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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain - Deadline Extended
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain - Deadline Extended Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 10:40:01 +0100 From: Deep-BDB <deepml.info(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ---------------------- Call for Papers (Deadline Extended)----------------------------- The 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DEEP-BDB 2021) (Springer Series) 23-25 August 2021, Online (Virtual) http://www.ficloud.org/deep-bdb/2021/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Deep and machine learning are the state-of-the-art at providing models, methods, tools and techniques for developing autonomous and intelligent systems which can revolutionize industrial and commercial applications in various fields such as online commerce, intelligent transportation, healthcare and medicine, security, manufacturing, education, games, and various other industrial applications. All such fields produce and consume massive amount of big data, which include, for example, online commerce data (marketing data, customer reviews, customer relationship), transportation data (road sensors, cameras, GPS), and data about healthcare, social media, and various other applications. Deep learning techniques and big data techniques yield useful outputs in predicting, discovering and acquiring insights and deeper knowledge about events for better and efficient decision making. The groundbreaking technology of blockchain technology also enable decentralization, immutability, and transparency of data and applications. It has been exploited in modern research and industrial domains in order to achieve high level of trust, security and reliable execution of applications and data which are shared across a network of computers. The International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockcain (DEEP-BDB) aims to enable synergy between these areas and to provide a leading forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, and professional from public sectors and industries in order to meet and share latest solutions and ideas in solving cutting edge problems in modern information society and economy. The conference focuses on specific challenges in deep (and machine) learning, big data and blockchain. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Deep/Machine learning based models - Statistical models and learning - Data analysis, insights and hidden pattern - Data analysis and decision making - Data wrangling, munching and cleaning - Data integration and fusion - Data visualization - Data and information quality - Security threat detection - Visualizing security threats - Enhancing privacy and trust - Data mining; Information extraction; - Sentiment analysis - Data classification and clustering - Knowledge acquisition and learning - Clustering, classification and regression - Supervised and unsupervised learning - Blockain security and trust - Blockchain data management - Data & application reliability - Blockchain and data distribution - Blockain and finacial transactions - Blockchain and Bitcoin applications - Blockain and NoSQL databases - Protocols for blockchain - Cryptography, Cryptocurrency - Fraud detection and prevention - Blockchain and Internet of Things - Scalability of blockchains Application areas: - Finance, business and retail - Intelligent transportation - Healthcare and clinical decision support - Bioinformatics and biomedical informatics - Computer vision - Human activity recognition - Cybersecurity - Natural language processing - Recommender systems - Social media and networks Important Dates: Submission Deadline (Extended): 15 April 2021 (Firm) Authors Notification: 20 May 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2021 Conference Venue: The organizing committee is carefully monitoring the Covid-19 situation. The safety and well-being of the conference participants is the main priority. The committee will confirm by Spring 2021 of whether to hold the conference onsite in Rome or as an online event. Paper Submission: Papers must be written in English. Full papers should be limited to 12 pages. Short papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers must be formatted in Springer's format. See Information for Authors of Springer Proceedings ( https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… ). All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published by Springer in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceeding Submission:of papers are done through the EasyChair submission system. See conference website for further details. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [wkwi] Cfp ‘Managing the Dynamics of Platforms and Ecosystems’ (deadline: 15. Juni 2021)
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] Cfp ‘Managing the Dynamics of Platforms and Ecosystems’ (deadline: 15. Juni 2021) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:59:54 +0200 From: Rothe, Hannes <Hannes.Rothe(a)fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: Rothe, Hannes <Hannes.Rothe(a)fu-berlin.de> To: wkwi(a)listserv.dfn.de <wkwi(a)listserv.dfn.de> CC: Jukka Huhtamäki (TAU) <jukka.huhtamaki(a)tuni.fi>, Kaisa Still <kaisa.still(a)oulu.fi> Liebe KollegInnen, hiermit möchte ich Sie herzlich dazu einladen, Ihre Forschungsbeiträge auf unserem HICSS-55 Minitrack zu *‘Managing the Dynamics of Platforms and Ecosystems’* (*Deadline: 15. Juni 2021*) einzureichen. Wir blicken auf sechs erfolgreiche Durchläufe des Minitracks zurück und freuen uns sehr "alte" Bekannte und neue AutorInnen in unserer Community willkommen zu heißen. Wir danken auch dem großartigen Advisory Committee für Ihre größtenteils langjährige Unterstützung. /Zum vollständigen Call for Papers: /*/www.de-hub.org/hicss/* <http://www.de-hub.org/hicss> *Kurzzusammenfassung:* It is well understood that, in order to compete and survive, organizations have to consider platform- and ecosystem-centric perspectives (Parker et al. 2016; de Reuver 2018; McIntyre et al. 2020). Today, digital technologies shape firm identities, physical and digital resources merge, and even traditionally physical industries become “digital first” (e.g., Wessel et al. 2021, Baskerville et al. 2020). Platforms and ecosystems play a central role in the rapid emergence and proliferation of the technologies that afford this digital transformation, e.g., human-machine ecosystems, digital twins, cloud services, artificial intelligence, 5G. Although understanding the value and importance of platforms and ecosystems across various industries and domains has grown significantly over the years, there is still a paucity of research examining the dynamic and evolutionary aspects of platform and ecosystem management (e.g., de Reuver 2018; Gawer 2020). Building on last year’s experience, we seek contributions that focus on the “dynamic” aspects of platforms and ecosystems. How do platforms and ecosystems emerge and what are the mechanisms driving their evolution? How do platforms and ecosystems adapt to changes in the technological, social, economic, ecologic, or political environment? How can specific platform and ecosystem actors succeed within these dynamics and manage even unintended consequences? *Chairs* *Hannes Rothe** *Freie Universität Berlin *Kaisa Still** *University of Oulu *Jukka Huhtamäki* Tampere University *Advisory Committee* /Chair of the Committee:/ Rahul C. Basole (Accenture AI, USA) /M//embers of the Committee:/ Amrit Tiwana (University of Georgia, USA) Annabelle Gawer (University of Surrey) Brandon Barnett (Intel Corporation, USA) Carmelo Cennamo (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Carsten Sørensen (London School of Economics, UK) Daniel Fürstenau (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Geoff Parker (Dartmouth College, USA) Hyunwoo Park (Ohio State University, USA) Jesus Delvalle (Bayer, Germany) Jianxi Luo (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) Jim Spohrer (IBM Corporation, USA) Karl Täuscher (University of Manchester, UK) Mark de Reuver (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Marko Seppänen (Tampere University, Finland) Martha Russell (Stanford University, USA) Michael