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Fwd: [WI] Call for Papers: CSCW in Manufacturing and Industry Settings (JCSCW)
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] Call for Papers: CSCW in Manufacturing and Industry Settings (JCSCW) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 10:08:28 +0000 From: Ludwig, Thomas, Jun.-Prof. Dr. <thomas.ludwig(a)uni-siegen.de> Reply-To: Ludwig, Thomas, Jun.-Prof. Dr. <thomas.ludwig(a)uni-siegen.de> To: specialissue(a)cscw-research.com <specialissue(a)cscw-research.com> /[apologies for cross-posting]/ ** Call for papers for a special issue on: ** *Cooperation on the Shoopfloor: CSCW in Manufacturing and Industry Settings* (A Special Issue of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices, https://www.springer.com/journal/10606) Guest Editors: Thomas Ludwig (University of Siegen), Myriam Lewkowicz (Troyes University of Technology), Doris Aschenbrenner (Delft University), Torkil Clemmensen (Copenhagen Business School) Website: http://industry.cscw-research.com/ <http://industry.cscw-research.com/> [Detailed information] This special issue takes steps towards examining how workers, tasks, structures, and technologies have changed within manufacturing settings within the last years. We invite participants from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to contribute with insights about cooperation on the shopfloor and the impact of novel manufacturing technologies within these settings. We aim to deepen our understanding of actual work practices and relations in contexts such as manufacturing, knowledge-intense production processes and related practices such as engineering or work preparation. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): •Skills, qualifications and competences of human workers. What are the novel digitalization skills that workers need to in order to shape their work processes? How to ensure that ‘operator 4.0’ employees’ experiences do become not worse, but better than before? •Tools, processes, services and architectures for supporting the cooperation on the shopfloor: What are the tools, services and architectural infrastructures for supporting the work and conflicts in manufacturing settings? What are the impacts of cyber-physical systems on cooperation? What are the characteristics of tools that support articulation work and coordination processes during work practices? •Social and organizational factors influencing cooperation issues: Work within industry settings heavily relies on social and organizational structures. What are the social and organizational aspects that foster cooperation in industry? How is labor distributed? How could social and organizational aspects shape the cooperation on the shopfloor? How do workers interact with and collaborate with semi-autonomous systems? •On the one hand, emerging technology is intended to simplify work, but on the other hand, there are a multitude of knowledge-intensive work processes which can be traced back to rising productivity requirements and increasing product complexity. Therefore, the question of an adequate support of knowledge-intensive work and the technical design of this support arises: What are suitable tools to manage knowledge and share expertise? How can the experience of experts be processed and which tools can be used? •Methodological challenges and innovative methodologies: Design- and technology-oriented research and its prototypes are often developed with the employees for the actual workflows of the shop floor. However, the evaluation of the prototypes is difficult, as machines and thus capital are lost in case of errors. How can the claim between participatory design with iterative steps and the expectation of a finished product be met? All contributions will be rigorously peer reviewed to the usual exacting standards of JCSCW. Further information, including JCSCW submission procedures and advice on formatting and preparing manuscripts, can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606, Manuscripts are submitted via the online manuscript system at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/[SI: Cooperation on the shopfloor] Important dates: •Submissions due: 30 September 2020 •Reviews due: 31 December 2020 •Notification to authors: 9 January 2021 •Revised version due: 1 March 2021 Contact: specialissue(a)cscw-research.com <mailto:specialissue@cscw-research.com> Best regards (on behalf of all editors), Thomas Ludwig. -- Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig Professor for Cyber-Physical Systems University of Siegen, Institute for Information Systems Kohlbettstr. 15, 57072 Siegen, Room US-D 112 Phone: +49 271 740 4763 Mobile Phone: +49 176 62656570 E-Mail: thomas.ludwig(a)uni-siegen.de <mailto:thomas.ludwig@uni-siegen.de> Web: http://www.cps.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de <http://www.cps.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/> -- 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: [WI] 2nd CFP - VISSOFT 2020: 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] 2nd CFP - VISSOFT 2020: 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:32:40 +0200 From: David Baum <david.baum(a)uni-leipzig.de> Reply-To: David Baum <david.baum(a)uni-leipzig.de> Organization: Universität Leipzig To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu ====================================== 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020) September 28-29, 2020, Adelaide, Australia http://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/ ====================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to the visualization of software. VISSOFT 2020, co-held with ICSME 2020, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. ====================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST - Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks such as StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. - Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. - Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization. - Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education. - Integration of software visualization tools with development environments. - Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye tracking. - Industrial experience with using software visualization. - Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented/mixed reality, gamification, and artificial intelligence. - Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based on data science concepts. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool Demonstrations (TD) track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. ====================================== SUBMISSION TYPES **Technical papers**: A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2020 **NIER/TD Track**: The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including bibliography). NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas. A sound evaluation is not required for NIER contributions. One of the goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different research groups. Tool Demonstrations describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will organize an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD papers are requested to demonstrate their tools. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities offered by the tool. ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 22, 2020 Technical paper submission: June 26, 2020 NIER/TD paper submission: June 26, 2020 Artifact submission: August 1, 2020 Author notification: July 24, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 7, 2020 Conference date: September 28-29, 2020 ====================================== **Statement on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)** The VISSOFT Organizing Committee is aware of the current COVID-19 situation. At this time, the conference is planned to take place as scheduled. The committee will continue monitoring conditions and will provide updates if plans change. Stay safe & we hope to see you at VISSOFT 2020! Best, Craig Anslow (General Chair) Andreas Schreiber and Takashi Ishio (Program Co-Chairs) https://twitter.com/IEEEVISSOFT -- 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: [WI] TPNC 2020: 2nd call for papers
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] TPNC 2020: 2nd call for papers Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:00:58 +0200 From: IRDTA <irdta(a)irdta.eu> Reply-To: IRDTA <irdta(a)irdta.eu> To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu TPNC 2020: 2nd call for papers *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** *9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING* *TPNC 2020* *Taoyuan, Taiwan* *December 7-9, 2020* Co-organized by: Chung Yuan Christian University College of Science Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA Brussels / London https://irdta.eu/tpnc2020/ **************************************************************************** *AIMS:* TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2020 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. Previous events took place in Tarragona, Cáceres, Granada, Mieres, Sendai, Prague, Dublin and Kingston. *VENUE:* TPNC 2020 will take place in Taoyuan, in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring Taipei and home to many industrial parks and tech company headquarters. The venue will be: tba *SCOPE:* Topics include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical contributions to: affective computing ambient intelligence ant colony optimization approximate reasoning artificial immune systems artificial life cellular automata cognitive computing cognitive robotics collective intelligence combinatorial optimization computational intelligence computing with words developmental systems DNA computing evolutionary algorithms evolutionary computing evolutionary game theory fuzzy logic fuzzy sets fuzzy systems genetic algorithms genetic programming global optimization granular computing heuristics intelligent agents intelligent control intelligent manufacturing intelligent systems intelligent user interfaces machine intelligence membrane computing metaheuristics molecular programming multiobjective optimization neural networks quantum communication quantum computing quantum information rough sets soft computing swarm intelligence swarm robotics unconventional computing - Applications of natural computing to: algorithmics bioinformatics cryptography design economics graphics hardware human-computer interaction knowledge discovery learning logistics medicine natural language processing pattern recognition planning and scheduling programming telecommunications web intelligence A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. *STRUCTURE:* TPNC 2020 will consist of: - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions - posters *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:* tba *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* (to be completed) Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK) Shawkat Ali (Central Queensland University, AU) Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg, DE) Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW) Claude Crépeau (McGill University, CA) Leroy Cronin (University of Glasgow, UK) Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, IT) Yong Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN) Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK) Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University, US) Étienne Kerre (Ghent University, BE) Sam Kwong (City University of Hong Kong, HK) Chung-Sheng Li (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, US) Jing Liang (Zhengzhou University, CN) Gui Lu Long (Tsinghua University, CN) Jie Lu (University of Technology Sydney, AU) Robert Mann (University of Waterloo, CA) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Luis Martínez López (University of Jaén, ES) Serge Massar (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Seyedali Mirjalili (Torrens University Australia, AU) Saeid Nahavandi (Deakin University, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, BR) Arun Kumar Pati (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, IN) Matjaž Perc (University of Maribor, SI) Brian M. Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, US) Patrick Siarry (Paris-Est Créteil University, FR) Dan Simon (Cleveland State University, US) Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, PL) Stephen Smith (University of York, UK) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Rufin VanRullen (CNRS Toulouse, FR) Miin-Shen Yang (Chung Yuan Christian University, TW) Simon X. Yang (University of Guelph, CA) Yi Zhang (Sichuan University, CN) *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:* Meng-Hui Li (Taoyuan, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) Miin-Shen Yang (Taoyuan, co-chair) *SUBMISSIONS:* Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Upload submissions to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2020 *PUBLICATIONS:* A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. *REGISTRATION:* The registration form can be found at: https://irdta.eu/tpnc2020/registration/ *DEADLINES *(all at 23:59 CET)*:* Paper submission: July 25, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 29, 2020 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 5, 2020 Early registration: September 5, 2020 Late registration: November 23, 2020 Submission to the journal special issue: March 9, 2021 *QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:* david (at) irdta.eu *ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:* Chung Yuan Christian University IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London -- 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] HCOMP 2020: Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HCOMP 2020: Call for Papers Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 21:03:34 +0200 From: HCOMP Publicity <hcomp.publicity(a)gmail.com> To: seworld(a)sigsoft.org * We apologize for cross-posting * *** Covid-19 announcement *** The HCOMP organisers are monitoring the ongoing situation around Covid-19 closely. We plan to hold the conference at the same dates, either online, or, if it‘s safe and the restrictions allow it, at the planned venue in the Netherlands. We aim to disclose further details in a few months. In the meantime, we’re looking forward to your submissions! *** HCOMP 2020: Call for Papers *** • Hilversum, the Netherlands • October 26-28 2020 • Website: https://www.humancomputation.com <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.humancomputation.c…> • Twitter: @hcomp_conf Important dates, all times are midnight CEST (Amsterdam time) • June 5, 2020: Abstracts submission (compulsory to submit a full paper) • June 12, 2020: Full papers due • July 31, 2020: Notification of acceptance • August 14, 2020: Final camera-ready papers due Submission Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 8 pages, plus any number of additional pages containing references only. Note the page limits for the proceedings below. All submitted papers must represent original work, not previously published or under simultaneous peer-review for any other peer-reviewed, archival conference or journal. Papers must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style; please refer to the AAAI 2020 Author Kit for details. The AAAI copyright block is not required on submissions, but must be included on final accepted versions. Electronic abstract and paper submission through the HCOMP-20 EasyChair paper submission site is required on or before the deadlines listed above. Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission. You can make updates to all information submitted before the deadline. We will consider only the final version received before the call closes. All papers must be anonymized (include no information identifying the authors or their institutions) for double-blind peer-review. To ensure fairness, authors should declare any conflicts-of-interest with PC members by selecting the "Declare Conflicts" link on the upper-right of your EasyChair submission page. Authors are strongly encouraged to include supplemental materials such as executables and data files so that reviewers can reproduce results in the paper, images, additional videos, related papers, more detailed explanations, derivations, or results. These materials will be viewed only at the discretion of the reviewers, who are only obligated to read your paper itself. Reviews Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee and one AC. Reviewers will be instructed to evaluate paper submissions according to specific review criteria. We encourage authors to review them before submission. To ensure relevance, authors should consider including research questions and contributions of broad interest to crowdsourcing and human computation, as well as discuss relevant open problems and prior work in the field. When evaluation is conducted entirely within a specific domain, authors are encouraged to discuss how findings might generalize to other communities and application areas using crowdsourcing and human computation. Publication and proceedings Accepted papers will be listed on the conference website. To be included in the proceedings and in the conference programme at least one author must register for the main conference. The registration needs to occur by the camera-ready deadline. Accepted full papers will be allocated eight (8) pages in the conference proceedings; up to two (2) additional pages may be used at a cost to the authors of $275 per page. Final papers found to exceed page limits and or otherwise violating the instructions to authors will not be included in the proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. Accepted full papers will be published in the HCOMP conference proceedings and included in the AAAI Digital Library. Presenting your paper If your paper is accepted, you will be invited to present it at HCOMP2020. As noted earlier, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the main conference to present the work or acceptance will be withdrawn. The deadline for that is the same as the camera-ready deadline. Paper awards HCOMP 2020 will recognize a best-paper and two runner ups. New to HCOMP is a best student-paper. A best student paper is a paper where major parts of the work have been completed by an undergrad or postgrad student. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (Q1 Journal): IoT+Blockchain | Q1 Journal: Journal of Network and Computer Applications
