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Fwd: [wkwi] CfP: ECIS 2021 - Track "Rethinking IS Strategy and Governance in the Digital Age"
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] CfP: ECIS 2021 - Track "Rethinking IS Strategy and Governance in the Digital Age" Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:21:34 +0000 From: Urbach, Nils, Prof. Dr. <nils.urbach(a)fim-rc.de> Reply-To: Urbach, Nils, Prof. Dr. <nils.urbach(a)fim-rc.de> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, wi(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de>, wkwi(a)listserv.dfn.de <wkwi(a)listserv.dfn.de> CC: ulrich.remus(a)uibk.ac.at <ulrich.remus(a)uibk.ac.at>, Martin Wiener <martin.wiener(a)tu-dresden.de> (Apologies for cross-postings of this announcement.) **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 29th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2021) Track: Rethinking IS Strategy and Governance in the Digital Age June 14-16, 2021, Marrakech, Morocco (https://www.ecis2021.com/tracks-description <https://www.ecis2021.com/tracks-description>) **************************************************************************** TRACK CHAIRS Ulrich Remus, University of Innsbruck, Austria, ulrich.remus(a)uibk.ac.at <mailto:ulrich.remus@uibk.ac.at> (corresponding track chair) Nils Urbach, Frankfurt UAS & Fraunhofer FIT, Germany, nils.urbach(a)fim-rc.de <mailto:nils.urbach@fim-rc.de> Martin Wiener, TU Dresden, Germany, martin.wiener(a)tu-dresden.de <mailto:martin.wiener@tu-dresden.de> DESCRIPTION In the digital age, innovative technologies influence and change established work processes, products, services, and business models by connecting individuals, organizations, machines, and other ‘things’ in new ways, as well as by enabling novel working, collaboration, and automation models (Fitzgerald et al. 2014). To succeed in this highly competitive and dynamic environment, organizations must unfold the potential of advanced digital technologies in their business strategies, transform their work routines, processes and structures, rethink their business models, as well as manage and govern IT infrastructures that are central to their value propositions (Legner et al. 2017). In short, pervasive digitalization has increased the importance of information technology (IT) and transformed the demands placed on organizations in general, and IT functions in particular. Besides ensuring regular IT operations, IT functions are increasingly required to proactively identify technological innovations and to rapidly transfer them into marketable solutions – and with that to directly contribute to their organization’s value proposition (Urbach et al. 2017). In this context, IS strategizing and governance represent key activities for the effective deployment of IT resources and ultimately for value creation through IT. The emergence of new digital technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence [AI], big-data analytics, blockchain, cloud computing) and infrastructures (e.g., digital platforms and ecosystems), novel value-creation processes and work practices (e.g., IT consumerization, human-robot collaboration, resource sharing) along with the availability of unprecedented data volumes challenge existing conceptualizations and theories related to IS strategy and governance (Markus 2017; Newell & Marabelli 2015). For instance, while cloud services may make the IT artefact seemingly disappear, the challenge of governing the design and use of such services and associated IT resources has become even more acute (Schneider & Sunyaev 2016). Digital business models and gig economy platforms that revolve around resource sharing and/or complex product-service offerings not only challenge organizational boundaries, but also established ideas about ownership of resources, tasks, and outputs (Schor 2014). Similarly, while AI-based algorithms can automate business processes, they also highlight the need for data and process governance (Tarafdar et al. 2017). At the same time, in organizations where more ‘traditional’ technologies and work arrangements are still dominant, IS strategy and governance challenges remain highly complex and important (Wiener et al. 2016). The objectives of the proposed track are two-fold. First, from a scholarly research perspective, the objective is to foster and promote novel concepts and theories on IS strategy and governance, with a particular focus on the manifold opportunities and challenges associated with the pervasive digitalization of business and society. Second, the track aims at offering insights that enable IS practitioners to leverage emerging digital technologies, to respond to digitalization challenges, and ultimately, to make effective use of available IT resources. The track is open to all types of contributions—including research in progress—studying IS strategy and governance topics from different stakeholder perspectives, in different contexts and settings (e.g., for-profits and non-profits), at different levels of analysis (e.g., individual, project, program, organizational, network, ecosystem, and societal level), and with different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches (e.g., conceptual, design-oriented, and empirical studies). We particularly welcome studies that address the conference theme “Human Values Crisis in a Digitizing World” by discussing and expanding our understanding of how digital technologies (e.g., those used for control or governance purposes) and human values influence each other and sometimes conflict, whether at the individual, the organizational and/or the societal level. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Digital strategizing and strategy implementation (e.g., link to overall business strategy, development of digital capabilities, sustainability of digital strategies, translation of strategic objectives into governance practices and structures) • Strategic impact of emerging digital technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, blockchain, big-data analytics, cloud computing) on business models, governance structures, and processes, etc. • Governance of digital transformation and innovation processes (e.g., new governance models for complex organizations, such as companies operating with coexisting ‘brick and mortar’ and digital business models) • Changing role of CIO function & New role of CDO function (e.g., ‘digital race’ between CIO and CDO, structure and nature of business-IT relationships) • Data-driven leadership and control approaches (e.g., algorithmic management of work processes, technology-mediated control) • Governance of digital value-creation processes and networks (e.g., digital platforms and ecosystems, Industry 4.0 and cyber-physical systems, IT consumerization, IT-enabled product-service systems, resource sharing, etc.) • Governance of novel work practices (e.g., agile software development, human-robot interaction and collaboration) and sourcing models (e.g., crowdsourcing, multi-sourcing, open-sourcing, and back-sourcing) • Information security governance (e.g., cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and policies for critical infrastructures) • Dark side of digital strategies/governance, including ethical issues as well as undesired ecological, economic, and socio-emotional side-effects (e.g., technostress) • Critical reflections on IS strategy and governance in the digital age (e.g., truly ‘new’ features and challenges of digitalization, links to traditional research streams) • Novel theoretical perspectives and research approaches that broaden, or challenge, our understanding of IS strategy and governance in the digital age REFERENCES • Fitzgerald, M., Kruschwitz, N., Bonnet, D., & Welch, M. (2014) “Embracing Digital Technology: A New Strategic Imperative,” MIT Sloan Management Review, 55(2), 1-12. • Legner, C., Eymann, T., Hess, T., Matt, C., Böhmann, T., Drews, P., Maedche, A., Urbach, N., & Ahlemann F. (2017) “Digitalization: Opportunity and Challenge for the Business and Information Systems Engineering Community,” Business & Information Systems Engineering, 59(4), 301-308. • Markus, M. L. (2017) “Datification, Organizational Strategy, and IS Research: What’s the Score?” Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 26(3), 233-241. • Newell, S., & Marabelli, M. (2015) "Strategic Opportunities (and Challenges) of Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Call for Action on the Long-Term Societal Effects of ‘Datification’,” Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 24(1), 3-14. • Schneider, S., & Sunyaev, A. (2016) “Determinant Factors of Cloud-Sourcing Decisions: Reflecting on the IT Outsourcing Literature in the Era of Cloud Computing,” Journal of Information Technology, 31(1), 1-31. • Schor, J. (2014) “Debating the Sharing Economy,” Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics, 4(3), 1-13. • Tarafdar, M., Beath, C., & Ross, J. (2017) “Enterprise Cognitive Computing Applications: Opportunities and Challenges,” IT Professional, 19(4), 2-8. • Urbach, N., Drews, P., & Ross, J. (2017) “Digital Business Transformation and the Changing Role of the IT Function,” MIS Quarterly Executive, 16(2), ii-iv. • Wiener, M., Mähring, M., Remus, U., & Saunders, C. (2016) “Control Configuration and Control Enactment in Information Systems Projects: Review and Expanded Theoretical Framework,” MIS Quarterly, 40(3), 741-774. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 18 November 2020 Notification of conditional acceptance: 03 March 2021 Final acceptance: 23 April 2021 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany Edward W. N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Arne Buchwald, EBS Business School, Germany Bendik Bygstad, University of Oslo, Norway Suranjan Chakraborty, Towson University, USA Alec W. Cram, Bentley University, USA Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Paul Drews, University of Lüneburg, Germany Stefan Henningsson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Thomas Huber, ESSEC Business School, France Robert Keller, University of Bayreuth, Germany Magnus Mähring, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Jeffrey Proudfoot, Bentley University, USA Harminder Singh, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Susanne Strahringer, TU Dresden, Germany Till Winkler, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Ruilin Zhu, Lancaster University, UK Angelika Zimmermann, Loughborough University, UK Thank you for your interest in rethinking IS strategy and governance in the digital age. We are looking forward to your contributions and seeing you (hopefully physically) in Marrakech!

