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Subject: [AISWorld] ICITS'22 - The 2022 International Conference on
Information Technology & Systems | Costa Rica
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:40:31 +0100
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ICITS'22 - The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology &
Systems
San Carlos, Costa Rica, 9 - 11 February 2022
http://icits.me <http://icits.me>
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SCOPE
ICITS'22 - The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology &
Systems (http://icits.me <http://icits.me>), to be held in Tecnológico
de Costa Rica, Campus de San Carlos, Costa Rica, 9 - 11 February 2022,
is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present
and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences
and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Technology &
Systems. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to ICITS'22.
They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All submissions
will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and
clarity.
TOPICS
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) Media, Applied Technology and
Communication (MATC).
SUBMISSION and DECISION
Submitted papers written in English (until 10-page limit) must comply
with the format of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series (see
Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), 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 and affiliations should
not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific
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.
Submitted papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 15-page limit)
must comply with the format of RISTI - Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e
Tecnologias de Informação (download instructions/template for authors in
Spanish or Portuguese), 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 and affiliations should not be included in the version
for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only
be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word. These files must
be uploaded at the conference management system in a ZIP file.
All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two
members of the Scientific Committee. Based on Scientific Committee
evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference
Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as paper or poster.
The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a poster
to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or
A2 vertical format. The Conference can include Work Sessions where these
posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per
poster.
The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their
work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion
will follow each presentation.
PUBLICATION and INDEXING Papers accepted as posters are not published;
they are only exhibited, presented and discussed during the conference.
To ensure that a paper accepted as paper is published, at least one of
the authors must be fully registered by the 5th of November 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. Papers written in English and accepted and
registered will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of
the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series, will be submitted for
indexation by SCOPUS, WoS, Google Scholar, SCImago, among others, and
will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Papers written in
Spanish or Portuguese and accepted and registered will be published in a
Special Issue of RISTI and will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS,
among others.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: September 5, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: October
17, 2021 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted
paper in the conference proceedings: November 5, 2021. Camera-ready
Submission: November 5, 2021
Website of ICITS'22: http://icits.me <http://icits.me>
ICITS'22 Team
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Subject: [AISWorld] Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity Readiness --
Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:36:44 -0400
From: Dave Chatterjee <dchatte(a)gmail.com>
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Dear Colleagues:
In the latest Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast episode, *Ram R. Kumar,
Executive Director, AT&T Business (*https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramrkumar/),
discusses at length significant cybersecurity governance issues, from
achieving inter-and intra-organizational buy-in to employee empowerment,
education and training, integration of security and development teams,
vendor selection and monitoring, and more. Mr. Kumar also speaks to the
operational realities and dilemma of speed vs safety and ethics vs loyalty.
A short clip from the Episode: https://youtu.be/nSm4QRw9EWs
Full Episode:
https://the-cybersecurity-readi.captivate.fm/episode/holistic-approach-to-c…
*Links to Prior Episodes*
#1 -- Role of Top Management in Cybersecurity Governance:
https://the-cybersecurity-readi.captivate.fm/episode/role-of-top-management…
#2 -- Protecting Academic Institutions from Ransomware and Other Forms of
Attacks:
https://the-cybersecurity-readi.captivate.fm/episode/protecting-academic-in…
#3 -- Going Above and Beyond the Mandated Checklist:
https://the-cybersecurity-readi.captivate.fm/episode/going-above-and-beyond…
#4 -- The Human Vulnerability Factor:
https://the-cybersecurity-readi.captivate.fm/episode/the-human-vulnerabilit…
#5 -- Being An Effective Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) --
https://the-cybersecurity-readi.captivate.fm/episode/being-an-effective-chi…
Thanks
Dave Chatterjee (https://dchatte.com)
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Associate Professor, MIS Dept., Terry College of Business, The University
of Georgia
Visiting Professor, Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity Program, Pratt
School of Engineering, Duke University
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Subject: [AISWorld] CfP: Research Handbook on Public Management and AI
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:28:36 +0000
From: Rony Medaglia <rm.digi(a)cbs.dk>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
Apologies for cross-posting
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Research Handbook on
Public Management and Artificial Intelligence
Proposal Submission Deadline: 1st October 2021
A book to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing,
indexed in the Web of Science - Book Citation Index (BCI)
Edited by:
Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece,
Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Colin van Noordt, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Editorial Advisory Board Members:
Naomi Aoki, University of Tokyo, Japan
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Atreyi Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Robert Krimmer, Tartu, Estonia
Ines Mergel, University of Konstanz, Germany
Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Dimitris Sarantis, United Nations University, Portugal
The purpose of this handbook is to analyse how artificial intelligence
is created, applied and utilised in public management worldwide, in
order to offer better digital services, support complex decision-making
processes and enhance the quality of citizen life in sustainable ways.