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (Q1 Journal): IoT+Blockchain | Q1 Journal: Journal of Network and Computer Applications Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 23:18:01 +0200 From: IEEE COINS Conference <coinsconf(a)gmail.com> To: embedded_news(a)ira.uka.de, itc(a)comsoc.org, comsoc-etc-sub-iot(a)ipv6forum.com, 5g-mwi-comsoc-subtc(a)ipv6forum.com, TactileInternet(a)comsoc.org, cloudcomputing <cloudcomputing(a)ieee.org>, ierc(a)internet-of-things-research.eu, IEEE Internet Initiative <internetinitiative(a)ieee.org>, iot-news(a)ieee.org, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, publicity(a)hipeac.net, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, IFIP_NM(a)lists.utwente.nl, TCGCC(a)comsoc.org, vsim-conf(a)sce.carleton.ca, tcpp-announce(a)computer.org, tcbd(a)comsoc.org, issre-publicity-l(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca, laas-dependability-announce(a)laas.fr, hipeac-publicity(a)hipeac.net, cfp-l(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de, hpc-announce(a)mcs.anl.gov, INDUCTIVE(a)listserv.unb.ca, conferencesx(a)comsoc.org, ir(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, cluster-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, ccgrid-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, escience-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca, computacaobrasil(a)googlegroups.com, cistc-distribution(a)comsoc.org, tcsc(a)cse.stfx.ca, tciin.isat(a)u-bourgogne.fr, policy-sig(a)doc.ic.ac.uk, tccn(a)comsoc.org, cnom(a)comsoc.org, ifip-tc11(a)dlist.server.uni-frankfurt.de, micro_publicity(a)crhc.uiuc.edu, cgo_publicity(a)freelists.or, performance(a)merlot.usc.edu, TCPP-announce(a)lists.ece.unm.edu, ancs-announce(a)mail.cse.wustl.edu, sigplan-l(a)acm.uiuc.edu, sdmas(a)googlegroups.com, SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)listserv.acm.org, distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, prozessoren(a)listserv.uni-augsburg.de, sbac-l(a)sbc.org.br, wireless-info(a)lists.chambana.net, asr-forum(a)cines.fr, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca, announce(a)hipeac.net, sigarch-members(a)listserv.acm.org, fpga-list(a)mail.usyd.edu.au, comparch(a)lists.tudelft.nl, geoatsi(a)unipi.gr, Listsbcci-l(a)sbc.org.br, q-impress-all(a)fzi.de, bouldinlist-request(a)ece.utk.edu, cphc-conf(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, specif-forum(a)polytech.unice.fr, liste-egc(a)polytech.univ-nantes.fr, gdrssi(a)univ-pau.fr, gazettebd3(a)imag.fr, bull-i3(a)irit.fr, liste-proml(a)lri.fr, info-ic(a)listes.irisa.fr, glc-p(a)i3s.unice.fr, glc-np(a)i3s.unice.fr, echos(a)ens.fr, kaw(a)science.uva.nl, odbis2008(a)sophia.inria.fr, sma(a)loria.fr, membres(a)sigops-france.fr, diffusion_addmul(a)yahoogroupes.fr, asr.rescom(a)cines.fr, jet(a)inria.fr, ro(a)poleia.lip6.fr, meta(a)univ-lille1.fr, risc(a)risc.cnrs.fr, discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org, robotics-worldwide(a)usc.edu, tcpp-announce(a)cc.gatech.edu, dmanet(a)zpr.uni-koeln.de, SIGMM(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de, arcangel(a)irit.fr, bglee(a)etri.re.kr, hipeac-announce(a)hipeac.net, ns-users(a)isi.edu *The Convergence of Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT): Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions* Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Q1) Submission Deadline: June 6, 2020 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applicati… Digital revolution is characterized by the convergence of technologies—from cloud computing to artificial intelligence, big data, DLT and IoT—that is blurring the lines between physical and digital worlds. Although the IoT and DLT, of which blockchain is a popular example, are two very different technologies, the fusion of DLT and IoT technologies is an unprecedented paradigm shift that is expected to disrupt both current and future systems in various fields. In particular, DLT has exactly what is needed to fix the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of IoT, in particular in terms of security. Although the convergence of IoT and DLT can potentially tackle major shortcomings of today’s solutions, its adoption is still in its infancy phase, suffering from various issues, including lack of scalability, consensus algorithms, data privacy, efficiency, availability, storage, interoperability, standardization, as well as the lack of consensus towards any reference models or best practices that specify how DLT should be utilized in IoT, among others. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and experts in order to foster the investigations on cutting-edge IoT-DLT solutions and allowing one to contribute to advancing the convergence of DLT and IoT. Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers containing original work from either academia or industry reporting novel advances in (but not limited to) the following topics: - The recent development in DLTs | Architectures/platforms for DLT and IoT - Applications of DLT and Blockchain in edge, fog and cloud computing - Development of DLT-IoT enabled sensor networks - DLTs and Blockchain in peer-to-peer and M2M communications - DTLs and Blockchain in embedded and real-time systems - Provisioning of sensor-enabled blockchain-IoT architecture - DLT-based IoT security and privacy solutions, key management, identity management, authentication, authorization, and access control - System design and implementation methods for blockchain-based IoT systems - Performance evaluation and experimental analysis of DLT/blockchain IoT schemes - Novel development of smart contracts in the blockchain-IoT ecosystem - Deployment of IoT-based sensor-data management - Machine Learning Approaches for Convergence of IoT and DLT - Performance evaluation and experimental analysis of Blockchain IoT schemes - Case studies (e.g., healthcare, energy, smart home, smart building, smart city, Industry 4.0, finance, transportation, and logistics) *Submission Format and Guideline* All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-network-and-computer-applicati… All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “SI – IoT-DLT” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/jnca/ Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors (Farshad.firouzi(a)duke.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ You might also be interested in our IEEE Conference (IEEE IoT, IEEE CAS, IEEE RAS, IEEE CEDA, IEEE ComSoc). Selected best papers will also be published in SIs: https://coinsconf.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (Q1 Journal): Emerging Trends and Challenges in Edge-Fog-Cloud Interplay in the Internet of Things (IoT)