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Cfps: Special issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Combat a Pandemic
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Cfps: Special issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Combat a Pandemic Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:32:53 -0600 From: Jeet Gupta <guptaj(a)uah.edu> To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> *Journal of Data, Information, and Management* *Call for Paper for Special Issue on* *Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Combat a Pandemic* COVID-19 has become a global public health pandemics, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars of economic damage. Scientists, researchers, doctors and healthcare experts around the world are studying this pandemic and its impacts on individuals, organizations and societies. While there is no cure yet for the virus, contact tracing has become an important part of the response to the covid-19 pandemic. This has led to calls for new technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, capable of detecting, tracking, and isolating Covid-19 cases, to slow the spread of the coronavirus. This also includes performing predictive analytics on relational, temporal and/or spatial data (medical encounter data, hospital admission data, social media data, mobile apps data and others) and use the insights from it to understand and monitor the epidemic. Further, the impact of Covid-19 is not limited just to the healthcare sector as all other sectors of any economy of the world are affected as well. Therefore, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the need to understand different things in a new way has also created pressure to develop analytical tools. In particular, research has been done on how the virus spreads among the population and what health problems are caused by viral infections, as well as how different treatment measures affect the disease. Recently, however, other problems caused by the Covid-19 virus, such as economic and social problems, have also arisen. These various problems are constantly accumulating a considerable amount of data, which can be either a well-defined or fragmented news stream. In this special issue of the *Journal of Data, Information and Management* on the theme of “Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (including machine learning) to combat Covid-19” is intended to obtain insights and viewpoints from scholars and practitioners on the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning for the prevention or reduction of the negative impact of COVID-19. We seek for articles that apply artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science concepts and techniques to study the pandemic and its effects on individuals, organizations or the supply chain at large. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: · The behavioral, temporal, societal, and organizational aspects of the pandemic · Predictive modeling of COVID-19 spread based on hospital data · Location-based human mobility data (e.g. social media, mobile) to track COVID-19 · Use of AI and machine learning enabled devices to detect COVID-19 · Analysis of disease transmissions and interventions · Data analysis of the impact of various (non)government intervention policies (e.g. stay-at-home, mask mandate) on the COVID-19 transmission · How enterprise systems (i.e. ERP, SCM, CRM) complement, the ever increasing need to work from home. · Urban logistics · Sustainability issues · Supply Chain Flexibility · Food Supply Chains · Distant work (productivity and social impact) · Innovation in the supply chain · Globalization of supply chains · Supply Chain Risk · Innovative strategies to limit risk of epidemic disease propagation · Simulation of outbreak events · Big data-driven health system response to epidemic outbreaks on operations risk identification · AI-based epidemic network analysis · MCDM models in field of healthcare risk management · IoT application in healthcare · Humanitarian logistics dealing with uncertainties · Other topics related this special issue *Important Dates:* December 15, 2020: Submission deadline for paper submission January 31, 2021: First round of reviews to the authors March 31, 2021: Submission of the revised papers May 15, 2021: Notification of the acceptance decision August 1, 2021: Publication of the special issue *Guest Editor-in-Chief:* Jatinder N. D. Gupta, University of Alabama in Huntsville, *guptaj(a)uah.edu <guptaj(a)uah.edu>* *Guest Editors*: Markku Kuula, *markku.kuula(a)aalto.fi <markku.kuula(a)aalto.fi>* Yanfei Lan, Tianjin University, *lanyf(a)tju.edu.cn <lanyf(a)tju.edu.cn>* Amir Zadeh, Wright State University, *amir.zadeh(a)wright.edu <amir.zadeh(a)wright.edu>* *Submission Instructions**:* Inquiries about this special issue should be directed to guest editors. All papers must be submitted through the official online submission system at *https://www.editorialmanager.com/dima/default.aspx <https://www.editorialmanager.com/dima/default.aspx>*, and select the special issue from the menu. Please follow the instructions to authors *https://www.springer.com/journal/42488/submission-guidelines <https://www.springer.com/journal/42488/submission-guidelines>*. All papers will undergo the journal’s standard initial screening processes. For questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editor-in-chief, Jatinder Gupta via e-mail at *guptaj(a)uah.edu <guptaj(a)uah.edu>* or telephone at +1 256 824-6593. Best regards, Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta, PhD, CFPIM Director, Integrated Enterprise Lab Eminent Scholar and Professor College of Business The University of Alabama in Huntsville 301 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, AL 35899 Phone: 256-824-6593 (office) 256-520-0175 (cell) FAX: 256-824-6328 E-mail: guptaj(a)uah.edu