Key issues with regards to both the governance with AI and of AI in the
public sector will be discussed, drawing on a variety of methodologies,
theoretical frameworks and empirical cases, in order to capture the
unique phenomena triggered by the increasing adoption of AI in public
management.
This handbook aims at bringing together contributions from experts in
many areas of artificial intelligence and digital governance, in an
attempt to explain how AI affects various types of administrations, and
how the public sector is affecting the evolution of focused and more
generic AI systems and infrastructures.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS
Interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or
before 1st of October 2021 a brief proposal, including:
* The title of the proposed chapter
* The area of submission (Area 1- 6, as above)
* An extended abstract (up to 500 words), indicating the purpose, the
methods and the foreseen results of the proposed chapter
* Brief author(s) CV(s) (up to 150 words per author)
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 1st of November 2021
on the status of their proposals and will be sent additional guidelines.
Full chapters must be between 8,000 and 10,000 words and are expected to
be submitted by April 1st 2022. All submitted chapters will be reviewed
on a double-blind review basis.
Important Dates
* 1st October 2021 Proposal Submission Deadline
* 1st November 2021 Notification of Proposal Acceptance
* 1st April 2022 Full Chapter Submission Deadline
* 1st June 2022 Notification of Chapter Acceptance & Review Results
* 1st October 2022 Camera–Ready Chapters Submission Deadline
Inquiries may be addressed to all co-editors
Yannis Charalabidis email: yannisx (at) aegean.gr
Rony Medaglia email: rm.digi (at) cbs.dk
Colin van Noordt email: coliva (at) ttu.ee
Full text of the call available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cz5I2_IqG0Joo4iXNEawOwE3lHNRVB0U/edit?u…
Rony Medaglia
Professor MSO, PhD
Department of Digitalization
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Tel.: +45 2479 4327
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rmdigi<http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rmdigi>
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Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - Student Competition - IEEE International
Conference on Digital Health
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:02:55 +0000
From: Maria Valero de Clemente <mvalero2(a)kennesaw.edu>
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ICDH - IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL HEALTH
ONLINE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
PART OF THE IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES)
SEPTEMBER 5-10, 2021
IEEE ICDH 2021 - Student Grants & Awards
The ICDH organizing committee is hosting a student competition event for
US-based graduate students and support participant’s registration fees.
The students will be selected based on a project idea submission which
will be evaluated by distinguished judges. Winners also will receive
mentoring from selected judges. The mentoring activities will explore
and expand research ideas on digital health. Minorities and women
graduate students from diverse institutes are encouraged to apply
throughout the diffusion of the participation grant in minority-serving
institutions. Post-doctoral students may also be considered for support
on a case-by-case basis.
*****PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES*****
---Students submit a proposal for participation (max 2 pages) where they
will describe their research idea or work in one of the available
categories. Work in preliminary planning phases will be considered.
Categories to be considered will include 1) Digital health projects for
diabetes and blood pressure management; 2) Digital health projects for
cancer management; and 3) General digital health projects for other
healthcare purposes.
---Accepted students will receive the participation grant reimburses
ICDH registrations
---Accepted students will participate in a one-day work competition,
where they will present the research idea and preliminary results (if
applicable) to a judging panel.
---Accepted students will participate in virtual mentoring sessions with
distinguished speakers that will explore the different topics and
research challenges in the above categories.
---Accepted students will participate in an award ceremony, where the
best projects will be announced. There will be monetary awards to the
winners.
---Students must accept an acknowledgment that they do not have any
other source of support.
*****AWARDS*****
First Place: $1000
Second Place: $600
Third Place: $400
*****SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*****
Students are invited to submit their research work, preliminary results,
and/or preliminary ideas. No more than one team per institution will be
considered. If more than one team per institution is opting for the
grant, one extra team can be considered if one or more of its student
members is from minorities and underrepresented groups. All submissions
must adhere to IEEE Publishing Policies and will be vetted through the
IEEE CrossCheck portal.