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (Q1 Journal): Emerging Trends and Challenges in Edge-Fog-Cloud Interplay in the Internet of Things (IoT) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 23:20:02 +0200 From: IEEE COINS Conference <coinsconf(a)gmail.com> To: embedded_news(a)ira.uka.de, itc(a)comsoc.org, comsoc-etc-sub-iot(a)ipv6forum.com, 5g-mwi-comsoc-subtc(a)ipv6forum.com, TactileInternet(a)comsoc.org, cloudcomputing <cloudcomputing(a)ieee.org>, ierc(a)internet-of-things-research.eu, IEEE Internet Initiative <internetinitiative(a)ieee.org>, iot-news(a)ieee.org, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, publicity(a)hipeac.net, aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org, tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, IFIP_NM(a)lists.utwente.nl, TCGCC(a)comsoc.org, vsim-conf(a)sce.carleton.ca, tcpp-announce(a)computer.org, tcbd(a)comsoc.org, issre-publicity-l(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca, laas-dependability-announce(a)laas.fr, hipeac-publicity(a)hipeac.net, cfp-l(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de, hpc-announce(a)mcs.anl.gov, INDUCTIVE(a)listserv.unb.ca, conferencesx(a)comsoc.org, ir(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, cluster-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, ccgrid-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, escience-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca, computacaobrasil(a)googlegroups.com, cistc-distribution(a)comsoc.org, tcsc(a)cse.stfx.ca, tciin.isat(a)u-bourgogne.fr, policy-sig(a)doc.ic.ac.uk, tccn(a)comsoc.org, cnom(a)comsoc.org, ifip-tc11(a)dlist.server.uni-frankfurt.de, micro_publicity(a)crhc.uiuc.edu, cgo_publicity(a)freelists.or, performance(a)merlot.usc.edu, TCPP-announce(a)lists.ece.unm.edu, ancs-announce(a)mail.cse.wustl.edu, sigplan-l(a)acm.uiuc.edu, sdmas(a)googlegroups.com, SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)listserv.acm.org, distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu, prozessoren(a)listserv.uni-augsburg.de, sbac-l(a)sbc.org.br, wireless-info(a)lists.chambana.net, asr-forum(a)cines.fr, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca, announce(a)hipeac.net, sigarch-members(a)listserv.acm.org, fpga-list(a)mail.usyd.edu.au, comparch(a)lists.tudelft.nl, geoatsi(a)unipi.gr, Listsbcci-l(a)sbc.org.br, q-impress-all(a)fzi.de, bouldinlist-request(a)ece.utk.edu, cphc-conf(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, specif-forum(a)polytech.unice.fr, liste-egc(a)polytech.univ-nantes.fr, gdrssi(a)univ-pau.fr, gazettebd3(a)imag.fr, bull-i3(a)irit.fr, liste-proml(a)lri.fr, info-ic(a)listes.irisa.fr, glc-p(a)i3s.unice.fr, glc-np(a)i3s.unice.fr, echos(a)ens.fr, kaw(a)science.uva.nl, odbis2008(a)sophia.inria.fr, sma(a)loria.fr, membres(a)sigops-france.fr, diffusion_addmul(a)yahoogroupes.fr, asr.rescom(a)cines.fr, jet(a)inria.fr, ro(a)poleia.lip6.fr, meta(a)univ-lille1.fr, risc(a)risc.cnrs.fr, discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org, robotics-worldwide(a)usc.edu, tcpp-announce(a)cc.gatech.edu, dmanet(a)zpr.uni-koeln.de, SIGMM(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de, arcangel(a)irit.fr, bglee(a)etri.re.kr, hipeac-announce(a)hipeac.net, ns-users(a)isi.edu *Emerging Trends and Challenges in Edge-Fog-Cloud Interplay in the Internet of Things (IoT)* Elsevier Information Systems (Q1) Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/call-for-papers/emerg… The Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) tsunami and public embracement, and the ubiquitous adoption of devices in virtually every industry is affecting every aspect of life, ranging from smart cars, smart homes, smart cities, smart factories to smart health, and smart environments. The integration of IoT and Cloud Computing has created another paradigm, the cloud IoT, to address some of the major challenges of IoT, such as advanced analytics capabilities and big data storage. However, in the cloud IoT model, the massive amount of data coming from “smart things” needs to be uploaded to the cloud, demanding a considerable amount of available communication bandwidth. Cloud-based IoT model cannot meet the strict computing time requirement in latency-critical applications requiring a real-time operation. An excellent example of such a case is eHealth applications such as arrhythmia monitoring and classification in which volume, variety, and velocity, as well as end-to-end response time and communication bandwidth, should be handled efficiently. Edge or Fog Computing has emerged as a solution to address the drawbacks of Cloud-based IoT solutions in which computing and storage resources are located not only in the cloud but also at the edges near the source of data. Hierarchical collaborative edge-fog-cloud architecture brings tremendous benefits as it makes possible to distribute the intelligence and computation —including data analysis, machine learning (ML) training, and decision making—to achieve an optimal solution while satisfying the given constraints (i.e., optimization for energy versus optimization for latency) of each use case. However, due to the hierarchical, cross-layer, and distributed nature of this IoT model, many challenges from smart things, to network, architecture, algorithms/software, and security still need to be addressed to develop consistent, suitable, scalable, safe, flexible and power-efficient systems. The main objective of this Special Issue (SI) is to address all important aspects of emerging technologies for edge-fog-cloud computing in IoT covering architectures, techniques, protocols, policies, applications, distributed machine learnings, as well as the interaction between edge, fog and cloud analytics. Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers containing original work from either academia or industry reporting novel advances in (but not limited to) the following topics: - Distributed architectures and reference models. - Resource Management Mechanisms. - Service placement, migration and adaptation. - Low-latency High-reliability energy-efficient network protocols and communications in edge-fog-cloud. - The impact of 5G technology on edge-fog-cloud interplay. - Edge-fog-cloud management protocols and policies for workload communication and distribution. - Privacy and security issues including secure firmware, communications, and strategies to detect and mitigate attacks, as well as Over the air updates for safety IoT devices. - Trust-Oriented Designs of next-generation hierarchical IoT systems. - Optimization of the utility-privacy tradeoffs. - Big-data analytics, machine learning algorithms, and scalable/parallel/distributed algorithms. - Collaborative distributed machine learning and data analytics from Edge to Fog and Cloud. - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning and Data Processing solutions in hierarchical IoT solutions. - Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) and Multi-party computation (MPC) techniques. - Performance monitoring & evaluation. - Real-world experiences and use cases (eHealth, automotive, transportation and logistics, retail, industry 4.0, etc.) *Important Dates* Submissions Deadline: June 15, 2020 Revision Due: September 15, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2020 First Reviews Due: August 15, 2020 Second Reviews Due/Notification: October 15, 2020 Publication Date: 2020 *Submission Guidelines* Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines are at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/. *Guest Editors* *Farshad Firouzi*, Duke University *Sebastián Ventura, *University of Córdoba *Bahar Farahani*, Shahid Beheshti University *Alysson Bessani,* Universidade de Lisboa ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ You might also be interested in our IEEE Conference (IEEE IoT, IEEE CAS, IEEE RAS, IEEE CEDA, IEEE ComSoc). Selected best papers will also be published in SIs: https://coinsconf.