: ---------------- - Davide Taibi, Tampere University, Finland (General Chair) - Valentina Lenarduzzi, LUT University, Finland (Program Co-Chairs) - Stefano Zacchiroli, Université de Paris and Inria, France (Program Co-Chairs) - Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno, Italy (Special Issue Chair) - Terhi Kilamo, Tampere University, Finland (Proceedings Chair) - Gemma Catolino, TU Delft, Netherlands (Social Media and Publicity Chair) - Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University, Finland (Local Co-chairs) - Sami Hyrynsalmi, LUT University, Finland (Local Co-chairs) - Antti Knutas, LUT University, Finland (Streaming Chair) - Jose Camposano, LUT University, Finland (Website Chair) Valentina Lenarduzzi, PhD Researcher LUT University - School of Engineering Science Mukkulankatu, 19 - Lahti (Finland) valentina.lenarduzzi(a)lut.fi<mailto:valentina.lenarduzzi@lut.fi> 0058 050 5668791 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: Call for Papers ML 2021 (1st call): submissions until 26 October 2020
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers ML 2021 (1st call): submissions until 26 October 2020 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:06:44 -0500 From: secretariat(a)mlearning-conf.org To: secretariat(a)mlearning-conf.org Dear Sir/Madam, Since you submitted a paper to a previous edition of the International Conference on Mobile Learning, we are inviting you to join us and submit a paper to the 2021 edition that will be held virtually, from 3 – 5 March 2021. * Important Dates (first call): - Submission Deadline: 26 October 2020 - Notification to Authors: 23 November 2020 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21 December 2020 - Late Registration: After 21 December 2020 For more information and to check the detailed Call for Papers, please access http://mlearning-conf.org/. Best Regards, Alexandra Correia IADIS Secretariat ----------------------------------- URL: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/ Visit our page and join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IADIS and on Twitter http://twitter.com/IADIS

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Fwd: [AISWorld] JDS SI CFP - Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] JDS SI CFP - Decision-Making Frameworks and Methods for Crisis Management in a Global Pandemic Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:15:31 +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>, Fen Wang <Fen.Wang(a)cwu.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 Submission due date: October 31, 2020 OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The objective of this special issue is to advance decision support methods and decision-making processes to efficiently, effectively, and ethically manage 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. FULL CFP AT https://www.journalconferencejob.com/decision-making-frameworks-pandemic ------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Dr. José Manuel Mora Tavarez Depto. de Sistemas de Información Centro de Ciencias Básicas Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Ave. Universidad 940 Aguascalientes, AGS. México 20131 Email: jose.mora(a)edu.uaa.mx ResearchGate Weblink Scholar Google Weblink Linkedin Weblink SCOPUS Weblink ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: IJBDI latest issue published (Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020) and Call-For-Papers of 2021 Thematic Issues
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: IJBDI latest issue published (Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020) and Call-For-Papers of 2021 Thematic Issues Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:27:22 +0800 From: CSPlus <csplus(a)asia.edu.tw> Reply-To: CSPlus <csplus(a)asia.edu.tw> To: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email. *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Dear Distinguished Colleagues, The International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI) delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue. We hope these papers will be appealing to research, academia, and industry experts and inspire them for further advancements in the several existing and upcoming areas of data science. =========================== IJBDI Vol. 7 No. 3 (2020) =========================== https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijbdi&year=2020&vo… Article #1 Title: Transaction sampling algorithms for real-time crypto block dependability Authors: Abhilash Kancharla; Hyeyoung Kim; Nohpill Park Int. J. of Big Data Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020, pp.127 - 136 Abstract: This paper presents various transaction sampling algorithms for the proposed real-time crypto computing, and analytical model to assure their dependability under stringent real-time requirement. Efficacy of the algorithms is assessed in terms of the block dependability that expresses the probability for the pending transactions to be posted within the current or the target block delay. Algorithms on prioritising and sampling transactions from pool, to facilitate execution of those transactions within their deadline requirements, such as normal, random, sorted, and stratified, are proposed and simulated. Performance variables such as the number of pending transactions, average speed, gas fees, deadlines, number of miners, are identified and taken into the block dependability in order to reveal the influence of those variables. Extensive parametric simulation results are presented and discussed in the cases of the random and sorted transaction sampling algorithms along with a prototype built based on the Ethereum open source. Keywords: blockchain; Ethereum; real-time; dependability; crypto computing. Article #2 Title: DeepICU: imbalanced classification by using deep neural networks for network intrusion detection Authors: Allen Yang; Boxiang Dong; Dawei Li; Weifeng Sun; Bharath K. Samanthula Int. J. of Big Data Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020, pp.137 - 147 Abstract: Cyber intrusions are becoming more commonplace, more dangerous, and more sophisticated. Therefore, there is a desperate need