*****SUBMISSION URL*****
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=2021ieeeicdh
Click on “ICDH Student Research Competition.”
*****IMPORTANT DATES*****
Last date for submission: 20 August 2021
Notification of winners: 27 August 2021
*****CONTACT ORGANIZERS*****
Dr. Maria Valero - mvalero2(a)kennesaw.edu
Dr. Hossain Shahriar - hshahria(a)kennesaw.edu
Dr. Iqbal Ahamed - sheikh.ahamed(a)marquette.edu
Pending Support from the National Science Foundation, USA
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Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP - 21st International Conference on
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - Springer LNNS Series
(SCOPUS Indexed)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:54:58 +0530
From: Ajith Abraham <ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org>
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To: SUPPORT-VECTOR-MACHINES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, aisworld
<aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu,
GASCHEDULING(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu, aco-list(a)iridia.ulb.ac.be
CC: tphong3 <tp.hong(a)msa.hinet.net>, Tatiane Nogueira
<tatiane.nogueira(a)gmail.com>, Niketa Gandhi <niketa(a)gmail.com>, Anu
Bajaj <er.anubajaj(a)gmail.com>, Hanne Thomas <thomas.hanne(a)fhnw.ch>
** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues
and networks **
-- The 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
Applications (ISDA’21) –-
http://www.mirlabs.org/isda21http://www.mirlabs.net/isda21
-- On the World Wide Web ---
December 13-15, 2021
Proceedings of ISDA'21 will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and
Systems, Springer (Indexed in SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH,
SCImago).
<https://www.springer.com/series/15179>
Proceedings of ISDA’20:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-71187-0
History of ISDA series: https://www.mirlabs.org/isda21/previous.php
**Important Dates**
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Paper submission due: September 30, 2021
Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2021
Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2021
Conference: December 13-15, 2021
**About ISDA 2021**
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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 their applications in industry and the real world. Every year, ISDA
attracts authors from over 30 countries. After the success of the 20th
conference, which was held online, this year's event will also be held
online during December 13-15, 2021.
ISDA 2021 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, tutorials, 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 and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
**Topics (not limited to)**
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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**
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Submission of a 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:
https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript…
ISDA’21 Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isda2021
**Plenary Talks**
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You are welcome to attend 8 Keynote Talks offerred by world-renowned
professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on
conference website.
Speaker 1: Antônio de Padua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil
Title: Large margin classification with graph-based models
Speaker 2: Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Title: Learning to optimise – optimal learning
Speaker 3: Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain
Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Forensic Anthropology and Human
Identification
Speaker 4: Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA
Title: TBA
Speaker 5: Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Title: Set-based Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Portfolio
Optimization
Speaker 6: Frédéric GUINAND, Le Havre Normandy University, France
Title: Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Speaker 7: Cengiz Toklu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
Title: Hybrid Algorithms. Applications to Structural Mechanics
Speaker 8: Günther Raidl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Title: Combinatorial Optimization Meets (Reinforcement) Learning
**ISDA 2021 Organization**
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General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Switzerland, Switzerland
Weiping Ding, Nantong University, China
Program Chairs
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Tatiane Nogueira Rios, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
**Technical Contact**
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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
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Subject: [AISWorld] 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things -
Extended deadline to: September 4th
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:21:30 +0100
From: mohamed Lahby <lahby(a)ieee.org>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this call for papers)
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CALL FOR PAPERS - CIoT 2021
5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things
November 08 - 10, 2021
Marrakech, Morocco
Accepting Virtual Participation
https://ciot2021.dnac.org/
CIoT 2021 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE ComSoc
All accepted & presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore
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MPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission deadline : *September 4, 2021 (Firm)*
Notification: October 4, 2021
Camera-Ready: October 14, 2021
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Submission link: https://edas.info/N28114
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It is with great pleasure to welcome you to The 5th edition of Conference
on Cloud and Internet of Things 2021 (CIoT’21) will be held from November 8
to November 10, 2021 in Marrakech, Morocco.
CIoT provides a high-quality international academic and industrial exchange
forum for experts and scholars in the field of intelligent systems, cloud
computing and Internet of Things.
The conference will be designed and prepared as a in person event. However,
in the case of perduring traveling restrictions (official or de facto)
during the conference dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be ready
to convert the conference to a fully on-line event.
We hope the conditions will allow for in-person participation, so we can
enjoy face-to-face discussions and coffee breaks again. It would also give
the opportunity to participants to visit the beautiful city of Marrakech.