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Fwd: [WI] TSD 2021 - Preliminary Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] TSD 2021 - Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:53:25 +0100 From: TSD 2021 <tsd2021(a)tsdconference.org> Reply-To: TSD 2021 <tsd2021(a)tsdconference.org> To: tsd2021(a)tsdconference.org ************************************************************************** TSD 2021 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 06-09, 2021 http://www.tsdconference.org IMPORTANT TSD2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which is going to be held in Brno, Czech Republic. Olomouc is only 77 km (48 mi) away from Brno (30-45 min by car, 1 hour by public transport). COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS As the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the TSD2021 organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if necessary. * PC members have a good experience with it from TSD2020. * A virtual conference would mean significantly decreased conference fees. * If the majority of participants can travel to the Czech Republic, the onsite mode of the conference will be preferred. For others, there would be special virtual sessions. Organizers will record all the sessions. All measures have been taken to ensure that the organization of the TSD 2021 conference in September 2021 is not threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. TSD HIGHLIGHTS * The TSD book of proceedings is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers a high-standard transparent review process -- double blind, final reviewers' discussion. * TSD is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts, Palacky university, Olomouc. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, social events, etc.) for an easily affordable fee. IMPORTANT DATES April 18, 2021 ........... Deadline for submission of contributions May 21, 2021 ............. Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2021 ............. Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers September 06-09, 2021 .... TSD2021 conference time The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in the form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for an extra fee. TSD SERIES The TSD series has evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 24th conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modeling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modeling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and personality modeling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2021/index.php?page=committees. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. LOCATION Olomouc is a beautiful place on the Morava river with more than a thousand-year-long history. Once a capital of Moravia - one of the three historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown - nowadays, it still somehow waits to be rediscovered. The world-renowned tourist guide Lonely Planet alerted to this fact by putting Olomouc onto the list of TOP 10 tourist destinations not to be missed during a visit to Europe. It even claimed Olomouc is one of the most unappreciated destinations in the Czech Republic. By its beauty, Olomouc can, however, easily compete with not only Prague but any other most sought spots around Europe. It certainly deserves our attention. One can find there the second most important urban conservation zone in the Czech Republic, surrounded by splendorous parks, an incredible concentration of ecclesiastical structures, UNESCO-protected monuments, and even a horolog with a history maybe more interesting than the Prague one. All together safe from the neverending bustle of large cities... The most important monument in Olomouc is the Holy Trinity Column standing in the central square. It represents the largest group of Baroque statues in one structure in Central Europe. Apart from many historical buildings such as Olomouc castle with the gothic cathedral of St. Wenceslas or the former Olomouc fortress, another interesting point about Olomouc is the astronomical clock, designed in the spirit of Socialist Realism. The city of Olomouc has a convenient location close to the geographic centre of Moravia (a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic), on the banks of the river Morava. The place forms an important highway and railroad junction; thus, it is easily accessible using both individual and public means of transport. Olomouc lies 260 km (162 mi) eastwards from the Czech capital Prague, and 210 km (130 mi) from both the Slovakian capital Bratislava and the Austrian capital Vienna. The closest international airports are 77 km (48 mi) away in Brno, and 202 km (126 mi) away in Katowice in Poland. We are very excited about the fact that the TSD2021 is going to take place in such a fabulous, unique and rich in history city as Olomouc. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen; the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno; and the Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc. VENUE Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc Biskupske nam. 842/1 77900 Olomouc Czech Republic CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Ms Lucie Tauchenova, TSD2021 Conference Secretary E-mail: TSD2021(a)tsdconference.org Phone: +420 730 851 103 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2021 - NTIS P2 Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: +420 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD2021 conference website: http://www.tsdconference.org/ -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: 2020 HITS- Health Information Technology Symposium (Formerly the SIG-Health Pre-ICIS Workshop)
