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Fwd: [AISWorld] Business for a Better World Dissertation Proposal Competition – Colorado State University, College of Business
by Gustaf Neumann 14 May '22

14 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Business for a Better World Dissertation Proposal Competition – Colorado State University, College of Business Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 17:18:22 +0000 From: Vijayasarathy,Leo <Leo.Vijayasarathy(a)ColoState.EDU> To: 'aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org' <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Endorsed by Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM<https://www.rrbm.network/>) and consistent with RRBM’s vision, the College of Business at Colorado State University<https://biz.colostate.edu/events/2022/june/b4bw-dissertation-proposal-compe…> is providing funding to support Ph.D. students whose dissertation proposals address a wide variety of business sustainability topics. Three winners, whose proposals are judged as having the greatest potential for enhancing societal well-being, will each receive $6000 and be invited to participate in a virtual research workshop along with leading scholars. Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 3, 2022 Complete Details: csu.bz/b4bw-dissertation Competition Co-Chairs: Samantha Conroy (samantha.conroy(a)colostate.edu<mailto:samantha.conroy@colostate.edu>) and Chris Blocker (chris.blocker(a)colostate.edu<mailto:chris.blocker@colostate.edu>) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP 15th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’22)
by Gustaf Neumann 14 May '22

14 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP 15th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’22) Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 16:06:26 +0000 From: Rainer Schmidt <Rainer.Schmidt(a)live.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The 15th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’22) As part of BPM 2022 20th International Conference on Business Process Management September 13, 2022, Münster, Germany Call for Papers Deadline for workshop paper submissions: June 5, 2022 Workshop Theme The involvement of human aspects into Business Process Management takes place both on a social and individual level. Social information systems [1] such as social media, Enterprise 2.0, and social platforms are spreading quickly in society, organizations, and economics. Enterprises use social information systems to improve their business processes and create new business models. The integration of business process management and social information systems becomes more and more widespread. New approaches for using social information systems with business process management appear frequently. Social information systems are used both in external and internal business processes. Companies can co-create products and services, e.g., companies integrate customers into product development to capture ideas and features. Thus, communication with the customer is increasingly bidirectional. The integration of business process management and social information systems enables the creation of new business models using social platforms. Social platforms enable the creation of cross-side network effects and therefore called two- or multi-sided markets [2] Prominent examples are TripAdvisor, UBER, and AirBnB. By using the value-creating mechanisms of social information systems, business models became possible, which were not realizable before. E.g., the AirBnB uses a crowdsourcing model for quality control by using users’ reviews of apartments. In this way, a quality assessment of products and services became possible that was too costly so far. Social information systems also create new possibilities to enhance internal business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc. Social information systems enable value-creating interactions such as weak ties, social production, egalitarianism. These value-creating interactions open new possibilities and potentials for the design of processes. Weak ties enable the flexible integration of process participants, social production paves the way for the bottom-up definition of business processes, and egalitarian decisions change how decisions are made in business processes. The use of value-creating interactions is tightly intertwined with new forms of involvement of human beings into business process management. Human aspects complement the social perspective on business process management. The fact that more and more enterprises are using business process management implies that the human individual is involved in a multitude of business processes. Individuals must cope with multiple process contexts and thus, must administer data appropriately. It is necessary to reflect on Human-Human interactions and responsibility, in a virtual/digital environment where everything becomes information. Digital assistants such as Alexa integrate individuals in processes that could not interact with conventional computers. In this way, new forms of interaction between processes and humans arise. Furthermore, individuals must integrate the external business processes into their work environment or even to couple several external business processes. Human aspects of business process management relate to the individual who creates a process model, to the communication among people, during and after the process execution, and to the social process of collaborative modeling. They also relate to the interaction / collaboration / coordination / cooperation that should be implemented in the business process or to specific human-related aspects of the business process itself and their representations in models. Before this background, the goal of the workshop is to explore how social information systems integrate with business process management, and how business process management may profit from this integration. Furthermore, the workshop investigates the human aspects introduced into Business Process Management by involving human actors. Examples are the use of crowdsourced knowledge and tasks, the need for new user interfaces, e.g., augmented reality and voice bots. The workshop will discuss three topics. Social Business Process Management, Social Business and Platforms, and Human Aspects of Business Process Management. Social Business Process Management is the use of Social information systems to support one or multiple phases of the business process life cycle. 