CIoT’21 is a conference focusing on the challenges of managing Internet of
Things applications while considering the whole end-to-end architecture
over the sixth generation of mobile networks (6G) and next-generation data
center networking from to cloud to the edge and IoT devices. The next
generation of telecommunication networks is expected to support a growing
number of smart terminals, such as cell phones, sensors and other connected
objects, to provide real-time applications and to provide intelligence and
trust embedded in network infrastructure. To meet these requirements, the
6G envisions the use of artificial intelligence, cloud and edge computing.
The 6G network will absorb the billions of flows generated by things while
considering the requested QoS and the cohabitation of M2M, M2H and H2M
flows. Then, the flows will be processed in data centers and applications
will exploit the extracted knowledge.
The main objective of CIoT’21 is to address challenges of clouds and IoT
systems from the sensors/machines to the end-users attached to the Cloud
while considering the 6G network connecting both IoT and Cloud domains.
Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been
published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared
using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 8 pages (full
papers). They have to be submitted electronically in PDF format. Papers
exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers
will be rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain a
thorough single-blind review process.
CIoT’21 will also hold an industrial track. The industrial track gathers
scholars and industrial participants to highlight practical and real-world
studies and applications of cloud and IoT technologies. This track aims to
foster cooperation between participants engaged in scientific research and
practitioners working to improve the development of new cloud and IoT
applications. Each submission should describe the problem addressed, the
approach used, the current state of the project, an evaluation of the
benefits or lessons learned, and future developments. Industrial track
submissions are extended abstracts of 2 pages.
All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE
two-column conference template, available for download from the IEEE
website: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions
must be done electronically through EDAS using the following link:
https://edas.info/N28114
The technical papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit
an extended version in the Special Issue “Electronics for Agriculture”,
MDPI Journal
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/eagriculture_electr…
Best papers will be considered for fast-track publication in a special
issue of Annals of Telecommunications (Springer, ISI-indexed)
The conference covers all research and novel papers tackling the following
topics, but not limited to:
* Cloud, Edge and Fog for the IoT
* Cloud Computing (IAAS, FAAS, PAAS, CAAS, SAAS) for IoT
* Cloud Computing based on IoT technologies
* Cloud Metering and Monitoring
* Security and privacy in Clouds and IoT
* Artificial Intelligence for IoT, Edge IA
* Mobile-Edge Computing, Multi-access Edge Computing
* IoT 5G slice management
* Wireless sensor networks
* Networks for IoT : LoRa, SigFox, NB-IoT, Wi-FI, IEEE 802.11ah, etc.
* Green communication and IoT
* Radio frequency identification
* Cloud Networking for IoT
* Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for IoT
* Architecture and protocols for IoT and Cloud
* Distributed platforms for IoT
* Centralized and distributed system for IoT
* IoT management system
* Open Platforms for IoT
* Commercial platforms for IoT
* Real-time systems for IoT
* Next Generation Infrastructure for IoT
* IoT big data and analytics
* Wearable Devices for IoT
* Participative Internet
* IoT Applications and Services
* Smart Home, Smart City
* Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT (IIoT)
* IoT-based Enterprise Management
* IoT-based Business Process Management
* Robots and IoT
* Testbeds and experimental platforms for IoT and the Cloud
* IoT Standards and Application Scenarios
* Open topics for future IoT e.g. Digital Twins
* Blockchain for IoT
* Machine/Deep learning for IoT applications, data management, data
processing
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General Chairs:
El Amri Hassan (ENS Casablanca, Morocco)
Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
TPC Chairs:
Lei Shu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)
Thierry Coupaye (Orange Labs, France)
Rachid Saadane (Hassania School of Public Works, Morocco)
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Subject: [AISWorld] Thirteenth Annual AIS SIG Global Development
Pre-ICIS Workshop Paper / Panel Proposal Submission Deadline: September
13, 2021
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:36:57 +0000
From: Sajda Qureshi <squreshi(a)unomaha.edu>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
See:
https://communities.aisnet.org/sigglobdev/viewdocument/thirteenth-annual-ai…
Thirteenth Annual AIS SIG Global Development Pre-ICIS Workshop
Austin, Texas, USA
(Hybrid)
Sunday December 12, 2021
Theme:
Information and Communication Technologies in Global Development:
Lessons from the Pandemic
GENERAL CHAIRS
Maung Sein, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) & Kristiania
University College, Norway
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Arlene Bailey, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Silvia Masiero, University of Oslo, Norway
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pamela Abbott, Sheffield University, UK