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [fai-saso] Call for Papers for the Workshop on Self-aware Computing Systems 2020 (SeAC 2020) at ACSOS 2020
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [fai-saso] Call for Papers for the Workshop on Self-aware Computing Systems 2020 (SeAC 2020) at ACSOS 2020 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 00:12:24 +0200 From: Christian Krupitzer <christian.krupitzer(a)uni-wuerzburg.de> ** Call for Papers for the Workshop on Self-aware Computing Systems 2020 (SeAC 2020)** At ACSOS 2020, August 17-21, Washington DC, USA More information at http://seac2020.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ Annonucement: Due to the Covid pandemic, the SeAC workshop will be hold virtually! The workshop on self-aware computing (SeAC) provides a forum to foster interaction and collaborations between the respective research communities, raising the awareness about related research efforts and synergies that can be exploited to advance the state of the art. The workshop was initiated by the 2015 Dagstuhl Seminar 15041 on model-driven algorithms and architectures for self-aware computing systems, which brought together 45 international experts. Paper submission deadline: June 12, 2020 Talk submission deadline: June 12, 2020 Author notification: July 1, 2020 Final Manuscript (paper): July 8, 2020 Workshop Day: August 17, 2020 List of Topics This workshop is interested in all the topics concerning self-aware computing systems; however, for this year, we have a special theme on evaluation of SeAC systems. Please find below several examples of possible topics: - Fundamental science and theory of self-aware systems - Levels and aspects of self-aware systems - Architectures for individual and collective systems - Methods and algorithms for model learning (self-modeling) and reasoning - Self-adaptation in individual and collective systems - Synthesis and verification metrics and benchmarks - Tool support for evaluation and measurements, and quality assurance - Open challenges and future research directions - Applications and case studies: cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, data centers, dependable computing, industrial internet / industry 4.0, internet of things, mobile computing, service-oriented systems, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid / energy management, smart factory, traffic management, autonomous robotics, and space applications. Submission Guidelines The workshop participants will be selected based on their experience and ideas related to the field of self-aware computing. There are two ways to participate: i) present a talk without a respective paper published in the workshop proceedings, ii) submit a paper to be presented at the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings: - Full workshop paper limited to 6 pages (double column, IEEE format, including references) - Short workshop paper limited to 4 pages (double column, IEEE format, including references) - Talk extended abstract limited to 1 page (without formatting restrictions) We kindly invite PhD students to unleash their creativity and submit their ideas about the application of the IT solutions in everyday life and in particular in autonomic and self-managing systems. All the papers must be written in English and must conform to the double-column IEEE formatting guidelines. At least three PC members will review each submission. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the ACSOS 2020 early registration deadline. At least one author of each accepted submission must register and present the paper. All workshop papers will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Submission can be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seac2020 Organization - Christian Krupitzer, University of Würzburg, Germany, christian.krupitzer(a)uni-wuerzburg.de - Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, p.lewis(a)aston.ac.uk - Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, i.g.gerostathopoulos(a)vu.nl - Thomas Prantl, University of Würzburg, Germany, thomas.prantl(a)uni-wuerzburg.de (Publicity Chair) _______________________________________________ fai-saso mailing list fai-saso(a)listserv.uni-augsburg.de https://mailman.rz.uni-augsburg.de/mailman/listinfo/fai-saso

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Fwd: [WI] CfP in Crisis Informatics (IS, HCI, Safety, Security)
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP in Crisis Informatics (IS, HCI, Safety, Security) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:55:48 +0000 From: Reuter, Christian <reuter(a)peasec.tu-darmstadt.de> Reply-To: Reuter, Christian <reuter(a)peasec.tu-darmstadt.de> To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu <wi(a)lists.kit.edu>, fb-mci(a)lists.gi.de <fb-mci(a)lists.gi.de>, FG-MMI-SKS-Interessenten(a)listserv.uni-siegen.de <FG-MMI-SKS-Interessenten(a)listserv.zimt.uni-siegen.de> We would like to announce three interesting call for papers in *crisis informatics*: * MuC Workshop on HCI for Safety and Security * MobileHCI’20 Workshop on Mobile Resilience * WI’21 Full Paper Track on Digitization and Society Details below: *CfP: 7. Workshop Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion in sicherheitskritischen Systemen* URL: https://peasec.de/2020/mmi-sks/ <https://peasec.de/2020/mmi-sks/> Topics: Everything in the intersection of security / crises and human-computer interaction Deadline: *11.6.2020* (extended) | Accepted papers will be published in the *GI Digital Library* Workshop: Mo. 7.9.2020 (virtual) in the context of Mensch und Computer 2020 (Magdeburg) Organizers: Tilo