1. Social Business Process Management (SBPM) - Social information systems in the BPM lifecycle e.g., Design, Deployment, Operation, and Evaluation - BPM methods and paradigms to cope with Social information systems - Influence of weak ties, social production, egalitarianism, and mutual service provisioning on BPM - Trust and reputation in business processes management carried through Social information systems - Influence of weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning in the design and management of business processes? - Integration of Social information systems with WFMS or other business process support systems? - Conceptual modelling for knowledge intensive and social business processes? 2. Social Business and Social Platforms: Social information systems supporting business processes - New opportunities offered by Social information systems for the support of business processes - Social platforms and their support for business processes and new business models - Value (co-)creation in social business and social platforms - Sociality requirements of business processes according to their nature (predictable/non predictable; production/collaborative/ad hoc) - Use of Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes - Reflections on Human-Human interactions and responsibility, in a virtual/digital environment where everything becomes information : Social networks, social engineering, discernment, reflection vs. reflex, ethics, responsibility, citizenship. - Fitting between types of Social information systems and phases of the BPM lifecycle - New trends in business knowledge modelling leveraged by social production 3. Human Aspects of Business Process Management - Concepts, technologies, and services to support individuals acting in business processes - Digital Assistants such as Google, Alexa, Siri etc. in business process management and business processes - Reflections on Human-Human interactions and responsibility, in a virtual/digital environment where everything becomes information : Social networks, social engineering, discernment, reflection vs. reflex, ethics, responsibility, citizenship. - Human-centric business processes - Human resource management in business processes (workloads, skills, preferences, affinities, context, mobility, etc …) Goal Based on the fourteen previous successful BPMS2 workshops since 2008, the goal of the BPMS2’22 workshop is to promote the integration of business process management with social information systems and social software and to enlarge the community pursuing the theme. Workshop paper format Position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Position papers will be assigned a 20-minute presentation. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted and will be assigned a 10-minute presentation. Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. The length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0- 164-7-487211-0). Papers must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report). Please use Easychair for submitting your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2022 The paper selection will be based on the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. Activities All papers will be published on workshop wiki (www.bpms2.org) before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. A blog will be used to encourage and support discussions. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. The workshop report will be created collaboratively using a wiki. A special issue over all workshops will be published in a journal (decision in progress). Important dates Deadline for workshop paper submissions: June 5, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: July 6, 2022 Camera-ready papers deadline: July 16, 2022 Workshop: September 13, 2022 Primary Contact Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences Rainer.Schmidt(a)hm.edu Phone: +49 89 1265 3740 Fax: + 49 89 1265 3780 Selmin Nurcan Sorbonne Management School - University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI) France Selmin.Nurcan(a)univ[1]paris1.fr [1] Rainer Schmidt, Rainer Alt, and Selmin Nurcan, “Social Information Systems,” in Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Hawaii, 2019), 2642–2646, accessed January 26, 2018, http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/50141. [2] T. Eisenmann, G. Parker, and M. W. Van Alstyne, “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets,” Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (2006): 92–101. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants Minitrack, HICSS 56
by Gustaf Neumann 14 May '22

14 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants Minitrack, HICSS 56 Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 16:05:55 +0000 From: Rainer Schmidt <Rainer.Schmidt(a)live.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants Minitrack https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#artifi… Submission deadline June 15, 2022 The Minitrack AI-based Assistants will be held for the third time and intends to promote the scientific exchange on AI-based assistants for the digital economy. The minitrack shall enable researchers to present and discuss innovative approaches, methodologies, models, processes, etc., to design, implement, deploy, operate and optimize AI-based assistants for the Digital Economy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and use cases of AI-based assistants * Business models and processes based on AI-based assistants * Platforms and ecosystems of AI-based assistants * Integration of AI-based assistants with services and platforms * Hardware and software technologies for AI-based assistants * Methods, models, and architectures to design and manage AI-based assistants * Innovation processes for assistant platforms * Benefits, risks, security and trust of assistants * Social contexts and business implications * Transparency and explainability of the behavior of AI-based assistants * Collaboration of humans and AI-based assistants * Human interaction with robots to enhance learning and cognition * Digital twins and user models Selected papers will be invited for a fast-track in Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business. Important Dates April 15 Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15 Papers due August 17 Notification of acceptance/rejection September 4 Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22 Deadline for authors to submit final Manuscript for publication October 1 Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference We look forward to receiving your submission and we hope to meet you on Maui. The minitrack chairs: Rainer, Rainer, Alfred Minitrack Co-chairs: Rainer Schmidt (Primary Contact) Munich University of Applied Sciences Rainer.Schmidt(a)hm.edu Rainer Alt Leipzig University rainer.alt(a)xn--unileipzig-st6e.de Alfred Zimmermann Reutlingen University alfred.zimmermann(a)reutlingen-university.de _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 1st CfP HICSS-Minitrack "Applications of Human-AI Collaboration: Insights from Theory and Practice"
by Gustaf Neumann 14 May '22

14 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 1st CfP HICSS-Minitrack "Applications of Human-AI Collaboration: Insights from Theory and Practice" Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 12:57:49 +0000 From: Söllner, Matthias, Uni.-Prof. Dr. <soellner(a)uni-kassel.de> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues and friends, we are delighted to invite you to submit your work to our HICSS-56 minitrack on “Applications of Human-AI Collaboration: Insights from Theory and Practice”. If you have any questions, we are looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Matthias Söllner ********************************************************************************************************* Call for Papers: “Applications of Human-AI Collaboration: Insights from Theory and Practice” A minitrack at HICSS-56, January 3 - 6 2023, Hyatt Regency Maui Part of the Track “Collaboration Systems and Technologies” (Gert-Jan de Vreede, Jay Nunamaker) ********************************************************************************************************* FAST-TRACK PUBLICATION * Fast-tracking opportunities Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal * The authors of the best research papers will be invited to submit full paper versions ********************************************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES * June 15, 2022 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper Submission Deadline * August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection * September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication * October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for HICSS-56 ********************************************************************************************************* MINITRACK-DESCRIPTION https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/collaboration-systems-and-technologies/#… This minitrack focuses on practice inspired research of human-AI collaboration. We welcome submissions that deal with real-world problems for orchestrating collaborative activities to solve tasks by using a combination of human and machine intelligence (hybrid intelligence). This minitrack intends to shed light on promising and unexplored application areas in which human-AI collaboration creates value (e.g. AI teammates augment humans in coping with collaboration and working challenges). This minitrack is open to a plethora of different methodological approaches (e.g. case studies, design science, action research) as well as topics that are examined within the individual submissions. Please note that submissions that have either been inspired by real-world problems, or that are discussing practical applications of human-AI collaboration are also invited. Topics to be discussed in this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: * Methodologies and approaches to design and facilitate Human-AI-Collaboration * Approaches for a new division of labor (including hand-offs) in reference to the task design and capabilities of AI and humans * Decision models for deciding, whether, when and how to access human input * Exemplary use cases in various fields of application that refer to collaborative work practices e.g. in which AI acts as teammate (e.g. AI peer, AI coach); in which AI facilitates human collaboration (e.g. AI facilitator); for AI-assisted human learning (AI-in-the-loop); for human-assisted machine learning (human-in-the-loop) * Effectiveness of Human-AI-Collaboration (e.g. effectiveness of different training strategies in improving the performance of workers for accomplishing complex tasks) * Orchestration of learning (of the AI, from the AI, with the AI), e.g. human-in-the-loop learning, AI-in-the-loop-learning * Design of incentive structures for Human-AI-Collaboration * Facilitation of continuous engagement in Human-AI-Collaboration * User reactions when confronted with an AI collaborator * Approaches for increasing user acceptance of collaboration systems with AI components * Prototypes of Human-AI-Collaboration in various application domains (e.g. tutoring, service) * Practical approaches to avoid deskilling of humans * Boundaries and Challenges of Human-AI-Collaboration Promising Papers will be fast-tracked to BISE Journal (Business & Information Systems Engineering). ********************************************************************************************************* MINITRACK CHAIRS Matthias Söllner (Primary Contact) University of Kassel soellner(a)uni-kassel.de<mailto:soellner@uni-kassel.de> Eva Bittner University of Hamburg bittner(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de<mailto:bittner@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Philipp Alexander Ebel University of St. Gallen philipp.ebel(a)unisg.ch<mailto:philipp.ebel@unisg.ch> Sarah Oeste-Reiß University of Kassel oeste-reiss(a)uni-kassel.de<mailto:oeste-reiss@uni-kassel.de> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] HICSS-56 Call for papers - Big Data and Analytics: Pathways to Maturity