Jyoti Choudrie, Hertfordshire University, UK
Sue Conger, University of Dallas, USA
Soumyo Das, Emlyon Business School, France
Antonio Diaz Andrade, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Delvin Grant, Depaul University, USA
Mathias Hatakka, Dalarna University, Sweden
Marlene Holmner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kirstin Krauss, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa
Philip Musa, University of Alabama, USA
Paulo Rupino da Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Devinder Thapa, University of Agder, Norway
Judy Van Biljon, University of South Africa, South Africa
Jason Jie Xiong, Appalachian State University, USA
Yingqin Zheng, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
PROCEEDINGS MANAGER
Jason Jie Xiong, Appalachian State University, USA
DESCRIPTION
The pandemic has brought to light and exacerbated inequities that have
plagued the world even before COVID-19 spread. Despite its medical and
technological advances, much of the world was unprepared for what its
people faced. With a death toll and mortality rates unseen in modern
times, the datafied world amidst some populist regimes witnessed
additional pandemics within the pandemic. In the changing world,
broadband internet access has become more essential to enabling people
to lead their lives while locked-down and/or in quarantine, or working
or schooling from home. In some areas, people have become accustomed to
accessing healthcare information, resources and providers through mobile
and/or other devices for their COVID-19 information, while tracking and
tracing is being carried out using mobile applications. Those at the
margins become vulnerable to digital biopolitics or efforts by
governments and corporations to maximize knowledge and control of
populations using digital me
ans for political and economic power. Implications for inclusion and not
being left behind need to be further assessed. In this the datafied
society, increased data surveillance offered cause for activism and
fight for human rights and freedoms. This also referred to as the
datafied pandemic in which life revolves on the internet more than ever
through access to tools, basic services, and social environments. Within
these digital divides, the forces of globalization forge ahead with
perils and promises. Scholars in Information Systems are investigating
societal impacts of ICTs on people, data and things, and research in
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) is
becoming increasingly diverse. Innovations in ICT4D involve
investigating innovations in ICTs as well as innovative uses of ICTs.
Current innovative uses of blockchain technologies to track refugees,
offer new identification mechanisms, healthcare tracking for epidemics
and the use of cryptocurre
ncies to offer payment systems are offering new ways for people to bring
about improvements in their lives.
While drawing upon theories that help understand these emerging
phenomena, research in ICT4D and IS also requires attention to the
contextual challenges facing practitioners in the field. There have been
attempts to develop theories that enable these challenges to be
understood. The Global Development workshop addresses questions that
provide new and meaningful definitions of Development, such as, Can ICTs
support the development that will lead to improvements in lives of
individuals, communities and regions? And inevitably, one needs to ask
questions about how to better understand these problems and challenges.
The papers in this workshop will also further the knowledge of what we
know about how ICT enables the global economy by enabling local needs to
be met in a manner that preserves the ability of the planet to support
human life.
Relevant topics for this Workshop include:
1. ICT transformations during and post-pandemic
2. Novel approaches for ICTs for development
3. Theoretical lenses and/or empirical studies that enable an
understanding of: ICTs & Sustainable Development; ICTs & Health Care;
ICTs & Peace building; ICTs & Disaster Recovery.
4. Social, political, and community development impacts of ICTs.
5. Data Justice implications of ICTs in the pandemic
6. Designing ICT artifacts that support holistic Development.
7. Security & Technological constraints on the use of ICTs for development
8. The role of government policy in fostering ICT human capital,
cooperation and capacity building
9. ICT Impact Analysis: Sophisticated analyses of the empowering
potential & dangers posed by ICTs.
10. Social networking for Development
11. Critical and theoretical perspectives on the digital divide and
social inclusion
12. Challenges of ICT support for vulnerable groups
13. Educational systems; content provision and delivery; developing ICT
skills
14. Frugal Innovation and innovative ways in which technologies are
applied in developing regions.
WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS:
These will be published on the SIG GlobDev website and in the AIS
E-Library with ISBN: 978-0-9976176-9-6.
FAST-TRACKING TO JOURNAL:
Authors of selected workshop papers will be invited to submit their
papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of
Information Technology for Development<http://globdev.org/dev/?q=node/8>
(ITD).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper / Panel Proposal Submission Deadline: September 13, 2021
Notification to Authors: October 30, 2021
Deadline for Final Papers: November 13, 2021
Workshop Date: December 12, 2021
AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS
Submitted papers should be limited to 7,000 words or approximately 25
pages in length.