for a robust intrusion detection system. In a healthy network environment, a majority of the connections are initiated by benign behaviours. Despite a wide variety of attacks, they only occupy a limited fraction of the observed network traffic. The imbalanced class distribution implicitly forces conventional classifiers to be biased toward the majority/benign class, thus leave many attack incidents undetected. In this paper, we design a new intrusion detection system named DeepICU based on deep neural networks. To address the class imbalance issue, we design two novel loss functions, i.e., attack-sharing loss and attack-discrete loss, that can effectively move the decision boundary towards the attack classes. Extensive experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the high detection accuracy of DeepICU. In particular, compared with eight state-of-the-art approaches, DeepICU always provides the best class-balanced accuracy. Keywords: intrusion detection; deep learning; imbalanced classification; hard sample mining. Article #3 Title: Optimised parallel implementation with dynamic programming technique for the multiple sequence alignment Authors: T. Gururaj; G.M. Siddesh Int. J. of Big Data Intelligence,Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020, pp.148 - 156 Abstract: Gene sequencing techniques are very useful in analysing various diseases, especially cancer. The various techniques have been applied for the gene sequence for the effective analysis. These technique help also in reducing the computation time. Most existing methods are of low efficiency in the gene sequence alignment due to lack of proper technique to reduce the gap penalty. In this research, the optimised Needleman-Wunsch (ONW) algorithm is applied for multiple sequence alignment (MSA). The ONW technique uses Needleman-Wunsch (NW) algorithm in parallel implementation for multiple genes. The dynamic programming technique such as the backtracking algorithm is applied for reducing the gap penalty in the gene alignment. The proposed ONW algorithm is applied in the case study and being analysed for its performance. This proves that the proposed ONW algorithm has higher performance compared to the other existing method in the MSA techniques. The proposed method has an average similarity of 88.85%, while the existing method has a similarity of 60.23%. Keywords: backtracking algorithm; gap penalty; multiple sequence alignment; MSA; optimised Needleman-Wunsch algorithm; parallel implementation. Article #4 Title: Distributed log management for dynamically changing computing environments on cloud Authors: Takayuki Kushida Int. J. of Big Data Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020, pp.157 - 168 Abstract: The cloud logging service is a core component for the operation and management of the production system. The service is usually a central server deployment whereby the dedicated central servers accept all log messages from leaf computing nodes. As the number of applications and solutions on the cloud changes dynamically, the amount of log messages that are forwarded to the logging service is also changed. The paper proposes a distributed logging service (DLS) that distributes log messages to multiple leaf computing nodes. No central server is required to manage the logging service. DLS also provides alert notifications, authentication, lifetime management and resilience, which are required for the production system. Results of an evaluation of the emulated environment show that DLS is suitable for use with applications and solutions which are used for production usages. Keywords: distributed log; logging service; log management; cloud management; distributed hash table; DHT. Article #5 Title: A survey about legible Arabic fonts for young readers Authors: Anoual El Kah; Abdelhak Lakhouaja Int. J. of Big Data Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2020, pp.169 - 175 Abstract: Reading is an interconnected cognitive process including recognition and comprehension. The objective of the reading act could not be achieved unless the text is legible enough to interpret. For that reason, legibility is crucial for the reading mechanism, it will affect reading speed and the recognition of the graphs in the right way. Based on the fact that fonts and the way the text is presented influence children's reading performance and fluency, the current paper investigates different Arabic fonts in order to determine the optimal font for a fluent reading for children with a low rate of errors in both printed and on-screen texts. This study recruits 33 primary Moroccan school students of third grade and investigates the reading fluency and error rates for five Arabic font types. This paper recommends, as a result, the use of Simplified Arabic font for reducing reading errors due to graphs presentation for either printed or on-screen texts. Keywords: reading; legibility; Arabic language; fonts; primary schools; Simplified Arabic. === Call For Papers - 2021 Thematic Issues === Big Data Intelligence for Medical AI and Healthcare (Submission deadline Nov. 30, 2020) Big Data Intelligence for 5G Applications and enhanced connectivity (Submission deadline Dec. 31, 2020) Big Data Intelligence for Smart Cities, Transportation and AIoT (Submission deadline Jan. 31, 2021) Big Data Intelligence for Extended Reality, Smart Education and Multimedia (Submission deadline Feb. 28, 2021) === About IJBDI === International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI) is a peer reviewed journal publishing original and high-quality articles covering a wide range of topics in big data intelligence. IJBDI provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research as well as review/survey articles. The journal has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring high scientific standards. The IJBDI invites renowned researchers from various branches of the fields to submit manuscripts for publication in the journal. Accepted papers of IJBDI will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality. The average reviewing process is about 10 weeks. Note: There is no submission or publication fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI). Journal homepage: https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijbdi Submission Portal: http://www.indersciencesubmissions.com *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** The CSPlus (Computational Science Publicity and Liaison for Ubiquitous Society) mailing list has been setup for researchers and educators from around the world to share information with respect to upcoming events, publications, job opportunities, etc.. To unsubscribe, please go to http://hpc.asia.edu.tw/csplus/ or click http://hpc.asia.edu.tw/csplus/unsubscribe.php?mail=neumann@wu-wien.ac.at If you need any help, please email us at csplus(a)asia.edu.tw ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