Mentler, Christian Reuter, Simon Nestler, Marc-André Kaufhold, Michael Herczeg, Jens Pottebaum *CfP: MobileHCI’20 Workshop: Designing Mobile Interactive Systems for Societal and Technical Resilience* URL: https://peasec.de/2020/mobilehci-resilience/ <https://peasec.de/2020/mobilehci-resilience/> Topics: Everything about mobile devices in crisis situations Deadline: *1.7.2020**| *Accepted papers will be published in the *ACM Digital Library* Workshop: Mo. 5.10.2020 (virtual) as part of Mobile HCI 2020 (Oldenburg) Organizers: Christian Reuter, Marc-André Kaufhold, Tina Comes, Michèle Knodt, Max Mühlhäuser *CfP: WI’21-Track: Digitization and Society - even in times of Corona* URL: https://peasec.de/2020/wi2021-it-society/ <https://peasec.de/2020/wi2021-it-society/> Topics: Alles zu Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft, gerne mit Bezug zur aktuellen Coronalage Deadline: *14.8.2020* | Accepted papers will be published in the *AIS Digital Library* Track: March 9-11, 2021 within the Wirtschaftsinformatik 2021 (Duisburg and Essen) Organizers: Christian Reuter, Ulrike Lechner -- *Prof. Dr. Christian Reuter*, TU Darmstadt, Informatik, Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC), reuter(a)peasec.tu-darmstadt.de <mailto:reuter@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de>, www.peasec.de <http://www.peasec.de/> -- 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] CfP - ACIS (2020) - Track: DataAnalytics, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Decision Making
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP - ACIS (2020) - Track: DataAnalytics, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Decision Making Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:11:10 +1200 From: Nazim Taskin <nazimtaskin(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Dear colleagues, Call for Papers *ACIS (2020) - Track: Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Decision Making* The goal of the Data Analytics, Knowledge Management and Strategic Decision-making track is to advance our knowledge of the complexity of the disruptive technologies of data analytics and their role in the advancement of KM for better strategic decision-making. Aligned with the conference theme, the emphasis of the track is on how individual and organizational knowledge can be distilled from and incorporated into data analytics for making more effective decisions and guidance to “navigate our digital future”. Therefore, we encourage submissions that offer significant theoretical and practical contributions on how organisations can utilise emerging and analytics technologies to create value and knowledge more effectively. Data by itself is worthless unless business users analyse it and transform it into practical knowledge that delivers value to their organizations. That’s where data analytics and KM come into the picture. The success of business decisions and government policies relies heavily on the quality of the data and knowledge that underlie the decisions and policies. For this reason, gathering, analysing and considering reliable data and more importantly, transforming them into usable knowledge and expertise is increasingly critical in strategic decision-making (Intezari & Gressel, 2017; Nicolas, 2004). Due to the extensive uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk associated with strategic decisions (McKenzie et al., 2011), the role of data analytics tools and technologies in KM has much to offer to help businesses and government agencies to succeed in their strategic decision-making (Li, Goh, & Jin, 2018). Nevertheless, the transformation of data into knowledge and the use of analytical tools in incorporating data and knowledge into strategic decisions is an underdeveloped field. While offering significant promises, data analytics poses new challenges for both practitioners and scholars. Therefore, it is important and timely that the fields of decision-making and KM respond to the profound changes that big data and analytics are bringing to organizations (Pauleen & Wang, 2017). We are particularly interested in the incorporation of KM systems into strategic decisions and policies, as well as the use of analytic tools and techniques in fully supporting and successfully operationalizing people’s knowledge. This track invites submissions that address the challenges and opportunities associated with data analytics and KM, and their implication/incorporation into business processes and decision-making practices at the individual and organisational levels. The papers should address the conference theme. The track accepts empirical papers, as well as conceptual papers that offer deep theoretical insights into the areas of interest. The track is open to papers employing various research methods; and accepts completed research papers, as well as research-in-progress papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Data analytics across decision-making levels: strategic, tactical, and operational - Data analytics and emerging research philosophies and methodologies - Methodologies, techniques, and analytical tools for individual and group decision-making - The integration of data analytics and KM for strategic decision-making: techniques, challenges and opportunities - Organizational barriers and enablers of the use of data analytics and KM in managerial and strategic decision-making - KM initiatives for managerial and strategic decision-making - Design, development, and use of KM technologies to support data-driven decisions and strategies - Organizational barriers and enablers of the use of data analytics for KM in managerial and strategic decision - Analytical tools and techniques, such as text analytics and sentiment analysis for analysing knowledge and disseminating expertise - Visualisation of structured and unstructured data and knowledge - Big data velocity and real-time analysis of data in decision-making at the individual and organisational levels - KM innovation, standards and challenges in managing data-driven decisions - Data Mining in explicit knowledge - Cultural challenges in organizations merging initiatives in analytics and KM - Individual, intra-, and inter-organizational data analytics and KM technologies Conference website: https://www.acis2020.org/ Deadline (please check conference website for updates): - August 10: Paper submission deadline - September 30: Notification of acceptance - December 1-4, 2020: Conference in Wellington, New Zealand Track co-chairs: Dr Ali INTEZARI, University of Queensland, a.intezari(a)uq.edu.au Professor David PAULEEN, Massey University, d.pauleen(a)massey.ac.nz Dr Tiong-thye GOH, Victoria University of Wellington, tiong.goh(a)vuw.ac.nz Dr Hamed JAFARZADEH, Massey University, h.jafarzadeh(a)massey.ac.nz References: - Intezari, A., and Gressel, S. 2017. “Information and Reformation in KM Systems: Big Data and Strategic Decision-making,” *Journal of Knowledge Management* (21:1), pp. 71–91. - Li, L., Goh, T. T., and Jin, D. 2018. “How Textual Quality of Online Reviews Affect Classification Performance: A Case of Deep Learning Sentiment Analysis,” *Neural Computing and Applications* (doi:10.1007/s00521-018-3865-7). - McKenzie, J., van Winkelen, C., and Grewal, S. 2011. “Developing Organisational Decision‐making Capability: A Knowledge Manager’s Guide, *“ Journal of Knowledge Management* (15:3), pp. 403–421. - Nicolas, R. 2004. “Knowledge Management Impacts on Decision Making Process, “ *Journal of Knowledge Management* (8:1), pp. 20–31. - Pauleen, D. J., and Wang, W. Y. C. 2017. “Does Big Data Mean Big Knowledge? KM Perspectives on Big Data and Analytics,” *Journal of Knowledge Management* (21:1), pp. 1–6. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Book Chapter Contributions for "Information Technology Applications for Crisis Response and Management"
by Gustaf Neumann 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Book Chapter Contributions for "Information Technology Applications for Crisis Response and Management" Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 20:27:28 +0000 From: Beard, Jon W [ISBA] <jwbeard(a)iastate.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: June 25, 2020 Information Technology Applications for Crisis Response and Management A book edited by Jon W. Beard, Ph.D. (Iowa State University) Introduction Recent events with the Covid-19 Novel Coronavirus global pandemic in the first half of 2020 have provided an abrupt reminder of how quickly crises can occur and spread. We have also seen how both existing and emerging information technology (IT) and IT applications can facilitate and enhance support for crisis response, mitigation, and management. And there are many types of crises beyond this pandemic, ranging from natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes/typhoons, etc.) to man-made events and outcomes (e.g., industrial accidents, pandemics, famine, war/conflict, riots, product-safety failures and recalls, cyber security, etc.). Some of these crises may be slow to develop and can be forecast, while others are difficult to anticipate and can emerge rapidly. Yet planning and preparations often fall victim to budget constraints, limited attention for an unlikely event, and the difficulty to accurately anticipate exactly what is likely to occur. Objective of the Book This edited volume, entitled Information Technology Applications for Crisis Response and Management, provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on current and cutting-edge research exploring and extending our understanding of the use of information technology and information systems to support responses to crises of all kinds-accidental, intentional, and acts of nature. It includes issues that are technical, cognitive, organizational, and human-focused as well as lessons learned during and after a crisis subsides. Submissions are encouraged that focus on the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of information technologies, information systems (IS), and methodologies to support crisis response and management, as well as technology management-related issues for crisis response and management. These topics can be revealed and explored though quantitative, qualitative, or case-based methods. Target Audience Practitioners who work within and researchers who do work (I.e., research and analysis) on crisis response and management environments and support can benefit from this book by presenting knowledge of and exploring experiences with real-world situations and in preparing for future challenges. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Rapid response to an emerging crisis * Crisis planning, exercises, gaming, and training * Command and control for crisis management * Leveraging response using social media * Effects on social and behavioral responses * Unanticipated challenges and responses * Differences in planning for anticipated crises vs. responding to unforeseen events * Lessons Learned, adaptations and improvisation during crises, post-hoc assessment and analysis * Analysis and design of crisis response, systems thinking, design thinking * Application of emerging technologies, e.g., blockchain, internet of things (IoT), AI, smart cities, etc. * Big data analytics, data fusion, modeling, representation, and visualization * Decision making and judgment * Research methods, and modeling approaches * Rescue, recovery, and humanitarian operations * Information systems strategy and operations, infrastructures, and interoperability * Disaster risk reduction and mitigation, risk management, ad-hoc, and sensor networks * Early warning and emergency response systems, including reactions to those systems * Case studies on positive and/or negative outcomes * Globalization and development issues * Virtual teams and organizations; collaborative and intelligent systems * Communication Technologies * Human-computer interaction * Healthcare and health information systems * Political / Geopolitical implications of crisis response * Geographical information systems Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 25, 2020, a chapter proposal of 250 - 500 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by July 6, 2020 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2020, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Information Technology Applications for Crisis Response and Management. All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery(r)TM online submission manager. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com<http://www.igi-global.com/>. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2021. Important Dates June 25, 2020: Proposal Submission Deadline July 6, 2020: Notification of Acceptance of Proposal September 30, 2020: Full Chapter Submission Inquiries are welcome and can be sent to: Jon W. Beard, Ph.D. Iowa State University jwbeard(a)iastate.edu _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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