Please clearly indicate the category of your paper on the title page:
* Research Paper; Contribution to Practice; Research-in-progress;
Student Paper
Additional information, template and instructions for submitting papers
and proposals to the workshop can be found at
https://communities.aisnet.org/sigglobdev/home
SIG GlobDev 2021 will be a Hybrid Workshop (on site and virtual).
Information on the conference and workshop location, and connection
information can be found at https://icis2021.aisconferences.org
SUBMISSIONS
Paper Submissions and Panel Proposals should be uploaded to the
EasyChair submission web site for SIG GlobDev 2021 -
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigglobdev2021
Abstracts do not need to be submitted prior to full paper submissions.
Any questions can be sent to Arlene Bailey: arlene.bailey(a)uwimona.edu.jm
or Silvia Masiero: silvima(a)ifi.uio.no. Please include "SIG GlobDev
Workshop" in the subject header of the email.
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Subject: [AISWorld] DEADLINE EXTENDED - The 19th International
Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 08:19:29 +0000
From: Manel Abdellatif <manel.abdellatif(a)polymtl.ca>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
- ICSOC 2021 -
November 22-25, 2021
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
http://icsoc.org/
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ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is
the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers,
developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in
service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific
excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as
business-process management, distributed systems, computer networks,
wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems,
networking, scientific workflows, services science, data science,
management science, and software engineering.
ICSOC provides a high-quality forum for presenting results and
discussing ideas that further our knowledge and understanding of the
various aspects (e.g. application and system aspects) related to Service
Computing applied to new application areas and gain insights into a
variety of computing, networked, and cyber-physical systems ranging from
mobile devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications to large-scale
cloud computing systems and the smart grid.
ICSOC 2021, the 19th event in this series, will take place in Dubai, UAE
from November 22 to November 25, 2021. Following on the ICSOC tradition,
it will feature visionary keynote presentations, research and industry
presentations, a vision track, workshops, tool demonstrations,
tutorials, and a Ph.D. track. We invite interested researchers,
students, practitioners, and professionals to submit their original
contributions to the research and industry tracks of ICSOC 2021.
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+++ New submission/review model
Starting this year, ICSOC adopts a new submission/reviewing model.
***Anonymous submissions: ICSOC implements a double-blind reviewing
process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper.
The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their
identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos,
links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work
should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not
feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate
these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors
cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved
by the Program Chairs.
***Early submissions: Authors are invited to consider early submissions.
In the early submission round, only papers submitted as full/regular
papers will be considered, and they will go through a full peer-review
process. An early submitted paper that is accepted will be included in
the proceedings. An early submitted paper that is rejected can be still
revised and submitted to the normal submission round by the given
deadline. If the authors of an early submitted paper that is rejected
decide to resubmit their paper to the normal submission round, they will
have to include an appendix (2 pages) describing how they have addressed
the comments received by the reviewers from the early submission.
***Normal submissions: Authors are also welcome to submit papers to the
normal submission round by the given deadline. After the normal
submission deadline, the papers resubmitted from the early submission
round and those submitted only to the normal submission round will
undergo a traditional review process. The decisions made from this
normal review procedure will be final and no resubmission will be
permitted afterwards.
It should be noted that unformatted papers and papers beyond the page
limit may not be reviewed.
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Important Dates
Normal paper submission due: August 22nd, 2021
Final notification to authors: September 20th, 2021
Camera ready manuscripts due: October 3rd, 2021
Author registration: October 3rd, 2021
Early bird registration: TBA
Conference dates: November 22-25, 2021
All deadlines are in Samoa Standard Time (SST = GMT – 11). Check the
time in the SST Zone here: https://time.is/SST
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Special issues
As per its tradition, ICSOC 2021 will also feature some special issues
in high impact journals. A selection of the top accepted papers will be
invited for special issues in journals, the specific list will be
announced soon.
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Areas of interest
ICSOC 2021 will be divided into two main tracks, the research track and
the visionary track. While the visionary track targets visionary papers
with high potential that may bring some impact in the future for the
community, the research track will focus on the following four main areas.