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Fwd: [AISWorld] WITS 2020 Demo/Prototype/Industry Report submissions
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WITS 2020 Demo/Prototype/Industry Report submissions Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:57:55 +0000 From: Konstantina Valogianni <Konstantina.Valogianni(a)ie.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> WITS 2020 Demo/Prototype/Industry Report submissions The 30th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS’20) will be held virtually, on December 16-18, 2020, just after the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in the cutting-edge issues of information technologies and systems. We invite submissions of demos, prototypes, and industry reports showcasing the development and implementation of innovative IT artifacts (i.e., constructs, models, and methods), applied to real-world problems. The presented IT artifacts and results should focus on solving or advancing the understanding of issues related to using information technologies and systems to solve business and societal problems in the real world. Topics related - but not limited - to the WITS’20 theme “Multi-method Design of Intelligent Systems for Social Good” are encouraged. The submissions may describe the problem, the tradeoffs made when making design choices for the artifacts, the evaluation of the artifacts, and the significance of the artifacts to research and practice. Upon acceptance, the authors need to submit a pre-recorded video presentation in .mp4 format (~ 5 minutes long) of their demos/prototypes/images/dashboard that showcase the described artifacts. These recorded demo presentations will be made available for WITS attendees and presenters can join a live session to interact with the audience at a specified time slot. Demos, prototypes and industry reports should use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, 8.5″ by 11″ pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1″ margins on all sides), and should be 5-10 pages. For more information and submission instructions, see here: http://witsconf.org/wits2020-submissions/ Demo/Prototype/Industry Report Submission Deadline: October 5, 2020 Demo/Prototype/Industry Report Session Chairs Nargis Pervin, IIT Madras Konstantina Valogianni, IE Business School, Madrid _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:18:15 +0100 From: ML <marialemos72(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: worldcist(a)gmail.com To: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org * CORE Ranking conference * Conference with a Google Scholar H5-Index = 19 * Proceedings published by Springer, in several books of the AISC series * Indexed in Scopus, WoS, DBLP, Ei-Compendex, etc. * Extended versions of best articles published in JCR/WoS/SCI journals. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------------- WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021 | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal http://www.worldcist.org/ <http://www.worldcist.org/> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------------- Scope The WorldCist'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held in Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021, 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'21. 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) Technologies for Biomedical Applications (TBA) N) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR); Types of Submissions and Decisions Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), 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. Publication 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 2nd of January 2021, 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: 5.605 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.706 / Q1) - Computers in Industry (IF: 3.954 / Q1) - Advanced Engineering Informatics (IF: 3.879 / Q1) - Informatica - An International Journal (IF: 3.312 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 3.058 / Q1) - Telecommunications Policy (IF: 2.224 / Q2) - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (IF: 1.558 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 1.546 / Q2) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.851 / Q3) - Journal of Computer Information Systems (IF: 1.582 / Q3) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.927 / Q4) - Data Technologies and Applications (IF: 0.704 / Q4) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ESCI & SJR: 0.52 / Q2) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management (DOAJ & ProQuest) Important Dates Paper Submission: November 8, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: December 23, 2020 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 2, 2021. Camera-ready Submission: January 2, 2021 Website of WorldCIST'21: http://www.worldcist.org/ <http://www.worldcist.org/> WorldCIST'21 Team http://www.worldcist.org/ <http://www.worldcist.org/> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:23:40 +0100 From: WorldCIST <worldcist(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org * CORE Ranking conference * Conference with a Google Scholar H5-Index = 19 * Proceedings published by Springer, in several books of the AISC series * Indexed in Scopus, WoS, DBLP, Ei-Compendex, etc. * Extended versions of best articles published in JCR/WoS/SCI journals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021 | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal http://www.worldcist.