by Gustaf Neumann 14 May '22

14 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HICSS-56 Call for papers - Big Data and Analytics: Pathways to Maturity Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 12:43:14 +0000 From: Alberto Espinosa <alberto(a)american.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Big Data and Analytics: Pathways to Maturity Co-Chairs: Stephen H. Kaisler; Frank Armour; J. Alberto Espinosa This first and original Big Data and Analytics (BD&A) minitrack at HICSS focuses on research on BD&A as an enabler of businesses and organizations to optimize their operational practices, improve their decision-making, and better understand and provide more effective services to their clients and stakeholders. In our book titled: "Obtaining Value from Big Data for Service Delivery, 2nd Edition" we presented a knowledge framework to serve as a basis for grounding BD&A curricula. The framework is composed of key knowledge layers, including: basic foundations (e.g., mathematics, statistics, software programming, big data architectures); analytics/big data (e.g., descriptive, predictive, prescriptive and visual analytics); functional domain of analysis (e.g., marketing, healthcare, accounting forensics, etc.); and managerial, strategic and organizational aspects (e.g., data governance, security, privacy, human resource management, metrics for the business value of big data and analytics investments, etc.). We seek papers in all areas of BD&A, particularly papers on the development of strategy for deploying BD&A in distributed organizations, the effects of BD&A on organizational behavior, the governance and management of BD&A, the evaluation of related contributions to business operations, and the development of BD&A capabilities, including curriculum, skills, training and metrics. Papers are solicited in several areas, including, but not limited to the following: * Managerial, governance, lifecycle, strategic and organizational aspects of big data and analytics, big data repositories and projects, including data governance * Graph analytics - both syntactic and semantic - that play a big role in the exploitation of social media data * Advanced analytics emphasizing specific functional domains - business, scientific, and social science, visual analytics and non-numeric analysis models and their implementation * Modeling issues, including computational methods, programming languages and automated machine learning * Advances in big data technology - processing, storage, analytics - for the Exabyte/ExaFLOP Age * Scalable semantic annotation and reasoning across big data stores * Metrics to assess the impact of big data in business, scientific, and government decision-making. * Educational and body of knowledge frameworks on big data, analytics and data science. Papers presenting case studies, infrastructure and technology advances, theoretical perspectives, and emerging concepts at the petascale and beyond, are also sought. An expanded CfP is available from Steve Kaisler. We especially encourage graduate students to submit papers as well. If you wish to discuss a paper concept before submitting a paper, please contact Steve Kaisler or Frank Armour. We will be happy to discuss your paper concept with you. Kindly, Minitrack Co-Chairs: Stephen H. Kaisler, D.Sc. (Skaisler1(a)comcast.net<mailto:Skaisler1@comcast.net>), SHK & Associates (primary) Frank Armour, Ph.D. (farmour(a)american.edu<mailto:farmour@american.edu>), Kogod School of Business, American University J. Alberto Espinosa, Ph.D. (alberto(a)american.edu<mailto:alberto@american.edu>), Kogod School of Business, American University _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Sixth Call for Contributions
by Gustaf Neumann 14 May '22

14 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Sixth Call for Contributions Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 15:02:34 +0300 From: George A. Papadopoulos <george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *** Sixth Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good… ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP on "Agile IT Service Practices for Data Centers - on-premises, edge, cloud or hybrid types-." - Journal of Supercomputing
by Gustaf Neumann 13 May '22

13 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP on "Agile IT Service Practices for Data Centers - on-premises, edge, cloud or hybrid types-." - Journal of Supercomputing Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 19:01:44 +0000 From: JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ <jose.mora(a)edu.uaa.mx> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CC: jorge.marx.gomez(a)uni-oldenburg.de <jorge.marx.gomez(a)uni-oldenburg.de>, raul.valverde <raul.valverde(a)concordia.ca>, Fen Wang <Fen.Wang(a)cwu.edu> Call for Papers: Agile IT Service Practices for Data Centers - on-premises, edge, cloud or hybrid types-. The Journal of Supercomputing<https://www.springer.com/journal/11227/> An International Journal of High-Performance Computer Design, Analysis, and Use Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2022 - there will be not deadline extension. Data Centers - On-Premises, Edge, Cloud or Hybrid types-, have become the ICT infrastructure backbone that permits the delivery of thousands of IT services every day in the modern business world (Patterson, 2008; Kant, 2009; Wu & Buyya, 2015; Marx-Gómez et al., 2017; Satyanarayanan, 2017; Senyo et al., 2018; Hughes et al., 2021). All types of organization sectors like finance, banking, telecom, transport, delivery, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, energy, education, military, manufacturing, news, and entertainment, as well governmental settings, with millions of organizations and end-users rely on IT services delivered from Data Centers (Knowledge Sourcing Intelligence LLP, 2020). However, outages, breakdowns, and IT service incidents caused by IT management or IT engineering issues in Data Centers are frequently reported (Totaluptime, 2020; CRN, 2020). Consequently, to anticipate and cope with IT service