---Focus Area-1: Service Oriented Technology Trends
This focus area targets outstanding, original contributions, including
theoretical and empirical evaluations, as well as practical and
industrial experiences, with emphasis on results that solve open
research problems and have significant impact on the field of digital
services and service-oriented computing.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Service-oriented Engineering
* Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition,
and deployment
* Service validation and test
* Service change management
* Intelligent context-aware interfaces
* Theoretical foundations of Service Engineering
* Transformation of monolithic applications to microservices
* Run-time Service Operations and Management
* Service execution middleware
* Service monitoring and adaptive management
* Workload compliance management
* Microservices deployment and management
* Security, privacy, and trust for services
* Secure service lifecycle development
* Privacy management aspects for services
* Contract based security approaches
* Secure service composition
* Trust management for services
* Services and Data
* Services for big data
* Service mining and analytics
* Data-provisioning services
* Services related linked open data
* Services on the Cloud
* Cloud service management
* Cloud workflow management
* Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers
* XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
* Workload partitioning, balancing, and transformation
* Services at the Edge
* Cloud and fog computing
* Edge service orchestration
* Lightweight service deployment and management
* Quality of Service (QoS) in edge services
* Security, privacy, and trust of edge services
* Services in the Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
* Embedded and real-time services
* RFID, sensor data, and services related to the IoT/CPS
* Services for IoT/CPS platforms and applications
* Service oriented protocols for IoT/CPS applications
* Services in Organizations, Business, and Society
* Social networks and services
* Cost and pricing of services
* Service marketplaces and ecosystems
* Innovative service business models
--- Focus Area-2: Blockchain Technologies
A blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger that records and
stores transactions among a number of interacting parties in a network.
Each transaction must be validated via a consensus mechanism executed by
the network participants before being permanently added as a new “block”
at the end of the “chain.” Disruptive technologies such as blockchain,
AI, services, and cloud enable companies and administrations to provide
decentralized, trusted, transparent and user-centric digital services
while enhancing user/consumer experience. These technologies have the
ability to transform the way we use the internet and digital services
globally.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Blockchain in digital services
* Block chain and smart business transactions
* Block chain and smart contracts
* Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
* Blockchain in cyber physical systems
* Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
* Disintermediation and collaboration mechanisms in block chains
* Peer-to-peer networks
* Block chain platforms
* Blockchain in supply chain management
* Trust and security services in block chains
* Cutting edge cipher algorithms
--- Focus Area-3: Industry 4.0 Technologies
Industry 4.0 (or smart manufacturing) sets the foundations for
completely connected factories that are characterized by the
digitization and interconnection of supply chains, production equipment
and production lines, and the application of the latest advanced digital
information technologies to manufacturing activities. The manufacturing
paradigm championed by the Industry 4.0 brings together processes,
software services and systems, machines, devices, IoT, sensors, valves,
actuators, manufacturing systems, and connected digital factories. All
these computer-driven systems create a virtual copy of the physical
world and help make decentralized decisions with a much higher degree of
accuracy.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Digital twins and digital threads
* Digital product management
* Digital manufacturing
* Digital transformation
* Digital reality
* Embedded systems
* Internet of Things in Industry 4.0
* 3D printing/additive manufacturing techniques
* Machine-To-Machine communication for smart manufacturing
* Smarter analytics
* Manufacturing Intelligence
* Smart factories
* Smart asset management
* Smart Cyber-Security in Industry 4.0
* Blockchain in Industry 4.0
--- Focus Area-4: Smart services, Smart data and Smart applications
Smart data systems and services support the processing and integration
of data and services into a meaningful unified view to enable more
effective decision making and problem solving. The decisive criterion
here is not necessarily the amount of data or services available, but
smart content techniques that promote not only the collection and
accumulation of related data and services, but also its context, and
understanding. This requires finding useful insights and discovering
patterns and trends within the data and services to reveal a wider
picture that is more relevant to the problem in hand and react to them.
Smart applications are context aware, intelligent and autonomous
industrial strength applications that incorporate data-driven,
actionable contextual insights into the user experience to enable users
to more efficiently complete a desired task usually taking the form of
recommendations, estimates, and suggested next course of actions in context.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Smart Big Data
* Predictive Modelling
* Visualization & Augmented Reality
* Smarter Analytics
* Machine Learning
* Multidimensional Data
* Sensor Networks
* Smart cities
* Smart applications for the construction industry
* Smart transportation systems
* Smart logistics & distribution
* Smart agriculture and food chains
* Smart government
* Smart sensors & IoT for large scale industrial applications
* Traceability and Tracking
* Detection of data and key performance metrics to improve application
efficiency
* Conceptual structures and knowledge architectures for smart applications
* Agile & DevOps methodologies for smart applications
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Paper Submission
The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice
papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should
clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the
relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted
papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance,
originality, technical quality, and exposition. All papers will be
reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.
Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Formatting
Guidelines. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages.
All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission
System. Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided
deadlines. Authors are kindly invited to respect the abstract submission
deadline, set one week before the paper submission. The limit length of
accepted papers should be 15 pages (including abstract, figures and
references) with a maximum of 2 extra paid pages (€90 per extra page).
The final submission should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS
Camera ready instructions.
For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference
and present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this
individual author will be at the time when the camera-ready version is
submitted.
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Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer, will be given to the paper
that the Program Committee judges to be the best in quality, execution,
and impact among all the accepted papers in the conference.
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Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.
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General Chairs
- Hakim Hacid, Zayed University, UAE
- Odej Kao, TU Berlin, Germany
Program Co-chairs
- Massimo Mecella, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Naouel Moha, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada
- Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
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Subject: [AISWorld] **Call for Papers: International Journal of
Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:21:48 -0400
From: Tyson Brooks <dr.tyson.brooks(a)ieee.org>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
*Call for Papers: International Journal of Internet of Things and
Cyber-Assurance*
(http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/forthcoming.php?jcode=ijitca)
*Journal Overview:*
Cyber-assurance is the justified confidence that Internet of Things (IoT)
networked systems and devices are adequately secured and engineered to meet
operational needs, even in the presence of cyber-attacks, failures,
accidents and unexpected events. IoT devices and networks may range from
hand-held mobile devices to a centralized high-performance cloud computing
environment consisting of heterogeneous communication systems of both
tactical (mobile, wireless) and fixed (wired) communications
infrastructures. The IoT must address the delivery of authentic, accurate,
secure, reliable and timely information (regardless of threat conditions)
over these distributed and heterogeneous computing and communication
systems. The IJITCA is looking to increase the visibility of current
research and emergent trends in cyber-assurance for IoT networks,
applications, architectures and information security methods based on
theoretical aspects and studies of practical applications. The IJITCA
covers fundamental to advanced topics necessary to grasp the IoT current
cyber-assurance issues, challenges and solutions as well as future trends
in secure IoT devices and networks.
The journal focuses on the security needs of these environments,
highlighting key issues, identifying the associated security implications
so that the general participants can readily grasp the core ideas in this
area of research. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Hacking IoT computing networks/devices
- SDN/NFV security architectures and designs
- Vulnerabilities and exploits in SDN/NFV architectures
- Automated IoT computing vulnerability identification,
- Research on automated IoT computing vulnerability assessment and
intrusion detection tools and techniques
- Secure IoT radio frequency (RF) signal processing
- Distributed 5G IoT networks using embedded sensors and actuators
- Genetic algorithms used to spawn and control intelligent agents for
information assurance for IoT computing devices
- Network management and visualization tools that support real time
planning and control of tactical nets as well as tools for intrusion
detection and forensic analysis in hybrid IoT computing networks
- IoT Computing frameworks which allow diverse input data streams to be
transformed into a unified information fusion space for processing using
more unified and tractable procedures
- Development of secure design methods, architectures, and
implementations to minimize IoT computing power dissipation
- IoT Computing sensor networking systems, including signal processing
and communications interactions, distributed detection and estimation, and
networking protocols,
- High frequency IoTComputing devices and modules to enhance situational
analysis and increase the communication functionality
*PAPER SUBMISSION*
Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Conference papers
may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and the
author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it
has been previously copyrighted. Briefs and research notes are not
published in this journal. All our articles go through a double-blind
review process. All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the
content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical
Guidelines for Authors (PDF)
<https://www.inderscience.com/www/dl.php?filename=authorethics.pdf> is
available. There are no charges for publishing with Inderscience, unless
you require your article to be Open Access (OA).
All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online
submissions system:
*https://www.inderscience.com/mobile/inauthors/index.php?pid=73
<https://www.inderscience.com/mobile/inauthors/index.php?pid=73>*
Thank you for your continued support!
Dr. Tyson Brooks
Syracuse University
IEEE Senior Member
EiC- International Journal of the Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance
ijitcaeditor(a)gmail.com
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