Cusumano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Michael Jacobides (London Business School, UK) Neil Rubens (Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Latvia) Ola Henfridsson (University of Miami, USA) Paavo Ritala (LUT University, Finland) Raul Chao (University of Virginia, USA) Timo Ali-Vehmas Liebe Grüße und bis bald auf Maui (#toitoitoi) Hannes Rothe --- Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe (he/him/his) Assistant Professor Digital Entrepreneurship Hub & Department of Information Systems Freie Universität Berlin Web: _http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rothe <http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rothe>_ and http://www.de-hub.org <https://exchange.fu-berlin.de/owa/www.de-hub.org> and http://www.instagram.com/entrepreneurship.fu_berlin <http://www.instagram.com/entrepreneurship.fu_berlin> ---- Follow our latest podcast in the series "Data for Life" <https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dataforlife/episodes/2021-02-03T22_00_00…> Sign up for our Newsletter about Entrepreneurship Education for researchers & scientists <http://eepurl.com/dtyvx1> --- Submit to our research tracks: AI Applications in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship <https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-28> (SIG DITE @AMCIS) Managing Dynamics of Platforms and Ecosystems <http://de-hub.org/hicss> (HICSS) Addressing Diversity in Digitalization <https://de-hub.org/minitrack-on-addressing-diversity-in-digitalization-at-h…> (HICSS)

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Announcing the publication of volume 13 issue 1 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI)
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Announcing the publication of volume 13 issue 1 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 04:13:01 +0000 From: Nah, Fiona <nahf(a)mst.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Announcing the Publication of Volume 13 Issue 1 of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) (http://https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/) THCI is ranked "A" in the 2019 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List - https://abdc.edu.au/research/abdc-journal-list/ with an acceptance rate of 7.61% (excluding special issues) in Year 2020. The March 2021 issue of THCI comprises one editorial and four papers on the special issue theme on Design Science Research in Human-Computer Interaction that was co-edited by Marc T. P. Adam, Shirley Gregor, Alan Hevner, and Stefan Morana. The March 2021 issue also comprises a paper on the special issue theme on AI Fairness, Trust, and Ethics in which three other papers on this theme were published in the December 2020 issue (vol. 12, no. 4). The editorial and four papers on the special issue theme on Design Science Research in Human-Computer Interaction are: 1. "Design Science Research Modes in Human-Computer Interaction Projects" by Marc T. P. Adam, Shirley Gregor, Alan Hevner, and Stefan Morana 2. "CASSI: Designing a Simulation Environment for Vehicle Relocation in Carsharing" by Christoph Prinz, Mathias Willnat, Alfred Benedikt Brendel, Sascha Lichtenberg, and Lutz Kolbe 3. "Designing and Evaluating a Collaborative Writing Process with Gamification Elements: Toward a Framework for Gamifying Collaboration Processes" by Christina Wiethof, Navid Tavanapour, and Eva A. C. Bittner 4. "Gamification: Explaining Brand Loyalty in Mobile Applications" by Jens Mattke and Christian Maier 5. "Understanding the Impact that Response Failure has on How Users Perceive Anthropomorphic Conversational Service Agents: Insights from an Online Experiment" by Stephan Diederich, Tim-Benjamin Lembcke, Alfred Benedikt Brendel, and Lutz M. Kolbe The paper on the special issue theme on AI Fairness, Trust, and Ethics is: "Understanding the Effect that Task Complexity has on Automation Potential and Opacity: Implications for Algorithmic Fairness" by M. Vimalkumar, Agam Gupta, Divya Sharma, and Yogesh K. Dwivedi You can download the papers from this issue at https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/ or the direct links provided below. You can also download papers in THCI by visiting the AIS E-Library (http://aisel.aisnet.org/) or the journal website at http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/. ============ In this issue (Volume 13, Issue 1) ============ Paper 1 (Introduction to the special edition on design science research in human-computer interaction): Adam, M. T. P., Gregor, S., Hevner, A., & Morana, S. (2021). Design science research modes in human-computer interaction projects. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1), pp. 1-11. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00139 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/1/ Abstract: In this editorial, we introduce the special issue on design science research in human-computer interaction with four papers extended from the 2020 European Conference on Information Systems and propose a conceptual model for such research projects. Research in the interdisciplinary human-computer interaction (HCI) discipline advances knowledge of how humans interact with technologies, systems, information, and work structures. Design science research (DSR) methods support three distinct modes in HCI projects. In the interior mode, researchers build and evaluate novel technical solutions with a focus on improved system interfaces to support effective human use. Next, in the exterior mode, researchers build and evaluate novel behavioral solutions with a process focus on interactions that increase human capabilities. Lastly, in the gestalt mode, researchers build and evaluate novel composite solutions that improve synergies between technologies and human behaviors. We pose a comprehensi ve model for identifying the DSR modes of HCI research with related artifacts, evaluation techniques, design theories, and research impacts. Paper 2 (Design science theme): Prinz, C., Willnat, M., Brendel, A. B., Lichtenberg, S., & Kolbe, L. M. (2021). CASSI: Design of a simulation environment for vehicle relocation in carsharing. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1), pp. 12-37. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00140 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/2/ Abstract: Simulations offer an efficient solution to represent operational services and track the impact of changing systematic factors and business constraints. Carsharing services provide users with mobility services on demand. Although research has introduced strategies to optimize efforts to set up and operate such a system, they lack reusable and flexible simulation environments. For instance, carsharing research applies simulations to better understand and solve the problem of balancing vehicle supply and demand, which operators need to solve to prevent operational inefficiencies and ensure customer satisfaction. Hence, one cannot feasibly test new balancing mechanisms directly in a real-world environment. As for now, researchers have implemented simulations from scratch, which results in high development efforts and a limited ability to compare results. In this paper, we address this gap by designing a versatile carsharing simulation tool that researchers can easily use and adapt. The t ool simplifies the process of modeling a carsharing system and developing operation strategies. Furthermore, we propose various system performance measures to increase the developed solutions' comparability. Paper 3 (Design science theme): Wiethof, C., Tavanapour, N., & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Design and evaluation of a collaborative writing process with gamification elements: Toward a framework for gamifying collaboration processes. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1), pp. 38-61. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00141 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/3/ Abstract: In this study, we examine the influence that gamification elements have on collaboration processes in terms of whether they increase intention to continue to use the system based on meaningful engagement and hedonic motivation as well as outcome quality. Therefore, we review gamification models and principles for information systems and consolidate them in a preliminary framework. We then evaluate how one can supplement the collaboration process for collaborative story writing with gamification elements based on the framework. Additionally, we consider specific gamification elements to successfully accomplish the process. To do so, we conducted action design research in a common iterative structure. First, we observed and reflected on the analog collaborative writing process. Next, we derived design principles and remodeled and implemented the process via a Web application instantiation to evaluate them. In the evaluation, we identified the developed design principles' ability to rea ch higher hedonic motivation and meaningful engagement, which led to an enhanced intention to continue to use the system. Additionally, we found the potential to manage the shift toward digital collaboration processes that motivate people to participate and produce promising outcomes that do not vary much from outcomes in an analog setting. Paper 4 (Design science theme): Mattke, J., & Maier, C, (2021). Gamification: Explaining brand loyalty in mobile applications. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1), pp. 62-81. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00142 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/4/ Abstract: Gamification is one specific way to increase mobile app users' brand loyalty. We propose that the frequency with which one uses immersion-, achievement- and social-related features relates to brand loyalty. To provide empirical evidence for this proposal, we obtained quantitative data from surveying 243 users on the mobile application Duolingo and conducted a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). We found that users need to frequently use immersion- and achievement-related features to result in high brand loyalty. On the contrary, we found users who infrequently use at least two gamification features have low brand loyalty. These findings extend the gamification literature by revealing an interaction between multiple gamification features and extend mobile application research by showing how gamification features relate to high and low brand loyalty. We also guide practitioners on how to identify users at risk to discontinue and reduce customer churn. Paper 5 (Design science theme): Diederich, S., Lembcke, T.-B., Brendel, A.B., & Kolbe, L. (2021). Understanding the impact that response failure has on how users perceive anthropomorphic conversational service agents: Insights from an online experiment. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1), pp. 82-103. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00143 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/5/ Abstract: Conversational agents (CAs) have attracted the interest from organizations due to their potential to provide automated services and the feeling of humanlike interaction. Emerging studies on CAs have found that humanness has a positive impact on customer perception and explored approaches for their anthropomorphic design, which comprises both their appearance and behavior. While these studies provide valuable knowledge on how to design humanlike CAs, we still do not sufficiently understand this technology's limited conversational capabilities and their potentially detrimental impact on user perception. These limitations often lead to frustrated users and discontinued CAs in practice. We address this gap by investigating the impact of response failure, which we understand a CA's inability to provide a meaningful reply, in a service context. To do so, we draw on the computers are social actors paradigm and the theory of the uncanny valley. Via an experiment with 169 participants, we fou nd that 1) response failure harmed the extent to which people perceived CAs as human and increased their feelings of uncanniness, 2) humanness (uncanniness) positively (negatively) influenced familiarity and service satisfaction, and 3) the response failure had a significant negative impact on user perception yet did not lead to a sharp drop as the uncanny valley theory posits. Thus, our study contributes to better explaining the impact that text-based CAs' failure to respond has on customer perception and satisfaction in a service context in relation to the agents' design. Paper 6 (AI fairness, trust, and ethics theme): Vimalkumar, M., Gupta, A., Sharma, D., & Dwivedi, Y. K. (2021). Understanding the effect that task complexity has on automation potential and opacity: Implications for algorithmic fairness. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1), pp. 104-129. DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00144 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol13/iss1/6/ Abstract: Scholars have increasingly focused on understanding different aspects of algorithms since they not only affect individual choices and decisions but also influence and shape societal structures. We can broadly categorize scholarly work on algorithms along the dimensions of economic gain that one achieves through automation and the ethical concerns that stem from such automation. However, the literature largely uses the notion of algorithms in a generic way and overlooks different algorithms' specificity and the type of tasks that they perform. Drawing on a typology of tasks based on task complexity, we suggest that variations in the complexity of tasks contribute to differences in 1) their automation potential and 2) the opacity that results from their automation. We also suggest a framework to assess the likelihood that fairness concerns will emanate from automation of tasks with varying complexity. In this framework, we also recommend affordances for addressing fairness concerns tha t one may design into systems that automate different types of tasks. =========================== Call for Papers =========================== THCI is one of the journals in the AIS (Association for Information Systems) e-library at http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci. THCI is a high-quality peer-reviewed international scholarly journal on Human-Computer Interaction. As an AIS journal, THCI is oriented to the Information Systems community, emphasizing HCI/UX applications in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. However, it is open to all related communities that share intellectual interests in HCI phenomena and issues. The editorial objective is to enhance and communicate knowledge about the interplay among humans, information, technologies, and tasks in order to guide the development and use of human-centered Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and services for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. To increase awareness and readership, THCI is still freely available to the public, which is beneficial to the authors and the community. You can find information related to all aspects of THCI at its website (http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci), including how to submit manuscripts for publication consideration. We would like to thank the AIS Council (http://www.aisnet.org/) for its continued support of the journal. And, as always, we are happy to announce that we have published the journal on time for every issue, and are building a strong case for a solid impact factor when released by SSCI and Scopus in the near future. The quality of THCI is affirmed by its inclusion as an "A" journal in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list. Topics of interest to THCI include but are not limited to the following: * Behavioral, cognitive, motivational and affective aspects of human and technology interaction * User task analysis and modeling; fit between representations and task types * Digital documents/genres; human information seeking and web navigation behaviors; human information interaction; information visualization * Social media; social computing; virtual communities * Behavioral information security and information assurance; privacy and trust in human technology interaction * User interface design and evaluation for various applications in business, managerial, organizational, educational, social, cultural, non-work, and other domains * Integrated and/or innovative approaches, guidelines, and standards or metrics for human centered analysis, design, construction, evaluation, and