disruptions, in the last decade, practically most of the large- and medium-sized global business corporations have implemented some of the several available plan-driven (i.e. rigor-oriented) IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks and standards, such as ITIL v2011 (itSMF UK & Agutter, 2012), CMMI-SVC v1.3 (Software Engineering Institute, 2010), and the ISO/IEC 20000:2005 standard (ISO/IEC 2005a, 2005b, 2010), to manage the governing, planning, design, deployment, operation, and improvement of IT services (Mora et al., 2014; 2015). Multiple organizational benefits such as improvements in the service quality, customer satisfaction, reduction of IT downtime, IT staff morale, and financial contribution metrics have been also reported for the utilization of ITSM frameworks and standards (Marrone & Kolbe, 2011; Marrone et al., 2014). Nowadays, the demand for business services agility supported by IT services has produced the recent emergence of agile, lightweight, and/or lean ITSM frameworks and standards (Lean IT Association, 2015; FitSM, 2016; Verlaine, 2017; Agutter et al., 2017; ISO/IEC/IEEE 2018a; 2018b; TSO, 2019; Galup et al., 2020; Mora et al., 2021). However, given the novelty of these agile, lightweight, and/or lean ITSM frameworks and standards, and the scarcity of conceptual and empirical studies on them, there is a lack of informative references on the applicability, benefits, and limitations of using agile, lightweight, and lean ITSM frameworks and standards for the ITSM practitioners and scholars as well as a distinct knowledge gap for the global business organizations interested in the utilization of them for managing IT services with an agile approach. Consequently, this special issue pursues to advance rigorous and relevant scientific knowledge related to agile IT Services practices applied for IT services released in Data Centers – any type of On-Premises, Edge, Cloud or Hybrid-. This special issue aims to help IT Services designers to plan, analyze, design, assembly, deploy, operate, improve, and retire IT services delivered at Data Centers using agile practices. Topics of interest for the special issue include but are not limited to the following ones: * Conceptual studies on the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Conceptual comparative studies between rigor-oriented and agile, lightweight, and lean IT service management and engineering practices * Statistical survey studies on the implementation of the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Case studies on the implementation of the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Simulation studies – system dynamics, discrete event, agent-based or hybrid- on managerial features of the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Design research studies on specific managerial features of the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Experimental studies on specific managerial features of the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Surveys of ICT tools and platforms for agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices * Studies on agile IT service managerial implications – economic impacts and costs, organizational benefits and risks, implementation facilitators and inhibitors – of the agile, lightweight, and/or lean IT service management and engineering practices Hence, due to the recent emergence of agile ITSM approaches and the high relevance of IT services released in Data Centers -any type-, and the strong pressure for business agility, we require high-quality research papers using any appropriate research method to study the problems related to the theme of this special issue, such as statistical survey, simulation, case study, experiments, design research, or conceptual study. Important dates: Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2022 Initial editorial decision: July 31, 2022 Deadline for reviewed submissions: September 30, 2022 Final editorial decision: October 31, 2022 Deadline for camera-ready version: November 30, 2022 Publication date: 2023 year Submission Guidelines: Please consult the authors’ guidelines at https://www.springer.com/journal/11227/submission-guidelines Special Issue Guest Editors: Prof. Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico Prof. Jorge Marx Gómez, University of Oldenburg, Germany Dr. Raul Valverde, Concordia University, Canada Prof. Fen Wang, Central Washington University, USA References Agutter, C., van Hove, S., Steinberg, R., & England, R. (2017). VeriSM - A service management approach for the digital age. Van Haren, Netherlands. CRN (2020). Website https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/the-10-biggest-cloud-outages-of-2020/2 FitSM. (2016). FitSM-2: Objectives and activities, The FitSM Standard Family: Standard for lightweight IT service management 1, version 2.2. Https://www.fitsm.eu/downloads/<https://www.fitsm.eu/downloads/> Galup, S., Dattero, R., & Quan, J. (2020). What do agile, lean, and ITIL mean to DevOps?. Communications of the ACM, 63(10), 48-53. Hughes, L., Sweeney, D., & Kasunic, M. (2021). Planning and Design Considerations for Data Centers. Technical Note CMU/SEI-2021-TN-002. Software Engineering Institute, CMU. ISO/IEC. (2005a). ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005 Information technology - Service management – Part 1: Specification. International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC. (2005b). ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005 Information technology — Service management — Part 2: Code of practice. International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC. (2010). ISO/IEC TR 20000-4:2010 Information technology — Service management — Part 4: Process reference model. International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC (2018a). ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 Information technology — Service management — Part 1: Service management system requirements. International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC (2018b). ISO/IEC 29110-4-3:2018 Systems and software engineering — Lifecycle profiles for very small entities (VSEs) — Part 4-3: Service delivery — Profile specification. International Organization for Standardization. itSMF UK, & Agutter, C. (2012). ITIL Foundation Handbook. The Stationery Office. Kant, K. (2009). Data center evolution: A tutorial on state of the art, issues, and challenges. Computer Networks, 53(17), 2939-2965. Knowledge Sourcing Intelligence LLP (2020). Data Center Infrastructure Market - Forecasts from 2020 to 2025. ID: 5009312 Report March 2020 Region: Global. Lean IT Association. (2015). Lean IT Foundation - Increasing the Value of IT. Newark, NJ: Lean IT Association. Marrone, M., & Kolbe, L. M. (2011). Impact of IT service management frameworks on the IT organization. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 3(1), 5-18. Marrone, M., Gacenga, F., Cater-Steel, A., & Kolbe, L. (2014). IT service management: A cross-national study of ITIL adoption. Communications of the association for information systems, 34(1), 49, 1-30. Marx-Gómez, J., Mora, M., Raisinghani, M. S., Nebel, W., & O’Connor, R. V. (2017). Engineering and Management of Data Centers. Springer. Mora, M., Raisinghani, M., O'Connor, R. V., Gomez, J. M., & Gelman, O. (2014). An extensive review of IT service design in seven international ITSM processes frameworks: Part I. International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach, 7(2), 83-107. Mora, M., Gomez, J. M., O'Connor, R. V., Raisinghani, M., & Gelman, O. (2015). An extensive review of IT service design in seven international ITSM processes frameworks: Part II. International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA), 8(1), 69-90. Mora, M., Gómez, J. M., Wang, F., & Díaz, E. O. (2021). A Review of the IT Service Design Process. In M. Mora, J. Marx-Gomez, R. O’Connor, & A. Buchalcevova (Eds.), Agile ITSM Frameworks. Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products, (pp. 248-270). IGI Global. Patterson, D. A. (2008). Technical perspective: the data center is the computer. Communications of the ACM, 51(1), 105-105. Satyanarayanan, M. (2017). The emergence of edge computing. Computer, 50(1), 30-39. Senyo, P. K., Addae, E., & Boateng, R. (2018). Cloud computing research: A review of research themes, frameworks, methods and future research directions. International Journal of Information Management, 38(1), 128-139. Software Engineering Institute. (2010). CMMI for Service Version 1.3, CMMI-SVC v1. 3. CMU/SEI-2010-TR-034. Software Engineering Institute. TSO (2019). ITIL Foundation: ITIL 4 Edition. The Stationery Office Ltd. Verlaine, B. (2017). Toward an agile IT service management framework. Service Science, 9(4), 263-274. Totaluptime (2020). Website https://totaluptime.com/notable-cloud-outages-of-2020/ Wu, C., & Buyya, R. (2015). Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling: A complete guide to planning, designing and building a cloud data center. Morgan Kaufmann. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Mora, EngD. Full-time Professor and Researcher Level C ACM Senior Member / SNI Member Department of Information Systems Autonomous University of Aguascalientes Ave. Universidad 940 Aguascalientes, AGS Mexico, 20131 Linkedin Weblink<https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-mora-37b03a1/> / ResearchGate Weblink<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Mora> Scholar Google Weblink / <https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=97rTgbkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra> SCOPUS Weblink<https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=25823339800> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [wkwi] [CfP] TORS Special Issue on Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation
by Gustaf Neumann 13 May '22

13 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] [CfP] TORS Special Issue on Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 22:10:32 +0000 From: Bauer, C. (Christine) <c.bauer(a)uu.nl> Reply-To: Bauer, C. (Christine) <c.bauer(a)uu.nl> To: Bauer, C. (Christine) <c.bauer(a)uu.nl> Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the CfP for the ************************ Special Issue on Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation at ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS) ************************ Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2022 Full article submission deadline: November 30, 2022 You can find the details below - and via the following link: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tors/pdf/TORS-CfP-SI-Eval… We are looking forward to your contributions. Best regards, Christine Bauer, Alan Said, and Eva Zangerle (Guest editors) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************** Call for Papers ************************** Special Issue Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Guest Editors: • Christine Bauer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, c.bauer(a)uu.nl • Alan Said, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, alansaid(a)acm.org • Eva Zangerle, Universität Innsbruck, Austria, eva.zangerle(a)uibk.ac.at Evaluation is essential when conducting rigorous research in recommender systems (RS). It may span the evaluation of early ideas and approaches up to elaborate systems in operation; it may target a wide spectrum of different aspects being evaluated. This special issue aims to capture the state-of-the-art and current trends of RS evaluation—theory and practice—, and will highlight opportunities to advance RS evaluation. In doing so, we embrace the various perspectives on the evaluation of RS. Thereby, the term perspective may, for instance, refer to the various purposes of a RS, the various stakeholders affected by a RS, or the potential risks sought to be minimized. Further, we consider that various methodological approaches and experimental designs represent different perspectives on evaluation. This special issue seeks to capture the big picture of the current challenges and trends in RS evaluation. Besides identifying insufficiencies in current evaluation practices, it will give perspective on where we need to head towards as a research community. ************************** Topics ************************** While almost every paper on RS will have an evaluation section, we are mainly interested in works that have a particular focus on evaluation aspects, e.g., in terms of methodology. Papers that present a particular evaluation outcome can be in the scope as well, as long as they provide a methodological contribution, e.g., a novel way of evaluating a system in a complex scenario. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • Novel Approaches in Evaluation Methodology - Multi-objective and multi-stakeholder evaluation o Validation of evaluation metrics - User-centric evaluation - Simulation-based evaluation - Meta-evaluations - Novel evaluation methodology • Problems and Challenges - Issues of reproducibility - Showcasing (structural) problems in RS evaluation - Practical challenges in RecSys evaluation from industry - Complex evaluation settings and environments - Divergence between evaluation goals and what is actually captured by the evaluation • Evaluation in Practice - Case studies of difficult, hard-to-evaluate scenarios o Combination of offline and online experiments - (Unexpected) experiences from industry - Longitudinal studies (e.g., on the impact of RS) - Evaluations with contradicting or non-conclusive results (e.g., misalignment between online and offline evaluation) ************************** Important Dates ************************** • Abstract deadline: September 30, 2022 • Abstract notification: October 14, 2022 • Submissions deadline: November 30, 2022 • First-round review decisions: January 16, 2023 • Deadline for revision submissions: February 28, 2023 • Notification of final decisions: April 6, 2023 ************************** Submission Information ************************** The special issue follows a three-stage process. First, authors are asked to submit an extended abstract. Second, authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full article. Third, submitted papers will undergo a normal single-blind review process. Extended abstracts, together with a description why the paper is considered a good fit for the special issue, must be submitted as a pdf via e-mail to perspectives.recsys(a)gmail.com. Full articles must be prepared according to the TORS submission guidelines (https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors/author-guidelines) and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tors). When in doubt whether a paper is indeed a good fit for this special issue, we encourage potential authors to contact perspectives.recsys(a)gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP: Data for Policy 2022 Special Track - Deadline: 1 June
by Gustaf Neumann 13 May '22

13 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP: Data for Policy 2022 Special Track - Deadline: 1 June Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 06:57:59 +0000 From: Mamello Thinyane <mamello(a)unu.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit to the Data for Policy 2022<https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2022/> special track on Citizen-generated Data for Policy, Innovation, and Democratic Participation<https://dataforpolicy.org/special-track-6/>. The conference will use a hybrid format with in-person sessions held in three locations: Hong Kong (5th Dec), Seattle (9th Dec) and Brussels (13th Dec). The deadline for submissions is 1st June 2022. Session Overview: Data innovations are having a growing effect on the participation of citizens in both political and non-political issues of public concern around the world. Initiatives to engage citizens through data platforms and systems are having an impact on numerous sectors, such as science, public health, humanitarian interventions, activism, and much more. At the same time, countries are beginning to develop policies that affect these systems, covering issues such as cybersecurity, data protection and privacy, and artificial intelligence. As we have observed in this regulatory process globally, citizens are not always at the centre of these policy processes, often competing with diverging national and corporate interests. Citizen science is a way for citizens to engage with and learn about scientific processes, contribute to issues they care about, and effect change. Engagements commonly occur both in person – e.g. through environmental monitoring – or online. Crowdsourcing is a technique used both within citizen science and innovation, allowing either volunteers or paid crowd-workers to engage in activities such as data categorisation, often for later use in machine learning algorithms. Open source projects in many fields use similar approaches, including collaborative projects such as Open Street Maps or Wikipedia, where groups of users with specific interests contribute to achieving common goals. What all of these activities share is that citizens generate contribute or process data. The motivation for this proposed track is therefore to allow researchers to highlight citizens' uses of data innovations, with the hope of placing citizens at the centre of future policy-making initiatives. The track aims to discuss challenges and opportunities in developing data platforms, systems and policies for civic participation, including for participation in global development processes, democratic participation and inclusion of marginalised communities. The aim of this special track is to explore and showcase the full potential of citizen-generated data in its many forms, for both policy and innovation. We will go into more depth on the specific challenges related to the generation, processing and use of citizen-generated data for policy and innovation; connections between policymakers, innovators, and citizens to enable the use of such data; and case studies of both successful and unsuccessful connections. Possible topics might include (but not be limited to): * Consultations and monitoring for regional or global development (such as the Sustainable Development Goals); * Civic participation in democratic governance and other decision-making processes; * Citizen-centric data governance frameworks (such as data trusts, data commons, and data collaboratives); * Citizen science or participatory research; * Citizen generated data for innovation; * Citizen perspectives on emerging data and technology policy challenges (such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc.); * Tensions between grassroots data collection and monitoring and high-level engagement and policy; * Perspectives on the above in relation to gender, age, ethnicity, or migration. More information is available on the Data for Policy 2022<https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2022/> website. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Kind regards, -- Dr. Mamello THINYANE Principal Research Fellow United Nations University Casa Silva Mendes, Estrada do Engenheiro Trigo No 4, Macau SAR Tel: +853 2871-2930 | Skype ID – mthinyane LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamellothinyane/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/MamelloThinyane> | Website<http://cs.unu.edu/>| www.unu.edu<http://www.unu.edu/> [signature_1821547237]