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held in Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021, 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'21. 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) Technologies for Biomedical Applications (TBA) N) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR); TYPES of SUBMISSIONS and DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), 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. PUBLICATION & 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 2nd of January 2021, 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: 5.605 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.706 / Q1) - Computers in Industry (IF: 3.954 / Q1) - Advanced Engineering Informatics (IF: 3.879 / Q1) - Informatica - An International Journal (IF: 3.312 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 3.058 / Q1) - Telecommunications Policy (IF: 2.224 / Q2) - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (IF: 1.558 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 1.546 / Q2) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.851 / Q3) - Journal of Computer Information Systems (IF: 1.582 / Q3) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.927 / Q4) - Data Technologies and Applications (IF: 0.704 / Q4) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ESCI & SJR: 0.52 / Q2) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management (DOAJ & ProQuest) IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 8, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: December 23, 2020 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 2, 2021. Camera-ready Submission: January 2, 2021 Website of WorldCIST'21: http://www.worldcist.org/ WorldCIST'21 Team http://www.worldcist.org/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Book Chapter in Elsevier
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Book Chapter in Elsevier Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:32:50 +0530 From: SARIKA JAIN <jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear Colleague, This is a call for book chapter proposals for the book *"Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics*" to be published by *Elsevier.* Deadline for submitting the Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 The individual chapters should provide a comprehensive overview of the chosen topic covering advances in the area and should be tutorial in nature and presentation, to appeal to a broad range of readers who may NOT be researchers on the topic. Hence, they shouldn't be like a research paper. You are hereby invited to submit first, a 2-3 page extended summary including (a) an abstract, (b) an outline / TOC / list of headings and sub-headings along with a summary of each heading, (c) short biographies of the authors, and (d) a statement why you are experts for the proposed chapter. Following a review of your summary, we'll offer our feedback and suggestions for improvement and better synergy with the rest of the chapters and cohesive coverage. *Chapter Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aige2021 *Structure of the Book:* The book is planned to have 11-12 chapters divided into two sections. Part I consists of 3 chapters providing a holistic overview of global epidemics, a motivation for the book and challenges. Part II consists of emerging technologies that help fight against epidemics. Part II has 6 chapters as listed below. This makes 9 chapters. The rest 2-3 chapters are to be added dynamically based on the availability of authors (These chapters may be on The Use of Social Media for Tracking Public Behavior, Does AI help in Genome Sequencing, AI-assisted Testing, Computational Drug Repurposing, or any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book). *Part I: Controlling Epidemics: A Perspective* This part provides an overview and study of Global Epidemic situations. It starts with assessing the countries' readiness for coping with epidemics, goes through the challenges in battling with epidemic, and then closes with a survey of existing approaches, techniques and tools available or developed by academicians or industry professionals for controlling the epidemics. 1 Setting the Scene (A Chapter by the Editors) This chapter provides an overview and summary of the complete book as a whole. It acts as glue between the chapters written by different authors and brings in synergy to all the chapters in both the parts of the book. In effect, it sets the scene for the reader and acts as an introductory and a must read before proceeding for the further chapters. 2 An Overview of Global Epidemics and the Challenges Faced (a) Assessing Countries' Readiness for Coping with Epidemics: There is a need of retrospective evaluation of each country's readiness for coping with epidemics. An automated data collection followed by evaluation will help in knowing if the human kind is well-equipped to deal with it. (b) A Study related to Ebola, Corona viruses, Zika, influenza, Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria like infectious diseases will be presented in this chapter. A discussion on the most fatal pandemics recorded in the history (like the Plague, Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19) and their economic consequences. What is common in these? All these have jumped to humans after being originated in animals somehow. (c) Challenges in Battling with Epidemics (d) ... 3 A Survey of Existing Approaches and Tools to fight against epidemic and the lessons learnt (a) Survey of tools/techniques/methodologies/software already available at the time of writing of this book to predict/detect/recommend actions during an epidemic situation. (b) Lessons learnt by every epidemic that has struck this world (including COVID-19) *Part II: Emerging Technologies Fight Against Epidemics* Having gone through the background of controlling global epidemic situation, this part of the book covers the emerging techniques to fight against epidemic. At the time of writing this book, COVID-19 pandemic was caused by coronavirus and was widespread with deadly results. The case study of COVID-19 has been presented to better exploit the study presented in each chapter. 