use of interactive devices and information systems * Information systems usability engineering; universal usability * Impact of interfaces/information technology on people's attitude, behavior, performance, perception, and productivity * Implications and consequences of technological change on individuals, groups, society, and socio-technical units * Software learning and training issues such as perceptual, cognitive, and motivational aspects of learning * Gender and information technology * The elderly, the young, and special needs populations for new applications, modalities, and multimedia interaction * Issues in HCI education The language for the journal is English. The audience includes international scholars and practitioners who conduct research on issues related to the objectives of the journal. The publication frequency is quarterly: 4 issues per year to be published in March, June, September, and December. The AIS Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI, http://sighci.org/) is the official sponsor of THCI. ==================================================================== Please visit the links above or the links from our AIS THCI home page (http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/) for details on special issue calls. Please continue to check the AIS THCI home page (http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/) to see what is brewing! If you have an idea for a special issue, please drop us a line any time. Sincerely, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Editor-in-Chief Gregory D. Moody, Managing Editor ======================================================== Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Ph.D. Editor-in-chief, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction Professor of Business & Information Technology Missouri University of Science and Technology 101 Fulton Hall 301 W 14th Street Rolla, MO 65409 Tel: 573-341-6996 Email: nahf(a)mst.edu URL: http://people.mst.edu/faculty/nahf/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on Digital Health
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on Digital Health Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:12:49 +0000 From: Maria Valero de Clemente <mvalero2(a)kennesaw.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ****************** Apologies for multiple posting ********************* IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES ONLINE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE (ORIGINALLY IN CHICAGO, USA) SEPTEMBER 5-10, 2021 **** CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL HEALTH **** IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of digital health technologies, emerging research topics, and the future of digital health. ICDH aims to bring together leading researchers, community leaders and visionaries from academia and industry, end-users, and healthcare professionals, in the area of digital health to share their research, practical experience, and visions of the future of sustainable health and social care transformations. Significant opportunities of research and development of the digital health ecosystem have been leading to new tools, techniques, analysis and automation of health care delivery models seeking improved outcomes for all related stakeholders including the patients and the health providers. ICDH will include a broad range of issues and concerns, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Models and architectures of digital health and integrated digital health care services * Therapeutic algorithms and disease/condition-specific intervention service design (e.g., diabetes, obesity, COPD, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health) * Patient/user-side design for digital health care that may address user needs, social isolation, assisted living for older adults and individuals with special needs, emergencies * Standardizing provider-side and user-side digital health, FHIR resources, profiles and extension for digital health * Delivery pathways co-design and provider/patient acceptability * Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and planning and managing care and supply delivery * Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development * Digital health technology to reduce disparity and increase inclusion of under-served and vulnerable communities * Digital health systems, software and services for medication adherence, improving patient and provider communication before, during and after hospital discharge * Digital Services to improve the health delivery outcomes in emergency room and ICU * Services to comply with privacy and security regulation in health care system such as HIPAA * Mobile health (mHealth) services and applications which include the use of mobile devices in collecting community and clinical health data, delivery of healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients * Real-time monitoring of patient vital signs and the direct provision of care (via mobile telemedicine) for training and collaboration of health workers. * Health economics of services-oriented care delivery systems * Empirical study on savings in unit and total cost realized by patient and community engagement **** ICDH STEERING COMMITTEE **** Sheikh (Iqbal) Ahamed, Marquette University Carl Chang, Iowa State University (Chair) Cheng-Chung (William) Chu, Tunghai University Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan Sumi Helal, University of Florida Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine Hiroki Takakura, National Institute of Informatics Ji-Jiang Yang, Tsinghua University **** ICDH ORGANIZERS **** General Chair: Jacques Demongeot, Grenoble Alpes Univ. General Chair: Ajay Royyuru, IBM Watson Research General Chair: Daqing Zhang, Peking University Executive Program Chair: Sheikh(Iqbal) Ahamed, Marquette University Program Chair: Giuseppe De Pietro, ICAR CNR Program Chair: Lin Liu, Tsinghua University Program Chair: Farhana Zulkernine, Queens University Posters and Demo Chairs Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University **** PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS **** Please visit https://conferences.computer.org/services/2021/cfp/callforpapers.html for paper format and paper submission instructions for conferences being held under the IEEE Services Congress umbrella. The direct link for IEEE ICDH paper submission can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ieeeicdh **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Submissions are due on: April 15, 2021 (5:00 am, UTC) Final notification to authors: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready manuscript and Registration due: July 31, 2021 **** CONTACT ICDH ORGANIZERS **** ieecs.icdh(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics @ ACM GoodIT2021
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics @ ACM GoodIT2021 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:05:29 +0100 From: Andrew Zayine <scholarshipchile(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call For Papers: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021) The GoodIT conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCAS, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society. The conference focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. The Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics focuses on new data technologies based on artificial intelligence, data governance, machine learning, natural language processing, and social network analysis to aid experts in analyzing large volumes of social media data in order to detect fake news, misinformation, and disinformation. A number of open challenges need more investigation from the research community, such as recent trends in composing information disorder by combining false and real content, the mechanisms that drive fake content diffusion during pandemics, how to differentiate fake content from personal viewpoints, why people tend to believe fake content and make decisions based on it during pandemics, and what are the different motivations behind the dissemination of fake content. Fact-checking and claim verification are two important strategies that are worth incorporating in the automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. ************ Key Dates ************ Papers Submission Due: May 1, 2021 Authors Notifications: June 22, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2021 GoodIT 2021: September 09-11, 2021 ************ Important Links ************ Special Track Website: https://aitdmp.conceptechint.net Submission Link: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com/ ************ Submission Guidelines ************ All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. The identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but authors can keep their names on the submitted papers, on figures, bibliography, etc. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. The ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available to all ACM authors at: www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Special issues associated with the conference are being organized. ************ Topics ************ Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems in various topics related to rumors, fake news, misinformation, and disinformation during and after pandemics, are invited, with special emphasis on novel techniques and tools for automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. Topics include (but are not limited to): -AI approaches for the detection of online influence and manipulation -AI approaches to identify misinformation and disinformation campaigns -AI approaches for spotting misinformation and disinformation spreaders. -Social media mining for automated detection of misinformation propagation and disinformation circulation -AI approaches for automated identification and verification of claims -AI approaches for intention detection for misinformation and disinformation contents -AI approaches for credibility assessment of Social media sources -AI approaches for fake news curtailment, filtering and prevention. -AI approaches for analysis/detection of distributed and multi-platform misinformation and disinformation disseminations -AI approaches for predicting the Impact of misinformation and disinformation during pandemics -New datasets and evaluation methodologies to aid in automated detection and analysis of misinformation and disinformation content in social media channels **********The Conference Sponsored by********** Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society http://www.sigcas.org/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] HICSS-55 Call for papers for the mini-track on: "AI and the Future of Work"
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HICSS-55 Call for papers for the mini-track on: "AI and the Future of Work" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:12:36 +0000 From: De Vreede, Triparna <tdevreede(a)usf.edu> To: De Vreede, Triparna <tdevreede(a)usf.edu> HICSS-55 Call for papers for the mini-track on: "AI and the Future of Work" Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI - January 4-7, 2022 Developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are setting the stage for a paradigm shift in the workplace. According to PwC, 72% of business executives say that AI will give them a competitive advantage in the future1. In fact, in many ways the future is already here. Several repetitive and simple tasks that were typically performed by humans are now being automated by AI bundled with other technologies, such as cloud systems, augmented reality, (social) robots, IoTs, and wearables. Consequently, the ratio of tasks executed by machines to humans is dramatically shifting. Human workers are rapidly being replaced with AI on many fronts. For instance, in 2018 an average of 71% of total task hours were performed by humans compared to 29% accomplished by machines. However, this average is expected to shift dramatically in the near future with 58% of tasks hours expected to be performed by humans and the remaining 42% to be handled exclusively by machines by 20222. In a world of such rapid technological changes, it is paramount to have an overview of the research being conducted in this discipline. Such an understanding of current developments of AI and associated technologies enables us to envision the future workplace and its effect on human employees. These insights also provide guidance to employees, teams, organizations, and governments in creating a sustainable and synergistic workplace. Finally, engaging in this research allows us to proactively counter any negative effects that may arise from the changes in the work settings. Through this minitrack, we hope to create a platform where researchers working on AI in the context of future of work can come together and create collaborations that will allow them to capitalize on each other’s work. The “AI and Future of Work” minitrack is especially interested in the following topics: 1. Power shifts between humans and AI 2. AI and employees’ mental and physical wellbeing 3. Shift in social/role identities with the introduction of AI 4. Required skill set for human employees in an era of AI 5. AI and the changing face of leadership 6. Social relationships and AI at the workplace 7. Integration of AI and work practices (knowledge sharing, decision making, etc.) [1] Bothun, D., Liebermann, M., and Rao, A. (2017) “Bot.Me: A revolutionary partnership. How AI is pushing man and machine closer together.” Consumer Intelligence Series PwC. http://pwcartificialintelligence.com/ 2 World Economic Forum. (2018). “The future of jobs report 2018”. Geneva: World Economic Forum.http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf 1. Ethical considerations of AI at the workplace 2. Financial and economic implications of AI implementation in the workplace 3. The changing meaning of work or work-life balance in an era of AI 4. AI task appropriateness 5. Designing AI for the workplace 6. AI and changes in work settings 7. Workplace Analytics and AI 8. AI and creativity in the workplace MINITRACK COORDINATORS: Triparna de Vreede Muma College of Business University of South Florida tdevreede(a)usf.edu<mailto:tdevreede@usf.edu> Xusen Cheng School of Information Renmin University of China xusen.cheng(a)ruc.edu.cn<mailto:xusen.cheng@ruc.edu.cn> Instructions to authors: The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among researchers and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting. Instructions for submitting papers: 1. Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors’ names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review. 2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. 3. Provide the required information to the review system such as title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and email address(es). 4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max) 150-word abstract. DEADLINES: · May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting full paper. · June 15: Full papers uploaded to the minitrack through the submission system at hicss.hawaii.edu. · August 17: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors. · September 4: Deadline for A-M Authors to Submit Revised Manuscript for Review. · September 22: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication · October 1: Deadline for at least one author of the accepted manuscript to register for HICSS-54 ====================================== Triparna de Vreede, PhD Associate Director, School of Information Systems and Management Director, Masters in Management Program Muma College of Business University of South Florida ====================================== _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - First Workshop “Towards a new generation of Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents” (PICA)