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: 2020 HITS- Health Information Technology Symposium (Formerly the SIG-Health Pre-ICIS Workshop) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:55:11 +0000 From: Matt W. Wimble <mwimble(a)suffolk.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Call for Papers: 2020 HITS- Health Information Technology Symposium (Formerly the SIG-Health Pre-ICIS Workshop) An AIS SIG-Health Sponsored Workshop December 15, 2020, Online HITS (formerly the SIG-Health Pre-ICIS Workshop) is a pre-conference activity of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) hosted by the Special Interest Group Health IT (SIGHEALTH). It provides a forum for those working on information technology in the context of healthcare. We welcome both research-in-progress and completed work on a broad range of topics and methodologies. Authors do not have to be SIG-Health members to participate. Please note that papers do not need to be specific to the conference theme. Any paper on health IT is acceptable. The papers will not be included in conference proceedings and so authors retain all copyrights to their work. However, accepted papers will be listed with author names, affiliations and title on the AIS SIG-Health website. Authors will have the option to include their final extended abstract on the website as well. The workshop is typically restricted to 40 participants and will include presentations and round-table discussions. All submitted work will be reviewed by the co-chairs and other workshop authors. All accepted papers will then be presented and discussed during round-table discussions to provide authors with help, feedback, suggestions, and to facilitate future collaborations. We will have 3-5 authors per table to facilitate discussion. The paper with highest review scores may be presented to all workshop attendees. The interactive format of the workshop is geared towards providing a high degree of feedback to authors with promising early-stage work, but is certainly open to developed and completed research as well. Workshop Registration Fees: TBD Submission Instructions We will request extended abstracts for presentation at the workshop. Papers must be in English, and need to contain original research. Submit your work at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hits2020. Create a single pdf file containing an extended abstract that is no longer than six pages (blinded, 11-pt font, one-inch margins on four sides, double-spaced). Please note the extended abstract format of this workshop. Manuscripts which fail to comply with the formatting requirements will likely be rejected. Do not send full length papers. This workshop is designed to given authors of papers at many stages of development timely feedback, therefore authors need to adhere to the format guidelines to facilitate a timely review process. Also note: 1) By submitting, the author team agrees to perform two reviews of other abstracts submitted to the workshop and we have a quick . This is done to ensure each manuscript gets at minimum two reviews. 2) we do not hold copyright, but we do produce an informal proceedings to facilitate discussion at the workshop. Important Dates * Deadline for workshop submissions: Friday, November 7 2020. * Deadline for reviews: Friday November 23, 2020 * Notification of Acceptance: Monday November 26, 2020 (target date) * Workshop: December 15, 2020 (target date, details on start and end time will be provided at a later date) Workshop Chairs Renee Pratt, PhD 2020 HITS Co-Chair University of North Georgia rpratt(a)ung.edu Matt Wimble, PhD 2020 HITS Co-Chair Suffolk University mwimble(a)suffolk.edu Matt Wimble, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Information Systems and Operations Management Sawyer Business School Suffolk University Office: Sargent Hall, Room 5111 Tel: 617.227.4618 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=oCPKl6EAAAAJ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/matt-wimble-77b59955 "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. " - Ernest Hemingway _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Invitation to a free participation at ICTO2020 (Nov 5th and 6th, 2020)
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Invitation to a free participation at ICTO2020 (Nov 5th and 6th, 2020) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:38:57 +0000 (UTC) From: harfouche tony <harfoant(a)yahoo.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues member of the AIS, It is my pleasure to invite you to the ICTO2020 conference on "Smart Technologies for an inclusive world" that will take place online on Nov 5th and 6th, 2020. Please find the link to the program of the conference: https://www.icto.info/icto2020-detailed-program You can also find the online links to the 23 sessions: https://www.icto.info/icto2020-online ICTO2020 will be an interesting opportunity to discuss many timely topics such as the impact of Artificial Intelligence on organisations and society and the role of Big data analytics in changing how decision making is done in organisations. For a free registration please follow this link: https://www.icto.info/icto2020-registration Best Antoine Harfouche, PhD www.icto2020.webs.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: MWAIS 2021 - Submission Deadline: February 26, 2021
by Gustaf Neumann 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: MWAIS 2021 - Submission Deadline: February 26, 2021 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 07:44:00 -0500 From: Jacob Young <jayoung(a)fsmail.bradley.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org MWAIS 2021 Conference Midwest United States Association for Information Systems 16th Annual Conference May 20-21, 2021 Foster College of Business Bradley University Peoria, Illinois https://mwais2021.com ***Call for Papers*** The 16th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference seeks to provide an intimate environment to facilitate the sharing of ideas and findings in the area of information systems. We invite submissions of completed manuscripts, research-in-progress papers, panel proposals, workshop, and tutorial proposals addressing behavioral, organizational, and technical aspects of information systems. ***Manuscript Submission Deadlines*** Full-length and Research-in-progress papers: February 26, 2021 Panels, Workshops, and Tutorial Proposals: March 5, 2021 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 2, 2021 Final Submission Deadline for Camera-Ready Copy: April 16, 2021 Author(s) Registration Deadline: April 16, 2021 ***Submission Guidelines*** Submissions should be posted electronically