4 AI Technologies specialized to the need in the fight against epidemic All current technologies under the umbrella of AI or surrounding AI should be covered like Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, Data Analytics, cyber security. 5 Does AI help in Forecasting? This chapter will speak about WHO statistics on pathogens. AI can help predicting everything about spillovers, hence allowing the governments to plan ahead. AI can predict what, when, why, and where of the epidemic. We define AI and discuss the various machine learning models to predict the same. Case Study of Covid-19 for Predictions will be presented. 6 AI and Detection / Improved Diagnosis In case of outbreak of a disease; after detection, we need to publicize the threat. AI makes possible quick detection in order to enable possible vaccination and treatment; and alerts for the public. Diagnosis and Monitoring of cases is of paramount importance. Case Study of Covid-19 for Early Detection will be presented. 7 Generating Recommendations A global, AI-enabled data system can provide advices and issue warnings in real time. Help manage socio-economic impacts. 8 Role of AI in Contact Tracing The architecture of so called "Corona apps" and their backends is described in this chapter. The role of AI is clarified for these approaches and also other aspects like privacy and security. Furthermore, other approaches to contact tracing are introduced in this chapter. 9 Situation Awareness In any disaster, it is essential that the citizens get the correct information and organizations get the correct data. This chapter describes AI approaches to detect fake news or scams. 10-12 Open Topics dynamically picked by the authors Any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book can be incorporated. Editors: - Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma, USA, ggruenwald(a)ou.edu - Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in. - Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany, groppe(a)ifis.uni-luebeck.de *Deadlines:* Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 Notification of Proposal Approval: Oct 20, 2020 Full Chapter Submission: Jan 10, 2020 Best Regards Dr. Sarika Jain Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/ ######################################## Consider contributing to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021 <https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/> Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: ICIS 2020 - AISWN Research Workshop, Due Oct 5th
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: ICIS 2020 - AISWN Research Workshop, Due Oct 5th Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:02:44 +0000 From: Owens, Dawn <Dawn.Owens(a)utdallas.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *Submission Deadline: October 5, 2020* The AIS Women’s Network (AISWN) College is proud to sponsor the 1st International Research Workshop on Women IS, and Grand Challenges. Although everyone suffers from the effects of unsustainable development, women and children are often most adversely affected. By bringing different perspectives to the discussion of grand challenges, women have the power to make a difference, but their voices are often missing in boardrooms, policy-making, and research. The aim of this workshop is to encourage research done about, for or by women that explores the relationships between information systems and a variety of grand challenges. The workshop will feature research papers and panels focusing on societal ‘grand challenges’ of particular interest to members of the AISWN College, including, but not limited to: How IS supports humanitarian and sustainable migration Healthcare IT, from a local level of supporting practitioners to global issues of pandemic control and management Promoting work-life balance, every day and during times of enforced teleworking and home schooling Using IS to understand and prevent hate speech and discrimination The role of IS in restricting and improving diversity and inclusion Using technologies and systems to assist the elderly and promote healthy, dignified aging Green IS, and the use of IS to combat climate change and other environmental threats The workshop will be held as an all-day meeting in conjunction with ICIS 2020. There will be a single track to maximize interaction and participation. Participates will have the opportunity to network with collegues (details will be announced as the conference program is finalized). *Submission Type* Excluding references, tables and figures Completed Research Paper (<5000 words) Research-in-Progress Paper (<3500 words) Panel Proposals *Submission Information* Use the template available on the AISWN website. The manuscript/proposal/supporting documentation needs to be submitted as an e-mail to womensnetwork(a)aisnet.org Clearly identify the “Submission Type” in your email. All submissions must represent “Original Work” that has not been published in a journal or conference. If it is under consideration elsewhere, please disclose the fact. At least one author of the accepted paper and all the members of the panels must register for the event and be present. At least one author must be a member of the AISWN. Any review comments/suggestions must be addressed in the final version of the submission, strictly as per the deadline. Failure to do so will result into the withdrawal of the work from the final proceedings All final papers will be published in the form of e-proceedings available via the AIS eLibrary. Dawn Owens, Ph.D. Director of Undergraduate Information Technology and Systems Program Naveen Jindal School of Management The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080 972.883.4901 Learn more about BS-ITS: https://jindal.utdallas.edu/bsits Learn more about our outreach events: https://jindal.utdallas.edu/itsacademy Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UTDALLASITS Follow us on Instagram: @its_utd<https://www.instagram.com/its_utd/> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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