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - First Workshop “Towards a new generation of Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents” (PICA) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:24:35 +0000 From: Musi, Elena <Elena.Musi(a)liverpool.ac.uk> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ================================================================= Call for Papers - First Workshop “Towards a new generation of Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents” (PICA) 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) Deadline: March 26, 2021 (GMT) pica.cls.ru.nl/ June 2021, Utrecht, NL ================================================================= Recent years have seen the rise of conversational agents (CAs) in everyday life: chatbots that use written communications above all, but also vocal digital assistants. It is safe to say that conversation is becoming a key mode of human-computer interaction. However, despite much recent success in natural language processing and dialogue research, the communication between a human and a machine is still in its infancy. In this context, dialogue personalization could be a key to narrow part of the gap, making sense of users’ features (e.g., preferences, expertise, communication style, emotions, personality) when engaged in a conversation with a machine. Learning user features directly from the dialogue with the chatbot, in order to adapt its response (e.g. the complexity of the explanations) can be an opportunity to improve the interaction with the user, both in commercial chatbots and voicebots offered by companies to their customers and by conversational, recommender systems. The PICA workshop focuses on both long-term engaging spoken dialogue systems and text-based chatbots, as well as conversational recommender systems. Papers can be about different approaches to this: (pilot) evaluations, design guidelines, personalization, natural language processing, protection of privacy and (health) data, (cognitive) architectures and frameworks, implementations, context analyses. We are also very interested in studies on the effectiveness of behaviour change support systems and changing health related behaviour (such as quit smoking, lose weight, etc.). The main goal of the workshop is to stimulate discussion around problems, challenges, possible solutions and research directions regarding the exploitation of NLP and ML techniques to learn user features and use them to personalize the dialogue in the next generation of intelligent conversational agents. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Submissions are encouraged but not limited to the following topics: Applications for personalized dialogues ● Commercial chatbot and voicebot ● Health management systems ● E-learning systems ● Conversational Recommender systems ● Counseling and coaching agents: Methodologies for learning personal data from dialogue ● User modeling and/or memory for long-term engaging dialogues ● NLP technologies for learning from dialogue ● Emotion and mood detection ● Personality detection ● Semantic Content Analysis of Social and Linked Open Data ● Information retrieval and elicitation by agents Methodologies for dialogue personalisation ● NLG for dialogue generation ● Intelligent explanation provision ● Resource and corpora creation Open Issues in Personalized Intelligent Agents ● Ethical issues and privacy management of Personal data ● Need for transparency (e.g., in compliance with GDPR) ● Gathering implicit feedbacks (e.g. social activities) to infer user interests. ● Evaluation of personalized conversational agents ● Trustworthiness, risks of bias in agent conversations ● Engagement and conversational strategies in dialogues ● Self-disclosure of agents IMPORTANT DATES ================== * Full paper submission: March 26, 2021 (GMT) * Reviews Due: April 23, 2021 * Paper notification: April 26, 2021 * Camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 * PICA 2021 Workshop: June 2021 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ======================== Submissions to the workshop are in the form of a long or short paper and submitted as a PDF file. We accept the following submissions: short (and demo) papers on work in progress, or position papers: 4 pages +1 for references long full research papers (maximum of 8 pages +1 additional page for references) Papers have to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system (select the ‘Workshop-PICA’ track within EasyChair), must be written in English and contain original material that has not been published or is currently undergoing review elsewhere. Papers are peer-reviewed by a committee of experts in the field. Accepted papers will be listed on DBLP and published via the ACM Digital Library. Please note that for a contribution to be included in the workshop program, and the corresponding paper to appear in the Proceedings, at least one of its authors must register and attend the workshop to present their contribution. The paper format should follow the new ACM single-column format, please use the following template: LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… More details on the paper formatting can be found at: https://www.um.org/umap2021/call-for-contribution/call-for-papers#submission Your submission should be close to camera-ready and thoroughly copy-edited due to the short selection cycle. Furthermore, due to the very rapid selection process we cannot offer any extensions to the deadline. Submissions are single blind and should therefore include all author names, affiliations and contact information and references to external data, software or videos, if applicable. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================== Iris Hendrickx – Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Netherlands Federica Cena – University of Torino, Italy Erkan Basar – Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands Luigi Di Caro – University of Torino, Italy Florian Kunneman - Vrije University, Netherlands Elena Musi – University of Liverpool, UK Cataldo Musto – University of Bari, Italy Amon Rapp – University of Torino, Italy Jelte van Waterschoot – Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Netherlands _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: ISCC 2021 - the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: ISCC 2021 - the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 08:37:14 -0400 From: angalletta(a)IEEE.ORG To: iot-edge-cloud(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear users of Iot-Edge-Cloud mailing list, ============================= CALL FOR PAPERS =============================== The 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2021) Submission Due Date: May 15, 2021 Conference Dates: September 5-8, 2021 Conference Venue: Athens, Greece Submission Website: https://iscc2021.edas.info/N28231 <https://iscc2021.edas.info/N28231> Conference Website: https://iscc2021.unipi.gr <https://iscc2021.unipi.gr> ============================================================================= Welcome to the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). The first IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) was held in 1995 in response to the growing interaction between the fields of computers and communications. ISCC takes place annually, usually in the Mediterranean region, in locations such as Egypt, Greece, France, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, and Brazil. In 2021, the Symposium is going to be held in Athens, Greece. ISCC sessions will include presentations on new research results and tutorials. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the computer and communications areas that the Call for Papers considers. Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2021 Conference Proceedings, which will be subject to independent peer-review procedures for quality, and may be eligible for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library. Merit, relevance, and originality will guide paper acceptance. Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Awards will be presented. ISCC 2021, in its 26th edition, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computers and communications. ISCC 2021 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. You are invited to submit a full paper, a proposal for a Panel/Invited Session or a Tutorial, related to the following topics of interest: * 5th Generation Networks (5G) * Resource Allocation * Network Slicing * Topology Management * 5G Core Network and Service Based Architecture * C-RAN and backhaul * SDN and NFV for 5G * Network Stability, Control and Optimization * Standardization Activities by IEEE, 3GPP and ETSI * Artificial Intelligence (AI) * Artificial Intelligent Systems applications in Computers and Communications * Game Theory * Machine Learning * Bio-inspired Computing in Communications * Data Science and Data Engineering * Distributed Knowledge and Processing * Trusted AI * Cloud and Edge Computing * Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) * Mobile Cloud and Mobile Cloud Networking * Fog Computing * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * Internet of Things (IoT) * LPWAN (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M, Wi-SUN) * 6TiSCH, 6LoWPAN, Roll * Rest API, CoAP, CBOR, OSCORE * Smart Spaces * Cyber Physical Systems * Telecare Medical Information System * Optical Networks * Optical Network Protocols and Architectures * Energy-efficient/green Optical Communications and Networks * Visible Light Communications (Indoor, Outdoor and Localization) * Optical Wireless Communication Applications for Future Networks * Vehicular Networks * Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) * IEEE 802.11p ITS-G5 * Millimeter Waves * V2X, V2I, V2N, V2V, V2P, V2D, V2G * Inter and intra vehicle communication and protocols * Wireless Networks * Cognitive Radio Networking * Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications * Modeling and Simulation * Signal Processing for Communications * Services and Protocols * Advances in Internet Protocols * Green Networking * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Network Design, Optimization and Management * Network Reliability, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures * Standards Evolution * Digital Satellite Communications Service * Localization Protocols * Communications Services and Management * Crowdsourcing applications * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Software Defined * Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization * Software Defined Smart Objects * Software Defined Data Centers * Software Defined Radio * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Security and Privacy * Data Privacy * Attacks and Defenses * Authentication, Authorization and Accounting * Hardware Security * Intrusion Detection * Moving Target Defense (MTD) * Blockchain * Application domain / Framework / Architecture * e-Health and Bioinformatics * Smart Grid * Smart City * Industry 4.0 * Smart Building =========================== Submission Guidelines =========================== Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference management system, at: https://iscc2021.edas.info/N28231 <https://iscc2021.edas.info/N28231> Please note: (1) All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. (2) All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF and be no longer than 7 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html> (3) Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Awards will be presented. (4) Accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding page(s) will be charged an additional fee. (5) At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2021 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas. =========================== Important Dates =========================== * Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2021 * Notification of paper acceptance: July 15, 2021 * Submission of camera-ready papers: TBA * Conference Dates: September 5-8, 2021 =========================== Organizing Committee =========================== * General Co-Chairs: * Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece * Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy * TPC Co-Chairs: * Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia * Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA * Theofanis Raptis, National Research Council (CNR), Italy * Workshops and Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France * Michael Kounavis, Intel, USA * Fabrice Theoleyre, CNRS, Paris, France * Keynote Co-Chairs: * Konstandinos Samdanis, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy * Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece * Poster and Demo Chair: * Dinitris Zorbas, Nazarbayev University, Kazakstan * Publicity Co-Chairs: * Min Yu, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Luis Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa, EFRJ, Brasil * Rodrigue Domga Komguem, University of Yaoundé in Cameroon, Capital of Cameroon * Ye Zhu, Deakin University, Australia * Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy * Publication Co-Chairs: * Dimitrios Kallergis, University of West Attica, Greece * Adel Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA * Finance and Registration Co-Chairs: * Theodoros Karvounidis, University of Piraeus, Greece * Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA * Local Co-Chairs: * Rosa Mavropodi, University of Piraeus, Greece * Zacharenia Garofalaki, University of Piraeus and University of West Attica, Greece * Webmaster: * Rosa Mavropodi, University of Piraeus, Greece =========================== Steering Committee =========================== * Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy * Mario Dantas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil * Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece * Adel S. Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA * Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, USA * Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA * Susana Sargento, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the iot-edge-cloud list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=iot-edge-cloud&A=1

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Fwd: EDEN Newsflash 2021 March
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Newsflash 2021 March Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:53:02 +0000 From: European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) <eden(a)eden-online.org> Reply-To: European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) <eden(a)eden-online.org> To: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Newsflash 2021 March Newsflash 2021 March View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/eden-online/newsflash-2021-march-0ge3ql64w0?e=6610be86c2> *March 2021 * <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> *EDEN 2021 Virtual Annual Conference – UNED-Madrid First submission deadline approaching!* *"Lessons from a pandemic for the future of education" – Flexible Submissions* <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> You are kindly reminded that the first submission deadline, *31 March* for theEDEN 2021 Virtual Annual Conference <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…>, hosted by the National Distance Education University UNED <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> on 21-24 June is drawing close. Due to the upcoming Easter festive period, however, submissions arriving through April are still welcome. Submissions arriving by 31 March will be evaluated within two weeks. 2021 marks EDEN’s 30th Anniversary <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> year, therefore the Madrid Conference will be special to all of us in many regards. Please read more of the special Conference sessions below. CONFERENCE CALL <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> *Special Conference sessions* * The new Digital Europe Action Plan and the Experience of the EU Education and Training DELTA working group * The Madrid EDEN Microcredential Declaration preparation workshop * EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals – new trajectories with the fresh Steering Committee * The EDEN European Journal – EURODL: with new Chief Editor, new online platform and services in 2021 * EDEN 30th anniversary – lessons from the past and perspectives for the future * After the Brexit – the EDEN Future: Digital Learning Europe Association * The EDEN Fellows Council: advice and advocacy from our awarded members * R4C – Reflecting4Change: the use of self-reflection tools as vehicles to support innovation and systemic change in schools to become digitally mature and open *EDEN NAP webinar – 7 April* <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> The next EDEN NAP webinar 'What do I do as an educator with learning analytics?' <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> will take place on Wednesday, *7 April 2021, 17:00 CEST*. Type of session: presentations with discussion. You will get the joining instructions in an e-mail after the registration. Register for the webinar <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> Add to Calendar <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> *Panelists* *Anna Gillespie* Associate Lecturer, Open University, UK *Ed Foster* Head of Student Engagement & Analytics, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK *Dr Dirk Tempelaar* Associate Professor, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Netherlands *Dr Robert Bodily* Senior Data Scientist and Researcher, Zappee LLC, US *Prof Bart Rienties* Professor of Learning Analytics and programme lead of the learning analytics and learning design research programme, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK *Description* In this interactive webinar for EDEN, we will share lived experiences of how four organisations in six countries are using learning analytics on a daily basis. Some of these organisations have implemented learning analytics at an institutional scale, while others have created more specific and bespoke applications and practices. analytics. Read more HERE. <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> *30 years of serving and supporting education - shaping education for a post Covid era* <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> In 2021 EDEN is celebrating the 30th Anniversary <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> of its establishment. We look forward to share the pleasure of this special year with our members, partners and friends. Please read the blog post of EDEN President *Sandra Kučina Softić* reflecting on this special occasion. Read HERE. <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> We also invite all of you to send, upload, share your memories, experience, memorable moments and of course your reflections, advices to EDEN throughout the anniversary year on the newly introduced EDEN30 site <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…>. *EURODL ONLINE EDITORIAL SYSTEM RENEWED* The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning – EURODL <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> – has moved to Editorial Manager (EM), an online manuscript managing system developed by Aries Systems and used by over 5000 journals. The new platform provides the authors, reviewers and our editorial team with transparent and user-friendly tools. The evaluation and publication process support ensures our journal's quality standards and contributes to enhanced visibility. Your article can be submitted HERE <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…>. Community Update *One year into COVID: Prioritizing education recovery to avoid a generational catastrophe – UNESCO Ministerial on-line event on 29 March* <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> *Monday 29 March, 14:00 CET, a high-level Ministerial on-line event* As the world enters a second year living with the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO will convene a high-level ministerial event on 29 March to take stock of lessons learnt, the greatest risks facing education and strategies to leave no learner behind, building on the actions of the Global Education Coalition (GEC) established in March 2020 that marks its first anniversary. The meeting will provide the global education community with a space for policy dialogue to assess lessons learnt and the most pressing current challenges, informed by the presentation of key data sets. Main participants will be Ministers of Education, high-level representatives of partners within the GEC and of sister agencies. The debate will be framed around three key topics related to: * *Keeping schools open, prioritizing and supporting teachers* * *School and university drop out & learning loss* * *Digital transformation and the future of education* The link will be posted on http://on.unesco.org/2NpK3G2 <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> *PLEIADE project website is available! * The project website of PLEIADE <https://eden-online.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d513a442748b7ef82571e…> (PLayful Environment for Inclusive leArning Design in Europe) is now public. 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Fwd: [AISWorld] Vol.12, No.4, Knowledge Management & E-Learning (Indexed by ESCI, Scopus)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Vol.12, No.4, Knowledge Management & E-Learning (Indexed by ESCI, Scopus) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:44:27 +0800 From: maggie wang <maggiemhwang(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ************************************ Vol.12, No.4, Knowledge Management & E-Learning (Indexed by ESCI, Scopus) ************************************ As Editors-in-Chief of Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL), we are very pleased to announce the release of this issue. Please see below for a detailed description of the contents. A FREE copy of this Issue can be downloaded at Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL) http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication KM&EL Lab, The University of Hong Kong http://kmel-lab.org/website/index.html Maggie M. Wang and Stephen J. H. Yang Editors-in-Chief of KM&EL ************************************* The contents of this issue ************************************* Special Issue on “Visualizing user experience and stories: From customer journeys to patient experience mapping” Editorial: Visualizing user experience and stories: From customer journeys to patient experience mapping by Andre W. Kushniruk and Avi Parush Patient journey mapping: Current practices, challenges and future opportunities in healthcare by Amanda L. Joseph, Andre W. Kushniruk and Elizabeth M. Borycki A case study of patient journey mapping to identify gaps in healthcare: Learning from experience with cancer diagnosis and treatment By Andre W. Kushniruk, Elizabeth M. Borycki and Avi Parush Innovative care: Using ‘A day in the life’ as a tool to explore opportunities for a tech-enabled home for older Canadians By Rei Ahn and Sara Aghvami Opportunities for improving how and when Canadians are informed about new prescription medications By Helen Monkman, Andre W. Kushniruk, Elizabeth M. Borycki, Debra Sheets, Jeff Barnett and Hannah Park The current state of knowledge on mobile health interventions for opioid related harm: Integrating scoping review findings with the patient journey By Monica Aggarwal, Elizabeth M. Borycki, Evangeline Wagner and Kat Gosselin Portrait of Ms. Diaz: Empirical study of patient journey mapping instruction for medical professional students By Hannah Park, Helen Monkman, Allison Wenger and Blake Lesselroth Initial steps to measurement and improvement of family-centered communication during the pediatric patient journey of bone marrow transplantation By John F. Huber, Judith W. Dexheimer, Hannah Ingraham, Catherine Desmond, Anna Klunk, Katilyn Kusnier, Dawn Nebrig, Laura Flesch, Annamarie Borich, Stella M. Davies and Christopher E. Dandoy Healthcare experience design: A conceptual and methodological framework for understanding the effects of usability on the access, delivery, and receipt of healthcare By Jessica Lynn Campbell Patient journey mapping: Integrating digital technologies into the journey By Elizabeth M. Borycki, Andre W. Kushniruk, Evangeline Wagner and Ryan Kletke ******************************* Calls for Papers http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/announcement Special Issue on "Knowledge Creation, Translation and Mobilization About Information Technologies and Devices that Improve Citizen and Society Safety" Guest Editors: Prof. Elizabeth M. Borycki Prof. Andre W. Kushniruk Special Issue on "Digital, or Undigital, that is the question: Shaping the future of Knowledge Management" Guest Editors: Prof. Piera Centobelli Prof. Roberto Cerchione ********************************* Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (Indexed by ESCI, Scopus) http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication KM&EL Journal Metrics (Scopus): 2019 CiteScore: 2.2 | Ranking: 344/1254 Education | 95/231Management of Technology and Innovation 2019 SJR: 0.414 | Ranking: 36/73 e-Learning | 543/1272 Education | 108/241 Management of Technology and Innovation _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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