in MS Word or PDF at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mwais2021 by the submission deadline. The initial blinded submission template is available: https://mwais2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/mwais2021_submission_template… The camera-ready submission template is available https://mwais2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/mwais2021_final_template.docx Completed and research-in-progress submissions will undergo a double-blind review process by at least two reviewers. To facilitate the blind review, please do not include any author or affiliation identification on any page (except the separate cover page), in headings/footers, or in the properties of the submitted file. Previously published work or work under review elsewhere is not eligible for submission. All submissions should be posted electronically in either MS Word or PDF using the submission templates. For accepted research, the MWAIS 2021 proceedings will be available through the Association for Information Systems Electronic Library (AISeL). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference no later than April 16, 2021, for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. ***Full Length Submissions*** You may submit a full length (not to exceed six single-spaced pages with approximately 2,500 words, including all figures, tables, appendices, and references), original, and previously unpublished manuscript. The research may be conceptual, empirical or applied. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety. Select papers included in the MWAIS 2021 conference will be considered for an expedited review process and possible inclusion in the Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (JMWAIS) (http://www.jmwais.org). In addition, the top three conference papers will be awarded best paper awards sponsored by the Midwest Association for Information Systems. Authors of these papers who choose to submit their papers to the JMWAIS will be awarded a monetary prize and these papers will undergo an expedited review process by the journal. ***Research-in-Progress*** You may submit research-in-progress proposals (abstracts) or a summary of tentative results of the study to date in a 1,500-2,000 word paper with a maximum of two figures/tables. ***Panel, Workshop, and Tutorial Submissions*** Individuals interested in conducting a panel, workshop, or tutorial dealing with technological, managerial, professional, teaching, societal, national or international issues of information technology management are invited to submit a 500-1,000 word proposal covering the objectives, issues to be covered, and the names/addresses of any other panel, workshop, or tutorial members. The method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion. A computer lab will be available if needed. However, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own participants (such as panel members). All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop, and tutorial members must register for the conference.) ***Potential Topics*** Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals, and panel, workshop, or tutorial proposals are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas: * Accounting Information Systems * Adoption and Diffusion of IS/T * Big Data Analytics * Business Intelligence * Business Process Management * Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and its Implications * Cloud Computing and Services * Computing and Ethics * Database Management Technologies * Decision Support Technologies * Design Science * Distance Learning Technologies * e-Collaboration in Organizations * Economic Value of IS/T * Electronic Business Technologies and Management * Energy Informatics * Enterprise Resource Planning * FinTech * Global IT Management * Green Computing and Sustainability * Health Care Informatics * Human Computer Interaction * Information Security Management * InsurTech * IT and Small Businesses * IT Business Value * Information Systems and Sustainability (Green IS) * IS and Grand Societal Challenges (Inequality, Climate Change, Cyber Security, etc.) * Information Technology Education * Information Technology Standards * Intelligent Information Systems * IT Evaluation Methods and Management * IT Management in Healthcare * IT Teaching Cases * Knowledge Management * Medical Information Technology * Mobile Computing & Commerce * Multimedia Information Management * Object Oriented Technology * Online and Blended Teaching and Learning * Open Source Technologies and Systems * Project Management * Software Engineering * Software Process Improvement * Strategic IT Management * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtualization Technologies and Management * Virtual Organizations and Society ***Student Support*** MWAIS will waive the registration fee for students whose papers are accepted and who will be presenting at the conference (one student per paper). ***Submission or Volunteer Inquiries*** For additional information about submissions or helping out as a reviewer or session chair, please contact the conference chair by e-mail: Jake Young (jayoung(a)fsmail.bradley.edu) *Jacob A. Young, D.B.A.* Director, Center for Cybersecurity Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems Department of Entrepreneurship, Technology and Law Foster College of Business Bradley University _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'21, Terceira Island, Azores | Deadline: November 15