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023; Business Intelligence for Innovative, Collaborative and Sustainable Development of Organizations in Digital Era Mini-track
by Gustaf Neumann 12 May '22

12 May '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023; Business Intelligence for Innovative, Collaborative and Sustainable Development of Organizations in Digital Era Mini-track Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 18:25:38 +0000 From: Zurada,Jozef M. <jozef.zurada(a)louisville.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR PAPERS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 http://www.hicss.org/ Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track Business Intelligence for Innovative, Collaborative and Sustainable Development of Organizations in Digital Era Mini-track<http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/collaboration-systems-and-technologies/#1…> Mini-track co-chairs: Celina M. Olszak, Jozef Zurada, Dilek Cetindamar Kozanoglu The development of the Internet, social media, distributed databases, and a variety of mobile devices has caused a huge increase in data. Much of this diverse data in unstructured and structured forms has a high business value and, if properly utilized, can become an important organizational asset. It contains various information about customers, competition, labor market, and development trends for industries, products and services, as well as the public and political mood. For innovative, collaborative and sustainable development, it is essential for organizations to utilize this data to increase sales, identify future opportunities and new markets, outperform the competition, enhance products and services, recruit talent, improve operations, perform forecasting, protect the brand, and identify areas for improvement to name a few. However, many organizations make a limited use of this valuable data available to them either because they lack necessary tools or do not understand the value of this data. The main objective of this minitrack is to provide organizations a theoretical, conceptual, and applied grounded discussion of Business Intelligence (BI) to aid in innovative, collaborative, and sustainable development as well as effective decision-making. This minitrack addresses the following topics: * What is the substance (nature) of BI? * What is the added-value of BI to development of organizations and their decision-making process? * How to support organizational creativity, innovation, collaboration and decision-making using BI? * How to design intelligent information systems and build decision support systems based on BI? * How to enhance company level decision making process to integrate external stakeholders in order to develop collaborations? * How to use BI tools and solutions to achieve innovative, collaborative and sustainable development of organizations in digital era? The minitrack invites papers focused on, but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations for BI development * BI to improve innovative, collaborative and sustainable development of organizations * Challenges and opportunities of applying BI for innovative, collaborative and sustainable development of organizations * Development of BI and big data analytics capability * BI driven strategies * BI-enabled business transformation * Business value of BI * BI engineering for business model innovation * Practical approaches, solutions, methods, and tools to foster innovative, collaborative, and sustainable development of organizations by using of BI * Cognitive technologies in organizations * Social networks * The evolution of BI through wide diffusion of digital technologies and digital platforms The discussion undertaken under this minitrack will accelerate the convergence process of various disciplines such as strategic management, computer science, database and data warehouse technologies, computational intelligence and soft computing, psychology, and social sciences. It seeks to revitalize scientific discussion and to establish closer cooperation with international research centers dealing with BI use in organizations. This minitrack will discuss how to improve innovative and collaborative development as well as decision-making in organizations by using BI, and ultimately the functioning of the entire socio-economic system. Important dates (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/): * June 15, 2022 (Hawaii Time) Submit full manuscripts - the review is double-blind * August 17, 2022 Acceptance notice is emailed to authors by the review system * September 22, 2022 Submit final paper for publication in the conference proceedings * January 3-6, 2023 HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Celina M. Olszak (Primary Contact) University of Economics in Katowice, Poland celina.olszak(a)ue.katowice.pl<mailto:celina.olszak@ue.katowice.pl> Jozef Zurada University of Louisville, USA jozef.zurada(a)louisville.edu<file:///C:/Users/jmzura01/Desktop/Backup%20-%20Desktop%20-%20Oct%202%202019/HICSS-54%20-%20Minitrack/jozef.zurada@louisville.edu> Dilek Cetindamar Kozanoglu University of Technology Sydney, Australia Dilek.CetindamarKozanoglu(a)uts.edu.au<mailto:Dilek.CetindamarKozanoglu@uts.edu.au> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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