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] WorldCIST'21, Terceira Island, Azores | Deadline: November 15 Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 13:42:06 +0000 From: Alvaro Rocha <amrrocha(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org * CORE Ranking conference * Conference with a Google Scholar H5-Index = 19 * Proceedings published by Springer, in several books of the AISC series * Indexed in Scopus, WoS, DBLP, Ei-Compendex, etc. * Extended versions of best articles published in JCR/WoS/SCI journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021 | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal http://www.worldcist.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held in Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'21. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Technologies for Biomedical Applications (TBA) N) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR); TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. Poster papers and Company papers are not published in the Conference Proceedings, being only presented and discussed. The authors of accepted poster papers should build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted Full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted Short papers and Company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper or short paper is published, poster paper or company paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 2nd of January 2021, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and Short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will not be published, just presented in the conference. Published Full and Short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 5.605 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.706 / Q1) - Neural Computing and Applications (IF: 4.774 / Q1) - Computers in Industry (IF: 3.954 / Q1) - Advanced Engineering Informatics (IF: 3.879 / Q1) - Informatica - An International Journal (IF: 3.312 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 3.058 / Q1) - Telecommunications Policy (IF: 2.224 / Q2) - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (IF: 1.558 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 1.546 / Q2) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.851 / Q3) - Journal of Computer Information Systems (IF: 1.582 / Q3) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.927 / Q4) - Data Technologies and Applications (IF: 0.704 / Q4) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ESCI & SJR: 0.52 / Q2) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management (DOAJ & ProQuest) IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 15, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: December 23, 2020 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 2, 2021. Camera-ready Submission: January 2, 2021 Website of WorldCIST'21: http://www.worldcist.org/ Álvaro Rocha ISEG, University of Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: amr(a)iseg.ulisboa.pt Skype ID: amrrocha _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'21, Terceira Island, Azores
by Gustaf Neumann 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'21, Terceira Island, Azores Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 13:45:42 +0000 From: ML <marialemos72(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: worldcist(a)gmail.com To: AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org * CORE Ranking conference * Conference with a Google Scholar H5-Index = 19 * Proceedings published by Springer, in several books of the AISC series * Indexed in Scopus, WoS, DBLP, Ei-Compendex, etc. * Extended versions of best articles published in JCR/WoS/SCI journals ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------------- WorldCIST'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021 | Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal http://www.worldcist.org/ <http://www.worldcist.org/> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------------- Scope The WorldCist'21 - 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held in Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, 30-31 March to 1-2 April 2021, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'21. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. Themes Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Technologies for Biomedical Applications (TBA) N) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR); Types of Submissions and Decisions Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. Poster papers and Company papers are not published in the Conference Proceedings, being only presented and discussed. The authors of accepted poster papers should build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted Full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted Short papers and Company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. Publication and Indexing To ensure that a full paper or short paper is published, poster paper or company paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 2nd of January 2021, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and Short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will not be published, just presented in the conference. Published Full and Short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 5.605 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.706 / Q1) - Computers in Industry (IF: 3.954 / Q1) - Advanced Engineering Informatics (IF: 3.879 / Q1) - Informatica - An International Journal (IF: 3.312 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 3.058 / Q1) - Telecommunications Policy (IF: 2.224 / Q2) - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (IF: 1.558 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 1.546 / Q2) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.851 / Q3) - Journal of Computer Information Systems (IF: 1.582 / Q3) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.927 / Q4) - Data Technologies and Applications (IF: 0.704 / Q4) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ESCI & SJR: 0.52 / Q2) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management (DOAJ & ProQuest) Important Dates Paper Submission: November 15, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: December 23, 2020 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 2, 2021. Camera-ready Submission: January 2, 2021 Website of WorldCIST'21: http://www.worldcist.org/ <http://www.worldcist.org/> WorldCIST'21 Team http://www.worldcist.org/ <http://www.worldcist.org/> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: Journal of Internet Services and Applications welcomes your open access submission!
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Journal of Internet Services and Applications welcomes your open access submission! Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:01:55 +0000 From: Springer <springer(a)newsletter.springer.com> Reply-To: Springer <onlineservice(a)springer.com> To: gustaf.neumann(a)wu.ac.at Springer Our Business is Publishing Header image <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> Journal of Internet Services and Applications <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> Journal of Internet Services and Applications Publishing open access means your work is open to all: it can be read, used, and built upon by researchers worldwide. On average, open access articles benefit from *4 times more downloads* and *1.6 times more citations* than articles behind a paywall. As the world's largest open access publisher, we are committed to helping you succeed. We provide a free service <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> to make it easier to discover and apply for article processing charges for journals like Journal of Internet Services and Applications <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…>, and you can contact us <mailto:OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com> at any time for further advice. Learn more about publishing open access in Journal of Internet Services and Applications <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> Invitation to submit a paper Journal of Internet Services and Applications <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> Editors-in-Chief: *Gordon Blair* Lancaster University, UK *Lisandro Granville *Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Editor-in-Chief Emeritus *Fabio Kon*, University of São Paulo, Brazil Supported by a distinguished international editorial board <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> Is your research a good fit? We welcome your submission! <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> Institutional open access agreements <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> *Discover our funding support service * Did you know there are more than 250 open access article processing charge (APC) funds available to researchers worldwide? *Learn more <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…>* © Springer <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> This email has been sent to gustaf.neumann(a)wu.ac.at. SpringerAlerts delivers directly into your inbox, all the information you need to keep you abreast of the latest developments in your discipline. If you haven't done so already sign-up now! <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…>If you do not wish to receive further information about Springer's publishing program in your interest field, please use the following link: Unsubscribe <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…>. For all enquiries, problems or suggestions regarding this service, please contact springeralerts(a)springer.com <mailto:springeralerts@springer.com>. Springer respects your privacy and does not disclose, sell or rent your personal information to any non-affiliated third parties without your consent. Please visit our Springer Privacy Statement <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…>. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add Springer(a)newsletter.springer.com <mailto:Springer@newsletter.springer.com> to your address book. Springer-Verlag GmbH Heidelberg, Tiergartenstrasse 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany, phone: +49 6221 487 0, fax: +49 6221 487 8366 LinkedIn © 2020 Springer | Part of Springer Nature | GTC <https://s4cloudae36f1aac.hana.ondemand.com:443/data-buffer/sap/public/cuan/…> 7376

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Fwd: [WI] [CFP] Special Issue "Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence" - MDPI Information, open access
by Gustaf Neumann 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] [CFP] Special Issue "Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence" - MDPI Information, open access Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:24:30 +0100 From: Fulvio Frati <fulvio.frati(a)unimi.it> Reply-To: Fulvio Frati <fulvio.frati(a)unimi.it> To: wi(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Special Issue "Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence" [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] **************************************************************** Special Issue "Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence" MDPI Information, open access Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/advance_explain_AI **************************************************************** The following special issue will be published in Information (ISSN 2078-2489, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information), and is now open to receive submissions of full research articles and comprehensive review papers for peer-review and possible publication. The papers will be published, after a standard peer-review procedure, in Open Access journal Information. The official deadline for submission is 31 May 2021. However, you may send your manuscript at any time before the deadline. If accepted, the paper will be published very soon. ** SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION Machine Learning (ML)-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms can learn from known examples of various abstract representations and models that, once applied to unknown examples, can perform classification, regression, or forecasting tasks, to name a few. Very often, these highly effective ML representations are difficult to understand; this holds true particularly for Deep Learning models, which can involve millions of parameters. However, for many applications, it is of utmost importance for the stakeholders to understand the decisions made by the system, in order to use them better. Furthermore, for decisions that affect an individual, the legislation might even advocate in the future a “right to an explanation”. Overall, improving the algorithms’ explainability may foster trust and social acceptance of AI. The need to make ML algorithms more transparent and more explainable has given rise to several lines of research that form an area known as explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Among the goals of XAI are adding transparency to ML models by providing detailed information about why the system has reached a particular decision; designing more explainable and transparent ML models, while at the same time maintaining high-performance levels; finding a way to evaluate the overall explainability and transparency of the models and quantifying their effectiveness for different stakeholders. The objective of this Special Issue is to explore recent advances and techniques in the XAI area. Research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Devising machine learning models that are transparent-by-design; - Planning for transparency, from data collection up to training, test, and production; - Developing algorithms and user interfaces for explainability; - Identifying and mitigating biases in data collection; - Performing black-box model auditing and explanation; - Detecting data bias and algorithmic bias; - Learning causal relationships; - Integrating social and ethical aspects of explainability; - Integrating explainability into existing AI systems; - Designing new explanation modalities; - Exploring theoretical aspects of explanation and interpretability; - Investigating the use of XAI in application sectors such as healthcare, bioinformatics, multimedia, linguistics, human–computer interaction, machine translation, autonomous vehicles, risk assessment, justice, etc. -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

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